The latest Celebrex ad is hilarious

It's amazing how the drug ads get longer and longer, but not due to informing you of the good side, it's informing you of the laundry list of side effects. Next time any drug commercial comes on and see how long the side effects speech goes on. It's usually around 50% of the commercial.

They are getting better and better at advertising these drugs. Just look at the ED commercials and see the subtle hints like things shaped like genitles, hard objects, etc. It's rather funny to me, but it's also so mind boggling how they throw those subtleties in there and how most don't catch it.

I still have to marvel at the drug that suppresses restless leg syndrome. They even make it "official" sounding by calling it RLS as if everyone should already be aware of the danges of RLS. So, you take a pill to suppress RLS, but the side effects could be increased GAMBLING, SEXUAL and other INTENSE URGES. GAMBLING???????????? INTENSE URGES???????? To suppress a jittery leg? That's a rather vague phrasing if you ask me. A whole plethora of definitions could fit in that category.

There are much better healthier alternatives that actually cure the problem. What's even more funny (yet VERY sad) is that holistic, natural based cures that have been around for thousands of years are the ones labeled incorrectly as alternatives when the newer less effective suppressants are labeled conventional. A bit backwards if you ask me.


Good Post!! I am a herbal remedy guy.. Other countrys actually prescribe herbal remedys.. In Germany St. Johns Wort (a weed which grows wild) is prescribed instead of antidepressant drugs..and many pharmacuedical drugs are synthetic forms of herbs.... Efedrine the drug banned recently is the synthetic form of Efedra... a plant used for years to treat asthma and other breathing ailments....