If too many meds create too many side-effects, "deprescribing" might be the answer

Indeed, the less the better. I used to pride myself on being on no tablets, I took clear health for granted.
Unfortunately once you get ensnared into it all, it can mean permanently. I need the ones I am on for the foreseeable. Side effects are a worry and often you can't tell which one is the cause.
 
I can't adjust or get off the RX Doctor's prescription meds, or I could and see how it goes without or with telling her. I am not going to now because I am stabilizing from getting that neuropathy last year. I haven't felt this stable in a long time, so I am not messing with the pharmaceuticals.
Marijuana is adjusted as I need it. I use other over the counter drugs that I do change up, stop using, or take occasionally. That's the way I am handling this old age thing now. Still at 72, with some of you a lot older without so much.
 
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Jackie23 said:
This is true, I have found that the older I get with more health issues the more I have to keep a close watch on meds, sometimes it's a matter of balancing and it can be confusing, then there is the food intake to watch.....:unsure:
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Indeed, I used to be quite happy to fast to keep weight down. Now I must eat properly 3 times a day to take my pills. My aches and pains mean I am too sedentary. So I have put the pounds on. Great!
 
Rakaia said:
In Australia we (seniors) get offered a medication review, which means a pharmacist looks at your medication profile and considers the overall implications of the possible interaction of meds.
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I always check with my GP at the start when I have a new medication about interaction. I then also research myself. This way I hope to minimise side effects and such. So far so good.
 
After my wreck, went from no meds to about 16 with about half of them to counter effect problems with the others. the last straw was a beta blocker to slow my heart because of the effect of the neuropathy med that wasn't really helping...
So I have weaned down and OFF MEDS..... Just a multi-vitamin and occasional Ibuprofen
Pain is still ever present, as is the nerve issues... but i'm feeling better and have more energy.
 
My doctor loves the numbers so I take something to keep my cholesterol number low and my thyroid number higher. Those are okay.

However, to get my blood pressure numbers down I have to take Olmesartan and Metoprolol, a beta blocker. Now Doc's happy because together they got my BP numbers in check, but I have been so fatigued by the Metoprolol I can barely function half the time.
 
Medicare warned my husband's doctor by letter of too many Rxs, so that if he needed a new drug something had to go.

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He was taken off Synthroid and his gout med (another doctor's Rx's) with unpleasant results.
 
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My so-called doctors were piling on one high blood pressure medicine after another until I began to black out from hypotension. They had me on three or four. I started suspecting that they were attempting to kill me. Especially when I found out that they were not supposed to have been prescribed in conjunction. One of these "doctors" is presently under official investigation for trying to add yet another one while telling me to be ready to go to ER if I took it.
 
Rakaia said:
In Australia we (seniors) get offered a medication review, which means a pharmacist looks at your medication profile and considers the overall implications of the possible interaction of meds.
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My primary care Doctor runs all of my medications through a computer program each time I speak with him, to identify ANY contraindications that might occur. EVERY Doctor that I am a patient of, has direct access to my computer record/chart. Each of them can read my personal chart that is maintained on the Toronto University Health Network. My Wife maintains a up to date medical spread sheet on her computer, so that if I go to see a new Doctor, I can hand the information sheet to them when we first meet. She is recognized as my Care Manager, by the Medical system here in Ontario.
 
Yeh Big Pharma is a propaganda machine but it takes willing doctors and patients who find it easier to take pills. Yes medication helps alot of people with a lot of issue many are impatient and don't even to think about alternatives, nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, supplements etc.
 
Della said:
My doctor loves the numbers so I take something to keep my cholesterol number low and my thyroid number higher. Those are okay.

However, to get my blood pressure numbers down I have to take Olmesartan and Metoprolol, a beta blocker. Now Doc's happy because together they got my BP numbers in check, but I have been so fatigued by the Metoprolol I can barely function half the time.
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that stuff just kills me good for about two hours a day rest of the time napping getting ready to nap....etc.....I found out my infection is gone --so dr.me took me off it it.......I am prettify sure they wont like it I am pretty sure i don't care ..I am pretty sure I will find another doctor tho this guy save my ass truth be known..
 
Rose65 said:
Indeed, the less the better. I used to pride myself on being on no tablets, I took clear health for granted.
Unfortunately once you get ensnared into it all, it can mean permanently. I need the ones I am on for the foreseeable. Side effects are a worry and often you can't tell which one is the cause.
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I've been on my heart meds since I had a heart attack at age 49...I'm about to turn 68. I did have a bad side effect from Hydrazaline which caused neuropathy in my feet....so now on the bottom of my feet the front half is partially numb (about 75%). Now I have to go to a neurologist for this new thing...and they say it will never go away...geeze...I requested a replacement for that drug. The only reason I knew it was that drug that caused it because I researched the side effects of my meds. They did ask me if I was diabetic because apparently neuropathy is common with that, but I'm not diabetic.
 
The wife says lets stick till we're the nineties, enough then. ... :coffee: ...
River Current runs through it. haha
 
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Paco Dennis said:
I can't adjust or get off the RX Doctor's prescription meds, or I could and see how it goes without or with telling her. I am not going to now because I am stabilizing from getting that neuropathy last year. I haven't felt this stable in a long time, so I am not messing with the pharmaceuticals.
Marijuana is adjusted as I need it. I use other over the counter drugs that I do change up, stop using, or take occasionally. That's the way I am handling this old age thing now. Still at 72, with some of you a lot older without so much.
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What did you do , or what happened to stabilize your neuropathy ?

I have it, and at 75 I too have considered just weaning off all my meds, see what changes ? I can monitor my BP and A1C
 
After watching what my father went through with meds and quality of life I decided I would not do that.

I do take one prescription med to help me sleep. I will take pain pills or antibiotics when they are really needed, but that is all.

I take a low dose aspirin and multivitamin daily and ibuprofen for my back pain when needed. My doctor OK'd that.
 

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