“But wait, there’s more”. I’m sure we all remember those commercials. Getting two ridiculous items for the price of one, just pay separate processing and handling. Since the death of Billy Mays, I have not seen nearly as many As Seen on TV commercials. I kind of miss the laugh I would get at some of the products.
Now who doesn’t need a Boody Pop every now and then? Everyone needs a little more padding in their pants. I’m sure this one was one of their best sellers. I know I would totally buy padded underwear from an infomercial.
As Seen on TV was such a huge thing, even big box and department stores has sections devoted to these products. I don’t know about everyone else, but my grandparents loved this stuff, and everyone always got these products for Christmas.
I was not the lucky one growing up that got to open this winner Christmas morning, but my grandmother thought the Flowbee would be such a money saver for my aune. She put on her happy face and thanked her. I thought it was great. It was one of the best laughs that year.
Today, it feels as if the As Seen on TV infomercials were replaced with medication ads. They are just as ridiculous to me and flood your TV and radio with their ads. Why are these big pharmaceutical companies spending all this money advertising to people who can’t purchase their product without a doctor’s prescription? Wouldn’t that money be better spent on creating drugs that helped with real, life-threatening diseases or at the very least properly educating the medical community on the risks and benefits of their products?
All these commercials are doing is naming general ailments that everyone has and labeling them as diseases. So many people sit at home, hear these ads, then run to their doctors and leave with unnecessary medication. There must be a lot of money in kickbacks to be prescribing people with drugs that create more issues than they solve. In general, people are putting so many chemicals in their bodies that their bodies are not functioning the way they were designed to. Maybe hospitals would not be overrun if doctors weren’t prescribing all of these drugs for frivolous ailments that people discover that they have from the ads flooding our lives.
Many of the medications being advertised seem to cause serious problems, more severe than the problem they are correcting. I am not struggling with male pattern baldness, but if I were, I would rather look like Mr. Clean than have large breasts, no sex drive, and now need a little blue pill. Are there really people out there that would find these side effects less of a problem than baldness? Buy a toupee! Wear a hat! Hell, spray some hair in a can! As a woman, I would definitely rather be with a man who has lost his hair than one suffering from these side effects.
These are very serious side effects that I am sure are caused by other medications as well, from medications helping to treat more serious medical conditions. I just do not understand why someone would knowingly put themselves through these side effects to correct something as trivial as baldness. And if they do not know up front, it sounds like it would not be something you would miss when these side effects develop.
I recently had surgery to repair a torn retina. My doctor warned me of extreme eye dryness after the surgery and said she would prescribe me an eye drop. The first thought that went into my mind was the commercial I saw for eye drops, and I remembered the list of possible side effects being anal seepage. My first question was what eye drop and will I shit myself. She stopped right in her tracks and did everything she could not to laugh at me. I told her about seeing this commercial and I wasn’t about that. She assured me that what she was prescribing would not cause these symptoms. I can’t remember the name or find it in a search.
Not exactly anal seepage, but I’m still thinking that I would prefer dry eye over constipation, diarrhea, gas, nausea, or vomiting.
Again, I wonder who would put themselves through this for moist eyes. I have had more than my fair share of dry eye lately and I assure you, I would happily deal with it, no matter the consequence if it prevented me from having digestive problems. Eye inflammation, redness, and headaches would be welcomed over an uncontrolled need to make an immediate bowel movement or stop having one.
At the end of the day, I have to wonder if I am the only one who thinks this is crazy to take meds that cause these problems to try to solve trivial ailments. Am I the only one who compares these ridiculous drug ads to As Seen on TV?
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