Skippy Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 So I go to the doctor today and get a new prescription. My wife knows how I am and takes the sheet out of the drug bag. Little does she know that I know how to use the internets and off I go to drugs.com to look up my new drug. Here is the first sentence: What is the most important information I should know about Voltaren? This medicine can increase your risk of life-threatening heart or circulation problems, including heart attack or stroke. This risk will increase the longer you use Voltaren. Then the more I read it the more effed up it gets. It mentions specifically three meds that I take as a no-no while taking this crap. How the hell does this get by the pharmacist and the doctor? I would like to just beat my head off the wall right about now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keggerz Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 I read each one that I got...and yeah some of the sh1t the meds cause seem scarier than what they are helping you get over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffraff Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Let me guess on the possible Skippy side effects... Constipation or Diarrhea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbimm Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 I didn't used to but now that I am on more than one not only do I read but I double check with Doc and pharmacy. Easy way to end up dead is taking the wrong meds together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keggerz Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 So I go to the doctor today and get a new prescription. My wife knows how I am and takes the sheet out of the drug bag. Little does she know that I know how to use the internets and off I go to drugs.com to look up my new drug. Here is the first sentence: Then the more I read it the more effed up it gets. It mentions specifically three meds that I take as a no-no while taking this crap. How the hell does this get by the pharmacist and the doctor? I would like to just beat my head off the wall right about now. I had to go to urgent care before and I was on a med that i was told not to get any immunizations or the like while on it...sure enough the doc almost game me one until I stopped him and asked...is that an immunization? um yeah....well the med I told you I was on means you can't give me that...oh yeah, right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 I certainly read them after this story Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted August 23, 2010 Author Share Posted August 23, 2010 I certainly read them after this story That seems to be a very well known side effect that everyone but me knew about. At that point I would have taken anything as the pain was way over the top. Still though, the warnings did not prepare me for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 I have a great local pharmacist. He has caught doctors on three different occasions prescribing something that would have had very bad interaction reactions. Once for me, and once for each of my two kids. He's great. He knows us all by name and says hi as soon as he sees us. As long as he is in business, I'll never go to a chain pharmacy . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 I tend to down meds with beer or wine Older I get the scarier this stuff gets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chargerz Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Our computer system has built-in safeguards to warn us when we're prescribing something that will react with another med or cause potential problems in pregnancy. Even then I tell patients to read the information sheet that comes with each prescription and to call or e-mail me if they have any questions. As a patient I research everything I'm taking. You can't be too careful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted August 24, 2010 Author Share Posted August 24, 2010 I agree with you Chargerz. My problem is that after I reserch just about any drug, I just don't want to take it. My doctor talked me into taking a few things a few years back by telling me that if I read the warning with table sugar I would never use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt770 Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 What is especially effed up is the fact that drugs are approved and then used by millions of people, then years later we hear they cause dangerous side effects or death. Vioxx and Accutane come to mind. I avoid all meds unless I have no other options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_am_the_swammi Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Whenever they show those ads for various pharmaceuticals on TV, and they read off the laundry list of potential side effects (often ranging from heart damage to kidney or liver failure)....I have to really wonder how these druges are legal, and others are not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 What is especially effed up is the fact that drugs are approved and then used by millions of people, then years later we hear they cause dangerous side effects or death. Vioxx and Accutane come to mind. I avoid all meds unless I have no other options. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeR Posted August 24, 2010 Share Posted August 24, 2010 Whenever they show those ads for various pharmaceuticals on TV, and they read off the laundry list of potential side effects (often ranging from heart damage to kidney or liver failure)....I have to really wonder how these druges are legal, and others are not. Because much of them saying that is just CYA and the odds of such things are very low. It all varies and you have to look at the specifics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 No, but only because I don't take my Rxs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 So today I have a long chat with the phamacist. She seems to really know here drugs so I pretty much trust her. She tells me that she did call the doctor on one of the mixtures and worked with the doctor to make sure it was in my best interest to take two meds together. She also said that it was at her suggestion to get me off of one and put me on a different one. She explained why and I bought it. She told me that she certianly checks my interactions with every single drug that I get filled. Then she left me with three suggestions for what she considers better medicine then what I am using right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chargerz Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Then she left me with three suggestions for what she considers better medicine then what I am using right now. That might be TMI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEC=UGA Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 I didn't know a 4 hour erection was a "bad" thing until I saw the commercial... That's kinda close to reading the labels, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
detlef Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Whenever they show those ads for various pharmaceuticals on TV, and they read off the laundry list of potential side effects (often ranging from heart damage to kidney or liver failure)....I have to really wonder how these druges are legal, and others are not. werd. I've never gotten a Rx for anything other than the occasional antibiotic or pain killer. I hope to keep it that way for as long as I can. Not trying to come off holier than thou because I understand that some just get dealt a bad hand and have to deal with some screwed up medical situations through no fault of theirs. However, my wife and I take our share of quality food-based supplements, eat real food, and exercise. That even allows me to drink more than I likely should and still get a clean bill of health every time I go to the doc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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