Monday, January 31, 2011

I have terrible allergies and my doctor gave me a prescription of cyproheptadine. Is this a good medication?


If ever a medicine sucked for allergies, then it has to be cyproheptadine. If you doctor gave you a script of this medication, it means you are getting second-rate medical care from a buffoon. Cyproheptadine is one of the oldest drugs in medicine and is almost never prescribed today. 

The drug is classified as an anti-histamine and it is unlikely that any doctor trained in the modern era of medicine would ever prescribe it, unless he owns the pharmaceutical company. The drug has many side effects and it is most likely that that the pharmacy is trying to get rid of its supplies from the 1950s. 

If you have allergies, you first need to change your doctor and then seek an allergy specialist.  Ask for a second generation anti histamine

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