OTC are fine, since anyone can buy them,minus the allergy-D. its almost always BIOLOGICs that are being advertised to people, you know the very expensive ones.
Ok, I am now imaginging some kind of Biblically Accurate American chimera/angel/monster.
Like uh, A buffalo that also has two eagle heads, maybe a sort of skirt/rear covering of turkey feathers, the tail is rattlesnake, and its body is not covered in eyeballs, but like, Amazon Alexas.
And uh, lets also make it like the… uh… the vision of the statue from Daniel 2.
It has faces made of bitcoin, a mane or chest of dollar bills, a hindquarters of shimmering black crude oil, a tail and legs and hooves of coyote tan thermoplastic.
… I think I might have just concepted a Kojima-esque monstrosity that would make sense in MGS4.
Hives, trouble Breathing, swelling of the face, eyes, lips, or mouth. Lupus like chest or joint pain, liver problems such as jaundice, dark urine, or stomach pains, heart failure, sudden weight gain, swelling of ankles and feet, persistent fever, easy bruising, numbness, tingling, vision problems, weakness of the arms and legs, reactivation of Hepatitis B, high chances of cancers like lymphoma, increased risk of serious infections like TB that can spread and be fatal. Headaches, rash, swelling itching or bruising at the injection site. I got tired of listing side effects.
I don’t want to defend AbbVie, the evil corporation that makes Humira, but that drug is a miracle of modern medicine. It’s not “your back pain could be better,” it’s for severe autoimmune inflammatory diseases, mostly arthritis, psoriasis, and Chron’s. You can actually die from Chron’s if it’s untreated. Anyway, I started developing pretty severe arthritis at the age of 10 and the medications at the time didn’t work and had horrible side effects- the main one at the time was a drug called methotrexate which is literally a chemotherapy drug at higher doses and it has chemo-like side effects. Eventually I got prescribed Humira and it was so much better. The worst side effect was pain during injection and it basically cured my symptoms completely. I’ve been on it ever since (well now I’m on the generic version that came out a few years ago) and I would legitimately not be able to walk or live a normal life without it.
The side effects listed on the commercial are far more severe than what is normal for most medications, because they have to report anything that showed up in the clinical trials even if it is very rare or could have been caused by another factor. A lot of these overlap with symptoms of diseases that are treated with the drug or are symptoms that are often comorbid with the diseases treated by the drug. The ones associated with infectious diseases are very real in the case of Humira, but that is because it’s designed to treat diseases caused by an overactive immune system and it’s basically impossible to intentionally reduce the autoimmune response without also reducing the regular immune response as well. The drugs that Humira replaced were even worse in this regard, and basically just supressed the entire immune system without specificity.
I know pharma ads are obnoxious and indicative of an extremely awful system that preys upon sick people, but if you’re seeing an ad for a new drug these days that drug is probably life changing for anyone who gets prescribed it and that’s why they can charge thousands of dollars for it. Humira is one of the most profitable drugs of all time because it’s basically a miracle in a vial compared to anything that came before it, and it’s ridiculously expensive, over $6000 for a month’s supply. The crazy thing is, I’d probably actually pay that if I didn’t have insurance and there weren’t alternatives available like there are today. I’d have to take less of it to afford it, but that’s how necessary it is for me.
Oh I wasn’t saying the drugs don’t have success. But the commercials make hardly any sense to me. If a new drug comes out that will help with someone’s specific conditions, your doctor should be telling you about it I feel. At most, asking your doctor, hey I have been seeing these symptoms occuring latelyis there something that may help better than what I’m currently using.
Edit: also glad to hear that is helping you by the by
The reason is because they make so much money off every single patient that even if only a few extra people use their drug it pays for the ad. Most people do just get prescribed what they need
Do you or a loved one suffer from Mesothelioma?
Or “limited release newly minted Double Eagle Silver Golden Buffalo $1 coin. Don’t miss this amazing opportunity.”
advertising medicine should be illegal like it is in other countries
It should, but that’s an advertisement for an ambulance-chasing lawyer not a medication.
oh wow lol
I’m mostly fine with OTCs being advertised. Like idk Tylenol double mega effectiveness or whatever.
But every country I’ve ever visited or lived in heavily restricts ads for more serious medical stuff, except for some reason the US.
OTC are fine, since anyone can buy them,minus the allergy-D. its almost always BIOLOGICs that are being advertised to people, you know the very expensive ones.
Ok, I am now imaginging some kind of Biblically Accurate American chimera/angel/monster.
Like uh, A buffalo that also has two eagle heads, maybe a sort of skirt/rear covering of turkey feathers, the tail is rattlesnake, and its body is not covered in eyeballs, but like, Amazon Alexas.
And uh, lets also make it like the… uh… the vision of the statue from Daniel 2.
It has faces made of bitcoin, a mane or chest of dollar bills, a hindquarters of shimmering black crude oil, a tail and legs and hooves of coyote tan thermoplastic.
… I think I might have just concepted a Kojima-esque monstrosity that would make sense in MGS4.
Tom Selleck wants my house when I die.
Necessary context for those unfamiliar.
https://youtu.be/-r3A4uE7-SE
Holy shit that’s actually Tom Selleck selling reverse mortgages! What the hell happened man!
If not earlier.
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I have an uncle in his mid 70s who has an elliptical machine in front of the TV. He gets up at 5AM puts CNN and starts exercising.
The Mesothelioma ads at that time are like 5 minutes each. Constantly. And he watches attentively to all of them.
Gastly.
that is a very long ad for a ambulance chaser to run an ad.
Humira -
Hives, trouble Breathing, swelling of the face, eyes, lips, or mouth. Lupus like chest or joint pain, liver problems such as jaundice, dark urine, or stomach pains, heart failure, sudden weight gain, swelling of ankles and feet, persistent fever, easy bruising, numbness, tingling, vision problems, weakness of the arms and legs, reactivation of Hepatitis B, high chances of cancers like lymphoma, increased risk of serious infections like TB that can spread and be fatal. Headaches, rash, swelling itching or bruising at the injection site. I got tired of listing side effects.
Yeah but like your back pain could be better.
I don’t want to defend AbbVie, the evil corporation that makes Humira, but that drug is a miracle of modern medicine. It’s not “your back pain could be better,” it’s for severe autoimmune inflammatory diseases, mostly arthritis, psoriasis, and Chron’s. You can actually die from Chron’s if it’s untreated. Anyway, I started developing pretty severe arthritis at the age of 10 and the medications at the time didn’t work and had horrible side effects- the main one at the time was a drug called methotrexate which is literally a chemotherapy drug at higher doses and it has chemo-like side effects. Eventually I got prescribed Humira and it was so much better. The worst side effect was pain during injection and it basically cured my symptoms completely. I’ve been on it ever since (well now I’m on the generic version that came out a few years ago) and I would legitimately not be able to walk or live a normal life without it.
The side effects listed on the commercial are far more severe than what is normal for most medications, because they have to report anything that showed up in the clinical trials even if it is very rare or could have been caused by another factor. A lot of these overlap with symptoms of diseases that are treated with the drug or are symptoms that are often comorbid with the diseases treated by the drug. The ones associated with infectious diseases are very real in the case of Humira, but that is because it’s designed to treat diseases caused by an overactive immune system and it’s basically impossible to intentionally reduce the autoimmune response without also reducing the regular immune response as well. The drugs that Humira replaced were even worse in this regard, and basically just supressed the entire immune system without specificity.
I know pharma ads are obnoxious and indicative of an extremely awful system that preys upon sick people, but if you’re seeing an ad for a new drug these days that drug is probably life changing for anyone who gets prescribed it and that’s why they can charge thousands of dollars for it. Humira is one of the most profitable drugs of all time because it’s basically a miracle in a vial compared to anything that came before it, and it’s ridiculously expensive, over $6000 for a month’s supply. The crazy thing is, I’d probably actually pay that if I didn’t have insurance and there weren’t alternatives available like there are today. I’d have to take less of it to afford it, but that’s how necessary it is for me.
Oh I wasn’t saying the drugs don’t have success. But the commercials make hardly any sense to me. If a new drug comes out that will help with someone’s specific conditions, your doctor should be telling you about it I feel. At most, asking your doctor, hey I have been seeing these symptoms occuring latelyis there something that may help better than what I’m currently using.
Edit: also glad to hear that is helping you by the by
The reason is because they make so much money off every single patient that even if only a few extra people use their drug it pays for the ad. Most people do just get prescribed what they need
Yeah but those are in between 4 different catheter ads.
How will this affect my perineum?