Hi Kitty,

I have to agree with your thumbs down.

I see pharmaceutical ads to treat many of my own conditions and feel just as you do and I also see all the class action suit ads for some of the drugs which have been prescribed.

I am not sure what the FDA is doing. Are they REALLY protecting us? Life saving drugs seem to take forever to reach the market and many other drugs hit the market without full and accurate studies.

It is sad that we, as patients, get put into situations where we just don't know who or what to trust.

Are the docs being duped, too? They get the sales pitch and then prescribe the drugs. Do docs always weigh the risks vs the benefits for each individual patient? I think some do but just not sure if they all do.

I realize some of the "risks" are stated for liability purposes and may be rare but for me, once I hear that it can be fatal, that is enough for me to stay far away from a drug unless it is absolutely needed to keep me alive. Only then is it worth the risk because without it I would die. But then, I am a chicken. I am risk aversive. A doc has to give me a really good reason to take a med. I am taking a lot of drugs for various conditions but I have also declined many a drug, too.

I totally understand why someone would feel outrage at ads for meds that are misleading to say the least. Been there, too.

Thanks for allowing me to post when it was not my place to do so. Even though I said that I do not have MS, there is always the chance that I do and just don't know it. As said in this tread, some MS patients are asymptomatic and don't even know they have MS. So, let me say that I hope I do not have MS.

I am sorry for each of you that is afflicted with this disease and wish each of you the very best that can be yours in the road you travel.

Thanks,