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Yikes !  :o

Take care... and stick with the healthy vitamins and minerals...

V/R, Batch

Wow! Thanks Batch. The statistics are both amazing and frightening.

BobG,

Here are a few more stats collected by our own government...

From Q1 2004 to Q3 2013, (10 years), the FDA received adverse reaction reports on the following prescription medications and over the counter supplements, many of them used to treat Cluster Headache and Related Symptoms:

Deaths due to VERAPAMIL                 - 229
Deaths due to DEPAKOTE                  - 168
Deaths due to TOPAMAX                   -  66
Deaths due to LITHIUM CARBONATE         -  56
Deaths due to LYRICA                    - 703
Deaths due to GABAPENTIN (Neurontin)    - 202
Deaths due to VALPROIC ACID             - 194
Deaths due to BACLOFEN                  - 102
Deaths due to PREDNISONE                - 513
Deaths due to PREDNISOLONE              - 163
Deaths due to COUMADIN                  - 458
Deaths due to IMITREX                   -  32
Deaths due to INDOMETHACIN              -  18
Deaths due to OCTREOTIDE                -1317
Deaths due to CALAN                     - 208
Deaths due to CLOMIPHENE CITRATE - 8 Intra-uterine Deaths
Deaths due to PROPRANOLOL HCL          -  67
Deaths due to ATENOLO                  -  62
Deaths due to AMITRIPTYLINE            - 184
Deaths due to PAXIL                    - 357
Deaths due to LIPITOR                  - 865
Deaths due to CRESTOR                  - 238
Deaths due to NEXIUM                   - 357
Deaths due to AMBIEN                   - 243
Deaths due to PRILOSEC                 -  0
Deaths due to DIHYDROERGOTAMINE        -  0
Deaths due to OXYGEN                   -  0

Over The Counter NSAIDs                  
Deaths due to NAPROXEN (Aleve)         - 142
Deaths due to ASPIRIN                  - 645
Deaths due to TYLENOL                  - 964
Deaths due to EXCEDRIN                 - 500
Deaths due to IBUPROFEN                - 661

Over The Counter Supplements/Nutrients
Deaths due to MELATONIN                -  0
Deaths due to MAGNESIUM OXIDE          -  0
Deaths due to CALCIUM CITRATE      - Not Listed
Deaths due to BORON                - Not Listed
Deaths due to VITAMIN A (Retinol)      -  6
Deaths due to VITAMIN B (Complex)      -  2
Deaths due to VITAMIN B 12             -  0
Deaths due to VITAMIN C                -  0
Deaths due to Vitamin E                -  2
Deaths due to VITAMIN D3               -  0
VITAMIN D3 TOXICITY                    -  2
Deaths due to VITAMIN K                -  2
Deaths due to VITAMIN K2           - Not Listed
Deaths due to ZINC OXIDE           - Not Listed

If you're still nervous after reading this far, read through the following link at VitaminDWiki and check the column on the left for a very long list of medical problems related to a vitamin D3 deficiency:

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The deaths are unfortunate, I agree, but I'd be interested to see a similar list showing the number of lives these same medications have saved.

As a forty year CHead I can put my hand up for a few of them.

Brian,

Good question...  Unfortunately I don't think there's a good answer to how many lives have been saved by the drugs with the highest number of reported deaths...

My hand is up as well having tried many of the mainstream standards of care CH preventatives...  None of them proved effective and all of them left me with onerous side effects that made me stop taking them.

I'm reminded of the following quote that appears to have some bearing on this topic...

"In the history of modern medicine, medical scientists have yet to discover a medical condition caused by the lack of a pharmaceutical agent that wasn't already found naturally in the human body..."

There is one class of man-made preparations, and I think you'll agree, that does more to raise one's sense of well being and satisfaction with life...  and that would be Beer and Ale...

Take care my friend.

V/R, Batch

I'll drink to that.