Hey everyone,
I was on youtube just now watching Gerdicks swims and one of the related links was this video by a masters swimmer who was told to have heart damage because of Vioxx use...maybe he's among us? But I thought it was a kinda funny video--I took vioxx for 4years because of my shoulders during high school before it was removed so...I am sure there are the bunch of us out there who have used it as well..
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No drug is 100% safe. At age 74, my dad had an allergic reaction to Bactrim (a very common sulfa antibiotic). He had taken it many times before with no problem. He developed Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a very rare disease usually triggered by an allergic reaction. It was fatal in his case.
Sorry to hear about that.
No drug is 100% safe, you're right, and we must weigh the risks against the benefits. This same idea holds true for so many things in life, not all of them medically related. What are the chances that you will die in a car crash on the way to work today? Die on the table during a "routine" surgery? Die in a plane crash en route to some faraway place? Suffer a heart attack or stroke while participating in our favorite sport? Somehow we accept so many risks in daily life but when it comes to western medicine we want perfection (I am guilty of this too).
Dr. Dean Edell is famous for ranting about this very subject and I think it's a rant worthy of voicing.
No drug is 100% safe. At age 74, my dad had an allergic reaction to Bactrim (a very common sulfa antibiotic). He had taken it many times before with no problem. He developed Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a very rare disease usually triggered by an allergic reaction. It was fatal in his case.
Sorry to hear about that.
No drug is 100% safe, you're right, and we must weigh the risks against the benefits. This same idea holds true for so many things in life, not all of them medically related. What are the chances that you will die in a car crash on the way to work today? Die on the table during a "routine" surgery? Die in a plane crash en route to some faraway place? Suffer a heart attack or stroke while participating in our favorite sport? Somehow we accept so many risks in daily life but when it comes to western medicine we want perfection (I am guilty of this too).
Dr. Dean Edell is famous for ranting about this very subject and I think it's a rant worthy of voicing.
