Meds and and stuff on the bottle

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I got my refills for the meds I'm on and it looks like they went happy with precautionary stickers on these. I have never had any stickers on these pill bottles in the past, now one of the two says "take with food", and the other says "avoid sunlight or sunlamps" and "may cause dizzyness" . What do I do? I have never had any problems with these meds, and the bottles have never had these stickers before, and I generally don't take my Concerta with food.

If there's been no actual change in the dosage or kind of medication you take and you haven't noticed any ill effects, my UNQUALIFIED advice is to continue what you have been doing.

No harm in calling the nurse line to ask about it.

When I was taking antidepressants, they would attach a warning about the increased risk of suicide to the package once every 3 months.
They don't change the medication. If you haven't had any problem with it before, then just don't worry about it.

It just to me feels like the pharmacist was bored and slapped on stickers... I am more confused than worried, although, with one of the stickers, I am a bit worried, as maybe that is the reason I am so sensitive to sunlight and other bright lights....

As far as the drowsiness stickers and such I wouldn't worry about it if you've never experienced any of those things while on it, and usually they just tell you to take them with food if they are known to be hard on the stomach. Although, if this were the case you probably would have noticed something by now as well. I remember reading something about prolonged exposure to sunlight in the pills I take as well, but I believe that they warn you about that because some pills can cause your skin to be more sensitive to sunlight so that you would burn more easily and such. However, I think that is just one more of those things that CAN happen, but aren't bound to happen for sure.