Why don't most people listen to their bodies, and figure things out for themselves?

treeguy64

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I am a strong believer that almost everything that bothers/ afflicts us, on a physical level, can be traced back to something we're doing in our lives that is wrong for us. I am one who examines any physical issues I may have, and then I strive to pinpoint what is causing those issues.

Two examples: I was having bad pain in my elbow, to the point where I could not bend my arm, at times. I examined my daily routine, pouring over my comings and goings. Then, at 4 AM, I had one of my early morning revelations: The pocket door in my pantry was my problem. I often left it half open when I was getting things, and I often tapped my elbow on that door. Over time, those taps took their toll. I started opening the door all the way, and in a week's time, my elbow was good as new. Now, a new malady has popped up: Trigger finger in my left thumb. Why? At first, I was baffled. Then, as usual, I thought things out. I recently discovered the joys of bulk, peeled garlic, at the Asian grocery store. That has encouraged me to use more garlic than ever before. I examined my garlic press: Sure enough, the handle of that press presses right into the tendon that causes trigger finger. I bought a new press, and my thumb is on the mend.

I guarantee that 90% of the US public, given my episodes, as above, would have run to their doctors for meds. They put their health in the hands of individuals whose prime goal in life is to make mega-bucks off their captive clientele. Not a good way to go, folks. I view doctors exactly like I view car mechanics: Both are out to fleece you, if you haven't done your homework.

From all of the above I implore everyone: Listen to your body. Reflect on your daily habits/routines, and make changes for your good health. Best of luck to all!
 

I'm a firm believer in a watchful waiting approach when it comes to many of my own medical issues.

My PCP, on the other hand, is always in a rush to hustle me off to a specialist for tests.

IMO it's due to the fact that there is no money to be made by waiting.:playful:
 
Why don't many, especially Seniors, listen to their bodies...……...because they don't want to feel old. They want to continue doing things that, physically, they shouldn't. Back in 2002, I knew my rodeo/roping days were over and, after having a hip replacement and two rotator cuff surgeries later (one on each shoulder), I definitely knew those days were over. Unlike years ago, I can no longer work on a vehicle. Check fluids or change a brake/signal light, yes, but that's about it. Within a year or two, we will no longer have a boat. Just won't physically be able to launch/retrieve it from the water.

Wife and I totally believe in our PCP's, but don't run to them every time we have a pain hit. We both already know we get arthritis pain and take OTC meds for that. Since I no longer work on vehicles, we have to depend on a mechanic to do it for us...……...getting the right mechanic can be the problem.
 

I couldn't agree more!

I am a very strong believer in searching for the cause of something and eliminating THAT rather than simply medicating the symptom! So many of my friends just medicate their symptoms and have a pharmacopoeia of meds they take every day, some of which are meds to combat the side effects of their primary prescriptions! Makes my head explode!!!

I'm thankful for my doctor. She's really good about working with me when I tell her NOPE, don't give me a prescription, which is what she was offering to do when we discovered my cholesterol was a bit high. I told her I was going to attack it with diet and exercise, so I altered the way I was eating to make it more heart healthy, upped my exercise, didn't drop much weight because I'm already good there, but the end result was that at my next well visit my cholesterol was back in normal range. Attack the cause don't medicate the symptoms!!!
 
I agree . If you just listen to your body it becomes very obvious as to what is causing the problem. I have celiac disease. This is something that I needed a doctor to diagnose which he did through a biopsy. I never ever go off my gluten free diet and if I do slip up through no fault of my own my body lets me know.
My knees ache more if I don't exercise.
If I eat to much or read to all hours of the night I have sleep issues. This I'm working on. Even though my body is telling me, I'm weak when it comes to reading and snacking.
 
Since the early 1970s my blood lipids have been very high. And I am almost 70 and no heart problems ' yet ' that can change of course. My triglycerides were 700s in 1974. Dr was very concerned. Now they are in the 400s.
So far most of my friends and family who were on Statins have had heart attacks or heart problems.
I read in medical journal a few years ago high cholesterol was actually good for the heart.
I told my doctor when all these people stop having heart problems I'll start taking their meds.
 
How many have looked into the books on the Cholesterol Myth?

http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol/

As for seniors, I'm pretty senior and love love love to find some puzzles to what is going on with some stuff in my body. I have plenty of time, totally retired now for 15 yrs and have no desire to be glued to the stupid boob tube anymore, done that route. Now it's NPR and I stretch my body as I listen to the programs on NPR. And learning.

I started my quest in my early 50's and just about after menopause, when I stopped the mammogram craze.

Most or Many seniors love to camp out at the doctors and give them more money.
 
Some problems really need prompt medical attention.
I had a doctor once who never recommended tests or anything
then I got one who was just the opposite because he wanted to check
everything out, he said. Well, I wasted some money on xrays and visits to specialists.
Having survived 2 deadly diseases, I don't want to take any chances
with my body any more because some diseases have no symptoms.
 
That's absurd.

No it's a truth unless it's something really so serious, there is so much to gain from
visiting dr. google.

I have a friend with diabetes and she is forever going to docs, getting new meds, blah blah blah and it got to a point that one doc even dismissed her as a patient, she was a pain in the A$$.

If one is fortunate enough to get into a medical practice of an integrative MD, they first and foremst go with nutritional supplements and if many fail, go to the big guns and let the patient deal with the side effects....and add the bandaids.
 
Some problems really need prompt medical attention.
I had a doctor once who never recommended tests or anything
then I got one who was just the opposite because he wanted to check
everything out, he said. Well, I wasted some money on xrays and visits to specialists.
Having survived 2 deadly diseases, I don't want to take any chances
with my body any more because some diseases have no symptoms.

I'm curious what 2 deadly diseases did you survive?
 
Sorry, I know this is an older thread, but I'm still sorting through and catching up since I'm a new member. I completely agree that people need to get to know and LISTEN to their bodies! I've struggled with health issues all my life (some major, some minor, some chronic) and find that my best results always come from learning the symptoms, what they mean, what needs to be changed, and even what type of blood tests I should ask for (since there are a few things I can't diagnose myself).

I wish there were a home TSH test (thyroid levels) because mine fluctuate so much and it drives me nuts. I'm always on a Synthroid roller-coaster and have lousy symptoms with each change in TSH level. But at least now I know what's causing them and know it means to get some blood drawn.

Anyway, yes, we are our own best doctors, and I think so many of us could feel better if we knew what foods agreed with us, and which DON'T agree with us.
Sue
 
Sorry, I know this is an older thread, but I'm still sorting through and catching up since I'm a new member. I completely agree that people need to get to know and LISTEN to their bodies! I've struggled with health issues all my life (some major, some minor, some chronic) and find that my best results always come from learning the symptoms, what they mean, what needs to be changed, and even what type of blood tests I should ask for (since there are a few things I can't diagnose myself).

I wish there were a home TSH test (thyroid levels) because mine fluctuate so much and it drives me nuts. I'm always on a Synthroid roller-coaster and have lousy symptoms with each change in TSH level. But at least now I know what's causing them and know it means to get some blood drawn.

Anyway, yes, we are our own best doctors, and I think so many of us could feel better if we knew what foods agreed with us, and which DON'T agree with us.
Sue

I was given the opportunity to get on that Synthroid roller coaster and did so horribly that I got off it before it got started. I've been taking desiccated thyroid support since 2002 and do very well with it, BUT, this is the big BUT, allopathic keep pushing that Syn support...some do well so they say and I know many who have not. I thank goodness have an integrative MD who works with more "natural" thyroid meds. Like Armour and NT and others...

The doctors for support outside the Syn world would be naturopaths and integrative MD's...allopathic, for me I can't go there. Thank goodness my area of the U.S. is very holistic in thinking. For the most part anyway.

The medical world makes us believe we are numbers and we are Symptoms and doctors way back did not have labs to treat people, they went with symptoms and natural supports. My 2cents on all of this.
 
Sue777

On the subject of thyroid support, there has got to the allopathic MD's out there who will work with desiccated thyroid supports IF a patient brings it up. Synthroid it's said funds medical schools a lot and hence the push by MD's for their medicine. Just sayin, there is better support out there.

Before Syn came into the marketplace, MD's used only desiccated thyroid supports.
 
But, I LIKE my medications!:)

Thinking of what to say to this one. Your words are like music to an MD's and pharma ears. They would love to hear that from ALL their patients, rather than this med gives me this side effect, don't you have something else doc? More and more of the population are working on their own health vs asking their drugs to bandaid things.

I like my thyroid support and my BP meds are OK, I'd like not to take them, but they got me hooked...yes, they get people hooked on the drugs. And I'd like not to take ibuprofen, but I too deal with arthritis.
 
I try to listen to my body when something's not right and figure it out for myself. Like if my my lower back or knee feels wacky, I'll thing about what I've been doing recently to cause it and back off on doing that for awhile. Usually the problem goes away. I rarely go to the doctor, maybe every several years for blood tests, but I'm glad they're there in case I ever really do need them for treatment, medication or surgery. So far just supplements seem to help in keeping fairly healthy in my later years.

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If a person wants to lead a decent life, especially in retirement, it is Mandatory that they remain Pro-active in their own health and well being. Failure to do so makes for misery, and can lead to financial ruin. Whenever a new symptom pops up, a person needs to think of anything they may have done that caused it, and take steps to revise their activity. Then, there is a wealth of information available on the Internet....places like WebMD, MayoClinic, etc., where a person can research their symptoms, and see if there is any fairly easy path to relief. If a person Does have to go to the doctor, they should do their research, beforehand, and give the doctor a complete list of symptoms, so as to enhance the doctors chance of giving a correct diagnosis.
Bottom line....many of our health issues are "self induced"....smoking, alcoholism, and most notably, Obesity. Overweight people fill our doctors offices and hospitals, and account for at least 1/3rd of our nations total health care costs.
 
I think that there are some things that we just need a doctor’s help with, but ultimately, our body and our health , is our own responsibility.
Most doctors do not tell you anything about nutrition at all, and often will say that it really does not matter what foods you do or do not eat, and I believe that a healthy diet is extremely important in staying healthy.

Most of the time, doctors will tell heart failure patients that the heart failure is permanent, and will only get worse over time. My doctor told me that, and when my heart was in heart failure and only working at 23%ef, I didn’t think that it was ever going to get better either; but I started a diet of anti-inflammatory foods to help my heart heal better, as well as what exercise i could do.
It was not much back then !
I huffed and puffed my way down the swimming pool a few times, stopping to rest and hanging on to the side bar along the way, and even walking around the house was exhausting.
I could walk in water better, so for the next year or so, I did water exercises, and also swam as much as I was able to, and did this several times a week.

Now, I am in much better health than I was back in my 50-60’s, and the heart failure is completely gone, and the kidney failure (from the heart failure meds) is also getting better.
I swim almost every day, and walk 1-2 miles , although not all at one time.

The only difference between then and now, is that I try to eat healthy foods, mostly plant based, and exercise an amount that my body can do.
 
I like a lot of Dr. Stephen Sinatra's advice on heart health:

Magnesium
COQ10
DRibose
L Creatine

Enough mainstream MD's have stepped out of the Western medicine BOX and all their info is there for the finger tips to take in. Sinatra is a cardio MD.
 
Most people have been not only been groomed/indoctrinated that there is a pill or procedure for everything they also fell in the capitalist/consumer bear trap of paying someone else/delegating something they should be much more involved in.
 
I listen to an MD on the radio every Saturday..he was going to be a ortho surgeon until a shoulder surgery by his professor in medical school came out bad and the MD changed his mind and direction.

He's heavily involved in Prolotherapy, PRP and Stem Cells and knows a lot and on the spiritual end of life. He's not into poverty but he comes across like he really wants to save people from surgeries.

He very often says on his program, if you want to be healthy don't go to doctors. He's one and has enough distrust in what they are about. There are good ones I'm sure but bottom line they can't care too much for all their patients.

This MD preaches taking weight off if one is carrying too much.
 
I listen to an MD on the radio every Saturday..he was going to be a ortho surgeon until a shoulder surgery by his professor in medical school came out back and the MD changed his mind and direction.

He's heavily involved in Prolotherapy, PRP and Stem Cells and knows a lot and on the spiritual end of life. He's not into poverty but he comes across like he really wants to save people from surgeries.

He very often says on his program, if you want to be healthy don't go to doctors. He's one and has enough distrust in what they are about. There are good ones I'm sure but bottom line they can't care too much for all their patients.

I've found that for the most part the medical industry is good at the obvious like a broken bone, torn ligament, open wound etc. It's when they try to manage your body through a combination of chemistry and procedures. Too many don't get that combination right. And even with the obvious like a repair type surgery I've seen patients get a successful repair but fall to negligent associated staff like nurses, specialty doctors, anathesiologists, labs etc. The medical industry literally still needs to get their act together.
 
I've found that for the most part the medical industry is good at the obvious like a broken bone, torn ligament, open wound etc. It's when they try to manage your body through a combination of chemistry and procedures. Too many don't get that combination right. And even with the obvious like a repair type surgery I've seen patients get a successful repair but fall to negligent associated staff like nurses, specialty doctors, anathesiologists, labs etc. The medical industry literally still needs to get their act together.

Well their bottom line is profits and until that changes it won't change their "act"...profits before people.
 


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