Roughly 1/3 of all pharma drugs are removed because of issues not discovered until they have been in use for over five years.
Zantac is an example of this. Millions were taking it for acid indigestion. Including me. It had been out for ten years. It was an over the counter medicine that was removed because of problems.
1/3 is a lot.
I started noticing in the ‘90s that ads for lawsuits about Rx drugs were constantly popping up and it seemed to me that it hadn’t been that long before that there had been big ad campaigns to sell those same drugs.
That pattern has held through the 2000s and the 2010s.
I hope you weren’t one of those who had problems with Zantac.