Scientists have made remarkable advances
in medicine during the past century, finding treatments for everything
from strep throat to Parkinson’s disease. Even vanity causes aren’t
beyond the reach of drug companies, which offer solutions to even our
most embarrassing physical shortcomings. Often though, the side effects
of medication can be just as humiliating as the problem it was created
to solve. If you take one of the following drugs, we hope you’re immune
to either these cringe-worthy side effects or to total embarrassment.
- Alli and Xenical:
Orlistat, the generic drug for weight-loss pills like Alli and Xenical, is effective in making you lose weight, but that could be because it shames you into following a low-fat diet. The medication keeps you from absorbing all the fat you eat into your system, so that fat basically just comes out the other end … sometimes when you don’t expect it. You can have gas with oily discharge, loose stools, and more frequent stools that might be hard to control. Translated, that means grease-stained or poop-filled pants. The Alli website even used to recommend wearing dark pants and bringing an extra change of clothes with you to work until you understand these “treatment effects.”
- Zoloft:
We all know that Viagra can cause erections lasting four hours or longer from the drug’s commercials, but those people are kind of asking for it. Zoloft users, however, may not expect embarrassingly long erections when they take the medicine to treat their depression. It’s more likely that the drug will cause a decreased interest in sex or erectile dysfunction, but those side effects are arguably less embarrassing than the poor guy who has to cover his crotch half the work day.
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