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Originally Posted by RedCherry
That just makes me want to hurl hearing what you are on Cleo. I don't know if I'd be brave enough to stay on the medication after finding that out.
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I have to take 11 different types of medication each day, and I learnt long ago that it is a bad idea to know. If I don't take the pills I'll die early, so I find out as little as possible! You only have to read the "possible side effects" to want to give up. Several of mine list one of the possible side effects as "death"!!!!!!
And even the "instructions for use" should be avoided. I take several pills for high blood pressure, and several for diabetes. The blood pressure pills say that you should not take them if you are diabetic, and the diabetes pills say that you should not take them if you have high blood pressure.
But my favourite, for pure surrealism, is the statin that I take every night. That one warns me not to drink grapefruit juice, because the medication converts grapefruit juice into deadly poison!!!
I rarely eat grapefruit, probably less than once a year. But of course since starting taking the statin I have desperately wanted a bowl of grapefruit with every meal.
I also worry about my sister. There is a genetic probability that later in life she will need a medication that can only be got from cows. She is a strict vegetarian, and being given the choice of taking this medication or dieing, I think there is a risk she will choose the latter.
So my advice to everyone is to ask your doctor what you need to take, how to take it, and what you must avoid eating/drinking at the same time, then ask no more. Do not try and find out the "essential" facts about your meds, believe me, you don't want to know.