Today, I managed to get a short ride out, only 7.5 miles and it took just under an hour and it was rather warm, 26 degrees, so I wasn’t going to go mad, but, to me, it was a release of freedom. The last time I had a ride out, was 9th September 2012, yes, that long!  With ill health, injuries, personal problems and medication that I shouldn’t have been taking, I’ve finally broken the spell and I feel like crying.

I’m now home, had a shower and am enjoying a hot coffee, I’m still buzzing and euphoric, wow, I feeeeeell good.  Due to stress, caused by a coniving and deceitful female, I was put on statins, anti-depressants, two different heart tablets and other stuff, I’ve felt very low and pained for so long, I cannot remember when I wasn’t suffering.  You might not believe me, but on Sunday, I was curled up on my girlfriends bed, in a great deal of pain and contemplating my future, I felt like I didn’t have one, I wasn’t interested in staying alive another day.

I decided that I couldn’t let my life have been a waste, I decided to act, I went online to have a look at the side effects of my medication,  I listed my meds and doses, did a great deal of research and realised that the meds I was taking, was causing me a lot more harm than good. When I got home, I sorted through my tablets and put the ones I was going to keep taking and were necessary into a dossett box. On Monday morning, I contacted my doctors and requested a phonecall appointment.  A few hours later, he duly called and I informed him of the meds that I was no longer going to take, I have to say, he is a cracking doctor and he asked if he could call me back in an hour after he’d looked at my records. In an hour, he duly called and requested that if I was going to stop them, if I felt unwell, I should start taking  them again, if I was OK without them, I had to get a blood test after two weeks and make an appointment to see him, I agreed, booked an appointment and blood test.

Here I am, on the fifth day without the medication that I felt was damaging me, I have no pains anywhere, except for the pains in my back, that were caused by a fall over ten years ago, the pains that were crippling me and leaving me curled up in a ball, have gone.  The nausea and sickness is no more and I’m sleeping on a night, but the best result, my mood has improved no end, hence the ride out today.

No more statins, Napoxen, Duloxetene or Omeprazole for me, the stuff that was supposed to make me feel better and give me a quality of life has gone, if your taking them, have a good search on the internet, your eyes will be opened greatly.  If you ask your doctor if he would take statins if he or she had to, they’d unanimously say “No”!

Take care everyone.

Alan.