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If you experience serious side effects...

pdmjoker

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Type of diabetes
Prediabetes
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Diet only
Drug patient information leaflets say something like "If you experience serious side effects please tell your doctor or pharmacist" which seems very reasonable.

However, I read somewhere that Antipsychotic medication lists "Sudden death" as a possible (but "Rare or very rare") side effect, which is arguably serious but would make it rather hard to tell your doctor or pharmacist! It is then not at all a reasonable request!

I verified this info, and quoting from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6127750/

"Antipsychotics are associated with a 1.5 to 4‐fold increase in risk of sudden cardiac death..."​
 
Yes death was mentioned as a side effect of one of my heart drugs too.
 
pdmjoker said:
Do you find it really inspires confidence?
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Lol no. I consoled myself with the fact that I would only be taking it for a few months until I could have a heart procedure, but it was a bit scary.
 
zand said:
Lol no. I consoled myself with the fact that I would only be taking it for a few months until I could have a heart procedure, but it was a bit scary.
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Quite. It would be good to know the usual risk of sudden cardiac death though...
 
I would prefer a sudden death, to a slow lingering painful one from prescribed medication.
 
Riva_Roxaban said:
I would prefer a sudden death, to a slow lingering painful one from prescribed medication.
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Same here but if I was given a choice of slow lingering painful one I would request one last cigarette (gave up years ago), and a bottle of JDs with Monty Python playing in the background
 
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