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<blockquote data-quote="Tanis143" data-source="post: 3250112" data-attributes="member: 43724"><p>That's great. My wife was the exact opposite. Those meds her first doctor gave her robbed her of her strength and balance, then packed 60 lbs back on in less than 4 months. He told her to take a medication that said if you are over 40 consult your doc and if you are of japanese descent do not take, he told her to take it anyway. Why would a doctor do all of that? Why would he keep her on medication that prevented her from working out AND caused weight gain. These medications were for her blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure. It got so bad she could barely walk, couldn't open simple stuff like bottled water, and no matter what she did she still put on weight. She doesn't eat much and she was making sure to limit her carbs. The doc just told her to quit stuffing her mouth (she was eating less than 1500 calories a day, and at that point cut out all junk food, soda and for a while even tea). She got to the point were she was only eating one meal a day and it wasn't even a full meal. This doc almost caused my wife to get hospitalized. We finally left him and got with a different doc and he changed her meds. Its been several years now but her weight is starting to come back down. Her strength and balance? Still gone. But she is now at least eating healthier albeit less than she should. But everytime she gets a bad glucose reading she ends up psyching herself out and doesn't eat. </p><p></p><p>And I can't remember the full details, but there was a nursing home here in Tulsa that the in house doctor was prescribing medication and charging it to medicare when the patients didn't need it.</p><p></p><p>You may be a doctor with integrity and do not do these things. But are you going to honestly tell me that every doctor out there is the same? You might not be getting kickbacks, doesn't mean others are not.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/nyregion/fentanyl-subsys-drug-kickbacks.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/nyregion/fentanyl-subsys-drug-kickbacks.html</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-jerseypennsylvania-doctor-indicted-accepting-bribes-and-kickbacks-pharmaceutical-company" target="_blank">https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-jerseypennsylvania-doctor-indicted-accepting-bribes-and-kickbacks-pharmaceutical-company</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/opioid-fentanyl-drug-company-conviction-insys-1.5121088" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/opioid-fentanyl-drug-company-conviction-insys-1.5121088</a></p><p></p><p>Those were found with just a simple google search and are pretty recent. I bet if I spent more time I could dig back further and find more examples.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanis143, post: 3250112, member: 43724"] That's great. My wife was the exact opposite. Those meds her first doctor gave her robbed her of her strength and balance, then packed 60 lbs back on in less than 4 months. He told her to take a medication that said if you are over 40 consult your doc and if you are of japanese descent do not take, he told her to take it anyway. Why would a doctor do all of that? Why would he keep her on medication that prevented her from working out AND caused weight gain. These medications were for her blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure. It got so bad she could barely walk, couldn't open simple stuff like bottled water, and no matter what she did she still put on weight. She doesn't eat much and she was making sure to limit her carbs. The doc just told her to quit stuffing her mouth (she was eating less than 1500 calories a day, and at that point cut out all junk food, soda and for a while even tea). She got to the point were she was only eating one meal a day and it wasn't even a full meal. This doc almost caused my wife to get hospitalized. We finally left him and got with a different doc and he changed her meds. Its been several years now but her weight is starting to come back down. Her strength and balance? Still gone. But she is now at least eating healthier albeit less than she should. But everytime she gets a bad glucose reading she ends up psyching herself out and doesn't eat. And I can't remember the full details, but there was a nursing home here in Tulsa that the in house doctor was prescribing medication and charging it to medicare when the patients didn't need it. You may be a doctor with integrity and do not do these things. But are you going to honestly tell me that every doctor out there is the same? You might not be getting kickbacks, doesn't mean others are not. [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/nyregion/fentanyl-subsys-drug-kickbacks.html[/URL] [URL]https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-jerseypennsylvania-doctor-indicted-accepting-bribes-and-kickbacks-pharmaceutical-company[/URL] [URL]https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/opioid-fentanyl-drug-company-conviction-insys-1.5121088[/URL] Those were found with just a simple google search and are pretty recent. I bet if I spent more time I could dig back further and find more examples. [/QUOTE]
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