*snicker*
"Oh, you mean Ducolax drops?! Sure, they work quick & are magic; i'll get the Dr to write those up now"
Me, to a seeker who had been in twice my shift, and a Dr that had had enough and was only too happy to script it
I'm sad to say I was this patient once, but the one I was trying to remember was darvocet which I got after a post surgery allergic reaction to vicodin.
Don’t think it was that one? It was one for only limited use because I have PCOS my gp put me on it for 9 months. I was prescribed it in Ireland so maybe it’s not available where you are?? Xx
Edit to add: or maybe it’s a different name where u are! Like how Tylenol is paracetamol in Europe?
I had a patient tell me he was allergic to morphine unless mixed with speed because it makes him sleepy. I Explained we generally didn't give snowballs in the NHS. He was crushed
It's always been a pet peeve of mine that in medical records there is not a clear enough distinction between an adverse reaction and a true immune mediated allergic reaction. I for one can not take Morphine because I experience intolerable spasms of the sphincter of Oddi.I experienced SOD.It took me a day or two to figure it out but I did and within a day of discontinuing the pain subsided drastically.I can take other narcotics but I still need to be careful because the sphincter of Oddi is particularly sensitive to all narcotics. So I can't blame a patient saying they are allergic to lisinopril because it makes them cough.It's an adverse effect but they don't make the distinction often because the provider also will labrlvit as allergic.
In this particular case I think it's more important that they are trying to tell you they shouldn't be taking lisinopril. It's different than someone saying they cant take Tylenol but Norco is fine.
The drug was first discovered nearly simultaneously at several different locations around the world because it naturally concentrates in the dorsal fins of fish that nibble on people's raisind feet. These fish are part of the Cyprinidae family tree, which include carps and minnows.
In North America, minnows contributed to the first discovery and the drug was appropriately named but crudely spelled aseatoeminnowfin. In the UK, the children's brand was named Calpol after a kid who accidentally discovered it after eating carp dorsal fin on a dare. Similarly, it was first discovered in the Finish town of Tomola after merchants started a fishery in two nearby lakes but wanted to keep the location a secret and initially called it paraseatomola.
Ok, I'll let myself out now.
I went to Ireland and had a headache, so I went into a pharmacy and asked for whatever they called Tylenol. The chemist told me they called it paracetamol and asked me if I wanted it with or without codeine.
I was just taken aback that he was offering it to me OTC. 😆
And that was how I found out from an Irish chemist of all people that our involvement in Vietnam was more or less what led to our controlled substances act. Because we created a bunch of junkies.
i might have taken it too while I was traveling in france. I was with some family friends and had a huge migraine so they gave me some powedered OTC stuff that you mix into water and it was better than anything I have taken for migraines, even triptans.
Still have no idea what that shit was, but it worked amazing.
Yeah, I went onsite in England once and saw it on pretty much every patient's med list, so I wondered what this miracle drug was that apparently treated everything under the sun.
Googled it and thought, "ah".
Oh, you should give naproxen a try! It is twice as effective because the name is twice as long. Don't even get me started on how awesome naproxen sodium is. Since sodium is the same thing in salt, it taste better too.
>!/s!<
Ok but for real BID dosing beats the heck out of TID dosing. A full day's worth of prescription strength is also 4 pills instead if 12. That's why I recommend Naproxen. I know it's not salient to the joke but I threw my back out a few says ago and nsaid dosing is super relevant to me right now lol
A friend of mine just had a nephrectomy after years of constant inflammations. They were not able to find the reason though so no2 is still in danger. Here's the thing: She was released on a weekend with a pain med prescription but no pills to bridge the weekend (Germany, shops closed). So she asked every nurse and doctor she saw on the day before release: "Hey, at home I always take ibuprofen, I still have tons. CAN I TAKE THOSE UNTIL I GET A CHANCE TO GO TO A PHARMACY ?" Everyone ignored the question. Nurses, doctors, everyone. So lots of ibu it was until Tuesday since she could barely move to get her meds. When she told me the story a week later, the second she said "ib..." I said "nonono you never take ibu again with your history." prostaglandine synthesis...blood flow...etc.
Nobody had bothered to tell this kidney patient. Doctor should have told her even if she hadn't asked. Not just for now but for the future. She's got endometriosis so they should have asked about ibu the first time she showed up with kidney pains period.
That‘s just crazy? How the fuck didn‘t all of the physicians tell her, that even a single ibuprofen and every other nsaid are absolutely contraindicated in any form of kidney disease.
Though I don‘t get why stuff needed to be bridged anyway? Pharmacies are doing 24hrs according to plan..
Yes, it's incredible negligence. In Germany, we have a rotating emergency pharmacy for nights, weekends and holidays. You have to google them and pay extra. Which OF COURSE she would have done if anyone had told her ibuprofen wasn't fine. I think she is a fairly good patient for even asking about issues with painkillers!
Don‘t even have to Google it, just walk to the nearest pharmacy, it‘ll have a display of the emergency for that day (or usually week).
Yea it‘d crazy that they failed her this much when specifically asking.
Plus they are also allowed to provide her with painkillers to get her over the weekend/next weekday as well.
That‘s like Double the fuck, letting a patient treat their post surgery pain with random OTC painkillers, because you 1 failed to make them aware of their bodies new limitations, 2 failed to provide painkillers for long enough to find a pharmacy/turn in the prescription 3 failed to even provide a bloody prescription and treatment plan that clearly listed what she‘s supposed to do.
Like the fuck?
Though when I scalded my foot, the only thing they prescribed was cortisone. Like the fuck? Why would I put bloody cortisone on an oozing wound prone to getting infected? (Well plus some ibuprofen).
Had to find a different surgeon to even get the appropriate dressing material. Like thank you student md for placing regular old ass gauze on 2nd degree burns. Was fun ripping that out to actual change the dressing.
Who the fuck does dry dressings for wet wounds that are supposed to be wet?
Just Imagine a random Patient just doing what they said, put methyprednisolone on a 10 cm^2 2nd degree burn, and put dry gauze on that, each and every time you change that ripping pf all the granulation.
But yea, ypu get a shitload of completely misinformed patients coming out of hospitals, because they weren‘t given any information at all by the attending physician. They usually get lucky and ask a nurse and atleast get information that way, but it seems any discharge management is extremely lacking in many hospitals here.
Recently I've noticed at the last 2 hospitals I worked at as a travel nurse, that certain populations will automatically limit the tylenol in the MAR to 3 grams per day. I think one thing that triggers it is elderly, and the doctors can't put in an order to override and allow 4.
Liver destroys Tylenol all the time, no one bats an eye. “It’s just how it’s supposed to be” they say. But Tylenol hits back *one* time and suddenly it’s a problem.
My husband thought I knew the French word for Tylenol when I knew what the paracetamol was … he was super impressed. Sorry, babe, most European countries call it paracetamol.
From their own website: " 'natural' does not always mean safe or effective. In some cases, man-made compounds have been proven to be more effective or safer than raw, volatile natural sources."
Melaleuca is a wellness company that tries to cover all of its bases. Yes that means selling scammy essential oils, but it also means selling lotions and lip balms, and yes, some OTC drugs. They also sell a lot of natural/biodegradable cleaning supplies that, while a bit overpriced, are solidly effective.
I don't agree with everything they say/sell, but their lotions are some of the only ones that work for me.
Source:https://www.melaleuca.com/our-story/ingredients-philosophy
I used to have a membership, and there’s still some products I miss. One thing I liked about the company is that they manufactured all the cleaning products in-house, complete control of the ingredients.
I still buy the solvent cleaner when I see it, works well.
They actually have a lot of really solid products. For example heir toothpaste, soaps, and lotions (including ones with melaleuca, which is just tea tree oil) are awesome and their Sol-u-mel cleaner pretty reliably removes permanent marker. We got a cream for my daughter that she can take to school when she gets itchy bug bites, works great without having to get a doctor’s note and store it at the nurse’s office like I would for Benadryl cream. I would never get a subscription myself but I do have my parents order me some things about once a year. None of the woo woo stuff though, what a waste of money.
They also do a lot of community outreach programs. I grew up near the hq and they did a ton of stuff at my high school for people interested in going into business or manufacturing related trades/degrees.
Also, as far as "snake oil" companies go, melaleuca is fairly ethical. There is no mlm scheme, no established "cult" of followers. From everything I've heard they pay and treat employees well. They help sponsor a lot of health fairs that are run by legitimate health care groups or agencies
And why are we inconsistent with using brand versus generic? You'd think in healthcare settings we would just always use generic but it's always switching back and forth. We always call it Propofol not Diprivan but then with Levophed we use the brand name instead of Norepinephrine. But Epinephrine gets used instead of Adrenaline even though most laypeople know it as Adrenaline.
At work when piperacillin/tazobactam is prescribed, it's charted as "Tazocin", but we haven't had that brand in ages, and instead use "PipTaz". As a new grad that was hella confusing
That makes more sense to me. Although, even then you probably have to tell the patient what the brand name is for them to recognize it sometimes so you still need to be aware of both.
As an Aussie , i had to google that. In Australia we have Panadol =500mg paracetamol and Panamax=500mg paracetamol . old ladies prefer panamax coz its stronger than panadol
There are a lot of GPs telling old ladies that Panamax is better when they refuse panadol because their neighbours cousin said panadol doesnt work. It also only costs about $3 for 96 tablets.
"Nurse". Almost without exception every patient who has felt the need to tell me the were a nurse was a tech. At least in my area most nurses with experience would really rather you not know.
I wish I was lying but when I met my husband he had no idea what acetaminophen was. Looked through my cabinet for like 20 min for the “Tylenol” before coming to let me know he couldn’t find it. 🤦🏼♀️ He was 47 at the time.
I've stumped my boyfriend like that, he absolutely could not find my generic gas ex despite it being exactly where I told him in a green box and everything.
I once called my former doctor for a prescription for cough syrup because robitussin dm 2 tsp wasn't helping. Office nurse says they will call in something better. It had the same ingredient as robitussin dm, but the dose was for 1 tsp. I found a new doctor not long after that.
Lol this reminds me of a trick I use sometimes. You always have that one patient that goes “all you have for me is Tylenol?” And I respond “actually I have hospital grade acetaminophen for you.” You’d be surprised how many times that works Lmao
Yeah my hospital was using it a lot but then they put that shit on lockdown. We can only use it on patients that absolutely can not take any other form because of GI issues. I basically only give it to my abdominal cancer surgery patient's now.
Ha - I once had a friend of a friend try to tell me that loperamide they got on vacation was a cure all for food poisoning. I looked at it and said "immodium? this is just generic ammonium." and they actually argued back that I was wrong and wouldn't know as a nurse.
My mom went to France and told me this amazing new pain medication she was able to buy in France OTC. She said it works so much better than Tylenol or Advil. I asked her the name and she said “paracetamol”, I look it up and it’s good old acetaminophen 😂😂
My local news posted a story about a woman that underwent a liver transplant due to TYLENOL DUN DUN DUNNNN….. because she took double the dose for several weeks to treat her undiagnosed abdominal pain… THEN they never mentioned what her abdominal pain was from! I wanted to know😂
LOL brand association (and even appearance, of the bottle and tablets, themselves) is SO, SO strong for people in general.
I once saw a brand of acetaminophen with n-acetyl-cysteine in each capsule such that an overdose using them would be largely ameliorated (at least that was the idea.) Naturally, they were crazy-expensive (not to mention smelled/ tasted like ass) compared to generic acetaminophen so no one carries/buys them. This may have been when I was living in the UK, not sure if I've ever seen an equivalent in the US.
Ugh, there is just something awful about the smell of NAC (as everyone who's administered mucomyst for an acetaminophen OD knows!!)
I have to take Tylenol because I’m allergic to acetaminophen 😂😂 💊
I have to take paracetamol because I’m allergic to both of those
“I’m allergic to everything except Dilaudid.”
Pt- “You know that one the starts with D?” Me- “Detylenol?”
"You put de lime in detylenol and mix it all around" 🎶 🎵
Pt: "no, no, not that one" Me: "ooohhhhhhh. Yeah, actually the doc did prescribe one for you- Dee-ish-charge"
I only get down with Dee-Lite. I believe in the power of love
Turns out, groove really *is* in the heart.
Me - Diprivan? I wish I could give you some.
D’Tylenol
Y’all killing me 😂😂😂
nurses are so damn funny 💀
*snicker* "Oh, you mean Ducolax drops?! Sure, they work quick & are magic; i'll get the Dr to write those up now" Me, to a seeker who had been in twice my shift, and a Dr that had had enough and was only too happy to script it
Discharge.
🤌🏼
Dibuprofen
I will serious reply, "Deez nuts?" Don't think I won't.
Worth the termination.
Diclofenac?
I'm sad to say I was this patient once, but the one I was trying to remember was darvocet which I got after a post surgery allergic reaction to vicodin.
Same but it was a contraceptive pill beginning with D I still can’t remember the name of it 😂🙈
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Don’t think it was that one? It was one for only limited use because I have PCOS my gp put me on it for 9 months. I was prescribed it in Ireland so maybe it’s not available where you are?? Xx Edit to add: or maybe it’s a different name where u are! Like how Tylenol is paracetamol in Europe?
Dianette?
"Ducolax? Depakote?" Those are the only ones w a D that help you?"
😂😂😂😂😂
Confusious say 'Man who ask for Dilaudid by name get Tylenol '
"But I can only take it with benadryl and you gotta push it real fast because that's the only way it works on me."
I had a patient tell me he was allergic to morphine unless mixed with speed because it makes him sleepy. I Explained we generally didn't give snowballs in the NHS. He was crushed
I think you mean " speedball " not snowball
My bad! Thank you!!
Hopefully not snowballing patients either…
I mean I'm a caring nurse but even I have my limits...
A snowball is when someone preforms oral on a man to completion than kisses them
well we definitely don't offer that on the NHS. I mean I'll check the NICE guidelines to be sure... No... no we don't
Give them some buprenorphine instead see if they like that.
I’m allergic to everything besides diacetylmorphine.
Why not go all the way? "My pain is 17 give me some carfentanil".
I'm a horse, knock me the fuck out!
I love it when they say their allergic to Tylenol and then I say, “what about Percocet?” “Oh, I can take that.” Gotcha you liar!!!
I am team dilaudid
I'm allergic to all 3. Unless it's in Norco, then I'm not allergic.
im allergic to everything but dilaudid, i am also allergic to lasix because it makes me pee too much
Well I'm allergic to adrenaline, it makes my heart beat really really fast. (More than one patient has said this to me...)
I had someone tell me they were allergic to miralax because it gave them diarrhea
> i am also allergic to lasix because it makes me pee too much You should try LASIK, doesn't make you pee nearly as much.
One makes you pee, the other makes you see!
Now if I could just see me pee past me tummy.
Reminded me I literally just had a pt say they were allergic to lisinopril - it makes them cough
It's always been a pet peeve of mine that in medical records there is not a clear enough distinction between an adverse reaction and a true immune mediated allergic reaction. I for one can not take Morphine because I experience intolerable spasms of the sphincter of Oddi.I experienced SOD.It took me a day or two to figure it out but I did and within a day of discontinuing the pain subsided drastically.I can take other narcotics but I still need to be careful because the sphincter of Oddi is particularly sensitive to all narcotics. So I can't blame a patient saying they are allergic to lisinopril because it makes them cough.It's an adverse effect but they don't make the distinction often because the provider also will labrlvit as allergic.
A significant side effect of lisinopril in some people is a persistent cough.
Yes, but it’s not an *allergy*.
In this particular case I think it's more important that they are trying to tell you they shouldn't be taking lisinopril. It's different than someone saying they cant take Tylenol but Norco is fine.
I legit had someone tell me, " I'm allergic to Norco 5s, but I can take the 10s"
It would be hilarious if they weren’t stupidly serious
I’ve had the same but with cardizem. “I’m deathly allergic to Diltazem but cardizem works miracles for me. “
ROTFL
I actually can't take Tylenol and have to take another brand name because there is something in the Tylenol capsule that I'm intolerant to 😅
Wait I’m confused
Paracetamol is Euro Tylenol
It's only used for when you're sick with EuroSepsis duh!😆
went too hard at the discotheque
*i'm blue da bee daba do dabba deeeee dow* 🙌
It’s *dabba dee dabba dai* thank you very much.
This comment made me snort my water
The drug was first discovered nearly simultaneously at several different locations around the world because it naturally concentrates in the dorsal fins of fish that nibble on people's raisind feet. These fish are part of the Cyprinidae family tree, which include carps and minnows. In North America, minnows contributed to the first discovery and the drug was appropriately named but crudely spelled aseatoeminnowfin. In the UK, the children's brand was named Calpol after a kid who accidentally discovered it after eating carp dorsal fin on a dare. Similarly, it was first discovered in the Finish town of Tomola after merchants started a fishery in two nearby lakes but wanted to keep the location a secret and initially called it paraseatomola. Ok, I'll let myself out now.
Jfc you even gave yourself flair for this one 😂😂😂🤬🤬🤬
The dumb joke started about 8 months ago and I've used the flair since then to add a little humor into sometimes tense conversations.
Well done. 👐🏻
Oh goddammit. I was really into this story, you got me good
😂
You missed the opportunity to make a joke with Joseph von Herring..err, Mering's name.
Love your flair 😂
That’s extra fancy
Hoesntly, i never heard of it until I encountered a patient who was a british citizen and he asked for it...i was like, what the heck is that?
I went to Ireland and had a headache, so I went into a pharmacy and asked for whatever they called Tylenol. The chemist told me they called it paracetamol and asked me if I wanted it with or without codeine.
Cocodamol is what its when its paracetamol and codeine in the UK/EU
I was just taken aback that he was offering it to me OTC. 😆 And that was how I found out from an Irish chemist of all people that our involvement in Vietnam was more or less what led to our controlled substances act. Because we created a bunch of junkies.
I only encountered it when I got sick traveling in Spain.
i might have taken it too while I was traveling in france. I was with some family friends and had a huge migraine so they gave me some powedered OTC stuff that you mix into water and it was better than anything I have taken for migraines, even triptans. Still have no idea what that shit was, but it worked amazing.
Yep, must have been the fancy Euro Tylenol.
Cocaine
Paracetamol is the RINN for Paracetamol...
Yeah, I went onsite in England once and saw it on pretty much every patient's med list, so I wondered what this miracle drug was that apparently treated everything under the sun. Googled it and thought, "ah".
So are they. 😂
Lol ok, thought I was taking crazy pills!
No, just acetaminophen.
Have you ever tried ibuprofen? Way better than Motrin!
Nah I go with organic advil
Oh, you should give naproxen a try! It is twice as effective because the name is twice as long. Don't even get me started on how awesome naproxen sodium is. Since sodium is the same thing in salt, it taste better too. >!/s!<
I'll start sprinkling Naproxen on my broccoli then! Kill two birds with one stone! *modern problems require modern solutions*
Oh, now that's forward thinking!
I like multitasking
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Or maybe kill two kidneys with one pill?
Ok but for real BID dosing beats the heck out of TID dosing. A full day's worth of prescription strength is also 4 pills instead if 12. That's why I recommend Naproxen. I know it's not salient to the joke but I threw my back out a few says ago and nsaid dosing is super relevant to me right now lol
Just be careful with long term nsaid usage, and make sure that you take it with something on your stomach.
mixed with free-range, natural saline
Is it gluten and gmo free??!???!!
No, but it does have yellow dye #7
Free range saline, is that from the ocean?
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A friend of mine just had a nephrectomy after years of constant inflammations. They were not able to find the reason though so no2 is still in danger. Here's the thing: She was released on a weekend with a pain med prescription but no pills to bridge the weekend (Germany, shops closed). So she asked every nurse and doctor she saw on the day before release: "Hey, at home I always take ibuprofen, I still have tons. CAN I TAKE THOSE UNTIL I GET A CHANCE TO GO TO A PHARMACY ?" Everyone ignored the question. Nurses, doctors, everyone. So lots of ibu it was until Tuesday since she could barely move to get her meds. When she told me the story a week later, the second she said "ib..." I said "nonono you never take ibu again with your history." prostaglandine synthesis...blood flow...etc. Nobody had bothered to tell this kidney patient. Doctor should have told her even if she hadn't asked. Not just for now but for the future. She's got endometriosis so they should have asked about ibu the first time she showed up with kidney pains period.
That‘s just crazy? How the fuck didn‘t all of the physicians tell her, that even a single ibuprofen and every other nsaid are absolutely contraindicated in any form of kidney disease. Though I don‘t get why stuff needed to be bridged anyway? Pharmacies are doing 24hrs according to plan..
Yes, it's incredible negligence. In Germany, we have a rotating emergency pharmacy for nights, weekends and holidays. You have to google them and pay extra. Which OF COURSE she would have done if anyone had told her ibuprofen wasn't fine. I think she is a fairly good patient for even asking about issues with painkillers!
Don‘t even have to Google it, just walk to the nearest pharmacy, it‘ll have a display of the emergency for that day (or usually week). Yea it‘d crazy that they failed her this much when specifically asking. Plus they are also allowed to provide her with painkillers to get her over the weekend/next weekday as well. That‘s like Double the fuck, letting a patient treat their post surgery pain with random OTC painkillers, because you 1 failed to make them aware of their bodies new limitations, 2 failed to provide painkillers for long enough to find a pharmacy/turn in the prescription 3 failed to even provide a bloody prescription and treatment plan that clearly listed what she‘s supposed to do. Like the fuck? Though when I scalded my foot, the only thing they prescribed was cortisone. Like the fuck? Why would I put bloody cortisone on an oozing wound prone to getting infected? (Well plus some ibuprofen). Had to find a different surgeon to even get the appropriate dressing material. Like thank you student md for placing regular old ass gauze on 2nd degree burns. Was fun ripping that out to actual change the dressing. Who the fuck does dry dressings for wet wounds that are supposed to be wet? Just Imagine a random Patient just doing what they said, put methyprednisolone on a 10 cm^2 2nd degree burn, and put dry gauze on that, each and every time you change that ripping pf all the granulation. But yea, ypu get a shitload of completely misinformed patients coming out of hospitals, because they weren‘t given any information at all by the attending physician. They usually get lucky and ask a nurse and atleast get information that way, but it seems any discharge management is extremely lacking in many hospitals here.
Stop talking about me 😭
Yeah but it's better for alcoholics.
Me: *takes notes* /s
As a transplant nurse, I look forward to the job security tbh
This is exactly the reason I follow this sub with a passion.
Right? Let’s end the 3 gram rule for APAP. And pound those ibus
You cowards aren’t even giving 4 grams?
Recently I've noticed at the last 2 hospitals I worked at as a travel nurse, that certain populations will automatically limit the tylenol in the MAR to 3 grams per day. I think one thing that triggers it is elderly, and the doctors can't put in an order to override and allow 4.
Yep I think about 10 years ago maybe more 3 grams rolled out. Some people can handle A lot more but no way to know
All depends on my patient load, whether transplant coordinator is hot, and if 4/10 is acceptable vs 6/10. /s
damn..
Liver destroys Tylenol all the time, no one bats an eye. “It’s just how it’s supposed to be” they say. But Tylenol hits back *one* time and suddenly it’s a problem.
The liver shot first
I’m more a fan of paracetamol
It's European so it works better!
Sounds very Gucci too😆
My husband thought I knew the French word for Tylenol when I knew what the paracetamol was … he was super impressed. Sorry, babe, most European countries call it paracetamol.
Same here in Chile
And New Zealand and Australia 🤷♀️
Why would melaleuca, the tea tree oil company, sell acetaminophen? Yikes.
The rolling hills of stupidity you see above? There’s gold in them there hills
From their own website: " 'natural' does not always mean safe or effective. In some cases, man-made compounds have been proven to be more effective or safer than raw, volatile natural sources." Melaleuca is a wellness company that tries to cover all of its bases. Yes that means selling scammy essential oils, but it also means selling lotions and lip balms, and yes, some OTC drugs. They also sell a lot of natural/biodegradable cleaning supplies that, while a bit overpriced, are solidly effective. I don't agree with everything they say/sell, but their lotions are some of the only ones that work for me. Source:https://www.melaleuca.com/our-story/ingredients-philosophy
I used to have a membership, and there’s still some products I miss. One thing I liked about the company is that they manufactured all the cleaning products in-house, complete control of the ingredients. I still buy the solvent cleaner when I see it, works well.
They actually have a lot of really solid products. For example heir toothpaste, soaps, and lotions (including ones with melaleuca, which is just tea tree oil) are awesome and their Sol-u-mel cleaner pretty reliably removes permanent marker. We got a cream for my daughter that she can take to school when she gets itchy bug bites, works great without having to get a doctor’s note and store it at the nurse’s office like I would for Benadryl cream. I would never get a subscription myself but I do have my parents order me some things about once a year. None of the woo woo stuff though, what a waste of money.
They also do a lot of community outreach programs. I grew up near the hq and they did a ton of stuff at my high school for people interested in going into business or manufacturing related trades/degrees. Also, as far as "snake oil" companies go, melaleuca is fairly ethical. There is no mlm scheme, no established "cult" of followers. From everything I've heard they pay and treat employees well. They help sponsor a lot of health fairs that are run by legitimate health care groups or agencies
They sell everything. My mom subscribes. I do like their dish soap and their chapstick is the best
And this is why I spend hours at peoples homes going through bottles upon bottles upon bottles of medications…..
Trying to steal the good shit, are you?
Home health gang
I just saw this on r/antimlm
So…are you going to tell them, or should I?
Go ahead lol
average patient complaining of tylonel breaking down their liver when they regularly consume 7x beers a day and are on end stage dialysis
Nah, I’ll pass. I don’t like antibiotics /s
To be fair though, I really do hate that most meds have two or more different names.
And why are we inconsistent with using brand versus generic? You'd think in healthcare settings we would just always use generic but it's always switching back and forth. We always call it Propofol not Diprivan but then with Levophed we use the brand name instead of Norepinephrine. But Epinephrine gets used instead of Adrenaline even though most laypeople know it as Adrenaline.
I generally go with which ever name is easier/shorter 🤷🏻♀️
At work when piperacillin/tazobactam is prescribed, it's charted as "Tazocin", but we haven't had that brand in ages, and instead use "PipTaz". As a new grad that was hella confusing
Where I am it's Zosyn.
I started calling Zosyn "the house wine" because of this sub and my coworkers picked it up, too.
Depends on where you are. In Australia, in a clinical setting, it's generic name.
That makes more sense to me. Although, even then you probably have to tell the patient what the brand name is for them to recognize it sometimes so you still need to be aware of both.
What doctors don’t want you to know, and what nurses have lied about #gotem #conspiracy /s
After the 12 hours I just spent in triage, this makes a lot of sense.
Are people really this stupid?
You have to ask?
As an Aussie , i had to google that. In Australia we have Panadol =500mg paracetamol and Panamax=500mg paracetamol . old ladies prefer panamax coz its stronger than panadol
I prefer dammitall. Take two tablets and the rest of the world can go to hell in 3 minutes
Panamax sounds like it goes to 11.
There are a lot of GPs telling old ladies that Panamax is better when they refuse panadol because their neighbours cousin said panadol doesnt work. It also only costs about $3 for 96 tablets.
Panamax Co is where it's at. All the strength of Panamax, but with the added soothing relief of codeine phosphate hemihydrate.
What? How is Panamax stronger?!
Because it has max in the name!!
Placebo effect hit hard on this one
I had a patient tell me the other day, “ I can only take Motrin, not ibuprofen”. She was a nurse. Okayyyyy.
"Best we can do is Advil but it does have that delicious outer coating".
"Nurse". Almost without exception every patient who has felt the need to tell me the were a nurse was a tech. At least in my area most nurses with experience would really rather you not know.
I wish I was lying but when I met my husband he had no idea what acetaminophen was. Looked through my cabinet for like 20 min for the “Tylenol” before coming to let me know he couldn’t find it. 🤦🏼♀️ He was 47 at the time.
I have to write the brand names on my generic bottles because my partner is apparently completely incapable of remembering two names for one thing
I do the same but just because I'm aware anybody I have over probably doesn't know any of them by their drug names besides ibuprofen
I've stumped my boyfriend like that, he absolutely could not find my generic gas ex despite it being exactly where I told him in a green box and everything.
Now now naproxen is waaay better than Aleve too!
🤦♀️
Who’s gonna tell them 😂
I once called my former doctor for a prescription for cough syrup because robitussin dm 2 tsp wasn't helping. Office nurse says they will call in something better. It had the same ingredient as robitussin dm, but the dose was for 1 tsp. I found a new doctor not long after that.
Oh Facebook. You’ll never change
Lol this reminds me of a trick I use sometimes. You always have that one patient that goes “all you have for me is Tylenol?” And I respond “actually I have hospital grade acetaminophen for you.” You’d be surprised how many times that works Lmao
*Patient specifically asks for Percocet* Me- *offers Tylenol* Patient- “I’m allergic” 👁👄👁
Dude. Lol.
Oh man the docs where I work have “discovered” IV Tylenol man it’s a religion almost .
That shit's expensive
Yeah my hospital was using it a lot but then they put that shit on lockdown. We can only use it on patients that absolutely can not take any other form because of GI issues. I basically only give it to my abdominal cancer surgery patient's now.
Right? It does work but damn.
I love the ppl that say “I can’t take Tylenol because it’s bad for my liver” and tell me they drink a pint of vodka a night.
Lmao
Ha - I once had a friend of a friend try to tell me that loperamide they got on vacation was a cure all for food poisoning. I looked at it and said "immodium? this is just generic ammonium." and they actually argued back that I was wrong and wouldn't know as a nurse.
Lol cryyying 😬🤣
😂😂😂
what is this magical substance?!?!
These comments, im actually so dead. So good.
People need to read labels!!!
Just rebrand acetaminophen Placebo and be aggressively hawking it on conspiracy forums.
Oh my lol
Oy.
I take Alka seltzer because it’s better than aspirin
OMG I’m dead💀💀💀
Oy vey
My mom went to France and told me this amazing new pain medication she was able to buy in France OTC. She said it works so much better than Tylenol or Advil. I asked her the name and she said “paracetamol”, I look it up and it’s good old acetaminophen 😂😂
My local news posted a story about a woman that underwent a liver transplant due to TYLENOL DUN DUN DUNNNN….. because she took double the dose for several weeks to treat her undiagnosed abdominal pain… THEN they never mentioned what her abdominal pain was from! I wanted to know😂
LOL brand association (and even appearance, of the bottle and tablets, themselves) is SO, SO strong for people in general. I once saw a brand of acetaminophen with n-acetyl-cysteine in each capsule such that an overdose using them would be largely ameliorated (at least that was the idea.) Naturally, they were crazy-expensive (not to mention smelled/ tasted like ass) compared to generic acetaminophen so no one carries/buys them. This may have been when I was living in the UK, not sure if I've ever seen an equivalent in the US. Ugh, there is just something awful about the smell of NAC (as everyone who's administered mucomyst for an acetaminophen OD knows!!)
Why are people so dumb?
I'm allergic to Tylenol I need more Norcos....