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digonswine

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24. I think you made a good choice!

Reply to sarge43 (Reply #15)

Thu Jul 26, 2012, 05:09 PM

Jul 2012

Those are not your garden-variety side effects.

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My Grandparents didn't have a table top full of prescription drugs like todays elders. [View all] texanwitch Jul 2012 OP

I think it depends on the general health Irishonly Jul 2012 #1

The commericals scare me. texanwitch Jul 2012 #2

If you believed all of the commercials talk about symptoms.. Irishonly Jul 2012 #5

"It was a mistake to allow pharmaceuticals to advertise." Bertha Venation Jul 2012 #21

They list side effects that would have been experienced without the drug- digonswine Jul 2012 #7

Chantix is my example sarge43 Jul 2012 #15

Good for you, Chantix is dangerous, and you don't want to replace crunch60 Jul 2012 #17

Thanks for the heads up. I'll check it out. sarge43 Jul 2012 #20

I think you made a good choice! digonswine Jul 2012 #24

I think so, too. That stuff is just flat dangerous. sarge43 Jul 2012 #25

Gram did much better when we pared down the drugs she was taking Viva_La_Revolution Jul 2012 #3

I wonder if the seniors get the drugs mixed up. texanwitch Jul 2012 #4

They do. Bertha Venation Jul 2012 #22

When our diets went to shit LynneSin Jul 2012 #6

+1 million, Lynnie! pink-o Jul 2012 #12

They may have been less comfortable, though treestar Jul 2012 #8

Because drugs can 'fix' stuff we didn't used to 'fix'. trof Jul 2012 #9

I have 5 precriptions. Archae Jul 2012 #10

My Grandparents seemed healthy to me. texanwitch Jul 2012 #11

I'm young and I already take a lot of pills. Neoma Jul 2012 #13

Folks are living longer. Swede Jul 2012 #14

When my grandfather was my age, he was old and crippled. hedgehog Jul 2012 #16

Penicillin was not available in 1934. Manifestor_of_Light Jul 2012 #23

I read something interesting the other day... zanana1 Jul 2012 #27

Lots of women died in childbirth too. Manifestor_of_Light Jul 2012 #29

It was the early 20th century before infectious diseases began to be under control. sarge43 Jul 2012 #30

If you notice the interviews with people who hit their 100th birthday yellerpup Jul 2012 #18

A lot of people "back in the day" solved this problem by simply dying younger 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #19

When you turn 65, write another post. nt zanana1 Jul 2012 #26

I think it was related to when they started living longer. harmonicon Jul 2012 #28

My grandma did gollygee Jul 2012 #31

We live in a reactive society. That goes for how we treat illness too. Avalux Jul 2012 #32

My grandma would be dead without her prescriptions. nt Comrade_McKenzie Jul 2012 #33

My grandparents took very few drugs. They didn't live as long as today's seniors. Codeine Jul 2012 #34