Erasing a symptom doesn't work if that symptom is then a side effect.
There was for this setup:
jemT: hey L — I just got given some oxazepam — new one on me. Hav you taken it before?
LMuse: I haven’t. I’ve got someone else I can ask about it, though. (That’s the good thing about having friends who are overly medicated and/or allergic to everything and ghod.)
jemT: hee hee
jemT: yeah — i was told it was to help me sleep but that does not seem to be the focus of it
LMuse: I’ve emailed him. I’ll let you know when I get an answer, coolth?
jemT: cool? many many tanks
LMuse: Well…he’s never heard of it, but he did send some TDA info. Want me to forward it to you?
jemT: yeah — why not! thank you!
[ a few minutes pass. Jem reads over information, which includes caution about possible side effects ]
jemT: laughable really “doctor I am being kept awake by recurring nightmares — I need help sleeping”
jemT: doctor “ no problem — take oxazepam, side effects include vivid dreams, hallucinations or severe confusion and depression”
Personally, I think the doctor in question is something of a slow child at play. Possibly s/he got the medical degree by saving up boxtops.
As for solving Jem’s problem, though….doesn’t watching late night movies provide some of the same effects (positive as well as negative)? Definitely infomercials would.
Apparently, though, the oxe-whicheverth does some good. Jem is asleep on the sofa behind my workstation. (While normally I would say that falling asleep at work when your company just closed down two offices is Not A Tip-Top Idea, the company has sliced themselves so lean that if they let any more people go, they’ll go under when their few remaining personnel work themselves straight into hospital.)
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