Weight Loss Drugs

Belviq Side Effects: Headache, Serotonin Syndrome, Low Blood Sugar

Belviq Side Effects: Headache, Low Blood Sugar, Fatigue, and More. What are the side effects of Belviq (lorcaserin hydrochloride), a drug manufactured by Arena Pharmaceuticals of Switzerland for obese and overweight adults?

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration which recently approved the drug, the most common Belviq side effects are as follows: headache, dizziness, fatigue, nausea, dry mouth, and constipation, and in diabetic patients are low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), headache, back pain, cough, and fatigue.

A less common but a serious side effect of the drug is serotonin syndrome and, according to the FDA, it may also cause “disturbances in attention or memory”.

The probability that a patient will exhibit serotonin syndrome increases if he/she also takes medicines, such as those used to treat depression or migraine, that increase serotonin levels or activates his/her serotonin receptors.

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Recreational Drugs

K2 Side Effects: Harmful Effects of Fake Weed or Synthetic Marijuana

K2 Side Effects. Synthetic marijuana – which goes by various commercial names such as Spice, K2, Blaze, Yucatan Fire, Skunk, Moon Rocks, and others – can turn you into a dog-biting/eating zombie. Okay, that should be quote “zombie” unquote because there’s really no such thing as zombies but synthetic marijuana does make you do crazy weird things.

Take this guy from Texas named Michael Daniel who, after smoking synthetic pot, went around on all fours barking like a dog. He then went on to bite and eat a family dog. Let’s have the New York Daily News tell us the story:

A Texas man snapped and went “zombie,” while tripping on a designer drug. He ate his family dog while the pooch was still alive, police said.

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Fertility | Pregnancy Drugs

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Side Effects and Health Risks

Do fertility treatments and IVF cause breast cancer? What are the possible health risks for a woman receiving in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment? A new study suggests that women who started taking fertility drugs when they were 24 years old and went through IVF appear to have a higher risk of developing breast cancer after their IVF treatment. In contrast, women who started their fertility treatment at a later age (40 years old and above) do not seem to face such an increased risk.

Now, before you dump your fertility treatments and IVF, it is important to note that the researchers themselves are not sure whether the higher risk could be attributed to IVF and fertility treatments or whether it could be attributed to something else — such as, for instance, the basic the specific cause of a woman’s infertility.

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Surgery Complications

Gastric Bypass Surgery + Too Much Food Intake = Choked to Death?

Here’s a lesson for people who’ve undergone gastric bypass surgery: eating too much food that can’t fit into your scaled down stomach can have deadly consequences.

Take the case of a 64-year-old British woman named Dianne Cooper-Clarke who died after food which, under normal circumstances, should have descended to her stomach, got clogged in her throat. The Daily Mail reports:

Dianne Bernadette Cooper-Clarke, 64, died after food clogged her throat and stopped her from breathing.

She had undergone gastric bypass surgery but kept it secret from her family and started eating too much after the operation.

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Drug Side Effects

MenHibrix Side Effects: Vaccine for Hib and Meningococcal Disease

MenHibrix Side Effects: Vaccine for Hib and Meningococcal Disease. What are the side effects of Menhibrix, the new drug from GlaxoSmithKline which was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a vaccine for kids aged six weeks to 18 months old to protect them against meningococcal disease and Hib disease?

In the FDA’s Prescribing Information for the drug, the following MenHibrix side effects are listed in the Adverse Reactions section:

Rates of local injection site pain, redness, and swelling ranged from 15% to 46% depending on reaction and specific dose in schedule. Commonly reported systemic events included irritability (62% to 71%), drowsiness (49% to 63%), loss of appetite (30% to 34%), and fever (11% to 26%) (specific rate depended on the event and dose in the schedule).

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