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Well, because there have been drugs that were approved by the FDA, but after widespread use, had to be pulled from the market. There is an incestuous relationship between PHARM and FDA.

So, what I figure is that after a drug has been on the market long enough to be generic, there will be plenty of information regarding any side effects, and the “mistakes” will have already been pulled from the market.

So if I needed to take a name brand for the reason you were talking about, I would take it, but only after it has been on the market for a long period of time.

We have so many chronic diseases for which medicine does not cure, it just treats a symptom, rather than a cause. So I tend to try and find a cause, and address the cause, rather than getting stuck on the pill treadmill.

In my own case, I had hyperparathyroidism, this dumps calcium from your bones into the blood. Eventually, every organ in your body is impacted. Twenty years and 12 different doctors.

After thousands of dollars of tests, the first doctor could find no reason for my symptoms, but since I had silent gallstones, perhaps I should have an operation to take out the gallbladder. No thanks.

As time went on, Ins. changed, and schedules changed, and I had to switch docs. Each time I would discuss the various symptoms, hoping for a cause.

Eventually, I got on line, and figured it out myself. Then my GP, argued and disagreed, so I went to a cardiologist, and within 2 visits, had a referral to an Endochrinologist, because he thought the same thing.

The surgeon told me that my osteoporosis should reverse, if I took calcium supplements, Vit D3, and K2. However, he said that there had been too many years of calcium deposits, so there would be little improvement in Blood Pressure.

He also told me that I was in the end stages and would not have lasted much longer. That was exactly why I went to the Cardiologist, because I felt that I was going to wind up in an ER, and be forced to take just any ole available Cardiologist. Within a few weeks of the operation, I felt better than I had for 15 years.

The first dr. that gave me bp meds, did nothing to figure out a cause, and I didn’t question it, because both my parents had the same problem, and I thought it was just a part of getting older. It was a few years later when I began to get other symptoms, that I went to another doctor at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, spent a lot of money, and got no real answers.

However, the med students all had a grand ole time seeing their first ultrasound of gallstones, until I finally told them I’d had enough poking and prodding.LOL