I think if you asked most women if they would rather be painfully addicted to alcohol and drink daily or lose their hair, most would honestly tell you they'd rather be addicted, seriously.
When assessing the obesity side effect of certain meds and its signifigance, women were asked if they had the choice between a happy marrage and losing 10 pounds which would you choose? The overwhelming majority said they would rather lose 10 pounds!
These things are not simple vanity, but are linked with a women's self worth and survivial mechanisims.
So while I would love to do "the program". I am too scared poopless to try topa, because of the stupid thing--I can not be dopey at my job and the hair thing. It would be really nice to know the actual percentage of people taking the drug who experience specific side effects. This info is not easy to come by. The pharm companies are not always upfront about occurences of side effects, esp in real world applications. The experience of drugs and their side effcts can vary signifigantly when prescribed to large volumes of people as opposed to smaller controlled studies. For example, the amount of people complaining of hair loss on topa at askapatient.com is far greater than the "infrequent or rare" listed on the official site.
Anyway, some day i may be brave enough to try.
I would love to specifically know what the experince of taking topa has been like for other women here? Thanks for listening.
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