The medication side effect lottery

It’s kind of unfair how one person can take a medication and get a certain side effect, then the next person take the same medication and not get that side effect. The side effect I complain of is sexual side effects and I seem to have that problem with all medications.

It’s unfair I agree. But according to this

http://www.echo-pharma.com/en/products-and-pipeline/pipeline/schizophrenia/

Approximately 74% of all Schizophrenia patients terminate therapy within the first 18 months using the current therapies. The high level of side effects is the main reason for discontinuation of the therapy.

So maybe everybody gets different side effects, but they’re all unpleasant. If it wasn’t for schizophrenia.com I’d be off meds, and probably dead.

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