Traveller,
Good questions... and nobody is going to throw you off the boards for asking them... If you take issue with a post, a comment, a position or an opinion... fire away... That's the beauty of an open forum like CH.com. Where the moderators will draw the line is personal attacks... and you haven't done that.
Back to your questions... I'll do my best to answer them. My only problem is where to start. This topic is what we call in fighter pilot speak, a target enriched environment.
It's no secret and shouldn't come as a surprise that prescription drugs are now killing far more people than illegal drugs, and while most major causes of preventable deaths are declining, those from prescription drug use are increasing, an analysis of recently released data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by the Los Angeles Times revealed.
The Times analysis of 2009 death statistics, the most recent available, showed:
• For the first time ever in the US, more people were killed by drugs than motor vehicle accidents
• 37,485 people died from drugs, a rate fueled by overdoses on prescription pain and anxiety medications, versus 36,284 from traffic accidents
• Drug fatalities more than doubled among teens and young adults between 2000 and 2008, and more than tripled among people aged 50 to 69
• In a June 2010 report in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, study authors said that in looking over records that spanned from 1976 to 2006 (the most recent year available at the time) they found that, of 62 million death certificates, almost a quarter-million deaths were coded as having occurred in a hospital setting due to medication errors.
• An estimated 450,000 preventable medication-related adverse events occur in the U.S. every year.
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Natural News has another excellent article that starts with the following:
If you have seen a mainstream medical doctor for a serious medical condition or had routine doctor visits, chances are great that you have been lied to. Not all of the lies may have been deliberate; in many instances doctors may have merely been passing along lies they were taught in medical school and told by pharmaceutical reps. Nevertheless, whether deliberate of not, the fact is that doctors routinely lie.
In the U.S., doctors are taught at medical schools whose top source of funding is the world pharmaceutical empire and whose curricula are set by the American Medical Society. What doctors are taught is that the way to treat illness is to get out prescription pads and use only AMA approved treatments.
Here are four examples of the lies we are commonly told by our doctors
1. Your medical condition is incurable and/or irreversible.
When doctors tell you that there is no cure for your condition or that it cannot be reversed, most often the truth is that mainstream medicine has no answer. Nature, on the other hand, can reverse and cure just about any illness or health condition. Examples of conditions nature can remedy which mainstream medicine cannot include:
• Cancer
• Alzheimer's
• Parkinson's
• COPD
• Failing Eyesight
• Diabetes
2. You can get all the nutrition you need if you simply eat a balanced diet.
Thanks to soils whose minerals have been severely depleted and processed foods which have had most of the natural nutrition processed out, it is virtually impossible to get even the measly RDA amounts of the handful of vitamins and mineral the RDA lists, much less the optimal amounts of the hundreds of nutrients our bodies are designed to utilize.
Two examples of common deficiencies are magnesium and vitamin B12. Anywhere from 75 percent to over 95 percent of us are deficient in the master mineral magnesium - which plays an important role in over 1300 body processes. Forty percent of us are deficient in essential vitamin B12 (including a whopping 91 percent of vegetarians).
3. Unnatural mainstream drugs are safe and natural supplements are either ineffective or dangerous.
Just the opposite is true. A huge British study published in 2012 found that supplements were 62,000 times safer than mainstream medications.
Mainstream medications are not found in nature and over 95 percent of those drugs have side effects. In any given year, well over 100,000 people die in hospitals from the side effects of properly prescribed and administered mainstream drugs. Add to that the number of people who die at home and the number whose deaths were improperly attributed to their original condition and the number soars to well over 250,000 by many estimates.
By contrast, in an average year no one dies from vitamins, minerals or herbal supplements.
4. High cholesterol causes heart attacks and you need statin drugs to lower it.
After the myth of the effectiveness and safety of vaccinations, perhaps the second greatest mainstream lie is the one about high cholesterol and statin drugs. Like vaccinations, statin drugs are huge cash cows for the pharmaceutical industry and there appears to be no end in sight to mainstream medicine perpetuating the myths used to sell them.
The truth is that high cholesterol is merely a marker indicating a higher risk for heart attacks and stroke. Likewise the truth is that damnable statin drugs risks and side effects - such as suppressing production of essential CoEnzyme Q10 - far outweigh their benefits.
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Taking the discussion back to my post about the relative risks of prescription medications, over the counter medications and the vitamins and minerals many of us take to prevent CH... I posted them for the simple reason too many physicians fail to adequately explain to us about the possible side effects of the medications they prescribe or what to look for should we experience an adverse reaction.
A classic example is a prescription for an antibiotic... How many of you were told by your PCP that the antibiotic would kill off the friendly colonies of bacteria living in your GI tract? How many of you were told to take a probiotic while taking the antibiotic? What is our microbiome?
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How many CH'ers are prescribed verapamil, but never given an EKG to establish a baseline before starting verapamil or given a second EKG after a month taking verapamil to check for possible arrhythmia and bradycardia?
Fortunately there are answers to the above questions based on scientific medical evidence gathered by none other than the good doctor Peter Goadsby and others...
See Electrocardiographic abnormalities in patients with cluster headache on verapamil therapy.
Cohen AS1, Matharu MS, Goadsby PJ.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND:
High dose verapamil is an increasingly common preventive treatment in cluster headache (CH). Side effects include atrioventricular block and bradycardia, although their incidence in this population is not clear.
METHOD:
This audit study assessed the incidence of arrhythmias on high dose verapamil in patients with cluster headache.
RESULTS:
Of three hundred sixty-nine patients with cluster headache, 217 outpatients (175 men) received verapamil, starting at 240 mg daily and increasing by 80 mg every 2 weeks with a check electrocardiogram (EKG), until the CH was suppressed, side effects intervened, or to a maximum daily dose of 960 mg. One patient had 1,200 mg/day. Eighty-nine patients (41%) had no EKGs. One hundred eight had EKGs in the hospital notes, and a further 20 had EKGs done elsewhere. Twenty-one of 108 patients (19%) had arrhythmias. Thirteen (12%) had first-degree heart block (PR > 0.2 s), at 240 to 960 mg/day, with one requiring a permanent pacemaker. Four patients had junctional rhythm, and one had second-degree heart block. Four patients had right bundle branch block. There was bradycardia (HR < 60 bpm) in 39 patients (36%), but verapamil was stopped in only 4 patients. In eight patients the PR interval was lengthened, but not to >0.2 s.
The incidence of arrhythmias on verapamil in this patient group is 19%, and bradycardia 36%.CONCLUSION:
We therefore strongly recommend EKG monitoring in all patients with cluster headache on verapamil, to observe for the potential development of atrioventricular block and symptomatic bradycardia.
I could go on, but I think at this point, I've addressed my rationale for posting the relative risks. I didn't do this to frighten fellow CH'ers... On the contrary I make every effort to keep members of this forum as up to date as possible about what works better, safer and more cost effectively in preventing and aborting CH.
I joined this forum in 2006 and began posting about my experiences with oxygen therapy at flow rates that support hyperventilation as being more effective than a flow rate of 7 to 9 liters/minute.
I was told at the time by several well intended, long time members, that breathing oxygen at flow rates this high was dangerous and possibly fatal...
Well... I'm a retired Navy fighter pilot with over 3000 hours in jet fighters... All of that flight time was spent breathing 100% oxygen from takeoff to landing... usually aboard ship on missions lasting an average of 1.8 hours and a few extended missions lasting over 7 hours.
I've also been through enough Aviation Physiology labs to know my average respiration rates under combat maneuvering G loads were easily consuming oxygen at flow rates up to 50 liters/minute. Moreover, several hundred thousand Navy and Marine Corps pilots have been breathing 100% oxygen on all fighter and attack missions since 1943 when a Bf-109 landed in the UK by mistake. In a matter of months US experts had cockroached the oxygen regulator design from the Bf-109 and began outfitting US fighter and attack aircraft with it.
Astronauts have been breathing 100% oxygen during suited operations since 1961 when Alan Shepard made the first flight into space. They're still doing it today traveling to and from the International Space Station and during EVAs.
At this point I'm 70, I'm still here, I'm healthy, and I still use oxygen flow rates that support hyperventilation or my newest method of oxygen therapy. It involves hyperventilating with air for 30 seconds at forced vital capacity tidal volumes followed by inhaling a lung full of 100% oxygen that's held for 30 seconds. 3 to 4 cycles like this (3 to 4 minutes) is usually sufficient to abort a CH at Kip 5 and below. I'm also a patent holder on the demand valve method of oxygen therapy for rapid aborts of CH.
So much for the myth that too high an oxygen flow is dangerous for CH'ers.
If you still think I'm off base with my posts... Shoot me a PM so we can exchange phone numbers.
Take care,
V/R, Batch
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