Strange Side Effects of Prescription Medications

I'm sure you have a commercial or two (or several) for a prescription medication. Each commercial always look so perfect and wonderful-apparently we, the consumers, are supposed to understand that the message of the commercial is that the prescription medication being advertised will definitely and completely solve whatever problem for which it is intended to be taken. Never mind any pesky side effects-those are mentioned as a brief afterthought, almost as if to say that those are unimportant and quite uncommon.

I don't know about you, but for me those side effects aren't so unimportant. I don't treat possible side effects from medication casually. This interest of mine in prescription medications came about because of my need to take several prescriptions and because of the assistance I am giving to my senior citizen parents in managing their medications. So, I tend to look at each new prescription medication that comes out on the market with a critical eye-and I have found some surprisingly unpleasant side effects from some of the more popularly advertised medications.

Vytorin is a medicine that is commonly prescribed to help patients lower cholesterol. Literature about this medication says that it works to lower the LDL cholesterol and raises levels of the HDL cholesterol-supposedly, it lowers the total cholesterol better than Crestor and Lipitor (two other common prescription medications). If it works as it should, it sounds pretty good, doesn't it? But what doesn't sound so good are the commonly reported side effects-headache and muscle pain.