Stopping Aspirin

Every pill that does anything good for us can pack a surprise. These unintended side effects range from the unpleasant to the deadly. Ever see an ad for a pill that "has no side effects"? These ads are a dead giveaway that they are either lying OR that the pill has no effects. These are the only pills that may be safe -- although we certainly would also be wasting our money. Because of the risks inherent in taking any pill, I keep paring down the contents of my pill boxes. While I don't need any diabetes drug any more, I still need to take a couple of prescriptions for my enlarged prostate (BPH). My alternative supplement list keeps shrinking, but it is still too long to make me happy. AND until recently I made sure to take the most common over-the-counter pill ever. That pill is aspirin. I took a baby aspirin every morning for at least the past decade. It is an essential part of the "Harvard Cocktail." Six years ago I recommended that everyone with diabetes take their daily aspirin. "For just three cents per day you can take a well-tested drug that will significantly reduce your risk of heart attacks AND strokes," I wrote in an article for the LXN Corp. newsletter. "Yet fewer than one of five adults with diabetes take this drug regularly." It turns out that the holdouts were generally right AND that all the so-called experts were wrong. That's the good news this week. Many of us -- but not all (see below) -- can dispense with aspirin. We won't be saving any big amount of money by banishing aspirin from our pill boxes. But just like any other pill that can do some good, it can also do some bad. Aspirin is far from being benign. Namely, aspirin can cause gastrointestinal bleeding. AND the longer we use aspirin AND the older we get this risk rises. It is one of the ten drugs that people in the United Kingdom report most often to the Commission on Human Medicines, according to England's leading medical journal, BMJ, which used to be the abbreviation for the British Medical Journal. And now this prestigious journal just on Saturday published a huge study of 1,276 people who have either type 1 OR type 2 diabetes AND were 40 OR more. The people they studied also had an acceptable ankle brachial pressure index of 0.99 OR less AND no symptomatic cardiovascular disease. This study was a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled trial involving 16 hospital centers AND 188 primary care groups in Scotland. Led by Dr. Jill Belch, professor of vascular medicine at the University of Dundee, AND fully 25 other co-authors, the full-text of the study is online. The study concluded that people with diabetes should not take aspirin to prevent heart disease AND stroke. "This trial does not provide evidence to support the use of aspirin OR antioxidants in primary prevention of cardiovascular events AND mortality in the population with diabetes studied."

אכן- לפני מספר שנים היה לי מטופל בריא לחלוטין (מבחינה רפואית, בא לטפל בבעיה רגשית) שכמעט מת מאספירין. הוא הגיע לגיל 70 ורופא המשפחה שלו החליט שכדאי לו לקחת אספירין כמניעה. הוא לא סיפר לי שהוא לוקח אספירין ובכל פעם שראיתי אותו אמרתי לו שהוא נראה קצת צהוב (אני לא רופאה ויכולתי לשפוט רק מזה ממראה עיניים) והצעתי לו לעבור בדיקות.. לאחר מספר שבועות התברר שהוא הגיע לבית חולים ברגע האחרון עם דימום פנימי מסיבי ולמזלו הגיע בזמן וניצל. אז בזהירות ורק בריאות ג'ודי אליאס להורדת סטרס/טראומה/פוביה דמיוון מודרך בשילוב עם NLP-EFT לחיים טובים יותר

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