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By: katemcshane

katemcshane — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:40:28 +0000

To Joel: I very much appreciate your concern, I really do, but this happened many years ago. Before that, I never took more than an aspirin. And now, because of the damage done, I can’t take even Tylenol without adverse effects. Thanks, anyway.

By: joel

joel — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:08:41 +0000

Regarding “katemcshane’s” experience, tell your pharmacist everything that you are taking. They are probably the best qualified to know what products should not be taken given what you already are taking. This is their business! Ask for the most recent information regarding your regimen. About 30 years ago I had need of an antibiotic and, upon asking, the druggist looked up the latest info in their trade magazines and photocopied it for me.

Cheers.

By: katemcshane

katemcshane — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:25:16 +0000

I don’t understand enough science to intelligently follow this thread, and I guess I wasn’t expecting the discussion to include the pharmaceutical industry, so I didn’t pay that much attention to the thread before the show. My health was seriously damaged almost 10 years ago from prescription drugs that I took legally and within prescribed guidelines. My guess is that the doctors who prescribed them knew very little about them, because after the fact, more than once, I read that certain drugs shouldn’t have been prescribed together. I used to think the effects would be temporary and I would recover, but that didn’t happen, and when Allison said that the damage to her health had been permanent, I felt so sad – for her, for myself, for all of us.

I have met many, many women who have shared terrible stories with me about these drugs, but all of us had the same experiences with doctors when we tried to get help. I used to read about people who were treated as if they were crazy when they had symptoms that baffled doctors, but once I experienced it, I was overcome by the way I internalized the blame and, essentially, was beaten down by it. My impression is that women have more trouble with a lot of these chemicals. I say that, because when I’ve talked about it with men, either they had no trouble or told me about women they knew who had become ill from them.

Buzz Cue sounded like every corporate PR person I’ve ever heard. It was so painful to listen to him. If what he said is true, then it’s probably the only time anyone from Pfizer has been able to make an honest statement about Zoloft.

I wasn’t going to write this, because I feel too vulnerable. I’m picturing people saying, Well if she’s talking about drugs like Zoloft, she’s probably crazy. I’ll just say that I have PTSD, something I got, obviously, through no fault of my own, something millions of people in this country have, due to child abuse, battering, rape and other violent crimes, and WAR — things in our lives that we do not protest ENOUGH. And I’ve spoken to so many bright, talented women who will probably never recover from the damage that these so-called green drugs did to them.

By: jboylan

jboylan — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:40:39 +0000

Nice show, nice discussion thread. Thanks to all.

By: khandro

khandro — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:57:45 +0000

I echo teepeejay’s question…where is the educational component? As we already know, education is the all important key to moving forward with any progressive, intelligent, sustainable alternatives to business as usual, whether the sector is housing, transportation, industry, food, etc. And with education comes (I hope) market demand. Without an informed, educated public, all the best policy intentions will be moot. Part of that education comes from enlightened media (ROS for example), part from public outreach, and part from academia. But I suggest that the media could and should take a much larger, broader role in making such issues as ‘green chemistry’ more widely discussed and understood. ROS is fabulous, yer preachin to this choir, folks! But I’m a scientifically literate person, I teach college earth & space science, and tonight’s show was the first I’d heard the term! I want to see this stuff splashed on the front pages of the dailies, Time Mag, Rolling Stone, Playboy, you get the idea. Writers, we need you! Bone up on your basic chemistry and get out there where these potentials for real shifts in thinking and doing are happening! Thanks again ROS. Now I’d like to hear what Paul Hawken has to say about GC.