Let’s talk about sleeping pills.

Benzodiazepines are often preescribed to treat
the SLEEP DISORDER known as insomnia.

Insomnia is described as :

The chronic inability to fall asleep or remain
asleep for an adequate length of time.

Lorazepam (Ativan) is often used to treat both
insomnia and anxiety disorders.

Side effects from lorazepam are common
and include:

drowsiness
dizziness
tiredness
weakness
dry mouth
diarrhea
upset stomach
changes in appetite

Tell your doctor if any of these symptoms
are severe or do not go away:

restlessness or excitement
constipation
difficulty urinating
frequent urination
blurred vision
changes in sex drive or ability

If you experience any of the following symptoms,
call your doctor immediately:

shuffling walk
persistent, fine tremor or inability to sit still
fever
difficulty breathing or swallowing
severe skin rash
yellowing of the skin or eyes
irregular heartbeat

When taken in larger doses over extended periods of
time sleeping pills can become addictive.

information on an herbal sleep helper

My mother’s eye doctor said that he thought
she had glaucoma in one of her eyes.

He gave her an expensive prescription to
use. This was rather costly medicine in the
form of eye drops.

What I love about my mother is that she is
very smart and she doesn’t like to take
medicine unless it is absolutely necessary.

When she read the side effects for this
drug, which included altering the color of
the eye, she was a little nervous.

When she went for a follow up appointment,
she asked how many drops she should be
using. The doctor said something like,
‘two drops in both eyes’.

My mother, who is in her seventies,
immediately realized he had originally said
she had a problem in only one of her eyes.

She questioned him to make sure she heard
right. Sure enough, he wanted her to but
the drops in both eyes.

For me personally, just like the cavity
story I told you before, whenever someone
wants to treat a perfectly good body part,
it raises warning flags for me.

But, I didn’t need to say anything to my
sharp mother. She knew something was wrong!
She went and received a second opinion from
another doctor.

After some testing and another follow up
visit, the new doctor said that she didn’t
think my mother had glaucoma.

Now, my mother has saved herself from
paying for the expensive medication on a
long term basis as well as saving herself
from the side effects of this medication.

I love my mom! Way to go, mom!

The moral of the story? It PAYS to GET a
SECOND opinion, WHENEVER you have ANY
doubts about what your doctor is telling
you.

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I find it irritating. You will too.

Ask half a dozen people you know and you
will invariably find that one of them has
been to a dentist who told them they had 3
to 6 cavities only to go to another dentist
that tells them they have no cavities.

It happened to me about 6 months ago. My
gut instinct was that the dentist was
lying. She wanted to drill into a
perfectly good tooth. I wisely refused the
follow up appointment.

6 months later I went to another dentist in
the same office. Guess what ? No cavities.

I’m a little irritated. Did I mention
that?

What in the world? This is a professional
that holds the public’s trust. And she
totally abused that trust for the sake of
profits.

I can’t stand people like that. She was
young too, probably under 30. There is
something about attempted fraud from an
‘under 30 something’ that is particularly
annoying.

Fortunately she wasn’t yet good at fraud.
I noticed how nervous she was about the
whole thing, which is one of the things
that tipped me off.

Another funny thing is that before she ‘discovered’ the non-existent
cavity, she had just finished talking about her upcoming wedding.

I don’t know, maybe there is something about a honeymoon and a
new house that gets a fraudster to start thinking about money.

Someone told me I should report her. I probably won’t. I believe that
people who do bad things eventually get what is coming to them.
It isn’t necessary for me to take action.

watch out, watch your wallet!