I LOVE that supernatural establishes that dean sees Bobby as a father by having him say it multiple times, but it establishes that Sam sees Bobby as a father figure by having him try to kill Bobby for a spell that requires patricide. Thank you supernatural very cool.
whilst i am always and forever just begging doctors to properly check interactions before they prescibe things (@ pharmacists: fuck everyone else i respect you i love you xoxo)
i am in fact also begging everyone to read the leaflets you get with your medication. if you have difficulty reading or understanding those leaflets that’s fine just like… ask the pharmacist. never met one who wasn’t happy to explain drugs.
but like…
“SSRIs make you less tolerant of heat” should not be a shock - it’s in the leaflet. they make you sweat, give you hot flashes, and make your skin more sensitive to the sun. that’s all in there.
“mixing alcohol and benzos is a Bad Time” is not a shock. it’s in the leaflet to avoid alcohol.
“my ADHD meds made me not want to eat” is not a shock. it’s in the leaflet that they cause appetite suppression and weight loss.
you do not have to “find out the hard way” you really don’t.
and bc doctors are fuckin useless at bothering to actually read and/or understand and/or explain interactions like… ever, apparently? there are plenty of places you can check for yourself or, again, just ask the pharmacist if there’s anything to watch out for.
i mean asking a pharmacist about interactions is basially asking them to infodump about their hyperfixation. you’re asking someone who thinks drugs are really cool to talk about drugs they are not going to be upset about this.
oh hey my grandma was a nurse too!
the amount of people who don’t read them and then later are like “WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME ABOUT THIS”
*pinches nose bridge* they did. it was in the leaflet.
And if you lose the leaflet, or can’t read the print, or whatever, DRUGS.COM
It’s got, like, every medication ever, with pictures and everything, and all the side effects, AND a really handy interactions checker.
love drugs.com for that. only site that has the full full list of side effects (go to the ‘for professionals’ section) and their interaction checker is great as well bc it does also include supplements and recreational drugs in the database.
i personally prefer the go.drugbank.com checker but only because i’m a supermassive nerd and gives you all the technical mechanisms behind the interaction. plus you can go full nerd and look at the complete pharmacology of anything. which is probably only parsable by, like, 5 people who follow me but it is really cool though
anyway if, unlike me, you’re a normal person drugs.com is absolutely your best friend outside of an actual pharmacist
Cannot stress enough how important this is. I’m allergic to an antibiotic & was once given another medication that was not that medication but was contraindicated for ppl with that allergy. My allergy info is up to date with my pharmacy… but their computer missed that, or they didn’t check. (My doctor DEFINITELY didn’t.)
That kind of mistake can kill a person. Always check.
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I have seen doctors talking shit about people who read the leaflets. Even Sidnee McElroy, who I completely respect, kind of snorted about people who read the INFORMATIVE LITERATURE and then get concerned about the rare, weird side effects. I got mad on Twitter about it in comments to the direct to consumer drug advertising episode (otherwise good) because she’s usually better than that. You can’t say you want patients who are engaged and then look down on them for taking advantage of the FREE, ACCURATE INFORMATION that comes with your meds.
Educate yourself, and always double or triple check the work of any doctor who even blinks funny when you ask questions or mention reading you’ve done.
Pharmacists are great. Loads of love for y'all.
I feel like the original post is shaming people for not knowing something, in a way I really don’t like.
A lot of people are never taught to read the medication information, and a lot of people are actively discouraged from advocating for themselves - especially in a medical setting, and REALLY, SERIOUSLY in a mental health setting.
Particularly as an adolescent on psych meds, I was actively discouraged from reading the literature and asking about side effects because “The only one you need to be concerned about is the increased suicidal ideation part. Definitely tell someone if that happens, otherwise don’t worry about it”. (This was 1000% Not True.)
Now, do I read it NOW? Well, yeah, but I’m in my 30s and I’ve had more than 20 years of experience being fucked over by the medical and mental health systems. Most people HOPEFULLY don’t have that.
Even then, suicidal ideation wasn’t listed in the pamphlet for the blood pressure med I tried last summer - it was an unusual interaction, and I had to go online to find that, and my doctor was pretty freaked out about it. (It was fine, because I know to be vigilant about starting new medications. Sometimes bodies are weird. I also get the opposite reaction when I’ve tried ADHD meds - stimulants make me want to eat EVERYTHING IN THE HOUSE.)
On the one hand, yes, it’s in the leaflet that you shouldn’t drink while taking benzodiazapines, and there’s probably a sticker on the bottle too.
On the other hand, it also says that with ibuprofen and virtually every antidepressant I’ve ever been on. (The big risk with NSAIDs is that it increases the risk of a bleeding stomach ulcer, but it’s more of a “most people will probably be okay if they don’t do it frequently” situation. It’s generally not GREAT to drink when you’re dealing with mental health stuff REGARDLESS, but for some psych meds the big issue is a risk of “increased drowsiness”. In contrast, mixing tylenol and alcohol can seriously damage your liver. Mixing alcohol with benzodiazapines can SUPER kill you.)
There’s not a lot of nuance or degree there, and I think some people - younger people, especially - are used to authority figures/older adults harping on the “Don’t drink and don’t use illicit drugs” thing, so they may not realize no, really, there may be an ACTUAL REASON THAT CAN KILL YOU that medication may say not to use alcohol while you’re taking them.
So yeah, if you didn’t know before, now you do. Read the leaflets that come with your medication, ask your pharmacist if there’s anything in particular to look out for, and pay attention to how you’re feeling - good and bad - when you start a new medication, and how that changes.
Hell, I’ve had doctors discourage me from reading the leaflets because “it’ll only make you anxious.”
And like like I KNOW that’s bullshit advice. Thirty years of medical negligence, abuse and weird drug interaction fuckery have primed me to be aware of how awful that advice is. But if you’re not someone who deals with chronic or long term problems that require regular advocacy, if the authority figure who you’re trusting to take care of you is telling you to dismiss the literature then yea, I can kinda see how people aren’t aware of these things. They’re being conditioned to be “good patients” by bad doctors. And in my experience, it’s depressingly common.
So yeah, read the literature that comes with your meds, either on the leaflet that comes with it or by looking it up on Drugs.com. And if you’ve got questions or concerns, 100% ask the pharmacist or call your clinic; they’ll usually put you through to a nurse or physician’s assistant to talk to. You’re not bothering them or being bad; this is part of their job.
Insert that one meme with the guy who says “you guys are getting paid?” only it says “YOU GUYS ARE GETTING LEAFLETS?”
I have been on one medication or another ever since I was a toddler. I have NEVER received a leaflet about my medication.
Definitely going to try the drugs.com thing
where the fuck do you people live that you’re not being given this info. my EU, US, canadian, and australian friends all are. whether it’s stapled to the bag, inside the bag, a fold-out label on the bottle, or inside the box. they all get them. and i KNOW the US produces them (besides my US friends all getting them) bc i can find them online as PDFs
do WHERE are you that you’re not being given the information that is required for you to give INFORMED CONSENT to taking those drugs
i’m serious. not giving you that info voluntarily removes your ability to give informed consent about your medical treatment and you should be raising absolute hell about that
Before I started taking roaccutane, they actually sat my ass down, shoved a bundle of papers in front of me that listed the possible side effects and risks that came with it (which is low key funny because roaccutane is essentially a vitamin A overdose. Sounds mild, right? Wrong - look up what happened to the polar expedition that got lost and started eating their sled dogs to survive. They very much did not survive because dog meat is too rich in vit A and the effects are uh. Quite horrible. Incidentally this is also why you should never EVER eat a bear’s liver if you’re in a position where you have to eat bear meat to survive), and made me read through it all then sign a contract that I had read and understood all of it before they even prescribed me the first dose. (This isn’t the usual case, but roaccutane is particularly nasty.)
This was in the hospital by the way, not just some private clinic covering their ass. That is informed consent. Over here in the Netherlands you actually get an additional brochure with your medications when they’re prescribed for the first time, and the pharmacist will give you a mandatory rundown of what is in the leaflet before you can leave the premises with it. The only thing I dislike about that is that you have to pay out of pocket for it, but on the other hand it’s usually between 6 or 13 euros or so so it’s doable.
I have a lot of bad things to say about the medical profession from my own experiences, but at least as far as informed consent goes, we’re doing pretty alright it seems. Hell, even when I was on a time crunch for my epidural (I was on the cusp of being too far dilated to even get it), the doctor took the time to list all the possible risks (with laminated info sheet lmao) before I was wheeled out towards the anesthesiologist. The fact that so many of you are wilfully being kept in the dark or actively discouraged to educate yourself is bizarre and terrifying.
Please read the leaflets, or if you can’t read them because yeah the writing is usually fucking tiny, use drugs.com or your country’s equivalent or Google it or do literally anything other than nothing.
One caveat: drugs.com will tell you everything, but not in a very friendly way.
My choice for patient information while practicing as a pharmacist in a retail setting was patient.info. It is a British resource. It explains things in plain language while still being very complete. and it gives info on side effects along with likeliness for it to happen and what to do about it (vs. Infodumping 40 side effects with no context).
I find it the closest thing to taking the pharmacist home with you instead!
Patient.info - please have a look. Search by the generic name of your med, not the brand (eg. Duloxetine instead of Cymbalta).
I’m in the US and I get a leaflet and every time I get my meds they ASK ME if I wanted explained OR they ASSUME I do and say “the pharmacist will be with you shortly to go over your medications”
When I started birth control (to regulate my hormones bc my ADHD meds would stop working before I got my period! I got SEVERELY DEPRESSED AND OFF MY MEDS EVERG MONTH IT WAS A NIGHTMARE!!) I read the medication leaflet and it said increases risk for breast cancer and my family has a history so i didn’t start taking it until I got more opinions from pharmacists and doctors about it.
I like it when they’re talking in tng and the camera just randomly cuts to worf and he’s like }}>:-| I don’t like that. soosososso true king.. speak ur truth…
for people not in the know about the uk, the government’s latest bright idea is lifting all covid restrictions today (19/07) and calling it ‘freedom day’. our cases look like this.
First major one happens when Don Cheadles character gets rejected, he has an angry speech and red/blue/black/white lights get reflected on his shiny reflective silver suit.
The second major one happens when Lebron’s family is in the server room, not when they immediately first arrive but the second time you see them inside. You get lots of black and white blinking rapid lights, this one is a lot more intense than the first.
Other than this, the movie has a lot of random flashing logos and text during the basketball game
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