Sunday, 17 April 2011

The Repeat Prescription

Amlodipine 10mg
Once a day
Oh woe is me!

Aspirin 75mg
Dispersible in water
So you see.

BD microfine+ needles
Fit them to the insulin pen
Enough to cure the weebles!

(Weebles wobble but they don't fall down!)

Citalopram 40mg
Just once a day
To keep me sane you see.

E45 cream 500g
Slap it on me plates
To moisturise the skin for me.

Freestyle Lancets
Tiny little knives
Not needles for your Dansettes
But blood letting for your lives.

Freestyle Lite Test Strips
For the testing of the blood
That the Lancets from your body rips...

Glucogel 40%
For stopping hypos
Not paying the rent!

Humalog 100units/ml solution
3ml glass cartridges
For sugar dissolution...

Levemir 100units/ml solution
More insulin
Slow acting no pollution!

Losartan 100mg
A hypertension tablet
Blood pressure to be lowered you see...

Oramorph Solution
Squirt it in yer gob
Takes away the extra pain
So you don't have to sob.

Paracetamol 500mg
Soluble so drink it up
Tastes nasty but no pain pain for me!

Perondipril Arginine 5mg
Also laced with indapamide
One point two five M G!

(Blood pressure is a comin' down!)

Pravastatin 40mg
Cholesterol reduction
Is never a guarantee...

Movicol a laxative
Lemon flavoured
Make with water
Drink! Oh EXPLETIVE!

Zomorph 10 and 30mg
Morphine in time release capsule form.
One 30 two 10 so 50mg
Every twelve hours
To be totally pain free!

(Still some gets through!)


Please note it helps if you pronounce "mg" as Em Gee when you read this poem.







• Dedicated to Pill Takers Everywhere

• All poems written by J R A Gigney unless stated.


Location:Green Trees Ave,,United Kingdom

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