My friend recently told me she lists meds as allergies, even if she isn’t allergic to them, if she had a bad reaction to them. So for example, Zoloft made her psychotic. She lists it as an allergy now. Her reasoning is that if she’s ever beyond reason and they try to treat her without her knowledge, they should know not to give her something that will actively make her worse. I never thought of this approach before, and I was wondering what you guys think of it. Smart, or setting yourself up for a bad time?
It sounds pretty smart. My doctor listed Topamax as an allergy because of the same thing.
I’ve been sitting trying to think of any drawbacks, but I can’t think of any. So, I’ll go with smart.
My pdoc told me to add Abilify to the list of meds I’m allergic to because it gave me td. I think it’s smart.
Codeine has been on my list forever it makes me psychotic.
I have real allergies, to various types of pollen and penicillin/amoxicillin . Allergies are a result of an immune response to something, which is different than side effects that have nothing to do with the immune system, they are technically different so she is misleading the doctors which I don’t think is a good idea. Isn’t there another more honest way of letting the doctors know what meds not to use under any circumstances.
They have a thing in the UK called an Advanced Decision where you can tell them what to do if you ever lose you mind again.
It’s the law that they follow it
I am thinking I want an advanced decision never to put me on Olanzapine ever again. I hate that med
I think it depends. If it’s really severe like it makes you suicidal or psychotic or something it’s okay as long as your doctor knows why. But if it just made you feel gross or gain weight or didn’t work well, I don’t agree with listing it as an allergy.
This from someone that’s severely allergic to toradol and ER staff will often fight me on it when they see my sz history and just assume I’m drug seeking because so many people list things as allergies when they’re not actually allergic.
But tricyclic antidepressants make me hallucinate more than sz or ptsd ever have, so my PCP when I was in Oregon listed it as an allergy because so many of my doctors kept trying to prescribe them.
I’m allergic to Ziprasidone because that it makes me manic and I’m allergic to Seroquel because that it makes me fat.
They need a new term for the question. Instead of listing meds one is allergic to, there should be a list of medications to avoid. A prolixin injection caused me to be sick for 3 weeks so we list it as an allergy.