Coumadin is a hell of a drug, though.

At some point, my mostly-blind grandmother was accidentally doubling up on it for a while (she got some bottles confused, so was skipping something else entirely -- the woman takes more pills than Danny Bonaduce), and ended up with a crazy bruise/blood pooling/I don't even know what situation on/in her arm. They did get all of it straightened out eventually.

Coumadin is a hell of a drug, though.

At some point, my mostly-blind grandmother was accidentally doubling up on it for a while

Don't get me wrong; it can fuck you up in a DEAD way if you take too much (because your blood is excessively thin and you bleed to death). But then if you don't take enough, you get clotty and arteries block and you die.

(I had lunch with my dad today, and we were talking about Coumadin, actually. Weird.)

It's a drug that really requires frequent blood tests to make sure the patient is at the right level of coagulation. It's kind of scary, but also works when nothing else will.

the woman takes more pills than Danny Bonaduce

Does she have one of those massive pill organizers? Like, bigger than a Kindle?

I know he needed it, and it worked, and they kept on top of the blood counts, but I've never seen a drug so tightly calibrated, with all the half-milligram variations. And it just squicked me no end to see Warfarin on the bottle.

I'd hate to be a vegetarian on that stuff, because anything containing Vitamin K was verboten.

I've never seen a drug so tightly calibrated, with all the half-milligram variations.

Plus some people take different doses on different days. It's crazy shit.

Does she have one of those massive pill organizers? Like, bigger than a Kindle?

Yep. So she can lay out several days' worth of pills at a time, lined up by when she takes them.

I'd hate to be a vegetarian on that stuff, because anything containing Vitamin K was verboten.

Oh, is that why she can't eat green vegetables?

I take a drug that has one of the scariest side effect notes I've ever seen.

One of the drugs I had for the side effects of chemo included "inability to move eyes" under its "rare but serious side effects."

My mom has been on coumadin for a decade or so for her atrial fibrillation. She was inclined towards spectacular bruising and nose bleeds before that. It has not been fun. Recently she's started have little eye hemorrhages, which I don't think her doctor is taking seriously enough. Dr. Google says they can be caused by the coumadin. She's 83 and given the choice between eyesight and death, I know which one she'd pick.

My mom has been on coumadin for a decade or so for her atrial fibrillation

That's what my scary drug is for.

One of the side effects of Lamictal is a fatal rash. Which, is serious in the small number of people who have the reaction (which, I believe is caused by sudden cesation of the pills), but to me, who did not, it is funny.

There is nothing funny about a fatal rash. Except the name.

They couldn't come up with anything more sciency sounding? And just how does a rash kill you? Are they talking about what happened to Kathy's Mom? Because calling that a rash is like calling Batman grumpy.

Also, I believe one of the side effects of Effexor (or Depakote, one of those) was spontaneous orgasm.

I'd love to hear that in a commercial.

The thing about google reminds me of House. Sometimes he says "Oh, yeah, I get on the internet too." Which is funny, cause, Hugh Laurie is still a funny dude, but sometimes it reminds me of how, if you watched NYPD Blue, you were supposed to think suspects who "lawyered up" were shitheads or something, rather than the less cop-approved "not stupid"