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It can't be a good sign when the list of potential side-effects is so long that you forget what ailment the advertised "medicine" is alleging to relieve

Ha! Sometimes I think the med side effects are worse than the medical problem a person is taking the med for.

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Ha! Sometimes I think the med side effects are worse than the medical problem a person is taking the med for.

Well, that's OK, because they've got some other drug to counteract those side effects, which has side effects of its own, for which you have to take yet another drug...

 

My late mom had some friends that would meet up at McDonald's for breakfast.  Whoever had the most pills to take got to eat free, the others picked up his/her check.  Some damn big "pill minder" boxes came out at the table.

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Ha! Sometimes I think the med side effects are worse than the medical problem a person is taking the med for.

That's why you only take the meds if you have a moderate to severe case of whatever.  If it's mild to moderate, no drugs for you!

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Ha! Sometimes I think the med side effects are worse than the medical problem a person is taking the med for.

 

Interestingly enough, many of the side effects are symptoms of the disease that the medication is treating.  

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Well, that's OK, because they've got some other drug to counteract those side effects, which has side effects of its own, for which you have to take yet another drug...

 

My late mom had some friends that would meet up at McDonald's for breakfast.  Whoever had the most pills to take got to eat free, the others picked up his/her check.  Some damn big "pill minder" boxes came out at the table.

I remembered when my husband came home from Seattle after his kidney transplant. He brought home a small bag full of medications. I was in shock when I saw how many pill he was on at the time. He said he was afraid to get on the plane with so many pills so he got a note explaining he was going home after a kidney transplant.

 

I noticed the Xarelto commercial has a professional basketball player now. I guess athletes or comedians can help influence people to run to their doctor to ask for one specific pill. The interesting part is I just saw a lawyer commercial asking people to call in if they had taken this med and had dangerous side effects. The irony speaks for itself.

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So I have a question. Are all medical conditions, in fact, moderate to severe? Because that's usually the phrase they use when they're trying to sell whatever medication in commercials, and it makes me wonder if its just for legal reasons or because its true.

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Are all medical conditions, in fact, moderate to severe? Because that's usually the phrase they use when they're trying to sell whatever medication in commercials.

As Muffyn said upthread, I assume the drug's possible side effects aren't worth the risk if you only have "mild to moderate" fill-in-the-blank.

In other news, I've always been strangely fascinated by commercials for PedEgg, which removes dead skin from your feet:

I just listened to an old "On the Media" podcast from WNYC public radio, and they said it's one of the most successful "as seen on TV" products of all time.

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In other news, I've always been strangely fascinated by commercials for PedEgg, which removes dead skin from your feet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoHMd1yOBfM

I just listened to an old "On the Media" podcast from WNYC public radio, and they said it's one of the most successful "as seen on TV" products of all time.

Because they work. And the older we get, the more gross looking our feet get. If I don't "Ped Egg" or file my feet for a few days, my feet look like I walked across the Serengeti with no shoes on.
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I just listened to an old "On the Media" podcast from WNYC public radio, and they said it's one of the most successful "as seen on TV" products of all time.

 

I'm not surprised; the PedEgg is great.  But the Amopé Pedi Perfect (the electronic foot file) is even better.

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Movantik. If you see a giant opioid pill walking around with you, you might have a problem bigger than constipation.

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/79jG/movantik-opioid-baggage

Doctors who proscribe opioids know about the constipation side effect and prescribe drugs for that along with the good stuff. So the only reason I can think of that you might need to ask your doc for the anti-constipation drugs is if you've got the same oxy supplier as Rush Limbaugh.

 

(Word to the wise - when you start tapering off the opioids, taper off the others too. My doc neglected to mention that.)

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Doctors who proscribe opioids know about the constipation side effect and prescribe drugs for that along with the good stuff. So the only reason I can think of that you might need to ask your doc for the anti-constipation drugs is if you've got the same oxy supplier as Rush Limbaugh.

 

(Word to the wise - when you start tapering off the opioids, taper off the others too. My doc neglected to mention that.)

Yeah, when my poor dear Mother was under hospice care, along with the various opiods, they gave me jugs of stool softeners and laxatives for her. My sister just had her hip replaced and they gave her the same.
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don't you care whether you spread shingles to other golfers?

 

Shingles isn't contagious.  It's from having already had chickenpox, which is contagious, but you can't catch chickenpox from somebody with shingles.

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Shingles isn't contagious.  It's from having already had chickenpox, which is contagious, but you can't catch chickenpox from somebody with shingles.

 

Actually you can get chickenpox from somebody with shingles.  When I got shingles at 40, I did a bunch of research, and various websites did warn that if a person hadn't had chickenpox, they could catch it from someone with shingles.  You have to have direct contact with the sores, though.

 

From the CDC:  Transmission

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So whats with that weird commercial for the insulin injector pen, I forget its name, where the woman's dog and husband at first are cartoons that look like something out of the old Take on Me video, and then turn to regular people/animal?

Its the insulin also a hallucinogen?

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So whats with that weird commercial for the insulin injector pen, I forget its name, where the woman's dog and husband at first are cartoons that look like something out of the old Take on Me video, and then turn to regular people/animal?

Its the insulin also a hallucinogen?

Is this the ad?

 

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/AYDp/toujeo-journal

 

It starts with the woman writing in her journal about her diabetes, and for some reason everyone and everything looks like paper afterwards.

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Is this the ad?

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/AYDp/toujeo-journal

It starts with the woman writing in her journal about her diabetes, and for some reason everyone and everything looks like paper afterwards.

Yes, thats it.

I'd like it better if they just played AHA during the commercial. At least then it would make sense

I do love that old video. That was one of the best videos of the 1980s, if not all time.

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I really dislike this ad.  How dare that father, on his deathbed, force his kids to promise not to put their mother into a home, if it came down to it that she needs that?  She obviously lives in an expensive home, so it's nice that she has money for in-home care, but it's just wrong that people make their kids feel guilty if they think they are doing the right thing, but it comes at the expense of going against their parents' wishes?

 

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/AkXS/brightstar-care-one-year-ago

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I really dislike this ad.  How dare that father, on his deathbed, force his kids to promise not to put their mother into a home, if it came down to it that she needs that?  She obviously lives in an expensive home, so it's nice that she has money for in-home care, but it's just wrong that people make their kids feel guilty if they think they are doing the right thing, but it comes at the expense of going against their parents' wishes?

 

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/AkXS/brightstar-care-one-year-ago

Yeah, I hate that one and the ones for Brookdale. Unless the father took out a Long-term Care policy for his wife or left her a few million $$$$ she couldn't afford it either. And the guilt trip really bugs me. The children are supposed to bankrupt themselves?
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I'm torn. Mom has stated repeatedly she doesn't want to go to a home. My sister and her husband bought the property next to her so she can stay in her home, but they can keep an eye on her. They're rock stars for doing that, but I wouldn't have (couldn't have, financially and don't want to live in my hometown).

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Apparently doctors are sick of all these ads, too.

"Today’s vote in support of an advertising ban reflects concerns among physicians about the negative impact of commercially-driven promotions, and the role that marketing costs play in fueling escalating drug prices,” said AMA Board Chair-elect Patrice A. Harris, M.D., M.A. “Direct-to-consumer advertising also inflates demand for new and more expensive drugs, even when these drugs may not be appropriate.”

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/news/2015/2015-11-17-ban-consumer-prescription-drug-advertising.page

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This thread has affected me too much.  I got results from a CAT scan today.  Whenever it said “mild to moderate” I thought “that’s okay.”  Then I saw “moderate” without any other qualifiers ; some concern.  The last one said “moderate to severe”.  That’s when I knew we had a problem.  Where’s my medicine commercial?

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I am waiting for the commercials for patients who went from Graves Disease (hyperthyroidism) to hypothyroidism after having a Radiation Ablation treatment. The patient goes from feeling okay to feeling like crap a few weeks after starting a medication because the idiot doctor does not know what he is doing and has the bedside manner of a nasty, dirty bedpan. The poor patient has been sick for almost three years. I want to see the lawsuit commercial offering assistance to sue the pants off the nitwit doctor who told the patient everything was fine when obviously it was not. I also want to see the miracle medication commercial and all the nasty side effects related to said medication.

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I can't stand the Viagra Football Floozie - the one who's wandering around her bedroom in a jersey, slathering herself with perfume, dreaming of "cuddling with her man" after the game. Get a fucking life. It looks like a nice day outside, why don't you go for a walk or something?

 

Also, I hate the way she stumbles over the words "Most women would agree." Is she so horny she can't speak properly?

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I can't stand the Viagra Football Floozie - the one who's wandering around her bedroom in a jersey, slathering herself with perfume, dreaming of "cuddling with her man" after the game. Get a fucking life. It looks like a nice day outside, why don't you go for a walk or something?

 

Also, I hate the way she stumbles over the words "Most women would agree." Is she so horny she can't speak properly?

LOL! I agree. Her man probably went to the game without her because she drives him nuts. Maybe he feigns having a limp noodle because she's a demanding Yogurt bitch. Perhaps she should buy a vibrator, with her favorite NFL team logo, of course.
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I can't stand the Viagra Football Floozie - the one who's wandering around her bedroom in a jersey, slathering herself with perfume, dreaming of "cuddling with her man" after the game. Get a fucking life. It looks like a nice day outside, why don't you go for a walk or something?

 

Also, I hate the way she stumbles over the words "Most women would agree." Is she so horny she can't speak properly?

 

LMAO. Although I always note that at least this one has a normal-sized head that doesn't fill the entire TV screen. They used to have this blonde British chick that I took to calling the Giant Headed Viagra Woman because she would just appear in all her Hi Def glory. *twitch*

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There's an Ensure commercial running now that tells me that, even though I may not know it, nutrition is related to brain health. Really? You mean that health can depend on nutrition? Improbable! Next thing you know they'll be telling me that exercise affects health!

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There's an Ensure commercial running now that tells me that, even though I may not know it, nutrition is related to brain health. Really? You mean that health can depend on nutrition? Improbable! Next thing you know they'll be telling me that exercise affects health!

 

Whoever's in the commercial must be related to that dumb broad in some ad for a pain reliever, the one who says that with less pain she feels better.

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Dear Santa,

How are you? I'm fine, thanks. I have been a good girl all year. All I want for Christmas is for those Stelara commercials with that nitwit CariDee to go far, far away.

Your friend,

mmecorday

I always thought that CariDee, if indeed she really is a model, was some washed out 50 year old Walmart circular pajama model. I Googled her and was horrified to find she really is a model and she's only 31! WTH!? Why does she walk that way? She's hideously annoying. Edited by CarpeDiem54
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I always thought that CariDee, if indeed she really is a model, was some washed out 50 year old Walmart circular pajama model. I Googled her and was horrified to find she really is a model and she's only 31! WTH!? Why does she walk that way? She's hideously annoying.

I vaguely remember her from an America's Next Top Model season. She was super-religious and pissed off Tyra because she wouldn't get naked.

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