There are always risks associated with any medication - which, despite what fear mongerers would have you believe, are usually thoroughly tested before they hit the market. Unfortunately, the ones who get the press are the ones who have the negative reaction - some of which isn't necessarily the doctor's fault because we can't control for EVERY variable until it happens, and sometimes people lie about their medical history or are ignorant of it. It's much more than just some shadowy corp. trying to eck money out of everyone.
Most people in this country do not have the tools to do a proper risk assessment, nor the skills to really judge. There are plenty of risks involved for me taking both my birth control meds AND my Imitrex, but I consider them worth it because 1) they are relatively minimal still, even considering my family history and 2) because I don't want to get knocked up/have mood swings (at least as bad as I had them) and hate migraines.
There's a huge disconnect between the medical community and lay people, but it's not always the fault of the doctors - there are plenty of laypeople like my father and a good friend of mine who waste a professional's time with every little sniffle, sneeze, and cough rather than taking some robitussin and getting over it, thus cutting into MY appointment time when I need to get something that truly disrupts my life checked out. People do not educate themselves in the slightest, and then when they do it's easier to turn to CAM because the "principles" are easier to grasp.
Most people in this country do not have the tools to do a proper risk assessment, nor the skills to really judge. There are plenty of risks involved for me taking both my birth control meds AND my Imitrex, but I consider them worth it because 1) they are relatively minimal still, even considering my family history and 2) because I don't want to get knocked up/have mood swings (at least as bad as I had them) and hate migraines.
There's a huge disconnect between the medical community and lay people, but it's not always the fault of the doctors - there are plenty of laypeople like my father and a good friend of mine who waste a professional's time with every little sniffle, sneeze, and cough rather than taking some robitussin and getting over it, thus cutting into MY appointment time when I need to get something that truly disrupts my life checked out. People do not educate themselves in the slightest, and then when they do it's easier to turn to CAM because the "principles" are easier to grasp.
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