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Jan. 8th, 2011 06:17 pmI saw my Gastro office about how sick I am getting if I don't take Zofran. They want to put me on Dronabinol three times a day (Marinol) and I have no idea what to think about that. It's not a medication that I'm into the idea of taking it more than 'as needed' if I look at the key ingredients, but maybe the key ingredients don't have the affect I think they would have?
(Dronabinol is synthetic THC and Marinol is one name for how it's sold. It's typically prescribed for patients that literally have nowhere else to go in making sure they can consume subsistence. This is the website the government has for it.)
The page on PublMed does list all of what I am afraid of as 'transient' symptoms that you're supposed to talk to the doctor if they don't go away.
But then it contradicts itself:
"You should know that dronabinol may make you drowsy and may cause changes in your mood, thinking, memory, judgment, or behavior, especially at the beginning of your treatment. You will need to be supervised by a responsible adult when you first begin taking dronabinol and whenever your dose is increased. Do not drive a car, operate machinery or do any other activity that requires mental alertness until you know how this medication affects you."
I really don't know and I'm not too sure how to find out. They ushered me out too quick to ask about it (they didn't even tell me the dosage, I had to find out by seeing my meds list sheet at Urology).
This kind of scares me to even try. I'm not really sure how to get past that to see if it works or not.
But at the same time, I lost 9 pounds in less than a month because I couldn't eat or even be around food, most of the time. The Zofran is acting like it might stop working on that, which is what led them to this.
:|.
(Dronabinol is synthetic THC and Marinol is one name for how it's sold. It's typically prescribed for patients that literally have nowhere else to go in making sure they can consume subsistence. This is the website the government has for it.)
The page on PublMed does list all of what I am afraid of as 'transient' symptoms that you're supposed to talk to the doctor if they don't go away.
But then it contradicts itself:
"You should know that dronabinol may make you drowsy and may cause changes in your mood, thinking, memory, judgment, or behavior, especially at the beginning of your treatment. You will need to be supervised by a responsible adult when you first begin taking dronabinol and whenever your dose is increased. Do not drive a car, operate machinery or do any other activity that requires mental alertness until you know how this medication affects you."
I really don't know and I'm not too sure how to find out. They ushered me out too quick to ask about it (they didn't even tell me the dosage, I had to find out by seeing my meds list sheet at Urology).
This kind of scares me to even try. I'm not really sure how to get past that to see if it works or not.
But at the same time, I lost 9 pounds in less than a month because I couldn't eat or even be around food, most of the time. The Zofran is acting like it might stop working on that, which is what led them to this.
:|.
