I think most of the people on Mayo Connect are sophisticated enough to know which anecdotal evidence to likely discount and which reported side effects, that they come upon repeatedly, to take seriously. The FDA protocol for requiring that a manufacturer list a new side effect, AFTER a drug has been 'approved', is stunningly slow as molasses. And, again I know this industry, subject to months, if not years, of negotiation. Frequently among people who, in the course of a career, careen back and forth between jobs at the target companies and the Federal government agency regulating them. No one has to check FAERS, but not everyone knows about it, or it's name or the URL so I will continue to mention it. People can assess their own desire to dig deep about proposed meds. The worst thing, in my mind, would be to suffer some really negative side effect from a drug and not have been informed ahead of time that it was a known risk.