Yeah, Dr's game me a biologic for joint pain that can cause cancer and other horrifying side effects and my body was shutting itself off for years, whole situation was insane and Drs kept acting like I was making it up - such a PO.
Now, I tell them unless a problem shows up that is life threatening I am not taking a life threatening medication. Done, so done with medical community trivializing side effects. Being a statistic is terrible.
For the record, so no-one misunderstands, I include Depression and other severe mental health issues as a life threatening diagnosis that would warrant careful consideration of even black box medications but after my brush with big pharma I would tread carefully and try everything safer first.
