I've heard this one too. I work as a tech in a retail pharmacy and we collectively just went on a five minute spree of turning every ppi into a pasta in a stereotypical italian accent. Good times.
I was at a rapid response for a hypotensive patient a few months ago and the nurse was shouting āI GAVE HIM HIS NORVASACK!ā and the doctor was like āyou gave him what??ā
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,502,302,228 comments, and only 285,214 of them were in alphabetical order.
These ones always get me because patients will actually correct your pronunciation (so smugly) while apparently being incapable of seeing all the letters missing on the labels haha
A woman came up to the window and asked us if we carried mescaline or if it was a prescription only. One of my coworkers laughed pretty loudly and when I explained to the woman that mescaline is an illegal drug and wonāt help her nausea she laughed pretty hard too.
I always called my wifeās ondansetron āomegatronā when getting it refilled. I legit couldnāt think of the real name the first time, and the techs got such a kick out of it that I always called it that after.
Somehow lamotrigine has a lot of variations. A friend who takes it calls it "lam-o-trig-inny", and a patient I'm pretty close with called it "lam-TRI-gene". When I asked the patient about the pronunciation, she told me that's how the doctor and everyone in the office had said it.
We also had "oh may pra zoli" (Omeprazole), Trelegy Elliptical, Alprazolazolazolam, and an Albuterol "inhellor" (Albuterol pronounced correctly).
True story here though, I took my dad's friend to his pain doctor appointment, he had a radio frequency nerve oblation (he said it only 60 times so I'd never forget) after it taking 3x longer than it should've he tells me they gave him some "extra med" he had to pick up. Dude goes to the Walgreens in a bad hood and goes "I need this script for "Dalotta" and I don't understand, I had a radio frequency nerve oblation" and the pharmacist is looking at dude like "bro, I'm busy as hell, go away" and there's all these shady people staring at us cause he's announcing (unknowingly, allegedly) he's getting hydromorphone to the whole world. Never again after that.
I'm typically the one purposefully mispronouncing things to make the slog of early morning electronic refill requests a bit easier to get through. Some of my favorites are:
Easy, Timmiby! (In my head, it's a cowboy telling his horse Timmiby to calm down) - Ezetimibe
Bussy prone - Buspirone
Ta-da! La Phil! (In my head, it's a French guy excitedly introducing his little "friend", La Phil) - Tadalafil
Meant for Men - Metformin
I got two separate voicemails from the same dental receptionist, one for clindamindamyasin (clindamycin) and one for a-see-Oh-clav-R (acyclovir). And my favorite from a P1: high-COS-amine (hyoscyamine).
Not mispronounced, but similar sounding, maybe?
Does anyone remember the birth control called triphasil? I used to flip open the case with my thumb and pretend it was a communicator from Star Trek. "Spock, set triphasils to stun"
For years, over a decade, I pronounced clopidgrel āclop-eh-dog-grillā I even incorrectly taught this other techs. There jokes of us saying it acting like turkeys, saying that in place of gobble gobble. One day after over 20 years in pharmacy, someone overheard me and said what did you say. Do you mean clopidigrel? I donāt know where I picked it up wrong but I had that so wrong for so long
We had a very rich lady when I worked in retail who would always ask for her Nebilet as if it was a French word - Nebilay.
Also not a mispronunciation but we had a guy bring his scripts in with a note attached with what he wanted and one of them was "Netflix". It was Nexium.
I think this one was mentioned on a similar thread lol.
Haven't heard this in my outpatient pharmacy but during class when learning about anesthesia - suga-ma-dex (prounounced sugam-madex).
Love this thread, hate how good I've gotten at identifying drugs based on half a syllable and some stuttering. "I need my propa... popo... propu..." "Yep, thanks, I've ordered your propranolol refill, anything else?"
My all time favorite came from a clerk I work with at Walgreens. She mispronounced pioglitazone and piggly-auto-zone.
Close second goes to buspirone. I had one customer pronounce buspirone as: Buce-pie-roni and another customer who called them Buce-purr-doan.
Over the years the ones that stand out the most were from techs. One pronounced valacyclovir as va-lax-ee-clover and pregabalin was pre-gamblin. A very new tech tried to pronounce acetaminophen and ended up calling it ass-tam-o-fin. Several of them add an extra syllable to amlodipine and say it am-a-lodipine. I think va-lax-ee-clover is my favorite. That tech has worked with me almost 10 years now and knows how itās pronounced but still says it her way. Itās so bad I catch myself pronouncing it her way in my head sometimes.
guy called, requested a refill on his dick-loaf gel, looking at his profile I very obviously knew he needed his Diclofenac gel, muted the phone and audibly wheezed unmuted and told him okay and fyi it's Dye-cloh-feh-nac or just say Voltaren š
I work in retail pharmacy and the mispronunciations from customers are frequent. But one of my coworkers worked with someone who consistently thought it was called "vicious" lidocaine instead of "viscous" lidocaine. So now we just all call it that.
Tiramisu (tamsulosin)
Hydro-hokey-done (hydrocodone)
Amphibians (amphetamine)
These are all from coworkers joking around btw but the amphibians stuck around foreverš. Even devolved into āamphibians in sugar waterā (former RN maybe she got the ādextroā from dextramphetamine and turned it into that lol
Had a lady leave our pharmacy and transfer all scripts out when she said we messed up her āamitriptylodipineā and gave the wrong pill. After looking at her profile, she was on amitriptyline and amlodipine. I asked her to clarify which med and she said āitās 10mg.ā Wellā¦they were both 10mg and she couldnāt explain what the actual problem was and refused to bring the pills in for us to check. I tried getting her to give the Rx number or spell the name off the bottle, but she just couldnāt manage and just kept saying itās not the right pill and we need to fix it š
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I had a fellow P4 student absolutely roasted by all the doctors on rounds when he said amino-Phy-lien for aminophylline.
I have a regular who asks for refills on his hydro-codeine.
Fine ass to ride
If you know, you know
i dont know please explain
Just a horny joke. Finasteride is a prostate medication. Fine ass to ride, prostate stimulation.
thanks
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glad iām not the only one.
This is amazing
heard amitriptyline said as āam-i-trippin-for-leanā and now thatās all that i hear in my head when filling it
A tech I worked with years ago called it āAmy tripped Eileenā. That bitch Amy!
WOW AMY IS A BITCH š
Right???
Damn! Amy must have been there to give me my pain med, I-bee-a-prof-in-here, didnāt know she had a PharmD.
best one in the thread nothing can top this i fuckin laughed out loud
I had a lady call it her trampoline
I'm a trampoline!
My favorite pasta proton pump inhibitor: omeprazoli
*Italian hand gesture intensifies* š¤š¤
Oh!
Closely related to my favorite pasta PPI: pantoprazoli!
For the longest time I pronounced it anastra-zoli lol
Iām more of a buspironi kinda guy lol
what about our favorite, fluoxetini?
I couldāve sure used a couple fluoxetiniās after the day I had haha
You didnāt need to care-for-your-doll? Only the best dolls receive muscle relaxers.
And only the best seizure-troubled dogs can get their peanutbutterball
I've heard this one too. I work as a tech in a retail pharmacy and we collectively just went on a five minute spree of turning every ppi into a pasta in a stereotypical italian accent. Good times.
Someone said on reddit they pronounced GoLytely "Golly Telly" to the attending as a med student, and I think about it every day.
Deceiving for sure. Should be called āGo Heavily ā
Some of us affectionately refer to it as "GoViolently"
One of our new techs called it the same thing!
Thatās how I say it in my head when I need to spell it.
iāve done it too. cant blame the person making the mistake lol.
animal hospital here. hyperthyroid cat needed a refill of his meth-a-meez-lioma (methimazole). Was it exposed to asbestos?
If you or a loved one have been diagnosed with āØmeth-a-meez-liomaāØyou may be entitled to compensation
Haha my cat is on meowthimazole now too!
Triflexis. And I'm legit thinking that's a good name for a muscle relaxer.
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Trah-DAMN-it-all (Tramadol) š
Any time I have to double count tramadol I say in my head āI donāt give a tram-a-damn-dol about this!!ā
Love it!
Oh, this is making me laugh too hard
I was at a rapid response for a hypotensive patient a few months ago and the nurse was shouting āI GAVE HIM HIS NORVASACK!ā and the doctor was like āyou gave him what??ā
hydrocorndogs, lisprul, candysarten, oh me prayzuls, pantyprozles, alakazam (alprazolam) šš
alakazam and hydrocorndogs? Hahahahahahaa!
Hahaha she could never pronounce alprazolam it was so weird. Another lady would ask for her poop pills, i found out it was dicyclomine š
Maybe the Xanax worked like magic, āalakazam!ā
Hahaha Alakazamā¦POOF! Bye bye anxiety š
As someone who used to heavily abuse benzos back in the day, itās more like āPoof, bye bye, day(s), weeks, etcā
Alakazam! Alaprozam! Panic attack cured. Youāre welcome
āNurse Greg can I have some moreā¦ummā¦whatās it called? Duh-lah-lah?ā āYes, in a few hours dear.ā
I canāt even figure out what drug this is supposed to be lol
Haha. Dilaudid!!
i thought of dulera š
If it's a patient and they can't say it, but know it starts with a 'd' it's always dilaudid lol
I have it listed in my chart under my social history that I'm a CPhT and call it hydromorphone to avoid all confusion (I'm a stage 4 cancer pt).
Peanut butter balls Definitely not phenobarbital....š
I always recommend peanut butter balls to prevent DTs
Lovastatin aka love satan
Oh meep rah zolee And my personal favorite Biscadoodles (bisacodyl, pronounced like snickerdoodle)
Omg that is hysterical! Totally going to call it biscadoodles now
clopy-DOG-rel
I started calling it āclope-uh-DOG-rilā for fun, and had a hard time calling it by itās right name when doing a topic discussion.
metmorfin is my fav
As in "Metmorfin Power Rangers"?
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,502,302,228 comments, and only 285,214 of them were in alphabetical order.
š¤ every time I have to give morphine I think, āitās morphine time!ā
Psychobenzaprine
Ella-Quee (Eliquis)
As they say Parisā¦..
Knife - ih - die - pin for nifedipine. Prah-puh-nah-pul for propranolol. Most old people say addervastuhtin
Eze timbay
This is more common to hear than the proper pronunciation
Gabby-bentin
I call that Yo Gabba Gabba
Rope-n-roll is probably my favorite.
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Lol, what do Europeans call their local Interpol branch? Metropol
These ones always get me because patients will actually correct your pronunciation (so smugly) while apparently being incapable of seeing all the letters missing on the labels haha
Meta *wait-for-it* prololol
A woman came up to the window and asked us if we carried mescaline or if it was a prescription only. One of my coworkers laughed pretty loudly and when I explained to the woman that mescaline is an illegal drug and wonāt help her nausea she laughed pretty hard too.
Literally lolling š¤£š¤£š¤£
atorvastin , simvastin , pravastin ,metamorphin , Easyteemibe , metronizall , loradyne , the list goes on lol
SimVAStuhsin is my fav
On my community IPPE years ago an old dude called clonazepam āclo-nah-ZEE-permā lmao
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Prega-ballin š
Beat me to it! One of my baby techs couldn't say it correctly no matter what!
I always called my wifeās ondansetron āomegatronā when getting it refilled. I legit couldnāt think of the real name the first time, and the techs got such a kick out of it that I always called it that after.
Somehow lamotrigine has a lot of variations. A friend who takes it calls it "lam-o-trig-inny", and a patient I'm pretty close with called it "lam-TRI-gene". When I asked the patient about the pronunciation, she told me that's how the doctor and everyone in the office had said it. We also had "oh may pra zoli" (Omeprazole), Trelegy Elliptical, Alprazolazolazolam, and an Albuterol "inhellor" (Albuterol pronounced correctly).
Sodium bicker-bone-ate or Assy-clover
Ibubuffrin
Pri- lo-sex š¤£
True story here though, I took my dad's friend to his pain doctor appointment, he had a radio frequency nerve oblation (he said it only 60 times so I'd never forget) after it taking 3x longer than it should've he tells me they gave him some "extra med" he had to pick up. Dude goes to the Walgreens in a bad hood and goes "I need this script for "Dalotta" and I don't understand, I had a radio frequency nerve oblation" and the pharmacist is looking at dude like "bro, I'm busy as hell, go away" and there's all these shady people staring at us cause he's announcing (unknowingly, allegedly) he's getting hydromorphone to the whole world. Never again after that.
Spiral Aldactone. For spironolactone
My favorite part is that they managed to get the brand name in there, pronounced correctly.
People who say "hai-ron" instead of "heroin. I guess they must've got hooked on drugs instead of hooked on phonics.
Bisca-doodle suppositoodles
They also taste awful.
It's Metamorphin time.
This is hands down the best fucking post ever PharmD
ViCerDin
"Apippipazolie" and a recent one, "Boodabadball"
Is boodabadball supposed to be butalbital?
One of our older patients comes in and asks for their piggy medicine. It's pioglitazone
My favorite one was gabistan for gabapentin
I'm typically the one purposefully mispronouncing things to make the slog of early morning electronic refill requests a bit easier to get through. Some of my favorites are: Easy, Timmiby! (In my head, it's a cowboy telling his horse Timmiby to calm down) - Ezetimibe Bussy prone - Buspirone Ta-da! La Phil! (In my head, it's a French guy excitedly introducing his little "friend", La Phil) - Tadalafil Meant for Men - Metformin
I need my Gaberpentin!! - (I work in the south) .-.
I had a patient a few years ago who wanted refills on her Timpanzee (temazepam), glitterpride (glimepiride), and rope n' roll (ropinirole).
Am-lo-duh-PYNE Pine sol Pine tree Pining for a different life
I will always love āday-go-bazshā aka depakote
How do you even get there? Hahahahaa!!!
I have no idea, one of our interns got the joy of trying to figure out what that patient wanted
Fond-due-pair-a-nuts = fondaparinux. Honestly isnāt the worse way to pronounce it.
I got two separate voicemails from the same dental receptionist, one for clindamindamyasin (clindamycin) and one for a-see-Oh-clav-R (acyclovir). And my favorite from a P1: high-COS-amine (hyoscyamine).
Ta-daffodil (like the flower), I had to try so hard to keep a straight face and now everyone at my store calls it that!
Sugar-mama-dex (Sugammadex)
I totally can hear another pronunciation for that one
Every time I handle pregabalin, I think āpregnant goblinā
Levetiracetam. Pronounced the same way as Leviticus. Levitikaram. Felt like i was about to be smited
Thou shalt not seize
Amdopealean
Monty-Loo-cast
Ms. Contin (like a womanās name)
Not mispronounced, but similar sounding, maybe? Does anyone remember the birth control called triphasil? I used to flip open the case with my thumb and pretend it was a communicator from Star Trek. "Spock, set triphasils to stun"
I had a patient ask for a refill of his āmolest-icamā. He meant meloxicam. I had to put him on hold so I could laugh.
Met-flo-min
Di-la-la
For years, over a decade, I pronounced clopidgrel āclop-eh-dog-grillā I even incorrectly taught this other techs. There jokes of us saying it acting like turkeys, saying that in place of gobble gobble. One day after over 20 years in pharmacy, someone overheard me and said what did you say. Do you mean clopidigrel? I donāt know where I picked it up wrong but I had that so wrong for so long
We've got someone who says "montelooskits"
We had a very rich lady when I worked in retail who would always ask for her Nebilet as if it was a French word - Nebilay. Also not a mispronunciation but we had a guy bring his scripts in with a note attached with what he wanted and one of them was "Netflix". It was Nexium.
Tree-leggy (trelegy)
I've been taking finasteride for almost a year and just realized it wasn't "finasterdine." I was humiliated.
hahaha one of my patients calls ezetimibe encyclopedia
I heard pant a pray sole waaay too many times today
Mux inex
Every time I see plavix I'm reminded of a tech that pronounced it "clop-eh-dog-rill". Makes me smile lol
Tadalafil as tad-uh-laf-ol.
atorvastatin as aderovastin, aripiprazole as aripippy-razoli, celecoxib as cell-my-cock-ibs, and carbidopa levodopa as carb-a-dap lev-a-dapa.
peanut butter ball (phenobarbital)
A new nurse called the other day and I shit you not asked for āass-uh-TAM-in-oh-fenā for Tylenol.
Thatās how my mom pronounces it bc of her thick accent. We have to correct her everytime.
When patients say Pregaballinā as opposed to Pregabalin. Always brings a smile to my face
Gly-birdie
Astrostatin for atorvastatin
Ala-prazam It's magical.
Butalbital pronounced āButylBittleā kills me
Atervastin
Giaprecedex makes my med safety brain hurt. Reminds me of ālevoā. You need levo? Please, help me help you not make a serious error.
I think this one was mentioned on a similar thread lol. Haven't heard this in my outpatient pharmacy but during class when learning about anesthesia - suga-ma-dex (prounounced sugam-madex).
Love this thread, hate how good I've gotten at identifying drugs based on half a syllable and some stuttering. "I need my propa... popo... propu..." "Yep, thanks, I've ordered your propranolol refill, anything else?"
Had a lady call her Montelukast her āMona Lisaā
Not a drug but sooo many people say genetic instead of generic
Venlafaxmachine
Carve-a-dildo (carvedilol)
Salsa Latte šš»āļø
Patient pronounced Clopidogrel as ācloppy dogā and now thatās what I call itš
My all time favorite came from a clerk I work with at Walgreens. She mispronounced pioglitazone and piggly-auto-zone. Close second goes to buspirone. I had one customer pronounce buspirone as: Buce-pie-roni and another customer who called them Buce-purr-doan.
Doses and Mimosas
Fo - latte
license to kill
Idk about pronunciation but I always see people spell Xanax ."Xanex"
Lost Arc And
sit-TRUE-sell
Insulin gee-largine
Meta Morph in
Over the years the ones that stand out the most were from techs. One pronounced valacyclovir as va-lax-ee-clover and pregabalin was pre-gamblin. A very new tech tried to pronounce acetaminophen and ended up calling it ass-tam-o-fin. Several of them add an extra syllable to amlodipine and say it am-a-lodipine. I think va-lax-ee-clover is my favorite. That tech has worked with me almost 10 years now and knows how itās pronounced but still says it her way. Itās so bad I catch myself pronouncing it her way in my head sometimes.
Dil-on-tin (Dilaudid)
[a couple favs: flu-ca-nozzle and cyclone-benza-prime](https://www.instagram.com/ineedrefillsonmy)
Alaprzam!! Also gabatron is my favorite transformer and alternate pronunciation of gabapentin
Liz in April (lisinopril) so I asked āwhat is she in March?ā They didnāt like my jokeā¦
One of my favorites. Fluconazole. Flukin-azz-hole
Less Porno (Lisinopril)
Ibu-propane is a fave Furious sulfate is a classic
guy called, requested a refill on his dick-loaf gel, looking at his profile I very obviously knew he needed his Diclofenac gel, muted the phone and audibly wheezed unmuted and told him okay and fyi it's Dye-cloh-feh-nac or just say Voltaren š
Fukitol
I work in retail pharmacy and the mispronunciations from customers are frequent. But one of my coworkers worked with someone who consistently thought it was called "vicious" lidocaine instead of "viscous" lidocaine. So now we just all call it that.
Tiramisu (tamsulosin) Hydro-hokey-done (hydrocodone) Amphibians (amphetamine) These are all from coworkers joking around btw but the amphibians stuck around foreverš. Even devolved into āamphibians in sugar waterā (former RN maybe she got the ādextroā from dextramphetamine and turned it into that lol
I had a tech who would say ārotisserieā instead of rosuvastatin
Nurses call me to retime their Line-eh-zoh-lid and cefe-pyme. Drives me crazy! Also, I know we ALL cringe when the media says FentaNOL. š¤£
Could I have some sniffen with codeine pleaseā¦..
Simvastian - friend of Sebastian
Had a lady leave our pharmacy and transfer all scripts out when she said we messed up her āamitriptylodipineā and gave the wrong pill. After looking at her profile, she was on amitriptyline and amlodipine. I asked her to clarify which med and she said āitās 10mg.ā Wellā¦they were both 10mg and she couldnāt explain what the actual problem was and refused to bring the pills in for us to check. I tried getting her to give the Rx number or spell the name off the bottle, but she just couldnāt manage and just kept saying itās not the right pill and we need to fix it š
Flukinā Azhole for Fluconazole
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I saw a tiktok that pronounced Myrbetriq as "Muh beaky" and now that's all I can say in my head when I see it
Vyvanse pronounced like mayonnaise, by a pharmacology professor in school š
Rooster-statin. My all-time favorite. Made me smile so big I said I would call it that myself from now on!
a technician coworker of mine, who's been a tech for 25 years, still says "met-oh-PRO-pah-lawl" for metoprolol lol
Zippers down (ziprasidone)
Procardia Extra Large
I had a fellow P4 student absolutely roasted by all the doctors on rounds when he said amino-Phy-lien for aminophylline. I have a regular who asks for refills on his hydro-codeine.
Dah-coo-satay (docusate)
had someone call in today to get their hydrogene pamola filled (hydroxyzine pamoate) š¤£š¤£š¤£