It's supposedly unpleasant as hell to have (I do not have it, but I do know people who have it).
People have compared it the hellish feeling of having to run around while breathing in and out through a straw (go try it, it sucks).
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Sunday 24 January 2016
Are you serious?
Ever heard about asthma? That weird affliction where sometimes the airways of a person decide to spasm and choke the life out of the person they're supposed to supply oxygen to?
It's supposedly unpleasant as hell to have (I do not have it, but I do know people who have it).
People have compared it the hellish feeling of having to run around while breathing in and out through a straw (go try it, it sucks).
It's supposedly unpleasant as hell to have (I do not have it, but I do know people who have it).
People have compared it the hellish feeling of having to run around while breathing in and out through a straw (go try it, it sucks).
Monday 18 January 2016
Practicing neuro exam..
Practicing neuro exams on our classmates..
Professor & classmate: *Hits my knee with the hammer*
Me:
Professor & classmate: *Hits my knee with the hammer*
Me:
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| No, not THAT lively. Lively enough though. |
Me: *Tests patellar reflex on classmate*
Classmate: ... (*Nothing happens*)
Me: ..? *Tries again*
*Nothing happens*
Me:
Classmate: ... (*Nothing happens*)
Me: ..? *Tries again*
*Nothing happens*
Me:
Just my luck to have super lively reflexes that are good enough to show for demonstrations and are good to practice with, only to end up practicing with a classmate with virtually absent reflexes. The hell..
Friday 15 January 2016
Graves' Disease.. Part 6: Hoarding meds
You amateurs, you..
Word got out that one of the major producers of levothyroxine (thyroid hormone, more specifically, synthetic FT4) is unable to produce enough medication for the Dutch thyroid patients here.
This is because the pharmaceutical company is hauling ass; ergo nothing will be produced for a while.
There's going to be a shortage of Thyrax tablets with a dosage of 25ug starting February this year. The other dosages, 100ug and 150ug, will probably run out somewhere around June.
[Insert a lot of panic among my fellow thyroid patients.]
I lucked out and got my dosage increased from 3x25ug to 1x100ug, so I still have a personal stash of +- 3months lying around, with chances that I will have enough pills to last me until the summer.
A lot of my fellow patients are now attempting to hoard the last amounts of Thyrax now. Some of them are even attempting to hoard a year's supply.
Shame on you, really.
No one really enjoys having a thyroid disease. Everyone is going to suffer from being forced to switch to another brand.
Eventually, you'll have to switch to another brand as well. So please don't hog.
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Word got out that one of the major producers of levothyroxine (thyroid hormone, more specifically, synthetic FT4) is unable to produce enough medication for the Dutch thyroid patients here.
This is because the pharmaceutical company is hauling ass; ergo nothing will be produced for a while.
There's going to be a shortage of Thyrax tablets with a dosage of 25ug starting February this year. The other dosages, 100ug and 150ug, will probably run out somewhere around June.
[Insert a lot of panic among my fellow thyroid patients.]
I lucked out and got my dosage increased from 3x25ug to 1x100ug, so I still have a personal stash of +- 3months lying around, with chances that I will have enough pills to last me until the summer.
A lot of my fellow patients are now attempting to hoard the last amounts of Thyrax now. Some of them are even attempting to hoard a year's supply.
Shame on you, really.
No one really enjoys having a thyroid disease. Everyone is going to suffer from being forced to switch to another brand.
Eventually, you'll have to switch to another brand as well. So please don't hog.
My first thought when I heard about patients attempting to hoard a year's supply of Thyrax: DAMN, YOU GREEDY HAMSTERS!
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