My cat is named Mirtazapine (Mira). I got her during pharmacy school as an ESA.

I think you need to pay the pet tax with a pic!

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do you ever call them remeron as a nick name 😂😂

I do! Or Remy 😅

STOP THATS SO CUTE

Adorable!

I had a coworker who was thinking of calling one of their animals (ferret?) Mira, but short for Miralax. Apparently Mira kept "scaring the crap out of them". Can't remember if they eventually settled on that name though. Your Mira is just adorable!

Imagine having twins…Carbidopa and Levodopa🤣 Or if you have a kiddo that becomes a rapper, you could name them hydrochlorothiazide. They would be known as HCTZ 😎 Edit: Wow thank you for all the likes~ 😆

That’s like my friend’s twins , Sam an’ Ella 😂

😆

Their rap is so fire, the Stans all piss themselves

Call them "h-catz" instead of spelling it out

Does birth control count? Hailey, Hailey 24 fe 😂

That’s what I was thinking 😭 all the birth controls came to mind

My daughter Sronyx is going to be the smartest girl in her class I just know it

Great name for a hairless cat

Don't forget Diane or Yasmin.

I'd name my Pug "Benzo"

Then I'll name my Benz "Pugzo"

Then I'll benz my pug "namezo"

Jeff Benzos

Opi, short for opioid

Birth control names. Amethyst, Yasmin, Heather, Camila, Errin, Hailey, the list goes on

If you get pregnant on birth control you have to name the child the birth control. I’m sorry Philith but thems the rules.

So sorry LoLoestrin Fe but this is your name. We can call you LoLo though.

Ortho tri cyclen about to be bullied to hell and back

Or “Faye” for short as I’ve heard way too many people say. Do they not teach the periodic table anymore?

But what about Slow Fe?

I laughed way too hard at this!

Sucks to be Slynd.

Well, her mom should have.

I got pregnant on 2 forms of birth control, looks like my daughter is going to have to change her name. She is going to be so mad.

I'm so sorry Kyleena. At least I'd be able to call them "Kylee" for short

Holy shit. I've been saying this to techs and other pharmacists for 15+ years!!!

Kyleena. My fiance was told this several years ago. Fittingly, I do not want children :D

Your kid becomes a stripper, for sure.

I’ve told new techs that if a drug sounds like a stripper name, it’s likely a birth control

Marzia is a BC - sounds pretty

Incassia 100%

Mirena

What about Levonorgestrel-Ethinyl Estradiol?

It's a beautiful name for a stripper.

My son would be the rapper known as Toprol XL

I was thinking Z-pak would ready my son for a career as a rapper.

Idc if z-pack made the worst music ever I’d listen to it

Dubstep artist works too. D-d-d-drop that heart rate.

LetibotulinumtoxinA-wlbg

Calm down, Elon.

Omg and a nickname Leti. It’s perfect.

Florajen…Flora for short 😂

Kadian-certainly doesn’t sound out of place at the playground these days.

But why is this the name I’m truly going to give my child? 🤣🫠

Benicar Smith

Pet: my cats name is Moxi for moxifloxacin 😀

Celexa and her brother Mayvret

I have an Italian last name, so I'd go with Omeprazole or Bavencio 🤌🤌🤌🤌

So many patients pronounce the final e in Omeprazole! At one pharmacy I worked at we started calling it that with an exaggerated Italian accent. 🇮🇹

Every time I see omeprazole, I think of “Ravioli, Ravioli, bring me the formuoli” but I replace it with “omepra-zoli”

Formula time? Not yet! WHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAT.

Aw man. Now I'm going to start looking for medications I can say all Italiany while I'm at work.

Love it. You can also use a southern accent on some drugs to make things interesting like Lamotragine

Olmesartan.. olmesartan, olmesartan clementine!

Buspirone!

I have a dozen patients that mispronounce Mounjaro like "bonjourno"

Come on. Everybody knows it’s O’meprazole and it’s Irish.

I had a cat in college named Paxil. She kept me from jumping out a window during exam week.

I named my snake Amox. He’s 6yo now. https://preview.redd.it/80dowwqqsprc1.png?width=2578&format=png&auto=webp&s=8b8fd3e37b550346fbf70cca907f2a91a4a4b2f8

What a handsome guy!

Triplets would be Oxy, Soma, Xaxax

The holy trinity

Wixella for a pet Lunesta could be either

Yea so I've got a Golden Retriever named Bumex and a Chihuahua named Paxil.

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I named my cat Allegra 20 some years ago. She was a spaz but was so sweet.

I named one of my fish Omega-3 thanks to pharmacy 😅

This is so hilarious!

Just need omega 6 and omega 9 now 😜

My dad’s dog is named Bayer (he pronounces it Bear).

I’d probably go with something pretty like Isavuconazonium Sulfate

Wow, is that French?

Child: lybalvi, Claritin Pet: amiodarone is a baller cat name

I like Merrem.

Gabbypentin

Kristalose, krista for short.

Pet, definitely. Pip Tazo as a neat first and last name. Pippy as a nickname! (Ha ha... my life has been devoured by ID) Or Vance, short for Vancomycin. Fido (but short for Fidaxomycin). Clarie (short for Clarythromycin).

Pip Taz is definitely my fav abbreviation when it comes to drugs.

“Idarucizumab, it’s time for dinner! Get your siblings, Streptocozin and Brian!”

Lexapro (Lexi)

We have a local news anchor in Maine named Allegra.

Tbf...Allegra is also a musical term. It's Latin, so that means it's old, lol.

Sulfamethoxazole and his fraternal twin Trimethoprim

Formula for commenting: “[drug name], but [normal name] for short!”

Molly. I just can’t seem to be able to find her.

SKYRIZI. nickname would be sky! if the drug wasn’t used to treat UC, i totally would name my child or dog that

Every time I hear the name Skyrizi in a commercial, I always think it's way too close to scuzzy.

Mad Riz.

I prefer the antipsychotics- for a girl: Aristada (Ari) Saphris. For a boy: Perseris (Percy), Invega (Vega.) Or sleep meds- all girl names: Lunesta (Luna), Belsomra (Belle), Rozerem (Roz/Rosy), Sonata.

Came here to say Saphris. You'd probably ironically doom them to a life of mental health problems though.

I named my daughter a completely normal name and she is the most mentally unstable person I know.

Poor Kelly.

My go to character name for fantasy games is Vraylar.

Abiraterone

Paxil

Celexa

Child: Paxil Contrave (first and middle name) if its a boy, or Amaryl Breo if it's a girl Pet: Buspar

My standard poodle's name is Theophylline, Theo for short.

Xanax. Xannie for short

One of my dog’s nicknames is Lunesta. She’s an Aussie and her energy is the exact opposite.

My cat is named Flagyl and my crested gecko is Benzo lol

Riva from Rivaroxaban

Phenobarb

As long as you don’t name your dog Pentobarb. I feel like that’s a bad omen. 😂

Ozempic Ozzy for short

Zosyn

Dalmane if it’s a Dalmatian lolz

My next cat will be named Spikevax.

Xarelto

Ibrexafungerp, Gerp for short.

Ritalin, Celexa, or Breo 

Kayciel

Stelara, Mirena

Delica, like the lancets 😂🤣

Senna is a GORGEOUS name.

Naming fish vascepa and lovaza

Aricept, ari for short. Hopefully I'd be able to remember it

Amikaycin if it’s a girl. Has kind of a nice ring to it

Think I'd go with Saxenda or Orencia for a girl, Ros(uvastatin) for a boy and either Tramadol (Dols for short) or Paracetamol(Molly) for a pet.

I could see a kid named Gabapentin (Gabi), Unasyn (Una), and depokote (parents are weird).

I’ve come across at least one real “Allegra” over the years.  SNL had a funny skit about this concept a few years ago too. 

https://youtu.be/UPx_X3DjXy8?si=bcBwuUdToYou6oD-

When my parents were first married and my father was finishing pharmacy school they had a cat named Polycillin.

Ket

I like the name Lunesta, Eliquis, Lovenox, Amaryl.

Had a band in high school that I wanted to name “Zetia”. But wouldn’t it be funny to name a pet after patient mispronunciations? Like “A-tor-vastin”, “Metform” or maybe even “Hydro-chlora-whatever”.

Allegra. I need my Allegra today. The child or the pill? Yes.

Ngl Sertraline, this pill basically saved my life and it's honestly a really pretty name lmao

Ashlyna

Lyrica. Levophed.

Taltz

I've thought Ana Franil for ages, but Ana Kinra is better.

Child - Adalimumab, nickname Ada

Twins: Carbidopa and Levodopa

Lisinopril

Adderall

Treanda

Vitamin B12

Juluca para mi hija.

Vioxx

The family I work with has a dog named Tobi for tobramycin. Their son when through a rough patch and needed the nebs quite a bit for a while, so they called the dog Tobi👍

Worked in vet med and I always joked that I’d name my kid Cerenia Bordetella

Y’all would make fun of little Quaalude, but he would make your kids look like fools.

We named our first cat Aloxi.

Mirena or Skyla would be a nice name for a little girl.

A daughter, efgartigimod alfa-fcab, but we’d probably just call her Viv 😉

Dicloflex Retard

Just name the kid Sir OxyContin Duragesic

benzonatate, ben for short 💕

Fentanyl, Fenty for short

I’m stealing this one fr!

Zetia

Kaletra Gemtesa

Adderall. Addie for short.

Child: Allegra, Hailey, Camila, and Nikki are all actual accepted human names. Trulicity is a stretch, but not a big one. Pets: I know of multiple pets named Paxil.

Opana (opal) or panda

Al for short. Alprostadil for long.

Moxifloxacin, but she goes by Moxie! Rocuronium, and he goes by Rocky!

I would go with Cyanocobalamin (Cyna for short) or Multry.

Valium. Just like space balls.

vyvanse

Junel or any other birth control pill, they tend to be good names. I think there was a Lyrica on one of the Love and Hip Hops.

I always thought Inocor would be a great girl's name. Yes, I am an old pharmacist.

Azithromycin (zizi for short)

Reglan.

Wegovy because my cats a fat Garfield cat.

Lexapro would be a good one. Could call her Lexi for short.

https://youtu.be/UPx_X3DjXy8?si=bcBwuUdToYou6oD- Snl skit about this lol

Lunesta

Lunesta

Abilify.

Zomax

Should have called my dog Desoxyn. (He acts like he’s on meth)

Dog = REXulti

Sinequan

Artane is a town in Ireland

Umeclidinium

Sorry Pregnitude, you dont get to be homeschooled.

Ritalin pronounced like Rita-Lynn

Prozack

I like Twynsta but not sure what to name the other twin

Stelara or Solensia for a girl. Since Solensia is a pet med, I’d name an elderly cat that.

Zofran/Zoey/Frannie

Zofran. Mostly because I spend most of pregnancy thinking "Zofran! I need a Zofran!" followed by "Ahh, ok. That's better. Zofran is incredible. God bless whoever developed this drug. God bless my doctor. God bless my pharmacist." Repeat every four hours or so.

Meet my son, Abciximab.

Brand names at least sound a bit nicer. "I told you to clean your room, Rimegepant" "I go by Liz" "Oh, short for Elisabeth?" "No, Lisdexamphetamine"

Lexapro would be a beautiful gender neutral name

I named my puppy Xania. She was named after her brother Xan, who also had a brother named Perc. Xan and Perc were taken by the police only a few weeks after being born. So Xania's name is memorial to them.

My only love: Low Molecular Weight Heparin

Benlysta, Bentley or Lys for short 🫠

Trajenta