I’ve seen plenty bad things in the side-effects list before, including temporary blindness or paralyzation before, but never permanent blindness. That is indeed scary.
No no no. You can safely swallow a much as you need without harmful effect. You didn’t finish reading the label. It may cause blindness if injected directly into the eyes with a football inflating needle duct taped to a turkey baster and shot out of an old whaling harpoon cannon.
What happened to 21st century medicine? That’s a risk I’d take back in the 50s or in a life and death situation, but certainly not today for a simple anti-biotic. I’d almost get a statistic on that to see how many out of such-and-such cases that’s reported to have happened.
That reminds me of the label someone had put on all the lasers in our first-year physics lab:
“Warning! Do Not Look Into LASER With Remaining Eye!”
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As a Canadian, one of the things I always find so bizarre when watching an American TV channel is all the ads for prescription meds. Inevitably there’s a spot in the voice-over where the guy is reading all the warnings and side-effects at 120 WPM. We never seem to get that kind of advertising, which I’m sort of grateful for, as it’s rather unsettling (and it makes me wonder how much of the budget was spent on marketing rather than R&D, but that’s a rant for another thread).
[quote author=“SilentBobCDN”]Whats the name of the antibiotic? Maybe i can do a little research and see whether your fears are grounded or not.
While I can’t remember the name of the drug, it wasn’t available in Sweden. A search on the active substrate (tetracycline if I don’t remember it wrong) gave nothing talking about blindness or even reduced eyesight.
I wonder if it just happened once ever (probably in combination with other drugs and/or not directly related to this one) and the company wants to avoid legal actions if it would ever happen again.
K, doxycycline is a derivative of tetracycline, side effects that i found were said to be infrequent. This because its easily absorbed by your body, well the pill form is anyways. let see. what else.. stay out of the sun, drink fluids, take on an empty stomach… i assume you were told all that stuff. heh, its an anti-malaria and anti-anthrax drug too. Ive found nothing about it causing blindness. There may be some stomach problems, the shits or whatever.
Its probably from one or two people who developed blindness while taking the meds. theres lots of overreactions like this. Like the whooping cough part of the DTP vaccine causing autism or something. I was on Accutane back in high school. I read on the package “may cause suicidal tendencies” or something. Im still here and not suicidal… homicidal maybe. but not suicidal :twisted:
Accutane is some nasty stuff as the side effects are more than a laundry list but it does clear acme. I guess Accutane really tho’ does affect people’s mental health who are already unstable.
Thats exactly it, previous problems. If youre perfectly (well, aside from acne) healthy accutane shouldnt suddenly turn you suicidal. The only bad thing that happened was a higher sensitivity to sunlight. and I hate the sun anyway, so its all good. The same thing applies to a lot of general antibiotics out there as well.
I took Accutane in high-school as well. Thing was a bitch, but goddamn did it clear up acne!
I had severe acne on my face, neck, arms, chest and back that no cream or medication could help; but 9 months on accutane and it was all gone! Two years after stopping Accutane it’s still gone… Which owns.
But yeah, the side-effects were nasty. My nose would bleed, skin would keep peeling off my lips… just annoying as hell.
But I did take some tetracycline for .. i guess what would be called ‘maintenence’. Trying to get off it now. Ive learned that resistance to antibiotics in bacteria is not a good thing.
