Monday, November 9, 2009

Complaint: Medication Conundrum

Missed last night due to migraine.

Don’t they just suck?

But I have this medicine that technically I can take for migraines, but it interacts with other medication I absolutely positively have to take.

Besides, one of the side effects is POSSIBLE BLINDLESS, SOMETIMES PERMANENT.

Um. I don’t consider BLINDNESS a side effect, and I’m sure the unfortunate person or people who ever had this horrible thing happen to them don’t either. THAT is NOT a SIDE EFFECT. That’s a TRAGEDY.

Warning labels are REALLY scary.

It’s probably best not to read them.

But sometimes doctors prescribe something for you and when you ask the pharmacist about it, you are warned that it is “not recommended in conjunction with your current medication.” Not recommended as in slight nausea, or not recommended as in heart attack? Help me out here.

Anyway, the migraine, such as it is, is fading. At a certain point you just have to dose up on ibuprofen or caffeine or Alleve and get on with your life.

When you’re a mother, you don’t get any days off.

1 comment:

  1. Speaking of side effects, don't you find it hilarious that one of the potential side effects of Viagra and/or Cialis (not sure which) is loss of vision? Didn't our (boys') mothers always warn us that too much. . .indulgence would lead to blindness? Looks like they were right!

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