Has anybody else noticed that most of the new commercials for medications, on top of the other scary warnings about side effects like anal leakage and possible death, also include a warning about using the drug if you live in or are planning on visiting an area where certain fungal infections are common?
Where are these areas exactly? And what types of fungal infections are common there? And just why do so many of the new, funny-sounding medicines interact poorly with fungi? For that matter, even without worrying about my meds combining with fungi to cause mold spores to grow in my head, I’m not all that sure I want to travel to places where I might come back with a fungal infection.
So, how about giving us a list of those places?
Pouring My Art Out 
You lost my first reply! I said – if you are sick enough to need to use a medication that basically kills your immune system, you may not want to travel anywhere with other people anyway!
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I think if you need to take a medication that kills your immune system in order to fix some illness, you might not want to travel anywhere with other people anyway!
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Your ads sound ace!
Oh, they are
The plural of fungus is fungi. Isn’t that a neat word? try saying it fast, over and over – fun-guy, fun-guy, fun-guy, fun-guy. Probelm is, I don’t think it’s pronounced that way. But it sounds very uplifting – positive self-talk, so to speak. We could start a new self-help religion called the Fun-guy Holy Scriptures Church. And we could use your blog posts as the scriptures Art. You’d be famous. What do you think?
This is already a cult, so why not.
You could just google it 😉 I have had the same thoughts, during the commercial, but then something else comes on and I forget to look it up.
No, I made that mistake and Googled the anal leakage…HA
I like not knowing stuff
LOL. I have been told that for some of my 100 medications. I know it has something to do with different soil/dirt in certain places. That’s all I remember.
No eating the dirt…
Hub’s commented on that same thing. Are they talking about athlete’s foot or something more seriously fungal? It doesn’t seem like it’s worth it to take any of those meds with all the horrible side effects.
It does make you wonder
My hubby knows the answer (he’s a Pharmacy Technician and is finishing his prerequisites for pharmacy school). I made the mistake of asking about that fungus once. The answer was long and boring, I refuse to ask again to share the info with you
I don’t really need to know.
Wise man 😉
Ha
I think it means stay away from mushrooms while on that medication.
Ha
Gym locker room.
Go on
You really want me to get a fungal infection?
Not really
I think at least one of my current medications may carry that warning. That’s why I call off work and stay home just as often as I can.
Put the fun in fungus!
Thank you!
Ha
I like my job …
Me too
Once the anal leakage and death has set in, the fungal infections are probably irrelevant.
Unless you die because you were leaking fungal spores…
Luckily we don’t have those over here
Sure you don’t
Perhaps they’re at the foot of any mountain.
Ha!