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JrzyTmata
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Nov 15, 2008 - 1:59pm |
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Coaxial wrote: that smiley looks crazy. or something.
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Coaxial
Location: Comfortably numb in So Texas Gender:
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Nov 15, 2008 - 1:58pm |
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Servo
Location: Down on the Farm Gender:
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Nov 15, 2008 - 11:06am |
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meower wrote:or lack of, she said she wasnt taking her "crazy pill" (you oughta see me without MY crazy pill.
Is that "crazy pill" an antagonist or a protagonist? From what I've seen of the population here, I suspect that there's a lot of "crazy pill" popping, loco weed smoking, excessive liquor drinking etc. etc. That would explain a lot.
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Servo
Location: Down on the Farm Gender:
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Nov 15, 2008 - 11:00am |
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hippiechick wrote:I am totally aware of the drug company-physician collusion and what it can turn into. I have thus far avoided taking any kind of meds, except for my crazy pill and this, which I have also avoided taking.
The collusion is one thing. That has been going on for decades. But the Reagan-era deregulation that allowed drug companied to direct market their prescription drugs to the general public is just plain criminal. One might think from the sheer volume of TV ads that most Americans are afflicted with restless leg syndrome, bladder problems and other things that are ironically considered to be too grotesque to put into actual TV programming. When I was shown the numbers of real RLS patients, literally one in a million, that laid bare the scope of the fraud that the drug industry is perpetrating on the American people. The Lipitor did that toe-curling thing, but the replacement one doesnt. I was really pissed b/c I took exactly one lipitor, had that side affect, got a new Rx for something different, and couldn't get a refund. $65 out the window (and that was the copay) To be fair, no pharmaceutical medicine is completely free of side-effects. Drug therapy is a trade-off — one necessary evil over an unnecessary evil. Except when that "necessary evil" cure becomes worse than the disease, that is. Returning prescription drugs was never permitted (at least not in my lifetime). Before the Tylenol Murders, it was primarily about infection control (you wouldn't want to get a bottle of pills that some ill person coughed all over, would you?). But now it's all about liability. The real bugger is that A.) the price of the Lipitor would be much less if Pfizer hadn't been permitted to spend massive amounts of money on TV advertising, and then pass those costs along to the patients; B.) if Pfizer hadn't waged their extensive ad campaign, you might have gotten the better drug on the first try. We need to be wise consumers, in all areas of our lives, in order to keep getting screwed down to a minimum. Caveat emptor. The thing is that there's no need to have to be so vigilant when it comes to prescriptions. We know this because before the 1980s it wasn't this way. There were laws to protect us! The laws that forbade the direct marketing of prescription drugs directly to the patients were there for a very good reason. That reason for those laws has remained completely valid throughout. It's the crooked politicians who caused the Great Deregulation who are squarely to blame. They should be held accountable, criminally if applicable. At the very least they should be disgraced and their misdeeds should be recorded into history in bold type. Ronald Reagan's name should be removed from the monuments that were built for him, and every other place, to remind us of the massive damage and suffering that Reaganomics has caused. After a tough 22-month election "year", it's hard to think about getting motivated for more political battles. But people like you and I are the ones who have the power to bring about badly-needed change. It is our right to petition our representatives (both House and Senatorial) in government to bring about that change that will protect us from predators once again. But if we remain silent, then only Big Business will be heard. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Please, light that candle, for your own sake, and for everyone!
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Nov 15, 2008 - 10:45am |
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Xeric wrote: And HC apparently not only typed "Ohter" but likes it that way!
Maybe it's another med side effect. . . .
Dude! I didn't even know I had started this thread! Fixed now! Crazy Girl...that's me
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samiyam
Location: Moving North
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Nov 15, 2008 - 10:11am |
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meower wrote:
really?
A CRAZY GIRL IS HARD TO FINDI'm sorry you're so crazy I'm sorry you're so blue I'm sorry that this sad old song's for you Just when we had a good thing going You had to go and lose your mind Sane girls are so easy But a crazy girl's hard to find You see rabbits in the mirror And you cry at puppet shows You laugh at me when I take off my clothes But underneath the dusty covers Your madness almost shines Well those sane girls, they come so easy But a crazy girl's hard to find Just when I think I got ya figured You leave me way behind Just when I think I see your shadow I see it's only mine So you can see why I get nervous When you say you're gonna go 'Cause you could leave forever and never know So stay here in this mad house We'll lose it together this time Well those sane girls, they're so easy But a crazy girl's hard to find Yeah, those sane girls, they come so easy But a crazy girl's hard to find. ~ John Hiatt ~
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samiyam
Location: Moving North
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Nov 15, 2008 - 9:59am |
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meower wrote: or lack of, she said she wasnt taking her "crazy pill" (you oughta see me without MY crazy pill.
Crazy girls are hard to find...
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meower
Location: i believe, i believe, it's silly, but I believe Gender:
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Nov 15, 2008 - 9:47am |
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Xeric wrote: And HC apparently not only typed "Ohter" but likes it that way!
Maybe it's another med side effect. . . .
or lack of, she said she wasnt taking her "crazy pill" (you oughta see me without MY crazy pill.
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Xeric
Location: Montana Gender:
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Nov 15, 2008 - 9:46am |
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meower wrote:
or typing. when i first typed they, i wrote tehy
And HC apparently not only typed "Ohter" but likes it that way! Maybe it's another med side effect. . . .
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samiyam
Location: Moving North
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Nov 15, 2008 - 9:45am |
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Xeric wrote: Nope. But they are having minor dyslexia difficulties. . . .
It's the fish... the fish makes them high...
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meower
Location: i believe, i believe, it's silly, but I believe Gender:
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Nov 15, 2008 - 9:43am |
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Xeric wrote: Nope. But they are having minor dyslexia difficulties. . . .
or typing. when i first typed they, i wrote tehy
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Xeric
Location: Montana Gender:
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Nov 15, 2008 - 9:40am |
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meower wrote: are they having medical problems? Nope. But they are having minor dyslexia difficulties. . . .
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meower
Location: i believe, i believe, it's silly, but I believe Gender:
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Nov 15, 2008 - 9:38am |
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Xeric wrote: Small, cute mammal; lives near water and eats fish. Swims very well. Extremely smart and social. "Ohter" pronunciation more common in Minnesota and Alaska. are they having medical problems?
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Xeric
Location: Montana Gender:
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Nov 15, 2008 - 9:32am |
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oldslabsides wrote:Ohter.....is that a pharmaceutical company?
Small, cute mammal; lives near water and eats fish. Swims very well. Extremely smart and social. "Ohter" pronunciation more common in Minnesohta and Alaska, by golly.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Nov 15, 2008 - 9:30am |
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Ohter.....is that a pharmaceutical company?
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Nov 15, 2008 - 9:23am |
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Servo wrote:I don't take any medications like that, but according to the television, you must be one of the 0.001% of people who have Restless Leg Syndrome. Go to your doctor and demand another prescription. And when you have side-effects from that, get more pills for your pills, and so on and so on... My grandmother died 5-10 years before she needed to, and spent the last years of her life in horrible condition, due to massive over-prescription of pharmaceutical drugs. At the time she went into a nursing home, she had over 100 active prescriptions. That was before deregulation, and the gigabuck direct marketing campaigns from drug companies. You know, the companies that "can't afford" to develop drugs that treat real medical conditions, but spend 90% of their profits on advertising, not research... I am totally aware of the drug company-physician collusion and what it can turn into. I have thus far avoided taking any kind of meds, except for my crazy pill and this, which I have also avoided taking. The Lipitor did that toe-curling thing, but the replacement one doesnt. I was really pissed b/c I took exactly one lipitor, had that side affect, got a new Rx for something different, and couldn't get a refund. $65 out the window (and that was the copay) We need to be wise consumers, in all areas of our lives, in order to keep getting screwed down to a minimum.
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Servo
Location: Down on the Farm Gender:
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Nov 14, 2008 - 10:55pm |
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hippiechick wrote:Do any of you other old fogies take Lipitor? I started it just last night and I got these really weird cramps in my toes that actually made my toes overlap. Anyone else have a side effect like this?
I don't take any medications like that, but according to the television, you must be one of the 0.001% of people who have Restless Leg Syndrome. Go to your doctor and demand another prescription. And when you have side-effects from that, get more pills for your pills, and so on and so on... My grandmother died 5-10 years before she needed to, and spent the last years of her life in horrible condition, due to massive over-prescription of pharmaceutical drugs. At the time she went into a nursing home, she had over 100 active prescriptions. That was before deregulation, and the gigabuck direct marketing campaigns from drug companies. You know, the companies that "can't afford" to develop drugs that treat real medical conditions, but spend 90% of their profits on advertising, not research...
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Location: hotel in Las Vegas Gender:
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Nov 14, 2008 - 9:09pm |
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Here is some information on medical stuff that is rare, but devastating... Wobblers Anonymous — "WOBBLERS are people who have been damaged by gentamicin. Gentamicin is a very powerful aminoglycoside (antibiotic) than can have devastating side effects. It can cause deafness, severe kidney damage, and can completely wipe out the vestibular system... the system that you use for balance..." the biggest risk for gentamicin is overdosing... it can destroy a person's vestibular apparatus, which are sensory organs for the balance system that are three semicircular canals in the inner ear... one canal detects movement in the horizontal plane, another in the vertical plane, and another when we are moving forward or backward... the signals for the vestibular apparatus go along a nerve to a specialized clump of neurons in one's brain called "vestibular nuclei" which send commands to muscles to adjust balance...
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Nov 14, 2008 - 8:43pm |
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romeotuma wrote:
I love you... and I know what you mean— I have been two and a half years without a cigarette... I have lots more energy these days... cigarettes were once my favorite treat after a meal...
I sure miss smoking...
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hippiechick
Location: topsy turvy land Gender:
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Nov 14, 2008 - 8:36pm |
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romeotuma wrote:
Yum yum... you eat well, honey... I would love to eat you... just watch out for the ice cream... and take comfort that generic pravastatin is made in Israel, my Jewish princess...
Hmm...no kidding! I would love to be eaten I've had to give up all my favorite foods: steak, ice cream, diet coke. it's ok; i've gotten skinnier than i have been in at least 30 years, i'm healthy as hell, i have lots of energy, i'm looking forward to cutting the rug with you. And I promise I won't step on your heart or your kidneys!
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