Aspirin Study Shows No Cardiovascular Benefits For Women

[tex]

Hi All,

Conclusion Aspirin was ineffective or even harmful in the majority of patients.

http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/con ... hort?rss=1

Why do so many doctors recommend so many drug treatments that we eventually discover to be so ineffective? One would think that they would eventually become suspicious, and stop trusting the snake oil salesmen, (aka, drug reps), who continue to persuade them that hogwash is really nectar. They seem to have a trusting, "Charlie Brown" mindset.

Tex

[sarkin]

...and they wonder why we don't leap to follow their advice.

Actually, I often wonder - do they follow their own advice? I bet they do. I think I'm going to start pressing my doctor to go Paleo. (It's not enough just to fight the gluten.)

Since MC, I've taken no aspirin or ibuprofen. I carried acetaminophen on our vacation, just in case. But now, when I have a headache, I really wonder why, more than I want to slap a pill on it. (Yes, I do realize - lucky me, the few times it's been debilitating, I've been able to rest, and not in a situation where I simply had to carry on.)

But to recommend aspirin for preventive use without determining that it's effective - heck, that it's not harmful... oh, who am I kidding - I'm not even surprised.

Love,
Sara

[tex]

There must be something wrong with me. I used to get headaches all the time, and maximum strength Excedrin was my analgesic of choice. After I realized that I had MC, and the severe migraines began, I used maximum strength tylenol. Now, though, since I've been in remission for almost 8 years, I'll bet I haven't had a single headache in at least 5 or 6 years, except for a couple of times when I failed to duck far enough while going under machinery, and I bumped my head.

Love,
Tex

[Gloria]

I took an aspirin last week because I was feeling dizzy during the night and when I woke up. I was a little worried that I was having a stroke. I didn't notice that I was any the worse for taking the aspirin (nor any the better). I didn't tell my PCP when I saw him, but I mentioned it to DH when he came home. DH thought I probably had low blood pressure.

I always carry aspirin with me in case I have a stroke. I believe that it has been shown to greatly reduce the effects from a stroke if it's taken soon enough.

Gloria

[tex]

Not everyone with MC reacts adversely to NSAIDs, in fact slightly less than half of us are probably susceptible to them. You're probably one who is unaffected by them.

I occasionally have a little dizzyness, (much less than when I was still reacting, of course), but I usually can't figure out what caused it. The only time I was able to figure it out, was when I discovered that Imodium makes me dizzy. I've suspected that BP issues may be related to dizzy spells, but I've never bothered to check my BP when it was happening to me.

I still carry aspirin in a pocket, too, even though I'm taking Plavix. I agree, it's still a recommended and apparently highly effective procedure, if a stroke is actually occurring.

Tex