Re: Be careful about med interactions

[Guest guest]

They definitely dropped the ball this time.  You need to have a talk with your

pharmacist, they are the last checkpoint to keep you safe from prescription

harm.

Jennette

>Lori wrote:

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>Once again I learned the hard way about medication interactions.

>I researched and found that a new med I was put on (atenelol) isn't supposed to

be taken by people with asthma! This got by Rite Aid who filled my inhalers (3

kinds) and atenelol, as well as my doctors!

[Guest guest]

YIKES! At least you were able to do some research and find this out

before you ended up in CICU only to be told by some smarty pants that

it wasn't a heart attack so nothing is the matter with you.

Been there, did that then they figured out it was a heart attack just

they didn't see it. Sheesh. My sister was on atenelol too, and like

you, on a couple of different inhalers and handful of asthma meds. Her

asthma got very bad, blacking out because of not enough oxy, the whole

deal. Doctor took her off the atenelol and the symptoms cleared up

within several days.

Scary when you start thinking the doctors probably would have thrown

more and more meds at you hoping something would help rather than just

doing research into what they had given you - as you did. So glad you

are OK and many thanks for the heads up!

Jeanne B in GA

>Lori wrote:

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> Went to pcp office two times and to med center once. all unsure what caused

> until it dawned on me that it might be my asthma, which doesn't show on

> chest xrays or ekgs and can't always be heard.

>

> I researched and found that a new med I was put on (atenelol) isn't supposed

> to be taken by people with asthma! This got by Rite Aid who filled my

> inhalers (3 kinds) and atenelol, as well as my doctors!

[Guest guest]

lorijkarasek@... wrote:

> Once again I learned the hard way about medication interactions.

Lori,

This is why I read all my medical inserts, one of my medicines was not supposed

to be taken with Thyroid medications and they dispensed them anyway. There is

supposed to be a software program that catches this even with your medications

at one pharmacy, you have to be the one that checks. Lori is right.

Bennie

[Guest guest]

They pulled that with me with metoprolol.. It slowed my heart down to where I

was blacking out and they wanted to give me asthma meds.

I hate doctors when they do stuff like that.

I was also told I had a tension headache by a doctor who completely missed that

I was having a reaction to chemo. My platelets were almost non exisistant.You'd

have thought they could have figured that one out.

Carolyn Eddy

" Sweet Goat Mama "