I find them amusing..I love how the list of side effects seem worse than what they are treating folks for :)

They drive me nuts. Half the time, they leave you wondering what the hell the drug is for!

  It seems to me that there's something very backward about the current practice of advertising these drugs to the prospective patients.  The ads are targeted at the general population, with the general message urging us to “ask your doctor if such-and-such is right for you.”  Often, they don't even tell us what condition the drug is supposed to treat.  They just give us a vague picture of how our life can be better if we're on this drug, and urge us to talk to our doctor about it.

  In my view, the correct process for determining whether a particular prescription drug is right for a particular patient does not begin with a patient learning of the drug, and going to his doctor to ask for a prescription for that drug.  It begins with the doctor examining the patient, determining that the patient has a medical condition that needs to be treated, and prescribing a drug that is appropriate for that condition.

I think "Hmmm..... do I have restless leg syndrome"? maybe I do, maybe I need that crap that will probably shut down my kidney functions or give me a heart attack cuz that's gotta be better than restless legs.

Pretty lame..."ask your doctor if such-and-such is right for you..." If it's right for me my doc will prescribe it...my asking won't do anything but annoy him/her.

I think they are stupid,for the side effects of the drug is much worse than the so called benefits.

I think that Doctors should be recommending medicine in a hospital/office setting. Pharmaceutical ads just cause people to become paranoid about having a certain disease.

I would rather have legs that flop around by themselves than risk the side effects of

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These ads are just another example of how people are like sheep, my leg hurts I must have restless leg syndrome, my head hurts one day, must be a migraine. It feeds into peoples fears of illhealth. Ride it out and be drug free is all I can say!Drugs are expensive and harmful to your body unless you absolutly positively need them I see no need for most medicines.People are guinea pigs to the pharmaceutical companies they are getting rich off of peoples fears.I feel they should be banned from televsion and magazines.Let the pharmaceutical representatives bother the doctors and not the general public.

I am glad they are putting the side effects out there more and more.. but the commercials are sad to me because over half the people who need them.. cannot afford them. So they remind me how screwed up our health system is here in the U.S. and all of my patients who worked hard all of their lives.. just to suffer with pain in their "golden" years.
Bums me out.
I see more ads for vanity issues than severe issues and that is pretty lame as well.