Author: Lelia
Date: 1999-08-21 15:03
If someone gets a prescription and a doctor's advice, fine with me, but unfortuately kids *are* using beta blockers as if they were recreational drugs. They're taking their parents' prescriptions, and so forth. I know a doctor, aldso a musician, who hands the stuff out like candy. Knowing nothing about my medical history, he offered to write me a prescription. That's potentially deadly.
I'm not mindlessly "puritanical" about drugs. Drugs saved my life when I spent most of two months in the hospital in 1998. I'd like to stay alive awhile longer. That's why, on my doctor's advice, I won't touch beta blockers. I have low blood pressure (as if it's anybody's business; but apparently I have to offer my credentials for inspection). If I'd taken the advice I frequently see being bandied about by musicians who are not doctors and therefore not competent to prescribe, or by medical professionals (*not* Diane K., who is responsible about this sort of thing -- note how carefully she qualified her comments) who should know better than to recommend drugs to people they've never examined, I might be dead at the moment, instead of pontificating on the 'Net. Use some sense, people, that's all I'm saying. Beta blockers are safe for some musicians. For others (not just people with low blood pressure; there are other contraindications as well), these drugs are lethal.
|
|
Keepers
