Sometimes these sideffects sound like a lineup at a punk/metal festival

between the sounds of laughter of adults catching butterflies
This pill might fucking kill you
teeheeheee
It also might cause your eyes to explode
- What if ads had to show side affects by law.
  So like theres a guy with gut wrenching abdominal cramps audibly blowing liquid ass mulch into the toilet bowel while moaning painfully.
  Scene cuts to he's smiling and cutting the grass in the front yard.
  
  I'd rather they just ban the drug commercials. Talk to a doctor about medicine, and if you are unsure about what is determined, get a second opinion. Companies trying to sell their product directly to end users and ignoring the repercussions to the middlemen just causes more problems than the 9000 issues we already have in healthcare.
  
  "sometimes, you have to smell the atrocious to really understand the positive"
  shitting in agony, crying, the bowl soaked in sweat and tears, their hand and legs quivering
  "that's why FuckYourself Maximum Dosage really starts your day off by ruining it in some of the worst suffering we have seen in clinical trials. it's not a side effect, it's a main one!"
  'oh fuck make it STOP AAAAGGGHHHHHHH'
  "after pinpointing the issue, we then turned the concoction up to 11! now when you are finally able to pick yourself up off the floor and wash yourself of feces, you can enjoy the rest of your day knowing that it can only get better from here"
  smelling a lush garden full of flowers baking in sun rays, eyes closed and smiling, as a burning 747 goes down in the distance, and the scene fades with a nuclear bomb exploding
  "FuckYourself Maximum Dosage; ask your doctor if it's right for you. Or an ex. Or a bastard boss. Don't be shy, we will prescribe it to anyone!"
  fade to black
- Side effects may include death.
  
  Or something weird like extra teeth.

Side effects may include:

Ask your doctor if Abilify is right for you. (Side note, fuck Abilify. It's the worst med I've ever taken by a huge margin)
- are those all band names?
  
  They are! Some of them even have good music (ouch, self jab). A lot of them fall squarely in the realm of non metalheads saying "this isn't music/this is just noise", a few of them are small scale bands, and a few of them are really iconic bands.
  3 inches of Blood is very much the outlier genre-wise, it's power metal about DnD stuff.

I don't know if I'd want to live in a world where people spontaneously break out into songs about their type 2 diabetes.

Strange joint pain, anal leakage, hair loss, anal leakage, minor headaches, anal leakage, throbbing veins, anal leakage, sore throat, anal leakage, eye twitching, anal leakage, shrink dink, anal leakage, tender nipples, anal leakage.
- • Bone Sporking • Late Onset Albinism • Facial Corkboarding • Restless Torso Syndrome • REO Speedlung • Permanent Blindness • Nostril Inversion • Dissolving Intestine Syndrome • Spontaneous and Uncontrollable Gum Growth • X-Ray Hearing • Ankle Bearding • Brainwhistle • Arby’s Mouth • Steven Tyler Lip • Hairy Uvula • Jimmy Cracked Corns • Scrotal Bassoon • Massive Weight Gains • Scrappy Dooism • Honus Wagner Disease • Hungry, Hungry Hipbones • Capillary Yogurt • Hair Swelling • Minor Heart Explosions • Skeletal Xylophoning
  
  You forgot Brain Constipation
- Fun fact... anal leakage's first big hit was not even pharma related. It was potato chips.
  
  Fucking Olestra
- I think you forgot the anal leakage.
  
  It's difficult to forget, I hear. Except my drugs cause hearing loss.

I always say this: ads exist in a parallel dimensions where problems are nonexistent. What minor problems there are can be solved trivially in less than 30 seconds.

I always thought the generic nature of many of these ads are slightly strange. They'd show some smiling woman walking down a beach, hair blowing in a breeze. Then they start talking about a medicine for COPD, bipolar disorder, acid reflux or whatever. I guess the viewer is supposed to assume that the woman is afflicted with one of these maladies and now is relieved from it? To me it looks like stock footage of some random lady walking down a beach who had no clue she'd be in a ad for Prozac.

I just always imagine that those ads are the vivid hallucinations of a patient in a mental hospital.

Unedited footage of a Bear
- I tried showing this to people at work. They didn't get it.

I recently overheard one that was "fatal infection of the skin of the perineum." I thought might be one of the worst ways to go out.
- God I hate the Jardiance commercials. I wish the writers a very die in a hole.
  
  Thanks, I thought I'd gotten rid of that shitty ear worm but just a mention is all it took to bring it roaring back to life
- Those always make me assume that somebody had that issue while in the trial, and it was easier to throw it on the list than figure out if it actually had any connection to the drug. Let the primary care docs read the literature if they want to make an educated guess. The patients will just joke about it but probably still ask for it.
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Is this something American I'm too British to have experienced? Also, I use adblock so I probability wouldn't see it anyway.
- The have to include any and all side effects that testing showed.
  In other news, it's straight retarded to allow pharmaceutical advertising. But here we are.
  
  Actually this is not entirely true. It's anything that happened to any patient during any phase of testing. This is why so many "side effects" include death, because if you're doing an n=1000 study or whatever, SOMEONE is going to die, statistically, and you can't provably show that the drug you're testing didn't lead, at least in part, to that death. Good intentions with the reporting regulation, but not a good execution.
  
  Yeah it’s banned in my country except for stuff like a pain relief balm

Be careful what you wish for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8&t=0

We ARE living in a pharmaceutical ad. Just the black and white bit at the beginning where everything hurts.

There are no side effects, just happy accidents

The unfortunate reality is most people would rather choose "Joy" pills rather than face the realities that are required to be faced if we want to fix everything.
- Yes. I was dealing with some pretty rough depression a while back. I raw dogged that shit for months before I finally just fixed the bullshit I had subjected myself to.

That's why I take Claridryl!
https://piped.video/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8
- Beat me to it.
- Got error: "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot"
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=2gMjJNGg9Z8
  Thanks for the thought, but Piped isn't working all that great for many folks. I've had a lot better luck using regular YouTube links with the Grayjay app..
  https://grayjay.app/
  https://grayjay.app/desktop/

Relevant (and absurd) Dethklok song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP3XmWdH_vg
Lyrics:

I'll say this. If any of those people represented in the ad exist, they can afford the medication that's being sold by the ad.
Those are the people who buy the things that people say "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" about.
You all forget, there's legions of people who are wealthy, but not the ultra rich. They bring in millions of dollars a year. Far more than you or I possibly could, but they're not notable because they're part of the 1% and the 0.1% are much much worse.
What they don't get, is that their wealth is closer to the bottom 99% than the top 0.1%. they should be on our side, but they won't get involved because they're a bunch of fence sitting assholes that just do enough to keep up their lifestyle, but not so much that anyone notices.