Author: Ginny
Date: 1999-08-22 01:18
I note that I have never said anything except that in my own experience betablockers work rather better than any of the many things I tried for this phobia. I wish that you too could enjoy the freedom of being able to enjoy playing with and for others that I now can, thanks to this treatment. No one has suggested that they be used other than under a doctor's care. I no longer have need of them, they did their job.
You state below that they can be lethal, to those with low blood pressure and other un-named medical problems, I assume you mean in the small doses used for stage fright. Do you have a personal experience dying from the dosage used for stage fright, or you are a clinical researcher studying the fatalities from this application? Perhaps you would like to give your source, specifically. Otherwise you would seem to be doing just what you accuse others of doing, giving advice with out the proper credentials to do so.
I note that I have low blood pressure and I am alive, and have used betablockers for stage fright (by prescription.)
Ginny
Lelia wrote:
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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.
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