SC - Clarification-long-response 1b

[Micaylah]

Phlip suggests that you tell your doctor all the drugs that you may be
ingesting. She did fail to mention that you should also be honest about the
recreational drugs you may be ingesting/smoking as well. How can a doctor
treat you effectively if they are not given all the variables? 

Micaylah

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 >Am repeating a bit of my last post on this, please bear with me.
>
>Precautions: Tell your doctor if you have other illnesses or any allergies,
>especially allergies to drugs.
>
>If you have had liver disease or jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes),
>tell your doctor before you take this drug.
>
>This drug should be used only if clearly needed during pregnancy. Small
>amounts of drug appear in breast milk. Consult your doctor before
>breastfeeding.<Told you this stuff shows up in milk. It may well depend on
>your age as to whether you were exposed to the drug unknowingly- it's only
>fairly recently that this problem with this drug has been PROVEN, and even if
>you're fairly young, the farmers who produce milk under a B license, ie for
>CHEESE, do not, and ARE not required to follow the same rules as milk
>producers.> 
>
>Drug Interactions: Tell your doctor of all the drugs you may use,
>(prescription and nonprescription) especially of the following :
>carbamazepine, cyclosporine, theophylline, certain benzodiazepines (e.g.
>midazolam, triazolam ),  warfarin, terfenadine, astemizole, felodipine (a
>calcium channel blocker), cisapride, birth control pills <the reason they work
>is that they convince your body that you're pregnant so you don't ovulate- as
>I had mentioned, other life changes change your body's metabolism so that you
>have different reactions to drugs- re your comments on popcorn and pregnancy>
>corticosteroids (e.g. prednisone)< as an asthmatic, I've no doubt you've been
>fed plenty of THEM!!!> , digoxin, pimozide, certain live vaccines,
>disopyramide, phenytoin, sparfloxacin (a quinolone antibiotic), any other
>antibiotics, and lovastatin.
>
>As you can see, there are enough things which you may have had exposure to
>which may have prejudiced your physiology against E-mycin, that your previous
>exposures may have been unnoticed by anything other than your immune system. I
>was trying to keep my original posting fairly simple, but since you asked...
>;-)
>
>Later,
>
>Phlip

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