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This whole topic makes me scared and angry, because it's coming up on kid-having time and I'm damned no matter what I do. All I know is, I'm tracking down one of those high-risk perinatal physicians, and possibly a prenatal psychiatrist, if they have those. There has got to be a balance of risks here that I can live with. Even though I'm sure there are going to be more scare pieces on how it's got to be either/or.
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My plan has better coverage for talk therapy than for prescription drugs. Like illness itself, it's different in individual cases.
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honestly i don't hold the FDA in very high regard. there isn't one pharm drug that comes without side effects. and when you watch TV, the list of side effects is rushed through while pix of happy people fill the screen.
i know holistic therapies can hold dangers as well, but a trained naturopath specializing in care for pregnant women will know what is advised and not advised.
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"The evidence from controlled trials is insufficient to conclude whether acupuncture is an effective treatment for depression, but justifies further trials of electroacupuncture."
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but they don't. the lack of staff in that department is widely reported. and even if they note something is in a product, for example lead or whatever in lipstick, they don't do anything about it:
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anyway, i'm speaking more from personal experience (hence the bluster!) i've never been pregnant, but i suffered from "girl problems" that regular drugs and ob-gyns either didn't fix, or made worse, or offered to make worse through ridiculous treatments. i dropped many hundreds of dollars on these treatments. without health insurance.
then, i found a very competent naturopath who~~ *gasp!* understands how the body actually works. how if, for example, you're missing certain dietary things like magnesium or omegas, you will have certain health issues. so she had me take 4 supplements and~~ within 1 month~~ all my problems were gone.
i understand your point of view~~ i agree in general that it's Buyer Beware no matter what path somebody takes. but with all the past gaffs the FDA has made (vioxx as one example) i don't hold their opinion higher than my naturopath. i mean, who even decides what's an "acceptable" side effect for a drug to pass? why is it "okay" for a baby to be born with holes in the heart? why not force the drugmaker to refine the drug? i think that's what i despise most about the pharmas and FDA~~ they try to lull us into accepting outrageous side effects as "normal."
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The main problem with drugs is that huge amount of money that goes into drug development, many of which never make it to market for one reason or another. So there's a big incentive to get them out as quickly as possible so that they are profitable. There is a problem with pharmaceuticals and marketing, but that's not a good enough reason to get rid of them altogether.
Also, if your doctor doesn't understand the effects of magnesium and omega-3s better than your naturopath then there's a fucking problem. Because doctors and pharmacists actually read the research about those things, and while there are a lot of questions unanswered, I'm willing to bet money that your naturopath does not.
So in conclusion you'd rather put chemicals of oft unknown composition and side-effects into your body than use something that has side-effects that you do know about and composition that is monitored and regulated. Got it. That's your choice, but that doesn't mean a group of doctors should agree with you.
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taking branded pharmaceuticals shouldn't make you feel any more secure--they have long had a history of being tested only on men, and beyond that, on a very limited treatment population who don't represent a fulll spectrum of potential recipients. "FDA-approved" holds no particular assurance of anything.
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Except I'm pretty sure that's not covered by most insurance companies, while medication is. So that adds another (expensive) factor.
I'm kind of surprised that shock therapy would be recommended before medication for a pregnant woman, but that may just be because I'm scared of electro-shock therapy in general.
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but as i've mentioned before, i dig gross/weird/abnormal shit.
the only way i can justify it is that double pentration seems like a impossibility for me(to do) just because, i dunno, having to deal w/two guys at once, would be
a) too much work
b)probably get weird
c) probably make me feel guilty/bad about myself later.
BUT i would be open to try double penetration- if it was w/ ONE guy.(no, one dick and one dildo doesn't count) ergo- ONE GUY WITH TWO DICKS IS THE ONLY ANSWER ZOMG!!!!!!
I know. I'm a disgusting person.
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(oh, I feel very wrong now)
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