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WHAT THE FUCK DOES IT TAKE?
May. 2nd, 2008 11:17 pmWHAT THE FUCK DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE A FUCKING MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL FUCKING LISTEN TO YOU WHEN YOU FUCKING TELL THEM THAT IF THEY GIVE YOU CODINE IT WILL MAKE YOU PARANOID AND HALLUCINATE?! WHAT THE FUCK DOES IT TAKE?! WHAT? WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE FUCKING TELL ME BECAUSE I APPARENTLY CANNOT GET IT THROUGH THE HEADS OF ANY. FUCKING. BODY.
For those wondering, my GP, who has been told this MANY times, prescribed me a prescription cough medication because the latest fucking permutation of "hi dara spends more time sick than she has her entire life" is apparently an opportunistic nasal infection. I also got antibiotics. The prescription cough med has, yes, SEKRIT CODINE not listed on the bottle but listed by the manufacturer.
Similarly, when I was in the neuro ward after I got hit by that car, they had me hopped up on codine (and it was horrible) and when I got sober/sane enough to get my shit together to ask about it, they said ok, they'd take me off it -- except that then they tried to give me more painkiller and I said "is there any codine in this? I can't take codine, it makes me paranoid and gives me hallucinations." And she said "nope!" and I said "Okay, what is it?" and she said "it's just Tylenol" and alarms went off and I said "...is it Tylenol 3?" and she said "...yes" and I said YOU MEAN THE KIND WITH CODINE, THAT MAKES ME PARANOID AND HALLUCINATE?
motherFUCKER.
For those wondering, my GP, who has been told this MANY times, prescribed me a prescription cough medication because the latest fucking permutation of "hi dara spends more time sick than she has her entire life" is apparently an opportunistic nasal infection. I also got antibiotics. The prescription cough med has, yes, SEKRIT CODINE not listed on the bottle but listed by the manufacturer.
Similarly, when I was in the neuro ward after I got hit by that car, they had me hopped up on codine (and it was horrible) and when I got sober/sane enough to get my shit together to ask about it, they said ok, they'd take me off it -- except that then they tried to give me more painkiller and I said "is there any codine in this? I can't take codine, it makes me paranoid and gives me hallucinations." And she said "nope!" and I said "Okay, what is it?" and she said "it's just Tylenol" and alarms went off and I said "...is it Tylenol 3?" and she said "...yes" and I said YOU MEAN THE KIND WITH CODINE, THAT MAKES ME PARANOID AND HALLUCINATE?
motherFUCKER.
