Sitting and watching A&E.
Ad comes on for Lunesta, a “sleep aid”.
Among the possible side effects they mention: drowsiness.
. . .
. . . uh . . . no shit.
I think it means the day after.
but yeah, I always thought that was amusing too.
Another one my sister and I (in a particularly giddy mood for some reason) laughed at for so long and so hard we had to pause the TV because we couldn’t stop laughing long enough to pay attention was a menopause drug that said “no risk of (something) or hysterectomy”
me: what? no risk of hysterectomy?
my little sister: what’s a hysterectomy?
me: it’s when a woman has her uterus removed. It’s an operation.
my sister: (scrunches her eyes up and laughs for half an hour straight)
… now i’m sure “hysterectomy” has some meaning other than the surgery, but I saw that commercial and imagined some woman waking up and having her uterus jump out and run away, turning to her friend and saying, “sorry. it’s a side effect of the drug I’m taking.” or better, some woman waking up on the operating table- “what are you doing?!” “oh, it’s a hysterectomy.” “I didn’t agree to a hysterectomy.” “it’s a side effect of your menopause pill. sorry.”
My favorite is some drug (I can’t remember which one) that warns possible side effects may be “dizziness, drowsiness and diarrhea.”
Those are not three side effects you want to have simultaneously.
Not a drug, but I recently ran across some * peanut butter* cookie dough at the supermarket that said “Warning, may contain nuts.”
How can you be so sure…?
I have to complain about Major League Baseball being brought to us in part by Viagra, never mind the steroids, openly saying that some baseball players are using performance enhancing drugs does not help.
Yes, it is to enhance the other sport ;), but since Viagra gives the user greater blood flow to the muscles and may help the repair and hypertrophy the muscle cells after heavy training, I do think it is already (illegally?) being used in low dosages in sports.
http://www.mesomorphosis.com/articles/arnold/miscellaneous-ergogens.htm
I do think it is idiotic to peddle drugs during sport events, but peddling enhancing drugs is crazy.
I can’t remember the exact drug (I think it was the one with the sad little teardrop), but one anti-depressent ad I saw had “sexual side-effects” (I’m assuming negative ones) as one of the items in the “may cause…” disclaimer.
I’d think sexual side effects are going to depress me no matter what medication I’m on. 
That’s what I said to my roommate 
I think the other side-effects were things like insomnia and loss of appetite. I’m having a really hard time imaging how that medicine could snap me out of depression if I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat, and couldn’t get it on.
The best drug disclaimer was for some weight loss aid that said it may cause “anal leakage” and there was something about oily liquid stools, too. I bet people were just lining up around the block for that one.
I was listening to another drug ad earlier today that said “Should not be taken by pregnant or nursing women or women who plan to or may get pregnant”. I expected it to go on to include anyone who was ever inside a pregnant woman.
It’s even worse than that. The sexual side effects they are talking about are that you can get it on just fine, you just either can’t, or have a really difficult time reaching orgasm.
“In women with a uterus, this drug may increase the risk of uterine cancer.”
Is that first clause really necessary? Is there anyone dumb enough to think that something could pose an increased risk of uterine cancer without even having a uterus?
“This is your brain on crack.”
Really? Let me show you my brain on legally-obtained Vicodin.
What floored me was when I heard this warning for a drug designed to cure an enlarged prostate.
Right on the back of the box of Children’s Benadryl, there are the following two warnings: 1. Do not consume alcoholic drinks while using this medication. 2.Use caution when operating motor vehicles or heavy machinery.
And I took it to heart! I gave two of the chewables to my 6-year-old, who then asked for a beer and the keys to the car, and I said “No way! I know you can’t read yet, but right here on the box, there’s a warning against that”.
I’ve always found amusing the OTC sleeping pills that ‘May cause insomnia’. So, either this product will help your problem or just make it a lot worse. Loving those odds!
I remember an “herbal” appetite supressant advertised on tv years ago. Said it had been used in China for hundreds of years, or something.
Really?
They have an obesity problem in China?
What sucks is that I am one of those people who get insomnia from sleeping pills. I’ve tried two different varieties, and it was like I’d gulped down a 2-liter bottle of Jolt before climbing into bed. Arrgh.
I love the antacid pills that have the disclaimer “May cause stomach upset.” Yeah, that’s what I’m usually looking for in a stomach med.
Or the diet pills that claim that they cause weight loss, in conjunction with exercise and a sensible diet.
No! They don’t because they all take that whatever supplement!
This is the point in this thread where I started laughing so hard I feared having some sort of leakage myself. I give myself credit for getting all the way to the last post with dry pants, even though I lost a comparable amount of body fluid in tears of laughter.
Slightly off the OP, but this was the last prescription-related thing I read that made me laugh this fucking hard.
No wonder I spend every lunch hour on this board.