Posted by Larry Hoover on May 29, 2009, at 16:52:16
In reply to Are the drugs that we're taking killing us?, posted by Andy Behrman on May 29, 2009, at 4:24:52
I've got a problem when somebody uses selective editing to exaggerate a warning attributable to a class of drugs.
From the Abilify monograph:
" Hyperglycemia, in some cases associated with ketoacidosis, coma, or death, has been reported in patients treated with atypical antipsychotics including ABILIFY. Patients with diabetes should be monitored for worsening of glucose control; those with risk factors for diabetes should undergo baseline and periodic fasting blood glucose testing. Patients who develop symptoms of hyperglycemia should also undergo fasting blood glucose testing. There have been few reports of hyperglycemia with ABILIFY."By no means am I minizing the severity of such adverse events as coma or death, but it behooves anyone who takes a med to understand the risks associated with taking it, and in partnership with the prescribing doctor, to monitor those risks. All choices we make have risks and benefits, including doing nothing. You do your best to predict the risks and benefits, but neither can be known with certainty ahead of the decision to medicate, or the experience arising therefrom.
Lar
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