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Title: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: franksolich on February 25, 2009, 01:09:57 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=276x8780

Oh my.

But don't nobody be fooled; this "three day conference" is a euphemism for something else.

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undergroundpanther  (1000+ posts)        Sat Feb-14-09 12:58 AM
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The neurontin didn't work out

Last week I was at a 3 day long conference. And the neurontin I had been taking was giving me nasty side effects.I walked into the room and a few people asked me if I was OK. I told them I was.

I didn't know it but I was walking around like I was drunk or something. I had been dizzy for a week or two I had gotten used to being dizzy and it had been intensifying apparently.

So when I saw my therapist the next week she noticed I was moving funny too. I couldn't keep my eyes from twitching and moving too.. As I got up to leave I ran into her door frame,bounced off, caught myself,ended up ping ponging down the hallway.

My therapist said the neurontin was obviously not working for me,so she got me some cymbalta samples,since med assistance refuses to pay for it,and it's an ongoing battle.

The difference between the side effects of neurontin and cymbalta are profound. I am a bit more tired than usual,but not as beat as I was taking the neurontin, the dizziness and eyeball twitching stuff has stopped too.

Cymbalta and the neurontin both are to help the neuropathy in my back,that's why it was prescribed.

And cymbalta works on the pain a little better than the neurontin did.I was actually able to sleep on my right side for awhile!! It has been months I've been sleeping on my left side only.It feels good to be able to rest in different positions.

I hope they can keep me afloat with samples.

The always-encouraging Doug's ex-wife:

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EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Sat Feb-14-09 05:36 PM
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2. That's exactly what happened to Doug on Neurontin.

I'm so happy you straightened that out!

Don't nobody be fooled; "Doug on Neurontin" = "Doug's ex-wife on Nuerontin."
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: Flame on February 25, 2009, 01:16:52 PM
How does one "get used" to being dizzy, and not notice appearing as though you are falling down drunk?
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: VivisMom on February 25, 2009, 01:30:04 PM
The same way one gets used to looking like a tattooed shemale feline, I'd imagine.
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: AprilRazz on February 25, 2009, 03:22:42 PM
How does one "get used" to being dizzy, and not notice appearing as though you are falling down drunk?
It has been dizzy most of it's life.
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: JohnnyReb on February 25, 2009, 04:03:23 PM
How does one "get used" to being dizzy, and not notice appearing as though you are falling down drunk?

It's not hard to do.....been practicing for 40 years..... :rotf:

Inner ear trouble, can't close my eyes for long and remain standing.....probably couldn't pass a roadside sobriety test cold sober.
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: The Village Idiot on February 25, 2009, 05:37:51 PM
its going to be worse for you when govt decides to go with only the cheapest meds. rationing for all.
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: franksolich on February 25, 2009, 05:43:42 PM
its going to be worse for you when govt decides to go with only the cheapest meds. rationing for all.

Oh, it'll be worse than that.

I've seen it.

Before I went to the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants with free medical care for all, I had read a book about a British nurse who had been with the armies of the tsar 1914-1917, in which she described how, because of rampant corruption that got pharmaceuticals "lost," pain from wounds and amputations was relieved by occasional Orthodox monks using.....hypnotism.

Wow, I thought.

I however never dreamed that I myself would see such things during the last half of the last decade of the twentieth century, and in Europe.

If any of 0bama's nonsense gets through, I suspect the subway cat's going to be seeing a hypnotist on a regular basis, because there won't be any drugs, period, not even cheap ones.
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: Rebel on February 25, 2009, 05:48:13 PM
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subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises

Two monkeys trying to **** the same football.
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: The Village Idiot on February 25, 2009, 05:48:35 PM
Rationing is a terrible thing. All those medical companies will stop spending billions on discovering new medicines because there won't be any incentive. The new meds would be much more expensive and would never get approval by the rationers.

I hear there is a new psoriasis pill. interesting, but govt will make us stay with DermaRest I guess and that pill would never be produced.

How many cures will not happen??
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: Duke Nukum on February 25, 2009, 05:52:09 PM
Rationing is a terrible thing. All those medical companies will stop spending billions on discovering new medicines because there won't be any incentive. The new meds would be much more expensive and would never get approval by the rationers.

I hear there is a new psoriasis pill. interesting, but govt will make us stay with DermaRest I guess and that pill would never be produced.

How many cures will not happen??
Didn't we lose a lot of pharmaceuticals when the Clintons attempted socialized healthcare? Like more than half of the US companies?
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: dandi on February 25, 2009, 06:00:17 PM
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I walked into the room and a few people asked me if I was OK.

I have a feeling Catnip has heard this question many times, though it had nothing to do with any medication she was taking.
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: The Village Idiot on February 25, 2009, 06:03:57 PM
I have a feeling Catnip has heard this question many times, though it had nothing to do with any medication she was taking.
\\"what planet did you get exiled from?" is also common for her/he/it
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: Tucker on February 25, 2009, 08:48:52 PM
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undergroundpanther  (1000+ posts)        Sat Feb-14-09 12:58 AM
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The neurontin didn't work out

Last week I was at a 3 day long conference. And the neurontin I had been taking was giving me nasty side effects.I walked into the room and a few people asked me if I was OK. I told them I was.

I didn't know it but I was walking around like I was drunk or something. I had been dizzy for a week or two I had gotten used to being dizzy and it had been intensifying apparently.

So when I saw my therapist the next week she noticed I was moving funny too. I couldn't keep my eyes from twitching and moving too.. As I got up to leave I ran into her door frame,bounced off, caught myself,ended up ping ponging down the hallway.

My therapist said the neurontin was obviously not working for me,so she got me some cymbalta samples,since med assistance refuses to pay for it,and it's an ongoing battle.

The difference between the side effects of neurontin and cymbalta are profound. I am a bit more tired than usual,but not as beat as I was taking the neurontin, the dizziness and eyeball twitching stuff has stopped too.

Cymbalta and the neurontin both are to help the neuropathy in my back,that's why it was prescribed.

And cymbalta works on the pain a little better than the neurontin did.I was actually able to sleep on my right side for awhile!! It has been months I've been sleeping on my left side only.It feels good to be able to rest in different positions.

I hope they can keep me afloat with samples.

Er! A little help here guys. Wouldn't that be today? :mental:
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: The Village Idiot on February 25, 2009, 10:09:00 PM
a 3 day conference?

what line of business is she/he/it in?

was she brought in for show & tell?

she was on drugs the whole time huh?
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: Chris_ on February 25, 2009, 10:12:02 PM
a 3 day conference?

what line of business is she/he/it in?

was she brought in for show & tell?

she was on drugs the whole time huh?

Good point...

Where was the American Psychiatric Association meeting last week?

"This, my esteemed colleagues, is one truely ****ed up person, and I just had to show you all how bad it could get.  I give you...   The Subway Kitty!!!!"
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: DixieBelle on February 25, 2009, 10:15:26 PM
Sounds like it was the annual tweaking of the meds and soft room time.
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: The Village Idiot on February 25, 2009, 10:17:59 PM
Good point...

Where was the American Psychiatric Association meeting last week?

"This, my esteemed colleagues, is one truely ****ed up person, and I just had to show you all how bad it could get.  I give you...   The Subway Kitty!!!!"

it would not take a psych major more than 5 seconds to know the woman/cat is screwy. Now those who are professionals and get paid by the hour would need years to make a judgement
Title: Re: subway cat has problem with medications; Doug's ex-wife advises
Post by: BlueStateSaint on February 26, 2009, 04:14:13 AM
I actually saw, in Albany, what looked like the Gutter Gato, last year.  However, I've seem pictures of the Gutter Gato, and this being really didn't look likke that.  Still looked really effed up, though.