>>If they meant "any medication" there's a whole community of us here who would never be able to work. *grins*

True and not just "us"... no diabetics or people with high blood pressure would be able to ever work either.

I hadn't thought of your idea that maybe they mean meds that make you dizzy, sleepy, etc. which is certainly reasonable. If that is the case either the HR worker is really way off base for suggesting that to you without being clear, or she has misunderstood the requirement, or you misunderstood what she said. From the way you described it, it sounds like she is going by a book without putting any thought process into it, but only reading every other sentence in the book.