Quotes About Side effects

Chemotherapy and radiation have side effects, and they can cause secondary cancers.

When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to 'The Side Effects of Cancer.' Healing is hard work, as is any change one must make in one's life. I and others have learned, however, that the side effects of cancer may not all be bad ones.

So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

The side effects are not life-threatening, but they are not trivial. The

The high is, according to the junkies, worth the side effect. For the record, this is one of the reasons I hate people.

Statins, particularly potent ones, induce diabetes in at least 1 of 200 individuals treated.

The psychiatrists—Eric was among the youngest—often put these kids on Haldol; more than one came to me exhibiting, as a result of the mysterious pill, "tardive dyskinesia"—involuntarily sticking out their tongues, clenching and unclenching their jaws, smacking their lips.)

The combination of benzodiazepines and clozapine (Clozaril) has been reported to cause delirium

Denial is not always a bad thing. Without it, you couldn't function. For instance, if you were hyperaware and hypervigilant regarding all the dangers in the world - from driving your car to crossing the street to eating food that might have contaminants in it to taking medications that have many side effects, etc. - you would become frozen.

Aspirin and ibuprofen combat inflammation everywhere but the stomach and bowel; there they create inflammation.

The recurring lovesickness of my teenage years often brought debilitating side effects, the worst of these being a compulsion to write Christian poetry. 

When the medication causes the disease, a positive feedback loop has been established.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

It's not the side effects of the cocaine. . . . I'm thinking that it must be love.

The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industrialisation but reflect the inadequacy of development.

The very first pharmaceutical commercial I ever heard was 15 seconds of the product and 45 seconds of side effects, so I know that this cannot be good for you.

The list of side effects was lengthy and horrible. Sonnet had pored over it, along with all the other literature she'd hastily devoured, searching for grains of hope. The worst part of chemo started after the drugs were administered.

Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

The amount of energy actually liberated in the burning of these fossil fuels is tiny by planetary scales – ten terawatts or so a year, not that much more than the nuga-tory contribution made by the tides. But the side effects are huge.

The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.