{"id":182,"date":"2005-10-18T10:33:10","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T14:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/10\/18\/over-medicated\/"},"modified":"2005-10-18T10:33:10","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T14:33:10","slug":"over-medicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/10\/18\/over-medicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Over-Medicated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I hate taking medication. It’s not that I can’t swallow pills (I can). It’s not that I don’t like relief (I do). But I get lazy when I don’t feel well and don’t feel like trekking to the kitchen cabinet to grab medicine. Plus, I tend not to like putting chemicals in my body like that – even cold medicines.<\/P>
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But this damn cold\/respiratory infection thing has been killing me for 12 days now. I went to the doctor yesterday and I don’t have a fever so she wouldn’t give me antibiotics. She did refer me to some new over-the-counter stuff that was formerly prescription only. The clerk at CVS actually asked to see my ID before letting my buy it. Anyway, I’m taking that but not really feeling any improvement. I mean, I guess it relieves the sensation that my sinus congestion is going to cause my eyes to burst out of my head, but once the medication wears off, the pain re-emerges.<\/P>
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And that’s the problem. Whatever I have doesn’t seem to be going away. I can supress the discomfort for periods of time, but it’s not getting cured, it’s just being “treated”.<\/P>
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I probably got some weird untreatable Mad Cow Avian Hoof and Mouth West Nile Lyme Equine Ebola Disease while in Paris.<\/P>
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I hate taking medication. It’s not that I can’t swallow pills (I can). It’s not that I don’t like relief (I do). But I get lazy when I don’t feel well and don’t feel like trekking to the kitchen cabinet to grab medicine. Plus, I tend not to like putting chemicals in my body like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}