Sunday, March 07, 2010

Pensioner refused sofa refund due to 'stains from cholesterol medication' - mirror.co.uk

Anyone heard of this side effect?

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2 comments:

David said...

LOL!

On a serious note, I did write a list of every single weird side effect from Lipitor I could find digging in medical databases for several hours and that was not on them.

Benedict 16th said...

I have had a decent look and found nothing concrete. However at a theoretical level -Terazosin - an anti-hypertensive alpha blocker (also used to treat BPH). It seems the alpha blockers as a class and the lipophilic Terazosin blocks eccrine secetions (indeed there are trials at the moment using it to treat antidepressant diaphoresis). So if the guy's apocrine excretions were dark coloured?

However this is entirely theoretical. Maybe this is a paper worth publishing?