Granny
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So, OK - I've been taking trazodone for the last 19 years - low dose, non-addictive anti-depressant which doctors discovered many years ago also helped induced sleep in their patients. And that's exactly what my doctor wanted me to do: sleep instead of tearing my bed all to hell every night particularly since there was no one else helping me do it. Never mind.
OK - so a week or so ago I got a refill. The pharmacy aide asked me if I had taken trazodone before and I said I had. I know how it works and I know my body - never the first problem with this drug in 19 years. Well, she just wanted me to know they had a new supplier and showed me that the pills were somewhat yellow but that was the only difference. Fine. I trotted my happy little lily white ass out the front door.
When I finished off the couple trazodone I already had, I popped one of the new trazodone pills and let me tell you - that shit PUT MY LIGHTS OUT. I was in such a deep sleep that I may as well have been in a coma. I took the stuff for a couple nights and slept like the dead and then I started getting chest pains and I'm thinking, "What the hell is this all about?" So I'm looking at these pills and started to put two and two together ... and then it happened. I started eating junk food like the devil himself had possessed me and was making me do it.
I don't buy sodas, chips, cookies, candy and stuff - not in my diet. My idea of junk food is fresh fruit, dried apricots ... Craisins ... nuts ... popcorn once in awhile. In about a week's time I consumed some 5 or 6 liters of soda, not one, but TWO bags of pretzels any candy I could get my hands on and about a half box of pre-packaged donut snacks. It was like junk food insanity.
I called my daughter's mother-in-law who is a pharmacist and told her what was going on and she told me to stop the meds immediately until I could talk to my doctor. (THANK YOU, Nana!) I spent a few days and nights of sleep deprivation over the weekend and about 4:30 or so this morning I emailed my doctor. Then I remembered that I had some cough syrup around so took a swig of that stuff and somehow mercifully got an hour or two of sleep. Had an email from the doctor when I got up and he said to use Benadryl for the time being and that maybe I should report the situation to the FDA because not all generic drugs are equal.
Went back to the pharmacy this evening and talked to the pharmacist - whose eyes were popping out. She said I should contact the FDA and did a quick check to verify that indeed they had a new supplier. The pills were made for a company operating out of West Virginia, but the pills were actually made in India. I said to the pharmacist, "WHAT?! India?! This stuff probably was made with contaminated water from the Ganges River!"
That river is one of the filthiest rivers on the planet. Those people jump into that thing taking holy baths or whatever it is they do to get to wherever it is their souls go after death. It's contaminated as hell. It's no damned wonder the pills were yellow - they probably couldn't get the Holy Cow piss completely out of it and then there's all the filth and diseases from the people not to mention the cow dung that's also seeping into the damned river. Kill those damned cows! They aren't holy and your people will stop starving to death!!
I've probably got cow piss running in my veins now and a liver (or some other body part) full of cow dung fibers and I'll have to drink filtered Clorox water for the next six months to get rid of it. And I'm screaming holy hell about why the FDA is letting the shit come into the country in the first place - they're supposed to be protecting us.
Back to Nana ... when I told her the pills were made in India she explained to me that they come in because the FDA doesn't know anything about them. She explained that Walmart has stores all over the world and they are constantly shifting product from distribution points in one country into distribution points in other countries and the FDA doesn't know it's going on. She said that Walmart is as crooked as a dog's hind leg - and further that I shouldn't buy meats from Walmart because they pump it full of formaldehide and ship it from the west coast to the east coast, etc.
So for all you people out there who are screaming for national health care and drugs from other countries because they're cheaper than they are from the greedy American pharmaceutical companies ... take a tip.
OK - so a week or so ago I got a refill. The pharmacy aide asked me if I had taken trazodone before and I said I had. I know how it works and I know my body - never the first problem with this drug in 19 years. Well, she just wanted me to know they had a new supplier and showed me that the pills were somewhat yellow but that was the only difference. Fine. I trotted my happy little lily white ass out the front door.
When I finished off the couple trazodone I already had, I popped one of the new trazodone pills and let me tell you - that shit PUT MY LIGHTS OUT. I was in such a deep sleep that I may as well have been in a coma. I took the stuff for a couple nights and slept like the dead and then I started getting chest pains and I'm thinking, "What the hell is this all about?" So I'm looking at these pills and started to put two and two together ... and then it happened. I started eating junk food like the devil himself had possessed me and was making me do it.
I don't buy sodas, chips, cookies, candy and stuff - not in my diet. My idea of junk food is fresh fruit, dried apricots ... Craisins ... nuts ... popcorn once in awhile. In about a week's time I consumed some 5 or 6 liters of soda, not one, but TWO bags of pretzels any candy I could get my hands on and about a half box of pre-packaged donut snacks. It was like junk food insanity.
I called my daughter's mother-in-law who is a pharmacist and told her what was going on and she told me to stop the meds immediately until I could talk to my doctor. (THANK YOU, Nana!) I spent a few days and nights of sleep deprivation over the weekend and about 4:30 or so this morning I emailed my doctor. Then I remembered that I had some cough syrup around so took a swig of that stuff and somehow mercifully got an hour or two of sleep. Had an email from the doctor when I got up and he said to use Benadryl for the time being and that maybe I should report the situation to the FDA because not all generic drugs are equal.
Went back to the pharmacy this evening and talked to the pharmacist - whose eyes were popping out. She said I should contact the FDA and did a quick check to verify that indeed they had a new supplier. The pills were made for a company operating out of West Virginia, but the pills were actually made in India. I said to the pharmacist, "WHAT?! India?! This stuff probably was made with contaminated water from the Ganges River!"
That river is one of the filthiest rivers on the planet. Those people jump into that thing taking holy baths or whatever it is they do to get to wherever it is their souls go after death. It's contaminated as hell. It's no damned wonder the pills were yellow - they probably couldn't get the Holy Cow piss completely out of it and then there's all the filth and diseases from the people not to mention the cow dung that's also seeping into the damned river. Kill those damned cows! They aren't holy and your people will stop starving to death!!
I've probably got cow piss running in my veins now and a liver (or some other body part) full of cow dung fibers and I'll have to drink filtered Clorox water for the next six months to get rid of it. And I'm screaming holy hell about why the FDA is letting the shit come into the country in the first place - they're supposed to be protecting us.
Back to Nana ... when I told her the pills were made in India she explained to me that they come in because the FDA doesn't know anything about them. She explained that Walmart has stores all over the world and they are constantly shifting product from distribution points in one country into distribution points in other countries and the FDA doesn't know it's going on. She said that Walmart is as crooked as a dog's hind leg - and further that I shouldn't buy meats from Walmart because they pump it full of formaldehide and ship it from the west coast to the east coast, etc.
So for all you people out there who are screaming for national health care and drugs from other countries because they're cheaper than they are from the greedy American pharmaceutical companies ... take a tip.
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