Step I Similar sounding drugs

[osli]

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Just thought I'd post here to express my frustration with drugs that keep confusing me because of similar sounding names. For one, there are too many -itides or -atides or -ilines or -azines for class endings to of any use. But what really gets me is when the beginning is so similar...

Chlorpheniramine
Chlorpromazine
Chlorpropramide
Clomiphene
Clomipramine

 

[DwyaneWade]

Just thought I'd post here to express my frustration with drugs that keep confusing me because of similar sounding names. For one, there are too many -itides or -atides or -ilines or -azines for class endings to of any use. But what really gets me is when the beginning is so similar...

Chlorpheniramine
Chlorpromazine
Chlorpropramide
Clomiphene
Clomipramine

I just try to remember endings (even though there are a lot). pheniramine sounds like diphenyhydramine to me, so it is a 1st gen antihistamine.

promazine goes with fluphenazine and the neuroleptics. propramide goes with glyburide, SU. pramine-->TCA.

Clomiphene is the only one that really requires memorization...