well meaning people who make us mad

August 25, 2004

How about the well-meaning people who tell

us that all that medicine is bad for us and too much lying around is bad for

our health. I am talking about the dreaded herb people. The herbs they sell will cure

anything, or at least make the pain go away without meds. Of course their

herbs cost a lot and they can’t really tell you what is in the pill or

bottle. When you ask about double-blind studies they look at you with a

blank face. When you explain that, they give you testimonials from people

they know or met. When I mention herbal companies have no FDA

supervision, they say the FDA is crooked. They tell you everything in

their product is natural and I think “so is hemlock and magic mushrooms”.

If I eat the mushrooms from my back yard I will get sick or maybe die. I

explain “everything is natural”, God made all the ingredients on

the earth but that doesn’t make them all healthy. I am not

poo-pooing all herbs but we need to be careful, as careful as the meds we use. The

trouble is, herbs are not regulated. Example: 2cc’s each hour

of a particular herb might make someone feel better but they might put 1/10th

of a cc in a bottle mixed with water and tell you it has the herb that makes

you feel better and to take ½ cc once each day.

I hardly ever mention the meds I take.

I especially don’t tell about my pain and sleeping meds.

From: t4bess@...

Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 6:23

PM

To: lupies

Subject: SUNNY

sure your not faking it. Why are you

walking so slow. what are you just lazy? oh I see your pooping another pill. I

have gone through this for so many years I say nothing because I get so tired

of the remarks even at times from the Doctors

Norma Jean

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August 25, 2004

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> I hardly ever mention the meds I take. I especially don't tell

about my

> pain and sleeping meds.

Boy, I am with ya on this one! What's the point? Try telling people

you have to take PAIN meds. oooweeee... get ready for lecture on

addiction number 50,000! I know you can get hooked on some meds, but

I have seen people return to work due to pain medication. And no one

even knows they are taking it unless they tell!

And for our wonderful snake oil vendors of the world.. how easy to

sell some concoction that can cure all invisible diseases! I wish I

had a nickel for every one that I have been forced on me over the

years. We have your wonderful, stinky, HUGE mushroom that has to sit

in your fridge like a creepy alien staring at you and then drink the

tea it makes. Is that KM stuff still around? I had someone approach

me with it back in the early 90's. Thick, black, ugly stuff that

tasted like moldy licorice in a bottle that looked like an old milk

bottle. Take a swig THREE TIMES a day and you will live to be 100! It

tasted like tar off your roof on a hot summer Florida day. And the

only remedial thing I noticed was it CLEANED you out..lol

I guess that would make someone with ANY disease feel better! lol

We had the spirulina that was green, seaweed looking stuff that you

mixed in milk and made the milk look like scummy pond water. But it

would cure ya FO SHORE!!! (not.) And the magnets to go under your

mattress.. about $300 if I remember correctly. The list goes on and

on. I actually tried a few over the years when I still thought I

could get better unconventually. ( How about ice water enemas in

Mexico?) lol

I now tell anyone who decides to start a new.. business.. to first

show me a person getting up from a wheelchair or a leg growing back!

That usually shuts them up! Sunny

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August 25, 2004