medication
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How To Quit Your Antidepressants
3Antidepressants are weird drugs: they often take weeks to begin working, they don’t work for everybody, and in some cases they can have serious side effects. If you and your doctor decide your meds aren’t working for you, you’ve got another hurdle: antidepressants are hard to quit.
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Eyedrops Are Too Big
We need smaller eyedroppers, stat. As ProPublica has reported, eyedrops are so large that they contain more liquid than can possibly fit into your eye. Fortunately, an adaptor may be on the way that won’t waste half of your pricey glaucoma medication.
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It’s Safe To Skip Your Period On Birth Control
Birth control pill packs typically include a week of placebo pills, without any hormones. If you skip those pills and start the next pack immediately, you can skip your period. Whether you want to do this is up to you — it may seem weird, but there’s no reason to believe it’s harmful.
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Your Bathroom Medicine Cabinet Is A Bad Place To Keep Medicine
A medicine cabinet is a great place to keep grooming tools or toiletries but, despite the name, it’s a terrible place to store medications. The temperature and humidity of a bathroom can make medications go bad more quickly than they otherwise would.