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Does anyone's family/friends tell you they want to go over your meds?

Started by eyeamdry, February 07, 2013, 07:07:23 PM

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Luna

My mother and husband and my friends who has the same thing as I , are the only ones who really are interested in what meds Im on. Mom is a nurse and knows a lot about the medications. Hubby does too cause his mom had lupus and lots of other issues.. And of course you can guess why my friend asks. She and I compare.. All three of them only ask cause they care about me and just want to know what to expect with side effects, and to see if they are really helping me. There is one friend who asked how many meds I take and then started telling me how I need to start juicing  and get off the meds, then I would feel better.. I simply told her no.. Thats not really true in my case and she never asked or mentioned it again.. Im not afraid to tell someone no , or correct someone. I know what Im going thru.. My doc knows what Im dealing with. No one else really does. (except you awsome ppl in here)

Luna

Myshkin

Everyone (especially my parents) seem to have an oppinion on my meds. My parents and my grandmother seems to be on some sort of mission to get me on lesser amounts on medicine. They are very sure that it has been medicine that somehow magically has made me sick (still not sure how that should has happened). My mum is an accountant, my dad is an computer engineer and my grandmother is a retired math teacher, so I don't think I need them to tell me anything about my health.

I think my mum is just trying to dissmiss her lousy genes in some way, so that she doesn't have to feel guilty.

Everytime I see my grandmother (she IS getting old of course), she asks me "are you still taking those antidepressant?" I have been taking them since 2004.... It is getting a bit tiresome...
Newly diagnosed i 2012 with Sjogren's and feeling like crap. Just started Plaquenil and try to learn to live with the new me. Also joined by temporal lope epilepsy, auramigraines and PCO.

A66eyroad

G'ma: "Are you still taking that antidepressant?"
Myshkin: "Thanks for asking!"  >Smile<
Female, 61
Sjogrens, UCTD, and subacute cutaneous lupus. Flu-like symptoms, mouth & nasal ulcers, itchy rash, high cholesterol, headache, earache, tinnitis, dizziness. Hangover-like nausea, especially in the a.m.
Plaquenil, Atabrine, DHEA, Aleve, Evoxac, Allegra/Benedryl, esomeprazole.

meow

Quote from: A66eyroad on February 28, 2013, 01:23:46 PM
G'ma: "Are you still taking that antidepressant?"
Myshkin: "Thanks for asking!"  >Smile<
LIKE!!!!! THIS!!!!!!
I refuse to tiptoe quietly through life, only to arrive safely at death's door.

Sjogrens, Hashimotos, CFS.  Also, fast approaching CRS Syndrome ;)