What to do with left-overs?
#2
Posted 02 May 2008 - 07:53 AM
While that seems like an appropriate end to these medicines, it gets into the watersheds, earth and well, everything.
My father worked at a wastewater (sewage) treatment plant all of his life. They take wastewater and turn it back into drinking water.
Sorry to gross anybody out, but unless you have a well on your property, your water is recycled - ditto for "spring" or bottled water. Some bottled water is just tap water.
Thanks for the idea of taking it to the pharmacy to get rid of the stuff.
#4
Posted 02 May 2008 - 10:22 AM
I would never flush any medication down the toilet!
I thought, maybe someone here needs a few spares, I don't mind sending them.
There's only 8 capsules but this could just be what someone needs who is weening off and can't get any new ones.
That is really kind of you. Be careful with that though, I know you live in another country and it isn't legal to send your meds - and it isn't legal in the US either. Cymbalta withdrawal already made you feel crappy - and jail time for being a kind person, well, that would be the icing on the cake! I didn't mean that you were going to flush the cymbarfa - you are a survivor with a good head on your shoulders! And I am so glad you are having improvement!
In some of the past posts, many people flushed their Cymbalta, I even saw a video on you tube where a woman made a videotape of flushing the stuff. Trying to always be nice, I never wanted to be bossy and tell them to STOP flushing their drugs. There was even a news report a few weeks ago about the amount of residual drugs found in the US public water systems.
As I mentioned in my earlier post, my father worked at a wastewater treatment plant. I used to go to work with him when I was a child and you could see all sorts of stuff that people flushed, drugs (legal and illegal), toothbrushes (?) and money (some of it in bags, probably from drug busts). My dad wasn't proud, when he saw the money, as gross as it sounds - he would grab it. Still spends the same! Now that is a "crappy" money story!
Sorry, my weird sense of humor is back now.
Day 110 off of Cymbalta - 26 days off of the other anti I had to take to get over the Cymbalta
No more antidepressants for me!
#5
Posted 02 May 2008 - 12:14 PM
#7
Posted 24 May 2008 - 02:30 PM
#8
Posted 07 March 2014 - 11:42 AM
Looking at the previous posts here, it would seem 2008 was the latest. I am very hesitant about throwing this evil crap away, as it will land square in the water we drink. If you don't believe that I am sorry but it is a fact.
Hospitals (well most as this is relatively new) must put their Coumadin and all blood thinning drugs in one locked bin, BP type meds another and so on. I think there are four. What did we do b/4 we knew better?: let the bags of heparin etc. drain in the sink or throw in biohazard container where it is burned into the air we breath. Fact.
I think Eli Lilly should take responsibility here and take the unused portions and seal them off for a million years! I am kidding about this part! However they should have a wee bit of social accountability. I would call them but being that I am in the < 2 weeks cold turkey stage, I best not!
#11
Posted 07 March 2014 - 04:26 PM
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