For the first time in my adult life I have a health insurance plan that covers therapy. Needless to say, I've been using many of my sessions to try and trouble-shoot (as my mental health person also has prescribing rights) that fine balance between antidepressant side effects screwing up my life and depression screwing up my life. Since we can't change my wacky schedule, we've been trying to do other things to help with the insomnia.
(This is a vast improvement over my previous system in which I'd go to my primary care doc and complain that Ihateeverbody wasn't working. Wherein he'd sympathize and give me a shiny new pen emblazoned with Noyougotohell and tell me he'd heard good things about its efficacy for depression and did I want some free samples to go with that scrip?)
And when I filled my prescription for a sleeping pill this week, I had the following conversation with the pharmacy intern about side effects and drug interactions:
Me, skimming through attached pharmacy handout: "It says here not to take it with GHB. Isn't that illegal?" (To your average layperson, GHB is best known as a date rape drug.)
Intern: "Well yes, but you're not supposed to take it with it."
Me, succumbing to morbid curiosity: "So what happens if you do?"
Intern: "It can be really sedating."
Extra points to my beloved pharmacy for placing a label on the bottle that says "Warning: May cause drowsiness."
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I think that falls under the legal term CYA, much like the beach towel sold that has the warning: "Not to be used as a hurricane shelter."
Yeeeah... Right.
Cat.
I'm not sure if I should laugh or not! "May cause drowsiness"... "hurricane shelter"... Wow.
A sleeping pill that causes drowsiness? That's a first.
I remember Phenergen having absolutely no effect on either my babies or, in desperation, myself.
Pete
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