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adventures in pharmaceuticals
Jul. 20th, 2021 09:23 pmIt only took me twenty-some minutes after I finally clawed my way to consciousness this morning to recall that, oh yeah, amitriptyline dose increases do that. (We're bumping me up another 10mg in the hope that this time it'll have any noticeable effect on the migraines.)
This afternoon, having woken up for the third time from the same very vivid nightmare about putting on a Biblical musical I'd written for which the first rehearsal was on opening night, I groggily shook the internet to reassure myself that Weird Dreams are also a well-known side effect of dose increases...
... and while scrolling down the page had my attention grabbed by an item on the list under a warning that Using amitriptyline with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Specifically, I parsed "arsenic trioxide" and stopped scrolling, and scrolled back up, and reread it to confirm I hadn't just misparsed, and then internally went WAIT WHAT a bunch while doing some additional searches--
-- and it turns out that in addition to its usage as a wood preservative it's... also used in chemotherapy.
I do know that the aim of chemo is to poison the cancer faster than poisoning the rest of you, and that the drugs involved are never a fun time, but also good grief Today I Learned.
This afternoon, having woken up for the third time from the same very vivid nightmare about putting on a Biblical musical I'd written for which the first rehearsal was on opening night, I groggily shook the internet to reassure myself that Weird Dreams are also a well-known side effect of dose increases...
... and while scrolling down the page had my attention grabbed by an item on the list under a warning that Using amitriptyline with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Specifically, I parsed "arsenic trioxide" and stopped scrolling, and scrolled back up, and reread it to confirm I hadn't just misparsed, and then internally went WAIT WHAT a bunch while doing some additional searches--
-- and it turns out that in addition to its usage as a wood preservative it's... also used in chemotherapy.
I do know that the aim of chemo is to poison the cancer faster than poisoning the rest of you, and that the drugs involved are never a fun time, but also good grief Today I Learned.