Medications you will be taking long after retiring
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LOL. Ain't it the truth. We have the magic "moringa" growing here on our grounds. Tried it once and it is so disgusting. Dragon-fruit is another miracle fruit that tastes like a rotten kiwi.
They come n go.
All those healthy kale-related foods are also potentially problematic for kidney stones, so what's a gal to do?
I eat lots of dragon fruit. First time I saw this fruit, it was in Harrods UK, 1989, it was selling for £32 a pound. Ever since I get them cheap at the farmers market and I think of all the money I save or make by eating this fruit. It’s weird psychology.
Not everyone. I don't hate it, in fact I like it and, since it actually has little taste at all, I add it to other dishes to make them even healthier without really changing the flavor. I add it shredded fine to coleslaw (sort of redundant, but adds color and antioxidants), soups, casseroles, salads, etc. I also just steam it, and saute it, sometimes with mushrooms and garlic or other add-ins, instead of spinach. The taste is much milder than broccoli or brussel sprouts, which I also like, but understand some people hate brussel sprouts due to bitterness.
My doctor keeps trying to get me on statins and I continue to refuse. He loves to push meds even though my cholesterol is not that high at all.
I have had the very same experience. It seems doctors do not want to believe us when we tell them something. I tried I do not know how many statins to make a doctor happy but each one gave a side effect that was not good. So he relented and said do not take any of them.
OK, so I change doctors after a few years. She wants me to try this new and improved statin. I tell her I've tried many of them with no good result. But I tried this new one. Within the first week of taking it, I could not stay awake to save my soul.
At 77, I know sooner or later I'll take my last breath. I can deal with it. What is wrong with these doctors who seem to want to insist they know what is best for us.
I'm probably a bit grumpy. Need to stop listening to the hearings.
Everyone hates it, that is why everyone that eats it gives you a recipe that calls for smothering it in tons of olive oil and salt until all the kale taste is gone. One guy said he loves kale, gave me his favorite kale soup recipe that includes sausages and bacon, that was pretty good, didn't taste the kale at all!
As far a meds go, I took my 85 year old father to a new family doctor, the nurse nearly fell over in her chair when he told her he takes no meds. They fixed that quickly though, he did leave with a bagful of medicine, my dad put it a drawer and never took a single pill. He doesn't think the docs know enough to full around with your blood chemistry without screwing something else up, he said his body is all "settled" and shouldn't be disrupted. lol
So this guy is eating the "healthy" kale, full of antioxidants, while simultaneously raising his cholesterol by 20 points with the bacon and sausage.
If you are retired or fast approaching that point in life, it would not be unusual at all that you may be on some medications to help you along for one or more health conditions. What medications are you on that you consider to be life-saving that you will probably be on for the foreseeable future?
All of the meds I'm on now, and probably in the future.
I have blood pressure, heart monitoring meds, psychiatric meds, statins,, narcotic pain meds ( and the shape my spine is in, and even with second spinal fusion coming up, for the foreseeable future I will be relying on them), and others that keep me functional.
So I've been on meds for at least 30+ years, and even though I quit some along the way, I end up right back on them.
I have 18 scripts currently.
And healthy eating and diet has allowed me to lose 90# in the last 2 years since turning diabetic ( yet another med), but a lot of the actual nutrition has been bred out if the food we eat anyway in order to get a "more perfect looking" one.
And we have drastically cut down our red meat, my OH s favorite, in favor of chicken, which my OH actually hates.
More or less than those will be my bane for the rest of my life.
Thanks for asking
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