Posted by Larry Hoover on June 9, 2005, at 9:13:08
In reply to Re: Side effects » Larry Hoover, posted by Cairo on June 8, 2005, at 19:17:57
> Your list of Topamax adverse EFFECTS reads exactly like mine with induction of panic attacks to be added.
And with that, I grant you membership in a very elite club that no one else wants to join. Sorry to hear it.
> I totally agree with the marginalization of adverse EFFECTS by the drug companies and especially doctors. However, if an uninitiated person would read the adverse EFFECTS of any drug, they would never take anything, I suspect. I think the doctor should be the one to put things in perspective.
It is about perspective, absolutely. But, for example, often the same doctor is treating one person *for* sexual dysfunction, while half an hour later trivializing it in another. If it is an attribute of healthy persondom to have full sexual function (it most certainly is not a trivial thing for me), then the doctor is practising a form of professional hypocrisy. Sanctioned professional hypocrisy.
> Only most don't seem to know much about drugs other than what is pitched to them by sales reps.
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> CairoThere is no excuse for that. The PDR and equivalent databases are available for all the hand-held electronic storage devices.
The days of "doctor knows better" paternalism need to come to an end. Informed consent is non-negotiable. It is a legal right, which cannot be waived.
Lar
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