FIX YA RIGHT UP, bUDDY.

Blog number 135                                               Nov. 30, 2007

Do you have RLS?  Restless Leg Syndrome?  If so, then take prescription Mirapec and that'll fix you right up.  Practice caution though for, as the commercial tells us...

"Prescription Mirapec may cause you to feel drowsy or fall asleep during normal activity such as driving or to feel faint or dizzy when you stand up.  Call your doctor if you experience these problems."

So taking this drug may cause you to smash head-on into a speeding Mack truck.  That would sure fix that pesky RLS forever, wouldn't it?  And isn't it fortunate that you won't even have to call your doctor.  The ambulance will take you right to him.  All you have to do is lie there bleeding.  With peaceful legs.

Then the commercial goes on to warn, "If you drink alcohol or taking medicine that makes you feel drowsy or if you are experiencing increased gambling or sexual or other intense urges. "

Two things. First, that is not a complete sentence.  I think what they mean is that if you experience these things, you should see the doctor that you should see if you tend to fall asleep at the wheel while taking Mirapec.

And second, and I think this is the more important, what kind of a drug is this if it makes you have intense sexual and gambling urges?  Coke?  Crack?  Meth?  Caffeine?

Then lastly it warns us that "Other side effects include nausea."

Compared with the other side effects, this one is kind of mild.