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Food for thought on side effects

Posted by Sam on November 25, 2002 at 14:28:54:

Right now I am taking a class on medical history. It's funny, I signed up for the class before I was diagnosed and I have really learned a lot that I can apply to N.

While studying the invention of antibiotics and other drugs, the class touched on side effects and it really made me think about my daily meds.

Any medicine produces a certain number of effects. However,what the med is actually used for is due to marketing strategy. For a close to home example:

The drug modafinil when used produces the following effects:

nausea
headache
nervousness
anxiety
insomnia
stimulates wakefulness

One way to look at it is as a drug that produces more negative than positive effects. The feeling of wakefulness that it is used for could actually be considered the side effect of a drug that causes disomfort. Provigil doesn't help promote wakefulness for everybody, just as everybody doesn't experience the "side effects". Pharmaceutical companies and doctors, therefore, market a drug with emphasis on it's best or most common result while they downplay the other results of its use.

Anyway, this was just a 'deep thought' I had been pondering and thought was kind of funny and thought I would share.

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