Quotes About Medications

#1. therapy and its medications are a luxury.

Marcela Serrano

#2. Medications can lower a woman's sex drive and interfere with a woman's ability to climax. These medications include antidepressants, birth control pills and hormone medications. I only know of three antidepressants that do not interfere with a woman's sexual function.

Drew Pinsky

#3. Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to cure a mental patient the only option left to revive him now is to give him a shock treatment through an electric current.

Anuj

#4. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am all about money. I mean, just look how well my line of zodiac-inspired toe rings and homeopathic children's medications are selling on Home Shopping Network.

Tina Fey

#5. Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive
and, if I were, life would not be worth living. Yet those who produce these medications are under constant attack from people who produce nothing.

Thomas Sowell

#6. A scan showed that a benign brain tumor was pressing on her right frontal lobe. In terms of operative risk, it was the best kind of tumor to have, and the best place to have it; surgery would almost certainly eliminate her seizures. The alternative was a lifetime on toxic antiseizure medications.

Paul Kalanithi

#7. There's always going to be the need for new medications, better medications.

Anthony Fauci

#8. 'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

Jack Irons

#9. There is a saying in the medical profession 'Inside every
tablet is a little bit of poison'. Avoid medications if you can.

Steven Magee

#10. Think of it this way instead: I got better and I have a story and I want to tell the world what Jesus has done in my life because I want Jesus to be glorified. God may use counselors, medications, doctors, and all that, but it's Jesus who heals you.

Louie Giglio

#11. I want to change the belief of millions of people who think there is nothing they can do to stop taking medications and reverse an existing case of Type 2 Diabetes.

John M. Poothullil

#12. Somebody stole my identity. Good luck using it without the medications.

Greg Fitzsimmons

#13. She was taking a round of medications, a mystical wheel, the ritualistic design of the hours and days in tablets and capsules, in colors, shapes and numbers.

Don DeLillo

#14. When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Michael Burgess

#15. Years ago I was diagnosed with a condition, and my doctors prescribed human growth hormone and testosterone for its treatment. Under medical supervision, I have continued to use both medications.

Sylvester Stallone

#16. America's health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.

Paul Gillmor

#17. The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.

Nan Hayworth

#18. I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.

Eric Topol

#19. Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.

Jim Gerlach

#20. I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

Kate Walsh

#21. I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.

Carrie Fisher

#22. Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications.

Mike Rogers

#23. Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him ... you know, he wasn't even present, really.

Jack Osbourne

#24. To put it coldly, my friends, all the ones who should have died years ago, would have died years ago without beta-blockers, stents, angioplasties, pacemakers, exotic medications, well, now they're dying all at once." John

William R. Forstchen

#25. Dr. Jasper didn't care if they got their checkups, their medications.

Norma McCorvey

#26. About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.

Hippocrates

#27. I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

Alicia Silverstone

#28. Declassified papers report that John Kennedy was taking eight different medications a day. He was so wasted, his Secret Service code name was Ted Kennedy.

Craig Kilborn

#29. With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with two problems. The treatment turns a period of crisis into a chronic mental illness. - Amy Upham (203)

Robert Whitaker

#30. We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed, none of the tossing and turning.

Shelby Harris

#31. Your body's many cries for water: you are not sick, you are thirsty: don't treat thirst with medications!

Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

#32. The last act was to infect me with nightmares and paranoid delusions that would take years of therapy and metabolism-wrecking medications to rout out.

Ransom Riggs

#33. Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.

Dennis Hastert

#34. If you believe that the dollars made by the pharmaceutical industry are plowed back into research that leads to better and better medications, you probably believe in the tooth fairy as well.

Mark Vonnegut

#35. In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.

Carre Otis

#36. I can't think of another type of illness where the sufferer is made to feel guilty and question their self-care when their medications need to be changed.

Jenny Lawson

#37. The three primary risk factors for falling are poor balance, taking more than four prescription medications, and muscle weakness.

Atul Gawande

#38. It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.

Moshe Dayan

#39. Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.

Leston Havens

#40. Your genes may be causing your blues! We now know depression runs in families and chemical changes in the brain coincide with clinical depression. Medications, psychotherapy, and other treatments can adjust these changes and chase depression away.

Joni E. Johnston

#41. People on medications that affect their thyroid can have significant tooth decay problems.

Ramiel Nagel

#42. If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications, do you run the risk of turning an anger-ridden teenager into a lifelong mental patient? (p. 30)

Robert Whitaker

#43. Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

Leo Tolstoy

#44. Medications are palliatives. They are not designed to cure the degenerative diseases of the body.

Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

#45. Today, its expensive prescription medications burdening seniors on fixed incomes with thousands of dollars in yearly out-of-pocket costs.

Jim Gerlach

#46. Hepatitis C was a devastating disease but because fundamental research was done in hepatitis C, it is now curable. It is now absolutely curable with new medications. So this is transformative.

Laurie Glimcher

#47. Who are you and what medications aren't you taking? Finn said.

John Scalzi

#48. I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

Eric Topol

#49. There is no harm taking medication as it is God-given ability or utilizing the wisdom God gives to doctors and to prepare medications. But it also your responsibility to build faith for healing while using medication, and you must do that.

Paul Silway

#50. Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid had cured more menstrual disorders than all other medications combined. Unfortunately, that lesson seems to have been largely lost.

Broda Otto Barnes

#51. Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

Nathan Deal

#52. December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.

Max Lucado

#53. At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.

Dennis Hastert

#54. Medications almost always do it better if they're used in conjunction with other supports.

Mehmet Oz

#55. exercise is as effective as certain medications for treating anxiety and depression.

John J. Ratey

#56. In those days, Doc Susie used medications interchangeably between humans and animals. That was before pharmaceutical houses discovered a fundamental economic principle. Label a medication for human consumption, and a higher price could be charged.

Virginia Cornell

#57. I don't believe in drugs. Attitude is everything. You can create your own happiness just by agreeing to be happy for no other reason and blow the moon out of the sky. After all, isn't that the true effect of medications?

Jes Fuhrmann

#58. Embedded in this outlook is an idea of the body as a machine, so that illness is seen as a breakdown of the machine, healing involves repairing the broken parts, and a doctor is a kind of mechanic with medications as his or her tools.

Russell Shorto

#59. There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#60. metabolism-wrecking medications

Ransom Riggs

#61. For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair.
The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#62. The most powerful medicine on the face of the Earth is not drug medications, dietary supplements, or invasive therapies; rather, it is a healthy lifestyle.

Getty Israel

#63. The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.

Anthony Fauci

#64. The new doctors all agreed on various tried-and-true medications, and within forty-eight hours of their coming on the case, the King was dead.

William Goldman

#65. There are things that you can do today that, years ago, there was nothing. The community today needs to know that with MRI and the current medications the view is good.

Teri Garr

#66. The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?

Joel Fuhrman

#67. Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they run in our patterns of awareness.

Vironika Tugaleva

#68. The recent discovery of highly specific antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications would not have been possible without the use of animal models

Herb Pardes

#69. About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.

Eric Topol

#70. name. It was truly a revolution in psychiatry, and a gold rush for drug companies, who suddenly had hundreds of new disorders they could invent medications for, millions of new patients they could treat. "The

Jon Ronson

#71. It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#72. Doctors; all they do is make you worse and take all your money. That's a general statement.

Lisa Bedrick

#73. Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.

Herbert M. Shelton

#74. I spent the rest of that day and most of the night thinking about all the hundreds of people I had met in rehabs and sober living houses and on the streets. We were all medicating our fears and our pain!

Pax Prentiss

#75. While you can't control your experiences, you can control your explanations.

Martin E.P. Seligman

#76. The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.

Vironika Tugaleva

#77. Overmedication: We're killing ourselves. Degrading
often unseen & often unfelt
our kidneys, livers, vital organs. Until it's too late. And we croak. Kidney failure, heart failure, liver failure. We do it to ourselves

David R. Wommack

#78. What aided the mind made the body suffer. They could choose mental health or physical health, but they could not have both.

Rufi Thorpe