ALLOPURINOL vs PREDNISONE

Age: 59 Weight: 145lbs Complaint: Stroke followed by approximately 30 hours without medical care. He had a previous stroke 2 weeks ago and was transported by ambulance to a hospital. Hospital care is no longer possible. For most of the last 24 hours, he has been unable to move most of his body

Hey guys, I'm finishing my P2 year of pharm school eventually working in independent retail and this question has yet to be addressed: What are the top 10 (or top 5) ABSOLUTE contraindications that are often seen/relevant to retail/commonly missed by physicians? PharmTimes did an [article](http:/

Hello! I went to my doctor about 6 weeks ago due to moderate to severe testicular pain (the right side specifically) and was tested for STDs, STIs or other urinary issues and all came back clear. I was given antibiotics and an ultrasound was ordered. The ultrasound showed a 10mm lesion on my right t

90+ Year old female Patient (family member), non-smoker, and weighs somewhere in the 130-140 range??? (guesstimate), and... anywhere between 5'1" - 5'4" (guesstimate) Med Hx: A-fib (some reason PT was not placed on a long term blood thinning medication and most likely the cause for this incident), G

I am a 61 y.o. male, 5'10", 209 lb, white. I smoke a cigar almost every day outdoors (do not inhale). I have a couple of drinks a week, I do not use other drugs. Also, I do resistance training almost every day and walk about 5 miles per day. So although my weight seems fairly high, I have more t

I was involved in an explosion a few years ago. I was burnt and whatnot and knocked around, but I don't think I ever lost consciousness from it. It was a pretty forceful explosion - it left a small crater in the concrete and knocked people over several metres away. The stuff I was holding in my hand

Edit: I deleted the vaping post a while ago because doctors kept judging me for it. I’ve kept screenshots of it, they were moderators telling me NOT to go to the ER making me feel stupid. At eosinophil of 5800. So yeah. I’m not lying about the post I just deleted it because of anxiety before the hos

31F, don’t want to give too much identifying info since there aren’t that many bat rehabilitators in the world. No relevant PMH. I’m normally the one answering questions about rabies, not asking them, but this is more than I know and more than my doctor knows, so I’m hoping this might happen to be s

Hi everyone, 6 year old male. 43 pounds. 45 inches tall. Caucasian. Canada. No allergies. Medical conditions: asthma. Medications: Advair BID, and Ventolin PRN. Was prescribed Prednisone for a possible asthma exacerbation, and recieved one 20mL dose on Wednesday morning then went to school, and caug

I can't embed images here, so I made a pdf with all text, pictures, and labs. [https://www.scribd.com/document/511582218/askdocs-pdf?secret\_password=VqmaLuJA0tGw5bGE5xYp](https://www.scribd.com/document/511582218/askdocs-pdf?secret_password=VqmaLuJA0tGw5bGE5xYp) It will be much easier to read th

Hi everyone (throwaway account here), I need help on how to proceed with a meeting I am going to have with my staff pharmacist who got caught on camera stealing drugs at 5 different instances in the past 3 months. All drugs were non narcotic for personal use such as cochicine, nitrofurantoin, naprox

Yesterday, I had a prescriber send over 12 seperate prednisone rx's trying to do a taper. Today, I had a prescriber writing for the 2.4mg wegovy but to inject 0.5mg. I asked them if they instructed the patient on how to get 0.5mg out of a pen designed to inject 2.4mg and they said "no, why? did the

Before official corona virus news started trickling in, I recall a large number of people coming into the pharmacy for a few months with a terrible cough that wouldn’t go away. For the most part these were regulars I had known for years with no outstanding health problems. Now that I think back we w

Hello. Just got a message from pharmacy about norco for chronic pain in an elderly patient, “alternative requested, please add icd code, is patient seeing pain specialist.” I do appreciate the concern, however in this particular patient I believe it is warranted, (she has tried several other class