[dahlek]

INTERACTIONS!

I've been going thru an extensive series of tests because my blood work has been becoming more abnormal...over the last year and a half... I kept pointing this aspect out to ALL of my specialists AND my GP and all ignored it until late this winter. THEN they all went intio red alert! I just kept pointing out to them that the #'s had been going up and I HAD mentioned it and HAD mentioned that my combo of meds could be toxic....overall. I teased them all with 'Do you only pay attention if there are a LOT of asterisk**** s after any numbers? These have been going UP and I've pointed that out for the last year?'

Well, I got a very short letter from this last specialist thinking that it is the overall combo of meds that is toxic to me....I see this one next week for a f/u on this opinion. Can I just vent and go DUH? HAS ANY PROFESSIONAL BEEN LISTENING??? before now? I suppose that the only good thing about THIS specialist is that he actually READ about all the meds I am on? I am grateful, but at the same time...scared spitless!

Please people, look up all the details about side effects, common and rare and even less common about each and every medication you take! There is a lot of information there? But it's deliberately obtuse...using medical language meant to obscure the real effects a person can experience. If you encounter different, not common effects? Please call the pharma company 800 #'s as they are the ones to really put things together...even tho a drug may have been on the market for ages...they DO keep trak of new different interactions...and this could not only save your life, but that of others...

I am on a very peculiar and unique set of meds...but each and every one of us should be suspicious of what any MED can do TO us as well as FOR us...more so and of more concern if in combination with other meds...
What seems to be good for us in each piece, could be hurting us in the parcel...so to speak. Personally I tend to like my whole 'parcel' intact? I'm supposing no one else feels differently! Hugs to all! I've 'vented'! 's - j