"In the event that your actual limbs actually fall off, contact your health-care provider"

[marnanightingale]

This being a well-informed user of the health-care system business isn't all it's cracked up to be.

(PS. Do not be alarmed. My 10 mg a day of Elavil and I are coexisting quite happily. I just wanted to know if I was supposed to be this sleepy. Apparently, it's an option. Possibility. Thing. Also, Ian has just gone back to sleep. Bet he'll swan off with the weight loss, too, the bastich.)

Warning: reading med monographs in too much detail can lead to wondering if they just hand this shit out at semi-random and then run betting pools.

*declares International Nap Day and retires*

Comments

[eala-dubh.livejournal.com]

My favourite is this entry for Trazodone:

Trazodone is a psychoactive compound with sedative and anti-depressant properties. Its mechanism of action in humans is not clear.

Yeah, so you don't know how it actually works in humans, yet you're perscribing it to people. Oh joy.

It's probably little tiny robots or something, or some sort of alien parasite. GAH!

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

IIRC, though I may not, the same is true of asprin. Yay, wild-ass Empiricism, the stuff does work.

[eala-dubh.livejournal.com]

This is true. It does help me sleep without the circling of the thoughts.

Then again, I'm drunk, so what the Hel do I know?>

Hear, hear...

[icewolf010.livejournal.com]

...for International Nap Day. I just slept a good chunk if it away myself, and I'm not even on drugs.

Well, not any fun ones, anyway...

[xinef.livejournal.com]

I take 20-35 mg of Amitriptyline nightly to help me sleep. I have a sleeping disorder (severe alpha-delta intrusions - say that 3 times very fast!), and in my research, found that this syndrome is most often associcated with fibromyalgia, which I most certainly do NOT have. In those cases, low doses of Amitriptyline have been found to help sleep. I showed the references to my doctor, who said that it was worth a try.

Certainly works for me. I still don't remember what it is like to feel really rested, but at least I sleep through the night most nights, and if I wake up, can generally get back to sleep reasonably quickly. Vast improvement over my pre-Amitriptyline status.

[mardahin.livejournal.com]

*Snickers* I think that's true of a lot of drugs. I got put on something that was supposed to be a mood stabilizer, and find out a year later that it's actually been proven to be worse than placebo for it. *G* Love those drug companies.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

*declares International Nap Day and retires*

*cue Twilight Zone theme*

I take a nap (well, successfully, anyway) maybe three times a year, max.

The 10th? Was one of them. Wierd.

[horsetraveller.livejournal.com]

"In the event that your actual limbs actually fall off, contact your health-care provider"

Hey, I read that whole product monograph and it didn't say this anywhere.