I had a scare. Something wasn’t right, and it didn’t seem to be getting better with time. I went to the doctor and he did an exam and all the tests came back normal! Yay! My doctor may be a better GP than I give him credit, but this was the same guy that, when I went in to get a followup on my hip surgery, said, standing outside my door, “Oh My God! Have you ever seen this much metal in one person?” and then nonchalantly walked in and asked me how “we” were feeling. “I hurt, but how about you? I heard you panicking outside. Are YOU ok?” Anyway, he gave me a prescription and when I got it and opened the box, it had a sheet about 2 feet by 3 feet in mouse point front and back about the stuff in the tube. I spent about 45 min looking for the dosage information. It was about 2 lines in the middle of all this mess. Side effects include but aren’t limited to
- cancer
- other cancer
- unintelligible cancer (I ripped a hole in the paper when I tried to unglue it from itself so I could read it)
- heart attack
- nausea
- diahrea
- death
So it leaves me with a few questions.
- Why don’t they put the dosage on the box or on the tube?
- Why do they glue the page together when it’s going into a box?
- Why would I take something that might kill me so I can feel better?
- Why don’t they say in the prescription how long I’m supposed to take this?
- Why do they have to name every study and every statistic about the stuff?
- Is it a controlled substance?
I can’t wait to be off this stuff. It does appear to be doing what he said it would do, but it’s a pain in the ass to use. Do other countries have to put such ridiculous packaging on everything? I think the box could have been 25% smaller without the disclaimers.
UPDATE:
Ya, I took the medicine for a couple of weeks. And then I stopped. Why? Because the whole situation could be solved by getting more sleep. As of 2021, I have not had a relapse of that condition. So instead of taking this awful medicine, I could have added a nap or two, or gotten to bed a couple hours earlier. Sleep or medicine? Hmmm, I’ll take sleep.
Measureable progress 