Yes Drugs.com does go to town here. Black tarry stools and light coloured stools. Runny nose. blocked nose. Constipation and the other extreme in the same list. Most medication gets this treatment nowadays. My antibiotic has two pages of these effects too. Very similar list. I find it very disconcerting, since the actual reported and verified side effects are not obvious.
I do suffer from a runny nose and sneezing. This can interfere with my sinus, giving me a headache, and then feeding tnto the eustacian tubes and causing earwax. This in turn leads to loss of balance and dizzy turns when the head tilts suddenly. So those seem consequential to me.
To parody the USA films, Gas causes bloating, upper torso discomfort, constipation and the other. so again many of those other effects may follow just one cause. The blood in urine is a difficult one. As we age we leak more, so it may be just kidneys being interferred with a bit more.
I am inclined to think I may be suffering this latter effect, since my eGFR has fallen through thte floor since I started using ezetimibe. I also have a runny nose and sneezes, but I think that has other causes such as badly fitting dentures,and my daughter sanding the floors in the house for the last couple of months.
I did make an obvious observation in my post above, in that the doc gives me a prescription, and I have the option of taking it and ignoring it. Certainly since taking it my LDL dropped noticeably and my doc was pleased. I will decide next week what I do with my next dossette box.
PS my stools are black, and gave the nurses in the hospital a fright, but then I am on iron supplements. They also have a similar list of problems so if I want pale stools, then that is several meds I will have to drop. Think that would cause me other probs though.
