PCOS-MEDICATION Messages for August, 2001: Re: No weight loss on Glucophage!

Re: No weight loss on Glucophage!

From: Zowie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:23:51 -0500 (CDT)

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Hi Sue, You do post good points about the "other side" of the story. :) I was more on the side of drugs that only have a small percentage of these beneficial side effects. These are the ones that should not be Rx because of the side effect, because the majority of patients taking it would NOT experience them. For other drugs (I was not aware of the Rogaine story), if the beneficial side effect is great (say 50% or more), then I can better understand the reason for Rx that drug to a patient, but when you're talking about an occurence of less than that---it's just wrong to make the patients excited and get their hopes up for something that isn't "likely" to happen for them. It's just not fair to them. That was my whole point. Thanks for your response! --Zowie :)

At Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Sue wrote: >
>>Just because a drug has a beneficial SIDE EFFECT does not mean it
>is prescribed for that side effect.<
>
>Actually, I don't want to be contentious, but often drugs ARE prescribed
>off-label just due to an unforseen side effect. Take Rogaine--the
>inital compound was used in cardiac patients and had the unexpected
>benefit of hair growth. Which, of course, the drug company glommed on
>to and marketed. And spironolactone is the same way--it is a blood
>pressure medication that has the side effect of slowly containing high
>levels of testosterone, thus stemming unwanted hair growth and hair
>loss.
>
>Your other points about met and weight loss are right--and drs should
>not "market it" to pts as a weight loss medication.

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