I was talking to a friend the other day, who claims to be perilously poised between the devil and the deep blue sea – or, put another way, stretched tight between a rock and a hard place. (I prefer the latter expression; it has about it a ring of inescapability). What is it all about? Pay close attention, because it can happen to you.
The cause of the man’s problem is a prescription drug he is currently taking to relieve hypertension. When he read the leaflet that was enclosed in the packet of tablets, he found to his horror that taking the drug had the following adverse side effects: headache, edema (i.e. excessive accumulation of serous fluid in the intercellular spaces of tissue, fatigue, somnolence, nausea, abdominal pain, flushing, palpitation, dizziness, alopecia (patchy baldness), altered bowel habits, althralgia, asthemia (debility), back pain, dyspepsia (indigestion), gingival hyperplesia, gynecosmasia (enlargement of the male mammary gland), hyperglycemia (excessive sugar in the blood), impotence, increased urinary frequency, leucopenic malaise (decreased number of white corpuscles in the blood), mood changes, dry mouth, muscle cramps, myalgia, peripheral neuropathy (a disease of the nervous system), pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas)’, increased sweating, syncope (sudden loss of strength), thrombocyptopenia (reduction in the number of platelets, a clotting agent, in the blood), vasculitis, erythema multiforme (skin eruption), and visual disturbances.
My friend, not at all sure that he wants to swap his hypertension for all these unmentionable side effects, took his fears to his doctor, who scared him some more by saying that every drug has adverse side effects. “If I told you the adverse effects of, say, Aspirin, you won’t be so quick to pop one into your mouth at the first sign of a headache.”
And that’s just for starters!
The cause of the man’s problem is a prescription drug he is currently taking to relieve hypertension. When he read the leaflet that was enclosed in the packet of tablets, he found to his horror that taking the drug had the following adverse side effects: headache, edema (i.e. excessive accumulation of serous fluid in the intercellular spaces of tissue, fatigue, somnolence, nausea, abdominal pain, flushing, palpitation, dizziness, alopecia (patchy baldness), altered bowel habits, althralgia, asthemia (debility), back pain, dyspepsia (indigestion), gingival hyperplesia, gynecosmasia (enlargement of the male mammary gland), hyperglycemia (excessive sugar in the blood), impotence, increased urinary frequency, leucopenic malaise (decreased number of white corpuscles in the blood), mood changes, dry mouth, muscle cramps, myalgia, peripheral neuropathy (a disease of the nervous system), pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas)’, increased sweating, syncope (sudden loss of strength), thrombocyptopenia (reduction in the number of platelets, a clotting agent, in the blood), vasculitis, erythema multiforme (skin eruption), and visual disturbances.
My friend, not at all sure that he wants to swap his hypertension for all these unmentionable side effects, took his fears to his doctor, who scared him some more by saying that every drug has adverse side effects. “If I told you the adverse effects of, say, Aspirin, you won’t be so quick to pop one into your mouth at the first sign of a headache.”
And that’s just for starters!
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