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Child of the Fey
Date: 2010-08-19 15:16
Subject: Some food for thought....
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Hm, man I sometimes wonder why people don't read the fine print with medication.

Birth control (the pill verity) has shown some pretty amazing side effects. Here are some examples of people I know personally's side effects: strokes, brain cancer, severe respiratory problems (i.e. not being able to walk up a flight of stairs because its as winding as running a mile), extreme hormonal instability (i.e. getting all of the hormonal crap from a particularly bad period but for everyday, all day, with/without the bleeding), and new allergies.

Vaccines have some pretty interesting side effects too. Cancer, serious immune system damage, new allergies, getting the illness it was supposed to prevent, poisoning, and allergic reactions. And no, Autism is not a side effect but having it does heighten your chances of having one of the more severe side effects.

My point: be a weary consumer. Just because it's all the rage does not mean its the right thing for you.

(My inspiration to post this was an interesting conversation I had had with a friend of mine who's mother suffered some of these side effects.)

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Methos AlHazred
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Date: 2010-08-19 23:52 (UTC)
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Hormonal imbalance doesn't surprise me in the least, considering from what birth control pills are made and what they actually do. The same goes for new allergies, since allergies can increase or decrease as someone grows older and the body's chemistry does change along with it. Ergo, any disruption can send that into weird spaces. As a corollary to the increased risk of stroke is an increased risk of thrombus. That happened to my mom.

I'm also rather frightened of the flu "vaccine." There are so many different forms of the virus, they can only give a mishmash and their best guess of what will be nasty, this year. I'm afraid that they'll guess wrong, and I'll have weakened my immune system and precisely the right time to *catch* the flu.

But you're quite right-- what's right in one case may not be the right thing for you. There is a similar problem with antibiotics-- people ask for them when they're not needed and many doctors go ahead and give the prescription when they know damn well it won't work.

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