by Phil Planet

Created on: April 20, 2008   Last Updated: November 11, 2008

A True Story On Medication.

I have very good reason not to trust pharmaceutical company's and I can tell you why, I used to work around Europe setting up conferences and exhibitions for all the majors, (The guys in the crew used to call them legal drug dealers), I have witnessed these company's first hand first hand wasting millions at the drop of a hat selling there drugs, I have been at a GSK award ceremony where the main act was a Doctor taking the p*s out of people with cancer, (As my own Father was in hospital dying of cancer at the time I was not very amused), Then came the awards, 6 local surgery's were eligible all the staff from each surgery were there hoping to win 1st prize of 6.000 GBP's, What for? Why the surgery who had sold the most drugs of course.

On another occasion I was called to the Birmingham Hilton (UK), It was the big merger conference, GSK and Beecham, the set would have rivaled any major political event, The sound system we fitted was rock concert standards, Me and the other guys wondered from the word go why we had to supply 600 3ft inflatable black and yellow plastic hammers, each one had pills with smiley happy all over them, It soon became clear on the day, As the delegates arrived each one was presented with their own hammer, Why? well they were for staff from each different company to hit each other over the head with, a kind of ice breaking bonding ceremony to aid the merger process, Yeeks said my boss, "They must be all on f*g drugs", we could not believe what we were seeing!

This aside, Almost all my adult life I have avoided drugs wherever possible, I would never take pain killers for instance, The reason was that I figured pain was there for a reason, It was there to tell you something was wrong, you need to get rid of the cause of the pain, not the pain itself , (obviously there are extreme cases like serious injury where pain killers are administered until the wounds are treated).

I went for many years without taking any medication whatsoever until 2001 when I had a heart attack whilst on holiday, When I was released from hospital I left complete with my new medication, a huge bag of tablets and casuals, seven different types in all, two three times a day, three twice a day and the other two once a day, Fourteen tablets a day for the rest of my life!

I took them every day morning noon and night, I started to get stomach pains, I told my GP and he told me not to worry my heart was fine, The pains got worse, In the meantime my

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