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Medication side effects leaflets

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Cornishgirl777 Fri 17-Mar-17 12:32:16

That's sound advice

Luckygirl Fri 17-Mar-17 12:27:22

I just read the bit that says what you are not to take with it; and if that is OK I bin the leaflet.

Cornishgirl777 Fri 17-Mar-17 12:20:02

Thought this pearl of wisdom might help others reading all the side effects listed on medication leaflets. MIL has refused just about all the medication prescribed for her many painful illnesses as she says she's read the warnings about side effects....Yesterday a consultant said that if a warning were drawn up about what might happen when you cross a street,no one would ever do it! I thought that was reassuring. Mind you,DH stopped reading any warnings years ago when he noticed that constipation and diarrhoea were usually the first ones mentioned!