Medicines
Today, I want to share with you one of my favourite drugs: Amphotericin B. Amphotericin B is...not a good drug. I mean, it gets the job done, but...uh...
You'll be lucky to survive. Not in a "disease needs to be bad" way, though that's also true, but the number of ways in which Amphotericin B can kill you is just ridiculous and I love it.
Medicines
Let's start with this: Amphotericin has been nicknamed "shake and bake". Why? Well, not too long after infusion, high fever and chills (with violent shaking) set in for most patients. It also tends to come with hypotension, nausea, vomiting, dyspnea, and weakness, among other things. So, just being given it will already massively fuck you up. But it gets worse!
Medicines
Those aren't the only other side effects though. Electrolyte imbalances are quite common. Anemia and related conditions (e.g. leukopenia) can happen. So, you know, you get a drug for a disease only for it to tank your immune system. Doing great. Good drug. Oh, and even if it doesn't cause heart failure, you might still be hit with arrhythmias liable to cause cardiac arrest. So, yeah...
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OH! I should probably mention that it does have interactions that make it worse. For instance, flucytosine, an antifungal often used alongside Amphotericin, gets a fuckton more toxic. Various antivirals make it more likely you'll have blood and kidney problems. If you get an infusion of leukocytes for the leukopenia, it'll cause lung damage. And if you're a trans girl on spiro, I hope you don't like having kidneys, because diuretics make renal damage more likely.
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There are others, of course, but you can read wikipedia for them. For now, I'll leave off. So, yeah. Amphotericin B. A very good drug that you better pray you never need.