Down with modern medicine! Recent horrible experience

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Dear online friends,

 

Since I am registered as a senior citizen patient with

a well-known five-star hospital in Pune for emergency

treatment and consultations with a discount for

elders, I consulted a doctor for my right knee pain

and inflamation since I am unable to walk much

ever since this year's record cold weather that lasted

till middle of February,

 

I was given some medicine, perhaps a strong antibiotic

the name of which I am not very clear except what was

scribbled by the doc and recorded by the medical shop

at the hospital. Tablets are known as Engoflam tablets to be taken

twice a day.

 

After taking the second tablet, I started feeling very

uneasy with all symptoms of an impending heart atack

that I had felt full 25 years ago while getting a

myocardial infaract (MI). The scar of that first

attack is still visible while doing ECG (EKG) test.

When I rang up the doc, I was told to stop taking

those tablets but not to worry about the pressure on

the heart as it could be due to the reation of the

tablets.

 

But the condition was so bad that I called up my

friends to be with me and if need be, to take me to

the hospital. I faced that horrible time from 6 pm to

almost till mednight. I had four loose motions as I

did have before my earlier attack.

 

For dehydration, I sipped just a bit of ORH water

which did give a bit of solace, thanks to a friend who

got it for me.

 

Living all alone at 77 with such an emergency at night

time made me worry. So, I briefed one of my trusted

friends about the things in my house and what to do in

case I fell unconscious as it had happened about a

year and a half earlier when the hospital authorities

had refused to discharge me unless I paid up in hard

cash which a patient who is unconscious is not

expected to carry on his person.

 

Ayurvedic medicines suit me quite well but since the

knee pain was not going, I thought to consult a nearby

allopath.

 

Now I have decided never to take strong antibiotics

ever in future.

 

I hope, my experience might make some friends to think

twice before taking strong allopathic medicines that

can land up patients in unforeseen complications.

 

S. M. Acharya <smacharya