Kevin Trudeau
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 Remember, Vioxx was a pain medication. This was not a drug designed to save anyone's life. There isn't a single person whose life would be saved by taking Vioxx. It was simply a pain medication that the drug company Merck wanted to sell because its "marketing department" knew that it could produce billions of dollars in profits by convincing people that this was the best, most powerful pain medication in the world. The fact is it was not the best, most effective, or powerful pain medication in the world. |
Bottom Line Health
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| The use of pain medication for the exercise group dropped to 50% from 57%, and those who read the book actually increased their use of pain medication—from 50% to 59%, according to the researchers.
"For people who are looking to do something for themselves, you could clearly say that yoga is the best," says Sherman.
WHY YOGA HELPS
Sherman says yoga may be effective in alleviating back pain because many people are unaware of how they move their bodies. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Beyond addiction, the problem is that when you are taking pain medication you are "on drugs," and your decision-making is just as impaired as when you drink alcohol. It is difficult, if not impossible, to change your mindset and lifestyle to improve your health when you regularly take pain medication. If you have severe pain as a result of an injury, or you are in recovery from surgery from a chronic condition, there are an abundance of drugs that can numb your brain, but not the pain itself. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Prescription pain medication suppresses the body's primary signal of dehydration. Pain killers "short-circuit" the body's emergency routes for water supply; they also sabotage proper waste elimination and sow the seeds of chronic illness.
There is enough documentation to show that pain medications may have fatal side effects. They can cause gastrointestinal bleeding, which kills thousands each year. The morphine-type compounds these legal drugs contain can also lead to serious, life-altering addictions. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, has introduced Tylenol Cool Caplets, a candy-like medicine that offers adult-strength pain medication with a strong, minty taste. This is described as “instant cooling” in advertisements and free samples are being handed out like candy, by skimpy girls wearing revealing outfits who are called the Tylenol Cool Caps Girls. It’s all part of a marketing campaign effort by Tylenol to make the Tylenol brand more hip and cool.
How bizarre is this? |
Ray D. Strand
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 After seeing how well Mark was doing aside from Imuran's side effects, the private gastroenterologist felt that it would be well worth trying to get Mark off of all drugs, including the pain medication and Imuran. He was gradually taken off the Imuran, and with the help of a psychologist who taught Mark some relaxation techniques, he was finally able to stop taking all pain medication as well. At last Mark was medication free and felt better than he Jiad since that day of his first attack.
Mark is now doing great and eating a normal diet. |
Jack Challem
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 He has found that patients who listen to the CDs need less pain medication and recover more quickly after surgery.
According to an article in the journal Alternative and Complementary Therapies, these CDs are best listened to with stereo headphones that send one tonal pattern through one ear and another through the other ear.Together, they set up a third tone within the brain, leading to "hemispheric synchronization,"or simply Hemi-Sync. For more information, visit www.monroeinstitute.org. from giving their full attention to any single task. |
Ray D. Strand
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| He was gradually taken off the Imuran, and with the help of a psychologist who taught Mark some relaxation techniques, he was finally able to stop taking all pain medication as well. At last Mark was medication free and felt better than he Jiad since that day of his first attack.
Mark is now doing great and eating a normal diet. I was delighted to see the active fifteen-year-old again recently. What a frightening and painful experience he and his parents endured. A disease that for many offers little hope is manageable for Mark. |
| The team of physicians wanted to place Mark on a chemotherapeutic drug called Imuran, even though he was still taking very high doses of prednisone and narcotic pain medication. Mark started on Imuran, and after a total of six weeks of hospitalization, the boy was delighted to be discharged.
Again, his home stay was a brief one, and within a week Mark was in so much abdominal pain he had to be readmitted to the hospital.
Physicians generally treat patients with autoimmune diseases with drugs that suppress the immune system. |
| His physicians immediately prescribed 200 mg of prednisone as well as antibiotics and narcotic pain medication. They consulted surgeons, and a daily debate began as to whether they should remove a large portion of Mark's bowels. But they opted to wait and watch Mark's progress over the next few weeks.
Mark slowly improved, and a repeat colonoscopy showed that the infection had cleared. This made the typical ulcerative appearance of Crohn's disease all the more evident. The doctors met with the parents and informed them that this was an incurable autoimmune disease. |
| He slowly improved and required less and less pain medication, even though he still had intermittent bouts of pain. The process was long and hard as Matt continued to fight fatigue and the flulike symptoms.
By January Matt was feeling much better and was able to make up for lost time by getting back to working ten-hour days. He was thrilled because he had not been able to work at all for about four months. Being able to support his family financially was something Matt was not sure would ever be possible again. |
Bottom Line Health
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| During one scan, the men were told they would receive pain medication, but were given a placebo instead. The men were then asked to rate the intensity of their pain on a scale of 0 to 100. After the experiment, they provided more detailed pain ratings.
If you receive a drug and you believe it is active, the drug itself might not be doing very much.
Jon-Kar Zubieta, MD, PhD
The researchers found that after giving the men the placebo, the amount of concentrated saltwater needed to maintain the pain increased, indicating that sensitivity to pain was reduced. |
| Karen Sherman, PhD, MPH
During the 26-week study, the participants were interviewed four times, including prior to the start the study and at the end, to assess their pain level, ability to do daily tasks and how much pain medication they took.
All three groups reported improved function. However, those who took the yoga class experienced the greatest gains—78% of the group improved by at least two points on the Roland Disability Scale, a standardized measure that assesses the limitation on physical function due to back pain. |
Dawson Church
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 Studies show that the practice of hatha yoga by back pain sufferers can reduce "pain intensity, reliance on pain medication, and disability."6 Yoga has also been shown to reduce the stress level of cancer patients, ease insomnia, and improve emotional wellbeing.7 It's the first place to start when dealing with low back pain, rather than jumping to drugs, which may mask the symptoms without doing anything to help the conditions giving rise to the pain. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| The fact is it was not the best, most effective, or powerful pain medication in the world. The fact is that there were dozens of other non-prescription over-the-counter and prescription pain medications that suppressed pain much better. There are other non-patentable very inexpensive ways to reduce or eliminate pain that were even more effective than the non-prescription and prescription drugs currently being sold. This was not about producing a drug that would save people's lives; this was about producing a drug that could be sold, marketed at a huge markup, and make Merck billions of dollars. |
Dawson Church
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| At her tenth and last session, Sylvia summed up her appraisal of energy medicine by saying, "My nausea is gone, my pain medication went from 60 mg to 5 mg a day, I'm eating normal food, and I feel joy in my life again!" She was amazed that it had all been accomplished without the use of further medication. Two years later, Sylvia called to tell me she was still feeling great.
Pat Butler has seen a marked shift in public attitudes toward energy medicine in the past decade. |
Andreas Moritz
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| And if you are on pain medication, check this out: A recent hospital study found that patients in sunnier rooms needed fewer painkillers than patients in darker rooms. In fact, they were able to cut their drug costs by 21 percent.
What Makes the Sun so "Dangerous"—The Fat Connection!
Sunlight is most beneficial for those who eat a balanced diet according to their individual requirements and body type. Sunbathing may be dangerous, however, for those who live on a diet rich in acid-forming, highly processed foods and refined fats or products made with them. |
| What is so disturbing about taking pharmaceutical drugs, such as pain medication, is that they need blood proteins to carry them to their destinations. Since the blood proteins are trapped in the connective tissues of an organ, these drugs become trapped there, too. This causes the serious side effects and frequent deaths for which these drugs are so well known. The pharmaceutical industry, of course, does not want you to know that by taking their drugs you are gambling with your life. |
| When the famous radio host, Rush Limbaugh, announced on his radio program that he was addicted to pain medication, his life was in shambles. But he is not alone in this. There are millions of people who initially started off by taking an "innocent" Advil for the occasional headache, but ended up being unable to live without strong painkillers. Once you start using dehydrating medications like these, you will mostly likely develop the same kind or even worse pain over and over again. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| It is difficult, if not impossible, to change your mindset and lifestyle to improve your health when you regularly take pain medication. If you have severe pain as a result of an injury, or you are in recovery from surgery from a chronic condition, there are an abundance of drugs that can numb your brain, but not the pain itself. From the day you start taking these drugs, your goal should be to get off them as quickly as medically possible. |
Mark Sircus
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 I was not one day without pain and now I don't have to take heavy pain medication," she reports.
We know that a lack of magnesium underlies our epidemic of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and osteoporosis. Minus magnesium, hearts beat irregularly; arteries stiffen, constrict and clog; blood pressure rises; blood tends to clot; muscles spasm; insulin grows weaker and blood sugar jumps; bones lose strength; and pain signals intensify.
"Many people needlessly suffer pain - including fibromyalgia, migraines and muscle cramps ? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Whitcomb: Well, what I see primarily is that the vast majority of people coming in are on some type of pain medication, usually something heavy, such as oxycotin or methadone, which is a replacement for heroin. Both of those are pretty similar. People are taking morphine, or they're taking any variation of Vicodin or some muscle relaxants. But primarily, you're going to see the patients on pain medication, sleeping medication and antidepressants -- those three.
Mike: Right.
Dr. Whitcomb: Almost always, my patients will come in on those three. Oftentimes, it'll be on heavy doses. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Oh," he replies, "Did I forget to mention the pain medication can cause constipation and possibly stomach ulcers? Don't worry though. I have something for that as well." Five minutes later, Ms. Jones walks out of the exam room with a new prescription. When she gets home, she takes her pill for headache pain, another pill for constipation, and now one for her stomach trouble.
What's wrong with this picture? First of all, the average time a physician spends with a patient is now less than ten minutes. |
| If the truth be told, the pain medication probably addressed the pain, but it was really just a quick "band aid" to get Ms. Jones in the office, make her wait an hour or two just to be seen, and then charge her $100.00 for 5 minutes of work.
Let's say you're driving down the highway and the oil light comes on in your car. What are you going to do? Put a piece of tape over the light or smash the dashboard so you can't see it? No, of course not. Hopefully, you'll pull over, look under the hood, and find the source of the problem. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 We know that giving supplemental magnesium to patients before surgery can lower the amount of anesthesia required and reduce the need for postoperative pain medication.
Migraine headaches, common in people with fibromyalgia, respond well to magnesium supplementation. In several placebo-controlled trials, researchers gave patients magnesium sulfate intravenously, and this eliminated the aura and nausea associated with migraines and reduced head pain partially or completely in 40 to 85 percent of patients. In more than half, relief lasted 24 hours or more. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Such remedies include telling a patient with back pain to go home and take some pain medication and wait, or to try moderate exercise and stretching, which may work as well or better than surgery for most patients. When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Wennberg's discovery of huge variations in the rates of different surgeries was partly a reflection of the uneven distribution of doctors around the country. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 This will require more pain medication, which will further suppress your immunity. (All pain medications suppress immunity.) If you receive blood, your immunity will be suppressed profoundly. This is because transfusions stimulate the generation of the eicosanoid PGE2. Multiple transfusions can suppress immunity to the same degree seen in AIDS cases.
Because of the stress of surgery, your body has been depleted of a significant store of B vitamins, as well as several minerals. |
Shannon Brownlee
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| Studies have found that about 80 percent of people who rupture a disk will recover within a few weeks if they take anti-inflammatory pain medication like ibuprofen, rest for a short period, and get physical therapy. The disk shrinks a bit over time, and the jelly that has leaked out gets reabsorbed. A simpler surgery, called diskectomy, which involves trimming the bulging bits from a disk, can relieve pain in some cases where the disk fails to heal on its own. |
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