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My raising suspicions about a medication I was prescribed resulted in my pharmacist discovering a "serious" and potentially "life-threatening" drug interaction with another regular medication I take.
Not sure if I should be shitty that both my GP and the pharmacist didn't pick up on this before dispensing the drug? Thankfully I hadn't started taking it yet.
I recently had to discover myself that a medication i was on has been linked to changes in how your body processes glucose and produces insulin and has been linked to type 2 diabetes. I had a couple of abnormal blood glucose readings in tests that i requested for general health tracking and my doctor was worried enough to send me for further diabetes testing. I found the medication link, weaned myself off and returned my blood glucose to normal levels with no thanks to doc!!
Definitely worth getting outraged about. What the fuck! That is literally their job and not that difficult a task, I imagine, with databases of all these interactions
I’m so glad you’re ok!
Years ago I was on some steroid meds for bronchitis and took some cough medicine (not an unusual thing to do when you have a chest infection). I developed really low blood pressure due to drug interactions, and found out later that those 2 medications shouldn’t be taken together. Luckily I was fine but it was scary, and neither the dr or chemist mentioned the risk at the time.