Drug Side Effects. Make the Type Small So You Can't Read it!

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Ads for drugs are everywhere, paid for by the pharma companies that make them. All drugs have side effects, of course. But the side effects, sometimes death, are often played down by being printed in miniscule type. Is this intentional? We leave it to you to guess.

You will not see ads for the foods that medical science shows can be substituted for the drugs. There's very little money in that. So now we begin a series listing advertised drugs and the teeny-typeface side effects that accompany them. But we use regular-size typeface.

TOPAMAX--beautiful ad, succinct, enticing. Side effects? Thousands of tiny-type words of contraindications, adverse reactions, delivery, drug interactions, etc.

For example, under Warnings, "Acute myopia 'near-sightedness] and Secondary Angle Closure Glaucoma...Cognitive-related dysfunction (e.g., depression or mood problems)... Psychiatric/behavioral disturbances..." And on and on.

Although we do not diagnose or prescribe, we do publish established research on the use of foods, vitamins and herbs over drugs.