ALZ...MEDICAL PARADOX....OR DANGEROUS DRUGS?
Dear Dr. Kohls: Copied below is a post from the Alzheimers' Caregivers Forum that I am certain will be no surprise to you regarding the tragic experiences of the Alzheimers' patient and his family due primarily to Big Pharma's control and influence on the medical profession.
I know your holistic practice -- http://www.mindbodymedicineduluth.com/ -- does not yet include a focus on Alzheimers per se. However, with large numbers of persons being labeled as having "Alzheimers" at younger ages every day -- "EOAD," this is fast-becoming an issue for every practitioner.
I know you have already prepared your lecture titled "The Drugs May Be The Problem: Invonvenient Truths About Psychotropic Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Industry," for the seminar in Minneapolis, Minnesota, sponsored by the Social Services Association at the Bloomington Sheraton Hotel, 7800 Normandale Blvd (just north of the intersection of Highway 100 and 94).on Friday, March 28, 2008, but I am wondering whether you might also include a mention that the same sort of dangerous adverse drug reactions/interactions occur regularly in countless Alzheimers' patients?
Another poster on the link I am providing asks, "how many doctors view this site?" Realistically, not many doctors have the time to review message board posts. I can report my review of such posts cause "shivers down my spine" and "my hair to stand on end!!!" Many of the horrific changes being reported are regarding medications designed to supposedly slow down progression of Alzheimers -- even the drug companies admit the drugs are not actual treatments with any expectation of "cure...." Patients become anxious, agitated, suffer hallucination and delusions, etc., etc. and end up being "doped down" by tranquilizers, sleep-aids and more.
Alzheimers patients, like the patients you are helping -- those with mental disabilities, bi-polar, ADHD, etc., are prescribed one drug on top of another (not by you, of course). As you know, each "symptom" or "compilation of symptoms" yields yet another prescription complete with a lenghty list of side effects!
ALL of this is happening with no regard for "hazardous stimulation" -- "toxic exposure" -- resulting frrom sleeping close to electric meters, gas meters, electric appliances such as clocks, monitors, fans, etc., telephone equipment including cordless phone transformers -- all close to persons beds. There are increasing reports of persons using cell phones for hours at a time -- carrying cell phones in pockets -- sleeping on top of cell phones. These issues demand immediate attention and such information will also lead to further investigation re possible wiring errors, currents on waterpipes, etc. The potential harm from synergystic reactions due to combinations of numerous drugs and hazardous, close, chronic, prolonged EMF/EMR exposures is enormous!!!! Our bodies and brains are electric........
We know various electromagnetic stimulation is used for therapy. Too involved to cite now but we need to ask the question, "what happens if the electric currents -- the "therapy device" -- would be left in place all night long, night after night?
We don't know whether the innocent dad mentioned below was sleeping close to electric or telephone equipment when "he went ballistic...." What if he was.....????
I have addressed this appeal to you but really, it is meant for anyone working in the medical profession. You are already doing a terrific job of informing the public re dangers of medications. It is just that we need to inform the medical profession re "combination effects" because it will be many years before the FDA, or other governmental agencies will make proper, prudent avoidance recommendations to the AMA. What I write about close EMF/EMR exposures is "only tip of iceberg!" We don't know how much harm is being caused by the cellular antennae, high voltage powerlines and WiFi. It is my strong belief we will not achieve any semblance of "common sense" until close, nightly electric field exposures are well-known.
Best wishes and take care - Joanne
Joanne
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Sent: 3/26/2008 1:30:40 P.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: ALZ...MEDICAL PARADOX....OR DANGEROUS DRUGS?
SUBJECT: ALZ...MEDICAL PARADOX....OR DANGEROUS DRUGS?
ALZHEIMERS' CAREGIVERS FORUM - Posted by Stacie Marie on March 26, 2008 09:28 AM
Hello to you all. I thank everyone for their well wishes and prayers on the loss of my father. I didn't want to bring that thread back to the top, since it's time to let go.
On to the important lessons that dad helped me learn the last few weeks of his life. When he was first diagnosed, and he knew this disease was going to kill him, he said over and over that he wanted to just help others. Well, this is one way that I can aid him in achieving that.
First, and most importantly: there are wonderful medications that can help us to treat this disease. We should use them whenever they can be advantageous. What I would encourage you all to do is to learn very well what kind of drugs your loved one does not tolerate well. My father could not take any anti-psychotic medication. In the end, our not realizing this in time is what took him. He had taken one med a couple years back and had a terrible reaction to it, and then recently we tried another, and he ended up in the ER because he went positively ballistic. When we got him there, they gave him a third anti-psychotic med. When it didn't work, and he got even worse, they gave him another dose, and another dose, and then another. My mother and I were exhausted, and we weren't able to put together all the pieces of the puzzle until it was too late. The meds that were supposed to be calming him down were actually making him worse. Later, in another setting, with another doctor (far more skilled in end of life geriatrics) we would hear for the first time that my father was a "medical paradox" so uncommon that he was nearly impossible to treat with traditional methods. But still I feel that had we looked at the situation from the outside, we might have been able to see that something was going on beyond his temper and behavior issues.
That is my first lesson. Step outside the box. It's so hard to see the details when you live them every day. Get a pen and paper, write things down. Sit outside, away from your LO and try to get a new perspective. Don't think just about the last two months, you may have to consider the last two years, or their time since diagnosis. You may be shocked at what's been right in front of you all along.
I will post a new thread for the other part of what I wanted to say since this is getting long!
Stacy
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