Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 15, 2023

I’ve got a Dr. whose name I can’t pronounce. That’s kinda the same thing.

I dunno, but as I see all the commercials on MeTV channel, most of the people with all the diseases, body ailments and mental tiredness conditions are younger people and now even other cultures other than our own. They won’t even use us Pluggers for their commercials – and those are OUR tv programs and they know WE are watching them and we aren’t even of the ‘woke’ generation and don’t want to be woked-up, either.

Diabetic pluggers know how to pronounce their medicines.

I swear they just randomized the alphabet to name them.

1. Abilify (A-Billy-fy, Ability)

2. Butrans (But-runs)

3. Cialis (See-all-this)

4. Dilaudid (Dilude)

5. Entex LA (Entex Louisiana)

6. Glucophage (Glu-pan-age)

7. Humalog kwikpen (Humalog Kiwi-Pen)

8. Keflex (Kel-flex, Kee-flex)

9. KY Jelly (Kentucky Jelly)

10. Lyrica (Lie-reek-ka)

11. MS Contin (Mississippi Contin)

12. Norco (Noco)

My only Prescription is called “Beer” ;-)

If you have trouble saying/remembering their names, it’s nice if you you can at least do “the one for the” thing: the one for the blood pressure, the one for the thyroid, the one for the cholesterol, the one for the pain in my back, …

glad they have numbers for refills

Nurses stumble over the name of one of my meds, metoprolol, all the time. I tell them, “Hey, I’m Polish. That’s a piece of cake. Try pronouncing Przewrolewski without spitting.”

Really

That’s me, every time.

It’s the current trend of scattering X’s and Z’s throughout the drug’s name that makes them hard to pronounce.

I may not be able to pronounce them, but I can spell them from memory. When calling into the doctor’s office for a prescription renewal, I tried pronouncing one of the medications. Nurse couldn’t figure out what I wanted so I spelled it, “Oh, you want -—, correct?” Just spelled the other one rather than try to pronounce it.

Some meds I know the brand name, some the generic. My wife calls it Diphenhydramine, but it will always be Benadryl to me.

Mine are easy to pronounce: none!

It seems to me that a lot of the pharmaceuticals names that appear on TV these days, were derived by pulling random letters out of a Scrabble bag…..

I know how to pronounce one of my meds, the one that starts with a V

Bless his heart. I think he takes some of the same meds I do. However, I did work for a pharmacy software company for a couple of decades, so I know how to pronounce those names.

Amazing. Those are three of the 14 prescriptions I take every day.

As a chemist by training, I don’t have much trouble pronouncing the generic chemical names. It’s the brand names that are a pain – they all look like bad Scrabble racks!

Some are known to cause heightened drama.

is coffee, beer and dominoes considered medicine? I know how to pronounce them lol!

If he were to lose those 100 excess funds he would not need those drugs. Even the metformin.

Yes..yoey, there are a LOT of FMG’s in the US today. BUT, they all came here legally. Have found them mostly to be as competent, and professional as most American educated and trained MD’s.

Grandpa Dog needs a pill organizer… LOL

Since mine are all generic, I get the 16 letter named drugs, not the cute named ones.

As a great-grandson and a grandnephew of pharmacists, I would like to ask why can’t they name their products pronounceable.

In my case I just say, “Blue, red, green, ect.”