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Okay, recently I've had to visit the doctor multiple times because of some sort of rash. Now the first time I got this kind of reaction, they said it might be poison ivy and gave me Calamine lotion. That worked, and now after 1 month and a half, its happened again, so I tried the Calamine lotion, which didn't work and seemed to make it worse. So, I went to my doctor and they said it still looks like contact to something that they're not sure of. I got some kind of cream for my skin and pills to take twice a day. These pills seemed to work, but the rash was coming up in other places. So once again, its back to the doctors. They got about 5 experts together and decided it was still some kind of contact and gave me a stronger pill to take. They also spoke of other medicines that I might have to take in case these don't work. So right now, I'm gonna see if they work or go back AGAIN to get stronger medicine

Well, long story short, I'm wondering why doctors start you off with crappy medicine instead of just starting with the strongest stuff, is it to get your body used to fighting a symptom? I wouldn't ask my doctor cause he would totally pwn me in a lecture or something. Lots of you know about health, please explain.

If they are unsure of what it is that is effecting you, they want to try different medicines to find out what it is, I suppose.

PLUS, they want to give you as many different medicines as possible to do something known to most as "get money".

They're not getting any of my money, the pharmacy is getting the money. Most of it is prescription medicine so they don't just give it to me. Maybe they have their own pharmacy somewhere. Probably do and I haven't noticed it.

yeah ur right. docs give u weak meds 1st 4 2 reasons.
1: the body may have an overhaul if the drugs u take r 2 strong
2: the stronger the drug is, usually the harder it is 2 buy it, and if u could have used less expensive stuff, the doc would go crazy bcause he "wasted money and threatened ur life" (i know, this has happened 2 me once.)
PS: was this NHS? if so, expect sh!t like this 2 happen a lot
hope it helped a lot

To me it seems like that want to get to the root of your problem by giving you all the different types of medicine they have, to treat that kind of problem. Seeing as how it isn't going away, it sounds like experimentation to me.

And they want you to pay the pharmacy, because they can get money out of that, too.

Offtopic: I was told once that one out of every three people die in this world because of medicines/drugs.

Ontopic: That is true, doctors do give u weak stuff at first, maybe because they have this "minimum" mindset. If just the bare minimum works, then that's what they would do. Kind of like the mindset many of us have for school

They give you the weak stuff so your body can work and heal itself

But I also think that if it's a rash, they will go with the most common and simple cause of it, because it will probably be that.

It's like uh Occam's Razor, I've heard that used on the show HOUSE, and I looked it up

The drugs that are stronger are usually much more in demand, and hard to get. Also, in order to make them stronger there are a lot more side effects and are much more serious.

Also, they are usually on reserve for people who have built up immunities to the weaker stuff.

OK, I've noticed many of these questions were addressed like true businessmen, based upon supply and demand.
They give you small stuff, telling you that it works, because for many people it does work. You have to take it believing it will work. Much of medicine is a placebo effect. (Like did you know that caffiene takes over an hour to have any effects? Yet I have felt more hyper much sooner than that sometimes) If you go in believing that the drug wont work, it probably wont. Almost all drugs only aid in how your body fights the disease anyway. There are no drugs against viruses, those are all killed by our body.

Stronger drugs = stronger side effects.

Hey, some doctors have a heart and a passion for their job.

Yea I heard that when most people go to the doctor for a cold that's caused by a virus and they want antibiotics, which do nothing, the doctors give it to them, but already like a week has passed and the virus has run it's path, yet they think the antibiotics did it

Ok antibiotics only work on cellular diseases. If they give you any pill for the common cold, it's probably just sugar.
The only thing that doctors can do against viruses is inject ground up virus peices into you. Your body then recognizes the dead peices, and can then recognize live ones. The common cold is a virus that changes very often. So doctors basically see a new version of the virus everytime someone goes to the office. Making the virus untreatable.

Yea

I use to have a chiropractor who would shun some medicines sometimes because of how many people they kill. He said the best medicine is chiropractice; they mend your neck bones into shape so that your nervous systems can work at their fullest potentials.

Ya, that, massage for loosening muscles, and eating protien for breakfast are some top aids for health.

He told us that THAT type of chiropractice, where you massage muscles and stuff, isnt true chiropractice. But he claimed that chiropractice is about slowly reshaping your spinal cords or neck bones.

I thought the point of putting in weak, dead viruses first is that your body learns how to defeat them, so when the stronger strain comes, they can more easily defend?

Thats what vaccinations do.

Is that an Oxymoron?
Ya I know that, I was saying Chiropractics and massages both help. Chiropractics are solely dealing with the spine, Myopractics (technical term for Massage Therapist) deal with muscles.

another reason that i havent heard anyone mention is that some people have violent reactions to some medicines. if you go to the strong stuff rigth off the bat and u have a violent reaction it would be a lot worse on stronger medicines then it would be on smaller dosages.

1: Have you tried second opinions anywhere?
2: Who knows what started this, what if it was simple... poison sumac (Okay, okay, bad example, so shoot me) and the medicine just created another similar looking rash?
3: My great-uncle about two weeks ago had a "meeting" to decide on new medication. His stance?
"They just want to tell you that you need new "better" stuff to pump into you, just so they can get the 10 to 20 percent cut from the pharmacy, if it aint broken, don't fix it."
Of course, right after he launched into a lecture on the proper training of dogs, one of his own who was at the time gnawing on the leg of his chair, so believe what you will.

+Jul 16 2005, 10:07 AM-->
1. I thought the 6 doctors they brought in was enough opinion
2. I guess that could be possible, but I doubt that it would be that strong of a reaction, I think my scratching is what spread it.

Oh and btw, the rash just turned into scabs and my skin peeled off...so I guess its all better, but Im still itchy, I think thats my body telling me to scratch the peeling skin off.