Prescriptions that cause serious side effects. Worth the risk?
So of course it's going to physically affect you and your body. I was told that due to a lot of the medications that he's on let me see if I can find it. He has developed what is called neuroleptic malignant syndrome. And if you all will bear with me a second, I'm actually just going to read off my paper here. This is a life threatening neurological disorder most often caused by an adverse reaction to neurolectic or antipsychotic drugs
Nick Hydier
@NickHydier9813 · 4:53
But I guess the important thing is just being able to be there for him and support him and help him no matter how or however I can. And it's probably the same way for you and your brother is that all we can do is really just be there for them and give them help when they need or even just be there to comfort them, because that's all what's really probably most important in the end
ashmi dewan
@ashmi.dewan · 1:45
Hi, you know, I totally get you. And we can't really do much about it, I feel, because, you know, it's a double edged sword and, you know, we have to we have to give the medication, right, and then there'll be all these side effects. Unfortunately, the only thing that we can do is to just be with the person and, you know, do whatever best we can can to help that person
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Kwa NateKo
@kwa · 4:57
It. So I had a student in an 8th grade class I was teaching who was remarkably different on 8th grade on medicine than she was often so off medicine. I mean, she she doesn't function in a normal school environment. Meaning she's running around from classroom to classroom in the hallways, can't really focus at all, really, really need some one on one individual attention with her when she's on medicine
And then, yes, you definitely brought up some really good points about individuals needing to be able to take care of themselves in this world, which isn't always an easy thing to do and not have a learned helplessness. So, yeah, I pretty much agree with all your points and I really appreciate you taking the time to respond. Thanks. Have a good day. Bye
Hey, Nick, thank you so very much for your really thoughtful response. Yeah, you definitely brought up some really good points. And, yeah, it is one of those issues where you have to quote outweigh the good versus the bad in terms of side effects or how much is the medication really going to help in certain ways. And it's interesting too, you brought up the fact about how going off the epilepsy medicine really helped you in terms of your cognition
Nick Hydier
@NickHydier9813 · 3:47
There are some people that may need to be on it, depending on how worse or the severity of their seizures or how reoccurring they are, if any. Again, it all depends. And as far as outweighing the good and the bad, as I may have mentioned before, that can also be really difficult to do, because again, everybody is different with how they're affected by not just the ailments that they're taking the medication for, but for the medication itself
Sea O'Mahoney
@Lokigen · 4:52
And as you go further back in our country in particular, I don't know about other countries, but our country, as you go further back, you start to see this sort of campaign against medicines. So there was a time in human history when all medicines came from nature. You had to have a good knowledge of a few medicines to help you overcome things like colds, infections, insomnia, stuff like that. So everybody had a garden, and the garden was kind of broken down into sections
Sea O'Mahoney
@Lokigen · 4:58
You. And I just wanted to add, since we didn't have a lot of time on there, I only had five minutes, that you're not alone in this. Everybody in the world right now is questioning whether or not what they're doing and what they've been told about medicine and medicine and health care is the right thing to do. We're starting to see that a lot of these new, ah, treatments and medications that they have don't necessarily make things better