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Herself

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11. never, EVER trust your doctor's scripts to be okay to take together.

Fri Feb 7, 2014, 04:26 AM

Feb 2014

I military buddy came to see me during the first months I was perscribed many scripts for serious injury. I was so drugged up I didn't realize I wasn't taking them correctly.

He took a brown paper bag to the pharmacy and had them checked for complications when taken together. He came back with 2 bags. Of the 17 drugs I was on, 5 shouldn't have been taken together. The pharmacist called my doctor as well.

Later that year I was "accidentally" over dosed in the hospital on morphine. I am allergic to it, but it wasn't identified by official medical people in the hospital. It was identified by a Viet Nam Veteran that seen the symptoms in Nam.

Have one pharmacy, and when new drugs are given, have the pharmacy run a check on the compatibility of them.

Take care!

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Damn, I take a lot of pills! [View all] hedgehog Aug 2012 OP

21! TexasTowelie Aug 2012 #1

Sometimes I crack the calcium pills in half to get them down. hedgehog Aug 2012 #2

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Ithe trick to getting stubborn pills down... dixiegrrrrl Aug 2012 #4

beware grasswire Aug 2012 #5

I had a prescription for a 600mg tablet......... mrmpa Aug 2012 #6

I'm at...29 nickinSTL Feb 2013 #7

I should add - Last year my GP insisted on what I thought at the time to be a lot hedgehog Feb 2013 #8

19 on Mondays, 13 the rest of the week NightWatcher Feb 2013 #9

i refuse to count mopinko Feb 2013 #10

never, EVER trust your doctor's scripts to be okay to take together. Herself Feb 2014 #11

I check each new script against all the others - hedgehog Feb 2014 #12

I have many symptoms of Sjogrens, but I've smoked, so everything gets blamed on it Herself Feb 2014 #13

I ws very overweight, so that got the blame for my problems! hedgehog Feb 2014 #14

BTW - finding a rheumotologist is almost like hunting unicorns hedgehog Feb 2014 #15

hedgehog, Thank you! n/t Herself Feb 2014 #16

I feel lucky that my PCP is willing to treat my fibro... moriah Feb 2014 #18

I'm up to 16 scripts, but only 10 are pills. moriah Feb 2014 #17