But, given the choice of being dead or taking a lot of medicines I think I would rather take a lot of medicines.
I was never taking any medicines at all mostly until I almost died at 50 of a heart virus. Then they wanted me to take beta blockers which causes your heart to create more capillaries and other good stuff but the doctor gave me one I couldn't tolerate (can't remember which one) but it made me want to commit suicide for the two weeks I took it because it chemically completely lobotomized my intuition and instincts which I prefer to be dead without. So, when I finally told the doctor that the stuff made me want to kill myself he got angry and said, "Why didn't you tell me sooner? We need you alive!"
Which is probably right but I was never one to go to the doctors except in an emergency to begin with my whole life so I wasn't very good with how you deal with doctors then anyway because of this. My wife on the other hand has 3 degrees including a master's degree and her uncle was a heart specialist when he was still alive for around 40 to 50 years. So, she really got the medical advocate part of all this so she has become my medical advocate and the main reason likely I'm still alive at almost 73 now.
But, at this point I have to wake up and take Armour thyroid first when I first wake up. Then I can't eat anything at all or take my next stage of medicines for about 50 minutes to an hour or I have a bad reaction because my body cannot process the thyroid medicine through my stomach right which is not a pleasant experience for the next 24 hours before I can try again.
Then one hour later I have to make sure I eat something before I take 2 more medicines (actually three) because I have to take POtassium so the furosemide (lasix) doesn't kill me within 2 weeks time from draining my body of all potassium and without potassium all the cells in your body are going to die within about 2 weeks to a month depending upon the person.
Then because I got atrial fibrillation in Mt. Shasta last fall my doctor and wife insist I take a blood thinner so I don't die of a stroke if I get atrial fibrillation (heart palpitations) during the night. So, I ONLY take it at night because that's the only time I MIGHT get atrial fibrillation. Then I take something that is a miracle drug twice a day called Entresto (whose advertisement is something like "Take entresto and stay out of the hospital and with your family." Which is true by the way.
But what they don't tell you is that this Entresto costs 600 dollars a month if you don't have medicare or really good health insurance so you CAN actually stay out of the hospital.
Then on top of this I had a defibrillator Pacemaker put in last June which will literally start my heart if it stops like the kind paramedics have in hospitals and ambulances.
However, mine is much lower voltage because the wires are already directly into my heart so they don't need the drastic level of voltage that most paddle defibrillators do.
So, it's sort of like having a Macbook pro laptop the size of a small pillbox installed in your body with a 10 year battery. So, basically my heart now works better than it ever did the entire rest of my life because I don't have an irregular heartbeat anymore.
So, basically, life is a miracle and everyone 20 to 40 years ago with my conditions likely would already be dead. But, because of the medicines and pacemaker I might now live to 100 or more.
The Miracles of Modern Medicine!
By God's Grace
PS the beta blocker to take if you can handle it is Metroprolol which was invented in the mid 1960s. I started this one because my wife's bio-mom is 90 and very spiritual and intuitive like I tend to be and takes this one.
So, if she could handle this beta blocker then so could I and it worked out just fine for me.
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