This thread is along the lines of patient lingo, but I have to share complaints I have heard this week.
Girl comes in and states "I stopped taking my birth control pills 3 days ago and now i'm bleeding".......
Elderly man chief complaint "I had leg cramps last night and now my bowels are locked up"......huh?
Woman with c/o fever. When asked if she had taken anything for the fever.......she replies "I haven't taken any pills, but i've done all the other things you're supposed to do to bring your fever down. I've drank a coke and some unsweetened tea, I smoked a menthol cigarette, and I cried......but just regular tears. I couldn't make any acid tears"...........(did i miss that day in nursing school?)
When I gave a patient the results of their chlamydia/gonorrhea screen, she actually stated, "I'm glad I have chlamydia and not gonorrhea"!!!! Can you believe it?
These are so funny! Of course these type of patients are what keeps the day going with a little laughter. Thanks for making my day go with some laughter! :)
Ok, this thread sorta proves my point and smiling blue eyes (aka Deb) point about the danger of putting the morning after pill OTC.
:roll
Keep em coming . .
steph.
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Not one person EVER has EVER had a bad outcome from the morning after pill, and one can get it (thankfully) OTC in some pharmacies in California. Nausea is the worst that will happen. Take a Benadryl.
But MANY have (later) been harmed by grown offspring from unwanted pregnancies...
spread the word to the laypeople...the morning after pill is NOT the abortion pill. it prevents pregnacy (fertiliziation), it does not terminate it...
I work in a Cardiology office while I'm going through nursing school and I had a patient once tell me to make sure the doctor checked the "dispense as written" box on her script because she was allergic to all generic medications!":D
Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN
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Point taken:D
steph