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In reply to the discussion: The medications that change who we are [View all]Silver1
(721 posts)because of the luck you had in this accidental discovery.
I wonder how many people come down with side effects to common medication. Some of us do fine but what are the actual numbers of those who do and those who don't? Is that information on the insert? Why are the inserts so user unfriendly anyway? Tiny print that seems to go on for miles. It would be nice if in addition to technical info, there were user friendly inserts people could actually refer to. Also, a timeline for possible effects and side-effects.
I was prescribed something once which was the right prescription but too high a dose. Wow, I was snapping at everyone for nothing. I looked into it online and contacted my Dr to lower the dose and haven't had problems after that.
But that experience really got me thinking and made me very cautious. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for good medicine and many of us need these medications to live, including me.