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"Remember, Vioxx was a pain medication. This was not a drug designed to save anyone's life. There isn't a single person whose life would be saved by taking Vioxx. It was simply a pain medication that the drug company Merck wanted to sell because its "marketing department" knew that it could produce billions of dollars in profits by convincing people that this was the best, most powerful pain medication in the world. The fact is it was not the best, most effective, or powerful pain medication in the world." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Spinal surgery patients with postoperative discomfort were studied for the quantity of pain medication they required.54 The hospital had a bank of rooms on the sunny side and another on the dark side, referred to respectively as the "bright" and "dim" rooms. Patients in the bright rooms had 46% greater sunlight exposure than those in the dim rooms. The patients in the bright rooms experienced less pain and took 22% less pain medication than those in the dim rooms, regardless of age. Also impressive was that "bright side" patients reportedfeeling far less stress." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"Prescription pain medication suppresses the body's primary signal of dehydration. Pain killers "short-circuit" the body's emergency routes for water supply; they also sabotage proper waste elimination and sow the seeds of chronic illness. There is enough documentation to show that pain medications may have fatal side effects. They can cause gastrointestinal bleeding, which kills thousands each year. The morphine-type compounds these legal drugs contain can also lead to serious, life-altering addictions." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"I used pain medication. My blood pressure was slightly elevated. Although I considered myself to be nutritionally aware, I used dairy products. My energy was quite low after cancer treatment. I joined a support group to rebuild my immune system. I wanted to be healthy. The arthritis has diminished. I no longer require medication. I take walks and practice yoga. I am totally vegan, drink juices, and follow a Gary's protocol totally. Group homework assignments expanded my self-awareness and created new insights. I am delighted with the results of each new blood test." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "I am not on pain medication. The pain is sporadic. I exercise in a rehab center for my disk problem. My major changes began two to three weeks into the protocol. I am an organic vegan and do not use coffee or sugar. Throwing up stopped when sensible eating and probiotics began. I am a vegeterian cook and intend to study vegetarian meal preparation. I never saw life in the past as I experience it today. BENJAMIN I am a forty-four-year-old man diagnosed as a "worst case disability." I was considered to be a healthy baby at birth." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"We know that giving supplemental magnesium to patients before surgery can lower the amount of anesthesia required and reduce the need for postoperative pain medication. Migraine headaches, common in people with fibromyalgia, respond well to magnesium supplementation. In several placebo-controlled trials, researchers gave patients magnesium sulfate intravenously, and this eliminated the aura and nausea associated with migraines and reduced head pain partially or completely in 40 to 85 percent of patients. In more than half, relief lasted 24 hours or more." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Beyond addiction, the problem is that when you are taking pain medication you are "on drugs," and your decision-making is just as impaired as when you drink alcohol. It is difficult, if not impossible, to change your mindset and lifestyle to improve your health when you regularly take pain medication. If you have severe pain as a result of an injury, or you are in recovery from surgery from a chronic condition, there are an abundance of drugs that can numb your brain, but not the pain itself." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"A recent series of studies on the placebo effect reported that, when patients are told about the expected impact of a pain medication like morphine, the painkilling effect could have almost double the impact than when the patients don't know what they're taking. The theory is that thinking about a drug's effectiveness and the belief that it will work generates biochemisty that combines with the drug's actual physical properties and amplifies its strength. How We Do It: Imagery 101 To begin, define the outcome you would like to achieve." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Does this mean that routine "preemptive" treatment with OxyContin is more effective than routine "preemptive" treatment with other shorter-acting (and much less expensive) pain medication? This study leaves that question unanswered. STUDYING THE WRONG PATIENTS The next step in designing a clinical trial is to determine the characteristics of the people to be included in the study. Ideally, people included in a trial reflect the population of patients to whom the results will be applied—those most likely to use the drug or device being tested." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Patients were randomized into two groups: those assigned to the treatment group received OxyContin twice daily as "preemptive" pain medication, in a dose equal to six Percocet tablets over each 24-hour period. The patients assigned to the control group (also having moderate to very severe pain) were given twice-daily preemptive doses of a placebo." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Patients in both groups could request a single Percocet tablet every four hours if they were uncomfortable, and the preemp- > tive doses of pain medication were adjusted based on patients' requests for additional medication—meaning that the patients in the treatment group who were having breakthrough pain received a higher dose of OxyContin and those in the control group received a higher dose of an inert pill. Can you guess which group had more pain?" - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The fact is it was not the best, most effective, or powerful pain medication in the world. The fact is that there were dozens of other non-prescription over-the-counter and prescription pain medications that suppressed pain much better. There are other non-patentable very inexpensive ways to reduce or eliminate pain that were even more effective than the non-prescription and prescription drugs currently being sold. This was not about producing a drug that would save people's lives; this was about producing a drug that could be sold, marketed at a huge markup, and make Merck billions of dollars." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"Fish Oil as an Adjunct It may not allow you to forego conventional pain medication altogether, but fish oil taken in capsule form throughout your period has a noticeable effect on many women who have painful cramps every month. Based on recent research among women who cramp often, those who took fish oil capsules needed only half as many ibuprofen pills (5) to cope with their cramps as those who took only ibuprofen (10). However, doctors caution women with with a tendency to bleed easily against taking fish oil supplements. PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME (PMS)?" - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) "After eight weeks, the walkers reported decidedly less pain and less reliance on pain medication. Also, they were able to walk farther without pain than they had been able to do in the experiment's pretest. • Celery Tonic lor such a seemingly mild-mannered vegetable, celery packs a surprisingly strong medicinal punch. Celery seed contains at least 12 compounds that have anti-inflammatory effects, which makes celery desirable as a natural treatment for arthritis. You can take celery seed in extract form, available in herb shops and health food stores, or you can eat the stalks themselves." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Such remedies include telling a patient with back pain to go home and take some pain medication and wait, or to try moderate exercise and stretching, which may work as well or better than surgery for most patients. When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Wennberg's discovery of huge variations in the rates of different surgeries was partly a reflection of the uneven distribution of doctors around the country." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "After consulting with McKee about Josie's response to the Narcan, he wrote in the girl's chart that she was not to be given any more pain medication unless he was consulted. Then he left for surgery. About an hour later, Josie got another shot of Narcan. She seemed more alert to King, looking around the room and watching a Scooby-Doo cartoon on television. Still worried, King asked McKee to be ready to return at a moment's notice. Just before lunch, a pediatric anesthesiologist from the pain team stopped in." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"This will require more pain medication, which will further suppress your immunity. (All pain medications suppress immunity.) If you receive blood, your immunity will be suppressed profoundly. This is because transfusions stimulate the generation of the eicosanoid PGE2. Multiple transfusions can suppress immunity to the same degree seen in AIDS cases. Because of the stress of surgery, your body has been depleted of a significant store of B vitamins, as well as several minerals." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"It's easier to acquiesce than to explain why a CT scan won't necessarily help diagnose appendicitis, or why the doctor is certain that the patient's ankle is sprained, not broken, and doesn't need to be X-rayed, or why an MRI won't change the fact that the first remedy for mild back pain is ice, over-the-counter pain medication, and normal activity. As one emergency physician who is a pediatric specialist tells me, he'd rather send a child to radiology than fight with the kid's parents, who will only think he's incompetent because they know their child needs a scan. " - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Studies have found that about 80 percent of people who rupture a disk will recover within a few weeks if they take anti-inflammatory pain medication like ibuprofen, rest for a short period, and get physical therapy. The disk shrinks a bit over time, and the jelly that has leaked out gets reabsorbed. A simpler surgery, called diskectomy, which involves trimming the bulging bits from a disk, can relieve pain in some cases where the disk fails to heal on its own." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Max Gerson weaned all of his cancer patients from pain medication with the use of coffee enemas, which he explains in "The cure of advanced cancer by diet therapy: a summary of 30 years of clinical experimentation" (Physiological Chemistry and Physics, 1978, Vol. 10, Issue 5, pp. 449?64). Medical monopolies don't like that kind of competition. Is it any wonder he was forced to move his clinic to Mexico? Dr. J. W." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"For years she suffered intractable migraines, finding only marginal relief in the strongest narcotic pain medication and antinausea pills. She had been to every headache clinic and tried every medication to prevent or treat her migraines without any relief. After listening to her story, the solution was obvious to me . . . Besides the migraines, she suffered from panic attacks, anxiety, insomnia, and palpitations, as well as muscle cramps and severe constipation—she went to the bathroom only once a week." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Heavy use of pain medication harms kidneys; heavy use of aspirins (or acetaminophen) is associated with a recently discovered condition affecting people with irreversible kidney failure. The condition is known as sick (small, indented and calcified) kidneys. MORE ON OSTEOPOROSIS Again the simple definition: The termporosia simply indicates a porous condition; osteo points to the bones. Older men and women are not as strong as younger people. This includes the bones. But osteoporosis points to an actual disease. The bones become porous and brittle because of a loss of calcium. But here we are." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Oh," he replies, "Did I forget to mention the pain medication can cause constipation and possibly stomach ulcers? Don't worry though. I have something for that as well." Five minutes later, Ms. Jones walks out of the exam room with a new prescription. When she gets home, she takes her pill for headache pain, another pill for constipation, and now one for her stomach trouble. What's wrong with this picture? First of all, the average time a physician spends with a patient is now less than ten minutes." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.) "If the truth be told, the pain medication probably addressed the pain, but it was really just a quick "band aid" to get Ms. Jones in the office, make her wait an hour or two just to be seen, and then charge her $100.00 for 5 minutes of work. Let's say you're driving down the highway and the oil light comes on in your car. What are you going to do? Put a piece of tape over the light or smash the dashboard so you can't see it? No, of course not. Hopefully, you'll pull over, look under the hood, and find the source of the problem." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"It is difficult, if not impossible, to change your mindset and lifestyle to improve your health when you regularly take pain medication. If you have severe pain as a result of an injury, or you are in recovery from surgery from a chronic condition, there are an abundance of drugs that can numb your brain, but not the pain itself. From the day you start taking these drugs, your goal should be to get off them as quickly as medically possible." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Q| pain medication, such as acetaminophen (Tylenol, Da-tril, and others) or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may be used to control inflammation and mild or moderate pain. Narcotics may be needed for severe pain. Q| Adenosine monophosphate (AMP), a compound that occurs naturally in the body, has been found to be effective against shingles. Q| Capsaicin has been attracting attention for its ability to relieve pain in persons suffering from postherpetic neuralgia. Capsaicin is not a product of chemical engineering, but a component found in plants of the same family as red peppers." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Serious cases may be treated with prescription drugs, including intravenous antibiotics such as cefazolin (Ancef), cefamandole (Mandol), amikacin (Amikin); pain medication in combination with acetaminophen, such as codeine (Tylenol with Codeine), hydrocodone (Vicodin, Lortab), oxycodone (Percocet); and intestinal antispasmotics such as L-hyoscyamine (Levsin, Levbid). Injections of Vasopressin may be used to control bleeding diverticula. For mild conditions, healthcare practitioners typically recommend adequate fluid intake and a high-fiber diet." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"What's more, the acetaminophen-aspirin-caffeine combination also beat out the prescription drug sumatriptan (Imitrex) in reducing pain and associated symptoms and reducing the amount of additional pain medication that study subjects needed.358 Prescription Migraine Medicines TRIPTANS The biggest advance in the treatment of migraines has been the development in the last decade and a half of medicines called "triptans." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

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