Re: medication holiday/what medications not to stop taking

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone

Just a quick reminder, don't do this with cardiac, diabetic, anti-depressants,

anti-seizure, anti-psychotic medications etc. unless it is with the strict

guidance of your doctor.

I was a registered nurse in what now seems like a previous lifetime. Take good

care of yourselves.

Kaylene

Moderator

[Guest guest]

Kaylene wrote:

> Just a quick reminder, don't do this with cardiac, diabetic, anti-depressants,

anti-seizure, anti-psychotic medications etc. unless it is with the strict

guidance of your doctor.

That's for sure. A medication " holiday " is basically to give our bodies

a rest from pain medications etc. That way we can get a real reading as

to what is happening with our pain. It can also give us a chance to not

have to have our pain medications upped.

I would never stop my high blood pressure meds. That might make me dead!:-)

> I was a registered nurse in what now seems like a previous lifetime. Take good

> care of yourselves.

It really does seem like a previous lifetime, doesn't it? Working

nights and trying to be as vigilant as we would be at 11 a.m. Being

able to walk so briskly, you're almost running, but not quite. lol

Lyndi

[Guest guest]

Don't bring back too many of those memories : ) I remember have to walk three

steps behind a doctor with pen in hand : ) They came into the chart room as if

off gilded clouds. When I was a x-ray technician (and ward clerk). I actually

took calls as an x-ray technician while working as a ward clerk, some Doctors

would yell at me, " Bennie, you got that done yet? " as if I was preparing a meal.

The Doctors could do no wrong and in a small town they were treated above the

rest. It was a big deal to work for a Doctor or the Bank, don't know why.

I remember first working nights, I woke up during the day thinking I had time to

sleep and then it was time to go back to work. Taking calls caused me to forever

be a light sleeper, always listening for a pager or phone. Being a portable

technician, I pushed and stood up all night, pushing and lifting people.

I never thought I would join the brigade of injured spine nurses, along with the

construction workers and other jobs that have that as a liability.

It is interesting the things they used to treat ailments kept us well and the

dirt we dealt with that did not make us sick. My elderly Father states because

we are too clean now and we get the germs used to what we use to wash them with.

(Starched hat with Nursing School pin, no lipstick, no nail polish, white hose,

white shoes,and starched uniform, UGH ) Bennie

Lyndi wrote:

> Kaylene wrote:

>> Just a quick reminder, don't do this with cardiac, diabetic,

anti-depressants, anti-seizure, anti-psychotic medications etc. unless it is

with the strict guidance of your doctor.

>

> That's for sure. A medication " holiday " is basically to give our bodies

> a rest from pain medications etc. That way we can get a real reading as

> to what is happening with our pain. It can also give us a chance to not

> have to have our pain medications upped.

>

> I would never stop my high blood pressure meds. That might make me dead!:-)

>

>> I was a registered nurse in what now seems like a previous lifetime. Take

good

>> care of yourselves.

>

> It really does seem like a previous lifetime, doesn't it? Working

> nights and trying to be as vigilant as we would be at 11 a.m. Being

able to walk so briskly, you're almost running, but not quite. lol

Lyndi,

[Guest guest]

> Kaylene wrote:

> Hi Everyone

> Just a quick reminder, don't do this with cardiac, diabetic, anti-depressants,

anti-seizure, anti-psychotic medications etc.

unless it is with the strict guidance of your doctor.

>

> I was a registered nurse in what now seems like a previous lifetime.

Kaylene,

You are so right and Lyrica is considered one of these if your Doctor doesn't

call it an anti seizure medication. If I may add, always, always, read your

medical inserts with the medication information or look it up on line to check

the contraindications. Thanks for allowing me to add, it was a lesson I learned

almost too late as I was taking two things I should not take together. Also

didn't mean to confuse you and Lyndi as nurses, I knew you had been.

Bennie