Today's WTF?

[quasigeostrophy]

TV Commercial: "Side effects of Lunesta may include ...<snip>... and drowsiness."

It's a sleep aid. How the hell is drowsiness considered a side effect?

Good grief.

Comments

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

:):) I think they mean *daytime* drowsiness, but I find those medical disclaimers amusing as hell anyway :):).

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I'm also confused by the ones that list infections as side effects.

[eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com]

when i was put on Wellbutrin many years ago in college (NOT a good pharmalogical fit) i was reading the pamphlet. under RARE side effects was "an unusual sense of well being."

i just started laughing.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Bwhahahahaha!!

I think that should be the warning on Effexor, too!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Contains peanuts. Ingredients: Peanuts. Warning: Processed in a plant that processes peanuts.

(This is as direct a quote as I can manage from memory.)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, the litigatory society. McDonald's coffee: Caution: Hot. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That was just about the ENTIRE written content of the packaging. The other word on the packaging, if I remember right, was "Southwest". That is IT. If aliens ever land here and see that package of peanuts, they will instantly conclude humans are too dumb to live and hit us with the celestial can of Raid.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I remember airline snack packaging like that.

Slightly on a tangent: your alien idea reminds me that you'd probably be amused by this book. It's about future archeologists discovering a common motel room from our era and misidentifying every item. :-)

[ame-chan.livejournal.com]

side effects also include green glowing hallucinatory butterflies.