basemetal: Stevens-Johnson syndrome? That can happen with many meds on the right person, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Ugh... Note to self: never again GIS "Stevens-Johnson syndrome".

I can *sort of* understand when a prisoner says they're in pain, have a broken back, have a toothache, and they get ignored--probably a lot of them will lie about stuff to get out of their cell and/or to get pain meds. But something like this, where all they have to do is look at the guy and see he's in bad shape? WTF is their problem?

To say nothing of giving him a powerful mood-altering drug when he didn't need one. Just imagine what they're dosing the real mental patients with.

Q: What do you call the guy who graduated last in his med school class?

A: Doctor.

The state can say bullshiat like "he got the best treatment available" because A) it's the "best treatment" that they made "available" and B) because we live in a society where a lot of loud, bitter people who don't think we need to treat prisoners like human beings control the conversation.

I hope he sues and gets a fortune.

Diogenes: They put my buddy on antipsychotics when he didn't need them. He was constantly agitated while taking them. He eventually could no longer afford them and stopped taking them cold turkey (bad to do with many drugs). The sudden drop caused him to have a psychotic break.

He "Baker Acted" himself. Then they finally realized they were giving him the wrong drugs for the wrong problems.

/not so csb

So what was wrong with him?

"Doctors who examined Korf at the hospital found him losing skin off his lips, mouth, airway and scrotum."

so he had a ball swaying in the breeze? Do no want.

namegoeshere: Q: What do you call the guy who graduated last in his med school class?

A: Doctor.

Doctor who works at a prison? Talk about a thankless job.

mysticcat: Sucks for the guy, but doesn't sound like negligence or malpractice.

For giving him medication that had an adverse reaction, probably not.
For giving him medication to treat a condition he did not have, probably yes.
For leaving him in a cell and not getting him proper medical care once it should have been obvious shiat was wrong, definitely.

I was JUST starting to get over the story about the guy who urinates pubic hair. And now this.

Fark you today, Fark. Next thread better involve boobies, and lots of 'em.

gshepnyc: The state can say bullshiat like "he got the best treatment available" because A) it's the "best treatment" that they made "available" and B) because we live in a society where a lot of loud, bitter people who don't think we need to treat prisoners like human beings control the conversation.

I hope he sues and gets a fortune.

Prescribing him medication to treat his depression (albeit the WRONG medication) seems contrary to your B)

I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: basemetal: Stevens-Johnson syndrome? That can happen with many meds on the right person, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Ugh... Note to self: never again GIS "Stevens-Johnson syndrome".



the_sidewinder: Note to self, don't look up Stevens-Johnson syndrome on Wikipedia


/Barf

Note to self: Next time, take their advice.

Evil-Imposter: I was JUST starting to get over the story about the guy who urinates pubic hair. And now this.

Fark you today, Fark. Next thread better involve boobies, and lots of 'em.

Head over to the entertainment tag. The threads on Christina Hendricks and Jennifer Aniston will probably satisfy you.

I take a mood stabilizer that is primarily indicated for seizure disorders. Every bottle, information sheet, pharmacy bag, website and pamphlet I've ever seen SCREAMS at you to head directly to the ER if you develop a rash. My doctor told me that most people who are going to get a rash get it very soon after starting the medication, but that the ER rule applies indefinitely. That's some scary crap right there.

And the charge that landed him in the bin in the first place was... drug possession.

WAR ON DRUGS! U S A! WAR ON DRUGS! U S A!

Desquamation: Note to self: Next time, take their advice.

Note to self: take 2 people's advice

/everyone's gonna look now
//try this milk. It's sour!

I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: basemetal: Stevens-Johnson syndrome? That can happen with many meds on the right person, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Ugh... Note to self: never again GIS "Stevens-Johnson syndrome".

I will never be hungry again.

The point of my previous post, which I obviously never got to, was HOW IN THE HOLY HELL COULD A PHYSICIAN, A PHYSICIAN'S ASSISTANT OR A PHARMACIST NOT KNOW WTF WAS GOING ON?

Desquamation: I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: basemetal: Stevens-Johnson syndrome? That can happen with many meds on the right person, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Ugh... Note to self: never again GIS "Stevens-Johnson syndrome".



the_sidewinder: Note to self, don't look up Stevens-Johnson syndrome on Wikipedia


/Barf

Note to self: Next time, take their advice.

I know it will be Ogrish-esque... and yet all of these poor fools seeing what cannot be unseen... dare I?

He was in prison for drug possession, because drugs are bad for you. That's our idea of compassion.

Karac: Evil-Imposter: I was JUST starting to get over the story about the guy who urinates pubic hair. And now this.

Fark you today, Fark. Next thread better involve boobies, and lots of 'em.

Head over to the entertainment tag. The threads on Christina Hendricks and Jennifer Aniston will probably satisfy you.

Mentioning the name "Christina Hendricks" to me is like proffering a hobo with Mad Dog 20/20. I am headed there now to cleanse my mind's eye!

I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: basemetal: Stevens-Johnson syndrome? That can happen with many meds on the right person, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Ugh... Note to self: never again GIS "Stevens-Johnson syndrome".

To be perfectly safe, I'm never going to do any search using both of the words "Johnson" and "syndrome".

/especially not with "Pune" and "hair"

Diogenes: They put my buddy on antipsychotics when he didn't need them. He was constantly agitated while taking them. He eventually could no longer afford them and stopped taking them cold turkey (bad to do with many drugs). The sudden drop caused him to have a psychotic break.

He "Baker Acted" himself. Then they finally realized they were giving him the wrong drugs for the wrong problems.

/not so csb

But look how much money they made!

/sorry for your bud

mercator_psi: I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: basemetal: Stevens-Johnson syndrome? That can happen with many meds on the right person, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

Ugh... Note to self: never again GIS "Stevens-Johnson syndrome".

I will never be hungry again.

oh boy, i didn't wanna look but i had to

/heed the warning, or else
//vamit

mysticcat: If you want to split hairs, this is more consistent with Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis, which is the same thing as SJS with a wider distribution.

Not sure why he got carbamazapine in the first place, but SJS/TEN is still an incredibly rare complication of this drug. As noted above, it is also associated with numerous other drugs. In any event, once SJS/TEN is going, there's not really anything you can do to stop it. It's just supportive care. Sucks for the guy, but doesn't sound like negligence or malpractice.

They really need to clarify how he got Tegretol in the first place. I know some people who are prison guards who have said that they have seen inmates fake symptoms to get tegretol or neurontin because it's a popular prison drug due to the side effects.

the_sidewinder: Note to self, don't look up Stevens-Johnson syndrome on Wikipedia


/Barf

I came here to say this.

..Don't do it

Less than a month after being sent to prison on a conviction for drug possession, Korf was prescribed Tegretol, a drug commonly used to treat bipolar disorder, epilepsy and nerve pain, according to records.

So for using a drug that likely caused little damage to his body, he was sent to prison and forced to use a drug that caused him irreparable bodily harm? Pretty much sumarizes everything that's wrong with this country.

this is a rare & severe case. even on a good day a properly diagnosed & medicated mental health patient is susceptible to a plethora of side effects that suck all the more in prison cell land. in a psyc inst, hosp mental ward or at home it's a lot easier to get cleaned & changed or cope with whatever, etcetera.

Evil-Imposter: Next thread better involve boobies, and lots of 'em.

This thread a few slots down on the main tab has boobies.

Give all the Tegretol to my ex, please.

/please?

CapeFearCadaver: Give all the Tegretol to my ex, please.

/please?

What the fark is wrong with you? Jesus Christ.

kellynoel: CapeFearCadaver: Give all the Tegretol to my ex, please.

/please?

What the fark is wrong with you? Jesus Christ.

Maybe he just meant that she's bi-polar.

But he was a DRUG USER!!!1!

Lumbar Puncture: Maybe he just meant that she's bi-polar.

After switching the pronouns, this is correct.

I wonder if there is a augmented punch based solution:

/first thing I thought of...

Well, he can always get a job as a body model:

Is it true that 50 percent of all Federal prisoners are non-violent drug offenders? Gee, it's almost as if someone somewhere is making a crapton of money incarcerating all of these prisoners...

Take a look at this chart. Can YOU guess when the "War on Drugs" started?

Pechorin: Less than a month after being sent to prison on a conviction for drug possession, Korf was prescribed Tegretol, a drug commonly used to treat bipolar disorder, epilepsy and nerve pain, according to records.

So for using a drug that likely caused little damage to his body, he was sent to prison and forced to use a drug that caused him irreparable bodily harm? Pretty much sumarizes everything that's wrong with this country.

Well we have to keep the prisoner drugged and docile until it's his turn to fight for our amusement.

I think I'll heed the warnings in this thread. I don't need to see people with their skin sloughing off.

That said, I was having anxiety problems last year and a random walk-in doctor gave me a prescription for an anti-anxiety drug. It was like having a daily 2g dose of mushrooms, except without the fun.

So besides walking around like I was brain-damaged, I developed a raging case of ringworm, like to the point where I was missing most of the skin on the palms of my hands. I'm still surprised it grew back, eventually.

And soon, gods willing, the source of my anxiety will officially dump my ass and life will become infinitely better.

skullkrusher: gshepnyc: The state can say bullshiat like "he got the best treatment available" because A) it's the "best treatment" that they made "available" and B) because we live in a society where a lot of loud, bitter people who don't think we need to treat prisoners like human beings control the conversation.

I hope he sues and gets a fortune.

Prescribing him medication to treat his depression (albeit the WRONG medication) seems contrary to your B)

This is done for the safety of staff and other prisoners, and to keep prisoners who may (or may not) be mentally ill easier to manage. Very little would be worse than a bunch of mentally unstable prisoners in an overcrowded prison.

mysticcat: carbamazapine

I thought the drug they were describing sounded like it was carbamazapine. I was prescribed that for severe nerve pain. I took one and holy sh*t... all my pain disappeared... but my mind turned to ice. There was no euphoric sensation like with other pain meds at all. Just bug brain. Then I went to bed and had the most TERRIFYING dreams I've ever had (which is saying something) and was DRENCHED in sweat the whole night. When I got up the next day my stomach felt like someone had gone over the lining with a steel brush. I decided that was not the drug for me. Took me over a week to get rid of the icy insect brain and ripped up guts feeling.

And that was from ONE dose. Very scary stuff. Like I said, it completely got rid of the nerve pain for that one night... but the trade off wasn't worth it IMO.

Pechorin: Less than a month after being sent to prison on a conviction for drug possession, Korf was prescribed Tegretol, a drug commonly used to treat bipolar disorder, epilepsy and nerve pain, according to records.

So for using a drug that likely caused little damage to his body, he was sent to prison and forced to use a drug that caused him irreparable bodily harm? Pretty much sumarizes everything that's wrong with this country.

Naive statement. He was prescribed medication that has a very rare side effect, that used to treat more than just bi-polar symptoms. It is also used to treat epilepsy, nerve pain, and other disorders. Trigeminal Neuralgia is one of the things the medication is used to treat, and is a type of facial pain with an extremely high suicide rate. If they refused him the medication for a condition that it is used to treat, then you'd be biatching that they refused care to a prisoner inhumanely. This is also a type of condition that is so rare it is unlikely that anyone in that prison has seen or had experience with recognizing.

kellynoel: I take a mood stabilizer that is primarily indicated for seizure disorders. Every bottle, information sheet, pharmacy bag, website and pamphlet I've ever seen SCREAMS at you to head directly to the ER if you develop a rash. My doctor told me that most people who are going to get a rash get it very soon after starting the medication, but that the ER rule applies indefinitely. That's some scary crap right there.

Yeah, I took an antibiotic, Levaquin, that's on the list of meds that can cause this. I broke out with blotchy red patches on my face. I called the doc, who just about had a coronary on the phone about it. Lucky for me, turned out it was just a regular allergy, and I still have my skin.