Boast symptoms and conditions

Do cholesterol lowering drugs do any good? Thats a good question considering the debilitating side effects everyone here is complaining about.
Advertisements in the USA claim "30% reduction" in heart attack and strokes, but does that mean that everyone that takes the drug reduces their individual risk by 30%. Not exactly. The advertisements boast what is called relative risk reduction. The absolute risk reduction is what counts and is less than 1% on most statins. So how did lipitor do on prevention of events? Here is the bottom line: If you are a middle aged male, 100 MEN will have to take lipitor for 3.3 years to prevent one MAN from a heart attack or stroke. WOW! You have to treat 100 guys for over 3 years in order for one guy to benefit.

It's apparent that each birth control pill will effect each woman differently. Each pill insert states that the side effects of taking the specific OC may cause "depressed mood". I've been on Yasmin for 6 days, I was on Brenda/Diane for 3 months (which I had horrible side effects on, even though my friend had none). This forum has completely freaked me out, along with many, many other people.

Why not, instead of continuously disecting Yasmin, suggest something we can try that will not cause these side-effects?

I'm presuming the reason this hasn't occured yet is because each pill will have a different effect on each intaker. You are a very minute proportion of the people who have been perscribed Yasmin. Please stop generalising. People only ever talk about problems they experience, why would anyone suffer the craving to find a forum to boast or skite about a pill. It doesn't happen.

I don't think you realise the effect this forum is having on women.

Have you ever considered that maybe people are impressionable?.. and that these symptoms are only noticed /after/ they have been talked of.

People are talking themselves into something nonexistant.

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Stop scaring people.