Medications, in combination with “multimodal treatment,” help to reduce the symptoms of diseases and enhance body functioning. People must evaluate the pros and cons in making decisions about medications.

Most people do not care when they caught common diseases e.g. headache, cold or back pain they prefer to take counter medicines than prescription of a doctor. These people must make this decision based on their comfort.

Most people may consult there physician for infection of serious trouble of back but they do not take interest to medication for anxiety disorder. According to research untreated anxiety disorders can get worse.

Reasons of people behavior

Following are the common reasons of people behavior, why they do not make decision about medication.

Side Effects

Before starting medication people want to know about the side effects so they can choose such medications that cause the least side effects. People collect this information from their friends or neighbor but it is not the right way to evaluate the medication effects. There are some important points to remember about medication side effects

• Generally side effects are not permanent. Patient may suffer side effects for short time 10 to 15 min or for a couple of weeks (these side effects can return again if dosage is increased).
• If doctor start medication with a low dosage and increase gradually, it can help to reduce side effects.
• It is not important that one medicine effect on all patients equally. Side effects may vary from person to person and medication to medication.
• But sometime side effects either do not get away or are too brutal to handle. In such cases, patients and their doctor should try a different medication and at the end they can find a medication without side effects.

Addiction

People have wrong information or confusion about the difference between addiction and medical dependence. Medical dependence means that a person needs to continue a medication in order to prevent the return of body disorders symptoms. Sometime this confusion is created by the doctor.

• Addiction often is marked by tolerance and psychological dependence. It is not necessary that people use medication for there diseases and they become addicted.
• If the patient use it for a few months or more it leads to physical dependence which means that the body adjusts to the medication and will experience withdrawal symptoms if the medication is discontinued abruptly.
• This problem can be overcome by slowly tapering off the medication.
  It’s important that patient should discuss this problem with their physician.

Fear of consuming

Some people fear or phobia of taking medication. This fear can be psychological or some time patient feels difficult to swallow a pill. Such patients should discuss with their doctor because their fear probably has to do with a lack of knowledge about the medication.

Confusion about medication

When market will be full of different medication of different companies and offer the people same benefits, it will definitely confuse the customer and they should try to purchase such medication that would be more effective and useful for them.

People experiences

It is not necessary that two persons experience the same effects with any particular medication. They may have different opinion about same medication so when people share there bad experiences it effect other and people feel difficulties to make decision.

Price of medicines

It is a very important point in making decision for medication. Some people may not be able to afford these medicines. But there is also another type of people who are price conscious and use expensive medication for their mental satisfaction.

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