Hits me as bad medicine. And if the doctor prescribes a pill just to shut a patient up, how liable are they if the patient is injured from some dangerous side effect. If it goes to court and it comes out that not only was a dangerous drup prescribed, but the patient didn’t even have the condition that the pill treats, I can see a jury awarding multi-million dollars for injury. It’s not just lawsuit-happy patients who are driving up the cost of malpractice insurance.
Sorry. I was referring to Lissener’s post:
Dude, you e-mail me your address and I’ll ship the sonofabitch to you posthaste.
It’s pretty nifty, too. It has this magnetic roller thingie that you flick and it rolls a bunch of paperclips toward you. Now I know why prescrips cost so much. So they can make things like this.
What I love is the anti-anxiety medicine whose side effects include explosive diarrhea. Wouldn’t explosive diarrhea CAUSE anxiety?
I was in the Dr.’s office last week discussing surgery options with my husband and his orthopedist, and out of nowhere my husband has a grand mal seizure. Like I said earlier, he has substance abuse problems but has been clean for over 100 days now. However, he has a history of drug abuse related seizures. Recently, he was prescribed Meridia, a weight loss drug, not by the orthopedist, but by his psychiatrist. The psychiatrist knows all about his past, and is sensitive to what he will prescribe him. He gave it to him so that he could lose weight for the probable upcoming hip surgery. While he was being loaded in the ambulance I asked the orthopedist about Meridia, and he said he didn’t know enough about it to say if it could bring on a seizure, and he also said that it was a non-issue as far as surgery, as he is not heavy enough for it to matter. So, we’re in the hospital for hours. The week to come included rounds of DR. visits to neurologists and orthopedists. A second visit to the psychiatrist. Says Meridia is not to blame. Gives my husband another weight loss drug. This one was something that blocks fat, or something like that. End result, my husband winds up losing control of himself and shitting all over the bathroom floor the other day. THAT was pleasant. Pee-You.
So, I wonder if the psychiatrist just didn’t do his homework…I checked on the web and info on Meridia says it should not be prescribed to people with a history of seizures. Does anyone else smell lawsuit? On the defensive side, all the side effects are at least true. seizures and shitting. life is grand.
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Eve, I’m pretty sure it’s an egg. Why would a rock want to chase butterflies? That doesn’t make any sense. 
It must be a hard-boiled egg, in order to hop without risk of breakage.
I thought that the egg was for Zoloft?
Either way, avoid Paxil like the devil. That shit messed my system up more than it was when I was depressed. Miss a dose? Feel like shit! Go crazy! Threaten your co-worker!
It’s a fun experience:rolleyes: . (Roll eyes not directed at you, Giraffe, but at the makers of this demon-spawn drug.).
Ava
Yep, the egg-rock thing is for Zoloft. Clearly the Paxil marketing team has successfully trained my subconscious to associate depression with their product. Ironically, that idea depresses me.
That does sound rather neat…on the other hand, though, I don’t want the people at work to think I’m more insane about migraine medication than I actually am. I think I’m going to have to pass.
You’re probably right about the freebies raising the cost of medications, though. A friend of mine who I used to work with is now working with A Major Drug Company and tells me that, although there aren’t so many as there used to be, freebies are de rigeur. One funny thing he told me: one of the most popular freebies are simple notepads. This is apparently because doctors are either too busy or too absentminded to get their own scratch paper!
:::steps up on soapbox and clears throat:::
I can’t speak for everyone and as I don’t have schizophrenia, perhaps that shit will work for somehow. However, my very last visit to a psychiatrist had them prescribing me Geodon. Oh my freakin’ gawd! I have NEVER in my life experienced anything so frightening. It was like having a little crazy voice installed inside your brain telling you to do things, now!! It absolutely scared the hell out of me and this was only on one small dose within about 2 hours. I was paranoid, which I’ve never experienced before, and wanting to commit suicide so bad that it felt like a foregone conclusion. The kind where it’s not just attractive or a passing fancy, but so urgent that I feared for my safety the very next minute. It was the most horrible thing I’ve ever gone through. So again, I don’t recommend it for anyone. I guess unless you truly are schizophrenic and then I’m a little iffy about something that strong. I still shudder at the thought. Geodon, thy name is Satan.
Just wanted to give anyone reading this far along a heads up.
:::puts soapbox up and wanders back over to that corner:::
For me, on the other hand, geodon worked wonders – it all just goes back to the fact that with any type of psychiatric meds it is just hard to predict what medicine will help which people (and which ones will make it worse).
As a med student, I get frustrated with the “give me x drug now” people who get angry when I ask about what symptoms they are having to make them think they need the medicine. I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t explore these issues. It is also difficult to explain to patients sometimes that while drug y may be advertised the most that drug z might be a better choice for their condition.
As for freebies, pens are a godsend (especially as attendings always seem to walk off with mine). The other stuff I can pass on although I do want a paxil gumball machine filled with smiley faced gum.
On the side effects issue, I’ve always been perplexed and vaguely amused by drugs whose side effects are identical to what the drug is supposed to cure.
I recently got a prescription drug for insomnia which, you guessed it . . . * causes sleeplessness! *
Bizarre coincidence: Just when I clicked on this thread, I got a pop-up for Prozac.
Anyone seen the ad for this new anti-fungal drug? It’s got the usual list of terrifying side-effects, including a special mention of " a risk of severe liver damage in some people; consult your doctor first." And what does this terrible fungus do? It turns your freaking toenails yellow! Jesus, we’ve already got solutions for that that don’t involve major organ failure: they’re called shoes!
I am one jealous migraine sufferer. If he doesn’t give you his address, can I have the paperclip dispenser?
Onychomycosis does a lot more than turn nails yellow. Granted it’s not fatal, but it can cause significant problems, especially in diabetics or other people with poor circulation in their feet.
Just check out these fungal nails! onychomycosis
I’ve seen toenails that look this bad or worse in real life.
QtM, MD
I really hate the one that shows the little fungus germ lifting up the toenail and climbing under. And setting up camp under the nail with all his little fungal germ buddies till the Lamsil Tablet rolls over him.
It just creeps me out when he lifts up the toenail and crawls under. :eek:
It’s the stuff of nightmares!
Nope. Shoes are what help promote the fungus. If we all went barefoot we would rarely get athletes’ foot. (We might have other problems, though.) The fungus thrives in warm, moist environments, like the inside of your shoes.
Ever had one of those infections? It doesn’t just turn your toenails yellow. Much worse. I don’t even want to describe the rest of the symptoms. It starts with a maddening itch that will not quit. Unless checked, it spreads indefinitely.
To use the medicine you mention, you just have to get a blood test first to be sure your liver function is normal to begin with and then follow the directions exactly. That’s why you have to get a prescription. The side effect is possible, but rare, and reverses as soon as the med is stopped anyway.
Qadgop: HOLY FUCK!
Still, the commercial doesn’t have picture like that: they show some guy with normal sized, slightly funky toenails, and they don’t mention diabetes or poor circulation. They just mention yellow toenails. So the commercial comes across as if it were recommending a belt sander to cure minor acne. I maintain that the commercial is stupid, even if the medication isn’t.
BiblioCat: That’s the commercial I’m talking about.
QueerGeekGirl, go ahead and send that Zomig paperclip dispenser to BiblioCat. Not that I don’t appreciate the thought, mind you!