How many types of medication are you on?

orourkeda

I'm addicted to Night Nurse

bnt

Just one, a promising treatment for multiple sclerosis which isn't on the market yet. I'm a guinea pig, and will probably continue to be even after it hits the market (prob. early next year) as part of a long term study.

Alanstrainor

Insulin.

Booooooo

Mr Benevolent

Sullivan Fast Lodge wrote: »

I'm addicted to calpol

Ah DMT. Enjoy the flashbacks.

Roomic Cube

ORLY? wrote: »

That's not a good idea. Many people may want to keep such things private.

The whole thread is a bit of a bad idea. By posting their meds, posters may not realise that they are allowing people to hypothesise about which medical problems they may have, probably leading to all sorts of misconceptions etc.

That's fair enough if people want to keep it private depending on the circumstances it'd be better to keep it private, I only asked how many though

I'm comfortable with telling you what I'm taking, and anyone with google could work out that if im taking Doxycycline and Terbinafine I'm being treated for Acne and a fungal nail infection, why should I be embarrassed....

Seaneh

Warfarin.
10mg daily.

nom nom nom nom nom little pink pills.

ORLY?

Roomic Cube wrote: »

why should I be embarrassed....

There's nothing to be embarrassed about.

You have no problem with people knowing about what medical problem you have. Some people might and may not realise they are giving out this info via their med list.

Also, doxycycline is also used against malaria, TB, chalamydia and in other cases. It was possible you had one of these, which you may not want people knowing about. Obviously, you don't since you stated you are on it for acne, but it's also possible someone may have looked up doxy and jumped to the wrong conclusion.

I wasn't having a go at you for starting the thread, just warning people of the possible conclusions others can jump to on the basis of their medications.

Roomic Cube

no worries, at least I dont have chlamydia!

--LOS--

--LOS-- wrote: »

yes mr pharmacist sir.

I am self-educated and it is certainly the case for anti-biotics, take too many and you will become resistant to them.

It is only if you don't finish the prescription. No wonder MRSA is so prevalent when people are so uneducated about the risks.

--LOS--

--LOS-- wrote: »

The result is the same.

Can read without caps ftr.



Not what I said at all!

I said needlessly!

Dig up!!!!!

--LOS--

Deleted User wrote: »

It is only if you don't finish the prescription. No wonder MRSA is so prevalent when people are so uneducated about the risks.

You can build resistance to anti-biotics, it is the bacteria itself that builds resistance but the effect is the same. Dissecting the first part of that sentence is only a war of words. Like I've already said.........

--LOS-- wrote: »

Whether it is literally the people or the anti-biotics that become resistant is purely a figure of speech, no need for the grammar nazis just yet.
The result is the same, the benefits of the anti-biotics are rendered useless which is clearly the main concern.

Other than that all I've said is that it is clearly not healthy to be taking medication flippantly and needlessly as many many people do. No hours in medical school necessary to make such assumptions.

There was nothing else implied in my posts.

Deleted User wrote: »

Dig up!!!!!

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Tar.Aldarion

Deleted User wrote: »

It is only if you don't finish the prescription. No wonder MRSA is so prevalent when people are so uneducated about the risks.

No it's not.

Wibbs

Deleted User wrote: »

It is only if you don't finish the prescription. No wonder MRSA is so prevalent when people are so uneducated about the risks.

That's only part of it. It's the massive overuse of antibiotics in the last 50 years that was just as much if not more of an issue. It's been fed to our farm animals, never mind us. It was released into the wild all over the place. The magic bullet that ricocheted back to hit us. Hence the bacteria built up resistance and not just the bacteria in us. The most likely place to pick one of these things up is in a hospital. They became breeding grounds for them when scrubbing the place down with carbolic was replaced by reliance on antibiotics.

--LOS-- wrote: »

You can build resistance to anti-biotics, it is the bacteria itself that builds resistance but the effect is the same. Dissecting the first part of that sentence is only a war of words.

Its not just a war of words, its knowledge as opposed to ignorance of the subject. An individual who never even sniffed an antibiotic in their lives could get a resistant infection. Indeed they could have resistant bacteria already present in their system. In their intestines or on their skin.

Other than that all I've said is that it is clearly not healthy to be taking medication flippantly and needlessly as many many people do.

I would agree and too many self medicate and sometimes with the help of doctors. I would also be of the opinion that the pill for every ill notion is still alive and well. We can blame the doctors and the manufacturers but it's also driven by the patients. "Doctor, little johnny has a bug(viral), give me an anitbiotic". "I'm fat, give me a pill for that". I hate my job, give me a pill for that". etc etc.

Now its just my humble on this, but I think we're storing up another big health issue down the line with the over prescription of anti depressant drugs. Like antibiotics, these drugs are incredibly useful tools to fight disease, but again IMHO we're using a similar scattergun approach. The amount of people I know on some form of "mothers little helper" is crazy. A year ago a study found that SSRI's were no better than placebo for mild depression. Of course the hippies were all agog about this, but neglected to mention that the same study found they were very useful tools for severe depression. The problem is we're firing these medications at those at the mild end of the spectrum. There are more cases of mild depression for a start and now there is a tendency to ascribe the depression label and medicate it in people that would have been out of the range before. People who would have been helped by other methods or would have righted themselves anyway. One article I read(new scientist I believe?) suggested that these drugs may even increase bipolar like symptoms in otherwise non bipolar individuals. It may be nothing and medical health experts reading this will think me loopy, but if I had said the same thing about antibiotics 30 years ago I would have gotten the same reaction.

o1s1n

Seaneh wrote: »

Warfarin.
10mg daily.

nom nom nom nom nom little pink pills.

I always get freaked out when going near the pink ones. They stay locked away (hopefully) never to be touched. I'll stick with my blues and browns for now.

:pac: . . . . .

ORLY?

--LOS-- wrote: »

You can build resistance to anti-biotics, it is the bacteria itself that builds resistance but the effect is the same. Dissecting the first part of that sentence is only a war of words. Like I've already said.........

It really isn't the same. Lets say someone had an antibiotic resistant bacterial infection and the "big guns" come out (antibiotics that are only normally used to wipe out resistant infections) and the infection is irradicated. Next time they pick up an infection it may be the non-resistant type and it will be susceptible to the original antibiotic i.e. that person responds in exactly the same way to the antibiotics.

up for anything

Branson Old-fashioned Lace wrote: »

Me..

Dapsone 100 mg, Clofazimine 50 mg, Rifampicin 600 mg, and Clofazimine 300 mg..

And I'm laughing my head off at you both... :pac:

:eek:

Roomic Cube

up for anything wrote: »

:eek:

I get it!

Tar.Aldarion

But maybe the drugs work..sure he has one in there twice and that should sort him

barrackali

Tysabri for the MS...makes me feel like I've been nuked, think I might have to tell the consultant to get me off this.

Brendog

Well i have to take riddlin because of my ADHD.

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