Drug Side Effects

A latter review through . Beatrice Golomb and her colleagues what one. was reported through . Reuters Freedom from disease discovered that which time patients reported adverse reactions to drugs their doctors routinely denied that the drug was responsible for these side effects. To a great extent this is due to doctorsa€™ lack of knowledge about potential side effects, but I suspect it is also because doctors have an unreasonable degree of reliance and faith in drugs. Pharmaceutical companies are doing a great job selling benefits of drugs to doctors, but the education about potential side effects is clearly lacking.

Eliminating caffeine, regular exercise, dietary changes, biofeedback and even Botox injections are some of the other excellent approaches that should be tried before drugs.

Medical school training also makes doctors biased toward drugs and against alternative therapies. In treating migraine patients I often see people who were prescribed by their doctor 2-3 daily medications and who were never offered any alternatives. The efficacy of many of the supplements (magnesium, CoQ10, alpha-lipoic acid and others) is as good as that of many drugs doctors use for headaches.