Better living through chemistry?

If you have watched any kind of television over the last 5 or so years, have you noticed how many commercials there are for prescription medications? I am not one to take anything anyway. I have to headache for a whole day or have one so bad that it incapcitates me, before I will even take an aspirin. So when I see all of these ads, I really wonder about who is taking these to heart. And if these meds are available by prescription only, are doctors watching too, thinking of which of their patients need them? And have you really listened to the side effects? They almost sound worse than the actual afflictions they are supposed to help.


And does all of the rhetoric drive up the costs of these medications? I know named brand prescriptions are incredibly expensive. Then what if you don't have insurance? I know all of these questions can't be answered in a little blog, but I do worry about how all of this affects my friends, family and those I don't even know, especially older folks. I must have absorbed some of these tensions from my late mother-in-law who lived to worry about anything and everything. My husband often says it is a miracle that he and his sister (may she rest), ever learned to walk.


In any case, if there are people who truly needs these medications, I am glad there are so many things available to help. But for the rest of us, hopefully we will never need to ask our doctors about the latest little pill being shoved down our throats via the latest tv ads.


Thanks you for sharing your precious time with me and my words.