Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Contra-indictated

Here's what's weird: in a new drug ad (1) for a medication called Uloric, recommended to treat Gout (2), my medication (3) was listed as one of those not to be taken before taking Uloric.  I immediately felt preferred, distinguished, famous (4).  Thousands of people heard the name of my medication!  And it wasn't just me.  My husband turned to look at me at the same time with the same look of singled-out surprise.

Here's why it's weird:
1.  I hate those ads.  They annoy me.  The side affects are often worse than the disease or condition they are proposing to abate.  Or they're just crazy.  Coma and Death are some of my favorite.  (Death!  As a symptom!  Huzzah.)  And, I've never felt any affiliation with the now-happy and no longer suffering people or their ailments.  Luckily, I not old enough (I guess) to have the particular condition, or tangently lucky, I have one of my own that I cope with just fine (a).
2. They still call it Gout?  I thought Gout was like Consumption or at the very least, had been vaccinated out of existence.  Coma and Death and Gout!
3. My medication is Imuran, generic name Azathioprine.  Azathioprine is the one that was mentioned.  Listen for it!
4. Why am I excited about about having my medication mentioned in the kind of t.v. advertisement that galls me?  (Gout and Gall!)
        a. I cope better than most Chron's patients--not of my own accord, mostly it's up to luck--and have had a better time of it than most from the very beginning.  So, go Azathioprine!  And keep on keeping on, body o' mine.
(Coma or Death!  Gout and Gall!)

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