Comments on: Medical Tablet Discovery! Safe, New, Easy Way! http://www.politedissent.com/archives/3451 a blog of medicine, comics, television, science and other fun stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:50:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Xenobiologista http://www.politedissent.com/archives/3451/comment-page-1#comment-614274 Xenobiologista Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:28:41 +0000 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=3451#comment-614274 Given the potential side effects and the propensity of people to overmedicate themselves it's scary that they were selling those things without a prescription! I occasionally urinate in my sleep (about once a month; usually I dream that I got up and went to the toilet) and I tried going to a urology CPN who prescribes Enablex (another anticholinergic). The side effect of waking up with a paper-dry mouth was NASTY and painful and the pills are really expensive. In the end I decided to go back to using a loud alarm clock set for 4 a.m. Also, waterproof mattress covers only cost a few bucks and are nothing like those horrible crunchy rubber sheets that most bedwetting adults probably remember from childhood. Given the potential side effects and the propensity of people to overmedicate themselves it’s scary that they were selling those things without a prescription!

I occasionally urinate in my sleep (about once a month; usually I dream that I got up and went to the toilet) and I tried going to a urology CPN who prescribes Enablex (another anticholinergic). The side effect of waking up with a paper-dry mouth was NASTY and painful and the pills are really expensive. In the end I decided to go back to using a loud alarm clock set for 4 a.m. Also, waterproof mattress covers only cost a few bucks and are nothing like those horrible crunchy rubber sheets that most bedwetting adults probably remember from childhood.

]]> By: Dave http://www.politedissent.com/archives/3451/comment-page-1#comment-613454 Dave Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:54:01 +0000 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=3451#comment-613454 Who's the audience here? We assume comics are meant for kids only in those days, and is it even legal to sell medications by mail to minors? Do the advertisers assume that adults are reading? That kids will conveniently leave the comic open where a parent will find it? That a child will have a serious heart-to-heart about his "bed-wetting" problem and that this is the solution? I'm so confused. Who’s the audience here? We assume comics are meant for kids only in those days, and is it even legal to sell medications by mail to minors?

Do the advertisers assume that adults are reading? That kids will conveniently leave the comic open where a parent will find it? That a child will have a serious heart-to-heart about his “bed-wetting” problem and that this is the solution?

I’m so confused.

]]> By: Arkonbey http://www.politedissent.com/archives/3451/comment-page-1#comment-613429 Arkonbey Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:12:54 +0000 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=3451#comment-613429 Given the side effects you listed, do you think the skin tone on the faces was intentional or was it just too much magenta on the plate? Given the side effects you listed, do you think the skin tone on the faces was intentional or was it just too much magenta on the plate?

]]> By: Alberto http://www.politedissent.com/archives/3451/comment-page-1#comment-613428 Alberto Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:12:11 +0000 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=3451#comment-613428 I guess the pill solves the bed wetting problem, as well as the ... "Bed Wetting" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more) problem. If you get what I mean. I guess the pill solves the bed wetting problem, as well as the … “Bed Wetting” (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more) problem.

If you get what I mean.

]]> By: Bryan L http://www.politedissent.com/archives/3451/comment-page-1#comment-613357 Bryan L Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:11:08 +0000 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=3451#comment-613357 Dang. That pill is as big as the end of the thumb holding it. It would be easier to swallow a quarter. Dang. That pill is as big as the end of the thumb holding it. It would be easier to swallow a quarter.

]]> By: Keith http://www.politedissent.com/archives/3451/comment-page-1#comment-613332 Keith Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:58:13 +0000 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=3451#comment-613332 The downside: the pill is actually a plug. The downside: the pill is actually a plug.

]]> By: Andreas http://www.politedissent.com/archives/3451/comment-page-1#comment-613255 Andreas Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:24:43 +0000 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=3451#comment-613255 The guy with the test tube is priceless. Makes me want to shout Adam Savage quotes: "Wake up! Time for Science!" The guy with the test tube is priceless. Makes me want to shout Adam Savage quotes: “Wake up! Time for Science!”

]]> By: Metz77 http://www.politedissent.com/archives/3451/comment-page-1#comment-613224 Metz77 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:48:06 +0000 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=3451#comment-613224 Both Human Torches. At once. Both Human Torches.

At once.

]]> By: Psudo http://www.politedissent.com/archives/3451/comment-page-1#comment-613215 Psudo Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:35:11 +0000 http://www.politedissent.com/?p=3451#comment-613215 Normal bed wetting is a small accident. "Bed Wetting" is enough to extinguish the Human Torch. Normal bed wetting is a small accident. “Bed Wetting” is enough to extinguish the Human Torch.

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