Bette Dowdell
Iâ??m one of fivesome siblings, and weâ??ve all had heart surgery. Like most people with heart problems, none of us ever had any of the so-called risk factors. No broad cholesterol. No broad triglycerides. No broad blood pressure. Nothing.
My â??turnâ?? arrived on Christmastime Eve, 2005. Of course, nobody worked on Christmastime Day, so my stent had to wait a day. You couldnâ??t say anybody showed a significance of urgency.
Knowing what I undergo now, I wish I had seen that as a big-time clue and taken a pass on surgery. But, with a family history replete with death by heart attack, I didnâ??t.
I walked out of the hospital with fivesome prescriptions to treat all the risk factors I donâ??t have. Since I live in a Standard of tending state, the student had to prescribe all five; thatâ??s the standard whether or not the patient needs them, whether or not they do harm, whether or not anything. All patients aerated for anything related to the heart get the same fivesome prescriptionsâ??no matter what. The State scrutiny commission thinks this makes sense.
I didnâ??t fill the prescriptions. At my first follow-up visit, the physicianâ??s assistant read the full riot act, not missing so such as a comma. He preached long and hard that I would die a gruesome death without the meds, but he couldnâ??t verify me why I needed them.
I found a new student and made an appointment. As is my practice, I took a brief scrutiny history plus a itemize of my supplements and one prescription (Armour thyroid) to give to the doctor.
He looked at the supplement itemize and asked why I took particular supplements. My answers persuaded him that I verify my upbeat seriously indeed, and I work at it. We agreed that in the face of the slightest symptom, I would come in. If I couldnâ??t investigate my way to fixing my heart issues, I would verify a prescription to get the job done.
I love being aerated as an adult. You see, my position is not about ego, but about health. I scholarly long since that prescription meds present tough, thickened challenges to my whacked out secretor system. I canâ??t afford to ignore that risk.
Right now my secretor grouping perks correct along, my symptoms low good control. My energy level confuses doctors into thinking I donâ??t have a problem, but â??controlâ?? and â??cureâ?? are very different. Iâ??m shouting â??Hallelujah!â? all the day long that I am where I am, but my unhappy history with prescription drugs makes me very wary.
The Standard of tending scrutiny board, though, just blitzkriegs its way forward. Concerns such as mine hold no interest for them.
But hereâ??s the thing: investigate shows that cholesterin levels donâ??t cause cardiac problems. The evidence leaves no doubt. But doctors working low standard of tending guidelines make lives miserableâ??and bump off a fair number of patientsâ??by driving down cholesterin levelsâ??even though thatâ??s not the problem.
The real problem? Inflammation. Inflammation causes rough spots and tears in our arteries. Cholesterol, the guy in the white hat, rushes in to patch us up, but after several patches, the cholesterin gets pretty fat and blocks blood flow.
Get rid of inflammation, though, and the problemâ??s solved.
So, how do we undergo if inflammation is environment us up for a big fall? The inexpensive homocysteine blood test checks inflammation levels apace and easily.
However, Standard of tending opposes this test. Doctors, in my state at least, can risk their scrutiny authorise by ordering it. Why? Big Pharma, the big kahuna of Standard of Care, lacks an inflammation fighter.
Would you like an example? My primary tending student ordered a homocysteine test shortly after I acquired my stent. He told me folic acid controlled inflammation, and my homocysteine levels fell like a stone. But my quite young student no longer practices medicine, and nobody wants to verify me why. My surmisal is the Standard of tending scrutiny commission shut him down; they do that to good doctors. Bad sufficiency he orders verboten tests, but then he recommends vitamins, of all things.
In the last few years, Iâ??ve lost three good doctors, very suddenly, with no think given. I called a fourth highly-recommended student only to learn heâ??d just moved out of state.
Meanwhile, pretty such nobodyâ??s tracking inflammation, the most significant cause of cardiovascular diseaseâ??and many other diseases as well. Some standard of care, eh?
I think Iâ??m okay, though. Thanks to that dedicated doctor, I undergo my problem. I researched the causes of inflammation and avoid what I can. And I scholarly about vitamins and minerals, in addition to folic acid, that fight inflammation. I feel good. But I have to wonder why Iâ??m paying the big bucks for scrutiny insurance when Iâ??m doing all the heavy lifting because doctors arenâ??t allowed to practice medicine.
Bette Dowdell –
About the Author:
Bette Dowdell is not a doctor, nor does she purport to be one. She’s a patient who’s spent the past 30+ years studying, with great success, how to handle secretor problems. Her best credential is that doctors verify her she’s doing ‘too well’ for somebody with pituitary problems. Subscribe to her free e-zine and get plugged in to her information at http://TooPoopedToParticipate.com. If you’re dragging your patooty, and the student says you’re just fine, this is the place to get some answers.