Did you know if you take a Zantac while you’re on Strattera that you get excruciating stomach pain? That your stomach swells up and hurts to touch? This is what I discovered at 3 o’clock this morning when I called an all-night pharmacy to ask whether this was from the drugs.
“Just keep drinking water to get the Zantac out of your system,” the pharmacist advised. “It won’t kill you.”
No, it just feels that way.
The doctor put me on it for my ADD, and this is my second day. Woke up with a headache, which is really annoying. I’m reading all these patient sites, and people seem to love it or hate it. Several people said you have to push through the first month, so I will (barring worse side effects). I do notice an increased ability to finish a task — which is nice.
Anyone else out there have any experience with this drug?
Good idea! Don’t think the ballplayers will for it, though…
Isn’t this great? Here’s hoping we’ll see something useful out of it:
ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2011) — For the first time, scientists discovered that a specific type of human cell, generated from stem cells and transplanted into spinal cord injured rats, provide tremendous benefit, not only repairing damage to the nervous system but helping the animals regain locomotor function as well.
The study, published March 2 in the journal PLoS ONE, focuses on human astrocytes — the major support cells in the central nervous system — and indicates that transplantation of these cells represents a potential new avenue for the treatment of spinal cord injuries and other central nervous system disorders.
This story’s about Texas, but I know that soon this will be even more parts of Pennsylvania, thanks to the political payoffs the gas industry invested in our new governor Tom Corbett, who is so firmly in their pocket, he might as well be lint. If we know there’s one thing Republicans cherish, it’s their right to allow their corporate patrons to fuck up the environment and then blame the Democrats who have to come in and clean it up!
Fearing for his children’s health, Mayor Calvin Tillman is leaving behind his government position and getting out of Dodge… or rather, Dish.
Dish, Texas is a town consisting of 200 residents and 60 gas wells. When Tillman’s sons repeatedly woke up in the middle of the night with mysterious nosebleeds, he knew it was time to move — even if it meant leaving his community behind. In an exclusive interview with The Huffington Post, Mayor Tillman reveals that when it came down to family or politics, the choice wasn’t a tough one to make.
Tillman, first elected mayor of Dish, Texas in 2007, has spent his time in office fighting to regulate natural gas companies that are drilling into the Barnett shale, which holds up to 735 billion cubic meters of natural gas.
According to the Associated Press, residents of Dish have complained of nosebleeds, pain, and poor circulation since the first compressor station was built in their town in 2005, though there is no hard proof linking the health problems to the natural gas drilling. The air over the Barnett Shale near Dish was found to contain high levels of the toxic chemical benzene, shown to cause cancer. The town’s mayor is leaving it all behind.
Last Memorial Day was the final straw. Tillman’s 5-year-old son awoke in the middle of the night with a severe nosebleed. As Tillman describes to HuffPost, “He had blood all over his hands, blood on the walls — our house looked somewhat like a murder scene.” In the weeks prior, both of Tillman’s sons had experienced severe nosebleeds. At the same time, the town was surrounded by a strong odor from their natural gas facilities.
While Mayor Tillman acknowledges there could be other explanations, he feels, “It’s one thing if I’m exposing myself to something… but with our children, it’s just a completely different story. We just couldn’t take the chance after that.” Around the country, similar reports of nosebleeds can be found among residents living near hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” sites, though the energy companies insist that their methods are safe.
“Safe” as in, nobody can pin it to us quickly enough to keep us from drilling until it’s too late.
They do something to the brain, but they don’t know if it’s bad.
Of course, since research shows links between glucose and tumor growth, well, why not use a headset?
They’ll be the death of us – literally.
But other than that, it increases the bottom line and that’s all that counts!
