Self Medication Pros and Cons

[BADecker]

Self medication is something like self meditation. Do you go to church? Do you listen to positive thinking meditation tapes? YOU DO?

No wonder you never get ahead. Like you don't get head from listening to Big Pharma medication instructions.

[Princess Leah]

I am from a country in which the majority of the population is not covered by health insurance or any insurance at all. All of it because of the lack of money and financial stability, that is why there are millions here in Venezuela who resort to self-medication when there suffer from some sickness or illness, also it is well known that here in Venezuela who can get a lot of drugs without having to present a receipt from a doctor in order to get pills like anti-depressants, pain killers or even pills which are supposed to be used to help with sleep problems, like insomnia.

It is either self-medication or suffering those those sicknesses indefinitely, many of us prefer the former option, whether doctors like it or not.

Also, the use of artificial intelligences to identify symtomps and help a little bit of accurate information on what to take and how to take it has helped a lot of people in developing countries where health has become a luxury instead of a right.

I don’t really know much about what’s happening in your country, but all I can assure you that not only is that happening in your country, even my country too majority of people are not covered by any health insurance, maybe just few.

I also agree that the unavailability of funds, contribute to self medication. Most persons when sick, with lack of funds to go to a proper health care or a hospital to see a doctor for consultation and other proper health checkup, they just easily do self medication or also use Ai to get prescription of medication through the symptoms which will be a lot cheaper for them than going to the hospital and which I believe if they were under any health insurance, such things will be avoided.

But nevertheless, I still believe there are cheaper hospitals also or clinics, because self medication will only cause you to keep spending and spending on medications because you might not be getting the proper right medication for that illness and it keeps coming back but with consultation and prescription from a doctor it can be treated once and for all.

That's to say bad government also contributes to self medication cause if the government fail to provide health centers with free or fair amount for medicals where the poor people can go for medication then they'll be forced to turn to self medication to get well when they're ill, many poor people in third world countries suffer lots from situations like that.

 However any reason for self medication, it's never a good thing cause sometimes the person might not know the right prescription and might get overdosed then worsen their situation, which is why a doctors advise is always advisable to the right prescription can be given for treatment of any illness or so.

[Findingnemo]

Self medication is something like self meditation. Do you go to church? Do you listen to positive thinking meditation tapes? YOU DO?

No wonder you never get ahead. Like you don't get head from listening to Big Pharma medication instructions.

It is not really the same though, but our body is capable of recovering from most kind of illness but we need to give it a rest and these people are in so much hurry this is why modern big Pharma just recirculates the same kind of medicines but in millions of different combinations to make billions of dollars every year. We can take OTC medicine but these medicines are not really curing us, they just helps our immune system to faster the process.

[BADecker]

Self medication is something like self meditation. Do you go to church? Do you listen to positive thinking meditation tapes? YOU DO?

No wonder you never get ahead. Like you don't get head from listening to Big Pharma medication instructions.

It is not really the same though, but our body is capable of recovering from most kind of illness but we need to give it a rest and these people are in so much hurry this is why modern big Pharma just recirculates the same kind of medicines but in millions of different combinations to make billions of dollars every year. We can take OTC medicine but these medicines are not really curing us, they just helps our immune system to faster the process.

Meditation is more important, because the mind controls much of the body. Look up 'placebo effect', and realize that the only reason people need medication, is because they are talked into it by Big Pharma 'sales pitches'.

[hafiztalha]

But we know that majority of these road side chemist are not licensed and the sellers are not even medical practitioners mostly, that is why there could be quark personnel as well as giving wrong prescriptions for use.

Another big challenge is the source to where they get some of these medications, because i learnt that many were locally made from unreliable sources and manufacturing companies that the government does not know about their existence and operations.

All these happenings are making it difficult not to find them as reliable as going to the hospital, irrespective of the challenge, because i know the financial constraints are there and the accessibility factors are also contributing to why many avoid the direct use of the government medical facilities and sought out for self medications and the likes, but all these shouldn't be an excuse because wrong application has lead to dead countless of numbers globally.

I have seen that many people receive basic medications from these roadside chemist and some of them are not even unqualified or uneducated they have experience mostly those people who cannot afford to go to the hospitals or doctor consultation they  go to these chemist for their checkups and medications.

It is true, that the misuse of drugs can lead to serious health issues and can often causes death but we cannot completely deny the reality  including poverty, limited health Care facilities that is the reason that million of peoples are relying on self medication ,instead of consulting the doctors . the focus should be more on the regulation and public health education.