A doctor questions why physicians keep prescribing medications even after patients show improvement, like lowered blood pressure or LDL levels. Many extend prescriptions 3-6 months despite clinical signs the drug may no longer be needed, suggesting reluctance to let patients stop treatment. The speaker urges patients to track their own numbers and find providers willing to taper or discontinue medication when it no longer helps.
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Why do doctors want to push these drugs without even paying attention to anything else? Like, oh, LDL is over this amount, here's some drugs. Why? You answer that. Why, why, why, why do they want you on medication? Why, when you come back to them and say, hey, well, this is better, my blood pressure is lower, actually my blood pressure getting too low, um, you think I should scale back? Well, no, let's just keep you on for another 3 to 6 months and see how that— then you come back another 3 to 6 months, man, I'm kind of getting low good blood pressure at this point. You think I should come off? Well, we just want to make sure because maybe when you come off it might go back up and then that might get you— it's like some doctors don't want you to come off medicine. And you need to make sure that you're watching for those signs because a doctor who really cares about you and really cares about, um, your progression and your transformation and, and they are there to serve you at the best, um, in the best way that they can they're gonna look at that and say, wow, I'm so excited that you're— what are you doing? Okay, great. Yeah, let's start to scale back because we might— you, you might not need this anymore.
