Medication advertisements on television

l decided to try the sleep aide that a former presidential candidate and his wife swears by and a former actress from
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRE and some other odds and ends, on a TV commercial. What could go wrong? l'll call you on one of my many sleepless nights and tell you. Why should l suffer alone?
 
dilettante said:
The ones that bug me go something like "Got HIV? This drug will cover that up. Because undetectable is uninfected!"
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Yes, being able to reduce detectable HIV is really annoying. :rolleyes: I can totally see why that would bug you. Get back to me when you've seen friends die in their 20s and 30s from AIDS.
 

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The U.S. and New Zealand are the only nations which allow this Propaganda. The drug companies spend billions/yr. on these stupid commercials, and pass the cost onto those who take the drugs. They also rank high on the list of contributors to our political campaigns which insures that Congress will never clamp down on this nonsense. This is a major reason why our health care costs are the highest in the world.
 
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Who tells their doc they want to be prescribed a medication they have seen advertised on television? They are getting more frequent and the list of side effects goes on and on and on. Everyone's medical history is different and just because you saw it advertised doesn't mean it is the right medication for you. the worst one is the dancing Jardiance commercial.

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Prescription only medications cannot be advertised to the public in Australia

Some therapeutic goods are prohibited from being advertised to the public.
Large fines and penalties can apply for unlawful advertising, see Compliance actions and outcomes.
What cannot be advertised to public:
  • Prescription-only medicines and substances, such as weight loss injections and medicinal cannabis.
  • Pharmacist-only medicines (other than those included in appendix H of the Poisons Standard).
  • Unapproved therapeutic goods, such as goods available through the TGA Special Access Scheme or other unapproved access pathways: see Prescribe an unapproved therapeutic good (health practitioners).
  • Therapeutic goods that are not included in the ARTG, or exempt from this requirement, for example goods that are being unlawfully supplied in Australia
  • Therapeutic goods regulated as biologicals, such as most human cell and tissue products (HCT).
Doctors or other health professionals need to assess someone’s health needs and tailor treatment with prescription-only, pharmacist-only, biological or unapproved therapeutic goods. Advertising these medicines could lead to inappropriate self-diagnosis and undermine the role of doctors and health professionals in making informed treatment decisions for their patients.

https://www.tga.gov.au/how-we-regul...cluded in appendix H of the Poisons Standard).
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What I wonder is who the heck comes up with those names?! Latuda. Someone is going to name their child that...I just know it. :LOL: And there are several others that have awkward pronunciations and don't seem to match the ingredients. I never could pronounce this one correctly: Nateglinide; I no longer take it.

Then there's the listing of side effects, spoken very quickly at the end of the ads. This one could cause sudden death. And that one could cause sudden kidney failure. No thanks...I think I'll pass. I've never asked my doctor about meds I've seen in ads, but he did suggest I take a couple (on separate visits). He gave me samples of Jardiance, which I stopped when I read the May cause sudden kidney failure risk factor, in bold print. Then he tried me on Tragenta, which my new endocrinologist replaced with the Rybelsus (a drug I never saw ads for) two weeks ago.

@January I think she said Rybelsus has a little Metformin in it. I was on Metformin for years with no issues, but became concerned it may be detrimental to my kidney function. My new endocrinologist does not agree with the bad press Metformin has gotten in that regard. I was on Metformin for over a decade but was switched to Farxiga 5 mg. about a year ago by my PCP, who respected my desire to get off it. Farxoga and the Rybelsus are supposed to help improve kidney and heart functions.

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oh my gosh - now they have a mens version of the Jardiance tv ad. It's a baseball theme and u have to watch the whole ad to get the picture about the "little pill with a big story to tell".

I guess the ad is working because i remember the name and their little jingle.
 
I don't watch TV anymore so I never see those drug ads but I see tons of ads online for something called Recess. It's some kind of a drink that comes in a can and it's advertised as alcohol free but it makes a person feel drunk/stoned. I see so much of this kind of stuff online now. Maye some of you do too? People must want to escape badly. I haven't felt like that since teenage. :confused:
 
OneEyedDiva said:
What I wonder is who the heck comes up with those names?! Latuda. Someone is going to name their child that...I just know it. :LOL: And there are several others that have awkward pronunciations and don't seem to match the ingredients. I never could pronounce this one correctly: Nateglinide; I no longer take it.

Then there's the listing of side effects, spoken very quickly at the end of the ads. This one could cause sudden death. And that one could cause sudden kidney failure. No thanks...I think I'll pass. I've never asked my doctor about meds I've seen in ads, but he did suggest I take a couple (on separate visits). He gave me samples of Jardiance, which I stopped when I read the May cause sudden kidney failure risk factor, in bold print. Then he tried me on Tragenta, which my new endocrinologist replaced with the Rybelsus (a drug I never saw ads for) two weeks ago.

@January I think she said Rybelsus has a little Metformin in it. I was on Metformin for years with no issues, but became concerned it may be detrimental to my kidney function. My new endocrinologist does not agree with the bad press Metformin has gotten in that regard. I was on Metformin for over a decade but was switched to Farxiga 5 mg. about a year ago by my PCP, who respected my desire to get off it. Farxoga and the Rybelsus are supposed to help improve kidney and heart functions.

@Pinky I added to the post since you clicked Like.
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Try pronouncing "metoprolol", which I take twice a day.
 
I've always thought televised ads for prescription medications were odd. I read somewhere that if the advertisement indicates what the medication is for (i.e., what condition it treats) then the company is legally obligated to rattle of the list of side effects and disclaimers, etc. I do recall a few ads back in the 90s that tried to avoid this by not saying what the purpose of the medication was for, to avoid that requirement, but that simply resulted in a completely mystifying ad.

I find them annoying and usually tune them out. And like @Ronni said, sometimes the disclaimers are ridiculous.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
What I wonder is who the heck comes up with those names?! Latuda. Someone is going to name their child that...I just know it. :LOL: And there are several others that have awkward pronunciations and don't seem to match the ingredients. I never could pronounce this one correctly: Nateglinide; I no longer take it.

Then there's the listing of side effects, spoken very quickly at the end of the ads. This one could cause sudden death. And that one could cause sudden kidney failure. No thanks...I think I'll pass. I've never asked my doctor about meds I've seen in ads, but he did suggest I take a couple (on separate visits). He gave me samples of Jardiance, which I stopped when I read the May cause sudden kidney failure risk factor, in bold print. Then he tried me on Tragenta, which my new endocrinologist replaced with the Rybelsus (a drug I never saw ads for) two weeks ago.
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@OneEyedDiva, my former brother-in-law used to work in the pharmaceutical industry (I'm drawing a blank on which Big Pharma company he worked for), and they would solicit names from employees and pay a bonus if the proposed name got accepted. He once asked me to suggest a name for a particular drug, but I couldn't come up with anything.

And yes, some of the potential side effects are scary! I recall seeing one for psoriasis, I think it was, and one of the potential side effects was lymphoma! Now, I've never struggled with psoriasis, and I've heard it can be extremely uncomfortable, but lymphoma? I think I'd take my chances.

I also wonder about the number of antidepressant meds that list "may cause thoughts of suicide" as a potential side effect.

On the other hand, my sister works for Big Pharma, too, and she used to work on black box warnings. If only a handful of people experienced a particular side effect they were legally obligated to list it. That brings up the whole "correlation does not imply causation" topic.
 
KSav said:
@OneEyedDiva, my former brother-in-law used to work in the pharmaceutical industry (I'm drawing a blank on which Big Pharma company he worked for), and they would solicit names from employees and pay a bonus if the proposed name got accepted. He once asked me to suggest a name for a particular drug, but I couldn't come up with anything.

And yes, some of the potential side effects are scary! I recall seeing one for psoriasis, I think it was, and one of the potential side effects was lymphoma! Now, I've never struggled with psoriasis, and I've heard it can be extremely uncomfortable, but lymphoma? I think I'd take my chances.

I also wonder about the number of antidepressant meds that list "may cause thoughts of suicide" as a potential side effect.

On the other hand, my sister works for Big Pharma, too, and she used to work on black box warnings. If only a handful of people experienced a particular side effect they were legally obligated to list it. That brings up the whole "correlation does not imply causation" topic.
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Interesting that you have two family members working in Big Pharma. My son used to work for a company a couple of decades ago. Now his oldest son is working for a different one. He says they aren't even allowed to go out of the building for lunch. I guess it's comforting to know that they are legally obligated to list side effects even if a small percentage of people have them. It's also a CYA situation (legally), I suppose.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
@January I think she said Rybelsus has a little Metformin in it. I was on Metformin for years with no issues, but became concerned it may be detrimental to my kidney function. My new endocrinologist does not agree with the bad press Metformin has gotten in that regard. I was on Metformin for over a decade but was switched to Farxiga 5 mg. about a year ago by my PCP, who respected my desire to get off it. Farxoga and the Rybelsus are supposed to help improve kidney and heart functions.
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I'm not familiar with the brand name Rybelus - it probably goes by a different name in Australia or is not one of the versions on our PBS

However there are many medications - for example Trajentamet - which are a metformin and something combination

so you can get Trajenta on its own and Metformin on its own but also a combination one.
 

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