To think adhd meds shouldn't be called Equasym retard in 2020?

[TheLittlePicker]

Why is the adhd Med called "Equasym retard"? You couldn't make it up!

Interesting.

There was a long thread 3 or 4 years ago on MN by an OP who had been referred to as “negroid” by a consultant physician she was talking to. I think he was talking about the epidemiology or risk factors for her condition.

Ah was upset by the word.

On that occasion, most of MN agreed that some words should be quietly dropped from
medical use, no matter how technically correct they were.

In this case “extended release” is a better term.

My post above should read;

OP was upset by the word.

Cheerbear23 - very old - it’s just ibuprofen. No benefit over taking standard ibuprofen and very expensive by comparison.

This needs to go in the classics thread.

Don’t be a deck.

Have some sensitivity to what is going on in OP’s head.

It’s an important difference Outtedagain

There's voltarol retard as well - it's another that we don't really use anymore.

This is one of the most breathtakingly stupid posts I have ever seen on here.

Hahaha... Oh wait you're serious

can you see the problem, with over 600 countries in the world?
600? What now?

Every day is a school day on MN. I had no idea slow release was the reason! It doesn't seem very nice, is it in use for all slow release medication.

Retard just means delay(ed). It's more recent use as a noun comes from someone's development being delayed.

I had to explain this to an Italian acquaintance who announced that he'd wait in the bar for some friends who were "retarded". He was mortified, as he'd been describing people who'd been held up as "retarded" for years, and no-one had told him how offensive this could be!

@EmeraldShamrock - it’s only used in the U.K. for a small number of medicines that have been round for a very long time. It’s not used for any ADHD medicines here.

Thanks OP I really needed a laugh.

It’s used in baking too, as in retarding bread dough, and is completely inoffensive

And in car mechanics: you advance or retard the timing, although modern cars probably don't have timing chains or need this doing, as they have electronic ignition and shite.

It's like when you go to France and the train station announces "blah blah train (in french) est cinq minutes en retarde"

Or airports doing announcements in English and French. They use "en retarde" for a delayed flight too.

Jeeze are you looking for something to be offended about OP?
Maybe look up why its caled XXX retard before moaning on about it?

It seems there's been a problem with supply and your pharmacist has only been able to get hold of an imported batch. As others have said, it's not called that in the UK, only in countries where the word hasn't been hijacked as a slang insult as well as retaining it's proper definition.

Why does the yr matter, we didn’t change the meaning of retarded did we? I use this term all the time in my role to describe something slowed down .

Some people need to fucking grow up! Using words as they are meant to be used is not an insult. Learn the English language and stop looking for reasons to be offended when it's used correctly.

There is also isoket retard in the uk, it’s an angina medication.

Oh and Tildiem retard too

Now that I disagree with. Acknowledging very well-known changes in word usage is learning the English language, and that is why the English-speaking arms of the world's pharmaceutical manufacturers have switched to labelling medication as extended-release/delayed-release/modified-release and so on, and I entirely approve of that.

If ADHD meds intended for sale within the UK were branded "[blah blah] Retard", my eyebrows would surmount my hairline, and I would diagnose a case of someone in marketing being a Goady Fucker.

As it is, they aren't, and if any child of mine had received drugs with European packaging with such a name, I would talk to them about etymology and reassure them that this was a case of different languages.

Sorry to be retarded with my reply. I don't like the name either, I think the other term (modified release or extended release) is a lot better.

Why would anyone give a fuck? If it was a Uk branded med for a condition where retard has been hijacked as a general insult then you would have a point. But those of us with adhd haven't been the general victim's of that evolution of language anymore than anyone else.

I can think of a million stupid things people think and say about adhd, but a label on medication using the word in medical context certainly isn't one of them.

My son takes equasym xl - no mention of retard and we are in UK