Thursday, February 07, 2002
I was on "The Pill" for a little while |12:03 PM|
This short story is interesting, and was posted by Zusty on her Top Secret Diary page thing. My question is what led the author to write it? It's not so much a "where do you get your ideas" so much as "what drove you?".
We were talking about various drugs used for different purposes than what they were originally designed for, such as
Minoxidil (the magic stuff in Rogaine) was originally used to treat high blood pressure. At some point someone noticed "Hey! I got my damned hair back!". The human body is still clearly a black box in some way to the medical industry. They try some things, they watch what happens, they take notes, but some stuff is really weird. Like a lot of anti-depression medications will give you permanent muscle twitches if you're on them for more than a couple years, but they may also make your jaw grow. What the hell? That's like using the wrong oil in your car and then the damn tires go flat.
My co-worker mentioned something that had me find
This article. It has an amusing (at least I think so) line that ends with "hat". Note to men who don't want commitments, do not drop hats. Listed in this article is one of the drugs that I used to take for acne, Tetracycline. This particular version of "The pill" was also found to have anti acne effects. Hence, the title, I was indeed on the pill for a little while.
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