I've not read beyond the post above yet.

Two things though:

1) Boy, this is getting good ")

and

2) You, sir, are at a fork in the road. And with my reply being a mere two weeks since the post above, you still are no matter what I am about to read. Your "expert" should not even be meddling with this drug. Clearly, they have a wanton disregard for the science underlying it and the program described and validated by the science that underlies using it.

I am the Exactly Last person you should listen to for an opinion about which fork to take. But I am happy to claim and argue with you, that doctor, or anyone else about whether you are in fact at a fork in the healthcare road.

With several years of patient care under my career-belt and an at least middling education as well as a decent brain and self-education, I can say without reservation that it is a mistake to take this doctor's word as gospel in this very important matter.

Consider this as an aside and a source of context about the polity of healthcare providers' recommendations:

I worked mainly in physical therapy and related fields, e.g. bad backs, strains, sprains, sports injury and the like. I have worked for medical docs, osteopaths, and chiropractors (*the very best of which was himself a terrible alcoholic because of his own personal history that included a broken neck and a religious-like aversion to the much better choices available to him from medicine than the vodka he chose to to dull his chronic pain. Still, he was an amazingly effective practitioner right up to the end. The end did come though).

I have shot many thousands of x-rays, seen many more patients than that. Everything from toddlers to the oldest folks. From malingerers to someone whose live was saved because we discovered in our, yes, chiropractic practice, was about to die of a brain tumor rather than simply struggle with an orthopedic problem.

In many years of discussing, experiencing and at least in an ancillary way aiding in the practice of healthcare, there have been many, many occasions when the topic of a chiro not being a "real" doctor has come up.

All of that more than tempered by my having also worked a couple of years in a medical school, one of the finest in the nation. There, and over that period, I watched as kids came in and got something besides their medical education. They got schooled in being authoritative. In being unquestionable. In being omnipotent. The last being the most contagious where their patients are concerned.

Yet in reality, one in three MDs has a role in KILLING a patient as they go through their early training and "practice." I have always - grimly more than humorously - noted that must be why it is called practice.

Further, the American Medical Association was found in 1978 to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act for a concerted effort to contain and eliminate the profession of Chiropractic.

Why?

Because of course it was more effective than their field in treating the most common of "medical" maladies! And that of course spells money.

Not least a puncture in their wee little thought balloon that repeats the mantra of omnipotence.

So, take your "expert" with a grain of salt.

Quite simply, the science says something else.