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A medical statement of the obvious
I've had maybe 10 hours proper sleep in the last week. As a result, my Doctor has prescribed me some sleeping pills, Promethazine Hydrochloride.
I collected them from the chemists on the way home from work and have just opened the packaging. Instructions are:
Thanks, wouldn't have figured out that sleeping pills might make me sleepy...
(Ok, the rest of it is the standard don't drive or do silly things after taking it, but, really, they actually need to warn people this?)
I collected them from the chemists on the way home from work and have just opened the packaging. Instructions are:
Really? Pills I'm supposed to take at night to make me go to sleep may make me feel sleepy and I need to be warned?Take ONE at night
WARNING. THIS MEDICINE MAY MAKE YOU FEEL SLEEPY...
Thanks, wouldn't have figured out that sleeping pills might make me sleepy...
(Ok, the rest of it is the standard don't drive or do silly things after taking it, but, really, they actually need to warn people this?)
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Kind of worrying that they seem to be classifying that as a *side effect*!
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So it does actually make sense if you're prescribed it for its other use, but, y'know...
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Drugs are funny, though - I was once prescribed an anti-nausea medicine that had the possible side effect of nausea (and yep, me being the queen of side effects, that was what happened. Guess my body wanted the "oh just barf and get it over with" effect instead)
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What should worry you
Actually the way they list adverse side affects for drugs is quite interesting. Basically anything that a guinea pig feels during the trial is reported whether it is causally linked to the drug or not. The tester has a headache in the morning, it may have been the red wine last night or the workers with the jackhammer outside, doesn't matter it's added to the list.
This is also why drug companies stay fairly well away from twitter and other social media. If they read a tweet where someone says "oh my god I took Promethazine Hydrochloride last night and woke up this morning with the measles" they have to investigate it, write reports blah blah blah... So they they'd rather not know it exists.
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My favorite warnings: "Product will be HOT upon cooking, handle with extreme caution" (on microwaved food), "Product contains nuts" (on packages of, well, nuts), "Product contains dairy" (on packages containing stuff like cream of Mushroom soup, well DUH), "Product will STEAM upon opening" (on microwaved popcorn, who woulda thunk?), "Product has SHARP EDGES" (on a knife set), and so on. I'm sure there are entire websites devoted to such lawsuit-proof follies of the human imagination.
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It reminds me of a friend of mine who worked in catering. She bought a _sack_ of peanuts which, the label informed her, "contained nuts"...!
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