I was so tired last night that I accidentally took my 24 hour allergy medicine again and it wasn't even close to the 24 hour allergy med taking point. I read the back of the bottle. It said, "Don't take more than 1 in 24 hours. Call POISON CONTROL if you take more than one." I checked online. They said the same thing. Off to Poison Control I went.
George was a kind man. He checked into everything. What I took ended up being something that would make me hella sleepy, despite being non-drowsy when you take it regularly. He also told me to drink a ton of water, which I did but is difficult to do when sleeping. It's morning and I woke up -- hooray for being awake. (Though I didn't think that would happen, but heart palpitations . . . who knew?) I have one crapload of a headache though. My guess is all that made my sponge dry (my brain) and it's crying.
Always call the Poison Control Center if you need to. They were kind, lovely and calm. Told me what I needed to know.
And yes, I'm skipping my allergy meds until tomorrow morning. Oy with the headache. Must. function. today.
Showing posts with label Pharmacologically funky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pharmacologically funky. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Signing my life away at the customer service counter.
I've had a cold. Nothing serious. Really, I've suffered much, much worse. Since I've had this continual evening and early morning tickle in my throat, I've found that the Advil Cold and Sinus that I had in the cupboard has helped out a bit.
Today I took the last one in my cabinet.
Now, that may not seem like a big deal, but since people like to boil stuff like that down for met*h, I have to go beg pharmacists or customer service personnel for the OTC drug(s) that I may need. God forbid should you actually need Advil and cough syrup at the same time.
I visited the cold reliever aisle. No dice.
I visited the pharmacist. Nope. Go to customer service. (Seems weird, since every other store has OTC at the pharmacy.) Okay then.
I go to customer service. I hand over my ID to purchase my drugs o' relief and I kid you not, the girl had to check 10 pages of drug log-in's to make certain that my name was not listed. After a rather thorough check, She wrote down about every bit of information from my driver's license. I could be wrong, but my height and slightly inaccurate listed weight may have been written down, too. I had to sign the listing.
The customer service clerk apologized. I told her that really, I promised that I wasn't going to the street to make anything illegal. I really just wanted to take it for my own cold relief. She was saying that she thought it was slightly ridiculous and I agreed that in a way, I see that but there was just a me*th lab 1 block down from a school in our city that just blew up. She then told me that there are some people who will come in and ask (in a drug type drawl), "How many boxes can I get?" Considering that they just sold me a 40 ct. box and it will take me a year to go through all that, I can't imagine why they would want more other than for illicit activities. She said that at that point, she'll tell them none. She'll refuse them. She said that she can tell.
I hate that she is put in that position.
I know that I've talked about this before, but it still surprises me each and every time. Wow.
Smiles in my day:
- K- got a 100% on her math test! It was a 4 page (2 pages double sided) test that was addition and subtraction and she neatly wrote her answers. Didn't question herself. She didn't erase all over the place. She was sure of her answers. Quite amazing since doing subtraction flash cards has been quite painful. I'm going to meet with her teacher to see what ideas that she has to have me help K-. I want to make certain that the ways that I help her are in line with what Mrs. S- is teaching. I don't want to teach K- a way to figure out subtraction that she can't use at school. It appears as though she needs visual cues to pull subtraction around.
Have a great day!
Today I took the last one in my cabinet.
Now, that may not seem like a big deal, but since people like to boil stuff like that down for met*h, I have to go beg pharmacists or customer service personnel for the OTC drug(s) that I may need. God forbid should you actually need Advil and cough syrup at the same time.
I visited the cold reliever aisle. No dice.
I visited the pharmacist. Nope. Go to customer service. (Seems weird, since every other store has OTC at the pharmacy.) Okay then.
I go to customer service. I hand over my ID to purchase my drugs o' relief and I kid you not, the girl had to check 10 pages of drug log-in's to make certain that my name was not listed. After a rather thorough check, She wrote down about every bit of information from my driver's license. I could be wrong, but my height and slightly inaccurate listed weight may have been written down, too. I had to sign the listing.
The customer service clerk apologized. I told her that really, I promised that I wasn't going to the street to make anything illegal. I really just wanted to take it for my own cold relief. She was saying that she thought it was slightly ridiculous and I agreed that in a way, I see that but there was just a me*th lab 1 block down from a school in our city that just blew up. She then told me that there are some people who will come in and ask (in a drug type drawl), "How many boxes can I get?" Considering that they just sold me a 40 ct. box and it will take me a year to go through all that, I can't imagine why they would want more other than for illicit activities. She said that at that point, she'll tell them none. She'll refuse them. She said that she can tell.
I hate that she is put in that position.
I know that I've talked about this before, but it still surprises me each and every time. Wow.
Smiles in my day:
- K- got a 100% on her math test! It was a 4 page (2 pages double sided) test that was addition and subtraction and she neatly wrote her answers. Didn't question herself. She didn't erase all over the place. She was sure of her answers. Quite amazing since doing subtraction flash cards has been quite painful. I'm going to meet with her teacher to see what ideas that she has to have me help K-. I want to make certain that the ways that I help her are in line with what Mrs. S- is teaching. I don't want to teach K- a way to figure out subtraction that she can't use at school. It appears as though she needs visual cues to pull subtraction around.
Have a great day!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Tales from the Trenches: Pharmacologically Funky
I tried to ignore it.
I figured that it would go away.
It didn't.
Y'all, my body has ached for weeks. First, I figured it was a PMS problem. That came and went and the problem didn't get resolved. I had picked K- up, all 55 pounds of her, and figured that perhaps I pulled something. But, things kept getting worse.
My rib cage ached.
My back ached.
My hips ached.
My thighs ached.
Then, I started getting weird muscle spasms in odd places-- my jaw, my hip and my ribs. Hmmm. My soft, not yet flappy area between my neck and chin felt weird-- not numb, not tingly, but weird. Understandably, I started to get concerned. Long gone were my plausible excuses of PMS and muscle pulls.
I looked up Lipitor, as I recall hearing that "if you have muscle pain or weakness" statement on the commercials on TV. After looking the Lipitor site up, I decided to give the doctor a call. I made an appointment to see him Monday AM, but in the meantime, I was to stop taking it to see if I felt better.
Thank the Lord in heaven, I feel a lot better.
I went in to speak to Dr. W-. Hubs went with me, since he was at the office for his nurse visit shot anyhow. Turns out that it can be the Lipitor. It could also be a virus that just made everything funky. The general cholesterol blood work was done, as well as blood work testing muscle enzymes. He expects nothing grand to come from the results of the muscle enzyme blood work, but at least he'll have it so he knows. The plan is to take me off of Lipitor and to take nothing until my muscles are fully back to their old selves again. Then, to confirm it was the Lipitor, I have to go back on it again. He said that the 5 or 6 pills that I have left will tell us whether or not the Lipitor was to blame.
Knowing what the answer was going to be prior to asking it, I asked Dr. W- what he thought about non-medicative ways of lowering cholesterol. "FANTASTIC! I'm all for it! However, . . . " He said that "pharmacologically, you can't deny genetics." He said that my LDL is sitting at about 173. Apparently, that's not good. He said that if it was 120, he could consider telling me to give it a shot, but he said that it is of the very smallest chance that it would even work for me. I've tried diet and exercise before to try to lower my cholesterol. I couldn't get the total number down under 220, and I have no idea what my LDL number was. I've always gone by the total number.
Better living through chemistry, right?!
Prayers in my day:
- I have a friend, C-, who confided in me about a lump that she found in her breast this weekend. She found one in her other breast about a year ago, which turned out as nothing. This one feels "completely different. Hard and seems like it is anchored to something." She goes in the morning for an appointment to her doctor.
Smiles in my weekend:
- A borrowed laptop is taking me where I need to go right now. The neighbor upgraded the internet connection that we share and it booted us. Apparently, the fix is just another antennae. So, he and his computer friends are online searching for the best deal for us right now. In the meantime, I'm on a laptop, not used to a laptop and feel like I'm back on roller skates for the first time in 20 some odd years. It is great to finally post, though.
- K-'s seat was moved in class to keep the M- situation a little more controlled. I suspect that K- was moved over M- because of his behavioral problems. It is easier to move K- because I think that it would disrupt the delicate balance that M- might have in the class. K- was fine with it and K- and M- had a good day.
- It is RIF book day at school on Tuesday and I love helping to hand out 550 books to kids. They really get excited about being able to pick a book to take home, read and keep for themselves. It is a fantastic program that I'm so glad we've been able to offer as a school.
- Rachael and Lily got their snow!
Have a great day!
I figured that it would go away.
It didn't.
Y'all, my body has ached for weeks. First, I figured it was a PMS problem. That came and went and the problem didn't get resolved. I had picked K- up, all 55 pounds of her, and figured that perhaps I pulled something. But, things kept getting worse.
My rib cage ached.
My back ached.
My hips ached.
My thighs ached.
Then, I started getting weird muscle spasms in odd places-- my jaw, my hip and my ribs. Hmmm. My soft, not yet flappy area between my neck and chin felt weird-- not numb, not tingly, but weird. Understandably, I started to get concerned. Long gone were my plausible excuses of PMS and muscle pulls.
I looked up Lipitor, as I recall hearing that "if you have muscle pain or weakness" statement on the commercials on TV. After looking the Lipitor site up, I decided to give the doctor a call. I made an appointment to see him Monday AM, but in the meantime, I was to stop taking it to see if I felt better.
Thank the Lord in heaven, I feel a lot better.
I went in to speak to Dr. W-. Hubs went with me, since he was at the office for his nurse visit shot anyhow. Turns out that it can be the Lipitor. It could also be a virus that just made everything funky. The general cholesterol blood work was done, as well as blood work testing muscle enzymes. He expects nothing grand to come from the results of the muscle enzyme blood work, but at least he'll have it so he knows. The plan is to take me off of Lipitor and to take nothing until my muscles are fully back to their old selves again. Then, to confirm it was the Lipitor, I have to go back on it again. He said that the 5 or 6 pills that I have left will tell us whether or not the Lipitor was to blame.
Knowing what the answer was going to be prior to asking it, I asked Dr. W- what he thought about non-medicative ways of lowering cholesterol. "FANTASTIC! I'm all for it! However, . . . " He said that "pharmacologically, you can't deny genetics." He said that my LDL is sitting at about 173. Apparently, that's not good. He said that if it was 120, he could consider telling me to give it a shot, but he said that it is of the very smallest chance that it would even work for me. I've tried diet and exercise before to try to lower my cholesterol. I couldn't get the total number down under 220, and I have no idea what my LDL number was. I've always gone by the total number.
Better living through chemistry, right?!
Prayers in my day:
- I have a friend, C-, who confided in me about a lump that she found in her breast this weekend. She found one in her other breast about a year ago, which turned out as nothing. This one feels "completely different. Hard and seems like it is anchored to something." She goes in the morning for an appointment to her doctor.
Smiles in my weekend:
- A borrowed laptop is taking me where I need to go right now. The neighbor upgraded the internet connection that we share and it booted us. Apparently, the fix is just another antennae. So, he and his computer friends are online searching for the best deal for us right now. In the meantime, I'm on a laptop, not used to a laptop and feel like I'm back on roller skates for the first time in 20 some odd years. It is great to finally post, though.
- K-'s seat was moved in class to keep the M- situation a little more controlled. I suspect that K- was moved over M- because of his behavioral problems. It is easier to move K- because I think that it would disrupt the delicate balance that M- might have in the class. K- was fine with it and K- and M- had a good day.
- It is RIF book day at school on Tuesday and I love helping to hand out 550 books to kids. They really get excited about being able to pick a book to take home, read and keep for themselves. It is a fantastic program that I'm so glad we've been able to offer as a school.
- Rachael and Lily got their snow!
Have a great day!
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