CVS will charge $109.99 for a two-pack of the generic version of Adrenaclick, a lesser-known treatment than EpiPen, which can cost more than $600, the Associated Press reported. The products are auto-injectors that contain the hormone epinephrine and provide emergency treatment for potentially deadly allergic reactions to foods such as nuts and eggs and to insect bites and stings.The drug store chain said it cut the price of the generic version of Adrenaclick nearly in half and that the lower price is available in all its stores. The new price applies to both insured patients and those who pay cash without coverage, and is what customers will pay at the pharmacy counter, the AP reported.
$50 each is still entirely too expensive, but it’s better than nothing. Readers, take note!
Nyquil fucks me up every time I take it and furthermore, has the audacity to make me forget what fucking happens every single time. Since taking it at about midnight last night, My day:
Woke up at 4-6 AM and apparently did the dishes
Fiance gets up at 8:00AM, allegedly has fully cognizant conversation with me about his plans to stay late and tutor classmates. I don’t remember even being awake.
at 9:32 AM, my Dad called me and i had a 23-minute phone call with him that I have no recollection of, but apparently I spent most of it discussing the merits and drawbacks of the various tablets my mother is interested in. I was mad about how expensive updating storage capacity was for most of them.
Felling way more sober than I actually am, attempt to drive to school at 10:12. and spend enough time confused why my keys aren’t working on my car that my neighbor actually comes out of his apartment to ask what I’m doing to his car. I decide to stay home.
10:40: Send emails to professors to tell them I’m in no shape to be in class. I think I am eloquent. Upon opening my email later I realize I’ve sent them emails with the subject line “fuckt up” and message: “sorry, love you.”
Benefits of going to a small college: they know I’ve got exciting drug reactions already and are sick as well and reply with “I understand and hope you are feeling well soon, here is today’s lecture slides” and “lol” respectively.
~11- 12:30 : Get lost in neighborhood walking dog. In my defense, it’s 99% off-beige generic prefab housing on nonlinear-bordering-on-noneuclidean streets and Charlie had no interest in going home either.
12:30-3:00: Wall
3:00 : phone alarm goes off and I suddenly realize fiance was supposed to be home an hour and a half ago. Fly into immediate panic, try to find phone to call him and/or the sherrif becuase he’s obviously dead in a ditch or something. I am holding my phone the whole time.
3:16 : Fiance gets home, I cry like a bitch, the dog also cries, everyone has a really bad 15 minutes.
3:33 : Realize I haven’t actually ate or drank yet today. Immediately consume a quart of apple cider and plate of taquitos. Make pork chops and potatoes and don’t stop talking about what happens if a werewolf has sex with a dog while shifted the entire time.
4:00: pass out on couch to the soothing sounds of Mario Oddesy
1AM: Why is it thursday?
The moral of the story is that you should always write down any drug reactions and label medication you should take with a large index card that says “DO NOT TAKE THIS IT FUCKS YOU UP THEN YOU FORGET” in large, friendly letters.
To answer a few questions about this post:
I didn’t take anything Except the Nyquil the previous night.
This happens to me with most sinus medication- benadryl, children’s cold meds, nasal sprays etc.
According to my Psychiatrist, some people with ADHD, Bipolar, Depression or TBI can have really weird reactions to sinus drugs because they fuck with your sleep/wake cycle, though the exact mechanisms are unknown.
Out here, “Apple Cider” is apple juice made with the skin left in, the boozy stuff is called “Hard Cider”
“Wall” refers to the act of lying on one’s side, staring at the spackle with nary a thought in one’s skull. It’s soothing, except for the part where you don’t actually feel like anything. 0/10, not reccomended.
My conclusion is that it results in wolf-hybrids with werehumanism, thank you two people who asked.
my favorite side effect warning is for antidepressants
pros: you won’t want to kill yourself
cons: you might want to kill yourself
Back when I was in a psychiatric hospital, and was offered antidepressants, my mother had declined them due to that apparent side effect. So the staff actually explained about this effect antidepressants have, that give reason to that warning. When first taking antidepressants they raise up your energy first. So that you have the energy to do the tasks you might have avoided doing due to your depression. Because of this those who were already suicidal, now have the energy to go do so. Which is the ones this warning is given for. It’s not that a side effect of antidepressants magically makes you want to kill yourself, it’s the energy it gives those who were already struggling with suicidal issues, to actually attempt the act.
Very informative…
Wow. I’m so glad you explained that. Now I understand
My high school choir/psych teacher actually told is about this. She also said if you have a suicidal friend who starts seeming like they might be getting better because they have more energy, that’s the time to be cautious because that’s when they may still be suicidal but they’ll actually have the energy to go through with it
THIS. a thousand times THIS. I had it explained to me in my AP psychology class in high school. super fucking important.
THIS IS SO IMPORTANT and I wish my doctors had explained it to me this well when I first started taking them.
JUST GONNA REBLOG THIS AGAIN TO ADD that my younger sister in law recently started on anti-depressants among other medications in juncture with therapy to help handle an extreme case of OCD and anxiety, and I was the one who had to explain this to her. Her doctor only explained the risks, and not WHY they would actually be considered risks, which put her off of taking medication for most of her life. I explained it, and she understood, and THAT is why she is now on medication that is significantly improving her life. DOCTORS NEED TO TELL US THIS SHIT.
Best description of why ‘increased risk of suicide’ is included in the warning for anti-depressants I’ve ever read.
Signal boost this to save a life.
While this definitely needs to be spread, this isn’t always the reason for them including that as a side effect. Some antidepressants do make people more suicidal, not because it’s making them better, but because it’s making them worse.
If you start to feel suicidal when taking a new med, tell your provider *immediately*.
When I was put on Prozac my suicidal ideations became way more intense and I ended up trying to kill myself. Turns out my body doesn’t process SSRIs well and I was switched to lamictal. I am doing so much better now.
I’m not saying this to deter anyone from getting help or starting a new medication, but feeling more suicidal isn’t necessarily an indicator that a medication is working.
I had some similar experiences, including with Prozac. Which got totally dismissed at the time (along with other side effects) as irrational resistance to taking medications at all. It was very dangerous, and I know I am not the only one to encounter this.
One thing that SSRIs and some other medications can do? Lower seizure threshold. Where temporal lobe seizures in particular can be interpreted as worsening psych symptoms, unrelated to the meds and requiring more which may make the situation worse.
(Very much including the possibility of agitation/sudden strong anxiety attacks and suicidal thoughts, yes.)
With our tendency toward unusual medication reactions and high prevalence of epilepsy, this may be a much more common issue for autistic people. Even if you’re not aware of having had seizures before. (I did, but they were never recognized as such.) Lowering the threshold may be enough to cause problems there.
It’s a possibility to keep in mind for anyone who is suddenly having unusual experiences while taking medication(s), and too rarely considered as an explanation.
Important for people to have plenty of info going in. And to consider that anything out of the ordinary that starts happening on a medication is most likely related.
Three cats died after their owners used an anti-inflammatory cream used to treat arthritis. The Food and Drug Administration warns to keep drugs away from pets; a tiny bit can be toxic.
Important for spoonies with cats!
Creams with Flurbiprofen are fatal to cats.
Brands that use this chemical (Not a complete list):
Myoflex Traumeel Capzasin
If you have cats, check your pain relieving cream for this, and keep them from ingesting it, please!
Here’s a more thorough article about this, which includes info about other types of pain relief cream + tips for keeping pets safe if you use pain relief cremes of any kind! And here’s another one that talks about other types of topical medications (hydrocortisone, antibiotic ointment, hormone cream, etc.).
I didn’t see a mention anywhere, but most NSAIDs are toxic enough to cats that I would also be very careful with topical Voltaren/diclofenac or ibuprofen. Which seem to be more common than flurbiprofen in the UK, that I know of.
I was very glad to hear they finally came up with an NSAID that’s specifically cat-safe (the alternatives for cats before were steroids or opiates). But yeah – the vast majority of NSAIDs aren’t, and pretty much any NSAID commonly used by humans is not going to be cat-safe. Also, even medications that are not deadly to cats just because of what they are, are probably going to be deadly to cats because of the difference in quantity between cats and humans.
(I have to admit it was weird when my cat and I were both on Prednisone from the same pharmacy. I ran out of my own, and the pharmacy told me they couldn’t get it right away but that in the meantime I should use my cat’s meds – at a higher dose of course. Prednisone being a steroid that is not automatically lethal to cats as long as you keep it at cat-friendly doses.)
Also a lot of times meds humans take over-the-counter can have ingredients that are toxic to cats. Tylenol (acetaminophen) is in so many things that our local hospital passes out warning pamphlets to keep people from overdosing on it by combining several things that all have it. And it’s very toxic to cats.
(Fairly toxic to humans, too – hence the danger of liver damage or death if you take too much. In fact, there are opiates that are deliberately formulated in a way that’s combined with Tylenol to prevent addicts from trying to get high by taking too much of them. Or at least – whyever they were originally formulated that way – they’re prescribed for that reason over pure opiates in some situations. Which seems like a rather extreme and sadistic measure to me, given that some people won’t know it’s toxic, and some people will know but care more about the high than the risk of death. If the risk of death was enough to keep people from abusing a drug, there’d be a lot less drug abuse and a lot fewer overdose deaths.)
Currently plotting another trip to Tranquility Aquatics via the Sainsbury’s just down the street from there, since it should work better for the fish in that order.
Not necessarily so much for me, with the fish shop closing two hours earlier than the other store location and needing to lug groceries around for longer. But, I imagine they’d be stressed enough by getting netted and tied up in bags without riding around in a shopping cart too 😨 Only planning to pick up a few urgent items (famous last words), but still.
It’s cooled down enough today that I might take along an insulated bag just to be safe. It should only be maybe 10-15 minutes home, but those bags don’t have much water to hold the temperature stable and I don’t necessarily trust the buses.
It’s also pouring rain, and I would probably skip that grocery run otherwise. Out of a few basics like GF bread and really need to make a pharmacy stop, but still. More inclined to try to muster the spoons and go out in the rain with the prospect of new fish *wry smile*
Well, I did manage to make it out to both places. And I don’t think I even forgot anything super important this time *fingers crossed*
That was pretty stressful, especially on the way home just as rush hour was getting rolling in the direction I was heading–with no headphones along because I’m a Muppet 😳 I was already kinda overloaded from the multiple stops and bus rides.
But, I made it home and the new corys are floating in the tank for temperature adjustment now. Very glad I did get that done, though. That was actually the first time in longer than I care to think about that I’ve gotten out on the bus for grocery shopping, and now I have a few things quicker without setting up a delivery.
Sandwich time pretty soon, I imagine, now that there’s more bread.
Currently plotting another trip to Tranquility Aquatics via the Sainsbury’s just down the street from there, since it should work better for the fish in that order.
Not necessarily so much for me, with the fish shop closing two hours earlier than the other store location and needing to lug groceries around for longer. But, I imagine they’d be stressed enough by getting netted and tied up in bags without riding around in a shopping cart too 😨 Only planning to pick up a few urgent items (famous last words), but still.
It’s cooled down enough today that I might take along an insulated bag just to be safe. It should only be maybe 10-15 minutes home, but those bags don’t have much water to hold the temperature stable and I don’t necessarily trust the buses.
It’s also pouring rain, and I would probably skip that grocery run otherwise. Out of a few basics like GF bread and really need to make a pharmacy stop, but still. More inclined to try to muster the spoons and go out in the rain with the prospect of new fish *wry smile*
Hey short version, we just don’t have money to refill my meds and pay for new ones that I’ve just been prescribed for diabetes. Even with my wife’s paycheck, we’re really tight on money and she ended up being out of work for almost two weeks with strep throat pretty recently.
I’m in major need of money asap, as my antidepressant and heartburn meds are almost out. I also need to pick up advair to control my asthma but it’s expensive, and I need to pick up insulin as well (even MORE expensive)
If anyone can spare anything, I would be SO grateful.
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