drug free day 0

starting this morning i no longer knowingly consume products manufactured by the world wide pharmaceutical industry. i am still a drug consumer, but those drugs are all supplied by criminal cartels or growing coops or small local distillers or farmers in Connecticut.

i hope none of my coffee beans come from criminal cartels, but it's hard to be sure, and there's no possibility of obtaining liquor in the USA without enriching a criminal cartel, whether it's a distributor or the US congress.

anyhow... for almost a year, i've been taking daily prilosec for acid reflux. my doctor confirmed what i'd read on the internets: nobody knows the long-term effects of taking prilosec daily. i've also been pretty much a lifelong daily consumer of allergy meds of one kind or another. i stopped those 2 months ago, and despite some tough days/weeks, i'm happier not taking them.

the last time i quit the prilosec i was back on it after three days. that may happen again, but this time, having lost nearly 30lbs since i began taking it, and having had my doctor tell me that losing weight would make it go away (and having experienced rapid weight gain right before it set in, lending credibility to his hypothesis), i will be engaging the world's greatest medical system to solve the problem instead of work around it with sketchy drugs.

which is not to say the prilosec doesn't work: it clearly does. but in my medical opinion, if a not-obese guy under 35 who eats no junk food and exercises near daily can't be medication free, said guy deserves a real medical explanation other than "dunno" (or the equally useless diagnosis of IBS, aka "I'm Basically Stumped", which brings the same recommendations as GERD).

so to all my pill popping readers, pop one for me today and wish me luck.