My random thought for today

That's how Sod's law works Katek

Wow, me too Kate! And getting out more really doesn't make any difference because I get out most days and I still open medication at the leaflet end. What does work is to take out the leaflet, store it somewhere that you won't remember if you need it, and problem solved, no leaflet whatever end you open!!

You could try reading the leaflet: it will terrify you.

Always the wrong end when I'm in a hurry! Sod's law in action!

I hate those leaflets, what use in saying 1 in 10,000 have x effect, leaves the reader with the thought - I could be that 1 in 10,000

Exactly Anniebach the side effects of tablets I have just stopped taking were frightening and included

Migraines ... tick
Weight gain....tick
Depression.....tick
Hair loss..... tick
Body Hair increase..... (haven't noticed any significant difference).
Bloating... tick
Spots....tick

and crikey knows what else.

All medicines are essentially poisons. That is why one treats them with caution and does without them if not absolutely necessary.

Mine have the minor side effect of death!

I have no trust in medicines

Thank you, folks, for giving me the only laugh out loud moment if the day! ?

I'm beginning to think that myself Anniebach . Poisoning yourself to feel better ?

One of the side effects of a medication I take says May cause dizziness.I am actually taking it for just that !Doesn't seem right somehow. ?

It's s risk/benefit analysis - I probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my asthma medication. DH def wouldn't be without his cardiac meds. I don't read the leaflets now...,.. which is probably why they annoy me so much! It's pretty much a CYA exercise for the manufacturers.

I have to laugh at all my OH's PD meds - every single one lists the symptoms of PD as potential side effects! Hmm.

I always take the leaflets out if all my meds when I get them from the chemist, and put them in the recycling. I never read them, wouldn't dare.

medication for nausea - may cause nausea !

I Definitely always get the leaflet end even when I think I had the packet the correct way around, It's so frustrating isn't it Katek, perhaps we are suffering from a form of packet opening dyslexia , I'm off to the docs ?

I always open at the leaflet end! I scare myself silly reading the leaflet, I always think I'm gonna get all the side effects. Didn't you prefer it when you jut got your pill in the little brown bottles ? ?

Yes definitely, it's even worse that the precautions are not so much about us , but about the fact that we might sue someone because we weren't warned of a hundred & one side effects etc but I suppose that's not such a bad thing, although if you do read it nothing seems to be 'risk' free!

It's the ones that say may cause diarrhoea or constipation that get me

They always put the leaflet at the wrong end of the pack Katek.
I have just finished a course of antibiotics and some little gremlin kept changing the leaflet from one end to the other just when I thought I had it sussed.

Two new packs to open tonight......yip, got the leaflet end both times. I give up.

I had a box of new medication where the intructions were gradually increasing the dose over a period of days . That had a long instruction manual with warnings and differing doses for the different conditions it could be used for. That seemed a sort of catch all medication. It does seem to working though and as long as I don't suddenly stop it I can control it as it as I need.
The least I have to take the better. There are addiction warnings on that.

I had some tablets recently that said I should alert my GP if I suffered any of the very rare, serious side effects. One was voices in my head telling me to harm others, another was sudden death. I warned DH that he might have to do the alerting - if he was spared, of course.