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extrapyramidal symptoms

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Never a good sign when your symptoms fall outside the food pyramid. 

Prisoner#1 said:

if you go in with prostate cancer, you'll come out with 6 new
cancers and the old one stil intact

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Crasher said:

So I go to see a VA doctor for our first face-to-face appointment. I tell him about my chronic nerve and back pain from my amputation, and I inform him I've decided to use medical marijuana for it. He was concerned with the possible side effects of my pot use.

He proposed a medication instead. Actually, it just came in the mail!

Amitriptyline, apparently, is an antidepressant used off-label for nerve pain.

Side effects include: weight gain, dry mouth, loss of appetite, drowsiness, muscle stiffness, nausea, constipation, nervousness, dizziness, blurred vision, urinary retention and insomnia. Some rare side effects include tinnitus, hypotension, mania, psychosis, heart block, arrhythmias, lip and mouth ulcers, extrapyramidal symptoms, depression, and hepatic toxicity.


Yeah, no thanks.

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Prisoner#1 said:

if you go in with prostate cancer, you'll come out with 6 new
cancers and the old one stil intact

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misfitdeviate said:

Heres some recent very horribly horrible horror stories

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/apr/04/local/me-veteran4

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For another, he was getting his surgery in a system that has prided itself on its pioneering efforts to prevent medical errors. One top VA official said the VA's approach to safety is considered "a benchmark by healthcare organizations throughout the world."

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