Tony was a good patient and took the medication as directed the next morning, after reading through the precautions, side effects, and mechanism of action. Hey, just cause he wasn't a biologist didn't mean that he couldn't understand biology stuff. He built the arc reactor after all, and that was hell yeah biological.
Of course, reading through the list of side effects probably wasn't the best ideas, because by mid-afternoon he'd exhibited half of them, which he wasn't sure was psychosomatic or not.
Plus it didn't even stop the seizures. That day alone, Jarvis counted three absence seizures, and his hand did a weird twitching thing that he couldn't stop.
He called the good doctor up again that night.
"Yeah, this med isn't working," Tony sighed, slouching in front of the webcam. He felt like crap, and it probably showed, since the doctor eyed him with sympathy.
"The Tegretol? Well, it's not for everyone. Side effects?"
Tony nodded. "Side effects, and it's not even working."
He nodded again and made a note. "Absence seizures increased I'm guessing."
"Yeah. How did you-"
"It can sometimes aggravate other seizure disorders, and since you've likely got a combined type, it's not the right drug for you." He paused. "Tony," he sighed, "You need to tell your friends."
"Andrew," Tony parroted. "I can't tell my friends. You know why. Jarvis is keeping an eye on me, I'm fine. Everything is fine."
Doctor Carlyle shook his head, but resigned himself to the fact. "I don't want to put you on Valproate yet because it has a lot of side effects. I'm going to trial you on Dilantin. This one will take longer to see the effects of, so I don't want you calling me up tomorrow and complaining that it's not working. Got it?"
Tony rolled his eyes. "Yup."
"If it's not working after five days, then I'll switch you again." He sighed and set his face in his palms. "You are trouble, Tony Stark. If you would just come in like a normal patient and do-"
"Ah, there's your problem. Not a normal patient. Just not normal, bottom line. Thanks for the drugs, I'll call you up in five days, have fun til then!"
He ended the call.
"J?"
"The prescription is being filled as we speak, and it will be delivered as soon as it's finished. You should begin taking it immediately, as the dosing requires you to take partial doses every eight hours to achieve the desired effect."
"Crap. Make a schedule then." He sighed. "What would I do without you J?"
"Oh, probably make a lot of messes sir."
"True," Tony agreed. "Very true."
"The medication you are on now does require weaning, but as you have only been on it a short while, will not be much trouble."
Tony buried his head in his arms. "Fuck me Jarvis," he moaned.
"A tempting offer sir, but as I have before, I will have to decline once again."
"I hate you."
"I'm aware."
