https://snarp.dreamwidth.org/ I Am Completely Serious - Dreamwidth Studios Mon, 09 Mar 2015 03:00:05 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios snarp personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/26613/51721 https://snarp.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://snarp.dreamwidth.org/682958.html Mon, 09 Mar 2015 03:00:05 GMT https://snarp.dreamwidth.org/682958.html Today I learned about <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110830/">ghost</a> <a href="http://www.primetimehealthplan.com/Handlers/FormHandler.ashx?intFormId=783">pills</a>. You poop out a pill and think it didn't absorb, but it did absorb. The pill you pooped out is inert, merely a ghost of the pill it once was. A ghost which is haunting your colon.<br /><br />I have objections to this delivery method. They are <i>perfectly rational objections</i> that are not <i>just</i> about me not wanting a haunted colon. I offered them to my psychiatrist, in one of my many whiny emails describing problems which she obviously cannot solve:<br /><br /><blockquote>I think this is a really irresponsible XR technique, particularly for a psychiatric drug. I skimmed some message boards before finding that article, and a lot of people refuse to take drugs that do this, or suffer a loss in perceived effectiveness, because they're convinced that the tablets aren't being properly absorbed. It makes me wonder if the goal's just to make the things impossible to halve for market-control reasons.</blockquote><br /><br />[/practicing medicine which I am totally competent to do]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=snarp&ditemid=682958" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://snarp.dreamwidth.org/682958.html pristiq anti-depressants public 2