Re: Re: Please clarify what your workplace was.

[Guest guest]

I WAS ON MASSIVE DOSES OF STEROIDS, JANICE--DECADRON, & SOLU MEDROL......IV.

THE STEROIDS TOOK DOWN THE SWELLING/INFLAMMATION AROUND MY SPINAL CORD, BUT

THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT THE DEMYELINATION....AT LEAST, NOT YET.

VICTORIA

[] Re: Please clarify what your workplace was.

Janice,

I didn't write ACS but I did mention I took some medicine that

suppressed the immune system. There are lots of medicines that do

this. You have to read the package inserts but in my case it was an

antidepressant Remeron. It doesn't suppress the immune system of

everyone who takes it. It is a negative side affect for some people

so the package insert says. It hadn't read the package insert, they

are getting soooooooooooo long to read. It said: If you develope flu-

like symptoms, a sore throat any/or mucous membrane ulcerations, you

are supposed to go off of it right away as it can be a sign of

developing 'aggranulosis', white is no white blood cells. I thought I

had the flu and took off from work and went to bed and started taking

vitamin C and zinc, except next day I was worse (since I was still

taking the Remeron). Finally I looked through insert because

antidepressants can also cause dry and irritated throat and there it

was. I stopped taking it and called the doctor and asked him to put

me back on my old medicine which I didn't want to go off of in the

first place. He said I shouldn't worry about it, it was better for me

than the benzo I was taking. He said he would write a Rx for a much

lower dose and I should try that. I was able to sleep on that. My

sore throat wasn't gone but it was down to mildly irritated. I stayed

on the medicine for almost a year. Then I developed digestive

problems. I went to my GI doctor who did an endoscopy and he said I

had severe gastritis or ulcerations of my stomach lining. He did an H

Pylori test on me that usually cause this and it was negative. So I

went remembered that lower white blood cells caused by Remeron in a

few people can cause mucuous membrane ulcerations so I went off of it

again permanently. I asked my doctor for my old Rx back and he still

argued for the Remeron, leaving the room to look up some information

on it and coming back and the dumby saying, " I wouldn't worry about

it, it only has to do with your white blood cells " !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, well I have insomnia, that's all I need is to have no or

suppressed white blood cells. What a stupid remark. " It's only those

things that protect you from EVERY disease known to man, I wouldn't

worry about it " . Doctor's don't have a clue anymore about anything.

They just apparently learned how to use their prescription pad and

that is it. That was a year ago last January and I have been sick all

year from multiple causes. Noone took a bloodtest at the time of

trouble so I have no way to prove it gave me aggranulosis except for

the ulcerated stomach and the health problems that followed or I would

sue. I didn't want to change medicine in the first place. I had

taken benzos for almost 20 years for my very bad insomnia problem

without any side effect and without addiction as taking me off them as

he did gave me no withdrawal. Some doctors are just negative about

them since they CAN cause addiction but afterall you would think a

patient whose hasn't developed a problem in 20 years, doesn't need to

be changed. Anyway, that is medicine I said caused a suppression of

my immune system if you are referring to me. The sore throat it gave

me I still have today, over a year later. It gave me sore throat

24/7, a test for Epstein Barr virus is very high and other things. It

appears to have given me CFS amoung other things. So now I have same

restless sleep I've had most of my life and on top of that now CFS

(sick too). This experience and others have finally put the nail in

the coffin for me and traditional doctors. I avoid them like the

plague. The only time I go to them is when I want to be tested and

many times I leave their office without getting that, just a waste of

my time, so I've paid for testing myself this past year many times.

--- In , Janice Ashby

<oneplanet4life@y...> wrote

> Can you do me a favor?

> I'am trying to speedread through my mail often,

> because I get 23 messages a day, but I'd really like

> to know what ACS stands for, and what the medicine was

> that suppresses 's, or 's immune

> system.

>

> Thanks, Janice.

>

>

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