Quotes About Side effects

What did the companies know about the link between PPH and their drugs, and when did they know it?

Much of the increased prevalence of ADHD results from the "false positive" misidentification of kids who would be better off never receiving a diagnosis. Drug company marketing pressure often leads to unnecessary treatment with medications that can cause the harmful side effects of insomnia, loss of appetite, irritability, heart rhythm problems, and a variety of psychiatric symptoms.

Grief has similar side effects of alcohol consumption, such as numbness, guilt, and depression, resulting in less alert and price-sensitive customers. In addition, the funeral industry is somewhat taboo in the sense that communities in general don't communicate with one another about what are acceptable practices in this industry.

For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs.

You zapped your own brain?" "And it didn't do me any harm apart from the dizziness and the vomiting spells and the weirdly persistent ringing in my ears. Also the blackouts and the moodswings and the creeping paranoia. Apart from that, zero side effects, if you don't count numb fingertips. Which I don't." "Because he also lost the ability to count," said Donegan. "That was temporary," snapped Gracious.

If you rush to take a drug, do so with the full knowledge that you are being a Guinea Pig. The longer a drug is on the market, the more will be known about the side effects.

Other women take the pill and don't get pregnant. I take the pill and get a mustache and beard.

If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.

We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.

Don't hide side effects with a name. Don't use a simple verb to describe a function that does more than just that simple action.

There is a saying in the medical profession 'Inside everytablet is a little bit of poison'. Avoid medications if you can.

Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.

also risks of taking statins. To be sure, seeing a person in front of you has a greater impact than hearing about side effects secondhand. But even secondhand stories affect the way people think. We have also observed in

Doctors will prescribe medicines for a particular disease but, as a side effect, those medications will work to prevent dozens of others.

Therefore the "real" system may not respond as forcefully or successfully as does the World3 system. The model's perfectly working market and smooth, successful technologies (with no surprising side effects) are also very optimistic.

Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.

SSRIs also cause a multitude of troubling side effects. These include sexual dysfunction, suppression of REM sleep, muscle tics, fatigue, emotional blunting, and apathy. In addition, investigators have reported that long-term use is associated with memory impairment, problem-solving difficulties, loss of creativity, and learning deficiencies.

To date, no study has found any long-term benefit of attention-deficit medication on academic performance, peer relationships, or behavior problems, the very things we want to improve…. The drugs can also have serious side effects, including stunting growth.

With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with two problems. The treatment turns a period of crisis into a chronic mental illness. - Amy Upham

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Then why should the side effects of your exercise of religious freedom effectively "impose your religion" on those affected—or undermine their own freedom of religion?

The experienced and qualified doctors understand the side effects of medicines before the prescription. Indeed, the majority of doctors hold a professional degree and certificate; whereas, virtually, not the latest and accurate knowledge; as a result, it executes no difference between such doctors and a robot.

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.

You know, chemo and radiation is a very tough customer. It does so much good, but it also does a lot of damage.