Allergies and funny responses

1.  I have an allergy to Morphine.  It made my right arm swell.
–Are you sure the line wasn’t infiltrated which caused the arm to swell?
2.  Meperidine - “dies”
–Dies?  LOL!
3.  Meperidine - “makes mean”
–mean?
4.  Codeine - “sick to stomach”
–ok.  not an allergy really.
5.  Morphine - “gets sleepy”
–REALLY?! 
6.  Prednisone - allergic
–allergic to something given for allergies.  Makes a [...]

Answer to question asked earlier…

Thanks for the compliment.  As for the question of would I take Effexor again?  I’m on the fence on that one.  It worked wonderfully.  I slept like a dream; the anxiety had lifted.  The tapering was difficult and uncomfortable.  A little later, I decided that I really didn’t need to smoke the 5-6 cigarettes I [...]

Brain shivers… brain zaps… brain shocks…

I do not know if many in the medical community are aware of this term that is thrown out there for such offenders as venlafaxine (Effexor), duloxetine (Cymbalta), paroxetine (Paxil), fluoxetine (Prozac), sertraline (Zoloft), fluvoxamine (Luvox), citalopram (Celexa), and escitalopram (Lexapro), but it is a very real phenomenon.  Unfortunately, though many in the medical community [...]

Magic Mouthwash

Did you know that the most popular search term that brings people here is “Magic Mouthwash?”  That’s right!  I think that is funny, but I remember when I was compouding a lot back at my days at the prison pharmacy (long-term care, right??), I googled the same phrase probably once a week.  I learned to [...]

Still training…

I don’t know how many of you are interested in the work at home setup and how it works, but basically we use a program to Remote Desktop into several servers and work just as though we were sitting in the actual hospital verifying orders.  There’s no mixing of IVs, chemo, or TPN…  you miss [...]

I always get a little sad…

When I’m entering/reviewing orders for someone with terminal cancer and the last “D/C to hospice” order.  A lump will come up in my throat and then I start thinking about life.  What will I die of?  Will someone enter my last orders someday?  Will I die of a terminal cancer or something else?  I know I [...]

Spam Part II

I wonder, though, why would it help someone buy phentermine to send me three spam messages to buy phentermine 30mg?  It doesn’t make sense at all.  It would be different if there was a link to where to buy them or a but it now button, but instead just a sentence.  It means nothing with no [...]