Posted by linkadge on August 5, 2008, at 7:10:25
In reply to Re: Some people don't want to believe. » bleauberry, posted by Bob on August 4, 2008, at 21:57:19
>Maybe sometimes, but I've been on multiple drugs >where some side effects faded, while others >became more insidious. I call weight gain, >sexual dysfunction, and fatigue some nasty side >effects, and for me these often just got worse >over time.
Exactly. The notion that side effects diminish and effect increases over time is just a framework of how it occurs in some people or how it would occur more ideally.
The reality is that the facts about many of these substances are readily downplayed. Weight gain, permanant sexual side effects, phospholipidosis, neuroendocrine changes, metabolic changes, cardiac side effects, genotoxicity, apathy, suicidal ideaion, other cognitive side effects.
The whole system could be supported by a system not dissimilar to the emperors new cloths.
Medications could be affecting the majority of people in this way. They could be pooping out, they could be causing unbearable side effects. If you only trust the 3 month studies of safety and efficiacy of these meds how could you possably be getting an idea of how safe/effective they are over time in the population as a whole.
When you just accept that the meds work like certain studies suggest then nobody speaks up and says, hey this medication isn't all that great. Sure it seemed to work for the first little while, but now all I do is sit around. I'm so apathetic and have no interest in anything. I still don't feel well, I just feel numb and medicated.
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