Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:58:36 -0500, Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> 
>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:19:50 -0500, Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>>>
>>>>  I don't believe Cho was on Prozac.
>>> Ditto.  But even if she was, I have family members who have taken
>>> Prozac in the past, and they never went out and killed anyone.  It
>>> actually worked the way it was supposed to.
>>>
>> He. And since I wrote that, I did a little digging. Wiki (yeah, some
>> people use that as a source) cite an article that claims he was
>> prescribed Prozac during the non-detention. The article doesn't say
>> anything about it actually, and I have a damned hard time believing that
>> someone who skipped out on mandatory counseling would take the drugs
>> they prescribed for him.
> 
> Yeah, he.  Don't know where I came up with "she" - must've been 
> conflating the name with Margaret Cho for some reason.
> 
> But I also would have a hard time believing that someone who skipped 
> their sessions took their drugs.
> 
>>> But people have different reactions to different drugs.  When I broke
>>> my leg, I was prescribed Hydrocodone for the pain.  I had an adverse
>>> reaction to it - it made me hallucinate.  I went for a week without any
>>> real sleep (I did rest, but after I was off of it and on something
>>> else, I realized that I'd been lying awake at night on the
>>> Hydrocodone).
>>>
>>>
>> Simple cold medicine does that to me, the hallucination I mean. I only
>> recently found that the "Latest, Greatest" drug out there was designed
>> to get rid of that, so I can finally spend ten minutes with my parent's
>> cat before my nose jumps off my face in fear.
> 
> LOL!  I mean, it isn't funny, but it is, if you know what I mean. :-)
> 

Funny as in the cat chasing my nose around the yard, or not funny in 'oh
crap, I lived with a cat that I couldn't go near growing up.' . . . Oh,
both, I see.

>>> My reaction is typical of < 0.1% of people who it is prescribed to. 
>>> That doesn't make it a bad drug, just bad for me.
>>>
>>>
>> Curious, I have to wonder if that was caused by the APAP, the active
>> side of hydrocodone, or the inactive side.
> 
> Not really sure myself - all I know is when it became apparent that the 
> drug was the problem, I saw the doctor and told him what was happening 
> and he changed the prescription after giving a brief explanation.  I've 
> got a friend who worked in a hospital and learned a lot about drug 
> interactions, I suppose I could ask him.  He did confirm from his sources 
> (probably a PDR as he no longer works in the industry) that that was a 
> rare side effect.
> 

Sorry, my geek side started showing. I couldn't study medicine, so I
just study drugs.

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