New Obsession, well not new

[Poety]

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Ok, so I'm developing some weird obsession with money - i.e. ideas that I don't have enough no matter what. I keep making budgets over and over and I keep worrying about how much I have in the bank and if it will be enough to get me through residency etc etc...

Am I the only one doing this excessively even though my finances are pretty good or are others doing this too...

And SAZI WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? GIVE ME SOMETHING FOR IT DAMMIT! 😳

OPD? SOMEONE? drugs.... any drug?

 

[OldPsychDoc]

Ok, so I'm developing some weird obsession with money - i.e. ideas that I don't have enough no matter what. I keep making budgets over and over and I keep worrying about how much I have in the bank and if it will be enough to get me through residency etc etc...

Am I the only one doing this excessively even though my finances are pretty good or are others doing this too...

And SAZI WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? GIVE ME SOMETHING FOR IT DAMMIT! 😳

OPD? SOMEONE? drugs.... any drug?

fluoxetine 80 mg q day.

Interesting that you and dynamite posted within 10 minutes of each other with what appears to be acute boredom...
I'll confess that I'm waiting on my (nice-sized!) tax refund right now and I keep tweaking my cash flow projections on Microsoft Money almost daily. The good news is that I think we'll reach positive net worth sometime this year! It will get better for ya.

OPD

 

[Anasazi23]

Sorry, I almost died from food poisoning this weekend and haven't been on much. To make matters worse, I was on call during the worst of it.

It was probably the worst night of my life.

 

[i61164]

Sorry, I almost died from food poisoning this weekend and haven't been on much. To make matters worse, I was on call during the worst of it.

It was probably the worst night of my life.

Was is Staph, Salmonella, or E. coli? I'm assuming it wasn't botulism. My money's on Staph from a rotisserie chicken or potato/chicken salad at a picnic.

 

[Triathlon]

B. Cereus from that old fried rice that is always in the
resident's fridge! Sorry to hear it. I know that feeling, exactly!

 

[Anasazi23]

Well, we had an AstraZeneca sponsored lunch on Friday afternoon. I had this boneless chicken that was bathing in a large foil tray in some juices, and some pasta with salami in it. The food was kind of crappy, but I wanted to eat a good bit since I was on-call that day and would likely not get a chance to eat until late. I didn't have any breakfast so it must have been that. By 8pm that evening I was writhing in my bed in the worst stomach pain of my life....more like intestinal pain.

It lasted all night and my esophagus is sore from the wretching.
The nurses gave me a shot of reglan, but it didn't do a thing. Luckily the toxin lasts only around 24 hours, so I'm felling better now. Not 100%, but definately better.

[Waits for the inevitable joke about becoming sick on another drug-company sponsored lunch, the cosmic retribution, etc.]

The take-home message from the Seroquel lunch was that it improves cognition in schizophrenics. Feel free to discuss. 🙂

 

[Anasazi23]

By the way, I actually do have leftover fried rice in my refrigerator.

 

[i61164]

I had this boneless chicken that was bathing in a large foil tray in some juices, and some pasta with salami in it.

Typical Staph. Colonizes meat and dairy. Short incubation since the toxin is preformed. Salmonella would have taken a day or so to make you sick and B. cereus would have been from rice (as Triathlon said). I wonder how many other people that ate that chicken and pasta got sick.

A micro professor once announced to the class that Staph food poisoning won't kill you, but you'll wish you were dead.

Seriously though, sorry to hear about your misfortune.

 

[PublicHealth]

Well, we had an AstraZeneca sponsored lunch on Friday afternoon. I had this boneless chicken that was bathing in a large foil tray in some juices, and some pasta with salami in it. The food was kind of crappy, but I wanted to eat a good bit since I was on-call that day and would likely not get a chance to eat until late. I didn't have any breakfast so it must have been that. By 8pm that evening I was writhing in my bed in the worst stomach pain of my life....more like intestinal pain.

It lasted all night and my esophagus is sore from the wretching.
The nurses gave me a shot of reglan, but it didn't do a thing. Luckily the toxin lasts only around 24 hours, so I'm felling better now. Not 100%, but definately better.

[Waits for the inevitable joke about becoming sick on another drug-company sponsored lunch, the cosmic retribution, etc.]

The take-home message from the Seroquel lunch was that it improves cognition in schizophrenics. Feel free to discuss. 🙂

Sorry to hear, Sazi. Hope you're feeling better.

What aspects of cognition does Seroquel improve?

 

[Poety]

I'm not sure how we got from my money obssession to food poisoning, but I've been drinking Anyway, that B. Cereus is NO JOKE = I have NEVER eaten fried rice again since I had it when I was a preganant. Its so bad, and was so sick for like 3 days had to try and hydrate myself but my gut felt like it was twisting inside out from the inside out.

I hope you don't have the B. Cerieus, tahts the worst sazz!

Ok, going to pas s hoout now - nite niters!

 

[Anasazi23]

Sorry to hear, Sazi. Hope you're feeling better.

What aspects of cognition does Seroquel improve?

Thanks for the sympathy. I have to recover completely by Tuesday, since I'm on call again. 🙁

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00097032


According to their 'Cognitive summary score,' which included the Stroop Color-Word, Hopkins Verbal Learning, Symbol-Digit Substitution, Trials (B-A), Paragraph Recall, and Verbal Fluency, both target doses of Seroquel (300mg; 600mg) performed better than haloperidol average of 12mg/day:

http://www.seroquel.com/prof_asp/prod/out/control.asp?flash=1

Though I must say, particularly when it comes to severely mentally ill, I find that that these neuropsychological measures have somewhat limited value in predicting and tracking patient outcome in 'real world' settings. It's very different from controlled testing environments. Researchers apparently feel the same way, as they often focus on some sort of "life adaptability scale" to help better translate this to real-world results.

 

[Anasazi23]

Here's a few more...not all of them are completely relevant.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Display&dopt=pubmed_pubmed&from_uid=12755654&tool=ExternalSearch

 

[Anasazi23]

This is great:

I'm not sure how we got from my money obssession to food poisoning, but I've been drinking .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Ok, going to pas s hoout now - nite niters!

 

[Poety]

This is great:

pffffttt... the light is mighty bright, and I only had 3 beers!