Originally Posted by mrsD

My two biggest candidates for "invented disease"...and the 3rd is a borderline one.

are :

1)GERD... major overuse of drugs for this baby!

2) elevated cholesterol.... this is highly inflated and the data massaged to look better than it really is. Big Pharma makes major $$ on these drugs.

Back when I was first licensed in very early 70's, the fad "disease" was hypoglycemia. Big Pharma, then Schering, even made a drug for this called ProGlycem. Whatever happened to "hypoglycemia"? Everyone had this on the tip of their tongue back then.

3) then there is Fibromyalgia, which IS real, but way over diagnosed in people who may have other issues IMO. But doctors jump on it now. I went to a big pain seminar on HA and other chronic pain conditions, and the Fibro expert said, that Big Pharma is focusing on this for now, hoping to reap major profits. Since that seminar Lyrica has been approved for Fibro and Savella has hit the shelves. So we will see more commericals for Fibro agents.