Re: Scared to take Medicine

[Anonymous]

@Lindstr7, I appreciate your detailed description and I’m not here to tell you what to do. As a mater of fact, I will take Ritalin before taking any blood pressure medication! And I have no plans to take any Ritalin, so…

But I did some online research and for one thing, how could Ritalin have been in use since the 1930s when “Methylphenidate was first synthesized in 1944, and was identified as a stimulant in 1954”? And a cute fact: “Methylphenidate was synthesized by Ciba chemist Leandro Panizzon. His wife, Marguerite, had low blood pressure and would take the drug as a stimulant before playing tennis. He named the substance Ritaline, after his wife’s nickname, Rita.”

This is just from Wikipedia, but you can find this information in multiple places, alongside a very long list of side effects ranging from headaches to psychosis. I, for one, have learned to be wary of the drug companies. But that’s just me – and why I suggested that people do their own research and draw their own conclusions. Physicians have their own agendas, and those don’t always include our best interest.

If people with schizophrenia were cured without this type of for-obscene-profit pharmaceuticals, I think there’s hope for all of us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylphenidate

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