Dear, Dear...
Dear Pharmacist:
You ARE aware that Lodine is generally prescribed for arthritis, correct? Please, please consider putting it in a bottle that I can open.
While I'm on the subject, dear pharmacist, please also consider the following:
1. The 'please do not drive' notation should be the FIRST thing that I see. Before I DRIVE, perhaps. And definitely before I find myself parked next to a cow in an open field, with a raging headache and a steering wheel covered in drool.
2. The repeated warnings of potential side effects are both wide spread and bizarre. How can I call the doctor if my right side is numb and I am unconscious? Why not simply note: "If you look like Two Face from Batman, call your doctor immediately"?
And, finally:
3. If I 'vomit what appears to be coffee grounds', I am NOT calling my doctor.
I'm calling Starbucks.
Much love,
Rennratt
You ARE aware that Lodine is generally prescribed for arthritis, correct? Please, please consider putting it in a bottle that I can open.
While I'm on the subject, dear pharmacist, please also consider the following:
1. The 'please do not drive' notation should be the FIRST thing that I see. Before I DRIVE, perhaps. And definitely before I find myself parked next to a cow in an open field, with a raging headache and a steering wheel covered in drool.
2. The repeated warnings of potential side effects are both wide spread and bizarre. How can I call the doctor if my right side is numb and I am unconscious? Why not simply note: "If you look like Two Face from Batman, call your doctor immediately"?
And, finally:
3. If I 'vomit what appears to be coffee grounds', I am NOT calling my doctor.
I'm calling Starbucks.
Much love,
Rennratt
posted by rennratt at 6:32 PM
13 Comments:
Dude. I don't even have arthritis and I can hardly ever get one of those bottles opened.
crikey.
JC
Adult-proof packaging. I think it's a well established fact that any three-year-old can open anything up to and including the Queen's chastity belt..
Your pharmacist should know better, and should have asked you if you wanted an easy-open bottle. GO back immediately and make them give you one, and to annotate your records so that you do NOT have to deal with this again.
Did you now get a patient information package? I should think that a drug that causes somnolence would come with one, in order to get you fully informed of the potential side effects of said drug before you take it.
Also, vomit that looks like coffee grounds means you've got a gastric bleed. Prolly best to call your doc before SBux. :>
Many many years working in the safety departments of pharmaceutical companies has taught me that there is no perfect label, and that the interface between patient and pharmacist and doctor is extremely vital, if not life-saving. Good luck getting adjusted to your new meds - I hope that the side effects are soon outweighted by the positive effects!
Sorry about the packaging and the almost non-existant driving warning. I hope the side effects move on and you start seeing progress with this med.
Thankfully, I DID read the packaging - TWO pages of warnings and potentially fatal side effects.
The magnitude of warnings prompted the post.
I am most uncomfortable with the potential combination of unconsciousness and 'excessive diarrhea' - as if ANY would be something fun.
The sleep warning was in tiny letters on the list, but I DID notice a cartoon Stoner sticker on the side of the bottle. :) (I am SO not joking!)
Either way, I am only taking it at NIGHT. There's no way I plan to take it in the MORNINGS!
Until I can get to the pharmacy, CHACHI will have to open the bottle.
I know its not nice to laugh at someone's problems or even potential problems, but you made me!
I so hope the unconsciousness and excessive diarrhea don't go hand in hand. That could be...well...messy.
Yuck.
I hope the meds work and you don't have any of those nasty side effects.
Heh - a cartoon stoner. Dooooood!
Yay for your for reading the packaging. You can't even imagine how many people don't, and cause themselves and others harm by not doing so. A-mazing.
Egad.
And, um.
Egad.
great because I have no idea what black tar stool really is, but it does not sound good.
I get all my meds in easy-open caps now. Ask your pharmacist. As long as Nooze is old enough to know better than to take your meds, it should be okay. Remember, I take Lodine, and I have shown NO side effects after 5-6 months. It is a miracle drug for me!
BLack tar stool indicates the presence of blood.
um tag
tiff may be right about who you should call, but it would be WAY cooler if you called Starbucks and yelled and yelled "I'M VOMITING JOYA DEL DIA!!!!"
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