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Sometimes they do. Viagra was originally a heart medication that they figured out did something else.
Botox was for eye muscle disorders, now it's used cosmetically, for migraines, and a bunch of other diseases.
Apparently 20% of drugs are prescribed off-label. It's kind of an extension of "what do you call alternative medicine that works?"
Botox is the toxin in botulism that kills.
Wait, migraines? Are you able to give me (what would technically legally be non-medical) information on that? Migraines run in my family and every family that comes into contact with my little brother. Aside from the botulism poisoning method, how does that work?
I get quarterly botox injections from my neurologist for my migraines. It's 20+ little injections in my brow, jaw, neck, and shoulders. Before insurance would allow it, we had to try all other available treatments/medications, including a monthly at-home injection you give yourself. For me, at least, it's been way better than the earlier treatments. I used to have 2-4 migraines per week at a pain around a 5 or 6 with a couple a year that would hurt more like an 8 or 9. Now I get 0-2 per week, usually no worse than a 3 on pain. It's pretty common to go a few weeks without any, then just get one a week in the last month before my next injection.
Results vary a lot, probably because there are a lot of potential causes and even how we experience our migraines can vary so significantly. Efficacy can fade with time, too. But for me, at least, it's held out for several years, and worked better than I or my doctor even expected.
Viagra also alleviates PMS. Not approved for it, even though it's prescribed for recreation to men.
TIL 😀
How? Why? This kind of study should be trivially easy to complete. The medication is already on the market, generics are super cheap, administration is super simple and non-invasive and I'd guess there are plenty of women suffering from PMS. That sounds like the kind of study that a grad student could pull off on a DIY budget.
According to Google, generics are ~€0.50 per dose and they administered a single dose per patient. Let's say placebos cost the same as the generics, then the cost for these 25 participants was less than €15.
My only wild and reaching guess, beyond simple cruelty and hatred, is marketing was afraid of associating the drug with periods because "men would get grossed out" and potentially impact that share of the market.
Probably something like that... Sucks.
And it's kinda stupid too. PMS is well known to not be conductive to female libido, and female libido is conductive to Viagra sales. So why not sell it to women too (=more sales) which might increase the occasions to sell it to men as well.
IDK if i have a partner i want them to be comfortable. Idk whether there's just a lot of incels in powerful places or men have historically just hated the women they're with. Either way that's one reason I don't identify as a man.
I mean a fair amount of my friends had endometriosis (not sure if that's a geographic oddity or something worse) and now I'm curious if that could have (whole lot of hysterectomies in the gang) helped.
I mean if it would that's just that much more infuriating...
But I'm not that knowledgeable on the difference between the impact of a cyst and the mechanism that gives cramps. My ex had endo. Miserable experience. I wish your friends the best in managing it.
Administered vaginally... "ooh I'm a bit crampy today! Time to pop a pussy pill"
Vaginal suppositories is common enough for eatrogen
Viagra will kill the shit out of you if you have a heart attack and the emergency room gives you nitroglycerin.
Well. Maybe you don't die, but it won't have the intended effect.