Rule Number One

I wonder how many times a person will be doing something, like raking the lawn, get a headache and go take a couple aspirin and then continue raking…only to have a stroke?Or for instance, straining at work and feeling chest pain, take a couple of aspirin, go back to work and have a heart attack?One should never turn off pain and then continue activity.If the activity created the pain, that was nature’s warning, nature’s burglar alarm.You wouldn’t install a burglar alarm in your house and then put cotton under the bell clapper would you?Certainly not!If your faucet was dripping you wouldn’t just put a sponge under it just so you couldn’t hear it drip, now would you?Then why should you turn off pain, drug your entire body for, say, a right arm pain.Do you think that the aspirin only goes into your right arm?No, it goes into the entire body.Aspirin simply covers up pain.For instance, it doesn’t heal a sore throat now does it?But you can’t feel the sore throat after taking an aspirin; that’s what aspirin does, it covers up the pain, but it affects the entire body!

From “Are you the Doctor, Doctor?”By Fred Barge, D.C.

I often pose the same questions to people who ask about aspirin, Tylenol, Advil, etc.And the response is often, “But Doc, I want to feel good.”GREAT!We want you to feel good also.But at what expense are you willing to feel good?Are you willing to relieve the pain temporarily at the expense of the rest of your body?Over 41, 000 Americans DIE every year due to the affects of Advil alone.That number is well over 100,000 when you add in Tylenol and aspirin.Are you looking for such relief that you are willing to risk death to get it?And no, I am not being overly dramatic in those statements and questions….The Truth is the Truth is the Truth.

Pain relievers numb the nerves of the entire body.It shuts off the part of the nerves that “sense.”It numbs your sense of feeling, such as touch and integration on both the outside (ie your skin, fingers, etc) and inside (ie your organs).

And it thins your blood.Thin blood increases your chance of bleeding.In order for you to bleed, you must tear a blood vessel.Tearing a blood vessel produces pain.But if you have taken a pain reliever, you don’t feel the tear and can bleed out without ever feeling it.No feeling means you don’t know it is happening.(No feeling = no knowing).No wonder so many people die every year due to the affects of pain relievers as mentioned above.

Rule number one in health care is “Do no harm.”Not, do little harm, or some harm is ok for the greater good.It is DO NO HARM.How do aspirin and other pain relievers abide by rule number one?

If it breaks rule number one, don’t you think there are others out there breaking rule number one also?