The Ultimate Medicine Cabinet

There are four types of pills that my grandma and many other old people take.

1. Prescription Pills
2. Nutritional Supplement pills
3. Back-Home Herbal pills
4. The underground old people exchange pills
(often expired and often misdiagnosed)

The following is her monthly Prescription pill order only

1. Diovan 160mg
2. Novo-Rabeprazole EC 20mg
3. Cromolyn Ophth 2% DRO
4. Senokot 8.6mg
5. Apo-Indomethacin 50mg
6. Novo-Gesic Forte 500mg
7. Apo-Atenol 50mg
8. Apo-Lorazepam 1mg

Cocktail party anyone??

You name it, I got it!!

3 comments

Updated about 3 weeks ago

Brook Thorndycraft wrote at 9:50pm on April 1st, 2008 Random, Faisal. Guess I wouldn't expect anything else. Delete

Glynis Vas wrote at 1:03am on April 2nd, 2008 Lots of thoughts: (1) Has she shared with her dr about the non-allopathic drugs? (in terms of her possibly knowing about bad interactions b/w the allopathic drugs and the others) (2) Not a new thought and I'm not against all drug use, but: drug companies risk putting themselves out of business by actually curing ailments...what do we think of them simply managing symptoms? This is quite a black-and-white statement b/c some drug companies encourage prevention techniques in addition to promoting their products. (3) Not that I'd know which, if any, of the above drugs are psychotropic, but some psychotropic drugs zone ppl out so much that they're fairly asexual. Some argue for this being a case of eugenics, purifying the human race... Some ppl diagnosed with mental illness are legally required to take medication while living out in the community (vs. being in the hospital acutely) (4) Don't know how valid this is, but I heard that maybe Lilly (?) took Prozac (?) and changed the Delete

Glynis Vas wrote at 1:06am on April 2nd, 2008 color of the pill to pink and then repositioned it as some sort of PMS medication. I know that was a lot of '?"s and "maybe"s but if this is true, then it's bologne (sp?). That's enough for now :)