How safe do you feel taking prescribed medication? or do you prefer to take something more natural?

Question

How safe do you feel taking prescribed medication? or do you prefer to take something more natural?

Answer 1

I would prefer taking natural stuff. But you would probably feel more safe as long as you know whats in it, and the side effects. And make sure the doctor prescribes it. But try natural stuff. Lots of western medicine destroys your kindness and liver, and can result in death. Just know what your taking. Try reading The New Healing Herbs by Michael Castelman

Answer 2

If you hav ever seen the side effects of the synthetics you would cringe and never take that c**p again!!Doctors will not tell you about the side effects and push any old **** on people without any ethical pangs at all!!

The efficacy for most of them is suspicious at best!!

One example is that the statins like lipitor were less effective in a european study than fish oil !!! Fish oil can be taken with no fears of side effects!!!

Answer 3

Save your liver and kidneys. I am a huge believer of N.D.s, Natural Medicine Doctors. We breath, eat, and drink enough c**p, save your body from pharmaceutical meds. Yes there is a time to take them, but for petty little things natural medicine does the trick just fine. The difference? Pharmaceutical works instantly, Natural takes a little longer. But I take a multivitamin every day along with fish oil and supergreen and I cant remember the last time I was sick.

Answer 4

prescribed medication has been thoroughly researched and tested for safety

natural medicines are old wives' tales, with which the dose is much harder to control

do what your doctor says

Answer 5

I do not feel safe taking prescription medications except in rare instances when needed,

After I was nearly killed in a car wreck, although I take no drugs normally, I did let them put the pain pills in my iv as I needed them

Nothing seems to help me when I get a bad gout attack and though I refuse to take the one drug ( allopurinol  ) I am told to take daily forever to reduce uric acid levels, I do take the Colchicine and an antiinflamatories drug when the pain is so intense and severe but generally only one or two and then so far it goes away...

I am scared to take antiinflammatories as they caused my mom to have permanent kidney damage and she died in great pain on dialysis and had 9 heart attacks in a year caused by dialysis which increases heart attacks 30 times. But the pain is too intense and I break down and take it once in a while.

But I have only had maybe 5 aspirin in over 25 years and no cold medicines for about 20 years and almost never take drugs anymore.

Antidepressants drugs almost killed me and caused me to be extremely suicidal daily for 15 years.  It was very hard to fight this intense suicidal ideation..finally one threw me in the hospital I was on 14 different antidepressants  over the course of time...none worked..and then I quit them all and refused to take them..all suicidal ideation left for 8 years...now the FDA puts a black box warning that they can make some people more suicidal and exacerbate depression so now I am scared to take any drugs...I am still depressed but I won't take these drugs for it..they didn't work for me anyhow except one I had a 50% improvement but it was a very dangerous drug and I had to go to 4 pharmacies to find it and they said it is becase it is so dangerous,..(this one was an mao inhibitor but most were ssri antidepressants)

I treat nearly everything with diet, herbs, supplements and home remedies and they usually work very well.  I am over 50 and feel that taking no drugs (except once in a great while) is much better for me but it is hard as my insurance covers drugs and not natural and far superior herbs etc..I make my own herbal tinctures to save money..

I rarely fill drugs doctors prescribe and refuse them and they think I am difficult I think..luckily I had a doctor very into alternative health and diet but my hmo changed and she is no longer covered so I have to pay cash and just see her 1/6 as much now so I am basically self treating myself by studying alternative health and eating well.

I pretty much have a phobia against taking medical drugs and will not take long term and rarely occasionally.

I rarely get colds but I am showing some breakdown in my health this year due to tremendous stress and have had some serious illnesses diagnosed this year so I am trying to find answers with herbs etc and recently trying to improve my diet

the doctor, of course, wants me t take several drugs. I have the knowledge on how to fix stuff..my problem is doing what I know will help and doing it consistently..now that I am older and more prone to health problems, I need to get more serious about taking the things like supplements and herbs and also imporve my pretty excellent diet even more,.