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- The most common side effects associated with Olumiant include: upper respiratory tract infections, headache, acne, high cholesterol (hyperlipidemia), increas

by xchip 4y ago

- The most common side effects associated with Olumiant include: upper respiratory tract infections, headache, acne, high cholesterol (hyperlipidemia), increase of an enzyme called creatinine phosphokinase, urinary tract infection, liver enzyme elevations, inflammation of hair follicles (folliculitis), fatigue, lower respiratory tract infections, nausea, genital yeast infections (Candida infections), anemia, low number of certain types of white blood cells (neutropenia), abdominal pain, shingles (herpes zoster) and weight increase. - Olumiant comes with a boxed warning for serious infections, mortality, malignancy, major adverse cardiovascular events and thrombosis.

yieldcrv 4y ago
I wish that illicit scheduled drugs, like the ones legal at the state level, just had the mere standardized study for any side effect I hate that we are relying on anecdotes, and for recreational state level approval we have approved for every use case and that this is the best we can do while debating the polar opposite style of federal prohibition Federal FDA approvals for everything else are for a single use case or ailment at a time, and then we get all the side effects they found for an informed decision. States approvals have…. nothing. California industry just throws a random “maybe cancer” logo on it and calls it a day!
zdragnar 4y ago
This sounds like the list of side effects you'll get with almost any immune suppression drug. Odds are good that you'll never see any of those side effects, but when you take a sledge hammer to something so foundational to how your body works to try to beat it into a different shape, you can expect the possibility for unpleasant things to happen. I was on an injection for a different disease with a similar side effect profile (sans high cholesterol and a few of the others) and (fortunately) didn't have a single side effect other than some swelling at the site of the first injection. Then again, I was taking it for something possibly degenerative (psoriasis with signs of psoriatic arthritis). I stopped around COVID time out of an abundance of caution, and the joint pain hasn't come back, so I haven't started up again. On the other hand, I certainly wouldn't risk it for something like hair loss. Getting a wig and some therapy (or even skipping the wig!) is a whole lot safer than potentially permanently upending your immune system. I hate how insensitive that sounds, but doctors really shouldn't be treating vanity with drugs like this.
- BbzzbB 4y ago
  Depends on the dose too. My poor neighbor (late 20s lady, way too young for all her problems) had to take a "might-kill-you" dose of cortisol to survive, beyond the "max" her doctor initially told her (1150 of some units, max was 1000, regular dose is 100). She suffered the whole list of potential side effects, some of which are quite terrifying and gross. Thankfully she gets to live however, which wouldn't be the case was she born a couple decades earlier.
- mgarfias 4y ago
  As much as I’d like to have my hair growing again, having heart disease makes me suddenly forget my vanity.

by xchip 4y ago

yieldcrv 4y ago

I wish that illicit scheduled drugs, like the ones legal at the state level, just had the mere standardized study for any side effect I hate that we are relying on anecdotes, and for recreational state level approval we have approved for every use case and that this is the best we can do while debating the polar opposite style of federal prohibition Federal FDA approvals for everything else are for a single use case or ailment at a time, and then we get all the side effects they found for an informed decision. States approvals have…. nothing. California industry just throws a random “maybe cancer” logo on it and calls it a day!

zdragnar 4y ago

This sounds like the list of side effects you'll get with almost any immune suppression drug. Odds are good that you'll never see any of those side effects, but when you take a sledge hammer to something so foundational to how your body works to try to beat it into a different shape, you can expect the possibility for unpleasant things to happen. I was on an injection for a different disease with a similar side effect profile (sans high cholesterol and a few of the others) and (fortunately) didn't have a single side effect other than some swelling at the site of the first injection. Then again, I was taking it for something possibly degenerative (psoriasis with signs of psoriatic arthritis). I stopped around COVID time out of an abundance of caution, and the joint pain hasn't come back, so I haven't started up again. On the other hand, I certainly wouldn't risk it for something like hair loss. Getting a wig and some therapy (or even skipping the wig!) is a whole lot safer than potentially permanently upending your immune system. I hate how insensitive that sounds, but doctors really shouldn't be treating vanity with drugs like this.

BbzzbB 4y ago
Depends on the dose too. My poor neighbor (late 20s lady, way too young for all her problems) had to take a "might-kill-you" dose of cortisol to survive, beyond the "max" her doctor initially told her (1150 of some units, max was 1000, regular dose is 100). She suffered the whole list of potential side effects, some of which are quite terrifying and gross. Thankfully she gets to live however, which wouldn't be the case was she born a couple decades earlier.
mgarfias 4y ago
As much as I’d like to have my hair growing again, having heart disease makes me suddenly forget my vanity.