I was taking my sleeping pill this morning getting ready to go to bed when i happened to look at the side of the bottle and saw a warning sticker that read:
'CAUTION: MAY CAUSE DROWSINESS.'
May?
I would hope so, since it is a sleeping pill. What were they thinking when they pasted that label on the bottle?
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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lol
Is there something similar to JCAHO that pharmacies have to adhere too--that certainly sounds JCAHOish.
Sadly, I've met someone that needed that label. Went on a 911 call for someone who was in a panic because she took an Ambien to treat her insomnia, and then she was terribly drowsy!
Seriously, she wanted to go to the hospital because she was feeling "too sleepy".
haha nice!
As a pharmacist you can never underestimate the stupidity of people. I put those stickers on ambien because the day I don't someone will get in trouble becasue of it
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What about my microwave lunch that says "Caution: after cooking product will be HOT". Otherwise it would still be frozen and I couldn't eat it. Gotta love the cover-your-butt warnings.
"MAY????" I demand a guarantee!!!
Also...i looked at a bottle of sleeping pills today, and noted that they have the exact same ingredients as benedryl. Which is cheaper.
Remember, we are trying to make a society that is safe for idiots, but toxic to the intelligent.
Ambien never worked for me. I took the normal dose. The next night I doubled it. The following night I added another dose. Still not even drowsy. I figured I would be more likely to experience the undesirable side effects long before I experienced the desirable drowsiness. Phooey!
little d, S.N.,
Benadryl can also be obtained as the much more affordable diphenhydramine, which is generic for Benadryl. Generics are almost always the same as the brand name, except for the price. Flavoring, packaging, and other non-medication differences may be different.
One thing to watch out for, when taking diphenhydramine (Benadryl) for sleep. If it is not working, do not keep taking more. The toxicity can have the opposite effect. If you give it to a child to help the child sleep, this can be the reason the child is up all night running around. Some people are sensitive to the toxic effects, but not the sedating effects.
Otherwise it is a very handy medication that is essential for a the home medicine cabinet.
That's okay my stuff for my narcolepsy says may cause drowsiness lol I was all well I hope NOT or I'll just hibernate!
Remember: Make it idiot proof, and someone will make a better idiot...
*rolls her eyes and sighs*
This amuses me too.
I take Ambien and have for nearly a year now to treat the fact that my brain has forgotten how to go through the stages of sleep in an orderly fashion since I got fibromyalgia. It's interesting. I can stay awake on it if I choose to, and I can wake up while on it if the alarm goes off or someone wakes me. I just actually go to sleep and have normal sleep and dreams on it, once I lie down and go through the mental sleep-inducing exercises.
I talked in my sleep anyway, so that's nothing new. So does my husband. I went in last night after he did, and he rolled over and assured me that the lemonade was all heated up now. (giggle)
The idea of that sticker is not necessarily that it'll make you drowsy right then -- one would think that's obvious. Problem is that some of those older sedative/hypnotics have an insanely long duration of action. Ambien's pretty short-acting, but some of the older benzodiazepines can stick around for quite some time; flurazepam (Dalmane) for example has an active metabolite with a t-1/2 of 45-100 hours. This means that the next morning you've still got nearly 90% of it on board. Of course you'll be drowsy.
One word: LAWSUIT
No big pharmaceutical company wants to be settling because some idiot didn't think a sleeping tablet would make them drowsy.
I had to go look at my sleeping pill bottle. Says the same thing! Never noticed before but it's like saying don't stick your hand in the meat grinder it, "may hurt". LOL Toni
Toni,
I had to go look at my sleeping pill bottle. Says the same thing! Never noticed before but it's like saying don't stick your hand in the meat grinder it, "may hurt". LOL Toni
Check to see if there is a warning label on a meat grinder. If the meat grinder is not ancient, and the label can be read, it probably has plenty of warnings about not putting your hand into the meat grinder.
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