> I think it’s not uncommon for a drug treating some condition with some symptom to have a potential side effect that worsens that symptom.
I think you're making the error of conflating probabilities here. It's not uncommon for drugs to have uncommon side effects, but those side effects are still uncommon. Every once in a while benadryl makes a person paradoxically excited, but most people who take benadryl get sleepy.
I think you're making the error of conflating probabilities here. It's not uncommon for drugs to have uncommon side effects, but those side effects are still uncommon. Every once in a while benadryl makes a person paradoxically excited, but most people who take benadryl get sleepy.