Dangerous Medications
By monarch79
@monarch79 (75)
United States
April 2, 2012 8:54pm CST
After reading or hearing about prescription medications, I read on and the list of possible complications are longer than the benefits. Diarrhea, constipation, stroke, heart attack, blindness, dry mouth, fever, hearing loss, fatique, nausea, vomiting, fainting, dizzy spells, memory loss, shortness of breath, loss of hair, DEATH! what??? A person has to decide whether to risk death due to disease or death due to meds. I think the overdrive of prescriptions are doing more damage than ever before.
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@almond24 (1248)
• Hungary
3 Apr 12
Yes, it's quite shocking to read the information leaflet about the medications, especially the ones we get on prescription. The weird thing is, we are told not to turn to "hazardous" home remedies because they might be dangerous - but medications with these side effects are even more dangerous.
@monarch79 (75)
• United States
4 Apr 12
It also seems that doctors are loading people up with these medications, even when they do not even know exactly what's wrong. I've seen people get so sick because of the bottles and bottles of prescription meds. When they came off of them, they were much better. Sometimes I wonder if they experiment on people without them knowing.
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@almond24 (1248)
• Hungary
4 Apr 12
I have a feeling that we are just guinea pigs sometimes. Once I was seriously mistreated, I was prescribed something for the symptoms I had, and later turned out that I should have never taken anything. Lesson learned, but it makes me mad that doctors prescribe strong medicine without knowing what causes the problem!
I know people who take 10-20 kinds of medication daily... they had to take just a few originally, but the medicine caused side effects, so they have to take something for those side effects, which causes new side effects again... ugh.
@monarch79 (75)
• United States
4 Apr 12
My mom is always ranting about her medications. It's a tug-of-war whether to take them or not because you want the problem to go away, yet you don't want to deal with the side effects. I guess you just have to take the good with the bad.
