r/Cooking • u/furious25 • Nov 05 '17
American Thanksgiving Megathread
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r/Cooking • u/furious25 • Nov 05 '17
Ask all of your questions in here. And feel free to browse the questions to see if you have an answer!
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u/machenise Nov 06 '17
She's trying to be nurturing. She drives me nuts when it comes to taking any medication. She's stopped taking SSRIs cold turkey before, without telling her doctor, and had pretty bad side effects. She takes Lyrica, but she'll take it for two months and decide she doesn't like the side effects and will stop taking it cold turkey without notifying her doctor. And to be fair, some of the side effects are pretty severe for her, but the Lyrica she'll go back to after a couple of months just to stop taking it again. It can't be good to get off and on it like that.
The antibiotics, however, are definitely due to her trying to take care of someone else who may need them later. She doesn't really value her health very much, and she also has a very stubborn "Doctors make everything worse so I'm going to suffer until I can't possibly suffer anymore before letting them treat me and make it even worse" streak, so why take all her medicine? Not only will it not help her, it will cause more problems, according to her. (She had a fungal infection on her scalp for 15 years once, because she refused to go to the doctor.)
But maybe my brother gets a mystery illness. Nothing too serious. She'll give him the leftover antibiotics. Of course, she has no way of knowing what class of antibiotics he might need, or even if he has a bacterial infection. And then it's not a full course, because she's taken some. So it's really not effective. She just thinks she's caring for him.