Is it really worth the risks?

If the side effects sound bad to me from a medication I simply look for another one. For example, I have restless leg syndrome. I take mirapex instead of requip. No side effects in my experience. Most health problems have such a variety of meds that can be tried. And of course, a med may lists loads of different possible side effects, but you may experience none. I think it's always worth giving something a try.

I saw a commercial for an asthma medication. One of the side-effects is shortness of breath. Sometimes the side-effects are worse than the symptom the meds are treating. I think they need to clean the slate, start over, and instead of making 8 billion different medications, just expand the good ones. I know, I know. I'm dreaming. I don't like taking any kind of medication. I don't know what I do today will do to me tomorrow, or in 20 years. They have medicines with side-effects like kidney failure, stomach pain, liver damage. I can't believe the FDA will okay those, but not allow a person with RLS to smoke pot!! Sorry, wrong discussion. But, my point is the same. Requip causes hallucinations and who knows what else, while pot would probably quiet a persons legs without terrible side-effects. They might want to take a bag of chips or something while they go sit and relax.