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Tylenol has made at least 70 people sick at their stomach with: stomach pains, vomiting, diarrhea, and nausea. [Flu-like symptoms; interesting, considering our recent H1N1 epidemic where people who were presumed to be infected only had the virus 1% of the time according to test results.]
The victims took Tylenol manufactured from ingredients contaminated with the broken-down by-products of a chemical used to kill fungus/mold on wooden shipping palettes. [The contaminated Tylenol products reportedly have a moldy/musty odor, ironically, due to the presence of the chemical.]
Rolaids have also been recalled. Some lots of them have the same contamination as the recalled lots of Tylenol. [Kind of bizarre you could: start off with a simple headache, get acute stomach ills from the contaminated Tylenol, take Rollaids to treat that, and get a second dose of contamination - increasing your illness further. And all this was being sold during the peak of the perceived H1N1 crisis which was measured by public health officials by symptoms - not by virus test results - when computing infection rate statistics.]
Neither Johnson and Johnson nor the FDA know how many packages of the medication sold to consumers nor currently in stores are affected by the recall. [More bad news for consumers: voluntary recalls like this one do not get all the product off store shelves (e.g. Bausch & Laum, Pet Food, and Sony malware-laced audio CDs.); and neither FDA nor the manufacturer seems to have one consolidated list of all of the recalled UPC/lot# codes, making it impossible for consumers to catch all the recalled items while shopping or after buying them. I found 3 web pages yesterday and included links to them in one of the first articles I posted about the recall here on current. Good luck; hopefully you can use that to get a head start building a complete list. Or, consider maybe a different brand of product is safer until the affected medications reach their expiration date.]Tylenol has made at least 70 people sick at their stomach with: stomach pains,... more
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I'm coming out of my "Green Closet"! The ongoing debate in California has brought out a lot of people that have been silent for a long time about scrounging around for their medicine!
I am so sick of the people that sit back on their pious asses and hold "court" over MY PAIN! Pain and the relief thereof is subjective! In this case the subject is ME! I am the subject, MY pain! Even if YOU are not CONVINCED that it helps MY PAIN, as long as I am, who are YOU to say it doesn't?
I can walk into any doctor anywhere in any town and get a HANDFUL of NARCOTICS in just a few minutes! Enough to kill me 6x over, they do help with Some of my problems, but the side effects are devastating and leave me unable to function in any NORMAL capacity. The MJ does help take enough of the edge off the pain and nerve action (spasms) that I can function and still get on with life! So, even if YOU believe it is not viable for medical purposes, if it helps me (I do not care if you think it is a PLACEBO) then that should be MY opinion and choice! BTW, I suffered a devastating spinal cord injury that has left me with lifelong, debilitating nerve damage with spasms, pain and partial loss of function on one side of my body!
I had someone say to me that this beneficial effect was all in "my mind", that it didn't really relieve anything. Okay, it's all in MY mind - if I have traded in my handful of "goodies" for a few hits of pot, and it works for me, why does it bother you? Seriously, do you think I would be better off to just continue taking all of my prescriptions like Norco, Valium, Neurontin, Zoloft, Ambien and Flexeril in doses guaranteed to stop me from even crawling out of bed? Besides the physiological ramifications, they also happen to leave me unable to talk straight, drive, cook, shop or any other task requiring a brain or motor skills!
Maybe your right, maybe it won't "take away" my ailments...but I don't seem to care nearly as much! Oh, wait, am I admitting that I ENJOY consuming my medication? I guess so, wow, isn't that a shame? I have to pass on alcohol because it causes me to become violently ill most of the time. Do you think that alcohol is NOT a social "medication"? So yup, I admit it, I like big buds! I rarely use any of the above mentioned drugs, even though I have full bottles in my cabinet and could get pretty much any others from a DR at the drop of a hat! I would rather take a couple of tokes, drink some tea or whatever form of Cannabis "relieves" my symptoms, oh, and I can still get out of bed, hold a conversation above a second grade level and do a little living too!
Toke On!I'm coming out of my "Green Closet"! The ongoing debate in California... more
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