Hmmm, it looks like there are all sorts of possible bad side effects - quite a few of them stomach related. I've been feeling kind of nausaus. Should I stop taking the pills? It's past closing time for the clinic today -- so I can't phone them up 'til Monday.
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
Spike's Bitches 33: Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
sumi - Dec 16, 2006 8:30:02 am PST #5927 of 10004
Art Crawl!!!
Topic!Cindy - Dec 16, 2006 8:30:13 am PST #5928 of 10004
What is even happening?
We have misplaced a bunch of our SB books. It makes me so sad. I love them so much.
sumi, are the pills for pain?
d - Dec 16, 2006 8:30:58 am PST #5929 of 10004
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
I love But Not the Hippopotamus.
My friend's do the 10 Minutes to Bedtime (Peggy Rathmann), but I've read the Going to Bed book too.
Aims - Dec 16, 2006 8:34:08 am PST #5930 of 10004
Shit's all sorts of different now.
But not the armadillo....
sumi - Dec 16, 2006 8:34:55 am PST #5931 of 10004
Art Crawl!!!
It's an anti-inflammatory - generic Daypro. Some of the side effects include heart attacks, ulcers and other very nasty things.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2006 8:46:57 am PST #5932 of 10004
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Some of the side effects include heart attacks, ulcers and other very nasty things.
Most drug's side effects include earthshattering stuff. My assumption is that if they were likely, I'd not have been prescribed it, and if they're unlikely I may very well get killed on the way to the pharmacy.
It's the more middle of the road side effects (nausea, weight loss/gain, etc) I pay attention to, and even then only well after I've been taking it for a while, because I don't trust myself not to make stuff up.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 16, 2006 8:51:43 am PST #5933 of 10004
What is even happening?
If you take them, take them with food (and milk, if you can and do drink it) -- like a meal's amount of food.
What's up with the heart attack warning? Well, they do always put everything in the warnings. I remember reading the side-effects list on my first birth control prescription. I'm still trying to work out, all these years later, just how exactly death falls under 'side-effect'.
Deena - Dec 16, 2006 8:53:51 am PST #5934 of 10004
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
sumi, take it on a full stomach with a full glass of water, and then take something for stomach upset after--zantac, mylanta, tums. If that works, then I'd keep taking it until Monday. The doctor told me she'd rather prescribe something to control the nausea than for me to lose out on the benefits of the meds she's prescribing.
beth b - Dec 16, 2006 9:25:59 am PST #5935 of 10004
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
my sister ha been in the drug industry for years. Side effects are sort of a wierd thing- like if someone gets a cold while takeing a new pain killer - it is put in the possibel side effects column. - so things like heart attack- may have zero relationship with the drug
beekaytee - Dec 16, 2006 9:26:16 am PST #5936 of 10004
Compassionately intolerant
There is a book called Hippos Go Berserk??? OMG. How, oh how have I lived without it. This will not STAND. Must. have. now.
And thanks for the good thoughts on the transition. Once I'm over the aftermath of tequila and bad judgement, I'm going to be beside myself with relief and glee. wheee.