More BS from the pharmaceutical companies. . .

They're advertising "Requip" for "restless leg syndrome." Saying as one of the caveat/side effects "this medication may cause you to fall asleep during normal functions such as driving."

WTF You may die on the roads but your leg will happily no longer twitch.

Such disorders have been long been described by naturapaths as being easily remedied by increasing one's intake of non synthetic Vitamin B6 & B12. No side effects and relatively cheap.

When I was younger they only advertised aspirin and stuff like Pepto Bismal on the tube. The constant plethora of advertizements for prescribed medications is sickening. In fact it may encourage psychosomatic illnesss (IMHO.) Like people who study pychological disorders and think for a while they have all of them. The power of suggestion ya know?

It used to be if one was ill they sought out a healer or a doctor. Now one sits at home and starts imagining they have illnesses they may or may not have. real or imagined.

It's all marketing and not about healing at all.

I won't even get into all the erectile disfunction crapola and how that is suggestive of a rather enormous fundamental problem between the genders.

Or all the Vioxx crap that nearly killed a dear friend who had both knees and hips replaced and then had a massive coronary.

Sorry I just couldn't stand seeing that advert after the recent Medicare atrocity and all. I'll get over it I guess. Will you. . .?

But when I hear that 40% of Americans are on prescription medication (god only knows how much of that percentage is psychotropic or antidepressant ) and only 15% of Euros are on stuff, it makes me wonder. . . what the heck is going on?

Sleep tight america.

/rant

I bet Dr's are sick of being asked such things

I was at the doctors about a month ago, and there was an army of drug salesmen running in and out, with coffee, breakfast sandwiches. I mean big boxes.

My wife was there a week earlier, and got all kinds of expensive prescriptions, for things that don't bother her.:wtf:

In most of Europe, the advertising of prescription medication is still banned. Non-prescription stuff is advertised to death, of course, which probably accounts for much of European drug consumption, but keeping the prescription remedy ads off of TV and radio has kept Europe relatively unaware of the bewildering array of remedies for RLS, ED, Rosacea and whatever other ailments Big Pharma has in mind to scare us about. Not to say that people don't suffer from these conditions, merely that they go to their doctors and allow the doctor to recommend appropriate treatment. Leaving aside for the moment how most doctors are in the pockets of Big Pharma, I think this single factor accounts for the difference to which the two populations are medicated.

Of course, Big Pharma are lobbying heavily to be allowed to advertise prescription medication and all indicators point to them getting their way very soon. So Europe will be just as drug dependent as the US of A before much longer.

Drug advertising is one genie that should definitely be put back in the bottle.

utterly draconian "Codex Regulations" in a sampling of countries in Europe are true. Tried to call my reps about it last summer and that was an exercise in utter fultility.

Yikes

"Drug advertising is one genie that should definitely be put back in the bottle."

Truly.

for drugs where they don't even say what the drug is supposed to do.

It's like we've gone back to 19th century patent medicine.

here. . .it'll work I swear. :)

The advertising regs say that if you describe what your medication does, you also have to provide information on the side effects in the same commercial.

So, if you don't describe the benefits in the commercial, you don't have to provide the side effects, either.

What's next? Smelly balls syndrome.

Wish they'd get something going for sleeping brain syndrome or corporate slave syndrome. Yikes.

Reading side-effect info from drug companies slays me.

That is if they are non synthetic and he actually takes them.

Remember minerals before eating, vitamins after dinner. The latter are co-enzymes after all. Bon appetite to you and yours.

That medication they're advertising now for enlarged prostates is just gross...a long description of urination problems, including 'small streams'. Like I want to hear about someone's pissing problems when I'm having dinner!

Vioxx killed my sister at the age of 47. She had been taking it for three years for a bad knee and died of heart failure. Seeing the feel-good Merck commercial that's now running makes me want to destroy the television. I'll never forgive them - never.

I'll never forgive them either! I am so glad, I don't take pharma shit. I'll go natural as much as I can. I feel great and am not sick either and I am a smoker (organic cig), people say, I look 15 years younger than people my age. I truly believe, if you feeds right stuff to your body, your body will take care of the rest. I had 8 back surgeries so, I do have pains, however, I will stay away from pharma shit.

Western medicine is all about drugs and surgery. It's not about prevention or healing at all.

Am delightfully uninsured and western medicine is great for diagnosis and lousy for treatment or healing. IMHO

that's rough and healings to you and maybe keep the tube off during the dinner hour.

blessings