First off, let me start with paracetamol. Did you know you can loose your life when you take paracetamol without it behind prescribed by a healthcare professional. If someone told me this four years ago, I wouldn’t believe it but thanks to my four years of studying biochemistry. Para is one of the most abused drugs in the African space and it’s also the cause of many deaths but we do not even realize it.
As a biochemist, there’s so much I’ve come to learn. It’s been a tough journey, but the things you get to learn is more than you can imagine. Learning the mechanisms of actions of drugs, drug action, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics and a whole lot has actually taught me that in as much as drugs are supposed to serve a good purpose for you, when taken wrongly they will most definitely be detrimental to your health.
Regardless of all the things that I know, I still sometimes self medicate because I know enough to know what’s wrong with me. But there’s always that one situation where things get out of hand. Today, I want to share my worst experience with self medication with you all. Sometime ago, I came down with severe headache for about a whole week. It felt like my head was literally going to fall off because even when I wake up at midnight me head aches.
Out of desperation, I went to the pharmacy and bought a painkiller, specifically Gebedol. This drug is know to work very fast and that’s why I opted for that. The drug had ten tablets and normally the prescription is one to two tablets per dosage. Guys, I literally took the who 10 tables by the end of the day. I just kept taking two tablets every two hours until the pack was empty and guess what, my headache got worse. I was so dizzy I couldn’t even stand on my feet and I eventually just blacked out.
I woke up the next day and knew I had overdosed but at least I wasn’t dead. I just carried myself to the clinic to get myself in shape. My parents got so worried because they had already advised me on painkillers and I didn’t listen. That was the last I ever took gebedol in my life and I hope to keep it that way. Sometimes you don’t even need drugs for some of these things, you just need enough rest and the headache is gone.
Drugs are important to us as humans but let’s make sure to take them in the right proportion and with the right description. I hope this helps someone out there.
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