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Changing Attitudes: ABOUT MIXING MEDS
Written by robertwillis on Tuesday, April 04, 2010 No Comments
A friend of mine recently mentioned that he didn’t feel so hot after taking over-the-counter headache pain relieving pills. He said the usual over the counter headache pills usually works for him, but this time the headache didn’t go away, and he felt “generally crappy.” It turns out he also had a cold and was taking medication for that at the same time.
When he told me he had been taking two sets of pills, he uttered, “You know, I really have no idea if I’m supposed to use Tylenol 3s with my medication.” Continue Reading…
Written by robertwillis on Wednesday, February 02, 2010 No Comments
I take vitamins. I take too many vitamins. I used to never take pills of any kind, but I recently started taking multivitamins. I also recently injured my back ( a whole other story), so I’ve been taking some pain-killers. The directions say to take two every six hours. I’m supposed to take one multivitamin pill a day. But yesterday I popped two multivitamins into my mouth. Why did I do that? Maybe I’m too busy, and I confused the dose with that of my pain killers. Perhaps I can’t resist their candy-like appearance. I don’t know. Regardless of why I did it, it happened. And I might have done it before. Continue Reading…