Actress Brittany Murphy dies

[Benzgirl]

From the Huffington Post, the following medications were found in her bedroom:
Topamax (anti-seizure meds also to prevent migraines),
Methylprednisolone (anti-inflammatory),
Fluoxetine (depression med),
Klonopin (anxiety med),
Carbamazepine (treats Diabetic symptoms and is also a bipolar med),
Ativan (anxiety med), Vicoprofen (pain reliever),
Propranolol (hypertension, used to prevent heart attacks),
Biaxin (antibiotic),
Hydrocodone (pain med)
and miscellaneous vitamins.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

From the Huffington Post, the following medications were found in her bedroom:
Topamax (anti-seizure meds also to prevent migraines),
Methylprednisolone (anti-inflammatory),
Fluoxetine (depression med),
Klonopin (anxiety med),
Carbamazepine (treats Diabetic symptoms and is also a bipolar med),
Ativan (anxiety med), Vicoprofen (pain reliever),
Propranolol (hypertension, used to prevent heart attacks),
Biaxin (antibiotic),
Hydrocodone (pain med)
and miscellaneous vitamins.

Holy GOD!

[LXA SE285]

Except for the hydrocodone and maybe the Klonopin and Ativan, none of those drugs individually is dangerous/abusable—she was reportedly sick with the flu, which is probably what the Biaxin and Prednisone were for—but considering her weakened state, I could see how all these combined could make for a deadly cocktail.

[LXA SE285]

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

According to the ET, soothsayer of all knowledge, she had 2 engagements go belly up and then she wound up with this guy (her current husband - and he's yucky and creepy). I wonder if her self-esteem took a beating, for her to wind up settling for this guy?

Compared with Ashton Kutcher and her first fiancé, he's a real prize all right.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by LXA SE285

Except for the hydrocodone and maybe the Klonopin and Ativan, none of those drugs individually is dangerous/abusable—she was reportedly sick with the flu, which is probably what the Biaxin and Prednisone were for—but considering her weakened state, I could see how all these combined could make for a deadly cocktail.

Uh...hydrocodone and vicoprofen are both narcotics. Klonopin and Ativan are both benzos and can cause respiratory depression. Topamax has lots of side effects as does Carbamazapine, which is also a seizure medication. Biaxin and Prednisone would not have been prescribed for the flu, BTW. Anyway, this drug list is not for the faint of heart.

[KSig RC]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Uh...hydrocodone and vicoprofen are both narcotics. Klonopin and Ativan are both benzos and can cause respiratory depression. Topamax has lots of side effects as does Carbamazapine, which is also a seizure medication. Biaxin and Prednisone would not have been prescribed for the flu, BTW. Anyway, this drug list is not for the faint of heart.

Vicoprofen and hydrocodone are, for all intents and purposes, the same thing - there's really no need to separate them (Vicoprofen is a commercial implementation combining hydrocodone with ibuprofen). That kind of makes the list awkward to read at face value.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

Vicoprofen and hydrocodone are, for all intents and purposes, the same thing - there's really no need to separate them (Vicoprofen is a commercial implementation combining hydrocodone with ibuprofen). That kind of makes the list awkward to read at face value.

Actually, I would separate them considering that she would likely have two different physicians prescribing this to her. This makes me wonder if she was abusing prescription drugs.

Anyway, I know very few physicians that use vicoprofen on a common basis. The only time I ever wrote for it was when a crystal meth addict asked for it during follow up visits in the burn unit after he and two of his buddies blew up their lab three days before Christmas when i was a second year surgery resident. He even knew the dosage that he wanted. Nothing says drug addict like someone who knows an obscure drug's dosage!

[Shellfish]

It does seem like a list of Heath Ledger proportions, though.

[LXA SE285]

Uh...hydrocodone and vicoprofen are both narcotics. Klonopin and Ativan are both benzos and can cause respiratory depression.

Yeah, I knew that. I defer to you on the others.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Shellfish

It does seem like a list of Heath Ledger proportions, though.

I'd have to look up what he took. You take a hand-full of benzodiazapines and hydrocodone, and you will die like a dog. Trust me...I've seen enough patients breathing 4 times a minute to know that without someone around to catch you looking bad, you'd just die in your sleep.

For Britney, though, I just read that her husband said her mother found her down in the bathroom. I don't think respiratory depression would be the cause of her cardiac arrest. If her MVP was mild enough not to need medication (though the Propranolol on her nightstand tells a different tale) it wouldn't likely cause her to have sudden cardiac arrest. Maybe it isn't one of her prescription drugs.

[DaemonSeid]

NBC Pulls SNL's Murphy Skit

[AOII Angel]

Not that funny of a skit, but a pretty good impression of Britney Murphy...I almost forgot she sounded like that.

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

NBC Pulls SNL's Murphy Skit

An excerpt:

The segment was as random as it was prescient, seeing as Murphy had been lying low, far off the pop culture radar. Instead, it played off a minor news report about the actress being fired from a film.

Although the ‘SNL’ bit at worst depicted Murphy as disoriented, 20/20 hindsight has moved some online critics to question why the NBC series satirized the actress at all. A few bloggers have even cast aspersion on NBC’s decision to pull the clip, suggesting it was not a magnanimous gesture but a revisionist one. EdRants.com, for one, has posted a full transcript of the now hard-to-find sketch “so that people can be informed of what NBC is attempting to hide from the public.”




I saw it live and might still have it on my DVR. I don't know why "critics" would question why SNL did a sketch on Brittany Murphy. It's WHAT THEY DO. The actress who played her did a pretty good job of portraying Murphy's mannerisms and speech pattern. Honestly, I thought that they were lampooning Murphy's character from Clueless, which, IIRC, was pretty ditzy.

[groovypq]

I have this weird feeling it was H1N1....

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Uh...hydrocodone and vicoprofen are both narcotics. Klonopin and Ativan are both benzos and can cause respiratory depression. Topamax has lots of side effects as does Carbamazapine, which is also a seizure medication. Biaxin and Prednisone would not have been prescribed for the flu, BTW. Anyway, this drug list is not for the faint of heart.

Actually, Biaxin when combined with certain antihstamines can be deadly. Right after it was first introduced, I was on a six-month antibiotic therapy (Biaxin) to kill a staph infection. I was told under no certain terms to take an antihistamine without the approval of my doctor. I had been taking Hisminal, and she told me that combining the two would likely put me into cardiac arrest.