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Scary drugs

WhitbyJet

WhitbyJet

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I have just read the PIL for the new injectable drug Bydureon. I know that all drugs are being tested extensively before they are unleashed on to the general public. But even so, drugs are highly toxic and taken over a long period of time they cannot be good for the liver and kidneys, etc?

I have been taking a fair number of prescribed medications, diabetes, blood pressure, statins, stomach complaints, painkillers, the lot until my body seemed to yell No More. I developed some very serious side effects and it was truly frightening.

I am not anti-meds, I know full well that not every diabetic can go without medication, but would it not be a whole lot safer and less toxic to inject insulin than swallow so many pills?

At the moment I am lucky, I am currently not taking any medications, but its early days, what if low carb doesnt work, I will have to go back to medication, although I am not scared of Metformin at all.

Am I an idiot for worrying about these issues? Please dont shoot me.
 
I agree totally with you about scary drugs as a whole......

I was put on duloxetine to help with my fibromyalgia-but it has also been hailed as a new drug (under the black triangle with the MHRA watching the reports of side effects).....for also treating diabetic neuropathy.

After 60mg of these for a few weeeks, I started having the most awful chronic night sweats and lesser side effects)....so GP chceked out blood tests for hormone probs recently and told me to drop from 60mg to 30mg......

After taking 30mg for 2 days I have never, ever, ever felt so ill in my life. Spoke to another GP who said to raise the dosage back up to 50mg for the time being. It took another 3 days in full before I felt better again.......

I now face both side effects of having gone on them, and dreadful side effects from following GP advice to come off them, and the prosepct of having to really wean myself off them with more side effects occuring....

I have had so many side effects from differing tablets, and from having loads of mixtures of cocktails of meds- I just am so wary because meds can seem to help with one medical problem but can have a huge effect on other parts of your body and mind. I just can't figure out how one tiny tablet can cause such serious night sweats-what are they actually affecting to make my body react like this...???

I know meds affect everybody in different ways-but just seems to me that so many of them can cause other problems.....and therefor having to take more tablets to combat side effects of original tablets.....is this a manufacturing ploy to increase the medicines we have to take and get the pharmaceutical companies richer????? And to break the NHS???
 
I'm not even sure about injecting insulin being better than tablets, as it is still a 'manufactured' drug and I believe that many will and do have sde effects to injectable insulins as well.
 
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