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MOMFUDSKI

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1. I have to tell every doc that I am extremely sensitive to drugs.

Tue Dec 13, 2022, 05:29 PM

Dec 2022

I always get 'the look' like I know better than you do. But if you bother to read the literature that comes along with the script it invariably says, "Women over 60 may have adverse effects". Well, kids, I can tell you that is true and correct. So I always start with a lower dose than advised. Given Gabapentin recently and I lasted 7 doses. Couldn't focus my eyes for first hour in the morning and then felt really crappy and checked my blood pressure which was 112/55. So I am done with that stuff. I will get 'the look' from the doc in 10 days when I tell him I am off that train.

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Adverse Drug Reactions Overly Affect Women. The Reason Why Is Starting to Emerge [View all] Warpy Dec 2022 OP

I have to tell every doc that I am extremely sensitive to drugs. MOMFUDSKI Dec 2022 #1

I am to some, not to others Warpy Dec 2022 #2

They've known this for almost 50 years but they just want to tweak things. halfulglas Dec 2022 #3

They just stuffed their heads farther up their butts Warpy Dec 2022 #4

The same can be said about seatbelts mercuryblues Dec 2022 #5

Air bags were the worst Warpy Dec 2022 #6

Good stuff there, Warpy. MOMFUDSKI Dec 2022 #7

For the seat belt I buy those snap on cushion tubes and position it so I don't halfulglas Dec 2022 #8

All they had to do was mount the shoulder harness about 6 inches lower Warpy Dec 2022 #10

If you are a woman, or know a woman, or suspect your mum may have been a woman... SorellaLaBefana Dec 2022 #9

I know a lot of women who are ex military Warpy Dec 2022 #11