Is medication a lifelong affair after bypass surgery.?

[Jogeshwar]

I think medication becomes less and less gradually in case of persons improving steadily after bypass surgery. Ultimately no medication may be necessary after a particular point of time. Am I right?

[ed34]

I would say that statistics from research show how medications 'benefit' patients. It would soon become very apparent if they didn't.

[Jogeshwar]

Yes.You are right. So my query is "Are there statistics revealing what percentage of patients(?) medicated needlessly/unduly?"

2.Statistics Vs.insight.In academy statistics is an inevitable asset but in problem solving there is no substitute to insight.

[ed34]

Without statistics we wouldn't know the effectiveness of any medication, or indeed the effectiveness of any surgical intervention. For example, if you are in hospital expecting surgery, you would feel better knowing the odds because it is natural to feel everything is stacked against you. Without statistics they couldn't say "over 90% of patients survive".

[Jogeshwar]

"The medications we are put on, appear to be based more on the statistics (which is at times manipulated by vested interests) rather than understanding of correct underlying process."nspower

It is very very vital issue.Are there statistics revealing what percentage of patients(?) medicated needlessly/unduly?

[Jogeshwar]

Thanks.A sufferer is least bothered about statistics.He/she needs insight to the problem above all. Let me repeat.

  At midnight I was suffering from dying pain. By the time I would have found laboratories probably I could have died. So more than one prescription had prescribed muscle relaxants.One had referred to physio therapist. These information trigerred my insight-probably muscle relaxation is the need of the moment.I repeated progressive muscle  relaxation at short intervals interspersed by brief periods of sleep. The insight worked

[nspower]

I agree there is certainly an underlying process probably restricted to hydraulics of blood supply to heart. If it was blood chemistry, we would have blockages everywhere.

There are people who get several heart attacks even after being on medications and there are people who do not even come to know that they had a heart attack and continue to live for years (with no medications).

I know people who live very discplined life in terms of diet and life style and  get heart attacks and others who eat and do whatever they feel like and abuse their body but continue to live without heart problems.


I wonder if our scientific community has understood this process, fully. If we would have known, this disease may not have taken such magnitude as explained by Jogeshwar. The medications we are put on, appear to be based more on the statistics (which is at times manipulated by vested interests) rather than understanding of correct underlying process.