Do you read Pharmachutical Drug Inserts

[connda]

Do you read Pharmaceutical Drug Inserts - the two sided inserts that come with prescription drugs with very small print?  Why?  Why not?

 

Edited January 28, 2023 by connda

[connda]

I got some medicine recently and I'm here reading the two sided, small-print insert.
Yeah - I'm a geek.  But, I read it because I can.  It's about being informed about what you put in your body. 

With that said, did anyone read the small print on the mRNA vaccines (if you took one). 

Just wondering..........

[ozimoron]

1 minute ago, connda said:

I got some medicine recently and I'm here reading the two sided, small-print insert.
Yeah - I'm a geek.  But, I read it because I can.  It's about being informed about what you put in your body. 

With that said, did anyone read the small print on the mRNA vaccines (if you took one). 

Just wondering..........

No, I read the big print in websites about the drug and listened to the doctor during the mandatory consultation before the first one. My main worry was the AstraZeneca vaccine. For the second one I had a GP write to the government and get permission for me to have Pfizer. I was well informed about the vaccine. No side effects and had a moderate experience to the virus itself.

[Celsius]

9 minutes ago, connda said:

With that said, did anyone read the small print on the mRNA vaccines (if you took one). 

 

No. I also don't read the small print when I take viagra,

 

Should I?

[scubascuba3]

i scan the side effects, many are standard, I'll read the detail if i need to. With covid vaccines if most people hadn't taken them we'd still be in lockdown

Edited January 28, 2023 by scubascuba3

[MJCM]

1 minute ago, scubascuba3 said:

i scan the side effects, many are standard, I'll read the detail if i need to

Same here

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

I pay attention to side effects, contra-indications, and interactions with other meds.

[OneMoreFarang]

I don't read the small print. 

I also don't go to a pharmacy and just buy medicine. I (try to) see a decent doctor and I ask him for the diagnosis and what the medicine which he gives me should do. I hope the doctor knows what he is doing, and he knows alternative medication and he hopefully suggests what makes sense for me.

 

I work with computers and sometimes it's funny to talk with people who did their research - at least they think they did that. They read or hear somewhere that this and that is good or bad. But most of them have not much idea about the big picture. And we can't all know everything. Sometime we need to trust the so-called experts.

[Mark Nothing]

No, I do not read pharmaceutical inserts anymore because I have rejected both tablets and vaccines.  Instead, years ago I transitioned to the devine medicine, urine, which returned my body to health and vitality.

[scubascuba3]

23 minutes ago, connda said:

  And I've had no "shots."  And I've had no Covid for 2020 to present.
 

That's just luck, maybe you stayed in a lot, may have been a different story if you'd got covid. Have you had flu recently? for me far worse than covid, i can see very elderly struggling hence flue vaccines

[Scott]

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[cmjl]

Back in early January 2020 a close friend(early 70's) got a bad dose of 'flu',we were due to fly to Thailand and I didn't think he'd recover in time,he did so we flew here only for me to become ill with an horrendous sore throat,I suspect that it was probably covid,my friend had 2 Pfizer jabs in the UK with no ill effects,he then had a Moderna jab and has not had good health since,I had 2 AstraZenica jabs and won't be having any more,another friend has had to have a pacemaker fitted because of heart failure which she is sure was caused by the jab(she had 3),she's 77yo and said she won't be having any more,the same with another friend after a very bad reaction to the jab.

I have a friend who is a retired Dr and when he was still working I jokingly said to him that he would be taking statins soon as the government had suggested everyone over the age of 50 should take them - he was adamant that there was no way he was going to be taking them because of the side effects they could cause.

As connda  says we all die at some point,from the day we were born we have one less day to live so make the most of those days while you're still able because nobody knows what's round the corner.

[KhunLA]

No & Hell NO

 

Any med I consider using or prescribed to me, I research before taking.  No need to read pamphlet, as redundant.

 

I'm an anti vax'er, and Covid being one of the least worrying bugs out there for me ... for me ... for me ... IMHO ... not something I'll debate, so don't bother.

[crouchpeter]

15 hours ago, Mark Nothing said:

No, I do not read pharmaceutical inserts anymore because I have rejected both tablets and vaccines.  Instead, years ago I transitioned to the devine medicine, urine, which returned my body to health and vitality.

You could probably make a good income in public toilets.

[Hummin]

I briefly read the inbox flyers, but I do research the meds and supplements I buy from valid official published researches.