If you pack in the pills you may fall on more than hard times

NOT feeling great this Monday morning, are you? Bit of a sore throat and a runny nose?

With luck, you’ll be miserable for a few days and then recover.

Of course, if you’re really lucky, you have no symptoms at all. You have no infection at all. Now, admittedly, your health check some time ago did reveal that you have raised blood pressure, or cholesterol, or a wee touch of osteoporosis, but the great thing about those ailments is that even if you have one or more of them, you are likely to be asymptomatic. Raised blood pressure or cholesterol don’t give you headaches, a sore throat or make you fall over. Neither does osteoporosis.