This does not surprise me at all. Can you tell me the medication? My mom has recurrent bladder infections and now she has to take heart and blood pressure medicine for AFIB/hypertension. We have to do our own research. I did switch to a new doctor for her in the last six months and so far I have been somewhat impressed with him and he kn…
This does not surprise me at all. Can you tell me the medication? My mom has recurrent bladder infections and now she has to take heart and blood pressure medicine for AFIB/hypertension. We have to do our own research. I did switch to a new doctor for her in the last six months and so far I have been somewhat impressed with him and he knows not to recommend things we already know are their drugs of choice like statins! Those are not good whatsoever. My dad got dementia from them after he was on them 25 years and it was too late when I discovered it and weaned him off. The damage had to be done. I hope your mom recovers. Plus he actually recommended not getting the Watchman device implanted that the cardiologist wanted to do. He said he wouldn’t do it to his mom or grandma! That shocked me! He asked if he could treat the AFIB! Completely shocked by all of it so far!
The medication was Jardiance. Her PCP was praising it as a great new miracle heart drug. The following is from Drugs.com
Before taking this medicine
You should not use Jardiance if you are allergic to empagliflozin, any of the inactive tablet ingredients, or if you have:
severe kidney disease (or if you are on dialysis).
To make sure Jardiance is safe for you, tell your doctor if you have or have ever had:
***a bladder infection or urination problems;***
a genital infection (penis or vagina);
problems with your pancreas, including surgery;
have a history of amputation;
have type 1 diabetes or have had diabetic ketoacidosis;
have a decrease in your insulin dose;
are eating less, or there is a change in your diet;
alcoholism, or if you currently drink large amounts of alcohol;
if you are on a low salt diet, you are eating less, or there is a change in your diet;
if you are 65 or older; or
liver or kidney disease."
As the article says, we told her doctor. He totally ignored us. Mom had been ill for many years and lived way longer than expected. We were glad that she did survive 4 heart attacks and we are thankful for the cardiologists who saved her each time. She barely survived the last one and then lived another 9 months and saw her 2 great grandchildren born and was able to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with them. I know seeing her great grand babies made her so happy and that was such a blessing for me.
OMG!!! I can't believe he wouldn't pay attention to these side effects!!!! This is so much more than the typical "you could have these side effects." Completely irresponsible. Thank God she listened to you! This is pure ego in my opinion when any practitioner behaves this way without regard for a patients safety. It proves the fact they don't have to worry about malpractice lawsuits anymore as they've been given a license to kill after the covid nightmare started.
I think the doctors do not pay any attention to the side effects. As with COVID, I don't think there is any thought to risk and benefit. I know that with my father-in-law, the rheumatoid arthritis he had was so bad that he was willing to take any risk to be able to function so he took biologics. However, that caused many side effects and a compromised immune system. Ultimately, he had a stroke due to an infection caused by a colonoscopy with an unclean instrument. His infections disease doctors said that they hate the biologics because they are seeing so many diseases that they rarely if ever saw.
A doctor who has been under fire exposing the covid hoax and the jabs came out last year about how colonoscopy's are not necessary like they push them. My brother almost bled to death when a polyp they removed bled all week until it was coming out rectally four days later (sorry if TMI). By the time he got to the hospital he needed two blood transfusions! I will never get another one. If they didn't find anything the first two I had, then I'll take my chances. We have no history of colon cancer. It's just another money grab. The same with mammograms. They do more harm to women than good. Now if you have a history of cancer or your family does, that may be different, but if you don't I will no longer take these either. Stopped about 10 years ago. It's amazing the things we can't trust from the medical community. Just curious though did this happen to him before covid? Otherwise its likely the jabs? We are seeing droves of people dying at all ages with health issues that never affected people under their sixties. Although if they use the same half-assed testing they did for the covid jabs, then that wouldn't surprise me that they had a lot of issues. So sad we can't trust anything. My grandmother had rheumatoid arthritis and she was always in so much pain. She couldn't take the drugs since they had horrible side effects so she just took Excedrin since it was the only thing she could tolerate.
I saw that as well. My other father-in-law (divorced parents-in-law so 2 sets) is in his 70's and has never had a colonoscopy. On the other hand, an elderly friends son had a routine colonoscopy and it almost killed him. He never fully recovered. They nicked his colon and he didn't know it and became septic. Had another friend who had the same thing happen with esophagoscopy. I agree with you. I don't get mammograms or dental x-rays. We did do heart scans but we both have a family history of heart disease. It's easy, inexpensive and noninvasive. Thankfully, both of our fathers passed away in 2019 before COVID so the colonoscopy was in 2018 and a large well-known university hospital. They had both been ill for many years. The horrible medical stories I could tell go back many years. I do wonder what other possible naturopathic alternatives there are for rheumatoid since it is considered an autoimmune disease. I wonder if that means Ivermectin would be effective in treating it.
Its amazing all the issues that are being treated now with Ivermectin by people becoming aware of its benefits. It sure isn't the medical establishment doing it, or the majority of them. I know the frontline doctors recommended for covid and saved many lives. My grandmother passed in 2006 when I was really getting into naturopathic medicine. I had started her on various vitamins and minerals earlier, but had never really looked into the rheumatoid arthritis. Your story about the colonoscopy and the esophagoscopy are getting added to the list of issues I continue to see. Thankfully one of the frontline doctors released a four part series covering the issues with colonoscopies. Also, a number of years ago my doctor (who is now long retired), told me to quit taking the bone density tests. That's another thing they are making money on. You don't keep needing to get them, and we don't need exposed to all this radiation! Who knew how much of a farce this was just to make more money on all of us.
So glad that you were able to start your grandmother on some vitamins and such. They really do make a difference. Using herbs when cooking is helpful as well. It's great that God gave us herbs that make our food taste better and at the same time they are beneficial to our health. I totally agree that the medical establishment seems to be very dismissive of all the radiation they are exposing us to with these preventative tests. A story on the positive side is one of my friends successfully treated her father 's terminal colon cancer with Ivermectin (yes, she used horse paste since she couldn't get a RX). He was given a terminal diagnosis but she didn't give up and searched until she found a guy on-line "My Cancer Story Rocks."
I agree with you on the herbs. My grandma loved them and no meal was complete without garlic!!! Also lots of onions. I am so glad your friend's father found that protocol. I've been reading about Ivermectin for cancer on another substack and with great success! We bought the horse paste and they also have liquid Ivermectin at various animal feed stores. Thanks for sharing that story!!! I'll keep that site as reference too!!
Onions and garlic are so good and good for you and I love to smell them cooking. They have high amounts of quercentin. I heard it explained that zinc is the bullet that fights viruses and quercetin is the gun that fires the bullet.
Did your father have the Cv shot? And I only ask because I have RA and have taken biologics in the past . I have been off it since last November and I am concerned about going back on. And most of all I am so sorry for your loss of your Father, my deepest condolences to you and your family.
Also, for recurrent bladder infections, check all medications for possible side effects. Review caffeine intake. Coffee and especially tea have tannins which can irritate the bladder. Reduce or eliminate sugar. Eat foods with probiotics. Just some suggestions that could help with bladder infections.
Thank you very much. I have been reviewing everything and have taken her down to the bare bones on medications. The new one is carvedilol which is for the afib/hypertension combined. It has issues too, but I am monitoring her. It doesn't have the bladder infection, but the other ones they wanted to give her were ones we weaned her off. We stopped her coffee a number of years ago and watch the other issues closely. I appreciate what you suggested. What's really something is that you just explained more about watching for bladder infections and what to take to help her than any practitioner I've talked to for the last ten years I've been guiding her on this journey!!!! I give her a probiotic and also found some bladder supplements that are supposed to help. Your mother was fortunate to have you as her earthly Guardian Angel!!!
Thank you for butting in. I've had her on that for some time. She's a tough one. All the things they recommend help delay them, but doesn't stop them entirely. I think its because of a combination of things that have been an issue with her, but I won't take her off of them. It scares me what would happen if I did. I've talked to many people where they put the elderly on maintenance doses of antibiotics forever. So the fact we are getting them reduced have to be better than taking an antibiotic nonstop, which would definitely cause issues in other areas and if she really needed an antibiotic for something more serious. Plus the drug used for the overactive bladder has horrible side effects so I won't even try that out.
TY for getting back to me. I saw both of my elderly parents suffer from UTIs so my spouse and I have been taking a "maintenance dose" of it. (I couldn't find an amount to take so it's just a guess--more importantly, we have it available to take in larger dose if either of us feel a UTI kicking in.) I'm glad you're having your mom take it, even if it doesn't stop them entirely it's better than going to antibiotics so often.
It was a privilege to be able to help my mom. She suffered so much with medical problems over the years. Bladder infections are indeed tricky. I've seen commercials for Quora and I'm not sure if that supplement works. I sometimes wonder if people with chronic infections like my mom have an inverted or tilted bladder (anatomical issue) like people who get recurrent ear infections. Hope that you can get her to a place where she's not dealing with these infections. Also, remember that the drug store sells a UTI test kit so that you can go the doctor prepared to ask for meds for UTI.
I am actually using the Quora for her, but I am not so sure it is really working but I won't stop it since we are getting at least 9 months in between UTI's right now. Her problem started with a severe prolapsed bladder (cystocele). (Thanks to pregnancy and having twins first. My brother and I am to blame.!) She had used a pessary for a number of years, but then it didn't work anymore and she put off having a surgery they recommend to repair the bladder, but then covid hit, and it was postponed further. Before that she had a bladder sling which failed as well back in her thirties, now 92. She finally had the surgery in June 2020, but the problem was her bladder became overactive and with the prolapse she just kept getting the UTI's. Even after the surgery we can't seem to get the overactive bladder under control so its a constant struggle. Unfortunately UTI's seem to be an issue with the elderly. I make sure she is drinking enough fluids but its a constant fight to get her to drink enough.
The Watchmen is a fraud. There’s a tiny appendix, hanging off the left auricle that doctors didn’t even know existed until about 10 years ago. it’s not in the medical books and not on pictures of hearts. It looks like a tiny little worm. They don’t know what it’s for - so now what they do is they get thousands $$$ of dollars for putting a plastic clip on it. SCAM.
This does not surprise me at all. Can you tell me the medication? My mom has recurrent bladder infections and now she has to take heart and blood pressure medicine for AFIB/hypertension. We have to do our own research. I did switch to a new doctor for her in the last six months and so far I have been somewhat impressed with him and he knows not to recommend things we already know are their drugs of choice like statins! Those are not good whatsoever. My dad got dementia from them after he was on them 25 years and it was too late when I discovered it and weaned him off. The damage had to be done. I hope your mom recovers. Plus he actually recommended not getting the Watchman device implanted that the cardiologist wanted to do. He said he wouldn’t do it to his mom or grandma! That shocked me! He asked if he could treat the AFIB! Completely shocked by all of it so far!
The medication was Jardiance. Her PCP was praising it as a great new miracle heart drug. The following is from Drugs.com
Before taking this medicine
You should not use Jardiance if you are allergic to empagliflozin, any of the inactive tablet ingredients, or if you have:
severe kidney disease (or if you are on dialysis).
To make sure Jardiance is safe for you, tell your doctor if you have or have ever had:
***a bladder infection or urination problems;***
a genital infection (penis or vagina);
problems with your pancreas, including surgery;
have a history of amputation;
have type 1 diabetes or have had diabetic ketoacidosis;
have a decrease in your insulin dose;
are eating less, or there is a change in your diet;
alcoholism, or if you currently drink large amounts of alcohol;
if you are on a low salt diet, you are eating less, or there is a change in your diet;
if you are 65 or older; or
liver or kidney disease."
As the article says, we told her doctor. He totally ignored us. Mom had been ill for many years and lived way longer than expected. We were glad that she did survive 4 heart attacks and we are thankful for the cardiologists who saved her each time. She barely survived the last one and then lived another 9 months and saw her 2 great grandchildren born and was able to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with them. I know seeing her great grand babies made her so happy and that was such a blessing for me.
OMG!!! I can't believe he wouldn't pay attention to these side effects!!!! This is so much more than the typical "you could have these side effects." Completely irresponsible. Thank God she listened to you! This is pure ego in my opinion when any practitioner behaves this way without regard for a patients safety. It proves the fact they don't have to worry about malpractice lawsuits anymore as they've been given a license to kill after the covid nightmare started.
I think the doctors do not pay any attention to the side effects. As with COVID, I don't think there is any thought to risk and benefit. I know that with my father-in-law, the rheumatoid arthritis he had was so bad that he was willing to take any risk to be able to function so he took biologics. However, that caused many side effects and a compromised immune system. Ultimately, he had a stroke due to an infection caused by a colonoscopy with an unclean instrument. His infections disease doctors said that they hate the biologics because they are seeing so many diseases that they rarely if ever saw.
A doctor who has been under fire exposing the covid hoax and the jabs came out last year about how colonoscopy's are not necessary like they push them. My brother almost bled to death when a polyp they removed bled all week until it was coming out rectally four days later (sorry if TMI). By the time he got to the hospital he needed two blood transfusions! I will never get another one. If they didn't find anything the first two I had, then I'll take my chances. We have no history of colon cancer. It's just another money grab. The same with mammograms. They do more harm to women than good. Now if you have a history of cancer or your family does, that may be different, but if you don't I will no longer take these either. Stopped about 10 years ago. It's amazing the things we can't trust from the medical community. Just curious though did this happen to him before covid? Otherwise its likely the jabs? We are seeing droves of people dying at all ages with health issues that never affected people under their sixties. Although if they use the same half-assed testing they did for the covid jabs, then that wouldn't surprise me that they had a lot of issues. So sad we can't trust anything. My grandmother had rheumatoid arthritis and she was always in so much pain. She couldn't take the drugs since they had horrible side effects so she just took Excedrin since it was the only thing she could tolerate.
I saw that as well. My other father-in-law (divorced parents-in-law so 2 sets) is in his 70's and has never had a colonoscopy. On the other hand, an elderly friends son had a routine colonoscopy and it almost killed him. He never fully recovered. They nicked his colon and he didn't know it and became septic. Had another friend who had the same thing happen with esophagoscopy. I agree with you. I don't get mammograms or dental x-rays. We did do heart scans but we both have a family history of heart disease. It's easy, inexpensive and noninvasive. Thankfully, both of our fathers passed away in 2019 before COVID so the colonoscopy was in 2018 and a large well-known university hospital. They had both been ill for many years. The horrible medical stories I could tell go back many years. I do wonder what other possible naturopathic alternatives there are for rheumatoid since it is considered an autoimmune disease. I wonder if that means Ivermectin would be effective in treating it.
Its amazing all the issues that are being treated now with Ivermectin by people becoming aware of its benefits. It sure isn't the medical establishment doing it, or the majority of them. I know the frontline doctors recommended for covid and saved many lives. My grandmother passed in 2006 when I was really getting into naturopathic medicine. I had started her on various vitamins and minerals earlier, but had never really looked into the rheumatoid arthritis. Your story about the colonoscopy and the esophagoscopy are getting added to the list of issues I continue to see. Thankfully one of the frontline doctors released a four part series covering the issues with colonoscopies. Also, a number of years ago my doctor (who is now long retired), told me to quit taking the bone density tests. That's another thing they are making money on. You don't keep needing to get them, and we don't need exposed to all this radiation! Who knew how much of a farce this was just to make more money on all of us.
So glad that you were able to start your grandmother on some vitamins and such. They really do make a difference. Using herbs when cooking is helpful as well. It's great that God gave us herbs that make our food taste better and at the same time they are beneficial to our health. I totally agree that the medical establishment seems to be very dismissive of all the radiation they are exposing us to with these preventative tests. A story on the positive side is one of my friends successfully treated her father 's terminal colon cancer with Ivermectin (yes, she used horse paste since she couldn't get a RX). He was given a terminal diagnosis but she didn't give up and searched until she found a guy on-line "My Cancer Story Rocks."
I agree with you on the herbs. My grandma loved them and no meal was complete without garlic!!! Also lots of onions. I am so glad your friend's father found that protocol. I've been reading about Ivermectin for cancer on another substack and with great success! We bought the horse paste and they also have liquid Ivermectin at various animal feed stores. Thanks for sharing that story!!! I'll keep that site as reference too!!
Onions and garlic are so good and good for you and I love to smell them cooking. They have high amounts of quercentin. I heard it explained that zinc is the bullet that fights viruses and quercetin is the gun that fires the bullet.
Did your father have the Cv shot? And I only ask because I have RA and have taken biologics in the past . I have been off it since last November and I am concerned about going back on. And most of all I am so sorry for your loss of your Father, my deepest condolences to you and your family.
I am so glad she was able to see her great grandchildren born and to spend the holidays with all of you. That' was a blessing.
Also, for recurrent bladder infections, check all medications for possible side effects. Review caffeine intake. Coffee and especially tea have tannins which can irritate the bladder. Reduce or eliminate sugar. Eat foods with probiotics. Just some suggestions that could help with bladder infections.
Drink lots of water, and take a teaspoon of Mannose morning and evening with water.
Thank you very much. I have been reviewing everything and have taken her down to the bare bones on medications. The new one is carvedilol which is for the afib/hypertension combined. It has issues too, but I am monitoring her. It doesn't have the bladder infection, but the other ones they wanted to give her were ones we weaned her off. We stopped her coffee a number of years ago and watch the other issues closely. I appreciate what you suggested. What's really something is that you just explained more about watching for bladder infections and what to take to help her than any practitioner I've talked to for the last ten years I've been guiding her on this journey!!!! I give her a probiotic and also found some bladder supplements that are supposed to help. Your mother was fortunate to have you as her earthly Guardian Angel!!!
butting in here -- have you tried D-Mannose for maintenance of bladder (preventing infection)?
Thank you for butting in. I've had her on that for some time. She's a tough one. All the things they recommend help delay them, but doesn't stop them entirely. I think its because of a combination of things that have been an issue with her, but I won't take her off of them. It scares me what would happen if I did. I've talked to many people where they put the elderly on maintenance doses of antibiotics forever. So the fact we are getting them reduced have to be better than taking an antibiotic nonstop, which would definitely cause issues in other areas and if she really needed an antibiotic for something more serious. Plus the drug used for the overactive bladder has horrible side effects so I won't even try that out.
TY for getting back to me. I saw both of my elderly parents suffer from UTIs so my spouse and I have been taking a "maintenance dose" of it. (I couldn't find an amount to take so it's just a guess--more importantly, we have it available to take in larger dose if either of us feel a UTI kicking in.) I'm glad you're having your mom take it, even if it doesn't stop them entirely it's better than going to antibiotics so often.
Thank you, I agree with you completely!!!
I’ve cured 3 bladder infections with D-Mannose… it’s wonderful… 👍🏽
It was a privilege to be able to help my mom. She suffered so much with medical problems over the years. Bladder infections are indeed tricky. I've seen commercials for Quora and I'm not sure if that supplement works. I sometimes wonder if people with chronic infections like my mom have an inverted or tilted bladder (anatomical issue) like people who get recurrent ear infections. Hope that you can get her to a place where she's not dealing with these infections. Also, remember that the drug store sells a UTI test kit so that you can go the doctor prepared to ask for meds for UTI.
I am actually using the Quora for her, but I am not so sure it is really working but I won't stop it since we are getting at least 9 months in between UTI's right now. Her problem started with a severe prolapsed bladder (cystocele). (Thanks to pregnancy and having twins first. My brother and I am to blame.!) She had used a pessary for a number of years, but then it didn't work anymore and she put off having a surgery they recommend to repair the bladder, but then covid hit, and it was postponed further. Before that she had a bladder sling which failed as well back in her thirties, now 92. She finally had the surgery in June 2020, but the problem was her bladder became overactive and with the prolapse she just kept getting the UTI's. Even after the surgery we can't seem to get the overactive bladder under control so its a constant struggle. Unfortunately UTI's seem to be an issue with the elderly. I make sure she is drinking enough fluids but its a constant fight to get her to drink enough.
The Watchmen is a fraud. There’s a tiny appendix, hanging off the left auricle that doctors didn’t even know existed until about 10 years ago. it’s not in the medical books and not on pictures of hearts. It looks like a tiny little worm. They don’t know what it’s for - so now what they do is they get thousands $$$ of dollars for putting a plastic clip on it. SCAM.