My Doctor Told Me...

[Zeb_Carter]

My doctor told me about this new pill…it is supposed to cure everything, but there are some minor side effects.

May cause the following, in some case these side effects can be severe:

Stomach cramps
Muscle cramps
Resistance to infections
Labored breathing
Increased heart rate
Nasal leakage
Blochy and Scalely skin
Nasal bleeding
Cracked and Dry lips
Tooth loss
Swollen tongue
Foot fungus
Toe nail fungus
Toe nail loss
Split skin between the toes
Toe fracture due to muscle cramping
Swollen genitals
Greasy anal leakage
Anal bleeding
Fluid in the lungs
Bulging eyes
Bleeding from the eyes and ears
Heart stoppage

Tell your doctor if you experience heart stoppage immediately
Also tell your doctor if you have had Hepatitis A, B or C

Check with your doctor if you already suffer from any of the following:

Stomach cramps
Muscle cramps
Resistance to infections
Labored breathing
Increased heart rate
Nasal leakage
Blochy and Scalely skin
Nasal bleeding
Cracked and Dry lips
Tooth loss
Swollen tongue
Foot fungus
Toe nail fungus
Toe nail loss
Split skin between the toes
Toe fracture due to muscle cramping
Swollen genitals
Greasy anal leakage
Anal bleeding
Fluid in the lungs
Bulging eyes
Bleeding from the eyes and ears
Heart stoppage

As this medicine may be contraindicated.

In server allergic reactions patients gave died due to heart stoppage, so discuss this with you doctor if you have already suffered from heart stoppage.

No thanks, I think I’ll suffer with whatever it is I already have.

 

[sr71plt]

I don't know. A side effect of "resistance to infection" might be nice to have.

 

[hylas_]

My doctor told me about this new pill…it is supposed to cure everything,

i think you should look for a new doctor. try one with a medical degree.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I don't know. A side effect of "resistance to infection" might be nice to have.

If it were the only one, yeah, sure, you betcha.

 

[Recidiva]

I do get confused when a side effect of my headache medication is "headache"

...?

 

[lovecraft68]

That is some serious muscle cramping to cause your toe to fracture.

Many medications are fairly new which leads me to the point, we lived without it this long, now suddenly we need it?

 

[Recidiva]

That is some serious muscle cramping to cause your toe to fracture.

Many medications are fairly new which leads me to the point, we lived without it this long, now suddenly we need it?

Some of them may genuinely be breakthroughs. Lots of people have died and suffered from awful things and now medication makes their lives livable and more productive.

I benefit greatly from medications for migraines.

However, it's best to not take one unless it's been on the market for a few years and all the side effects have been discovered in all the different groups that would express those side effects.

 

[lovecraft68]

Some of them may genuinely be breakthroughs. Lots of people have died and suffered from awful things and now medication makes their lives livable and more productive.

I benefit greatly from medications for migraines.

However, it's best to not take one unless it's been on the market for a few years and all the side effects have been discovered in all the different groups that would express those side effects.

Imitrex works on my migraines if I take one as soon as I see the aura. Unfortunately I am not in the habit of always having one with me.

 

[Recidiva]

Imitrex works on my migraines if I take one as soon as I see the aura. Unfortunately I am not in the habit of always having one with me.

Yup, Imitrex works like a light switch. I have to take it in time though. But I'm also on amitryptaline and tizanidine daily to prevent.

18 Imitrex used to not be enough in a month but now I'm down to less than nine.

Huge freakin' deal.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I do get confused when a side effect of my headache medication is "headache"

...?

AFAICT one person's migraine cure is another person's migraine trigger, especially caffeine.

 

[Recidiva]

AFAICT one person's migraine cure is another person's migraine trigger, especially caffeine.

Yes, I know. I avoided caffeine forever. Until I tried it and it helped.

 

[lovecraft68]

AFAICT one person's migraine cure is another person's migraine trigger, especially caffeine.

Caffeine helps with mine.

Chocolate can bring them on, so needless to say I rarely eat it.

 

[lovecraft68]

There was a commercial during football for a prostrate pill that helps with frequent urination. Amongst the side effects were; dizziness, possible fainting and a large decrease in semen.

I'll just stop every couple of miles and pee thank you very much.

The best one, was my cousin who has suffered from horrible adult acne on his back his entire life.

They suggested a pill that would take care of it, but upon reading all the fine print his wife discovered one of the side effects was severe depression leading to possible suicide.

My question is how is it legal to sell something like that, for what at the end of the day is certainly not any type of serious illness

 

[Zeb_Carter]

They always precede it will - "in rare cases".

 

[MSTarot]

My question is how is it legal to sell something like that, for what at the end of the day is certainly not any type of serious illness

Legal, that the big word here. For the most part the serious side-effect symptoms they list for most drugs are rare. Very rare in fact, maybe less than one percent of one percent of people might suffer from them.

7 billion people- 1% of that is 70 million- 1% of that is 700,000

Now out of those 7 hundred thousand that might have problems with the drug how many will take it. Who knows, maybe another 1%.

The drug companies know their product could hurt those people but it might help most others, so they make it.

But they could be sued by that one percent, of one percent, of one percent. Now given how wide spread the use of a drug could go that small number of people can become a rather large number of lawsuits .

So by saying they 'told you it could do that' you were warned that the drug had these side-effects.

Their asses are legally covered.

Well, they will still likely get sued but they have a lot more legal room to maneuver.

 

[CDWilder]

Who is your doctor, Dr. Kilpatient? Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, or Dr. Howard?

As for migraines, a double Turbo shot from the nearby Dunkin' will, more often than not, stop an uncoming migraine on a dime. But on the rare occasion it doesn't, I go home, down two Guinnesses, and hit the bed to sleep it off.

 

[sr71plt]

When I had my tonsils out as a lad, my doctor's name was Slaughter. Have never forgotten that.

 

[lovecraft68]

Slaughter is not exactly comforting.

When I was a kid I had a dentist named Payne.

To this day I'm pretty phobic with dentists, wonder if that was the beginning of it?

 

[sr71plt]

One of the dentists I went to had the surname Doctor. So he was Dr. Doctor.

 

[lovecraft68]

One of the dentists I went to had the surname Doctor. So he was Dr. Doctor.

And a DDS to boot. That's more D's than a literotica stroke story right there.

 

[Idarrau]

Dr. Doctor- That sounds like a BBC spinoff.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Legal, that the big word here. For the most part the serious side-effect symptoms they list for most drugs are rare. Very rare in fact, maybe less than one percent of one percent of people might suffer from them.

Truth. If you're going to make sensible decisions about risks, just looking at the severity of the side-effects is meaningless; you need to look at the frequency as well.

Because just about everything has "death" as a potential side-effect, including not taking those meds. I can think of at least three different ways people can die from eating apples, but that doesn't mean people should stop eating them.

 

[TE999]

When I was a kid my home town had a gynecologist named Finger, a surgeon named Carver, a mortician named Mudd and a dentist named Ignatz.

I often wondered if Mudd was related to the doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth's leg and was exiled to the Dry Tortugas as punishment.

I also wondered if Ignatz threw bricks at Krazy Kat.

 

[ishtat]

Prostate Pill

There was a commercial during football for a prostrate pill that helps with frequent urination.

Urination when prostrate is never recommended - but a spelling pill might help.

 

[glynndah]

One of the side effects of a medication I had to take a few years ago was "euphoria".

I was so disappointed when it simply cured whatever it was I was taking it for.