We Make Way Too Many Pills/Medicines These Days!
We have had some incredible medical advancements over the past 200 years. We have cured diseases, created vaccines, antibiotics, and more (If only we could still cure cancer, and treat Cholinergic Urticaria)!
But my wife and I were talking the other day, and we realized something kind of funny: THEY MAKE A PILL FOR EVERYTHING!
I am not sure if it comes down to pure greed on the part of medicine/pharmaceutical companies, or what?? My wife is a nursing student, and we spent about 30 minutes naming all the things we have pills for these days–it was just hilarious. But just look at all the wonderful/ridiculous things our medical technology and breakthroughs have brought us:
- Want to get some sleep—They Make a Pill for that (such as Tylenol PM)
- Want to wake up—they make a pill for that (stimulants)
- Want to prevent gas/farting—they make a pill for that (beano)
- Feeling Nervous?—-they make a pill for that (Xanax)
- Want to lose weight—They make a pill for that (weight loss/diet pills)
- Want to get an erection?—They make a pill for that (Viagra)
- Are you in pain?—-they make a pill for that (pain killers)
- Want to have kids?—they make a pill for that (fertility drugs)
- Want to prevent kids?—they make a pill for that (birth control drugs)
- Want to abort a kid after you are pregnant?—They make a pill for that
- Have a bacterial infection?—-They make a pill for that! (anti-biotics)
- Have a viral infection—–They make a pill for that! (anti-virals)
- Have a fungal infection—-They make a pill for that! (anit-fungals)
- Feeling down or depressed?—-They make a pill for that! (anti-depressants)
- Need some vitamins?—They make a pill for that! (vitamins)
- Need help digesting milk?—They make a pill for that! (lactose pills)
- Feeling crazy and hearing voices in your head—-They make a pill for that (anti-psychotic drugs)
- Losing Your Hair or Going Bald—-They make a pill for that (propecia)
- Want your hair and nails to grow longer—They make a pill for that
- Want to get big muscles—–They make a pill for that (steroids)
- Men want to become like a woman?—-They make a pill for that (female hormones)
- Women, want to become more like a man?—They make a pill for that (male hormones)
- Do you get bad acne or zits?—-They make a pill for that!
- Want better breath?—-They make a pill for that!
- Want to have Diarrhea?—They make a pill for that!
- Do you have seizures?—-They make a pill for that!
- Are your arteries clogged?—They make a pill for that!
- Want to Die or Commit Suicide?—-They make a pill for that!
- Addicted to Smoking Cigarettes?—-They make a pill for that!
- Addicted to drugs?—-They make a pill for that!
- Have allergies or cholinergic urticaria?—They make a pill for that (antihistamines)
- Have diabetes and need more sugar/insulin—They make a pill for that!
- and the list goes on and on and on……
Isn’t that funny! I mean, some of those pills are great! We need those to help people survive. But some are just ridiculous, and get abused. I think doctors over-prescribe medicines way too often. It is not unusual (and I just recently found this out), for a patient in a hospital to be on up to 17-20 different pills PER DAY! That is insane!