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Originally Posted by kazbates
Kind of reminds me of the whole Anna Nicole Smith thing. I don't know what it is with people and taking so many different meds.  These celebrities have so many different people taking care of them that it seems way too easy for something like prescription interactions to go awry.  It's all so sad, really. |
Well, I must take between 15-20 pills every damn night, and now the doctor wants me to start taking 2 more. Drugs react differently with each person and depend a lot on personal habits and other physical conditions. I've been on the same meds now for close to 20 years, with nary a side effect. Even when they added Vicodin, Darvocet and Skelaxin to the mix, nothing. Nothing when they added the blood pressure meds (except the little heart attack when I was off the bp meds for a few days).
So, it's not always the person taking the drugs, or even their doctor or pharmacist who's at fault, because no one may be at fault. I've been warned of so many potential drug interactions and side effects, none of which has ever happened (to me anyway), that after a while, I find I just shrug most of them off.