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elias7

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20. I'm not minimizing what you went through
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 06:06 PM
Mar 2020

But you should not demonize something that has literally saved millions of lives. I don’t know that cipro is a chemotherapeutic agent, although I see it talked about in those terms on woo sites.

Oxycodone is great after you’ve had surgery for analgesia, but as an opiate, it is addictive and has killed people.

Penicillin can cause anaphylaxis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, death... but for most, that is not what happens.

Beta blockers, calcium blockers, really any antihypertensive can kill

All meds may have severe life changing side effects

Medications are a trade off. Modern medicine is a risk benefit proposition and the extensive testing meds go through by the FDA as well as ongoing studies by clinicians make all medicines a work in progress.

You may have had a strong negative effect and I would not minimize that, ever. But to reject something based on a singular experience that few people have is like throwing out the baby with the bathwater

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