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My Fears Whenever A Doctor or Nurse Prescribes An New medicine


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Joyce Donahue
Joyce Donahue
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My mom, in her final years was on a drawerful of medications - some of which were to counteract the side-effects of other drugs. Sigh.
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Jay Bryant
Jay Bryant
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After his heart attack, my dad was on 11 medications prescribed by various different doctors and felt awful. After a few months of that, he went to his GP to complain. Dr. Hobson (my best friend's dad, in fact) researched all the meds and told dad to drop all of them but a daily aspirin. He instantly felt better and never had heart trouble again.
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jrsy
jrsy
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This the cumulative warning list for the handful of pills I take each morning.
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Mark Wollschlager
Mark Wollschlager
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My wife had a small pharmacy in the kitchen and linen closet. Some current, some previous. Her various dr's were constantly adjusting stuff to try and combat various symptoms/issues. I guess just about any new prescription would set off the CVS knowledge base of contraindications. red flags everywhere. Trying to run a human on manual controls is very hard.
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Whuffo
Whuffo
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Fortunately, all of my doctors reside at the same hospital. They check with each other before prescribing.
So far it's working but I find it difficult to choke down the 16 pills each morning.
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Mark Wollschlager
Mark Wollschlager
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cross checking always happened, but she was a cluster of edge cases. Some things, like transplanted organs, are treated with stuff that is normally not given together, for reasons. Plus doctors and patients are at odds when itcomes to drugs. Follow instructions to the letter, disclose all other stuff ( "supplements", food habits ).
She was given compassionate clearance for a couple of drugs that treated her perfectly. When they finally made the market, and became big sellers ( for the same reason ) they got pulled because of potentially deadly interactions with commonly prescribed stuff. One in particular was Propulsid. She lost access to that one, and they never found another that was as efficacious. But in her case, it was not going to be an issue because the interaction was known and avoided.
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Joyce Donahue
Joyce Donahue
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I get that it's not simple for people with serious life-threatening conditions, @Mark Wollschlager That all must have been difficult for you and for her. Thanks for sharing.

In my mom's case it was mostly a cluster of non-fatal conditions: osteoporosis, neuropathy, urinary incontenence, high cholesterol, blood pressure... and a few other annoying conditions and side effects. In the end, none of those took her - it was the UTI's she kept getting due to lack of mobility, dehydration from not drinking enough water, etc. because that's just the way life is in the nursing home. When she was living at home, it would take us almost an hour to sort her pills for the week, because her doctors threw meds at everything. I realized it was a problem when I saw she was simultaneously taking diuretics AND pills to stop urinary incontinence, which would effectively cancel each other out!

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