My mother's on coumadin - I was taking care of her for a while after she went on it (this was about a year after the near-fatal car crash, the atrial fibrillation, and the nearly bleeding to death from a burst varicose vein and ending up with a pacemaker). Got the dietary instructions and got to play food police. With my mom. Good times.

My current scary(est) medication has a rare but possible side effect of seizures, brain damage, and death.

Timelies all!

Had a medical thing that took part of the day(well, not the actual procedure, but the sedation and waking-up part) so I took the whole day off. No bad drug reactions here.

It's an anti-epileptic drug (sometimes used for other things, but not in the NSAID class).

Also bi-polar drug, which so many anti-convulsants are and vice verse.

Also bi-polar drug, which so many anti-convulsants are and vice verse.

That totally fascinates me. The brain just blows me away.

so a manager and one of his workers are having an argument in his office....which we ALL can hear.

We are having to eliminate positions and there are 2 employees who have had arguments like this in the last month, I am not sure why we are not just getting rid of the employees that are clearly unhappy with their positions.

I should qualify and say mood stabilizer, not just bi-polar.

My dormer pharmapsychologist was telling me how drugs to treat those three are so often started as a drug to treat one of the others. I was on depakote for my supposed seizure disorder, but it treated my as yet undetected bi-polar.

drugs to treat those three are so often started as a drug to treat one of the others. I was on depakote for my supposed seizure disorder, but it treated my as yet undetected bi-polar.

A surprising number of drugs start out as treatment for one condition and end up being good for something else. Sometimes, the drug does better for a totally different condition than it did for the original one. Example: Rogaine was originally a cholesterol blood pressure-lowering drug (taken in pill form). Not great at lowering cholesterol blood pressure; had an interesting side effect of hair growth. Switch it around to a topical formulation, and boom: hair-growth treatment.

Something that will, quite literally, put hair on your chest?

When I took my cat in to get her teeth cleaned a few years ago, they gave me a liquid antibiotic to give to her to prevent any kind of infection spreading through the mouth into her system. Surprising to the vet, it also cleared up the low-grade eye problem she had had for the three years since I adopted her (she wouldn't let me give her the eye drops or ointment that the vet had prescribed, and it never seemed to bother her so I didn't push it like I should have).

I had a dream that there were four tea kettles boiling over in my kitchen, and there were no knobs on the stove for me to turn them off.

My dreams are anvils.