Patients who are taking the new anti-clotting medication Pradaxa have a 33 percent higher risk of experiencing vascular complications such as a heart attack or acute coronary syndrome, says a recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Yet even though there was an increased risk for experiencing a heart attack, the authors noted that the meta-analysis found that the overall rate of death was actually lower for those on Praxada, 4.83 percent versus 5.02 percent in the control groups.
And that's not the only pill with some scary side effects. Check out these popular medications, some of the side effects are bizarre, to say the least.
Ambien
Ambien (zolpidem tartrate) is commonly prescribed to treat insomnia. But upon closer inspection, it appears this little pill does much more than help the sleep-deprived catch some Zs. According to early case studies published in the journal Sleep Medicine, patients who were on Ambien began developing odd habits such as "sleep eating," some having no memory of their odd behavior upon waking.
Yet as time passed (and the side effects continued to worsen), the FDA slapped this on Ambien's Medication Guide: "After taking AMBIEN, you may get up out of bed while not being fully awake and do an activity that you do not know you are doing. The next morning, you may not remember that you did anything during the night."
And as for those activities referenced above that you "may not remember," that list was also printed on
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