RADIO MEDICINE VICTIMS
One of the biggest problems in our present society is that more and more people contacting us are victims of "Radio Medicine." As you may recall, "Radio Medicine" means that when you hear a strange sound coming from the car engine you just turn up the volume of the radio and keep driving. We all know that the problem just gets worse and will lead to your being parked on the side of the road waiting for the tow truck.
While the ages of these "Radio Medicine" victims contacting Novus Medical Detox Center run from 18 to 83, the majority are between 40 and 65 years of age. Generally, these people are intelligent, and they try to take care of themselves. They often don't smoke or drink more than a glass of wine at dinner, try to eat right and exercise. In most cases, they have experienced few health problems for most of their life.
Then at some point in their life, they began to feel fatigued, anxious, gain weight, feel sad, not think as clearly, have muscle aches or fibromyalgia or other symptoms, and they go to see a doctor who they think can help them. Unfortunately, this doctor is following the financial model which mandates that he or she has to spend the least amount of time possible with each patient because they get paid no more for a one minute office visit than for a 20 minute office visit. Accordingly, with not enough time to accurately diagnose the underlying physiological problem and then treat it, he or she practices "Radio Medicine." The patient receives a prescription for a psychoactive drug or drugs.
Maybe it is a benzodiazepine like Xanax or Ativan, maybe it is an antidepressant like Paxil or Zoloft, or maybe it is an anti-psychotic like Zyprexa or Seroquel. The intention is simply to find a drug that will block or reduce the patient's awareness of the symptoms. The patient continues taking the drug and the underlying problem usually just gets worse. Frequently, the action of the drug in the body turns on other symptoms that just increase the original problem, but also make the true cause even harder to diagnose. Instead of comprehensively diagnosing the person and testing for thyroid, adrenal or other problems that present the symptoms of which the patient was complaining, these drugs just allow the problem to worsen and often create new problems of their own.
After a time, the person's symptoms have increased to where the drugs are no longer "turning up the volume" and the person starts doing their own research. Often they go to their "Radio Medicine" doctor and ask that he check for thyroid, adrenal or other problems. Their doctor usually replies that these tests are not necessary. The person leaves but the situation continues to worsen.
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