I love how they pranced one, and I do mean one only, patient onto TV to tell everyone how they had no side effects. Wow, that must be a recommendation to take the drug, and the problem is, is that most don't know better, which means they will find out the hard way. Now, have a look at the actual recorded side effects of taking propranolol:
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Cardiovascular: Bradycardia; congestive heart failure; intensification of AV block; hypotension; paresthesia of hands; thrombocytopenic purpura; arterial insufficiency, usually of the Raynaud type.
Central Nervous System: Light-headedness; mental depression manifested by insomnia, lassitude, weakness, fatigue; reversible mental depression progressing to catatonia; visual disturbances; hallucinations, vivid dreams, an acute reversible syndrome characterized by disorientation for time and place, short-term memory loss, emotional lability, slightly clouded sensorium, and decreased performance on neuropsychometrics. Total daily doses above 160 mg (when administered as divided doses of greater than 80 mg each) may be associated with an increased incidence of fatigue, lethargy, and vivid dreams.
Gastrointestinal: Nausea, vomiting, epigastric distress, abdominal cramping, diarrhea, constipation, mesenteric arterial thrombosis, ischemic colitis.
Allergic: Pharyngitis and agranulocytosis, erythematous rash, fever combined with aching and sore throat, laryngospasm, and respiratory distress.
Respiratory: Bronchospasm.
Hematologic: Agranulocytosis, nonthrombocytopenic purpura, thrombocytopenic purpura.
Autoimmune: In extremely rare instances, systemic lupus erythematosus has been reported.
Miscellaneous: Alopecia, LE-like reactions, psoriasiform rashes, dry eyes, male impotence, and Peyronie's disease have been reported rarely. Oculomucocutaneous reactions involving the skin, serous membranes and conjunctivae reported for a beta blocker (practolol) have not been associated with propranolol.
Skin: Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis, exfoliative dermatitis, erythema multiforme, and urticaria.
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If you missed it, I highlighted some very important side effects within the central nervous system area, which when you look at the side effects, a person who suddenly takes this medication could actually make their symptoms much worse, considering this is being tested to block trauma, and when you look at the side effects, don't they miraculously look the same as symptoms of PTSD?
So, if you don't have PTSD and are prescribed this drug to block trauma, your still likely to get the side effects, now replicating symptoms which you didn't have at first... amazing how one drug creates symptoms so physicians can use those side effects to then diagnose disorders that actually don't exist, hence you become entrapped in a web of medication. They make you sick to treat you with more medication. Interesting cycle ha? People all around the world are buying into it too....