Comments on View from the Cloud: Hmmm, I think I'd rather be awake

I hope I don't catch too much flak for this......

2009-06-21T10:42:01.914-05:00

I hope I don't catch too much flak for this...

Toke off the old doobage = excellent for putting one to sleep.

Illegal, yes.

Dangerous? Look at the side effects.. ambien is ten times as dangerous!

I know a guy who sleepwalks without the help of an...

2009-06-12T06:28:38.220-05:00

I know a guy who sleepwalks without the help of any drugs. The other night he tried to fix his computer cooling fan in his sleep.

A lot of anti depressants have a side effect of ri...

2009-06-12T02:20:12.066-05:00

A lot of anti depressants have a side effect of risk of suicide. I have never understood how they work out if it's the pill or the depression that causes this.

The only thing that would make those ads funnier i...

2009-06-11T19:44:30.566-05:00

The only thing that would make those ads funnier is if Billy Mays screamed the side effects.

Ha,that ad came on while I was reading your blog. ...

2009-06-11T18:38:27.864-05:00

Ha,that ad came on while I was reading your blog. Most of these drugs have side effects worse than the malady they're treating. Alli, which you presumably use to lose weight, make yourself more attractive to the opposite sex, may cause uncontrollable bowel movements. Yeah, that's attractive.

That reminds me of all the warnings for the classi...

2009-06-11T16:38:28.221-05:00

That reminds me of all the warnings for the classic SNL skit Happy Fun Ball.

The eating-in-your-sleep thing is the worst. If I'm going to get fat, I at least want to remember how I got there. Cripes.

bill - Yeah, but you know that you should ALWAYS g...

2009-06-11T14:03:35.160-05:00

bill - Yeah, but you know that you should ALWAYS go in with chest pains, right? RIGHT?

heather - I guess it's all a matter of how you look at it.

elizabeth - You got that right. Nothing like permanent sleep to take care of your insomnia.

maureen - It was funny on TV because they didn't rattle off the disclaimer at high speed. It was as if they weren't worried about it at all.

april - A guy here in St. Cloud got up in the middle of the night (after taking Ambien) and drove his car right through his garage... and then went in and went back to bed. He didn't even know he had done it the next day.

jess - I know. And if you didn't catch it, I actually wrote about that in this post.

I still can't get over the name "Aciphex&...

2009-06-11T13:19:07.385-05:00

I still can't get over the name "Aciphex" for the pill to treat a digestive disorder.

PS: I tagged you for a good old-fashioned meme, if you're up for it.

A colleague got hooked on Ambien for a while, and ...

2009-06-11T12:59:12.050-05:00

A colleague got hooked on Ambien for a while, and she told us stories of eating without being fully awake. She was also trying to get the rest of us hooked, too. It was pretty funny!

Ahahahahaha! Boy, it's a good thing they have ...

2009-06-11T12:29:01.854-05:00

Ahahahahaha! Boy, it's a good thing they have those disclaimers ... in tiny writing, or at the lowest possible volume at the highest possible speed during TV commercials...

When a list of side effects is worse than what you're taking the damn pill for, um why exactly ARE you taking it???

I hate even taking aspirin and try to avoid as many pharmaceuticals as possible.

"Risk of suicide"? "May be fatal&q...

2009-06-11T12:25:08.797-05:00

"Risk of suicide"? "May be fatal"? Sheesh! Well, I guess you wouldn't have insomnia anymore.

Here I thought they just had very, very tiny actor...

2009-06-11T11:55:11.404-05:00

Here I thought they just had very, very tiny actors.

Years ago I went to the emergency with chest pains...

2009-06-11T10:48:54.037-05:00

Years ago I went to the emergency with chest pains. It was caused bny the Lipitor. I should have read the fine print. Tell me why warnings are not printed at least as large as the rest of the instrucions. It said "May cause chest pains or spasms".