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by TMWNN 1212 days ago
ranitidine was a very, very, very widely used drug. Yet it took 40 years!
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This!

Look at the COX-2 inhibitors as well. They were on the market for almost a decade before the increased risk of heart attack popped up in the data.

Exactly.

If you on principle refuse to take any medication or vaccine due to the fact that they almost all have rare, unstudied or potential side effects then that's totally fair. The human body is a very complex thing and every single one of us is different so it's basically impossible to truly know if a drug will have no rare side effects for some sub group. Or at least do extensive deep research on every single medication you take including supplements and over the counter things.

If you only do this for the covid vaccine due to reading too much fearmongering then that just means you're irrational.

How is this relevant to the parent comment?

Every pill of ranitidine would undergo this process in storage, if I understand correctly. Yet it took 40 years for it to finally be confirmed.

>Every pill of ranitidine would undergo this process in storage, if I understand correctly. Yet it took 40 years for it to finally be confirmed.

Even worse, I have taken ranitidine that I had in storage (not in heat) for more than a year! So this news is all the more alarming.