Why do some side effects show up on most medication (headache, nausea, diarrhea, etc.)
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The cause for all of these is pretty wide. They’re all systems with many points of failure and relatively nonspecific symptoms.
Stomach issues like nausea or diarrhea can be related to the medication irritating or disrupting something within the entire GI tract. Of the many processes that happen there, it only has to upset a small number of them in some way for it to have an effect.
Same with headache. Think of all of the different things that cause headaches of various kinds like sound, light, dehydration, alcohol… etc. It’s a relatively non-specific description of “this might make your head feel not great”
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