disturbedme
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... or have there been more commercials for Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome all of a sudden? It's making me suspicious (as if someone's trying to cover up Lyme somehow).... Or I'm just being overly crazy about things as usual?
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My Lyme Story Posts: 2965 | From Land of Confusion (bitten in KS, moved to PA, now living in MD) | Registered: Jun 2007
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I feel the same way about restless leg syndrome. There are commercials for that all the time. Maybe we're just more tuned in now. I know when I got depressed I kept seeing the cymbalta and
the bouncing zoloft guy. Maybe it's the drug du jour they're trying to push. Ya' think??
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tdtid
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I too notice more and more of them, but then again, I think our tv is getting loaded with advertisements about ALL sorts of perscription medications.
Half the time, they don't even tell you what they are really for. Just to ask your doctor if this drug is right for you. Hmmmmm.
I do notice more out there though on things that would be "band aid drugs" for lyme symptoms. So yes, it's very sad indeed.
Cathy
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There are also a lot more ads for various types of alcohol. I think ads for alcohol and drugs should be outlawed altogether.
There have been more ads for Restless Legs Syndrome lately because Mirapex was recently (in the last 6 months or so) approved by the FDA for the treatment of RLS. In the past, it was only approved for Parkinson's Disease.
Advertising agencies are cashing in on our hypochondriacal side.
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lou4656
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The problem with medicine today, IMHO, is that doctors want to treat the symptom, not the cause of the symptom.
Relief of symptoms helps the patient in the short term, but does nothing to get rid of the cause. And as long as you continue to have symptoms, pharmaceudical companies continue to make money.
At one time, I thought the point of the medical profession was to make people well. I'm not sure that is the case anymore.
AND (now that I am on a roll) if you, as a patient are not a quick fix, they pass you on to some other "medical professional". The more patients they see, the more money they make . . . so if you are a "complicated" case, you are not worth the effort. Or you have unresolved mental issues that cannot be treated
Who got me started on this . . . was that you, Disturbed???
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disturbedme
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quote:Originally posted by lou4656: The problem with medicine today, IMHO, is that doctors want to treat the symptom, not the cause of the symptom.
At one time, I thought the point of the medical profession was to make people well. I'm not sure that is the case anymore.
I agree with this 100%. It's so sad.
My mom was having what seemed/felt like arthritis in her hands, very painful, goes to the doctor and the doctor says she has arthritis and gives her medicine for it. The doctor doesn't even do a blood test to make SURE it's arthritis and not something else. She just assumes. Is that what doctors are supposed to do: assume???
I hate ducks.
I think we're all angry with docs now truthfully.
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A while back I was peeking into my crystal ball and guess what I saw?
The big move to dump all of the "unexplained" symptoms, syndromes and diseases into ONE big fat catagory.
AUTOIMMUNE
And the description of "autoimmune" is a disease where your body attacks itself. There is NO known cause and NO known cure.
These duck motels are coming up with new diseases like "Stiff-man Syndrome"... and more such labels because they can't figure out anything.. and don't take time to THINK or research.. or listen! It is frightening.
But.. to their benefit...
By dumping 80 or so diseases together in one lump it makes it appear there is an "immediate" danger to society because one disease alone doesn't raise eyebrows at the government's "hand me the tax payer money" level.
And they can declare there is a HUGE need for money for researching the same things they did all ready by doing them one at a time. This gives them the NUMBERS they need.
And a chance for drug companies to pay these dopes to research and to invent drugs to treat each little thing we have go wrong.
WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!!
But the fan is already clogged with their dribble.
Example.. and in NO way.. you know me.. am I taking away from the severity or seriousness of people who have been diagnosed with ANY disease or condition... as I know from the heart they are sick and need help... as we do....
But... Maryland has already.. bless some avocates hearts if they were involved.. gotten a Task Force together for Autoimmune Diseases which I am hoping was NOT done soley by the Health Department again... but it sure smells that way... with Hopkins behind it.
It had ONLY about 4 patient advocates (typical Health Dept tactics- stacking the deck) and was jam packed full of Health Department people (my personal favorite group- NOT), University reps (Kings of the "NO-Lyme" theory), Insurance agents (who sit and listen and then tell others what to do behind closed doors), Stastical people, state disability people who DON'T want people sucking the pot dry, and docs/nurses who believe that autoimmune is the answer ... etc.
They concluded they now need...
You got it... MONEY for research, educating, etc... as this is now a crisis.
Interesting to me... The CDC states that for every ONE case of Lyme reported in Maryland.. 7-12 are missed.
A while back I tried to figure out what happened to those 7-12 people.
It turns out if you do the math.... the 7-12 total who were missed that have Lyme is REAL close to the total now diagnosed as being "autoimmune".. meaning no known cause and no known cure.
And it provides for duck and insurance income in their pockets for years to come.
And patient suffering.
It makes me SICK!
Of course this is only MY opinion and based on what my crystal ball told me several years ago.
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Treating symptoms is exponentially more profitable than curing disease. There are very few diseases that are not pathogen related in my opinion.
Research money and drug developemnt predominantly comes from the Pharmaceutical industry. Which do you think they would spend more time on, treatments or cures?
The incentive is wrong, and the system is not patient driven but profit driven.
Until that part changes we will not see many breakthroughs in health care.
I do not like it but that is the way it is.
D Bergy
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Aniek
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It's because there are drugs that have received FDA approval to treat them. It has nothing to do with a Lyme conspiracy, it has to do with money and the pharmaceutical industry.
Lyrica is the first drug approved for treating fibromyalgia pain. So they are advertising it like crazy.
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