What's the medical word for...

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when the medication you've been prescribed is actually making you ill?

― Chris Keen, Saturday, 29 April 2006 09:58 (twenty years ago)

"being a character in House MD"

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 29 April 2006 10:01 (twenty years ago)

All I can come up with is "nosocomial," but that has to do with hospitals causing secondary problems, not medications.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 29 April 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

crapolicious

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Saturday, 29 April 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

ask Pink, she wrote a whole song about it

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Saturday, 29 April 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

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― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 29 April 2006 13:15 (twenty years ago)

severe side effects?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 29 April 2006 13:28 (twenty years ago)

chemical intolerance?

(it sounded sorta fancy)

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 29 April 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

"Nosocomial" is a good word, but it's not the word I mean.

― Chris Keen, Saturday, 29 April 2006 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm a medical editor, and I can't really think of a common word for such a thing (though "poorly tolerated" and "treatment-limiting adverse events" come to mind). Are you thinking of iatrogenic? I wouldn't use that word for what you're describing, actually.

― quincie, Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Contraindicated maybe?

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 30 April 2006 03:11 (twenty years ago)

there is no word really

Contraindicated isnt really the word the OP is after i think. Contraindicated means the manufacturers warn against using the med in certain patients e.g aspirin is contraindicated in children as it may cause reyes syndrome

― splates (splates), Sunday, 30 April 2006 05:41 (twenty years ago)

Adverse Drug Reaction, is how I've seen it phrased in the UK.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 30 April 2006 07:38 (twenty years ago)

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― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 30 April 2006 08:56 (twenty years ago)

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― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 30 April 2006 13:31 (twenty years ago)

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