8 Drugs to avoid
Posted by Michael.
This is grabbed directly from the June issue of Men’s Health, but I thought it was worth posting: a list of eight medications that doctors said they themselves wouldn’t take. Not cheerful, but just in case…
- Adavair - use only if your other asthma meds are REALLY not working,
- Avandia - maybe helps diabetes, but doubles the risk of heart failure.
- Celebrex- still available even though Bextra and Vioxx have been pulled for gastro issues, liver damage, and heart damage.
- Ketek - super-antibiotic with liver and heart-rhythm problems.
- Prilosec & Nexium - suspected link with cardiac issues, elevated bone loss rate.
- Visene Original - “it gets the red out by shrinking the blood vesses” - can perpetuate the problem.
- Pseuodephedrine - raises blood pressure and heart rate, can worsen symptoms of benign prostate disease and glaucoma.
May 28th, 2008 at 1:52 pm Using
The only one of those that I’ve used is pseudoephedrine. Of course, since it really is speed, it’s not a huge surprise that it raises blood pressure and heart rate. It’s safe enough though that pregnant women can take it, something that can’t be said about the products replacing it in our current meth era.
May 28th, 2008 at 10:31 pm Using
i tried advair. i wasn’t impressed, given the hassle required. never mind that the asthma doc prescribed it even though i’d never been given any asthma meds ever previously, nor had i ever had an attack where i was unable to breathe. i hated that doc. she was very condescending, and, i suspect, full of hot air, trying to get me on every med that could make her some money. and then their records never accurately reflected what i was currently taking. i stopped taking the advair and stopped seeing that doc because she pissed me off.
i use pseudoephedrine a lot. not nearly as much as i used to, given the hassle in obtaining it these days. i tend to put off buying it now until i start getting wicked sinus headaches.