loss of hearing, heart palpitations, dizziness, numbness in the fingers, lower back pain, fainting, ringing in the ears, stroke, sudden urges to throw yourself in front of a speeding car..."

Itchy Trigger Finger, Happy Feet, Ennui, Schadenfreude, Fahrvergnügen, Desire to Hear Kenny G, Tennis Elbow, Bowling Wrist, Juggling Shoulder, or Death.

TlalocW

it was time to take my medication.

Also agitation, palpitations, excessive salivation, constipation, male lactation, rust-colored urination, hallucinations, bad vibrations, mild electric shock sensations, deprivation, humiliation, debtor's prison and deportation, dark depictions, dire predictions, life as seen in Dickens fiction...

...whose potential side-effects were things that would tend to cause stress in social situations (excessive body odor, etc.)

WTF is that about? "Will give you boners strong enough to penetrate cast-iron bathtubs?"

Is when they say "See our ad in Golf Magazine" in clear text on the commercial. Why have an ad just to go see another one? Is this Treasure Hunt or something?

they all seem to have a paragraph of fine print at the bottom so who knows what they are really marketing. And it seems like a year later there's a class action lawsuit against the very same drug.

The are incredibly devious....with the pretty pictures and music, then the soft voice talking really fast telling you all the horrible things that MAY happen if you take it. Some of which can be worse than the condition the drug is treating. Pharma cos have to disclose all side effects (even if only happened to one person), but still, they try to minimize it as much as possible.

My favorite one to hate right now is the Cymbalta for arthritis pain commercial. Cymbalta is a potent antidepressant with an UNKNOWN mechanism of action and a ton of side effects. Yet the FDA has approved it to relieve arthritis pain. People don't know this and will go to their doc demanding it.

I was taking an antidepressant some years ago, one pill every morning. When it was time to go to work, I was usually doubled over with painful stomach cramps and diarrhea that lasted four to six hours. Sometimes I was too sick to go to work. I was afraid I would lose my job.

At some point I noticed that my symptoms strongly resembled the kind of reaction I get from eating dairy foods, unless I take an enzyme tablet like Lactaid or Dairy Ease.

Started doing some research online and found that this particular pill did contain lactose as a filler. No wonder I was getting sick at the same time each day, and staying sick for hours. I've known for years that I have lactose intolerance.

Informing customers about every ingredient in a medicine, whether prescription or over the counter, should be the law. I might only be miserably sick for six hours, but someone else could have a fatal reaction to some unknown ingredient in a medication.