• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Lots of medications have positive side effects, depending on the patient. I once got prescribed antidepressants specifically for their sleep-inducing effect (I did also have depression, but many antidepressants don’t make you drowsy). Paracetamol is a painkiller and also lowers fever. etc.

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      2 days ago

      You know I have heard paracetamol is a pain killer. I’ve taken it many times and not once has it done anything for pain. Now fever, that it affects.

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        Pain drugs like paracetamol don’t work at all in a significant number of people for pain. Taking an anti febrile is a really bad idea, basically an immune inhibitor.

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          1 day ago

          Unless your fever is too high and you need to bring it down. There are times it’s appropriate thank you for your advice doctor…?

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        2 days ago

        It’s individual and doesn’t affect all pains equally. I’ve used it against headaches for years, at some point that just stopped working for me.

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        3 days ago

        Not as extreme, but Viagra was created to treat pulmonary hypertension and treating erectile dysfunction was a side effect.

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          That was prozac for me. My sex drive was fine, my bits responded as they should, but I couldn’t finish at all. I told my psychiatrist I’d rather be unmedicated than deal with that bullshit again lol