126 Comments
User's avatar
тна Return to thread
Guynoir's avatar

For a long time (maybe even now) doctors had no idea if Plavix did anything, so they prescribed aspirin with it.

I am not making this up.

Expand full comment
Darling Sneauxflayke's avatar

That was an anti-cholesterol medication, right? I get my big Pharma meds mixed up. I think my mother was on that at one point and yeah she took aspirin with it.

Expand full comment
Guynoir's avatar

Blood thinner

Expand full comment
Darling Sneauxflayke's avatar

Ah okay. After her stroke, she was put on a ton of new meds and its difficult to keep them all straight. The infamous Vioxx was one of the meds she was on after her back surgery which led to her stroke.

Expand full comment
Guynoir's avatar

I'm sorry she was injured

Expand full comment
Darling Sneauxflayke's avatar

Thank you. That experience is actually the start of my mistrust of the medical industry, 20 years ago next October. Yet my mother seemingly is not nearly as skeptical as she should be and she was the one who had the stroke and was in the lawsuit!

Expand full comment