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My other half has a chronic psychiatric condition, after struggling for 2 years we'd found a combo that worked. Prior to that though, we'd had to check drug/dru
by schreiaj 8y ago
My other half has a chronic psychiatric condition, after struggling for 2 years we'd found a combo that worked. Prior to that though, we'd had to check drug/drug interactions ourselves because a previous doctor simply didn't, nor did the pharmacist...
Been using Epocrates (the free parts) to check interactions and side effects. Beats digging through the FDA website for it.
One suggestion, NEVER look up common drugs like Advil.
- eftychis 8y ago>> One suggestion, NEVER look up common drugs like Advil. Why is that?
- schreiaj 8y agoBecause if there was one instance of it during trial or there was someone that had it while on the medication even unrelated it's probably in there. So say someone took Advil then had, as a minor example, violent giggling fits completely unrelated. Now violent giggling fits is going to be listed as an adverse effect for Advil because, maybe it caused it? Now replace violent giggling with fun things like: stroke, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, or whatever other fun things are listed on Advil... Basically, likely to scare yourself for no reason. But for more serious drugs? Maybe worth some digging.