Reading or hearing about side effects of prescription medication can sometimes be horrific. I often wonder if taking the medication to ease a condition is worth the risk of experiencing some of the awful side effects that come with medicine. The following is a list of some of terrifying side effects that come with many prescription drugs currently on the market.
- Drainage, crusting, or oozing of your eyes or eyelids
- Swollen, black, or "hairy" tongue
- Changes in the shape or location of body fat
- Decrease in testicle size
- Sores or swelling in your rectal or genital area
- Blue lips or fingernails
- Purple spots on the skin
- White patches or sores inside your mouth or on your lips
- Irregular back-and- forth movements of the eyes
- Enlarged breasts in males.
- Unusual risk-taking behavior, no fear of danger
- Extreme Fear
- Hallucinations, fainting, coma
- Fussiness, irritability, crying for an hour or longer
- Paralysis
- Thoracic Hematoma (bleeding into the chest)
- A blood clot in the lung
- Liver damage
- Kidney damage
- A lump in your breast.
- Decreased bone marrow function
- Congestive heart failure
- Shingles
- Nerve pain lasting for several weeks or months
- Bleeding that will not stop
- Coughing up blood or vomit that looks like coffee grounds
Finally, there is one drug on the market, EvaMist, which includes all of the following possible side effects:
- Breast cancer
- Cancer of the uterus
- Stroke
- Heart attack
- Blood clots
- Dementia
- Gallbladder disease
- Ovarian cancer
- High blood pressure
- Liver problems
- High blood sugar
- Enlargement of benign tumors of the uterus ("fibroids")
These are only some of the possible side effects of prescription drugs. Unfortunately, there are many more.
