On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 06:10:33 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
wrote:



By the time I took a taxi to the clinic, I was too late to get the MRI.

You would think that a doctor that was prescribing the one time
administration of 3mg of a powerful sedative would advise the patient
to have someone else do the driving. If he didn't do that, I'd make
sure you point that out to them. What you're describing isn't some
unusual, rare, unlikely reaction to the drug. It's kind of what that class of
drugs do in normal use. They calm you down and put you somewhat out of
it. How out of it depends on the person, their tolerance, and how much
they take.

If you routinely took them and had more experience with them, it would
be one thing. But to give them to someone for a one time procedure and
not tell them to get someone else to drive would be really, really bad.

If you get bored, where it says THIS IS INTERESTING is by far the most
interesting.

I was slightly mad at him, because he didn't, but from a logical pov, I
looked on line at the side effects and I knew there were the ones below.
I relied on the fact that when I left the house I didn't feel any side
effects and that I never -- until now -- get side effects.

For example, antihistamines don't make me sleepy, not a bit. I've
taken antibiotics; and when I was mistakenly diagosed with epilepsy, I
took 3 different anti-convulsants at the same time for at least a month,
and I had no side effects (and no intended effect since I never had
epilepsy, the third specialist and co-developer of the EEG told me).
And for 30 days I took benzedrine by prescription and it had no effect
at all. There were probably more.

If a cop had showed up, it's even possible you would have been charged
with DWI. If I were the Dr., I'd not only tell you, I'd get you to sign
something in writing acknowledging it.

I sent him an email explaining why I still hadn't had the MRI and asking
for something to take and I think his secretary called me to tell me the
prescription had been sent to my usual pharmacy.

But I did read the side effects and I actually didn't have any of them.

drowsiness.
dizziness.
tiredness.
weakness.
dry mouth.
diarrhea.
nausea.
changes in appetite.
and others

What I had might be called loopiness. Maybe I'm too literal for them,
and they would call that drowsiness, even though I didn't feel like
sleeping.

THIS IS INTERESTING.
I had looked at several webpages before, but none had pictures
of the pills.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/drugs/lorazepam
The plastic pill bottle, which I'm sure I still have, was labeled 1mg.
(I looked) but the pills were pentagonal, like the Pentagon of the
Defense Department. The first row of pictures has the only pentagonal
pills like the Pentagon and not like a house**, and they are 2mg. He
prescribed 3 of them. So maybe I got 6 mg. instead of the 3 he
intended me to take. I think I must have. Since I didn't have the MRI
yet, I was going to ask him for more pills, so we'll see what they give
me the next time.

**The second in the row is shaped like a house. The third is shaped
like the Pentagon.

(Because of another foul-up, this will be the third time I get pills.
The first *two* times, the pills were shaped the same. Ironically, this
gave me confidence they were the right pills. It increases the odds
they'll give me the wrong pills again.)