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9 Drugs With Really Strange Side Effects
foxnews ^ | June 03, 2009 | Marrecca Fiore

Posted on 06/04/2009 5:55:12 PM PDT by JoeProBono

All drugs carry side effects. Some are mild. Some can be very dangerous. And still some can be downright strange. Blue vision, oily stools, amnesia and "black tongue" are just some of the strange side effects carried by prescription and the over-the-counter medications. Should you be worried?

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: drugs; sideeffects
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To: al baby
i'd have to drive to get to the closest one and my weekly mileage doesn't reflect it... next???
61 posted on 06/04/2009 7:58:55 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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To: Chode

I think it has markedly slowed you metabolism hence the weight gain


62 posted on 06/04/2009 8:13:40 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: South40
Pepto Bismol limits your options of stool samples.


63 posted on 06/04/2009 8:18:39 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Communism + Hezbollah + Al Qaeda + Obama + StoneAge = CHAOS)
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To: JoeProBono

What’s the one where they mention in the warnings if you get an uncontrollable urge to gamble?


64 posted on 06/04/2009 8:21:17 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: JoeProBono

My tongue was black this morning and I freaked, then I remembered eating black beans last night. Could black beans do it, because the only drug I took was over the counter Benadryl.


65 posted on 06/04/2009 9:45:23 PM PDT by tinamina
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

It is interesting to note that my vision is about 20/200 uncorrected, with myopia and astigmatism....I lived until the first grade not knowing I had any problem at all. My mother says I learned to walk at 9 months. I walked to kindergarten, three blocks away. But when I went to first grade the teacher put my desk against the blackboard and I still couldn’t see her lessons.

Anyhow, I got glasses and when I got them I was SO sick. It was like I was travelling in a boat with the seas going up and down quickly at 15 feet at least and I had to throw up.

It wasn’t a drug, just a different perception of reality. I hated this new perception at first, but I’m addicted to my glasses now!


66 posted on 06/04/2009 10:00:38 PM PDT by tinamina
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To: Lady Jag; JoeProBono; South40
Pepto Bismol provides relief of all those symptoms and is also available over-the-counter. But users beware - the drug also carries the odd, but harmless, side effects of causing a black, sometimes furry-feeling tongue, and black/grey stools.

Harmless side effects? How do you pass those things?

67 posted on 06/04/2009 10:56:19 PM PDT by JohnG45
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To: al baby
that's my thinking too...
68 posted on 06/05/2009 3:43:50 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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To: JoeProBono

The blue vision is a results of taking to big a dose of Viagra. ALL drugs have side effects, aspirin has side effects. That doesn’t mean we stop using them, it means we use them with caution and only when we actually NEED them.


69 posted on 06/05/2009 4:05:19 AM PDT by calex59
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To: pandoraou812
I know several people who have had allergic reactions to Levaquin, my husband and myself are 2 of them.
70 posted on 06/05/2009 5:38:26 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
I am not wondering what else I could perceive, I am still thinking about the poor kitty cats and what those mean Japs did to them.
71 posted on 06/05/2009 5:43:57 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: pandoraou812
Levaquin. Horrible drug & causes all kinds of problems. I was walking into walls & acting strange.

Evil, evil drug. My doc put me on that crap for a sinus infection once, along with Allegra for allergies. I didn't sleep at all that night. I thought at first it was the Allegra keeping me awake so I stopped taking that. Next night ... no sleep. So I skipped a day. Got a little bit of sleep that night. Took it again the next day ... no sleep, weird dreams bordering on hallucinations, aggressive behaviors. I threw that crap away, called my doc the next day and got the Zpack.

72 posted on 06/05/2009 6:39:29 AM PDT by al_c (Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
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To: al_c; Ditter

Levaquin made me so sick that I had to bring my husband in to explain how bad it was. I think that Levaquin has left me with problems. After my hysterectomy although I finally healed I am left with a nonstop ripping like pain in my pelvic area. My doctor thinks I may have gotten a rupture from that evil stuff. I’ve had CAT scans & now am fighting for an MRI. I need to find out what the nonstop pain is. I don’t want to have to live with it & so far my doctors don’t have a clue. IMHO Levaquin ought to be pulled off the shelves.


73 posted on 06/05/2009 8:03:59 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: pandoraou812

bttt


74 posted on 06/05/2009 8:08:30 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: pandoraou812
I took Leviquin once with no problem but when I took it again the second pill gave me a fierce burning sensation over my entire mid section, like my insides were on fire. I would not have known that it was an allergic reaction except that a friend had the same reaction (same drug) and told me about it. My husband had hives all over his mid section.
75 posted on 06/05/2009 8:19:00 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Japan experiments on cats, the US experiments on 2M Americans. I like cats, too, but not that much.


76 posted on 06/05/2009 8:42:21 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: editor-surveyor

The benefits outweigh the nightmares by a bunch. I do avoid taking it if I’m going to sleep over at my parents’, a friend’s place or in a hotel...


77 posted on 06/05/2009 8:46:40 AM PDT by piytar (Take back the language: Obama axing Chrystler dealers based on political donations is REAL fascism!)
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To: pandoraou812

I will bet even money that you ahve adhesions of scar tissue, perhaps wraqpped around an artery, and arteries have a nerve running alongside of them, so the adhesion is pressuring a nerve. Good luck finding that even with an MRI.


78 posted on 06/05/2009 9:16:12 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

That makes sense. I am in pain 24/7 & I refuse to take their pain meds. How would I go about finding out if what you posted is happening to me? The pain is unbelievable. All the drs want to do is have me take Duladid & I won’t. Last thing I need is an addiction to that stuff.


79 posted on 06/05/2009 9:30:31 AM PDT by pandoraou812 (elected officials should be required to pass drug, alcohol & dementia testing)
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To: piytar
I will wake up sitting bolt upright and screaming at the top of my lungs from a nightmare that consists solely of a feeling of utter terror and a formless black void.

Are you sure this isn't just coincident with Obama's election?
80 posted on 06/05/2009 9:34:27 AM PDT by aruanan
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