Re: Fw: Fwd: meds

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In a message dated 5/22/99 12:56:55 PM !!!First Boot!!!, wellscon@...

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<< Did he give you any reasons why he discouraged the miracle

Mirapex????? I take .125 three times a day (I have daytime RLS even

worse than the night time) but now I wonder what's wrong with the drug

that your internist " discouraged " you from using it. >>

Dear Tina,

I don't think that my internist thought that there was anything wrong per se

with " miracle " Mirapex. He just thought, rightly I might add, that I was

doing pretty good at the time taking the Permax......hence, why fix something

that ain't broke, if you know what I mean. Well, I think it is broke now and

that is why we will have to discuss the Mirapex or other alternatives soon.

I respect my internist/sleep doc's opinion. He seems too conservative at

times but I am glad that he is that way. Doctor's are kinda like accountants

in that YOU pay them to be somewhat conservative even if you don't like it

and/or it seems (at the moment) " slow " at the time. Do you really want an

accountant who wants to " play around " with your tax returns and/or

whole-heartedly supports/endorses every " new " possibly risky " trick " to help

reduce your tax-bill or improve your finances today, not tomorrow? I think

that is why many people are so critical of their medical care. They don't

understand that " good " docs are rather conservative. They don't like to

" experiment " with nor on their patients. As a " suffering " patient, we get

rather impatient with our doc's " slowness " to provide all the answers and to

cure our ills today! That is one reason so many people run-off to

alternative remedies all-the-while slamming traditional medicine.

Traditional medicine can NOT give you health nor a healthy life - health is a

state of mind. Traditional docs like to treat things that they can

" measure. " How do you measure a state of mind? Traditional medicine CAN

cure certain disease states and certain bodily malfunctions. RLS can not be

cured (now) but there is hope!

Never give up hope!

IMHO

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