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Start here => Games => Topic started by: 'andersom' on March 31, 2010, 05:37:33 AM
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Inspired by this
Good thing I saw this thread...I almost forgot to take my meds! :duh: :duh: :duh:
And, because I forgot my meds yesterday, and nearly forgot again this morning.
This is a support site isn't it. :P
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Yes, I did take my meds today.
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Great idea! Just took mine, with some :coffee:
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Had to take some Diclofenac today. Damn foot.
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I took my meds last night after dinner.
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Had to take some Diclofenac today. Damn foot.
What's wrong with your foot? :(
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Had to take some Diclofenac today. Damn foot.
What's wrong with your foot? :(
Arthritis.
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Had to take some Diclofenac today. Damn foot.
What's wrong with your foot? :(
Arthritis.
Have you ever tried anything like Osteo Bi Flex?
It's supposed to help your cartilage and I think it is helping my ankle.
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Had to take some Diclofenac today. Damn foot.
What's wrong with your foot? :(
Arthritis.
Ouch...osteo, or rheumatoid? :(
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Had to take some Diclofenac today. Damn foot.
What's wrong with your foot? :(
Arthritis.
Have you ever tried anything like Osteo Bi Flex?
It's supposed to help your cartilage and I think it is helping my ankle.
Tried these pills that did sweet FA. I really need to lose some weight to be honest, that would do more for me that anything else.
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Had to take some Diclofenac today. Damn foot.
What's wrong with your foot? :(
Arthritis.
Ouch...osteo, or rheumatoid? :(
osteo, it's genetic, damn family...
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Had to take some Diclofenac today. Damn foot.
What's wrong with your foot? :(
Arthritis.
Ouch...osteo, or rheumatoid? :(
osteo, it's genetic, damn family...
damn family indeed.
My Dad asked me if he was to blame for my ASD. I said he probably was, but since he gave me life too, no need to worry.
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I'm smoking my meds out of a Gatorade bottle bong as I type.
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yes and just chuged some nyquil too
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Had to take some Diclofenac today. Damn foot.
What's wrong with your foot? :(
Arthritis.
Ouch...osteo, or rheumatoid? :(
osteo, it's genetic, damn family...
damn family indeed.
My Dad asked me if he was to blame for my ASD. I said he probably was, but since he gave me life too, no need to worry.
You should sue. :zoinks:
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Had to take some Diclofenac today. Damn foot.
What's wrong with your foot? :(
Arthritis.
Ouch...osteo, or rheumatoid? :(
osteo, it's genetic, damn family...
damn family indeed.
My Dad asked me if he was to blame for my ASD. I said he probably was, but since he gave me life too, no need to worry.
You should sue. :zoinks:
So that he can spend the inheritance on lawyers? :duh:
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Had to take some Diclofenac today. Damn foot.
What's wrong with your foot? :(
Arthritis.
Ouch...osteo, or rheumatoid? :(
osteo, it's genetic, damn family...
damn family indeed.
My Dad asked me if he was to blame for my ASD. I said he probably was, but since he gave me life too, no need to worry.
:plus: :)
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Meds duly taken. :angel:
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Meds duly taken. :angel:
Well done! :asthing:
I shall take mine again tomorrow! :2thumbsup:
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You bet your sweet round asses I did. I'm in a hell of a lot of pain, and if I did not take my meds i'd be in more.
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applied meds, according to the rules.
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120mg of Strattera, down the hatch! :headbang2:
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Why do you all take meds?
I am drinking bourbon because it is the and of the working week and I cleaned up in sales so am rewarding myself. Why do you guys take meds? (Does it make you less spazzy?)
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Why do you all take meds?
I am drinking bourbon because it is the and of the working week and I cleaned up in sales so am rewarding myself. Why do you guys take meds? (Does it make you less spazzy?)
Strattera is for ADHD, works well for me in that it enables me to stay on task, not lose track of time the way I used to, and, as a bonus (which not everyone gets, unfortunately; that's why I suppose you'd call it a bonus!), it greatly reduces my OCD angst.
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I apply anti-biotics to my face twice a day, if I don't forget. Just to be more pretty. :-* :blonde:
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Why do you all take meds?
I am drinking bourbon because it is the and of the working week and I cleaned up in sales so am rewarding myself. Why do you guys take meds? (Does it make you less spazzy?)
I'm taking my meds to cope with the OCD. So yes, less spazzy.
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Why do you all take meds?
Personally fear meds.
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Why do you all take meds?
I am drinking bourbon because it is the and of the working week and I cleaned up in sales so am rewarding myself. Why do you guys take meds? (Does it make you less spazzy?)
Before antidepressants, I was Aspie, full of depression, overwhelmed by obsessive-compulsive disorder, and wondering what point there was in remaining alive. With antidepressants, I am free of depression and OCD, slightly less driven, slightly more forgetful, happy to be alive more often than not, and still as radiantly Aspie as ever.
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Why do you all take meds?
I am drinking bourbon because it is the and of the working week and I cleaned up in sales so am rewarding myself. Why do you guys take meds? (Does it make you less spazzy?)
No. I take pain meds, for PAIN. :zoinks:
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Less spazy, yes it reduces OCD and anxiety to a manageable level Now I am adding mucinex for my cold
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I have no meds to take. I think I'm mostly to blame for that, because I don't see my life as important.
Times like this I think I need them. Usually, however, I don't feel as though I'm in any danger of dying from anything, so meds generally seem a bit pointless, while any time I actually am in danger of dying would be intentional, so why would I wish to fight it off with meds?
I think they miscalculate the point of SSRI's
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yeah I took them.
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as a matterof fact I havent. well I guess I will just roll one up right now :2thumbsup:
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as a matterof fact I havent. well I guess I will just roll one up right now :2thumbsup:
Are you making an enchilada? :zoinks:
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how did you guess :duh:
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how did you guess :duh:
I wasn't born yesterday, pal! ;)
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oops , too late I already...uhhh. ate it
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oops , too late I already...uhhh. ate it
You'll soon feel better! You just needed to eat! :2thumbsup:
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:2thumbsup: :headbang2:
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:2thumbsup: :headbang2:
There, all better! :2thumbsup:
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Taking them now. :wine:
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Taking them now. :wine:
Better to wash them down with plain water! :zoinks:
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No, but I'll take them soon.
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Yes, and I'll be augmenting them with lashings of chocolate later.
(http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/mm384/SleepyDragon_album/chocky.gif)
HAPPY EASTER! ^_^
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Yes, and I'll be augmenting them with lashings of chocolate later.
(http://i317.photobucket.com/albums/mm384/SleepyDragon_album/chocky.gif)
HAPPY EASTER! ^_^
Does that explode with chocolately goodness?
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^ Yes it does. 8) Much nicer than the explosives that my sons chuck around while playing Modern Warfare 2.
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Took my meds about an hour ago, and just remembered my multivitamin, thanks to this thread! :thumbup:
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Yes, I took them today. Again.
I wish I didn't have to. And I'm wondering how safe they are.
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Just applied it. The after effects of forgetting it a couple of nights ago are almost gone. There is still one sore purplish spot on my cheek, but, that will be a lot better tomorrow morning I think.
Have been pondering on asking for meds to help me focus for a while again. But as long as I can locate the main source of why I am so bloody unfocussed, and know that source can and should change, I just don't want to take meds. Meds do scare me.
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Just took some extra klonopin as it was definitely needed
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someone pass the sudaphed,,,tree pollen is horrible. what a time to not get any rain
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someone pass the sudaphed,,,tree pollen is horrible. what a time to not get any rain
Allergies used to be a big problem for me, when I lived in my former landlady's dusty, overheated house filled with :kitten: :flo:, but I haven't had to take an antihistamine in years!
*sends skyblue1 some soft tissues*
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thanks I normally use my sleeve
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thanks I normally use my sleeve
I guess I won't be borrowing a shirt from you anytime soon. :P
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Vitamin time! Down the hatch! :arrr:
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check, yes.
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Yes. Again.
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Have been pondering on asking for meds to help me focus for a while again. But as long as I can locate the main source of why I am so bloody unfocussed, and know that source can and should change, I just don't want to take meds. Meds do scare me.
I know how you feel, I don't like having to take them either. I waited many years before finally admitting that I needed something for the concentration. I'm glad I did. In fact, I wish I would have had this med twenty years ago. I realize now how much I struggled with life.
I know you are hesitant because you need to be there for the little ones, but the only side effect I've had on this was headaches that went away in less than a week.
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Have been pondering on asking for meds to help me focus for a while again. But as long as I can locate the main source of why I am so bloody unfocussed, and know that source can and should change, I just don't want to take meds. Meds do scare me.
I know how you feel, I don't like having to take them either. I waited many years before finally admitting that I needed something for the concentration. I'm glad I did. In fact, I wish I would have had this med twenty years ago. I realize now how much I struggled with life.
I know you are hesitant because you need to be there for the little ones, but the only side effect I've had on this was headaches that went away in less than a week.
What kind of meds are they?
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Concerta. Same active ingredient as Ritalin, but in a 12 hour time release tablet.
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I forgot to :hahaha:
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I forgot to :hahaha:
Will you have any complications from missing the dose? :o
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Have been pondering on asking for meds to help me focus for a while again. But as long as I can locate the main source of why I am so bloody unfocussed, and know that source can and should change, I just don't want to take meds. Meds do scare me.
I know how you feel, I don't like having to take them either. I waited many years before finally admitting that I needed something for the concentration. I'm glad I did. In fact, I wish I would have had this med twenty years ago. I realize now how much I struggled with life.
I know you are hesitant because you need to be there for the little ones, but the only side effect I've had on this was headaches that went away in less than a week.
I noticed how much better I am if things are going as planned. If someone keeps disrupting my life, no matter in how friendly a way, it gets very bad. And I just don't want to take meds because of my ex dropping by time and time again unannounced, and thus messing me up. I don't want to take meds because of his behaviour. If he behaves well, and I still see myself not improving enough, I will think about it. My two NT brothers both have been on amphetamines for a short time as kids, to help them over a learning hurdle. And it did them well. Does scare me though. And not every one is as positive on concerta/ritalin as you are. So I will be hesitant to try it when life isn't that stable any way. I would need some basic stability to try it.
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I forgot to :hahaha:
Will you have any complications from missing the dose? :o
Not much just a bit more anxious today after today it will go down hill quicker though
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Have been pondering on asking for meds to help me focus for a while again. But as long as I can locate the main source of why I am so bloody unfocussed, and know that source can and should change, I just don't want to take meds. Meds do scare me.
I know how you feel, I don't like having to take them either. I waited many years before finally admitting that I needed something for the concentration. I'm glad I did. In fact, I wish I would have had this med twenty years ago. I realize now how much I struggled with life.
I know you are hesitant because you need to be there for the little ones, but the only side effect I've had on this was headaches that went away in less than a week.
I noticed how much better I am if things are going as planned. If someone keeps disrupting my life, no matter in how friendly a way, it gets very bad. And I just don't want to take meds because of my ex dropping by time and time again unannounced, and thus messing me up. I don't want to take meds because of his behaviour. If he behaves well, and I still see myself not improving enough, I will think about it. My two NT brothers both have been on amphetamines for a short time as kids, to help them over a learning hurdle. And it did them well. Does scare me though. And not every one is as positive on concerta/ritalin as you are. So I will be hesitant to try it when life isn't that stable any way. I would need some basic stability to try it.
Have you recently broken up? (Feel free not to answer this, of course)
I don't deal well with emotional 'stuff' in my life....it either distresses me or I shut down completely...sometimes the shut down is good, most times a really traumatic event or stress can send me into a 'zone'...and I'm OK. I can be the calm one when everyone else loses their head. But...
on the flipside, if I go into 'distress' (can't think of the right word, now), it can have an awful wave effect on my life.
I do fight going on medication...and the AS clinic I went to supported that, and worked with me on options on how to cope and open up the pathways I suppose in my mind for processing / coping when I have my bad times.
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I forgot to :hahaha:
Will you have any complications from missing the dose? :o
Not much just a bit more anxious today after today it will go down hill quicker though
I had a similar problem with my Strattera...I was six hours late with it one day, felt a wee bit spacey on that day, but the next day I was so spacey that my boss noticed something wrong with me the minute I walked into work! (Though I do have spacey days anyway, so there may have been other factors at work.) :blonde:
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Have been pondering on asking for meds to help me focus for a while again. But as long as I can locate the main source of why I am so bloody unfocussed, and know that source can and should change, I just don't want to take meds. Meds do scare me.
I know how you feel, I don't like having to take them either. I waited many years before finally admitting that I needed something for the concentration. I'm glad I did. In fact, I wish I would have had this med twenty years ago. I realize now how much I struggled with life.
I know you are hesitant because you need to be there for the little ones, but the only side effect I've had on this was headaches that went away in less than a week.
I noticed how much better I am if things are going as planned. If someone keeps disrupting my life, no matter in how friendly a way, it gets very bad. And I just don't want to take meds because of my ex dropping by time and time again unannounced, and thus messing me up. I don't want to take meds because of his behaviour. If he behaves well, and I still see myself not improving enough, I will think about it. My two NT brothers both have been on amphetamines for a short time as kids, to help them over a learning hurdle. And it did them well. Does scare me though. And not every one is as positive on concerta/ritalin as you are. So I will be hesitant to try it when life isn't that stable any way. I would need some basic stability to try it.
Have you recently broken up? (Feel free not to answer this, of course)
I don't deal well with emotional 'stuff' in my life....it either distresses me or I shut down completely...sometimes the shut down is good, most times a really traumatic event or stress can send me into a 'zone'...and I'm OK. I can be the calm one when everyone else loses their head. But...
on the flipside, if I go into 'distress' (can't think of the right word, now), it can have an awful wave effect on my life.
I do fight going on medication...and the AS clinic I went to supported that, and worked with me on options on how to cope and open up the pathways I suppose in my mind for processing / coping when I have my bad times.
No, quite some time ago, but sometimes the after-effects flare up.
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I won't be dumping quite as much chocolate on top of my meds today as I did yesterday. :bleargh:
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I won't be dumping quite as much chocolate on top of my meds today as I did yesterday. :bleargh:
*passes SleepyDragon some Pepto*
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Forgot it last night, didn't forget this morning.
And yes, will be more careful with chocolate too. But is it so good. :drool:
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Yes, I have taken my meds! :1st:
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Took my meds, earlier.
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One multivitamin horse pill, down the hatch! :laugh:
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Oh, yes. Oh, yes--indeed I did.
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Oh, yes. Oh, yes indeed I did.
See, the thread works! :asthing:
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I take no meds. :( I feel a little left out
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I take no meds. :( I feel a little left out
You need the three cuddles a day medication.
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I take no meds. :( I feel a little left out
You need the three cuddles a day medication.
Awwww... :pinkbeat: :pinkbeat:
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I take no meds. :( I feel a little left out
You need the three cuddles a day medication.
I need that, too.
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I take no meds. :( I feel a little left out
You need the three cuddles a day medication.
Right back at you gorgeous
:hug: :hug: :hug: :kissykissy:
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A good reason to stick to prescription drugs....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFoS40l4wc
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A good reason to stick to prescription drugs....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFoS40l4wc
:LMAO:
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A good reason to stick to prescription drugs....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFoS40l4wc
:LMAO:
I hope you watched it all the way to the end. The finale is a crack up....'crack up' is probably not the right phrase, but never mind!
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A good reason to stick to prescription drugs....
:LMAO:
I hope you watched it all the way to the end. The finale is a crack up....'crack up' is probably not the right phrase, but never mind!
It reminds me of William Shatner "singing", "HEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAA MR. TAMBORINE MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!!!
:LMAO:
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A good reason to stick to prescription drugs....
:LMAO:
I hope you watched it all the way to the end. The finale is a crack up....'crack up' is probably not the right phrase, but never mind!
It reminds me of William Shatner "singing", "HEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAA MR. TAMBORINE MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNN!!!
:LMAO:
^ Scary.
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no and i haven't for several days now.
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I have taken my meds, and will soon take my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Yes, I did take my meds this morning.
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Fully medicated and vitamin'd! :2thumbsup:
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Forgot again :duh:
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Forgot again :duh:
Which did you forget, the antibiotics for your ear, or the anti-anxiety stuff? ???
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You bet I did! Watch out, world! >:D
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No, I forgot. This means I will regain consciousness sometime in the next few days and be covered in blood.
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No, I forgot. This means I will regain consciousness sometime in the next few days and be covered in blood.
Do you have seizures? ???
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just did :thumbup:
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No, I forgot. This means I will regain consciousness sometime in the next few days and be covered in blood.
Do you have seizures? ???
No, I was just joking. Like I was going to go on a murderous rampage and wake up from my blackout with blood all over me. Good thing that never happens.
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No, I forgot. This means I will regain consciousness sometime in the next few days and be covered in blood.
Do you have seizures? ???
No, I was just joking. Like I was going to go on a murderous rampage and wake up from my blackout with blood all over me. Good thing that never happens.
Happy to hear it! :laugh:
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Yes. First day with an upped dose.
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Yup, applied it.
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yeah I took a load of klonopin
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Yes. First day with an upped dose.
How is the new dose working for you?
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Yes. First day with an upped dose.
How is the new dose working for you?
Ask me again in a few weeks. I wish it would make a difference in a few days. :(
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Yes. First day with an upped dose.
How is the new dose working for you?
Ask me again in a few weeks. I wish it would make a difference in a few days. :(
Are you supposed to drink while on medication? I always thought you couldn't.
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Yes. First day with an upped dose.
How is the new dose working for you?
Ask me again in a few weeks. I wish it would make a difference in a few days. :(
Oops. I think tehy change the alcohol uptake but I'm not sure it actually makes a difference in the long run. :-\
Are you supposed to drink while on medication? I always thought you couldn't.
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Yes late but better late than never and some extra klonopin to take off the edge
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Yes. First day with an upped dose.
How is the new dose working for you?
Ask me again in a few weeks. I wish it would make a difference in a few days. :(
Oops. I think tehy change the alcohol uptake but I'm not sure it actually makes a difference in the long run. :-\
Are you supposed to drink while on medication? I always thought you couldn't.
I'm glad it's not just me who fucks up quotes sometimes :sweat:
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Yes. First day with an upped dose.
How is the new dose working for you?
Ask me again in a few weeks. I wish it would make a difference in a few days. :(
Are you supposed to drink while on medication? I always thought you couldn't.
Oops. I think tehy change the alcohol uptake but I'm not sure it actually makes a difference in the long run. :-\
I'm glad it's not just me who fucks up quotes sometimes :sweat:
The least you could have done was fix it for him when you quoted ;)
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Here's a question, if you're on a medication that can be deadly if overdosed, and you get to the point that you absolutely don't believe you would be able to survive a day without the meds, how is this any different than having a Cocaine or Heroin addiction?
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Here's a question, if you're on a medication that can be deadly if overdosed, and you get to the point that you absolutely don't believe you would be able to survive a day without the meds, how is this any different than having a Cocaine or Heroin addiction?
The state thinks it's a difference, since those running the state are worthless, psychopathic, self-righteous pieces of shit.
Objectively seen: not at all of course.
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Here's a question, if you're on a medication that can be deadly if overdosed, and you get to the point that you absolutely don't believe you would be able to survive a day without the meds, how is this any different than having a Cocaine or Heroin addiction?
Maybe because no one needs cocaine or heroin to live unless they are already addicted to them?
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Here's a question, if you're on a medication that can be deadly if overdosed, and you get to the point that you absolutely don't believe you would be able to survive a day without the meds, how is this any different than having a Cocaine or Heroin addiction?
I can't address the scenario you seem to be asking about (of increasing dependency) because my own medication's effects plateaued about 3 years ago, when my dose was raised to its current 120mg a day, and I have not been tempted to abuse it by taking more to see if it would work better at a higher dose. I would not want to skip a day on mine because I suspect I would feel ill effects (as I did one time in the past), but I don't feel as if I couldn't survive a day without it either.
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Here's a question, if you're on a medication that can be deadly if overdosed, and you get to the point that you absolutely don't believe you would be able to survive a day without the meds, how is this any different than having a Cocaine or Heroin addiction?
Maybe because no one needs cocaine or heroin to live unless they are already addicted to them?
You don't need SSRI's or antipsychotics more than you need cocaine or heroin.
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Here's a question, if you're on a medication that can be deadly if overdosed, and you get to the point that you absolutely don't believe you would be able to survive a day without the meds, how is this any different than having a Cocaine or Heroin addiction?
Maybe because no one needs cocaine or heroin to live unless they are already addicted to them?
You don't need SSRI's or antipsychotics more than you need cocaine or heroin.
Well big pharma are state sanctioned drug dealers, you should know that.
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Yes. First day with an upped dose.
How is the new dose working for you?
Ask me again in a few weeks. I wish it would make a difference in a few days. :(
Oops. I think tehy change the alcohol uptake but I'm not sure it actually makes a difference in the long run. :-\
Are you supposed to drink while on medication? I always thought you couldn't.
I'm glad it's not just me who fucks up quotes sometimes :sweat:
You can rely on me. :orly:
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Here's a question, if you're on a medication that can be deadly if overdosed, and you get to the point that you absolutely don't believe you would be able to survive a day without the meds, how is this any different than having a Cocaine or Heroin addiction?
You aren't necessarily addicted. You just can't survive without the meds. You said it yourself. :P
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Here's a question, if you're on a medication that can be deadly if overdosed, and you get to the point that you absolutely don't believe you would be able to survive a day without the meds, how is this any different than having a Cocaine or Heroin addiction?
Almost anything is deadly if overdosed, even water and salt.
Let's take insulin for example. If you were diabetic, you could get to the point that you would be unable to survive without it yet it would be deadly if overdosed, but it's vastly different than cocaine or heroin. I guess the point of medication is that it serves a medical need as opposed to being recreational.
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Almost anything is deadly if overdosed, even water and salt.
Yes, but it seems the question might be about what is the difference between an illegal drug addiction and a prescriptive drug addiction.
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Yes, I did take my meds today.
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I certainly did! :thumbup:
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I took mine :thumbup:
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I took some of mine, but I still need to take more.
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Luckly mine are mostly once a day only the ones I want are not
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I took some of mine, but I still need to take more.
CHUG! CHUG! CHUG! :headbang2:
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I took some of mine, but I still need to take more.
CHUG! CHUG! CHUG! :headbang2:
;D
I finished taking them all now.
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I took mine, now it is time for some more.
Edit: Took them.
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applied it.
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I took mine, along with some cough syrup. (It's OK to mix them. I asked. :angel:)
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Yes, I think I did... :-\
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Yep, and extra. ;)
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Thank goodness this thread is here to remind me. I just took my second antibiotic pill of the day, but I need to take another one before bedtime.
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Yes.
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Yes, I think I did... :-\
I hate it when I do that! I take my meds first thing in the morning, and sometimes, as I wake up more fully, I find it hard to remember that hazy first half-hour or so,
and I wonder if I really did take them after all... :duh:
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Yep, and extra. ;)
One of those days? ;)
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Yep, and extra. ;)
One of those days? ;)
Bad pain day. Better today. :green:
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I got new meds today.
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No. I need to go take one now.
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Meds cause excessive sweating, I have a mild hypo thyroid problem, and I am skinny. Ha hah, I can eat all day, practically, and I am very very skinny, doctor barely wanted to perscribe them to me, because dose is too fuckn low. I didn't try to confuse him, not on purpose, I think I am growing, at 27. La lah like to brag, let em have it :evillaugh: You first. Honestly, how often does a 27 year old adult go through massive growth spurt. The doctor, said, not me, that the dose is exceptionally low. Damn put that olive oil in a feed bag, 17 oz of oil is gone in a few days, its really fuckn increadible. Pigged out on all the vegetables, god damn cow!!!!!!!!!!!! Ate everything else to, ha hah!!!!!!!!!!!!!! calorie immortality!!!!!!!! :evillaugh:
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I got new meds today.
New medication, or just a new batch of what you were already taking? :nerd!:
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Forgot :thumbdn:
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Hell yeah, I did.
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I got new meds today.
New medication, or just a new batch of what you were already taking? :nerd!:
Penicillin (for an infection in my nose that apparently refuses to heal) and asthma meds. The latter I've had before.
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I got new meds today.
New medication, or just a new batch of what you were already taking? :nerd!:
Penicillin (for an infection in my nose that apparently refuses to heal) and asthma meds. The latter I've had before.
Best wishes to you, your nose, and your airway! :viking:
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I got new meds today.
New medication, or just a new batch of what you were already taking? :nerd!:
Penicillin (for an infection in my nose that apparently refuses to heal) and asthma meds. The latter I've had before.
Best wishes to you, your nose, and your airway! :viking:
Thanks. :)
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Yes, 120mg of Strattera, down the hatch! :headbang2:
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I'm developing an increasingly inconvenient tolerance to my meds.
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I'm developing an increasingly inconvenient tolerance to my meds.
What kind of meds if you don't mind me asking?
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I'm developing an increasingly inconvenient tolerance to my meds.
What kind of meds if you don't mind me asking?
Dexamphetamine at 40mg/day. I take a break from it for a few days whenever my tolerance gets so high that I barely notice any effect, and that currently sets me up for another week or two of modest effectiveness, but one of these days I'll have to take a break for a month or more to properly restore my brain to the factory settings.
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I'm developing an increasingly inconvenient tolerance to my meds.
What kind of meds if you don't mind me asking?
Dexamphetamine at 40mg/day. I take a break from it for a few days whenever my tolerance gets so high that I barely notice any effect, and that currently sets me up for another week or two of modest effectiveness, but one of these days I'll have to take a break for a month or more to properly restore my brain to the factory settings.
Ah. I know what its like to have tolerance dude. I hate going to the dentist, myself because the numbing shots don't do shit for me.
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I'm developing an increasingly inconvenient tolerance to my meds.
What kind of meds if you don't mind me asking?
Dexamphetamine at 40mg/day. I take a break from it for a few days whenever my tolerance gets so high that I barely notice any effect, and that currently sets me up for another week or two of modest effectiveness, but one of these days I'll have to take a break for a month or more to properly restore my brain to the factory settings.
Ah. I know what its like to have tolerance dude. I hate going to the dentist, myself because the numbing shots don't do shit for me.
Speaking of dentists, I just got back from my second appointment for my root canal. The numbing shots work great on me, but then my mouth's numb for a long time after my visit.
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Carbocaine is :viking:
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Forgot again :zombiefuck:
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I got some new antibiotics for my tooth and had to take four of them all at once.
:P
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I got some new antibiotics for my tooth and had to take four of them all at once.
:P
Back when I was in collage I knew this guy who was into supplements and such he could take a handful of pills at once :zombiefuck:
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I got some new antibiotics for my tooth and had to take four of them all at once.
:P
Back when I was in collage I knew this guy who was into supplements and such he could take a handful of pills at once :zombiefuck:
I just took these quickly in succession during dinner with a lot of water, but that didn't stop them from giving me a bitter taste in my mouth.
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I got some new antibiotics for my tooth and had to take four of them all at once.
:P
Back when I was in collage I knew this guy who was into supplements and such he could take a handful of pills at once :zombiefuck:
I just took these quickly in succession during dinner with a lot of water, but that didn't stop them from giving me a bitter taste in my mouth.
I stilll remember the smell of the liquid penicillin I had to take daily for six months as a child. :thumbdn:
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I'm medicated and ready to :headbang2: !
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I'm high, grinning, and ready to go.
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I'm high, grinning, and ready to go.
Where are you going in such a state? :P
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Today was day 2 on my Lexapro medication. I think I was better off mildly depressed :-\.
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Today was day 2 on my Lexapro medication. I think I was better off mildly depressed :-\.
What side effects are you having? ???
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I'm high, grinning, and ready to go.
Where are you going in such a state? :P
Anywere. :LOL:
I'm either high as hell, or in pain. Which would you pick?
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Today was day 2 on my Lexapro medication. I think I was better off mildly depressed :-\.
What side effects are you having? ???
Well I was kinda manically happy on it yesterday, but today was jitters, nausea and frequent tummy upsets.
I totally don't think I'm depressed enough to be on anything.
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Today was day 2 on my Lexapro medication. I think I was better off mildly depressed :-\.
What side effects are you having? ???
Well I was kinda manically happy on it yesterday, but today was jitters, nausea and frequent tummy upsets.
I totally don't think I'm depressed enough to be on anything.
Definitely keep your doctor informed of your problems...
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Today was day 2 on my Lexapro medication. I think I was better off mildly depressed :-\.
What side effects are you having? ???
Well I was kinda manically happy on it yesterday, but today was jitters, nausea and frequent tummy upsets.
I totally don't think I'm depressed enough to be on anything.
Definitely keep your doctor informed of your problems...
Will do.
I liked the lobotomised feeling my last meds gave me (Pristiq) for the first week or so, but if only it came sans nausea.
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Today was day 2 on my Lexapro medication. I think I was better off mildly depressed :-\.
What side effects are you having? ???
Well I was kinda manically happy on it yesterday, but today was jitters, nausea and frequent tummy upsets.
I totally don't think I'm depressed enough to be on anything.
Definitely keep your doctor informed of your problems...
Will do.
I liked the lobotomised feeling my last meds gave me (Pristiq) for the first week or so, but if only it came sans nausea.
I hope you find a medication that helps more than it hurts...or that you find a way to cope without meds if that is your preference.
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I remembered :2thumbsup:
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I remembered, too. ;D
Today was day 2 on my Lexapro medication. I think I was better off mildly depressed :-\.
Could take you a while to get used to it. Your body is adjusting.
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Pretty soon I will take two aspirin and some more cough syrup. :2thumbsup:
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Pretty soon I will take two aspirin and some more cough syrup. :2thumbsup:
Just get Nyquil it's all mixed for you
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Pretty soon I will take two aspirin and some more cough syrup. :2thumbsup:
Just get Nyquil it's all mixed for you
Next time. :thumbup:
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Pretty soon I will take two aspirin and some more cough syrup. :2thumbsup:
Just get Nyquil it's all mixed for you
Next time. :thumbup:
Knocks you out good to. Sleep is always a problem for me more so when sick
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Pretty soon I will take two aspirin and some more cough syrup. :2thumbsup:
Just get Nyquil it's all mixed for you
Next time. :thumbup:
Knocks you out good to. Sleep is always a problem for me more so when sick
Yeah, the coughing has disrupted my sleep for the last few nights. :thumbdn:
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I have finally taken all of mine. This new antibiotic has to be taken four times a day.
:P
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Yes, but I still hate myself.
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Yes, but I still hate myself.
What kind of meds are they, antidepressants? ???
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As for me, I hope to get more meds today...the bronchitis is not going away, so I think it is time for antibiotics! :headbang2:
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Here's a question, if you're on a medication that can be deadly if overdosed, and you get to the point that you absolutely don't believe you would be able to survive a day without the meds, how is this any different than having a Cocaine or Heroin addiction?
Ok, I said that wrong, what I meant was psychological drugs, not ones that literally keep you alive, but ones that the body can survive without yet pyschologically make you feel dependant.
Either way, what happens if you find yourself in a situation where you don't have access to your drugs (stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash for exampe). I've asked this question on WP, so just to clarify, don't bother answering with "I don't fly" or "my country has better health care than yours so I have nothing to worry about" because this is strictly hypothetical.
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Here's a question, if you're on a medication that can be deadly if overdosed, and you get to the point that you absolutely don't believe you would be able to survive a day without the meds, how is this any different than having a Cocaine or Heroin addiction?
Ok, I said that wrong, what I meant was psychological drugs, not ones that literally keep you alive, but ones that the body can survive without yet pyschologically make you feel dependant.
Either way, what happens if you find yourself in a situation where you don't have access to your drugs (stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash for exampe). I've asked this question on WP, so just to clarify, don't bother answering with "I don't fly" or "my country has better health care than yours so I have nothing to worry about" because this is strictly hypothetical.
Yes, good point. You would be forced to discontinue them cold turkey unless you happened to have a few pills with you and you could taper them a little more slowly.
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All medicated and ready to rawk! :headbang2:
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Lol me too! :zoinks:
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Lol me too! :zoinks:
Do you take vitamins? I take Women's One-A-Day! :cheer:
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Took my meds today, yes.
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I just took my vitamins, ginkgo-biloba and "Russian root".
I have plenty of valium, but it's not that a big thing when you have it, like with most things.
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Just took my Strattera! :thumbup:
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Here's a question, if you're on a medication that can be deadly if overdosed, and you get to the point that you absolutely don't believe you would be able to survive a day without the meds, how is this any different than having a Cocaine or Heroin addiction?
Ok, I said that wrong, what I meant was psychological drugs, not ones that literally keep you alive, but ones that the body can survive without yet pyschologically make you feel dependant.
Either way, what happens if you find yourself in a situation where you don't have access to your drugs (stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash for exampe). I've asked this question on WP, so just to clarify, don't bother answering with "I don't fly" or "my country has better health care than yours so I have nothing to worry about" because this is strictly hypothetical.
This would really suck. I went three days without my antidepressants once and I got dizzy and "brain zaps" (that is what it feels like). And that is only one medication. I take three so I bet I would have a very nasty time.
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Took my new meds for the first time 8)
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I hope they fix those DAMN mood swings. >:(
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Oh fuck off Rage.
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Hey. I was serious. :-\
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I used to take Catapres for Tourette's Syndrome, when I lost my job and thus my health insurance, I suddenly couldn't get the meds, I had two suicide attempts within a month of dropping the meds due to chronic depression due to withdrawal symptoms, and I have no desire to go through that shit again. Now I just smoke cannabis, it works well enough, and if I suddenly can't afford it (like right now) although it would be nice to have more control over my tics, it's not a big problem.
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Weed fixes tourettes? :o
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It does for me, too bad the state of Massachusetts doesn't agree
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Gah, I think I did, but I was barely awake, so now I have to go count them to be sure! :duh:
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Gah, I think I did, but I was barely awake, so now I have to go count them to be sure! :duh:
I took 'em! :2thumbsup:
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Lol me too! :zoinks:
Do you take vitamins? I take Women's One-A-Day! :cheer:
I also take the one a day mans, with additional healthy prostate formula. (can't be too careful lol)
I take fish oil, glucosamine, and pain pills as well.
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I took my Lexapro mid morning.
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Yes, I did take my meds.
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YES!!!
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Yep. :zoinks:
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Yes and without a drink yuck :zombiefuck:
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Yes, I took them today. :orly:
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I haven't had any cash for 3 weeks, so no meds until I get paid tomorrow.
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Just took 'em. No work till 6:30 p.m.! :2thumbsup:
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Took them. And ibuprofen for the headache.
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I'm definitely taking something for my sinuses and my sore back.
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I took the Lamictal, but not any of my other meds.
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not yet.
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OH YES I DID! :soph:
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Yes, I did. And I got the new ones from the pharmacy.
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Yes I remembered
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yes
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Nope. still cold turkey :headbang2: and I love it. Today and yesterday I was crabby and angry but that's cause it's almost the time of the month.
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Nope. still cold turkey :headbang2: and I love it. Today and yesterday I was crabby and angry but that's cause it's almost the time of the month.
PMS makes me crabby, angry and :bigcry: !
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I took my Strattera, and soon I will take my big multivitamin! :headbang2:
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Took my Zoloft. Or, the Zoloft took me. I'm numb.
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In Soviet Sweden Zoloft takes you! :bint:
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Strattera and multivitamin, rushing through my system, giving me strength! :captainobvious:
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In Soviet Sweden Zoloft takes you! :bint:
:laugh:
It's better than to be without the damned thing.
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No. I can't seem to get into the routine of taking my Lexapro.
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Yes, I took my meds today. I'm comfortably numb.
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I took my whisky, yes. :glug: :viking:
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forgot, again :(
Will apply it now, and either skip tonight, or go to bed really late.
Did take some paracetamol with caffeine.
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some of them. i'm stopping the others today though
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Doing better with the Seroquel cold turkey. Got my appetite back but it's not as big as it was when I was on it which is good. I was crabby this week and I thought it was withdrawl but I was just PMSing. I call it the Werewolf disease.
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I certainly did take them! :2thumbsup:
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Not yet.
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Just took the BiPolar meds (Lamictal).
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Yes, I took them a while ago.
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Took mine this morning
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Took mine too! It's gonna be a great day! :2thumbsup:
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Yep. 8)
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I took my Strattera on time, but forgot my multivitamin till just now! :duh:
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Yep. 8)
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Yep. 8)
You seem to like these meds... :laugh:
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morning meds yes
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Yep. 8)
You seem to like these meds... :laugh:
Yep. 8)
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Yep. 8)
You seem to like these meds... :laugh:
Yep. 8)
There it is again, that chilled-out happy face! :laugh:
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Yep. 8)
You seem to like these meds... :laugh:
Yep. 8)
There it is again, that chilled-out happy face! :laugh:
......
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....Yep. 8)
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Forgot, again.
May need something for my memory................., but......
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I took my meds today.
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Yyyyep. 8)
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Yyyyep. 8)
I can tell by the smile! :zoinks:
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Yes, not that it changed much.
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Yes I did! Long day ahead, I need to be focused. 8)
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Don't know. :duh:
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Don't know. :duh:
Maybe you should get one of those mnedication holders with a compartment for each day of the week! Then you can tell at a glance whether you took it or not.
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Don't know. :duh:
Maybe you should get one of those mnedication holders with a compartment for each day of the week! Then you can tell at a glance whether you took it or not.
It's ointment. :asthing:
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Don't know. :duh:
Maybe you should get one of those mnedication holders with a compartment for each day of the week! Then you can tell at a glance whether you took it or not.
It's ointment. :asthing:
Ooops, I dunno what to tell you then! Maybe install surveillance cameras throught your house so you can watch the footage in order to remind yourself? :idea:
I've wished I could do that myself.
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Don't know. :duh:
Maybe you should get one of those mnedication holders with a compartment for each day of the week! Then you can tell at a glance whether you took it or not.
It's ointment. :asthing:
Ooops, I dunno what to tell you then! Maybe install surveillance cameras throught your house so you can watch the footage in order to remind yourself? :idea:
I've wished I could do that myself.
Nah, no need. It's not really bad if I forget now and then. There will be no resistant bacteria or so because of it. And it does not really seem to make things worse for me either if I forget once a day.
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Don't know. :duh:
Maybe you should get one of those mnedication holders with a compartment for each day of the week! Then you can tell at a glance whether you took it or not.
It's ointment. :asthing:
Ooops, I dunno what to tell you then! Maybe install surveillance cameras throught your house so you can watch the footage in order to remind yourself? :idea:
I've wished I could do that myself.
Nah, no need. It's not really bad if I forget now and then. There will be no resistant bacteria or so because of it. And it does not really seem to make things worse for me either if I forget once a day.
I'm glad to hear that. :)
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Yep. 8)
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morning ones, yes
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Yes, I just took them a few minutes ago.
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Yep. 8)
There's that smile again. :P
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Yes I did.
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Still off seraquel have been since late April. Ambition and creativity 100%. Attention span -100%
Double edge :zoinks:
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I haven't taken mine yet; it's only 4:10 in the morning here! WHY AM I UP? I should go back to bed! :duh:
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I took mine. I am coming off the Lamictal, though. Soon it will just be haloperidol at night.
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It's 6:37 a.m. and I just took my Strattera! :headbang2:
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Yep. 8)
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Yes.
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No, but I think I should, like right now.
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I took them, finally.
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I finally remembered to take mine just before lunch.
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Just took mine! :thumbup:
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Yes, I took my meds.
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I haven't yet and it is the middle of the day. This thread just reminded me.
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Yes.
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I think so, but it was early and now I don't remember! :orly:
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I think so, but it was early and now I don't remember! :orly:
Just counted them, and yes, I did take today's dose! :woohoo:
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i'm gonna start posting inthis thread every time i take my meds - i missed a dose but can't work out when
i took mine this morning anyway. havent taken my bedtime ones yet
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i'm gonna start posting inthis thread every time i take my meds - i missed a dose but can't work out when
i took mine this morning anyway. havent taken my bedtime ones yet
Good idea, use this thread to help yourself keep things straight! :thumbup:
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Couldn't remember this morning if I had. Could not count back either. But, will apply for the evening now.
Have forgotten too often lately. :facepalm2:
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Yes
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Yes. :)
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Yes.
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Yes.
Me too! :2thumbsup:
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Late but yes
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Yes, as planned.
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I think so, but it was early and now I don't remember! :orly:
Just counted them, and yes, I did take today's dose! :woohoo:
Once I took my morning dose of Dexamphetamine, forgot I took them and so took another dose. Geez I had a horrible morning, all spaced out and concentrating on air particles.
Have taken my usual morning dose about 5 minutes ago.
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I think so, but it was early and now I don't remember! :orly:
Just counted them, and yes, I did take today's dose! :woohoo:
Once I took my morning dose of Dexamphetamine, forgot I took them and so took another dose. Geez I had a horrible morning, all spaced out and concentrating on air particles.
Have taken my usual morning dose about 5 minutes ago.
Horrible side-effect that double dosage gave you. Hope it doesn't happen again.
I remember taking double dosages of birthcontrol pills, because I would wake at night, freaking out about having forgotten to take them. And in the morning I would then find out I had had a double dosage.
Just put on my antibiotics.
Now hoping I don't forget my sunscreen this afternoon.
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Yes.
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yes but they had little effect today
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UhM, no, but thank you lot for reminding me of this fact.
I only take vitamins, anti-oxidants and "FUCKING FOUR DIFFERENT MEDS" for my Hypertension. I have had unbelievably high Blood Pressure within the past year, but now my BP is "controlled" by chemicals.
Going now to kiss the medical Blarney Stone.
... but first, taking my BP.
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'Kay,
122/74, Heart rate 58. (I have always had a relatively low heart rate, a very healthy, strong heart, despite my inherited tendency towards high blood pressure, showing up only in the past few years. This fact alone lead several doctors to ignore my impending problems with hypertension)
(anyone else care to share?)
This is still considered "Pre-Hypertension" in the medical books. Not to be ignored. Not fucking bad at all for a man my age (fifty five and STILL COUNTING-GODDAMNIT), but damn stressful to think that I have to take four different medications to attain this level.
Basically ... :lol:
... stepping in here, again, I just took all my seventeen pills, mostly vitamins, nutrients, anti-oxidants and "megas" (such as two milligrams of B12, two grams of vitamin C per day, for instance, minerals, etc.), mind you.
Only ones that are vital are the four BP meds, or five, if I was to count the (doctor suggested - despite my old drinking habits and the possibility of future sever liver damage - :grin:) daily aspirin regimen.
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... not really sure if that aspirin each day actually counts.
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'Kay,
122/74, Heart rate 58. (I have always had a relatively low heart rate, a very healthy, strong heart, despite my inherited tendency towards high blood pressure, showing up only in the past few years. This fact alone lead several doctors to ignore my impending problems with hypertension)
(anyone else care to share?)
This is still considered "Pre-Hypertension" in the medical books. Not to be ignored. Not fucking bad at all for a man my age (fifty five and STILL COUNTING-GODDAMNIT), but damn stressful to think that I have to take four different medications to attain this level.
Basically ... :lol:
... stepping in here, again, I just took all my seventeen pills, mostly vitamins, nutrients, anti-oxidants and "megas" (such as two milligrams of B12, two grams of vitamin C per day, for instance, minerals, etc.), mind you.
Only ones that are vital are the four BP meds, or five, if I was to count the (doctor suggested - despite my old drinking habits and the possibility of future sever liver damage - :grin:) daily aspirin regimen.
So far *crosses fingers* my blood pressure is normal, but who knows, I may have inherited my father's tendency toward hypertension...time will tell.
You mention the risk of liver damage...do you have regular blood tests to monitor your liver function as you take all those meds? :nerd!:
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BP normal now high earlier today with stress. Low blood pressure runs on my moms side of the tree they even turned her down once for giving blood because of it
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BP normal now high earlier today with stress. Low blood pressure runs on my moms side of the tree they even turned her down once for giving blood because of it
My mother had minor surgery as a young adult and her BP post-op was only 90 over 60...she had to explain to the nurses that that was not as alarming as it seemed,
since she tended to have quite low BP as a rule.
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Low blood pressure, till middle age running in my family, then slowly going up. I think I am past the low now, but that could have been the pressure of past years too. Will see.
Low body temperature too. And a low heart rate, also running in the family. Heart rate went up a bit too past few years. Bit over 60 now.
When my oldest was born, the nurse was worried all the time about my temperature and heart rate, and about the temperature of the baby. We were fine. The nurse was just thinking in averages.
Did apply the antibiotics. Undoing the damage of having forgotten it so many times. And it shows.
Took magnesium too, to get my muscles to relax more easy and avoid them cramping up. Does make a difference.
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Yes, both the SSRI and a migraine pill.
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Forgot my afternoon dexamphetamine. Oh well it is not imperative that I take it.
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Felt shitty and anxious for a while from a cortisol overload after taking too much caffeine. Time to take a break from it and then start back at a lower dose.
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'Kay,
122/74, Heart rate 58. (I have always had a relatively low heart rate, a very healthy, strong heart, despite my inherited tendency towards high blood pressure, showing up only in the past few years. This fact alone lead several doctors to ignore my impending problems with hypertension)
(anyone else care to share?)
This is still considered "Pre-Hypertension" in the medical books. Not to be ignored. Not fucking bad at all for a man my age (fifty five and STILL COUNTING-GODDAMNIT), but damn stressful to think that I have to take four different medications to attain this level.
Basically ... :lol:
... stepping in here, again, I just took all my seventeen pills, mostly vitamins, nutrients, anti-oxidants and "megas" (such as two milligrams of B12, two grams of vitamin C per day, for instance, minerals, etc.), mind you.
Only ones that are vital are the four BP meds, or five, if I was to count the (doctor suggested - despite my old drinking habits and the possibility of future sever liver damage - :grin:) daily aspirin regimen.
I have high blood pressure which is controlled with just one little pill per day, Lisinopril, but I also take some OTC stuff similar to yours. Right now, I am taking another course of antibiotics for my recent root canal and then I'll take another course of steroids.
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Took my Strattera! AND my multivitamin! :snowman:
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Yes!
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Yes!
Prompt medication ftw! :2thumbsup:
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Yes!
Prompt medication ftw! :2thumbsup:
My routines are fixed.
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Yes!
Prompt medication ftw! :2thumbsup:
My routines are fixed.
Mine are less so, cuz I have ADD! :violin:
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Yes!
Prompt medication ftw! :2thumbsup:
My routines are fixed.
Mine are less so, cuz I have ADD! :violin:
I don't have routines; I have ruts, the unproductive twin brother of routines.
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Yes!
Prompt medication ftw! :2thumbsup:
My routines are fixed.
Mine are less so, cuz I have ADD! :violin:
I don't have routines; I have ruts, the unproductive twin brother of routines.
I sort of have ruts, but they are ruts of inactivity and stagnation. Too much unstructured free time is not good for me. :-\
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'Kay,
122/74, Heart rate 58. (I have always had a relatively low heart rate, a very healthy, strong heart, despite my inherited tendency towards high blood pressure, showing up only in the past few years. This fact alone lead several doctors to ignore my impending problems with hypertension)
(anyone else care to share?)
This is still considered "Pre-Hypertension" in the medical books. Not to be ignored. Not fucking bad at all for a man my age (fifty five and STILL COUNTING-GODDAMNIT), but damn stressful to think that I have to take four different medications to attain this level.
Basically ... :lol:
... stepping in here, again, I just took all my seventeen pills, mostly vitamins, nutrients, anti-oxidants and "megas" (such as two milligrams of B12, two grams of vitamin C per day, for instance, minerals, etc.), mind you.
Only ones that are vital are the four BP meds, or five, if I was to count the (doctor suggested - despite my old drinking habits and the possibility of future sever liver damage - :grin:) daily aspirin regimen.
So far *crosses fingers* my blood pressure is normal, but who knows, I may have inherited my father's tendency toward hypertension...time will tell.
You mention the risk of liver damage...do you have regular blood tests to monitor your liver function as you take all those meds? :nerd!:
My liver is super-perfect, as of my last test.
I go for a blood test to check all my "levels," every other month.
I used to just go every three months, but this hi-tech shite that my doc has me on for hypertension is more risky than when I was just taking a beta-blocker (for ventricular tachycardia - not sure why I have issues with my heart valves, but my YOUNGER brother recently had major surgery to repair one of his heart valves and replace two others.) and anti-depressants (tried several - do not take them anymore, being that all they ever did was make me cry all the time or at least want to cry alll the time or become even more violent that my normal state.
The decision to stop experimenting with anti-depressant drugs was mine, after some legal troubles from two altercations a couple of years ago. (read back a couple of years and you will find what I posted about putting someone in the hospital for a road rage incident - his rage, not mine - along with a few mentions of the ensuing investigation and lawsuit I had to suffer. I was defending myself against his idiocy, but I went WAY overboard on his ass. I did not follow my traning well at all.)
I have a hard time with anti-depressants. They really do not work for me. They have the opposite effect on me from what they were invented to do, as do a great many chemicals, for instance, in my younger days, cocaine put me right to sleep - I had some hypo-sensory issues to deal with in my extremities, in that I lost all my sense of touch, but once my mind took over the drug, my body responded in opposite form from what would what would be expected of the drug. I have a long history of such oppposite effects from many regular drug things. Thank fuck-in-a-bucket, that Ibuprofen and Tylenol seem to do for me what they are supposed to do.)
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Yes
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Yes, I took my meds today.
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yes, took mine today after a weekend of not.
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Yes, I took the evening ones a while ago.
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Yes, forgot last night but remembered this morning.
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Just did! :2thumbsup:
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Yes. Well, except for my new painkillers, cos I haven't got them yet.
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Yup.
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Will do it now.
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Yes, I did.
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Yes, even my afternoon ones.
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Just did, thanks to this thread for reminding me! :asthing:
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I took my morning ones this morning.
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Didn't get my new painkillers today. They needed to order them from somewhere.
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I almost forgot! :zombiefuck:
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Indeed I did.
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Yes and then some :zoinks:
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Yes, without some. :P
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Yes, as a matter of fact I did.
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Good thing this thread is here! I need to get my new prescription filled TODAY! :zombiefuck:
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Took the first dose from my new batch today! ;D
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Yup
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Yes. In spite of all the fuss today, I managed to remember.
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Not the dexamphetamine. It probably would have made my headache worse. So just the Cymbalta.
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Yes, but they're not very effective today. I got 9 hours of sleep last night, I've taken 40mg of dexamphetamine and maybe 100mg of caffeine over the past 4 hours, but I'm struggling to stay awake. My psychiatrist suggested that I make a sleep chart, so I now have an hour-by-hour record of when I've slept and how sleepy I've felt during the times that I've been awake. In 240 hours of data, I've recorded 21 hours when I haven't been sleepy, 103 hours when I've been asleep and the rest have been a mixture of varying degrees of sleepiness.
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Just took mine! :headbang2:
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Applied my morning dosage half an hour ago. it's over 5 pm now.
But, the last night dosage I had at 4 am, so it is about right I guess.
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Just took a Xanax to get through the rest of the day with the ex.
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Just took a Xanax to get through the rest of the day with the ex.
The doctor should prescribe him some pills to knock him out all the days he still lives with you.
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Just took a Xanax to get through the rest of the day with the ex.
The doctor should prescribe him some pills to knock him out all the days he still lives with you.
A medically induced COMA would work, right? :idea:
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Does it have to be medically induced, as long as the end result is a coma?
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Does it have to be medically induced, as long as the end result is a coma?
I would love using violence.
I'm mostly not a violent person.
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Does it have to be medically induced, as long as the end result is a coma?
I would love using violence.
I'm mostly not a violent person.
I'm perfectly willing to help in any way I can. And I can think of lots of ways.
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Does it have to be medically induced, as long as the end result is a coma?
I would love using violence.
I'm mostly not a violent person.
I'm perfectly willing to help in any way I can. And I can think of lots of ways.
OK, let's book a flight.
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Does it have to be medically induced, as long as the end result is a coma?
I would love using violence.
I'm mostly not a violent person.
I'm perfectly willing to help in any way I can. And I can think of lots of ways.
OK, let's book a flight.
Here comes the cavalry! :plane:
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:zoinks:
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no :thumbdn:
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Yes.
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Just did! It's Monday! Let's go! :dance:
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yep
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Does it have to be medically induced, as long as the end result is a coma?
I would love using violence.
I'm mostly not a violent person.
I'm perfectly willing to help in any way I can. And I can think of lots of ways.
OK, let's book a flight.
Here comes the cavalry! :plane:
:lol:
I just saw this now. I love my little dysfunctional family. You guys rock. :-*
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Does it have to be medically induced, as long as the end result is a coma?
I would love using violence.
I'm mostly not a violent person.
I'm perfectly willing to help in any way I can. And I can think of lots of ways.
OK, let's book a flight.
Here comes the cavalry! :plane:
:lol:
I just saw this now. I love my little dysfunctional family. You guys rock. :-*
:grouphug: :viking:
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No group hugs, please. :hide:
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No group hugs, please. :hide:
Participation is optional! :laugh:
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And yes, I took my meds! :headbang2:
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Uh, no, thanks for reminding me.
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No group hugs, please. :hide:
:yikes:
:runs away:
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you mean the ones that are supposed to help me remember things?
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but i will take my night meds which i had forgotten until i saw this thread.
eh, too late, i already feel weird.
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Yes, I did.
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Only 3:03 a.m., too early for mine! :laugh:
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Why are you up at 3:03? :-\
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Why are you up at 3:03? :-\
I wake up sometimes in the wee hours. I did that as a child too! :nerd!:
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Why are you up at 3:03? :-\
I wake up sometimes in the wee hours. I did that as a child too! :nerd!:
Shouldn't this be in the official conditions that come with Aspergers thread? :nerd!:
* am now getting the meds *
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Why are you up at 3:03? :-\
I wake up sometimes in the wee hours. I did that as a child too! :nerd!:
Shouldn't this be in the official conditions that come with Aspergers thread? :nerd!:
* am now getting the meds *
Yes, perhaps! If it becomes an issue, I will post about it there. :laugh:
I have taken my meds! :thumbup:
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No, I haven't been bothered.
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I like this thread it helps me remember :duh:
I wake up all the time too always have
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I like this thread it helps me remember :duh:
I wake up all the time too always have
Some nights I sleep right through, but I still remember waking up in the middle of the night as a child
and sitting up in bed, rocking and making myself laugh with funny scenarios in my head! :green:
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I like this thread it helps me remember :duh:
I wake up all the time too always have
Some nights I sleep right through, but I still remember waking up in the middle of the night as a child
and sitting up in bed, rocking and making myself laugh with funny scenarios in my head! :green:
My oldest did that as a baby till around age 6 I think. Very funny to listen to. Somewhere in the deep of the night.
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I like this thread it helps me remember :duh:
I wake up all the time too always have
Some nights I sleep right through, but I still remember waking up in the middle of the night as a child
and sitting up in bed, rocking and making myself laugh with funny scenarios in my head! :green:
My oldest did that as a baby till around age 6 I think. Very funny to listen to. Somewhere in the deep of the night.
Awww. :heart:
I seem to remember reading some dreadful article about autism, in which the mother said how awful it was to hear her child laughing to himself in the middle of the night. ::)
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I like this thread it helps me remember :duh:
I wake up all the time too always have
Some nights I sleep right through, but I still remember waking up in the middle of the night as a child
and sitting up in bed, rocking and making myself laugh with funny scenarios in my head! :green:
My oldest did that as a baby till around age 6 I think. Very funny to listen to. Somewhere in the deep of the night.
Awww. :heart:
I seem to remember reading some dreadful article about autism, in which the mother said how awful it was to hear her child laughing to himself in the middle of the night. ::)
I was quite content with a laughing kid at night. Crying babies are worse for sleeping.
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I like this thread it helps me remember :duh:
I wake up all the time too always have
Some nights I sleep right through, but I still remember waking up in the middle of the night as a child
and sitting up in bed, rocking and making myself laugh with funny scenarios in my head! :green:
My oldest did that as a baby till around age 6 I think. Very funny to listen to. Somewhere in the deep of the night.
Awww. :heart:
I seem to remember reading some dreadful article about autism, in which the mother said how awful it was to hear her child laughing to himself in the middle of the night. ::)
I was quite content with a laughing kid at night. Crying babies are worse for sleeping.
:agreed: I think this mother's point was that it seemed creepy and tragic to her that her child was laughing by himself instead of with someone.
Also, I think she had no idea what he was laughing at, didn't see anything funny happening and so assumed his laughter was a sign of pathetic disconnection from reality or something like that.
That's the sense I got from the article at the time. Urgh. :sick:
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I loved playing race-car-driver at night.
Pillow carefully draped around my head as a crash helmet, and then going :hotrodder:
Imagining a long and winding road was the best. Loved the sound effects.
At least one of my brothers did this too. :zoinks:
I remember almost wetting my pants with laughter because of all the silly games my youngest brother played in his crib. Very funny.
Oh, will try to remember my meds after I have had my shower.
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Have had my meds bright and early today.
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Yes. Took 'em.
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I have indeed taken my meds! :headbang2:
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Check, yes, half of it.
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I think I'll need a headache pill.
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Just took my night tablets
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Hells yea I did my niggas!
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Just took my Strattera! Now I'm drinking some :coffee: !
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I even remembered my afternoon ones.
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I even remembered my afternoon ones.
Excellent! Forge ahead with your day! :viking:
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I haven't taken mine for a few days in a row now :-[
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Late but yes :2thumbsup: and some extra calming ones too
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Yes, I did.
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just took my bedtime ones again
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I haven't taken mine for a few days in a row now :-[
Why not? ???
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I haven't taken mine for a few days in a row now :-[
Why not? ???
It's easy to forget for me when I get busy
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I haven't taken mine for a few days in a row now :-[
Why not? ???
*Shrugs shoulders*
Part forgetfulness, part "I've been feeling good for the last few days without them and I don't need to take it".
These meds confuse me :(
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Back on my meds after taking a break yesterday.
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Just took mine! :headbang2:
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I haven't taken mine for a few days in a row now :-[
Why not? ???
*Shrugs shoulders*
Part forgetfulness, part "I've been feeling good for the last few days without them and I don't need to take it".
These meds confuse me :(
If it is antidepressants you are taking, it is not good to miss them for days. You might start feeling dizzy and sick.
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I forgot. :o
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Just took some extra so I can sleep tonight
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Not yet. thinking of having a shower before I do.
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I took mine. Feel like something extra but I don't have anything.
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Just took mine, now waiting for the :coffee: to brew!
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Yes, I just took them but I was supposed to take them last night.
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gave some to my sister to help with side effects of chemo (vomiting). dunno why they haven't prescribed her any. took the rest of mine.
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Took mine
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Took mine as well! :thumbup:
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Yes, and ordered new too. Have to remember to pick it up tomorrow after 3:30pm
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Yes, and ordered new too. Have to remember to pick it up tomorrow after 3:30pm
I'll remind you, if I remember to! :laugh:
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Yes, and ordered new too. Have to remember to pick it up tomorrow after 3:30pm
I'll remind you, if I remember to! :laugh:
:thanks:
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Yes, and ordered new too. Have to remember to pick it up tomorrow after 3:30pm
I'll remind you, if I remember to! :laugh:
:thanks:
You are welcome. :hug:
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Yes, and ordered new too. Have to remember to pick it up tomorrow after 3:30pm
I'll remind you, if I remember to! :laugh:
:thanks:
You are welcome. :hug:
Here I come.
:plane:
I hope customs will let me keep my meds.
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Yes, and ordered new too. Have to remember to pick it up tomorrow after 3:30pm
I'll remind you, if I remember to! :laugh:
:thanks:
You are welcome. :hug:
Here I come.
:plane:
I hope customs will let me keep my meds.
Awww, they should! What harm could you intend, a sweet little Dutch lady? :)
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Yes I did and I also took my vitamin/anti-oxidant regimen, thank you.
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Yes, did so.
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Wondering if I had them twice ???
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Took mine last night :stoned:
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I did, but I had to recount the capsules later because I didn't trust my memory! :duh:
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I did, but I had to recount the capsules later because I didn't trust my memory! :duh:
Smart move.
I forgot to get my refill. Did think on it early in the afternoon, but that does not help if it won't be available before 3:30. Hope I will remember tomorrow.
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I did, but I had to recount the capsules later because I didn't trust my memory! :duh:
Smart move.
I forgot to get my refill. Did think on it early in the afternoon, but that does not help if it won't be available before 3:30. Hope I will remember tomorrow.
I forgot to remind you. :(
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I did, but I had to recount the capsules later because I didn't trust my memory! :duh:
Smart move.
I forgot to get my refill. Did think on it early in the afternoon, but that does not help if it won't be available before 3:30. Hope I will remember tomorrow.
I forgot to remind you. :(
How could you. :grrr:
:laugh:
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I did, but I had to recount the capsules later because I didn't trust my memory! :duh:
Smart move.
I forgot to get my refill. Did think on it early in the afternoon, but that does not help if it won't be available before 3:30. Hope I will remember tomorrow.
I forgot to remind you. :(
How could you. :grrr:
:laugh:
I'll try to remember tomorrow! :harp:
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No but I'll take some klonopin tonight
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I did.
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Me too, although I have cut back on the dosage from 30mg to 10mg. Felt like it was making me a little too high strung at the higher dosage.
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I did, but I had to recount the capsules later because I didn't trust my memory! :duh:
Smart move.
I forgot to get my refill. Did think on it early in the afternoon, but that does not help if it won't be available before 3:30. Hope I will remember tomorrow.
I forgot to remind you. :(
How could you. :grrr:
:laugh:
I'll try to remember tomorrow! :harp:
Got them, thank you :2thumbsup:
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I did, but I had to recount the capsules later because I didn't trust my memory! :duh:
Smart move.
I forgot to get my refill. Did think on it early in the afternoon, but that does not help if it won't be available before 3:30. Hope I will remember tomorrow.
I forgot to remind you. :(
How could you. :grrr:
:laugh:
I'll try to remember tomorrow! :harp:
Got them, thank you :2thumbsup:
Hooray! :2thumbsup:
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Did.
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Me too, although I have cut back on the dosage from 30mg to 10mg. Felt like it was making me a little too high strung at the higher dosage.
What are you taking?
I remembered my meds for today. :)
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Concerta. It's the same active ingredient as Ritalin, but it is a twelve hour time release formula.
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Just took my Strattera! :thumbup:
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Concerta. It's the same active ingredient as Ritalin, but it is a twelve hour time release formula.
I wish they could put dexamphetamine into a timed release formula. That would be so handy.
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Yes, took my meds this morning.
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i'm still working on it. beer goes down slow.
i should be packing but i'm just here.
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Yup!
..... but I had to take Oxycodone, too, for my dodgy hip joint. I am still in pain.
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yeh i think so
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Yes, but I think I already covered that for today. Or did I? Can't be arsed to look.
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Nope.
I want to stop taking them.
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Yes, I did.
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Nope.
I want to stop taking them.
Are they not helping? :nerd!:
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Just took mine! :prude:
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I have taken mine today.
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Nope.
I want to stop taking them.
Are they not helping? :nerd!:
Yeah, but they're not hindering either. Seriously no withdrawals after not taking them (unlike other meds I used to take like Zoloft and Pristiq)
They're like candy pills.
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Nope.
I want to stop taking them.
Are they not helping? :nerd!:
Yeah, but they're not hindering either. Seriously no withdrawals after not taking them (unlike other meds I used to take like Zoloft and Pristiq)
They're like candy pills.
Just my two cents: Consult your doctor before stopping them, in case there are bad side effects from abruptly quitting.
It may be better to be weaned off under medical supervision. :nerd!:
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Nope.
I want to stop taking them.
Are they not helping? :nerd!:
Yeah, but they're not hindering either. Seriously no withdrawals after not taking them (unlike other meds I used to take like Zoloft and Pristiq)
They're like candy pills.
Just my two cents: Consult your doctor before stopping them, in case there are bad side effects from abruptly quitting.
It may be better to be weaned off under medical supervision. :nerd!:
My doctor is unable to see me anytime in the next five weeks :(. Why is he so booked out?
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Nope.
I want to stop taking them.
Are they not helping? :nerd!:
Yeah, but they're not hindering either. Seriously no withdrawals after not taking them (unlike other meds I used to take like Zoloft and Pristiq)
They're like candy pills.
Just my two cents: Consult your doctor before stopping them, in case there are bad side effects from abruptly quitting.
It may be better to be weaned off under medical supervision. :nerd!:
My doctor is unable to see me anytime in the next five weeks :(. Why is he so booked out?
I don't know. Maybe he has overbooked so he can get in a lot of hours before going on vacation. Not good. :thumbdn:
Can someone from his office (nurse perhaps) at least help you over the phone? If that fails, try asking a pharmacist.
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Nope.
I want to stop taking them.
Are they not helping? :nerd!:
Yeah, but they're not hindering either. Seriously no withdrawals after not taking them (unlike other meds I used to take like Zoloft and Pristiq)
They're like candy pills.
Just my two cents: Consult your doctor before stopping them, in case there are bad side effects from abruptly quitting.
It may be better to be weaned off under medical supervision. :nerd!:
My doctor is unable to see me anytime in the next five weeks :(. Why is he so booked out?
I don't know. Maybe he has overbooked so he can get in a lot of hours before going on vacation. Not good. :thumbdn:
Can someone from his office (nurse perhaps) at least help you over the phone? If that fails, try asking a pharmacist.
Yeah he sucks. I'm really anxious about some blood test results he has too, but the receptionist there says I can ask the nurse about those.
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Nope.
I want to stop taking them.
Are they not helping? :nerd!:
Yeah, but they're not hindering either. Seriously no withdrawals after not taking them (unlike other meds I used to take like Zoloft and Pristiq)
They're like candy pills.
Just my two cents: Consult your doctor before stopping them, in case there are bad side effects from abruptly quitting.
It may be better to be weaned off under medical supervision. :nerd!:
My doctor is unable to see me anytime in the next five weeks :(. Why is he so booked out?
I don't know. Maybe he has overbooked so he can get in a lot of hours before going on vacation. Not good. :thumbdn:
Can someone from his office (nurse perhaps) at least help you over the phone? If that fails, try asking a pharmacist.
Yeah he sucks. I'm really anxious about some blood test results he has too, but the receptionist there says I can ask the nurse about those.
Sometimes the nurses are more helpful than the doctors, for sure. Pharmacists are also a good resource. Too bad about that doctor being so busy. :thumbdn:
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Forgot them.
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yes, but ...
Out of the fucking blue, I threw mine up this morning.
Not sure why.
I had had coffee (I always have coffee) and a banana (I often eat some kind of fruit for breakfast), but I just became suddenly puky and I let it all go.
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yes, but ...
Out of the fucking blue, I threw mine up this morning.
Not sure why.
I had had coffee (I always have coffee) and a banana (I often eat some kind of fruit for breakfast), but I just became suddenly puky and I let it all go.
Have you eaten anything different lately? Are you still feeling sick now? :nerd!:
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Nope.
I want to stop taking them.
Are they not helping? :nerd!:
Yeah, but they're not hindering either. Seriously no withdrawals after not taking them (unlike other meds I used to take like Zoloft and Pristiq)
They're like candy pills.
Just my two cents: Consult your doctor before stopping them, in case there are bad side effects from abruptly quitting.
It may be better to be weaned off under medical supervision. :nerd!:
Agreed. going off meds can fuck you up.
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And no, I haven't taken my meds today. Will do it in the morning.
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yes, but ...
Out of the fucking blue, I threw mine up this morning.
Not sure why.
I had had coffee (I always have coffee) and a banana (I often eat some kind of fruit for breakfast), but I just became suddenly puky and I let it all go.
Have you eaten anything different lately? Are you still feeling sick now? :nerd!:
Nope, nothing was different that I can imagine.
It all happened about five thirty this morning (about thirteen and one half hours ago, my time) and it was the same regimen of orals I take every morning. The pukey feeling passed as soon as I threw up. I do not know why it happened.
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Yes, almost first thing in the morning. Remembered magnesium supplement too.
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Yes, almost first thing in the morning. Remembered magnesium supplement too.
Excellent! :thumbup:
I almost forgot mine, but I remembered early enough, so all is well! :asthing:
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Yes, I did.
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Sure did! :2thumbsup:
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Did.
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Yes, forgot all about them yesterday, but not today.
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Yes. Well, um, no. Technically I took them yesterday and I will sleep before today's pills, but you get the general idea.
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yes id did, but about twenty minutes later and for the third time, I vomited them up.
This is beginning to worry me.
MY MEDS are about saving what shavings are left of my heart muscle from the damage I have done to the rest of my body over my long life.
My own body rejecting these meds makes me concerned that I can no longer protect my heart muscles from further damage.
It is becoming more apparent by the day that the shortest days of my entire life are upon me and the sun setting upon everything I have left to do is winking out for all time.
:violin:
As I count myself out, do not fear, for I have a life awaiting me as a proud Alpha wolf in a land that has everything that I need.
Vomiting is horrible, but one of the results is that we eventually die.
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yes id did, but about twenty minutes later and for the third time, I vomited them up.
This is beginning to worry me.
MY MEDS are about saving what shavings are left of my heart muscle from the damage I have done to the rest of my body over my long life.
My own body rejecting these meds makes me concerned that I can no longer protect my heart muscles from further damage.
It is becoming more apparent by the day that the shortest days of my entire life are upon me and the sun setting upon everything I have left to do is winking out for all time.
:violin:
As I count myself out, do not fear, for I have a life awaiting me as a proud Alpha wolf in a land that has everything that I need.
Vomiting is horrible, but one of the results is that we eventually die.
There might be a very simple reason for the vomiting, and a very simple solution to it also. Have you spoken to your doctor about this?
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I started back on my meds today/yesterday after a 5 day break to lower my tolerance a bit. I slept for 16 hours a day while I was off them and I was quite tired the rest of the time, so I didn't get much done and the time passed quickly.
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yes id did, but about twenty minutes later and for the third time, I vomited them up.
This is beginning to worry me.
MY MEDS are about saving what shavings are left of my heart muscle from the damage I have done to the rest of my body over my long life.
My own body rejecting these meds makes me concerned that I can no longer protect my heart muscles from further damage.
It is becoming more apparent by the day that the shortest days of my entire life are upon me and the sun setting upon everything I have left to do is winking out for all time.
:violin:
As I count myself out, do not fear, for I have a life awaiting me as a proud Alpha wolf in a land that has everything that I need.
Vomiting is horrible, but one of the results is that we eventually die.
Are you taking, or have you considered a creatine supplement? There are studies that point to it being broadly protective against secondary cell death in damaged tissues, and it might keep your heart ticking for a while longer. I've got my mum taking it in the hope that it'll reduce any long-term damage if she gets a stroke or heart attack, and I take it myself. I don't think it's likely to trigger vomiting, provided you get a plain creatine monohydrate powder without lots of additives; it dissolves easily, doesn't taste of much and it's never irritated my stomach or made me nauseous.
Creatine phosphate: an additive myocardial protective and antiarrhythmic agent in cardioplegia (http://jtcs.ctsnetjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/87/2/190)
Protective effects of oral creatine supplementation on spinal cord injury in rats (http://www.nature.com/sc/journal/v40/n9/full/3101330a.html)
Prophylactic Creatine Administration Mediates Neuroprotection in Cerebral Ischemia in Mice (http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/24/26/5909)
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Took 'em.
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Yes
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No getting refill tomorrow
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Yes I did! :thumbup:
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I did too.
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Yes, I did.
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No, completely forgot. :duh:
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No, completely forgot. :duh:
I will try to remember to remind you. :-\
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No they fell under the car seat and I forgot to get them went I stopped
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No, not yet.
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I just did, and I need to get a refill!
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The only time when I need them is when I have an allergy attack.
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The only time when I need them is when I have an allergy attack.
I take mine every day, to help me with my short attention span! :snowman:
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Did.
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Did this morning, now hope to remember in the evening.
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Is this still the same day?
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Is this still the same day?
Yes it is. Your synth will arrive tomorrow.
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Is this still the same day?
Yes it is. Your synth will arrive tomorrow.
Damn.
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The only time when I need them is when I have an allergy attack.
I take mine every day, to help me with my short attention span! :snowman:
Really?
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Just took mine
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Yes, took them earlier.
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Just took them. :thumbup:
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Took the meds AND the multivitamin! I'm all set! :2thumbsup:
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Yes!, and yesterday too :thumbup:
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Yes!, and yesterday too :thumbup:
Excellent! Do you have a new system to remind yourself? :thumbup:
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Yes, I took my meds this morning.
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Yes!, and yesterday too :thumbup:
Excellent! Do you have a new system to remind yourself? :thumbup:
No, I just randomly forget now and then. :autism:
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Yes!, and yesterday too :thumbup:
Excellent! Do you have a new system to remind yourself? :thumbup:
No, I just randomly forget now and then. :autism:
I normally set myself a alarm for when to do or take things, that normally works for me, but it has got to have some text as a reminder, it normally works for me.
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Yes!, and yesterday too :thumbup:
Excellent! Do you have a new system to remind yourself? :thumbup:
No, I just randomly forget now and then. :autism:
I normally set myself a alarm for when to do or take things, that normally works for me, but it has got to have some text as a reminder, it normally works for me.
The stuff I need won't really harm me if I forget. I will notice after a few days though.
This thread most of the times helps me to remind in time, before my skin tells me.
The what are you drinking thread helps keeping me hydrated. :thumbup:
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Yes!, and yesterday too :thumbup:
Excellent! Do you have a new system to remind yourself? :thumbup:
No, I just randomly forget now and then. :autism:
I normally set myself a alarm for when to do or take things, that normally works for me, but it has got to have some text as a reminder, it normally works for me.
The stuff I need won't really harm me if I forget. I will notice after a few days though.
This thread most of the times helps me to remind in time, before my skin tells me.
The what are you drinking thread helps keeping me hydrated. :thumbup:
Drink up! :thumbup:
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Yeah, di but what good will it do now?
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Yes
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Yes, I did.
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forgot :thumbdn:
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Check. :P
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Roger that
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Done and done 8)
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Meds and multivitamin, both down the hatch! :viking:
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yes
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Just took them! :2thumbsup:
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Yes!
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Yes.
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Aye, aye captain
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Both times yesterday.
Will try to remember when I wake today.
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Both times yesterday.
Will try to remember when I wake today.
If I see you here tomorrow, I will try to remember to remind you. Hopefully my old brain will remember. :prude:
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Already did the first time of the day. My mother told me to. :laugh:
Benefits of visiting family.
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I did.
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I did too but I almost forgot.
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I took mine, and also scheduled an appointment to get a new batch prescribed! :thumbup:
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So far, so good. Just the evening ones to go.
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Not yet, but the day is just a bit more than an hour old. So, no need to worry about it yet.
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Not yet. I've been very lazy this morning.
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Not yet. I've been very lazy this morning.
I took mine! OH YES I DID! :soph:
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Yes.
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Not yet. I've been very lazy this morning.
I took mine! OH YES I DID! :soph:
I took them later. They are part of my getting ready ritual so I don't usually miss them.
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mission accomplished.
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I took all of them and some extra opiates. My hip is still killing me, even though I have had four oxycodone since I awoke.
It has been a day that was mostly about pain. My own personal pain; nothing really to worry about.
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Not yet but the day is only three hours old.
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Yes and I need to take some more right now.
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I took all of them and some extra opiates. My hip is still killing me, even though I have had four oxycodone since I awoke.
It has been a day that was mostly about pain. My own personal pain; nothing really to worry about.
That sounds horrible. What does the doctor say about your hip joint still bothering you three years after you accidentally did the splits? Did you ever have an MRI to see that's going on with it?
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BTW, I forgot but I'll take them now.
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Just got up so no, not yet.
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Think I did :scratchhead:
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On my way to take them right after this post
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Think I did :scratchhead:
I hate it when I can't remember! :duh:
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Yes, eventually. Although technically that's yesterday so I haven't taken any today.
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Yes and some extra too
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Yup
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Just did! Now it's time for :coffee: !
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Just added my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Yes, I did take them.
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Just did! Now it's time for :coffee: !
Just added my multivitamin! :thumbup:
Added the multivitamin to the :coffee:? :zombiefuck:
I know you care more about the caffeine than the taste, but there are limits.
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Just did! Now it's time for :coffee: !
Just added my multivitamin! :thumbup:
Added the multivitamin to the :coffee:? :zombiefuck:
I know you care more about the caffeine than the taste, but there are limits.
Swallowed the multivitamin whole, thus adding it to the Strattera. Then drank the coffee! :thumbup:
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The day is 26 minutes old... so not yet.
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The day is not an hour old yet, but I still need the last dosage of yesterday.
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Yes. I'm getting quite good at remembering. Now watch me forget tomorrow because it's a standing breakfast appointment on Tuesdays with a friend.
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Yes, technically even twice.
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Yes I did.
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applied the last dosage of yesterday the first minutes of today.
seems to have no real effect the past few days. purple infected spot on my cheekbone and smaller red ones on my jaw.
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applied the last dosage of yesterday the first minutes of today.
seems to have no real effect the past few days. purple infected spot on my cheekbone and smaller red ones on my jaw.
Well, at least you're colorful. Maybe the pills color is clashing with the colors of the spots. Try co-ordinating the colors, like a chameleon.
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applied the last dosage of yesterday the first minutes of today.
seems to have no real effect the past few days. purple infected spot on my cheekbone and smaller red ones on my jaw.
Well, at least you're colorful. Maybe the pills color is clashing with the colors of the spots. Try co-ordinating the colors, like a chameleon.
:lol:
I'm going to try that, and should practice most on the purpling then. Will match nicely with my clothes.
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Almost missed them but I made it.
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Yup, I took them.
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Yup, applied the night layer too.
Colourings are fading, and getting more pinkish.
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Yup, applied the night layer too.
Colourings are fading, and getting more pinkish.
Don't forget to pack the meds for your trip. And send some cake to all of us and we'll help your Mum blow out the candles.
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Yup, applied the night layer too.
Colourings are fading, and getting more pinkish.
Don't forget to pack the meds for your trip. And send some cake to all of us and we'll help your Mum blow out the candles.
What kind of cake do you want? She was talking about apple pie, strawberry 'vlaai', creamcheese cake with cherries and a cheesecake.
She may need some help with blowing out the candles indeed. Three quarter of a century does require some breath.
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Cream cheese cake with cherries please. I know all the guys are going to go for the cherry flavor and I'll pass it out.
Glad to hear your Mum's doing her part for the golden generation.
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No so I took extra benzos to stay calm
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Ah fuck I keep forgetting!
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Ah fuck I keep forgetting!
Can you take them now? ???
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Ah fuck I keep forgetting!
Can you take them now? ???
I meant to take them right after typing that but forgot, thanks for reminding me :green:
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Ah fuck I keep forgetting!
Can you take them now? ???
I meant to take them right after typing that but forgot, thanks for reminding me :green:
You're welcome! :viking:
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Ah fuck I keep forgetting!
Can you take them now? ???
I meant to take them right after typing that but forgot, thanks for reminding me :green:
You're welcome! :viking:
It's the tail end of my anti-biotics. When I don't feel sick anymore I'm really terrible with remembering to take meds.
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Ah fuck I keep forgetting!
Can you take them now? ???
I meant to take them right after typing that but forgot, thanks for reminding me :green:
You're welcome! :viking:
It's the tail end of my anti-biotics. When I don't feel sick anymore I'm really terrible with remembering to take meds.
I'm awful with Anti biotics too. Bloody annoying.
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No, I probably forgot. :-\
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Yes, Mother.
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Yes and some of the extra good ones too :zoinks:
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I took mine. Oh yes I did! :soph:
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Yes. All meds down the hatch
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Yes, I took them this morning.
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Yes I did! All set to go! :thumbup:
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Yes. And filled up the other family members pill case for the week.
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Yes. And filled up the other family members pill case for the week.
Keeping your watchful eye upon them. :thumbup:
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YES
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No.
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No.
Will you be OK missing a day? :-\
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Yes!!
And that without CBC reminding me. She did well in doing so.
I'm improving.
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Yes!!
And that without CBC reminding me. She did well in doing so.
I'm improving.
Hooray! I just took mine too! :asthing:
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Yeah but not sure if they are working anymore
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Will do the night layer right now.
done!
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Today I remembered. Not a life threatening affair if I miss the occasional day.
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just took a klonopin for sleep we'll see it it works
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Yes.
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OH HELL YEAH! :2thumbsup:
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Aye Aye Captain
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Yes I did! Now it's time for the multivitamin! :headbang2:
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Did.
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Have to have the night dosage, will do that soon.
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Yes
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Just did! Now for the :coffee: !
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My allergy tablets, I accidentally ended up having what my body was allergic to.
I'm surprised that all my horrible swellings disappeared within a day, even the worst of it.
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My allergy tablets, I accidentally ended up having what my body was allergic to.
I'm surprised that all my horrible swellings disappeared within a day, even the worst of it.
Be careful about that! Did you have trouble breathing at all? ???
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My allergy tablets, I accidentally ended up having what my body was allergic to.
I'm surprised that all my horrible swellings disappeared within a day, even the worst of it.
Be careful about that! Did you have trouble breathing at all? ???
Surprisingly not, but I did have a lot of swellings on my arms and legs, there is this certain ingredient that was in that drink which made my body react badly.
Cheap supermarket drinks. :thumbdn:
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My allergy tablets, I accidentally ended up having what my body was allergic to.
I'm surprised that all my horrible swellings disappeared within a day, even the worst of it.
Be careful about that! Did you have trouble breathing at all? ???
Surprisingly not, but I did have a lot of swellings on my arms and legs, there is this certain ingredient that was in that drink which made my body react badly.
Cheap supermarket drinks. :thumbdn:
Are your allergic reactions getting worse? My brother's did, he now carries Epi-Pens. :-\
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Yes, had the first bit of the day.
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:2thumbsup:
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I took them on time today. That is a change from the past three days.
Hopefully, I am back on track.
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better late than never
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Forgot yesterday night, but not this morning.
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Forgot yesterday night, but not this morning.
Good for you, don't forget tonight's! :asthing:
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Not quite time yet, but I will take mine soon. :thumbup:
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thanks for the memory jog. Memory jogging is my sole exercise.
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Yes, took 'em this morning.
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No, but, thanks for reminding me.
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Yes, I took them.
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Yes, just now, was about to forget them.
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No, I forgot. Had them with me, but just forgot to take them.
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Yes. :orly:
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Yes
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Forgot so I am taking my supplemental beer as a precaution :zoinks:
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Yes, did.
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Yes.
I decided to start back on my lexapro today.
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Yes. And in time too, this morning.
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Yes but still having that beer later just in case :zoinks:
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Yes
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I did indeed take them! :2thumbsup:
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Yes. Should have taken something for the headache, though.
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Just took them! On with the day! :thumbup:
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Think I did :-\
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Yes, I took mine with my hot chocolate this morning :laugh:
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Yes.
BTW - My Dad gave me his double jointed knees and fingers. They're more double jointed than my elbows. Anyway, one day the knees and fingers will need to be operated on, but I'm not going to do it until I lose some (who am I kidding? - a lot of) weight.
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Yes.
BTW - My Dad gave me his double jointed knees and fingers. They're more double jointed than my elbows. Anyway, one day the knees and fingers will need to be operated on, but I'm not going to do it until I lose some (who am I kidding? - a lot of) weight.
He didn't need his knees and fingers anymore? ???
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Yes, done them.
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Just did! Better get that prescription filled today too! :orly:
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Yes, I did take my meds today.
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Yes
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I dropped one of my capsules on the floor this morning, thought about throwing it away, then brushed it off and took it anyway!
Good thing...the pharmacy won't have my meds till tomorrow; thanks to my taking the dropped capsule this morning,
I have exactly one more day's meds to get me through till I buy my new batch! :2thumbsup:
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I dropped one of my capsules on the floor this morning, thought about throwing it away, then brushed it off and took it anyway!
Good thing...the pharmacy won't have my meds till tomorrow; thanks to my taking the dropped capsule this morning,
I have exactly one more day's meds to get me through till I buy my new batch! :2thumbsup:
I pretty much ignore the "dirt factor" of things falling on the floor. After all if we're that fragile wouldn't mankind have come to an end pretty soon after we started?
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I dropped one of my capsules on the floor this morning, thought about throwing it away, then brushed it off and took it anyway!
Good thing...the pharmacy won't have my meds till tomorrow; thanks to my taking the dropped capsule this morning,
I have exactly one more day's meds to get me through till I buy my new batch! :2thumbsup:
I pretty much ignore the "dirt factor" of things falling on the floor. After all if we're that fragile wouldn't mankind have come to an end pretty soon after we started?
Yes, perhaps we would have. Mankind is :viking: !
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I haven't taken mine yet :o
On the upside of it all I felt like eating lunch thanks to lack of nausea :P
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Yep. 8)
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No, had some lab work done. Decided to get a day or so cushion on my meds just in case I need it.
Doctor is adding a med for osteoporosis. I told my dear husband, no more sexual gymnastics, so he took down the swing. :eyelash:
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No, had some lab work done. Decided to get a day or so cushion on my meds just in case I need it.
Doctor is adding a med for osteoporosis. I told my dear husband, no more sexual gymnastics, so he took down the swing. :eyelash:
Awww, you'll still have the handcuffs! :thumbup:
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No, had some lab work done. Decided to get a day or so cushion on my meds just in case I need it.
Doctor is adding a med for osteoporosis. I told my dear husband, no more sexual gymnastics, so he took down the swing. :eyelash:
Awww, you'll still have the handcuffs! :thumbup:
Yeah, but my husband's wearing them and we lost the key a few weeks back.
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No, had some lab work done. Decided to get a day or so cushion on my meds just in case I need it.
Doctor is adding a med for osteoporosis. I told my dear husband, no more sexual gymnastics, so he took down the swing. :eyelash:
Awww, you'll still have the handcuffs! :thumbup:
Yeah, but my husband's wearing them and I "lost" the key a few weeks back. >:D
Fixed! :laugh:
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No, had some lab work done. Decided to get a day or so cushion on my meds just in case I need it.
Doctor is adding a med for osteoporosis. I told my dear husband, no more sexual gymnastics, so he took down the swing. :eyelash:
Awww, you'll still have the handcuffs! :thumbup:
Yeah, but my husband's wearing them and I "lost" the key a few weeks back. >:D
Fixed! :laugh:
You little vixen. How'd you do that?
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No, had some lab work done. Decided to get a day or so cushion on my meds just in case I need it.
Doctor is adding a med for osteoporosis. I told my dear husband, no more sexual gymnastics, so he took down the swing. :eyelash:
Awww, you'll still have the handcuffs! :thumbup:
Yeah, but my husband's wearing them and I "lost" the key a few weeks back. >:D
Fixed! :laugh:
You little vixen. How'd you do that?
I quoted you and edited the post! :eyebrows:
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No, had some lab work done. Decided to get a day or so cushion on my meds just in case I need it.
Doctor is adding a med for osteoporosis. I told my dear husband, no more sexual gymnastics, so he took down the swing. :eyelash:
Awww, you'll still have the handcuffs! :thumbup:
Yeah, but my husband's wearing them and I "lost" the key a few weeks back. >:D
Fixed! :laugh:
You little vixen. How'd you do that?
I quoted you and edited the post! :eyebrows:
Ah, old dog (not you Dirtdawg! ;)) learn new trick.
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No, had some lab work done. Decided to get a day or so cushion on my meds just in case I need it.
Doctor is adding a med for osteoporosis. I told my dear husband, no more sexual gymnastics, so he took down the swing. :eyelash:
Awww, you'll still have the handcuffs! :thumbup:
Yeah, but my husband's wearing them and I "lost" the key a few weeks back. >:D
Fixed! :laugh:
You little vixen. How'd you do that?
I quoted you and edited the post! :eyebrows:
Ah, old dog (not you Dirtdawg! ;)) learn new trick.
Uh-oh, she's gonna pay me back, I just know it! :laugh:
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Not yet, better do it now.
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done! And took a painkiller.
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Did.
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Just did, from the new container I picked up yesterday! :2thumbsup:
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Just choked down my multivitamin horse pill! :viking:
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Yes. I like this thread. It gets my post number up quickly and just as important makes it seem like I've done more at home than I really have.
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Yep. 8)
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This thread always presents a dilemma. What should I do the second time I visit it during a day? Say yes again?
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Of course. So, I'm gonna say no now.
NO
not yet.
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But I can't very well say no, not in another twenty minutes.
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But I can say yes now.
When it comes to medication, I am ready for the night.
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This thread always presents a dilemma. What should I do the second time I visit it during a day? Say yes again?
That's what a true postwhore would do! :2thumbsup:
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This thread always presents a dilemma. What should I do the second time I visit it during a day? Say yes again?
That's what a true postwhore would do! :2thumbsup:
True.
Yes, I did take my meds today (#1).
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Yes, indeed I did (#2).
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Oh yes. #3 :zoinks:
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Oh yes. #3 :zoinks:
You, sir, are a Postwhore beyond the pale! :orly:
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Yes (#1 and #4, depending on thye question) :zoinks:
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Yes (#1 and #4, depending on thye question) :zoinks:
Well done! :zoinks:
I took my meds AND my multivitamin! I'll be all ready to :GA: at my evening job!
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Yes
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Yes (#1 and #4, depending on thye question) :zoinks:
Well done! :zoinks:
I took my meds AND my multivitamin! I'll be all ready to :GA: at my evening job!
/thinks
I *think* I took my meds today. (#5) ;D
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Yes (#1 and #4, depending on thye question) :zoinks:
Well done! :zoinks:
I took my meds AND my multivitamin! I'll be all ready to :GA: at my evening job!
/thinks
I *think* I took my meds today. (#5) ;D
Even if you aren't sure, you can post about your uncertainty! That's the beauty of this thread! :2thumbsup:
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Yes (#1 and #4, depending on thye question) :zoinks:
Well done! :zoinks:
I took my meds AND my multivitamin! I'll be all ready to :GA: at my evening job!
/thinks
I *think* I took my meds today. (#5) ;D
Even if you aren't sure, you can post about your uncertainty! That's the beauty of this thread! :2thumbsup:
But I'm fairly sure. (#6)
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Yes (#1 and #4, depending on thye question) :zoinks:
Well done! :zoinks:
I took my meds AND my multivitamin! I'll be all ready to :GA: at my evening job!
/thinks
I *think* I took my meds today. (#5) ;D
Even if you aren't sure, you can post about your uncertainty! That's the beauty of this thread! :2thumbsup:
But I'm fairly sure. (#6)
Hooray for postwhoring! :asthing:
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In 17 minutes I'll be able to say that I haven't taken my meds.
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In 17 minutes I'll be able to say that I haven't taken my meds.
This thread is like the gift that keeps on giving! :laugh:
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In 17 minutes I'll be able to say that I haven't taken my meds.
This thread is like the gift that keeps on giving! :laugh:
:indeed:
10 minutes left of today, then it's a whole new game.
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I may make Sherry one of my meds soon.
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Took mine just before lunch; hello nausea :thumbdn:
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I cheated, had the last bit of yesterday very early this morning.
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I cheated, had the last bit of yesterday very early this morning.
So naughty! >:D
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I took my meds, I took my multivitamin, and now I am loading up on good strong :coffee: !
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I cheated, had the last bit of yesterday very early this morning.
So naughty! >:D
And the morning dose, I had this afternoon. :evillaugh:
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I cheated, had the last bit of yesterday very early this morning.
So naughty! >:D
And the morning dose, I had this afternoon. :evillaugh:
And the afternoon dose will be taken tonight? You go on with your bad self! :soph:
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I cheated, had the last bit of yesterday very early this morning.
So naughty! >:D
And the morning dose, I had this afternoon. :evillaugh:
And the afternoon dose will be taken tonight? You go on with your bad self! :soph:
And it will give me extra chances to post here too. :evillaugh:
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Took my meds this morning, yes.
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I am all mixed up.
My morning meds just went and this morning I took my evening meds for the night before.
:yikes:
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No, decided to walk on the wildside and miss another day.
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Yesterday but not today.
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Need to catch up on that of yesterday today again.
I keep cheating.
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I may make Sherry one of my meds soon.
A dear friend gave me a belated birthday present of a bottle of Cream Sherry. I will definitely include it as a necessary medication on an as needed basis.
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Just took mine! Off to work I go! :headbang2:
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took mine this morning. Need a beer too.
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took mine this morning. Need a beer too.
Are you sure it's safe to mix alcohol with your meds? :police:
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took mine this morning. Need a beer too.
Are you sure it's safe to mix alcohol with your meds? :police:
If not, then the damage has been done already, and we might need to link this to the "how did you catch AS" thread.
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took mine this morning. Need a beer too.
Are you sure it's safe to mix alcohol with your meds? :police:
If not, then the damage has been done already, and we might need to link this to the "how did you catch AS" thread.
Ah yes, beer makes you autistic! :2thumbsup:
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took mine this morning. Need a beer too.
Are you sure it's safe to mix alcohol with your meds? :police:
If not, then the damage has been done already, and we might need to link this to the "how did you catch AS" thread.
Ah yes, beer makes you autistic! :2thumbsup:
Only in combination with the right meds at the right time. :orly:
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took mine this morning. Need a beer too.
Are you sure it's safe to mix alcohol with your meds? :police:
If not, then the damage has been done already, and we might need to link this to the "how did you catch AS" thread.
Ah yes, beer makes you autistic! :2thumbsup:
Only in combination with the right meds at the right time. :orly:
Or in combination with ANY meds! Therefore, no one should drink beer! :clap:
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took mine this morning. Need a beer too.
Are you sure it's safe to mix alcohol with your meds? :police:
If not, then the damage has been done already, and we might need to link this to the "how did you catch AS" thread.
Ah yes, beer makes you autistic! :2thumbsup:
Only in combination with the right meds at the right time. :orly:
Or in combination with ANY meds! Therefore, no one should drink beer! :clap:
What is your problem with autistic people? :zombiefuck:
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Did not cheat, had this days last medication on this very day. :viking:
Need to remember to get a refill. :orly:
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took mine this morning. Need a beer too.
Are you sure it's safe to mix alcohol with your meds? :police:
If not, then the damage has been done already, and we might need to link this to the "how did you catch AS" thread.
Ah yes, beer makes you autistic! :2thumbsup:
Only in combination with the right meds at the right time. :orly:
Or in combination with ANY meds! Therefore, no one should drink beer! :clap:
What is your problem with autistic people? :zombiefuck:
They're just no fun! ;)
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took mine this morning. Need a beer too.
Are you sure it's safe to mix alcohol with your meds? :police:
If not, then the damage has been done already, and we might need to link this to the "how did you catch AS" thread.
Ah yes, beer makes you autistic! :2thumbsup:
Only in combination with the right meds at the right time. :orly:
Or in combination with ANY meds! Therefore, no one should drink beer! :clap:
What is your problem with autistic people? :zombiefuck:
They're just no fun! ;)
You've got to make your own fun, even with autism.
I know, you could come to I2 :idea:
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took mine this morning. Need a beer too.
Are you sure it's safe to mix alcohol with your meds? :police:
If not, then the damage has been done already, and we might need to link this to the "how did you catch AS" thread.
Ah yes, beer makes you autistic! :2thumbsup:
Only in combination with the right meds at the right time. :orly:
Or in combination with ANY meds! Therefore, no one should drink beer! :clap:
What is your problem with autistic people? :zombiefuck:
They're just no fun! ;)
You've got to make your own fun, even with autism.
I know, you could come to I2 :idea:
But aren't they all mean there? What if I get butthurt? :runaway:
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took mine this morning. Need a beer too.
Are you sure it's safe to mix alcohol with your meds? :police:
If not, then the damage has been done already, and we might need to link this to the "how did you catch AS" thread.
Ah yes, beer makes you autistic! :2thumbsup:
Only in combination with the right meds at the right time. :orly:
Or in combination with ANY meds! Therefore, no one should drink beer! :clap:
What is your problem with autistic people? :zombiefuck:
They're just no fun! ;)
You've got to make your own fun, even with autism.
I know, you could come to I2 :idea:
But aren't they all mean there? What if I get butthurt? :runaway:
You can put ointment on your behind, and wait till the pain passes. :angel:
And there will be male members enough willing to gently rub said ointment on too.
They are all here to perve please.
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took mine this morning. Need a beer too.
Are you sure it's safe to mix alcohol with your meds? :police:
If not, then the damage has been done already, and we might need to link this to the "how did you catch AS" thread.
Ah yes, beer makes you autistic! :2thumbsup:
Only in combination with the right meds at the right time. :orly:
Or in combination with ANY meds! Therefore, no one should drink beer! :clap:
What is your problem with autistic people? :zombiefuck:
They're just no fun! ;)
You've got to make your own fun, even with autism.
I know, you could come to I2 :idea:
But aren't they all mean there? What if I get butthurt? :runaway:
You can put ointment on your behind, and wait till the pain passes. :angel:
And there will be male members enough willing to gently rub said ointment on too.
They are all here to perve please.
Sounds promising! Where do I sign up? :orly:
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took mine this morning. Need a beer too.
Are you sure it's safe to mix alcohol with your meds? :police:
If not, then the damage has been done already, and we might need to link this to the "how did you catch AS" thread.
Ah yes, beer makes you autistic! :2thumbsup:
Only in combination with the right meds at the right time. :orly:
Or in combination with ANY meds! Therefore, no one should drink beer! :clap:
What is your problem with autistic people? :zombiefuck:
They're just no fun! ;)
You've got to make your own fun, even with autism.
I know, you could come to I2 :idea:
But aren't they all mean there? What if I get butthurt? :runaway:
You can put ointment on your behind, and wait till the pain passes. :angel:
And there will be male members enough willing to gently rub said ointment on too.
They are all here to perve please.
Sounds promising! Where do I sign up? :orly:
http://intensitysquared.com/ :2thumbsup:
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Yes
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Forgot, will do it right now.
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Forgot, will do it right now.
Just took mine. In a little while I will follow up with my multivitamin! :viking:
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Yes, I did.
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Just took the multivitamin I was talking about earlier! :headbang2:
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Yes, and I even remembered to take my once-a-week one.
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Yes, and I even remembered to take my once-a-week one.
Excellent! Is it a calcium supplement? :nerd!:
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Yes, and I even remembered to take my once-a-week one.
Excellent! Is it a calcium supplement? :nerd!:
No, osteoporosis preventative medication.
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Yes, and I even remembered to take my once-a-week one.
Excellent! Is it a calcium supplement? :nerd!:
No, osteoporosis preventative medication.
Good luck with your little bones. :viking:
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
I do think I told you, see. Is my memory really this bad?
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
I do think I told you, see. Is my memory really this bad?
Dunno, I have enough problems with mine! :zoinks:
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
I do think I told you, see. Is my memory really this bad?
Dunno, I have enough problems with mine! :zoinks:
I think I know how that feels...
Did I mention that I already took my meds? :-\
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
I do think I told you, see. Is my memory really this bad?
Dunno, I have enough problems with mine! :zoinks:
I think I know how that feels...
Did I mention that I already took my meds? :-\
I think you did, yes, a minute or so ago. :scratchhead:
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
I do think I told you, see. Is my memory really this bad?
Dunno, I have enough problems with mine! :zoinks:
I think I know how that feels...
Did I mention that I already took my meds? :-\
I think you did, yes, a minute or so ago. :scratchhead:
you sure?
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
I do think I told you, see. Is my memory really this bad?
Dunno, I have enough problems with mine! :zoinks:
I think I know how that feels...
Did I mention that I already took my meds? :-\
I think you did, yes, a minute or so ago. :scratchhead:
you sure?
About what? :snowman:
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
I do think I told you, see. Is my memory really this bad?
Dunno, I have enough problems with mine! :zoinks:
I think I know how that feels...
Did I mention that I already took my meds? :-\
I think you did, yes, a minute or so ago. :scratchhead:
you sure?
About what? :snowman:
Hey, look, a snowman! :zoinks:
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
I do think I told you, see. Is my memory really this bad?
Dunno, I have enough problems with mine! :zoinks:
I think I know how that feels...
Did I mention that I already took my meds? :-\
I think you did, yes, a minute or so ago. :scratchhead:
you sure?
About what? :snowman:
Hey, look, a snowman! :zoinks:
Huh? Where? :orly:
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
I do think I told you, see. Is my memory really this bad?
Dunno, I have enough problems with mine! :zoinks:
I think I know how that feels...
Did I mention that I already took my meds? :-\
I think you did, yes, a minute or so ago. :scratchhead:
you sure?
About what? :snowman:
Hey, look, a snowman! :zoinks:
Huh? Where? :orly:
Where what?
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
I do think I told you, see. Is my memory really this bad?
Dunno, I have enough problems with mine! :zoinks:
I think I know how that feels...
Did I mention that I already took my meds? :-\
I think you did, yes, a minute or so ago. :scratchhead:
you sure?
About what? :snowman:
Hey, look, a snowman! :zoinks:
Huh? Where? :orly:
Where what?
Ummm... :dunce:
I've lost the plot!!! :GA:
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
I do think I told you, see. Is my memory really this bad?
Dunno, I have enough problems with mine! :zoinks:
I think I know how that feels...
Did I mention that I already took my meds? :-\
I think you did, yes, a minute or so ago. :scratchhead:
you sure?
About what? :snowman:
Hey, look, a snowman! :zoinks:
Huh? Where? :orly:
Where what?
Ummm... :dunce:
I've lost the plot!!! :GA:
There was an actual plot? :o
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
I do think I told you, see. Is my memory really this bad?
Dunno, I have enough problems with mine! :zoinks:
I think I know how that feels...
Did I mention that I already took my meds? :-\
I think you did, yes, a minute or so ago. :scratchhead:
you sure?
About what? :snowman:
Hey, look, a snowman! :zoinks:
Huh? Where? :orly:
Where what?
Ummm... :dunce:
I've lost the plot!!! :GA:
There was an actual plot? :o
Lemon curry? :toporly:
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I did take them today (did I tell you this already?)
I don't believe you did! So be sure to revisit this thread on your way out! :2thumbsup:
I do think I told you, see. Is my memory really this bad?
Dunno, I have enough problems with mine! :zoinks:
I think I know how that feels...
Did I mention that I already took my meds? :-\
I think you did, yes, a minute or so ago. :scratchhead:
you sure?
About what? :snowman:
Hey, look, a snowman! :zoinks:
Huh? Where? :orly:
Where what?
Ummm... :dunce:
I've lost the plot!!! :GA:
There was an actual plot? :o
Lemon curry? :toporly:
Timmyyyyyy-eh!
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Yes, I did take my meds! At least I did that! :laugh:
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The ones that I needed to take so far.
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Yes, took em.
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Think I can squeeze a last bit out of the tube. Keep forgetting to get me a refill.
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I took mine at about five AM.
I took Ibuprofen, Parafon and Tylenol in mass quantities about three hours later.
I was having a bad time with my "trick hip," due to all the bent over work I was having to do.
I am OK, now, just a little sore from the hamstrings , mainly from too long of a bike trek in the early AM. (meds will not fix that; only more bike treks!!)
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ooh, thanks for this thread, need to take the night ones.
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I just took mine. Later I will take my multivitamin and be all set for the day! :headbang2:
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Yes, and finally ordered a new tube. Have to pick it up after 3:30 pm today, and before 5. Hope I don't forget.
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Yes, and finally ordered a new tube. Have to pick it up after 3:30 pm today, and before 5. Hope I don't forget.
:asthing: Don't forget! :asthing:
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Yes, and finally ordered a new tube. Have to pick it up after 3:30 pm today, and before 5. Hope I don't forget.
:asthing: Don't forget! :asthing:
:paperbag:
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Yes, I did.
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:viking:
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I used to think it was brave NOT to take my meds.
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I used to think it was brave NOT to take my meds.
Ah, the days of youth.
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I used to think it was brave NOT to take my meds.
Ah, the days of youth.
I stopped taking Zoloft around three years ago and thought it was, if not brave then at least wise.
Could have saved me a lot of grief to rethink that decision before acting.
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I used to think it was brave NOT to take my meds.
Ah, the days of youth.
I stopped taking Zoloft around three years ago and thought it was, if not brave then at least wise.
Could have saved me a lot of grief to rethink that decision before acting.
Lots of meds absolutely scare me. But, I know they can be good and needed. Very critical on easily prescribed meds though. And I guess I will always be that. But not as vehement as I used to be.
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I used to think it was brave NOT to take my meds.
Ah, the days of youth.
I stopped taking Zoloft around three years ago and thought it was, if not brave then at least wise.
Could have saved me a lot of grief to rethink that decision before acting.
Lots of meds absolutely scare me. But, I know they can be good and needed. Very critical on easily prescribed meds though. And I guess I will always be that. But not as vehement as I used to be.
Zoloft is prescribed too often, IMO. I wish CBT would be more common.
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Most of them, so since I missed some, I guess the correct answer is '"No."
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Yes and lots of extra as needed ones too
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Yes. :orly:
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I took my meds but forgot my multivitamin! Thanks to this thread, I shall now take it! :2thumbsup:
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Yes, tore the tube for the last bits. And did not forget to get a new tube from the pharmacy. :2thumbsup:
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Yes, tore the tube for the last bits. And did not forget to get a new tube from the pharmacy. :2thumbsup:
You remembered! I was hoping you had. :viking:
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Yes, tore the tube for the last bits. And did not forget to get a new tube from the pharmacy. :2thumbsup:
You remembered! I was hoping you had. :viking:
;D
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I still haven't taken my multivitamin, because I have misplaced the jar! :emb:
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I still haven't taken my multivitamin, because I have misplaced the jar! :emb:
How can you misplace something that big?
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That's what they said about "Lost" too.
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I still haven't taken my multivitamin, because I have misplaced the jar! :emb:
How can you misplace something that big?
It's the de-hoarding. All is so spacey now, that it is very likely to overlook outstanding items.
Bring back the clutter :viking:
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I still haven't taken my multivitamin, because I have misplaced the jar! :emb:
How can you misplace something that big?
Talent! :roses:
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I still haven't taken my multivitamin, because I have misplaced the jar! :emb:
How can you misplace something that big?
Talent! :roses:
And many years of dedicated practice?
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thanks to this thread reminding me, yes.
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Yes and I got Activan for panic in .5 mg tablets today they are the smallest pills I ever saw :zombiefuck:
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I still haven't taken my multivitamin, because I have misplaced the jar! :emb:
How can you misplace something that big?
Talent! :roses:
And many years of dedicated practice?
And disorganization too. :paperbag:
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Yes, I did indeed take my meds! :2thumbsup:
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Just now
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Yes and I remembered before I left the house and had to take to ones I keep in the truck
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Yes. :orly:
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This thread reminds me that I have found my misplaced multivitamins and that I should take one right now! :thumbup:
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Yes, I took my meds today.
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Yes, I took my meds today.
Along with a shot of Vitamin J, I guess.
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Yes, and tonight will be a alcohol vitamin night.
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Will apply a layer soon, before I go to sleep.
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I did, but just the BP meds and beta blockers, though; no pain meds.
(I am beginning to think that all this early morning bicycle riding is doing some good.)
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Since it's not quite 1 a.m., no.
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Yes, I took my meds today.
Along with a shot of Vitamin J, I guess.
Nope, just the meds. :toporly:
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I forgot to take my afternoon ones.
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Just took my meds now and started my :coffee: !
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Yes, took 'em.
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Taken
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Not yet, but, will do that soon.
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Yes :headbang2:
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I even remembered my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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I even remembered the klonpin for sleep
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I took my meds, now I must eat something before work! :viking:
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Just added my multivitamin! I'm ready to work! :viking:
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forgot, better do it right now.
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Done, and had some magnesium supplement too.
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Oh yes.
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The morning ones, yes.
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I did, but I also had to have some opiates for pain at about four AM. Made it to work on time (we all started late today) after only about three hours of sleep, but I feel ok now.
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I just did! I have to work at both jobs today! :headbang2:
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Yes, I took my meds in the morning, just like I do every day.
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i did.
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Aye, aye, Captain
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my meds do not keep me from being colorful in crowds.
fucking period!!!
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I took my meds and my multivitamin! :headbang2:
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I took a multivitamin and a mood stabilizer. My doctor thinks I am possibly schitzophrenic and manic, which explains the lack of emotion and bouts of incredible high brain function and periods of being a stupid caveman.
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forgot, I think. :smashviolin:
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I took a multivitamin and a mood stabilizer. My doctor thinks I am possibly schitzophrenic and manic, which explains the lack of emotion and bouts of incredible high brain function and periods of being a stupid caveman.
How are the meds working so far? :nerd!:
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I took a multivitamin and a mood stabilizer. My doctor thinks I am possibly schitzophrenic and manic, which explains the lack of emotion and bouts of incredible high brain function and periods of being a stupid caveman.
How are the meds working so far? :nerd!:
Really can't tell, but i'll be patient.
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I took a multivitamin and a mood stabilizer. My doctor thinks I am possibly schitzophrenic and manic, which explains the lack of emotion and bouts of incredible high brain function and periods of being a stupid caveman.
How are the meds working so far? :nerd!:
Really can't tell, but i'll be patient.
Hope it will help you.
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I took a multivitamin and a mood stabilizer. My doctor thinks I am possibly schitzophrenic and manic, which explains the lack of emotion and bouts of incredible high brain function and periods of being a stupid caveman.
How are the meds working so far? :nerd!:
Really can't tell, but i'll be patient.
Hope it will help you.
:agreed: Some meds take awhile to work, I wish you well.
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Maybe i'll finally be a real boy! :LOL:
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Maybe i'll finally be a real boy! :LOL:
You always have been. :)
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Yes.
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So far
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yes
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Yes but I have to remember to replace the ones I keep in the truck for mornings I forget
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I'm off schedule, so no.
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I did take them, yes. :thumbup:
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Did.
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I'm not used to meds/nutrition pills 4 times a day, so no.
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Not all of them, no. :GA:
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More scripts.
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Had the night meds.
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Yes, took them this morning.
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I just took my meds, thanks to this thread reminding me! :viking:
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One set down, 3 to go.
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just realized that if i had, i might be sleeping now.
started taking strontium for my back at night so it doesn't compromise the calcium; discovered it puts me to sleep. off to take it now.
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I love this thread! Just took my meds now. ;D
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Time now for my multivitamin! :viking:
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Have decided to try one time a day for a while, so, no, have not done the med thing yet.
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Yes, this morning.
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Yes :viking:
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Yes and an Atavan for good luck :2thumbsup:
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I have already taken my meds, now it is time for a multivitamin! :headbang2:
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Yes, took my meds.
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No and I paid for it with a panic attack and having to take a load of as needed meds
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No, I followed Parts, however when I resume tomorrow I'll piss a river. Ya'll may want to be upstream to avoid the flood.
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No, I followed Parts, however when I resume tomorrow I'll piss a river. Ya'll may want to be upstream to avoid the flood.
I'm in Massachusetts, am I safe? :orly:
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No, I followed Parts, however when I resume tomorrow I'll piss a river. Ya'll may want to be upstream to avoid the flood.
I'm in Massachusetts, am I safe? :orly:
Probably
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Even remembered my afternoon meds. Usually I forget them when I am at home.
Must remember to buy more Caltrate.
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I did, but I had to think about my answer, as I was barely awake when I took them. :yawn:
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Yes, am back to the twice a day routine.
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Yes, am back to the twice a day routine.
I hope it works well for you. :thumbup:
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yes, took my meds this morning.
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Yeahbup, Ibup tookbup thembup twicebup, Ibup thinkbup
Lolbup
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2 of the 4 sets. Will eventually get it right.
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YES!
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One will be down shortly, 3 sets to go.
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Took my meds but had forgotten my multivitamin. Thanks to this thread for reminding me. :thumbup:
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yes, took my pills.
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3 of 4, just need the night-time meds.
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I'm taking Cetrizine to help me with my runny nose and hayfever.
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SOMEONE TOOK THEM :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr:
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SOMEONE TOOK THEM :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr:
It must have been The Little Red Hen since she ended up doing everything.
And I will a take my fourth right now.
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SOMEONE TOOK THEM :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr:
It must have been The Little Red Hen since she ended up doing everything.
And I will a take my fourth right now.
They are gone still two weeks left in the bottle too someone probably thought they were real drugs not SSRI's too many ne faces in the house lately :grrr:
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SOMEONE TOOK THEM :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr: :grrr:
It must have been The Little Red Hen since she ended up doing everything.
And I will a take my fourth right now.
They are gone still two weeks left in the bottle too someone probably thought they were real drugs not SSRI's too many ne faces in the house lately :grrr:
Apologies. Rotten thing to have happen. I thought the faces referred to you in a bad mood (which they do, but I thought that you were joking a bit.)
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Yeah it sucks
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You get Lexapro in a bottle? Here they are in a blister packet.
Well whoever took your Lexapro is going to be pretty disappointed with them.
I just took my night time meds.
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I had to search my cluttered room for my meds :-[ but then I found them and took them.
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You get Lexapro in a bottle? Here they are in a blister packet.
Well whoever took your Lexapro is going to be pretty disappointed with them.
I just took my night time meds.
My doc replaced mine with samples that are blister packets today
So I got mind
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You get Lexapro in a bottle? Here they are in a blister packet.
Well whoever took your Lexapro is going to be pretty disappointed with them.
I just took my night time meds.
My doc replaced mine with samples that are blister packets today
So I got mind
That sounds like a play on "Got Milk?" "Got Mind?"
I've forgotten them so far, so I'll guess I'll skip today to keep all the meds running out on the same schedule.
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Just took mine, almost time for a refill! :orly:
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Yes, I did.
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half of them
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Yes. As always.
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yes. blueberry juice
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not right, so NO
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I did.
I was late, but for the important one I have a twenty four hour window.
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Forgot one of them.
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Forgot two.
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Been keeping mine in the truck now that the summer is almost over. Makes it easy to remember
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It's still too hot.
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I did.
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Not yet. Just the coffee.
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Not yet. Just the coffee.
:coffee: counts as medication!
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Not yet. Just the coffee.
:coffee: counts as medication!
Yes, or at least it should.
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Yes, I did.
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Yes, eventually.
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One of 4
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I took my Strattera and have taken two out of today's three antibiotic capsules! :viking:
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I took my Strattera and have taken two out of today's three antibiotic capsules! :viking:
Remember to eat some yogurt daily to avoid distress.
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I took my Strattera and have taken two out of today's three antibiotic capsules! :viking:
Remember to eat some yogurt daily to avoid distress.
I hadn't thought of that! I will get some tomorrow. :)
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A little while ago I took the day's last dose of antibiotics. :thumbup:
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I keep forgetting to take mine.
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This thread reminded me to take my afternoon meds.
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So far I have taken my Strattera and my morning antibiotics! :thumbup:
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Going upstairs to make up for what I forgot.
BRB
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Done.
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Took them as usual. But I still can't find my migraine pills.
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Hopefully today will be better. I may appoint this thread my Royal Physician.
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Took them as usual. But I still can't find my migraine pills.
You've been looking for them for over a week by now haven't you?
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I did and after an invigorating afternoon of bike riding, my BP is too low.
106/72 HR- 58 (multiply both numbers by two and you will almost have a BP reading like I had normally, just over a year ago. Mine was a little higher than a factor of two, though.)
I am sure that it was much higher as I was riding, but I am worried that my doc has some more work to do on me.
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Took them as usual. But I still can't find my migraine pills.
You've been looking for them for over a week by now haven't you?
Yes, and it's a bit late to find them now. They work best if you take them within 20 minutes of the first sign of the migraine.
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Yes I did! Just the Strattera, no antibiotic capsules since I am already having IV antibiotics. :thumbup:
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Took them as usual. But I still can't find my migraine pills.
You've been looking for them for over a week by now haven't you?
Yes, and it's a bit late to find them now. They work best if you take them within 20 minutes of the first sign of the migraine.
Have you found them yet?
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I wasted two years of my life on psych meds trying to conform! :thumbdn:
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I wasted two years of my life on psych meds trying to conform! :thumbdn:
I don't take them to conform if I did they are doing a piss poor job of it I take them to tolerate others enough to do what I have to do without any shooting sprees :litigious:
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I wasted two years of my life on psych meds trying to conform! :thumbdn:
I don't take them to conform if I did they are doing a piss poor job of it I take them to tolerate others enough to do what I have to do without any shooting sprees :litigious:
That's a good enough reason right there. :orly:
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Took them as usual. But I still can't find my migraine pills.
You've been looking for them for over a week by now haven't you?
Yes, and it's a bit late to find them now. They work best if you take them within 20 minutes of the first sign of the migraine.
Have you found them yet?
Nope. I have to conclude that I have lost them for good. Have to buy new ones.
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And yes, I took my meds today.
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I wasted two years of my life on psych meds trying to conform! :thumbdn:
I don't take them to conform if I did they are doing a piss poor job of it I take them to tolerate others enough to do what I have to do without any shooting sprees :litigious:
Do you mean to tell me you would take care of annoyances with something so common as a gun? With all your possessions and talents I would think that each annoyance would have an end specificall tailored for them.
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I have not, but I will, now.
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Forgot, will take them now.
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Yes, and soon I will take my antibiotics! :viking:
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I wasted two years of my life on psych meds trying to conform! :thumbdn:
I don't take them to conform if I did they are doing a piss poor job of it I take them to tolerate others enough to do what I have to do without any shooting sprees :litigious:
Do you mean to tell me you would take care of annoyances with something so common as a gun? With all your possessions and talents I would think that each annoyance would have an end specificall tailored for them.
In a pinch I'd use what ever was at hand. Done worry I would come up with some devious ways if I had to >:D
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Took and applied mine.
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Took my morning dose, but they didn't work so I didn't bother with the afternoon dose.
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Yes, I did.
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Soon it will be time for more antibiotics! :headbang2:
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I think I did, I think I did, I know I did.
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I did, but then again, I already said so.
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I did, but then again, I already said so.
And are saying so again! :asthing:
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I did, but then again, I already said so.
And are saying so again! :asthing:
Yes. What can i say? It's a reason as good as anything to postwhore.
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I did, but then again, I already said so.
And are saying so again! :asthing:
Yes. What can i say? It's a reason as good as anything to postwhore.
I'm on antibiotics three times a day, in addition to my Strattera! I'm gonna make Maniacal Postwhore in no time! :zoinks:
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That's something to be desired?
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That's something to be desired?
But of course! Every Postwhore longs for the next level! :asthing:
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That's something to be desired?
But of course! Every Postwhore longs for the next level! :asthing:
Nah, not me. I've reached every level there is and to tell the truth, it was pretty boring.
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That's something to be desired?
But of course! Every Postwhore longs for the next level! :asthing:
Nah, not me. I've reached every level there is and to tell the truth, it was pretty boring.
Maybe I'll be jaded one day, but for now I'm still starry-eyed! :cheer:
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That's something to be desired?
But of course! Every Postwhore longs for the next level! :asthing:
Nah, not me. I've reached every level there is and to tell the truth, it was pretty boring.
Maybe I'll be jaded one day, but for now I'm still starry-eyed! :cheer:
What drugs are you using? :nerdy:
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That's something to be desired?
But of course! Every Postwhore longs for the next level! :asthing:
Nah, not me. I've reached every level there is and to tell the truth, it was pretty boring.
Maybe I'll be jaded one day, but for now I'm still starry-eyed! :cheer:
What drugs are you using? :nerdy:
I'm just high on postwhoring! :asthing:
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oops.
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oops.
Can you take them now? :orly:
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oops.
Can you take them now? :orly:
Only if I eat some ice cream :clap:
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oops.
Can you take them now? :orly:
Only if I eat some ice cream :clap:
The sacrifices we must make to stay healthy! :zoinks:
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No I quit!
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I have taken my antibiotics, will take the Strattera in a little while. :thumbup:
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I was good today and remembered to take all my meds (most days I forget the late afternoon dose).
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I was good today and remembered to take all my meds (most days I forget the late afternoon dose).
Excellent! With multiple meds and/or doses, it can be very easy to forget at least one, as I have done a couple of times recently.
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I just wish they could make dexamphetamine into a once-a-day medication. I don't like taking it while I am at uni.
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I did.
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That's something to be desired?
But of course! Every Postwhore longs for the next level! :asthing:
Nah, not me. I've reached every level there is and to tell the truth, it was pretty boring.
Maybe I'll be jaded one day, but for now I'm still starry-eyed! :cheer:
TBH, I'm just posting now. I need my fix but I'm not actually aiming for anything.
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Darn it. NO
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That's something to be desired?
But of course! Every Postwhore longs for the next level! :asthing:
Nah, not me. I've reached every level there is and to tell the truth, it was pretty boring.
Maybe I'll be jaded one day, but for now I'm still starry-eyed! :cheer:
TBH, I'm just posting now. I need my fix but I'm not actually aiming for anything.
Then create some new levels, new titles to strive toward! :viking:
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That's something to be desired?
But of course! Every Postwhore longs for the next level! :asthing:
Nah, not me. I've reached every level there is and to tell the truth, it was pretty boring.
Maybe I'll be jaded one day, but for now I'm still starry-eyed! :cheer:
TBH, I'm just posting now. I need my fix but I'm not actually aiming for anything.
Then create some new levels, new titles to strive toward! :viking:
Shouldn't the fun, or the relief be in the posting itself?
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That's something to be desired?
But of course! Every Postwhore longs for the next level! :asthing:
Nah, not me. I've reached every level there is and to tell the truth, it was pretty boring.
Maybe I'll be jaded one day, but for now I'm still starry-eyed! :cheer:
TBH, I'm just posting now. I need my fix but I'm not actually aiming for anything.
Then create some new levels, new titles to strive toward! :viking:
Shouldn't the fun, or the relief be in the posting itself?
Oh yes, absolutely, but there is an additional joy in watching the numbers go up and the title change! :headbang2:
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That's something to be desired?
But of course! Every Postwhore longs for the next level! :asthing:
Nah, not me. I've reached every level there is and to tell the truth, it was pretty boring.
Maybe I'll be jaded one day, but for now I'm still starry-eyed! :cheer:
TBH, I'm just posting now. I need my fix but I'm not actually aiming for anything.
Then create some new levels, new titles to strive toward! :viking:
Shouldn't the fun, or the relief be in the posting itself?
Oh yes, absolutely, but there is an additional joy in watching the numbers go up and the title change! :headbang2:
I only notice when a number strikes me with it's beauty, and I happen to see it at that very moment.
Most of the times I miss that too. :asthing:
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Meh. It's just a number right now.
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Took my Strattera, now it's time for my antibiotics! :asthing:
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Morning, check
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Yes, took them.
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well it seems that many of us need this "Public Service" thread.
I am going now to take mine.
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Damn. Forgot the evening one that needs to be taken with a full meal.
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Gonna take Lunesta tonight. I need some rest and need desperately to shut my mind off.
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Gonna take Lunesta tonight. I need some rest and need desperately to shut my mind off.
May that pretty green moth from the TV ads flutter gently into your bedroom and lull you to sleep. :)
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Cheated a touch and took the evening meds with ice cream instead of a full meal.
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Cheated a touch and took the evening meds with ice cream instead of a full meal.
I took my antibiotics with ice cream too! :2thumbsup:
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Yes.
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Will go and get them right after hitting the post button.
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Done.
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Just took my Strattera, and in an hour I will begin my day's antibiotics! :viking:
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what is the best med out there? im thinking about getting on some :orly:
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what is the best med out there? im thinking about getting on some :orly:
In all seriousness, LAUGHTER. When you laugh
it lessens your burdens and worries,
exercises the muscles and organs in your body and
tickles your brain.
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This just reminded me to take my afternoon meds.
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And I have to get another beer.
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I took everything today, even remembered the midday antibiotics on schedule! :thumbup:
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Damn, forgot again.
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Just took my afternoon antibiotics, thanks to this thread! :thumbup:
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I took mine at about five thirty AM.
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I took my Risperdal today.
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Forgot yesterday and this morning, but, have had tonight's dosage.
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Yes.
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Time to bump this thread, I keep forgetting my meds.
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I took mine. I'm done with the antibiotics, so now I have only the Strattera and multivitamin to remember. :thumbup:
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Not yet.
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A resounding yes. I even took one of the Princess Royal's medicines by mistake, but I'm not expecting any dire consequences.
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Nope still haven't. Give me time to finish my coffee first.
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Not yet.
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Yesterday, yes. Today, no. Give me some time.
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Yesterday, yes. Today, no. Give me some time.
Time's a-wasting! :police:
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Yesterday, yes. Today, no. Give me some time.
Time's a-wasting! :police:
I'm supposed to take the stuff in the morning, not before I go to sleep.
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Yesterday, yes. Today, no. Give me some time.
Time's a-wasting! :police:
I'm supposed to take the stuff in the morning, not before I go to sleep.
What time is it where you are? These time zones get me all boggled up! :duh:
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Yesterday, yes. Today, no. Give me some time.
Time's a-wasting! :police:
I'm supposed to take the stuff in the morning, not before I go to sleep.
What time is it where you are? These time zones get me all boggled up! :duh:
:laugh:
A quarter past midnight.
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Yesterday, yes. Today, no. Give me some time.
Time's a-wasting! :police:
I'm supposed to take the stuff in the morning, not before I go to sleep.
What time is it where you are? These time zones get me all boggled up! :duh:
:laugh:
A quarter past midnight.
OK, now I'm all straightened out! :happydance:
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Yesterday, yes. Today, no. Give me some time.
Time's a-wasting! :police:
I'm supposed to take the stuff in the morning, not before I go to sleep.
What time is it where you are? These time zones get me all boggled up! :duh:
:laugh:
A quarter past midnight.
OK, now I'm all straightened out! :happydance:
And I will take my meds in a few hours. I promise. :P
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Yesterday, yes. Today, no. Give me some time.
Time's a-wasting! :police:
I'm supposed to take the stuff in the morning, not before I go to sleep.
What time is it where you are? These time zones get me all boggled up! :duh:
:laugh:
A quarter past midnight.
OK, now I'm all straightened out! :happydance:
And I will take my meds in a few hours. I promise. :P
Excellent! Carry on posting then! :thumbup:
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no. im not on medication, sometimes i wish i was though
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I took my Strattera and my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Yes, took them this morning.
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Forgot this morning, will try to remember when I go to bed.
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Yes, and soon I will add my multivitamin! :headbang2:
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Yes I did.
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I have taken my Strattera, and am about to take my multivitamin! :viking:
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no. im not on medication, sometimes i wish i was though
you definitely should be!
and no, not yet. thanks for reminding me :D
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Part one, will endeavor to continue on in the eternal medicated journey.
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yes, I did.
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Don't know if I did this morning. Will try to remember when going to bed.
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Nope, must find them..
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Yes, did.
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I think I did, but I'm not sure. :-\
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no
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No, and forgot yesterday night too. :-\
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I actually remembered today! :2thumbsup:
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No, must find them.
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Yes.
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Yes, I have taken both my Strattera and my multivitamin! :viking:
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Yes.
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Stattera and multivitamin, both taken! Ready to rock! :viking:
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Yes. Taking 6 a day, several times a day, since coming home from the hospital. But as of today I'm down to 5 a day. Yay!
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Yes.
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Yes. Taking 6 a day, several times a day, since coming home from the hospital. But as of today I'm down to 5 a day. Yay!
You are on antibiotics?
I remembered my lunchtime meds.
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Forgot, will apply it soon.
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Already took the Strattera, now I must take my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Forgot, will apply it soon.
Did it shortly after this post.
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no. im not on medication, sometimes i wish i was though
you definitely should be!
no way! i need to be able to use my peter. and i've been on meds in the past, i HATE side effects. :thumbdn:
like getting fat. or feeling more fucked up than you already are on them, paxil, respirdal was the worst meds ive ever been on
seroquel made me feel like a :zombiefuck:
i was on prozac, and zoloft when i was a teenager and i dont remember them being too bad but still, no way man
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Yes, I took them. And some aspirin.
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I have taken my Strattera and my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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One of these days I'm going to have to find them.
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Yes, took em this morning.
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Yes, but they're not working today.
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Yes. Taking 6 a day, several times a day, since coming home from the hospital. But as of today I'm down to 5 a day. Yay!
You are on antibiotics?
I remembered my lunchtime meds.
yes. Working my way through a stint of bacterial pneumonia.
Took my morning meds which is good because I have been forgetting as of late.
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Yes.
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Yes I have, and soon I will add my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Yes!
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No, still haven't found them.
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No, still haven't found them.
I'll help you look! I'll wobble about, and on one of my downward wobbles I might find them underneath something! :)
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As for me, I have taken mine. :thumbup:
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Yup, took them this morning.
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im gonna take some meds made out of bacon in a minute. :laugh:
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Found a prescription from last year for the Princess Royal for my happy pill, except hers is double my dose. I'm taking it until I find mine. The other 2 meds are still AWOL.
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I just took my Strattera! :thumbup:
Edited to remove an extra "t." I'd had my meds but not nearly enough :coffee: !
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Yes
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No, not yet.
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Yes, this morning.
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I just took my night time meds.
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Just took my morning stuff! :thumbup:
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Need to get myself a new tube.
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Yes. Think I need something for the headache too.
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Still haven't found the blasted things.
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no
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Yes, just before bed, but already today.
Will call the pharmacy now for a refill. :thumbup:
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Can pick them up tomorrow after 3:30 pm
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Can pick them up tomorrow after 3:30 pm
Don't forget! :police:
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I just took mine! Thanks for reminding me! :thumbup:
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Yes, took them. Got prescribed a new one today, too.
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Yes, took them. Got prescribed a new one today, too.
A new batch, or a new medication? :orly:
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Yes I did, AND my multivitamin too! :2thumbsup:
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No, I didn't. I did pick up a new tube the other day though.
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No, I didn't. I did pick up a new tube the other day though.
Remember to take the next dose! :police:
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Ny meds got refilled on Thursday, so I'm up to speed now. Still haven't found the ones Lady Weeble misplaced for me (LOL).
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Ny meds got refilled on Thursday, so I'm up to speed now. Still haven't found the ones Lady Weeble misplaced for me (LOL).
Still wobbling around in search of them, Your Majesty! :laugh:
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Ny meds got refilled on Thursday, so I'm up to speed now. Still haven't found the ones Lady Weeble misplaced for me (LOL).
May have ended up in one of the many trash-bags she threw out.
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Yes, took the Zoloft. I'm hoping I don't have to take the migraine meds.
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Ny meds got refilled on Thursday, so I'm up to speed now. Still haven't found the ones Lady Weeble misplaced for me (LOL).
May have ended up in one of the many trash-bags she threw out.
Ooops. :emb:
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Ny meds got refilled on Thursday, so I'm up to speed now. Still haven't found the ones Lady Weeble misplaced for me (LOL).
May have ended up in one of the many trash-bags she threw out.
Ooops. :emb:
That's okay Lady Weeble. I prefer to drink sherry rather than take my meds.
Yes I took them this morning.
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Ny meds got refilled on Thursday, so I'm up to speed now. Still haven't found the ones Lady Weeble misplaced for me (LOL).
May have ended up in one of the many trash-bags she threw out.
Ooops. :emb:
That's okay Lady Weeble. I prefer to drink sherry rather than take my meds.
Yes I took them this morning.
*wobbles away, curtsying, relieved not to be in trouble for throwing the meds away!*
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Ny meds got refilled on Thursday, so I'm up to speed now. Still haven't found the ones Lady Weeble misplaced for me (LOL).
May have ended up in one of the many trash-bags she threw out.
Ooops. :emb:
That's okay Lady Weeble. I prefer to drink sherry rather than take my meds.
Yes I took them this morning.
*wobbles away, curtsying, relieved not to be in trouble for throwing the meds away!*
Stay and have a glass of sherry.
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Ny meds got refilled on Thursday, so I'm up to speed now. Still haven't found the ones Lady Weeble misplaced for me (LOL).
May have ended up in one of the many trash-bags she threw out.
Ooops. :emb:
That's okay Lady Weeble. I prefer to drink sherry rather than take my meds.
Yes I took them this morning.
*wobbles away, curtsying, relieved not to be in trouble for throwing the meds away!*
Stay and have a glass of sherry.
*wobbles back, beaming with gratitude, and accepts a tumbler of sherry* :)
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I have taken my meds and multivitamin, and am preparing myself for a busy day! :viking:
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Yes, but 20mg of dexamphetamine wasn't enough to keep me from crawling back into bed a couple of hours after getting up. I started to feel more alert after taking another 20mg of dexamphetamine at 11am, but now it's 2pm and I'm getting sleepy again.
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Yes.
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Yes, and I took my multivitamin too! Off to work in a little while! :viking:
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Yes, did.
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No. :facepalm2:
Will do better tomorrow.
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i didnt take them, because i'm not on meds.. :zoinks:
secretly i envy all of you though. :M
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No and haven't for maybe two months now :thumbup:
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Yes, but 20mg of dexamphetamine wasn't enough to keep me from crawling back into bed a couple of hours after getting up. I started to feel more alert after taking another 20mg of dexamphetamine at 11am, but now it's 2pm and I'm getting sleepy again.
This sometimes happens to me, I take my morning dose and then go back to sleep. So much for stimulants!
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No and haven't for maybe two months now :thumbup:
How have you been feeling? :orly:
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Yes, but 20mg of dexamphetamine wasn't enough to keep me from crawling back into bed a couple of hours after getting up. I started to feel more alert after taking another 20mg of dexamphetamine at 11am, but now it's 2pm and I'm getting sleepy again.
This sometimes happens to me, I take my morning dose and then go back to sleep. So much for stimulants!
Take 2 men and call me in the morning. Groucho Marx
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Yup.
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I always do!
... well, except for when I don't. :-\
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:laugh:
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Yes, but 20mg of dexamphetamine wasn't enough to keep me from crawling back into bed a couple of hours after getting up. I started to feel more alert after taking another 20mg of dexamphetamine at 11am, but now it's 2pm and I'm getting sleepy again.
This sometimes happens to me, I take my morning dose and then go back to sleep. So much for stimulants!
I'm currently taking a break from my meds and working my way through neurochemical purgatory to reduce my tolerance.
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Yes, but 20mg of dexamphetamine wasn't enough to keep me from crawling back into bed a couple of hours after getting up. I started to feel more alert after taking another 20mg of dexamphetamine at 11am, but now it's 2pm and I'm getting sleepy again.
This sometimes happens to me, I take my morning dose and then go back to sleep. So much for stimulants!
I'm currently taking a break from my meds and working my way through neurochemical purgatory to reduce my tolerance.
Godspeed through purgatory! :viking:
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I just took mine, thanks again for this thread, hyke! :thumbup:
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I still need to take mine. I will.
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I also took my multivitamin. I'm convinced it helps keep me wart-free, so I consider it a medication! :thumbup:
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I'm about to break my fast and will take meds then.
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I'm about to break my fast and will take meds then.
Please describe the breakfast! :drool:
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Not yet, but seeing this reminded me!
Nexium
Vitamin D3
Probiotic
Multivitamin
Fish Oil
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Not yet, but seeing this reminded me!
Nexium
Vitamin D3
Probiotic
Multivitamin
Fish Oil
Does the fish oil taste funny, or is it in tasteless gelcaps? :nerd!:
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Tasteless gelcaps! I have never eaten fish!
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Tasteless gelcaps! I have never eaten fish!
Never in all your life? Wow. :orly:
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Tasteless gelcaps! I have never eaten fish!
Never in all your life? Wow. :orly:
Nope! I used to have them as pets! You don't eat your pets. Of course now I don't eat any animals, but never ate fish or other seafood.
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Tasteless gelcaps! I have never eaten fish!
Never in all your life? Wow. :orly:
Nope! I used to have them as pets! You don't eat your pets. Of course now I don't eat any animals, but never ate fish or other seafood.
I can understand that. I used to have two guinea pigs. Guinea pigs are eaten in South America. (emo)
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<gets all fucking teary-eyed>
I LUV this thread!!11!~!
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Yes today and yes terday
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yes. >:D
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I took my meds earlier, but would have forgotten my multivitamin without this thread. :thumbup:
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I havent taken meds for months now.
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not yet, I will in 2 hours :D
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I did, but I was a bit late. Was supposed to take them in the morning, but I woke up late due to having a few drinks last night.
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About to
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Not yet! :asthing:
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Yes.
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I got confused and started to take them again :duh:
Stopped myself in time.
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I still haven't taken mine! :asthing:
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tok mine at four AM. (long day, today)
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Still haven't! :asthing:
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I have taken my meds and my multivitamin. Now I'm hungry! :P
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Yes, but they didn't save me from feeling crappy today.
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The morning ones
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Yes!
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I think so.
Yes, I still think so, I think.
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Yes, I did.
Face isn't full of purple patches any more, and not sore, apparently it is working.
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Yes, I did.
Face isn't full of purple patches any more, and not sore, apparently it is working.
Good, this means you can take a photo of yourself and post it on here. ;D
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Yes, I did.
Face isn't full of purple patches any more, and not sore, apparently it is working.
Good, this means you can take a photo of yourself and post it on here. ;D
:laugh:
You are tenacious.
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Yes, I did.
Face isn't full of purple patches any more, and not sore, apparently it is working.
Good, this means you can take a photo of yourself and post it on here. ;D
:laugh:
You are tenacious.
We want a picture! We want a picture! :viking:
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Yes, and they worked better today.
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Yes. Getting better at remembering the evening one.
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Yes. And I even remembered to get the new ones.
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Yes. And I even remembered to get the new ones.
I have a fresh prescription AND an order for a blood test to monitor my liver while I am on my meds! :hadron:
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Yes. Getting better at remembering the evening one.
Posted too soon. Forgot the evening meal med. Can only be taken with a full meal. Fuck it, I'm going to live dangerously and take it Anyway!
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Yes. Getting better at remembering the evening one.
Posted too soon. Forgot the evening meal med. Can only be taken with a full meal. Fuck it, I'm going to live dangerously and take it Anyway!
Will it upset your stomach? :orly:
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Yes. Getting better at remembering the evening one.
Posted too soon. Forgot the evening meal med. Can only be taken with a full meal. Fuck it, I'm going to live dangerously and take it Anyway!
Will it upset your stomach? :orly:
Nah, it's for my diabetes and should be taken with the largest meal of the day.
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Yes. Getting better at remembering the evening one.
Posted too soon. Forgot the evening meal med. Can only be taken with a full meal. Fuck it, I'm going to live dangerously and take it Anyway!
Will it upset your stomach? :orly:
Nah, it's for my diabetes and should be taken with the largest meal of the day.
Time to whip up a late night feast! :2thumbsup:
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Yes. Getting better at remembering the evening one.
Posted too soon. Forgot the evening meal med. Can only be taken with a full meal. Fuck it, I'm going to live dangerously and take it Anyway!
Will it upset your stomach? :orly:
Nah, it's for my diabetes and should be taken with the largest meal of the day.
Time to whip up a late night feast! :2thumbsup:
Is this a sneaky way for you to get invited for a meal?
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Yes. Getting better at remembering the evening one.
Posted too soon. Forgot the evening meal med. Can only be taken with a full meal. Fuck it, I'm going to live dangerously and take it Anyway!
Will it upset your stomach? :orly:
Nah, it's for my diabetes and should be taken with the largest meal of the day.
Time to whip up a late night feast! :2thumbsup:
Is this a sneaky way for you to get invited for a meal?
Why, whatever makes you say that? :angel:
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Yes, I remembered.
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I remembered my morning and afternoon meds.
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I always take my meds with my insulin. :finger: fuck you insulin :finger: and fuck that needle too :finger:
but I kind of have to, results of not taking insulin could be kind of disasterous.
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I always take my meds with my insulin. :finger: fuck you insulin :finger: and fuck that needle too :finger:
but I kind of have to, results of not taking insulin could be kind of disasterous.
Yes, keep fighting that good fight! :viking:
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I have indeed taken my Strattera! Multivitamin will soon follow! :thumbup:
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Just took night meds, haloperidol and Edronax.
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Down the hatch
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Need a migraine pill soon.
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I did indeed! Soon I will take my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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thanks for reminding me.
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forgot, and it shows.
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Just took my lunchtime meds.
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Not yet, no.
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I just took mine, a bit late, but no harm done. :thumbup:
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Yes. It feels good to have rings that are loose on my finger.
(Old Lady Alert - Diuretics)
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Yes. It feels good to have rings that are loose on my finger.
(Old Lady Alert - Diuretics)
I'm an old lady too. I'm getting arthritic-looking knuckles! :prude:
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I skipped my SSRI last night and had really vivid, complex dreams and slept for 11 hours.
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I skipped my SSRI last night and had really vivid, complex dreams and slept for 11 hours.
I have really vivid, complex dreams if I eat sweets or starches in the wee hours of the morning! :chin:
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Yes. It feels good to have rings that are loose on my finger.
(Old Lady Alert - Diuretics)
I'm an old lady too. I'm getting arthritic-looking knuckles! :prude:
That could be from the type of work you do. It's hard on the hand joints, elbows, knees and feet.
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Yes. It feels good to have rings that are loose on my finger.
(Old Lady Alert - Diuretics)
I'm an old lady too. I'm getting arthritic-looking knuckles! :prude:
That could be from the type of work you do. It's hard on the hand joints, elbows, knees and feet.
Yes, there is a lot of repetitive motion, and a lot of lifting too. :nerd!:
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Yes. It feels good to have rings that are loose on my finger.
(Old Lady Alert - Diuretics)
I'm an old lady too. I'm getting arthritic-looking knuckles! :prude:
That could be from the type of work you do. It's hard on the hand joints, elbows, knees and feet.
Yes, there is a lot of repetitive motion, and a lot of lifting too. :nerd!:
Don't change to being a postie then. Will do no good for your hands at all.
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Yes. It feels good to have rings that are loose on my finger.
(Old Lady Alert - Diuretics)
I'm an old lady too. I'm getting arthritic-looking knuckles! :prude:
That could be from the type of work you do. It's hard on the hand joints, elbows, knees and feet.
Yes, there is a lot of repetitive motion, and a lot of lifting too. :nerd!:
Don't change to being a postie then. Will do no good for your hands at all.
Do your hands hurt? :(
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Yes. It feels good to have rings that are loose on my finger.
(Old Lady Alert - Diuretics)
I'm an old lady too. I'm getting arthritic-looking knuckles! :prude:
That could be from the type of work you do. It's hard on the hand joints, elbows, knees and feet.
Yes, there is a lot of repetitive motion, and a lot of lifting too. :nerd!:
Don't change to being a postie then. Will do no good for your hands at all.
Do your hands hurt? :(
They aged a lot more in the past two years than in the fifteen years before I think. Flexibility isn't what it used to be anymore. And, my right thumb does have some beginning arthritic damage. They are not allowed to hire people for more than 20 hours a week for solely delivering of mail, because of what the repetition does, they told me.
Proper postmen/women, do get other things to do too, so, that can be a full time job. This is very single tasked, and that makes that it can't be a full time job.
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Technically I took them yesterday.
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Just took the evening ones.
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Yes, I have taken them. I love this thread! :thumbup:
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Still taking a break from my SSRI, in the hope that shaking up my neurochemistry a bit will help me to get out of the rut I've been stuck in lately. I had intense dreams again last night, and I feel a bit anxious today.
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Yes, took them.
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Yes. I even had my daily giggle today thanks to I2.
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Yes. I even had my daily giggle today thanks to I2.
Daily giggles are an important part of any diet! :cheer:
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Yes I did! It's Monday! Time to get back to work and kick ass! :viking:
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Forgot...
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Just took my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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The dexamphetamine has been working better since I stopped taking the sertraline, and the withdrawal effects from the sertraline are diminishing.
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The monday morning pill (for osteoporosis) is taken.
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The monday morning pill (for osteoporosis) is taken.
Once a week, before breakfast, and not sitting down for half an hour?
Wonder when my turn will come. Will come I guess. My Mum all of a sudden started to shrink at an alarming rate. More than 5 cm in a single year. :zombiefuck:
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The monday morning pill (for osteoporosis) is taken.
Once a week, before breakfast, and not sitting down for half an hour?
Wonder when my turn will come. Will come I guess. My Mum all of a sudden started to shrink at an alarming rate. More than 5 cm in a single year. :zombiefuck:
Yep (not reclining for 1/2 hour). Tried the once a month pill, but it was too difficult to remember a date. Every Monday works for me.
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Yes, I took them this morning.
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I DID!
I KNOW I DID, I think.
That is, I think I know that I did.
Thinking and KNOWING are so close that I am almost sure I did, I think.
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I DID!
I KNOW I DID, I think.
That is, I think I know that I did.
Thinking and KNOWING are so close that I am almost sure I did, I think.
Nothing like a clear statement of confusion to illuminate things.
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I think so too. :laugh:
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Pretty sure I did not.
Will go and do that now.
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I definitely did! :thumbup:
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Forgot my afternoon pills but have remembered the night ones.
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Pretty sure I did not.
Will go and do that now.
done, right after the quoted post.
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Yes!
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Yes
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Did.
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yes.
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Yes
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I forgot because I was out. Will remember my night time meds though.
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Just took them, and will soon take my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Yes.
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Think I did.
Pretty sure about that.
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Do I have to?
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Do I have to?
No. If you have fun meds, give them to me.
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Do I have to?
No. If you have fun meds, give them to me.
You may be taking some of my fun meds if you have arthritis in your hip. Yes, I took them today.
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I took the meds and I took my multivitamin. Now I just need more :coffee: !
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Do I have to?
No. If you have fun meds, give them to me.
You may be taking some of my fun meds if you have arthritis in your hip. Yes, I took them today.
That is a possibility, according to a friend. :-\
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Oh yes I did! Ready for work! :viking:
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Yes, I did.
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Time for my multivitamin! :police:
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Yes, but tomorrow I'll be adding 3 OTC meds to my routine: Eye vitamins, Fish oil and Flaxseed oil. Oh joy.
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Eye vitamins? ???
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Eye vitamins? ???
Lutein, zeaxanthin, A, C, E, etc in a pill. The eye doc said to take then to prevent age-related eye issues. I have diabetes and had cataract surgeries at age 49.
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Yes, I took my meds and everyone else's as well.
I think I took all posssible meds, today. If I find more meds I willl take them, too.
Wwell, if I lived near the jungle, I would have, TODAY!! I would have gone completely NATIVE on meds.
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Eye vitamins? ???
Lutein, zeaxanthin, A, C, E, etc in a pill. The eye doc said to take then to prevent age-related eye issues. I have diabetes and had cataract surgeries at age 49.
Oh, right. Sounds like a useful pill.
Didn't take my meds yet.
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UPDATE: Took my meds.
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I took my meds, and soon I will open my new bottle of multivitamins! :thumbup:
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Yes, face feels sorel though. That's what the weather does for me.
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Yes, and the ones last night as well, although a bit late.
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Yes, indeed.
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I took my meds and my multivitamin, and am drinking :coffee: !
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Yes
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Yes.
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no, should have though.
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I did.
I was a "good boy."
... well except for that thing on the carpet which I can NOT truly explain in any way that you could understand.
:hide:
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I forgot my afternoon meds.
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Yes!
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Yes I did! The multivitamin will soon follow! It's gonna be a great day! :viking:
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Almost (how's that for a sneaky answer?)
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Almost (how's that for a sneaky answer?)
OK, you've got my attention! How do you "almost" take your meds? :orly:
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By missing the mouth?
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By missing the mouth?
I've done that a time or too! OOPS! :duh: :rofl:
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By missing the mouth?
I've done that a time or too! OOPS! :duh: :rofl:
Me too, when trying the really cool tricks with the pills.
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By missing the mouth?
I've done that a time or too! OOPS! :duh: :rofl:
Me too, when trying the really cool tricks with the pills.
I suppose my willingness, at these times, to pick up the dropped capsule
and wipe it off before eating it shows how much better my OCD situation is! :thumbup:
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I was eating b'fast when I saw the thread and I started to reach for the pill box with one hand while posting.
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I was eating b'fast when I saw the thread and I started to reach for the pill box with one hand while posting.
Wow, you captured history as it was happening! :orly:
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Yes, I did! I remember struggling with the child-proof cap on the bottle! :laugh:
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I took mine nice and early, noting that the vial is already about half empty, so I'll need a refill soon. :thumbup:
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By missing the mouth?
I've done that a time or too! OOPS! :duh: :rofl:
Me too, when trying the really cool tricks with the pills.
I suppose my willingness, at these times, to pick up the dropped capsule
and wipe it off before eating it shows how much better my OCD situation is! :thumbup:
I do the same thing and I haven't died of floor germs yet.
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By missing the mouth?
I've done that a time or too! OOPS! :duh: :rofl:
Me too, when trying the really cool tricks with the pills.
I suppose my willingness, at these times, to pick up the dropped capsule
and wipe it off before eating it shows how much better my OCD situation is! :thumbup:
I do the same thing and I haven't died of floor germs yet.
Me neither! I like living dangerously! :arrr:
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Yes, I took them.
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yes
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AND my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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And the evening ones
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I didn't take my ADHD meds as I have only half a bottle left. Have to go and see the psych to get more. I hate it when my prescription expires!
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Not yet.
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I didn't take my ADHD meds as I have only half a bottle left. Have to go and see the psych to get more. I hate it when my prescription expires!
Can you have his office set up regular appointments for you that are scheduled before the meds run out?
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Just took mine, and am now about to have breakfast. :thumbup:
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Yes, I took them earlier.
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I also took my multivitamin! I'm ready to rock! :headbang2:
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The OTC ones I could find. The prescribed drugs are MIA again.
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The OTC ones I could find. The prescribed drugs are MIA again.
I hate it when that happens! I am still missing my bottle of aspirin. :duh:
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I didn't take my ADHD meds as I have only half a bottle left. Have to go and see the psych to get more. I hate it when my prescription expires!
Can you have his office set up regular appointments for you that are scheduled before the meds run out?
What I really should do is go and get my prescription filled even though I don't need to. That would ensure that I have enough meds when it comes time to see the psych again. I have to see him every six months.
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Yup, and got a tetanus jab too today.
So all of you can now watch and see if the vaccination will increase my traits.
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I took my meds AND my multivitamin! Back to work today! :viking:
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As soon as I have b'fast I will.
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YES!
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yes
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Yes.
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Yes I did! I have to leave the house very early today! :GA:
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Took dexamphetamine, but didn't take caffeine. Caffeine can be a big help at times, but it loses it's effectiveness and I get bad side-effects after a few weeks of taking it, including physical and mental fatigue, angular cheilitis, an unpleasant sensation in my head which I think is caused by vasoconstriction in my frontal lobes, dry mucus membranes, a loss of creativity and initiative, irritability and difficulty in making decisions.
The side-effects from dexamphetamine are very few and mild compared to caffeine. The only area in which it's worse than caffeine is the withdrawal when I take a break from it. When I take a break from caffeine, I can feel shitty for a few days but I'm usually still reasonably functional, but taking a break from dexamphetamine usually entails sleeping for 18 hours a day for the first few days and being very unproductive during my waking hours. It's not as unpleasant as caffeine withdrawal can be, and it can be quite relaxing at times, but it's frustrating to have a week in which almost nothing useful gets done.
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Yes, finally.
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Yes. And I am about to self-medicate myself with some jelly doughnuts.
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Took dexamphetamine, but didn't take caffeine. Caffeine can be a big help at times, but it loses it's effectiveness and I get bad side-effects after a few weeks of taking it, including physical and mental fatigue, angular cheilitis, an unpleasant sensation in my head which I think is caused by vasoconstriction in my frontal lobes, dry mucus membranes, a loss of creativity and initiative, irritability and difficulty in making decisions.
The side-effects from dexamphetamine are very few and mild compared to caffeine. The only area in which it's worse than caffeine is the withdrawal when I take a break from it. When I take a break from caffeine, I can feel shitty for a few days but I'm usually still reasonably functional, but taking a break from dexamphetamine usually entails sleeping for 18 hours a day for the first few days and being very unproductive during my waking hours. It's not as unpleasant as caffeine withdrawal can be, and it can be quite relaxing at times, but it's frustrating to have a week in which almost nothing useful gets done.
So are you diagnosed with ADHD Peter?
I have taken my meds today.
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I took my meds earlier, but had forgotten my multivitamin! :orly:
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Took dexamphetamine, but didn't take caffeine. Caffeine can be a big help at times, but it loses it's effectiveness and I get bad side-effects after a few weeks of taking it, including physical and mental fatigue, angular cheilitis, an unpleasant sensation in my head which I think is caused by vasoconstriction in my frontal lobes, dry mucus membranes, a loss of creativity and initiative, irritability and difficulty in making decisions.
The side-effects from dexamphetamine are very few and mild compared to caffeine. The only area in which it's worse than caffeine is the withdrawal when I take a break from it. When I take a break from caffeine, I can feel shitty for a few days but I'm usually still reasonably functional, but taking a break from dexamphetamine usually entails sleeping for 18 hours a day for the first few days and being very unproductive during my waking hours. It's not as unpleasant as caffeine withdrawal can be, and it can be quite relaxing at times, but it's frustrating to have a week in which almost nothing useful gets done.
So are you diagnosed with ADHD Peter?
I have taken my meds today.
Yes, I was diagnosed a few years ago.
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Yes.
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Yes. And brought an orange into McDonald's to eat with my b'fast.
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i'm going to go buy some meds for a condition i'm having. :P
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Yes. And brought an orange into McDonald's to eat with my b'fast.
That is true dedication. :)
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I did.
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yes i took my butt meds :thumbdn:
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No, and my emotions show it.
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Yes, I did.
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Yes, I did.
Good. You can be calm and rational for the 2 of us.
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No, and my emotions show it.
No, and my skin shows it.
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I am self-medicating with food right now.
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I am self-medicating with food right now.
Sometimes that's OK. Food gives life! :hug:
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Yes, took them.
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I took mine about 10 minutes ago, and soon I will take my multivitamin and be ready to face the day! :viking:
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No, but, did remember to get refills, so that I won't run short during Xmas.
Meds for me, meds for a kid, meds for a cat. I should start a pharmacy.
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I would have taken all of mine but one of my dexamphetamine tablets dropped on the floor and rolled away and I couldn't find it anywhere. So I took one instead of two.
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I would have taken all of mine but one of my dexamphetamine tablets dropped on the floor and rolled away and I couldn't find it anywhere. So I took one instead of two.
When I drop mine, I have to hunt them down before Waggy finds them. She got hold of one of them once, about half of which (2.5mg) dissolved in her mouth before I got it from her, and she spend the next several hours freaking out.
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I would have taken all of mine but one of my dexamphetamine tablets dropped on the floor and rolled away and I couldn't find it anywhere. So I took one instead of two.
When I drop mine, I have to hunt them down before Waggy finds them. She got hold of one of them once, about half of which (2.5mg) dissolved in her mouth before I got it from her, and she spend the next several hours freaking out.
We have cats and they are pretty fussy, they wouldn't touch a tablet. That must have tasted pretty bad to Waggy, have you chewed a dexamphetamine tablet before? Pretty disgusting. I think my tablet rolled under the fridge.
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I would have taken all of mine but one of my dexamphetamine tablets dropped on the floor and rolled away and I couldn't find it anywhere. So I took one instead of two.
When I drop mine, I have to hunt them down before Waggy finds them. She got hold of one of them once, about half of which (2.5mg) dissolved in her mouth before I got it from her, and she spend the next several hours freaking out.
We have cats and they are pretty fussy, they wouldn't touch a tablet. That must have tasted pretty bad to Waggy, have you chewed a dexamphetamine tablet before? Pretty disgusting. I think my tablet rolled under the fridge.
The ones that I take have lactose in the binder, so they taste sweet when chewed.
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I would have taken all of mine but one of my dexamphetamine tablets dropped on the floor and rolled away and I couldn't find it anywhere. So I took one instead of two.
When I drop mine, I have to hunt them down before Waggy finds them. She got hold of one of them once, about half of which (2.5mg) dissolved in her mouth before I got it from her, and she spend the next several hours freaking out.
We have cats and they are pretty fussy, they wouldn't touch a tablet. That must have tasted pretty bad to Waggy, have you chewed a dexamphetamine tablet before? Pretty disgusting. I think my tablet rolled under the fridge.
The ones that I take have lactose in the binder, so they taste sweet when chewed.
It must differ from country to country. The ones I take are quite bitter.
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Just took today's meds, almost time to get my refill! :orly:
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I'm back at that stage in my medication cycle where 40mg of dexamphetamine is no longer enough to keep me alert, or even awake, for a full 16 hours and I have to decide whether to compensate with caffeine or take a break from the dexamphetamine. I'm going to have a sleep study done at some point in Jan/Feb, and the neurologist who's assessing me is keen to switch me from dexamphetamine to modafinil, which is reputed to be free from the tolerance issues that force me to take frequent breaks from dexamphetamine. I'm curious about modafinil, but also apprehensive about coming off of dexamphetamine, since the dexamphetamine has a nice assortment of benefits besides just keeping me awake and I wouldn't like to lose those other benefits.
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took my meds, yes
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I would have taken all of mine but one of my dexamphetamine tablets dropped on the floor and rolled away and I couldn't find it anywhere. So I took one instead of two.
When I drop mine, I have to hunt them down before Waggy finds them. She got hold of one of them once, about half of which (2.5mg) dissolved in her mouth before I got it from her, and she spend the next several hours freaking out.
We have cats and they are pretty fussy, they wouldn't touch a tablet. That must have tasted pretty bad to Waggy, have you chewed a dexamphetamine tablet before? Pretty disgusting. I think my tablet rolled under the fridge.
The ones that I take have lactose in the binder, so they taste sweet when chewed.
It must differ from country to country. The ones I take are quite bitter.
Mine are made by Auden McKenzie, in Middlesex, UK.
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Yes.
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Forgot the blasted evening meds with all that was going on.
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meds ? sure I took my meds. I always do. see when i drink I have to eat candy. i did...And it is almost 8 am so Im almost sober again. But, I took my meds :thumbup:
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They're right beside me as I type. I won't forget them.
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Yes!! and I did not forget them yesterday either. :thumbup:
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Yes.
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No , but thaknks for askking.
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Yes, I did.
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Thank you for reminding me! :thumbup:
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Forgot my afternoon ones as I had a sleep but I will take my night time meds.
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I have also taken my multivitamin! This thread helps me to remember. :thumbup:
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skipped it on purpose. Skin seems not to like it too well this time. Bringing it back to once a day for a while.
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Can't locate the once a week pill, but can take it tomorrow. Will take the others with b'fast.
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I took my meds earlier, and I am about to take my daily multivitamin! :viking:
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Yes. And some aspirin.
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Yes, all 3 of us have taken our meds.
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So far, only a painkiller. Will do the rest soon, just before I go to bed.
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I just took my night meds.
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Will do soon.
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I just did! :angel:
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Yes, I did. Need something for the headache too.
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Nope, forget the morning ones.
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I took mine, and the multivitamin as well. :thumbup:
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I did
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Yes, I very vaguely remember twisting the cover off the vial. :asthing:
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Yes.
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yes
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Yes, took them.
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Having it now :glug:
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Yes, both sets.
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I remembered to take them.
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I need to go and take mine.
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Yes, I took them not too long ago.
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Yes
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Yup, I did. It was a few minutes before four AM while I was eating a banana and preparing for both regular work AND a funeral.
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The day is only 52 minutes old, so... no.
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Yes, just took my morning meds.
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The evening meds as well.
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Yes, I did.
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Just took my lunchtime meds.
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Am taking my bourbon now.
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Cheers.
Did apply my antibiotics very early in the morning.
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Am taking my bourbon now.
:laugh:
I *think* I took my meds. :orly:
I am now drinking :coffee: to cure my caffeine-withdrawal headache!
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yes. Unfortunately I've temporarily mislaid the Princess Royal's meds. I will find them soon.
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Yes. And I'm on one now. :beergrin:
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Yes. And I'm on one now. :beergrin:
Just remember, too much Christmas cheer -----> :fiveshots:
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Yes. And I'm on one now. :beergrin:
Just remember, too much Christmas cheer -----> :fiveshots:
Twice one good thing is surely twice as cheerful?
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Yes. And I'm on one now. :beergrin:
Just remember, too much Christmas cheer -----> :fiveshots:
Twice one good thing is surely twice as cheerful?
I suppose you *can* be cheerful passed out on the floor, if you have a nice carpet! :laugh:
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I took them.
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I forgot to bring my lunchtime meds with me when I went out. So I sat around feeling somewhat goofy in the afternoon.
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More Bourbon. Got a Litre bottle of Jim Beam too. Yay. :asthing: :asthing: :asthing:
Forget me bitching out Christmas. It is great. Time for another bourbon :glug:
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I forgot to bring my lunchtime meds with me when I went out. So I sat around feeling somewhat goofy in the afternoon.
Awww... :hug:
I did take mine, now it's time for a multivitamin!
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Forgot, better apply it soon. I really need it lately.
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Yes ;D
I shoved that big scary needle in my belly once again
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Yes ;D
I shoved that big scary needle in my belly once again
You are BRAVE. :viking:
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Yes ;D
I shoved that big scary needle in my belly once again
You are BRAVE. :viking:
Heh, I just gave eris karma for being BRAVE. :viking:
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thanks guys :laugh:
I have to do it 5 times a day :'(
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Diabetes?
Took my meds.
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yeah, I have juvenile diabetes :-\ type 1
oh, and i took my wellbuterin and tegratol too :thumbup:
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yes
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yeah, I have juvenile diabetes :-\ type 1
:(
Are you managing it OK?
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Yes, I did.
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Took the evening ones also.
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Not today, no. I'm planning to sleep first.
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Yes, of course I did.
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I just did! Thank you for reminding me! :thumbup:
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I have taken my meds as I should today.
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I have taken my meds as I should today.
We're both being so good today! :angel: :angel:
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Yes, this morning. And a coffee, just now. :zoinks:
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I just took my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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I just did! Thank you for reminding me! :thumbup:
We've got to stop hanging around this place. We're too much alike.
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always take them, better than the consequence
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Just finished eating and needed the reminder to take the evening ones. Thanks skyblue1.
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welcome
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Yes, did.
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Yes, and thanks to this thread, I have remembered my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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I forgot last night, so I'll take it right now.
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Damn this thread. What would I do without it? I know, forget to take my meds. Mission accomplished.
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Damn this thread. What would I do without it? I know, forget to take my meds. Mission accomplished.
Hyke has done us all a service by starting this thread. :thumbup:
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Damn this thread. What would I do without it? I know, forget to take my meds. Mission accomplished.
Hyke has done us all a service by starting this thread. :thumbup:
She just needed it. That brain of hers forgets meds, and having a drink and such, when not prompted by a thread. :asthing:
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Again, this thread reminded me to take the evening meds.
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Again, this thread reminded me to take the evening meds.
It really is a lifesaver. :viking:
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But guess what? I got sidetracked and forgot. Oh well, no time like the present.
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But guess what? I got sidetracked and forgot. Oh well, no time like the present.
Carpe diem, Your Majesty! :viking:
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But guess what? I got sidetracked and forgot. Oh well, no time like the present.
Carpe diem, Your Majesty! :viking:
Took mine just now.
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I took them earlier, before leaving home.
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I just did, yes! I love this thread! :2thumbsup:
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Forgot mine, but did remember the antibiotics for Sirius.
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Not yet.
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Me neither.
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Both sets
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I took mine.
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I took mine.
Am curious, what do you take?
Just about to take my afternoon meds.
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Yes.
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Took vast quantities of bourbon
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Yes
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No, but again, I did not forget to give the cat his. :asthing:
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No, but again, I did not forget to give the cat his. :asthing:
"Mom! You love the :flo: more than me. You always remember to give him his medicine."
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No, but again, I did not forget to give the cat his. :asthing:
"Mom! You love the :flo: more than me. You always remember to give him his medicine."
:autism: Luckily my kids are without medication. The times they have been, I did not forget their meds. My own, I am experimenting a bit with what is the best, once or twice a day. And it does depend on the weather and such too. So, bound to be forgotten. :facepalm2:
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I took mine.
Am curious, what do you take?
Just about to take my afternoon meds.
Lisinopril for high blood pressure.
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I took mine.
Am curious, what do you take?
Just about to take my afternoon meds.
Lisinopril for high blood pressure.
I have heard of that one. I hope it works well for you with minimal side-effects. :)
I am reminded to take afternoon meds.
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I took mine.
Am curious, what do you take?
Just about to take my afternoon meds.
Lisinopril for high blood pressure.
I have heard of that one. I hope it works well for you with minimal side-effects. :)
I am reminded to take afternoon meds.
For me it does.
It made my husband cough like crazy when he took it, so he had to take something else.
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Yes, I did.
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I took mine.
Am curious, what do you take?
Just about to take my afternoon meds.
Lisinopril for high blood pressure.
I usd to take lisinopril, but I took it for my kidneys. I dont take that anymore. And I took my shots today and Ill be sure to take my sleeping pills tonight
I honetly think the mood stabilizer and antidepressant are shit and I dont even need them. Im not depressed and I dont have mood swings so I fail to see the point. I am being openminded but dont do anything. It is just this damned insomnia.
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Yes
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Yes, two times in a row now. And I will again very soon, before I go to sleep.
Cat had his meds too. :P
And one kid got a supplement, in the hope to get her bowels back to normal.
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I have just been reminded. :)
I honetly think the mood stabilizer and antidepressant are shit and I dont even need them. Im not depressed and I dont have mood swings so I fail to see the point. I am being openminded but dont do anything. It is just this damned insomnia.
I used to take a mood stabiliser and I think all it did was make my mood stably low. Now that I am off them I feel more emotions.
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Yes.
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affirmative
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I took them today.
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As did I.
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Yup, very early in the morning. Should do that again soon.
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mornings.
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Yes I did.
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There hardly seems to be an effect. :-\
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What sort of effect were you hoping for?
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Infections of my skin to tone down. Seems to start doing that now a bit.
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Infections of my skin to tone down. Seems to start doing that now a bit.
I hope it continues to work for you. :hug:
I took my meds earlier, and this thread has reminded me to take my multivitamin as well.
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I took my meds earlier, and this thread has reminded me to take my multivitamin as well.
Don't you keep the meds and the vitamins together?
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I took my meds earlier, and this thread has reminded me to take my multivitamin as well.
Don't you keep the meds and the vitamins together?
No, I just leave them in their separate containers, and I like to let the meds digest a bit before taking the vitamins. :thumbup:
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Yes, took them, as usual.
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yes
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Night dosage about to be applied soon.
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forgot the evening meds at dinner time. Will have to eat something to take them.
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I certainly did! I love this thread. :)
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morning ones yes
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I take my meds everyday. I dont want to die :laugh:
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Aahhh crap!
I knew there was something...
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The evening ones are completed
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Evening layer still needs to be done, but, have been very accurate with it lately.
Cat got his antibiotics twice already. :P
Kid got painkiller.
I should start a pharmacy and give myself a discount. Will pay off in thirty years.
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Evening layer still needs to be done, but, have been very accurate with it lately.
Cat got his antibiotics twice already. :P
Kid got painkiller.
I should start a pharmacy and give myself a discount. Will pay off in thirty years.
I know what you mean. The Princess Royal's medicines through November cost over $7,000. She paid about $250 thanks to the generosity of the taxpayers. Next year should be lower because we'll try to keep her off the anxiety meds and let her cope by regressing in behavior until she feels comfortable or is bored with being 6 years old.
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I took my meds earlier, and this thread has reminded me to take my multivitamin as well.
Don't you keep the meds and the vitamins together?
No, I just leave them in their separate containers, and I like to let the meds digest a bit before taking the vitamins. :thumbup:
Ah ok. That makes sense.
I forgot my morning meds. Probably because I am back at my mum's and out of routine. Took my afternoon ADHD meds though.
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No, not yet. I need to drink my coffee first.
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I need to hunt up the evening ones and take them.
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I took my medicine.
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I also took my husband's medicine upstairs to him, since he forgot it before.
He's taking typhoid vaccine, which has to be taken every other day for a week.
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Just took my nightly meds.
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I also took my husband's medicine upstairs to him, since he forgot it before.
He's taking typhoid vaccine, which has to be taken every other day for a week.
Why does your husband need typhoid vaccine? :nerd!:
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I just took my meds, which I had (briefly) misplaced. :duh:
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I also took my husband's medicine upstairs to him, since he forgot it before.
He's taking typhoid vaccine, which has to be taken every other day for a week.
Why does your husband need typhoid vaccine? :nerd!:
He travels a lot to other countries and some of them require that your typhoid vaccine is up-to-date. He's had pretty much every vaccine the travel doctor has including Japanese Encephalitis and Yellow Fever.
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I also took my husband's medicine upstairs to him, since he forgot it before.
He's taking typhoid vaccine, which has to be taken every other day for a week.
Why does your husband need typhoid vaccine? :nerd!:
He travels a lot to other countries and some of them require that your typhoid vaccine is up-to-date. He's had pretty much every vaccine the travel doctor has including Japanese Encephalitis and Yellow Fever.
Wow! What kind of work does he do? :orly:
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I also took my husband's medicine upstairs to him, since he forgot it before.
He's taking typhoid vaccine, which has to be taken every other day for a week.
Why does your husband need typhoid vaccine? :nerd!:
He travels a lot to other countries and some of them require that your typhoid vaccine is up-to-date. He's had pretty much every vaccine the travel doctor has including Japanese Encephalitis and Yellow Fever.
Wow! What kind of work does he do? :orly:
He's a mathematician who develops and manages the development of Computer Aided Design software.
He went to Israel for a conference just before Christmas and while he was there, he also visited Egypt and Jordan.
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I also took my husband's medicine upstairs to him, since he forgot it before.
He's taking typhoid vaccine, which has to be taken every other day for a week.
Why does your husband need typhoid vaccine? :nerd!:
He travels a lot to other countries and some of them require that your typhoid vaccine is up-to-date. He's had pretty much every vaccine the travel doctor has including Japanese Encephalitis and Yellow Fever.
Wow! What kind of work does he do? :orly:
He's a mathematician who develops and manages the development of Computer Aided Design software.
He went to Israel for a conference just before Christmas and while he was there, he also visited Egypt and Jordan.
That's excellent! I've never been farther from home than upstate New York! Does your husband speak other languages? :orly:
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I also took my husband's medicine upstairs to him, since he forgot it before.
He's taking typhoid vaccine, which has to be taken every other day for a week.
Why does your husband need typhoid vaccine? :nerd!:
He travels a lot to other countries and some of them require that your typhoid vaccine is up-to-date. He's had pretty much every vaccine the travel doctor has including Japanese Encephalitis and Yellow Fever.
Wow! What kind of work does he do? :orly:
He's a mathematician who develops and manages the development of Computer Aided Design software.
He went to Israel for a conference just before Christmas and while he was there, he also visited Egypt and Jordan.
That's excellent! I've never been farther from home than upstate New York! Does your husband speak other languages? :orly:
He knows some French, German, and Japanese.
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I also took my husband's medicine upstairs to him, since he forgot it before.
He's taking typhoid vaccine, which has to be taken every other day for a week.
Why does your husband need typhoid vaccine? :nerd!:
He travels a lot to other countries and some of them require that your typhoid vaccine is up-to-date. He's had pretty much every vaccine the travel doctor has including Japanese Encephalitis and Yellow Fever.
Wow! What kind of work does he do? :orly:
He's a mathematician who develops and manages the development of Computer Aided Design software.
He went to Israel for a conference just before Christmas and while he was there, he also visited Egypt and Jordan.
That's excellent! I've never been farther from home than upstate New York! Does your husband speak other languages? :orly:
He knows some French, German, and Japanese.
Very cool. I kind of wish my father had taught us German. :chin:
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Very cool. I kind of wish my father had taught us German. :chin:
It's never too late to learn. My husband started studying Japanese a few years ago when a Japanese company bought the company he works for. He bought some learning software and CDs first, then when he had learned what he could from them, he hired a Japanese tutor. She helped him understand some of the Japanese etiquette as well, so she was very helpful.
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Oh, I forgot that my husband grew up speaking Swahili because he lived in Tanzania when he was little, but he has forgotten most of it by now.
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Oh, I forgot that my husband grew up speaking Swahili because he lived in Tanzania when he was little, but he has forgotten most of it by now.
Yeah, my father grew up speaking German as well as English because his parents were Austrian immigrants, but he is an only child with little
extended family, and he forgot most of his German before we were born. It's good that there are ways to learn at any age though. :viking:
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I also took my husband's medicine upstairs to him, since he forgot it before.
He's taking typhoid vaccine, which has to be taken every other day for a week.
Why does your husband need typhoid vaccine? :nerd!:
He travels a lot to other countries and some of them require that your typhoid vaccine is up-to-date. He's had pretty much every vaccine the travel doctor has including Japanese Encephalitis and Yellow Fever.
Wow! What kind of work does he do? :orly:
He's a mathematician who develops and manages the development of Computer Aided Design software.
He went to Israel for a conference just before Christmas and while he was there, he also visited Egypt and Jordan.
Perhaps he'll run into Odeon some day? Except your husband will be looking for John Lennon.
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I also took my husband's medicine upstairs to him, since he forgot it before.
He's taking typhoid vaccine, which has to be taken every other day for a week.
Why does your husband need typhoid vaccine? :nerd!:
He travels a lot to other countries and some of them require that your typhoid vaccine is up-to-date. He's had pretty much every vaccine the travel doctor has including Japanese Encephalitis and Yellow Fever.
Wow! What kind of work does he do? :orly:
He's a mathematician who develops and manages the development of Computer Aided Design software.
He went to Israel for a conference just before Christmas and while he was there, he also visited Egypt and Jordan.
Perhaps he'll run into Odeon some day? Except your husband will be looking for John Lennon.
I don't think they have been in the same place at the same time yet, but I guess it's possible they could run into one another.
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I took my meds and some new ones as well.
I am now taking five medications to try and control my massive heart.
I might be one of those people who live hard and die young (OK, fifty something is NOT young, but I still feel like an indestructible kid, except for my knee and my hip :lol: ). I have lived hard and my doc is upping my "old fart" meds after every visit.
My doc is determined to kill me with love.
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Took my meds but technically it was yesterday.
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Will take the meds that technically should have been taken yesterday, before bed, not long from now today, still just before bed.
Am drinking white wine though. Purely for winding down reasons, very medicinal. :orly:
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mornings and nights
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I just took mine.
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I did, but ...
They new regimen is causing me some slight nausea. I may have to spread out the meds over the day, instead of just gulping them all down at once.
:-\
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I took mine this morning.
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The morning ones, yes. :thumbup:
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Forgot the morning ones. That's what happens, sleeping in so long.
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I took my meds and my multivitamin! Thanks again for this helpful thread! :thumbup:
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awww fuckit! not again....
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Will take the evening one soon.
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Edronax and haloperidol down the hatch.
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Edronax and haloperidol down the hatch.
Attagirl! I took my meds earlier and it is now time for my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Yes, did.
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Another day of perfection.
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All three :zombiefuck: At least it is only temporary
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Yep but only cuz I remembered the antibiotics made me remember the rest!
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I'll go do it now.
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Did the before bed bit early in the morning, will wait a bit with the morning bit.
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Yes. I have CBT this afternoon to boost it all with.
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Yes. I have CBT this afternoon to boost it all with.
I hope that goes well. :viking:
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I just took my night meds.
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I took my own meds a little while ago, must remember the multivitamin! :viking:
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Yes to the morning
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Yes. I have CBT this afternoon to boost it all with.
I hope that goes well. :viking:
Reasonably. I think it helps.
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And yes, I took my meds.
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Divided them, to remain safe, but yeah.
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All three :zombiefuck:
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About to take my afternoon meds.
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Forgot my night meds.
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Yes.
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Yes and I noticed the coating on my antibiotics tastes like the coaling on Tic Tacks
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Still yes. ;D
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Yes
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No, I'll probably skip today entirely. Just don't feel like being bothered.
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No, I'll probably skip today entirely. Just don't feel like being bothered.
Is it dangerous for you to skip a day? ???
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I took mine, and I'm almost out! I have to get my new prescription filled! :orly:
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Don't know, guess not.
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Yes, I took them.
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Took both the a.m. and p.m. today.
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Yes, and soon I will add my multivitamin! :viking:
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yes
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Yes, I remembered all of them which is a feat in itself.
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Yes, I took them.
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The morning ones
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Why yes, yes I did.
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^ :D
It is almost time for my afternoon meds.
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I skipped the evening ones. Pure laziness.
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Yes, just did.
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So did I.
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yes
and I used too much alcohol, and it got into the injection and burned like hell
i hate it when that happens
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yes
and I used too much alcohol, and it got into the injection and burned like hell
i hate it when that happens
:hug:
I just took the first dose from my new batch of meds that I bought yesterday!
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yes
and I used too much alcohol, and it got into the injection and burned like hell
i hate it when that happens
On Intensity Squared, the alcohol is supposed to go into your mouth, not onto your skin. :P
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thanks for the memory, now it's done
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Not today, no.
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Meds AND multivitamin! I'm ready to go! :viking:
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I did, but that is about all I did.
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Technically it was yesterday. I get a new chance after sleeping for a while.
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I just did a bit ago.
My morning meds are down.
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Both doses today
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I took my meds and my multivitamin, now need more :coffee: !
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yes
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Yes.
And a headache pill just now.
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Today, I took mine on time.
Do not expect this to become a kind of habit.
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I forgot the morning ones. Will try to remember the ones due within half an hour.
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Only three days antibiotics left :2thumbsup:
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Only three days antibiotics left :2thumbsup:
Do you have the Z-pack? :orly:
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did the pm ones too
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I took mine.
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I took mine, as well.
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a.m. ones down, p.m. ones soon
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no
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Just took my afternoon ones.
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Yes.
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Yes, thank you for asking! :prude:
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i took my morning regimen at about four fifteen this morning
sleep had evaded my capture and i spent about four hours reading a few books and re-hydrating myself with fruit juices defending my body from the desert i work in
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I took my meds earlier; now I will add my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Yes, took my meds.
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No, forgot.
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Why, yes! Yes I did! :toporly:
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Time now for my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Why, yes! Yes I did! :toporly:
Me too, me too! :woohoo:
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Forgot this morning.
Don't know how that happened, my cheeks are annoying enough to remember. Coming up to my eyes again too. :( Not there yet though.
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Why, yes! Yes I did! :toporly:
Me too, me too! :woohoo:
Copycat! :smarty:
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Why, yes! Yes I did! :toporly:
Me too, me too! :woohoo:
Copycat! :smarty:
You too, you too. :smarty:
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Morning meds, yes.
I have yet to take my afternoon meds.
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Yes.
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Not yet. It's too early. I really should try to sleep some more. :thumbdn:
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Yes you should. It's in the middle of the night where you live.
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Yes you should. It's in the middle of the night where you live.
I did manage to sleep a bit more, and I have since taken my meds. :thumbup:
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Yes you should. It's in the middle of the night where you live.
Actually it was 4:44 a.m., but still too early to be up! :yawn:
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I took all my meds today. Go me.
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Yes you should. It's in the middle of the night where you live.
Actually it was 4:44 a.m., but still too early to be up! :yawn:
That is in the middle of the night. :P
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Yes you should. It's in the middle of the night where you live.
Actually it was 4:44 a.m., but still too early to be up! :yawn:
That is in the middle of the night. :P
OK then. :P
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I did.
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Took some oxycodone. :viking:
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I did. I did.
Yes, I did.
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I did again :thumbup:
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Glad you got my drift.
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Did.
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It's only 3:03 a.m. here, too early. :P
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NOW I have taken them, along with my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Yup, all of them, just like a good boy.
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Just took my Lunesta and the green butterfly is knocking on my hotel window. Sleep will come soon!
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Yes I did.
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Not yet, it's only 3:52 a.m. here. :zoinks:
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Just took my Lunesta and the green butterfly is knocking on my hotel window. Sleep will come soon!
Does that green butterfly hover over your face as you drift off? :orly:
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I am sure that the daily morning regimen is mostly liquefied by now.
A matter of time remains to see if I will have any benefit from keeping my blood pressure at teen age levels.
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Yes.
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Just took my Lunesta and the green butterfly is knocking on my hotel window. Sleep will come soon!
Does that green butterfly hover over your face as you drift off? :orly:
Hmmm, that may explain the tiny black specks on my face in the morning. Butterfly droppings! Come to think of it, it is probably a moth.
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Thank you for reminding me! :thumbup:
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Just took my Lunesta and the green butterfly is knocking on my hotel window. Sleep will come soon!
Does that green butterfly hover over your face as you drift off? :orly:
Hmmm, that may explain the tiny black specks on my face in the morning. Butterfly droppings! Come to think of it, it is probably a moth.
Yes, you're right, it's a Luna moth! Here's another:
(http://www.neilyworld.com/neilyworld/butterfly/LunaMoth.jpg)
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Thanks to this thread, I just remembered my daily multivitamin! :thumbup:
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/thinks
Yes, I think I took them.
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/thinks
Yes, I think I took them.
I hate it when I have to think about it later. I need to be sure I'm fully awake in the morning when I take them! :duh:
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I rely completely on routines. As long as I follow my procedures everything is fine, but when something happens and I need to change something about the routine, I often forget everything.
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I rely completely on routines. As long as I follow my procedures everything is fine, but when something happens and I need to change something about the routine, I often forget everything.
I lock up the kitchen a few nights a week at my day job, and I check everything in the same order every night.
If I don't have time to do it properly, or if I have to change the sequence, I do tend to forget things. :thumbdn:
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I took my meds AND a swig of cough syrup! :headbang:
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I took mine today.
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Time for my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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did, and am about to do it again.
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Yes, I took them before leaving home.
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Yes, and it's time for my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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I took mine last night.
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Yes, I did.
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I also took some Advil for my still-inflamed throat. It works well for me. :thumbup:
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I took all three regimens of meds, today. A good day to "feel" responsible, actually.
:hahaha:
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I took mine a little while ago.
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Forgot, will do it right now.
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done, took a multivitamin too :viking:
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done, took a multivitamin too :viking:
I'm about to take my multivitamin right now! I love this thread! :2thumbsup:
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Yes, this morning.
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Wondering, now, when I missed, but I am two doses behind.
took some after discovering this
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Nope. I'm supposed to keep on the B12 and gingko for energy's sake but I can't get the habit through my head.
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Nope. I'm supposed to keep on the B12 and gingko for energy's sake but I can't get the habit through my head.
Maybe if you just took the gingko, you could remember the rest of the regimen.
:hahaha:
(Sorry, I know I make this joke too often)
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:laugh: Maybe I'll take that one first and see if it works.
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Just took them. Thanks for reminding me.
:laugh:
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100 pages!
Just took my afternoon meds.
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Too early for me, only 2 a.m. here. :P
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Yes, I took them before I left home.
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Will get off my chair to take care of it now.
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Done, now I will go and get my multivitamin. Everything to get my postcount up?
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Done, now I will go and get my multivitamin. Everything to get my postcount up?
Share your day with us. We like to know these things. :hug:
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Done, now I will go and get my multivitamin. Everything to get my postcount up?
Share your day with us. We like to know these things. :hug:
OK, just swallowed a magnesium supplement, and as I typed the multivitamin went down the hatch.
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Done, now I will go and get my multivitamin. Everything to get my postcount up?
Share your day with us. We like to know these things. :hug:
OK, just swallowed a magnesium supplement, and as I typed the multivitamin went down the hatch.
I'm glad you are taking care of yourself. :hug:
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I have taken my meds, and will take my multivitamin soon. :thumbup:
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I have taken my meds, and will take my multivitamin soon. :thumbup:
And, did you take your multivitamin already?
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I have taken my meds, and will take my multivitamin soon. :thumbup:
And, did you take your multivitamin already?
Yes I did! My immune system has been boosted to fight my winter illness! :viking:
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I have taken my meds, and will take my multivitamin soon. :thumbup:
And, did you take your multivitamin already?
Yes I did! My immune system has been boosted to fight my winter illness! :viking:
Good, we don't want you to lose your chatty capabilities.
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I have taken my meds, and will take my multivitamin soon. :thumbup:
And, did you take your multivitamin already?
Yes I did! My immune system has been boosted to fight my winter illness! :viking:
Good, we don't want you to lose your chatty capabilities.
The cough is hanging on, but my voice is back! It's raspy, but strong enough for me to :blah: :blah: :blah: !
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early regimen, not yet the mid day.
time for the late is upon me
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No, I think I forgot. :-\
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I just took mine! It's going to be a great day! :viking:
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I forgot to take mine last night so took them today before i went to uni
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I took my multivitamin shortly after taking my meds. Must keep my immune system strong! :viking:
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Yep Biphentin, seroqel, citalopram, 5htp
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^I thought you weren't taking Seroquel any more?
I just took my lunchtime meds.
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Yes, I remembered.
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Bit late, but, YES.
Over half of my household is on meds now.
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Yes.
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Nope cos they have the annoying side-effect of curing my insomnia :green:. Will take em tonight if I don't get involved in an interesting on-line discussion
jay :)
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Yes.
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Not yet! :dunno:
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I may be back on the habit of taking them regularly. I hope so.
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Won't be long till I have the night ones.
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The world will come to an end. I managed both dosages in one day.
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I did indeed take my meds and my multivitamin, plus the next-to-last dose of cough syrup! :zombiefuck:
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Yes.
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Will get on with it right away. BRB
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Done. :2thumbsup:
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I took mine, and soon I will take my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Yes. I also had something for the headache.
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I took mine last night.
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Just took the last.
Food coming off in a few minutes.
Who needs meds!!
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Yes.
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I will take mine now, then have some food! :green:
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I took mine a few hours ago.
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Yes, I have taken my meds and my multivitamin! Getting healthier every day! :viking:
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Yes, apart from my seizure meds. I really need to get some more of those.
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Yes, apart from my seizure meds. I really need to get some more of those.
Yes, that seems like a top priority! :orly:
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Yes, apart from my seizure meds. I really need to get some more of those.
Yes, that seems like a top priority! :orly:
I was broke and couldn't afford any the past week. I'll probably get some tomorrow, but I just hate taking tablets. Shit's nasty.
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Yes, apart from my seizure meds. I really need to get some more of those.
Yes, that seems like a top priority! :orly:
I was broke and couldn't afford any the past week. I'll probably get some tomorrow, but I just hate taking tablets. Shit's nasty.
But seizures don't sound pleasant either. :(
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Just took some Lunesta, so bring on the Moth poop!
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Just took my lunchtime meds.
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:wine: Done. ;)
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I haven't taken mine yet, but I will in a few minutes.
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OK, done.
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Yes, I took them.
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Yes.
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I did, and later this morning I have my medication appointment with the psychiatrist. :nerd!:
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I took my night meds.
Hope your visit to the psych goes well, cbc. :)
And this is my 9000th post. After that I will have OVER 9000!!
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I took my night meds.
Hope your visit to the psych goes well, cbc. :)
And this is my 9000th post.
Thank you, renaeden, and congratulations on 9,000 posts! :cheer:
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Time for that multivitamin! :viking:
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I took my night meds.
Hope your visit to the psych goes well, cbc. :)
And this is my 9000th post. After that I will have OVER 9000!!
Hope the same.
And congratulations with reaching 9000 Ren. :2thumbsup:
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Yes, but I'm cutting down on my anti-depressants as they make me seizurey. I find walking and food to be far more comforting than pills any day ;D.
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Yes, but I'm cutting down on my anti-depressants as they make me seizurey. I find walking and food to be far more comforting than pills any day ;D.
Just be sure your doctor knows you are doing this, in the change in dosage causes side effects.
/well-meaning interference
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Yes, but I'm cutting down on my anti-depressants as they make me seizurey. I find walking and food to be far more comforting than pills any day ;D.
Just be sure your doctor knows you are doing this, in the change in dosage causes side effects.
/well-meaning interference
Yes mum ;D
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Yes, but I'm cutting down on my anti-depressants as they make me seizurey. I find walking and food to be far more comforting than pills any day ;D.
Just be sure your doctor knows you are doing this, in the change in dosage causes side effects.
/well-meaning interference
Yes mum ;D
:laugh:
Q: How do we know that you and CBC are related?
A: You both wobble while you walk.
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Yes, but I'm cutting down on my anti-depressants as they make me seizurey. I find walking and food to be far more comforting than pills any day ;D.
Just be sure your doctor knows you are doing this, in the change in dosage causes side effects.
/well-meaning interference
Yes mum ;D
:laugh:
Q: How do we know that you and CBC are related?
A: You both wobble while you walk.
Hahaha, good one! :lol:
Also, yay for 100 posts. And most of them were spam ;D
Anyway, my turn:
Q: How do you know Semicolon and a colon are related?
A: The amount of shit they both come out with :orly:
Sorry, couldn't resist...
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Yes, but I'm cutting down on my anti-depressants as they make me seizurey. I find walking and food to be far more comforting than pills any day ;D.
Just be sure your doctor knows you are doing this, in the change in dosage causes side effects.
/well-meaning interference
Yes mum ;D
:laugh:
Q: How do we know that you and CBC are related?
A: You both wobble while you walk.
Hahaha, good one! :lol:
Also, yay for 100 posts. And most of them were spam ;D
Anyway, my turn:
Q: How do you know Semicolon and a colon are related?
A: The amount of shit they both come out with :orly:
Sorry, couldn't resist...
:LMAO:
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Yes, but I'm cutting down on my anti-depressants as they make me seizurey. I find walking and food to be far more comforting than pills any day ;D.
Just be sure your doctor knows you are doing this, in the change in dosage causes side effects.
/well-meaning interference
Yes mum ;D
:laugh:
Q: How do we know that you and CBC are related?
A: You both wobble while you walk.
Hahaha, good one! :lol:
Also, yay for 100 posts. And most of them were spam ;D
Anyway, my turn:
Q: How do you know Semicolon and a colon are related?
A: The amount of shit they both come out with :orly:
Sorry, couldn't resist...
:laugh:
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Yes, and I hope I can remember the evening ones.
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I just took my lunchtime meds. It hasn't been four hours since I took my morning meds though, so I might feel some effects.
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I just took my lunchtime meds. It hasn't been four hours since I took my morning meds though, so I might feel some effects.
I hope the effects won't be too bad. I'm lucky I only take my meds once a day, in the morning. :chin:
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I just took my lunchtime meds. It hasn't been four hours since I took my morning meds though, so I might feel some effects.
I hope the effects won't be too bad. I'm lucky I only take my meds once a day, in the morning. :chin:
Yeah I wish they would come up with long-lasting dexamphetamine so I don't have to take it when I am out. It is a pain to take it while at uni. I don't really notice any affects now, maybe just a bit more alert than usual. :zoinks:
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I just took my lunchtime meds. It hasn't been four hours since I took my morning meds though, so I might feel some effects.
I hope the effects won't be too bad. I'm lucky I only take my meds once a day, in the morning. :chin:
Yeah I wish they would come up with long-lasting dexamphetamine so I don't have to take it when I am out. It is a pain to take it while at uni. I don't really notice any affects now, maybe just a bit more alert than usual. :zoinks:
Maybe you'll get a lot done! Or maybe you'll just run around very fast! :GA:
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I just took my lunchtime meds. It hasn't been four hours since I took my morning meds though, so I might feel some effects.
I hope the effects won't be too bad. I'm lucky I only take my meds once a day, in the morning. :chin:
Yeah I wish they would come up with long-lasting dexamphetamine so I don't have to take it when I am out. It is a pain to take it while at uni. I don't really notice any affects now, maybe just a bit more alert than usual. :zoinks:
Maybe you'll get a lot done! Or maybe you'll just run around very fast! :GA:
Well I don't need to do anything, so I am just on the internet reading stuff. Didn't need to take those particular meds today since I am not really doing anything but then that means that all I would want to do is eat and sleep.
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Yes, this morning.
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Yes, the morning ones. Night stuff will follow soon.
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I'm on my Friday medicine now. :orly:
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I'm on my Friday medicine now. :orly:
Good to see you can enjoy it on Saturdays too. :laugh:
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I'm on my Friday medicine now. :orly:
Good to see you can enjoy it on Saturdays too. :laugh:
Technically.
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I'm on my Friday medicine now. :orly:
Good to see you can enjoy it on Saturdays too. :laugh:
Technically.
:laugh:
Hope it doesn't taste technical.
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I'm on my Friday medicine now. :orly:
Good to see you can enjoy it on Saturdays too. :laugh:
Technically.
:laugh:
Hope it doesn't taste technical.
Nope, it tastes good. Medically speaking, of course.
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I just picked up my new batch of meds, I'm all set for another month! :thumbup:
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Evening ones
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I haven't taken mine yet, but I will.
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OK, done.
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Haven't taken my night ones yet. And I forgot my lunchtime ones because I went out.
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I just took mine; :coffee: is on the way!
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Time for lunchtime meds.
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none present, so I took them
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Yup, cream very early, 4 am, and experiment at a more regular time.
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Not yet.
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I saw this thread, realized I hadn't taken them yet, and took them.
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I took the last dose in the old container, and have my new batch handy for tomorrow! :thumbup:
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I took them, eventually. They need to be part of my ritual or I forget.
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Yes!
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Yes, but since I've misplaced my refills, I will be missing some doses for the next 2 weeks of some of the meds. :(
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I took my meds, my multivitamin, and some aspirin for my caffeine-deprivation headache! :viking:
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Yes, I did. Plus painkillers.
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Yes, I did. Plus painkillers.
Is it your head, or your hip? ???
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I just took my meds; now the :coffee: is ready!
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Yes, I did. Plus painkillers.
Is it your head, or your hip? ???
Never mind, I just read elsewhere that it is your right arm and shoulder. :(
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Time for my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Yes, and went to sleep shorty after my noon dose of 10mg dexamphetamine. :yawn:
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Yes, and went to sleep shorty after my noon dose of 10mg dexamphetamine. :yawn:
So they really aren't working for you at this point. :-\
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Yes, and went to sleep shorty after my noon dose of 10mg dexamphetamine. :yawn:
So they really aren't working for you at this point. :-\
Dexamphetamine is effective for sleepiness in much the same way that paracetamol is effective for pain; if I'm just a bit tired or have a mild headache, dexamphetamine or paracetamol will completely eliminate it for a few hours, but if I'm very tired or in a lot of pain, they'll only take the edge off of it at best.
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Yes, I did. Plus painkillers.
Is it your head, or your hip? ???
The shoulder. :grrr:
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Just did along with my fibre therapy.
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I forgot to take my multivitamin. I left it on the table this morning. :duh:
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Yes, I took both morning and night.
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No, I didn't take my meds today, because it is only 5 am and I dont take my first shot until 6 :angel:
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I have taken my meds, and this time I remembered my multivitamin too! :thumbup:
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Yes, I took my meds.
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Yes, I took my meds.
How is your shoulder today? :orly:
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Yes, I took my meds.
How is your shoulder today? :orly:
Slightly better. I'm still on painkillers but I also have an appointment with a chiropractor later today.
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Yes, I took my meds.
How is your shoulder today? :orly:
Slightly better. I'm still on painkillers but I also have an appointment with a chiropractor later today.
I hope the chiropractor helps. :hug:
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Thanks. :)
Me too.
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Yes, took the bit I could take so far.
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Yes. :toporly:
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Yes, I took them.
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Yes, and went to sleep shorty after my noon dose of 10mg dexamphetamine. :yawn:
I can fall asleep after my doses of dexamphetamine too. Lately it seem like they don't work. I need them to work for uni, don't want to daydream in my classes.
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I have taken my meds, will soon add my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Yep! Now to try and persuade the people at my meeting today that I'm not drunk :laugh:
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Yep! Now to try and persuade the people at my meeting today that I'm not drunk :laugh:
Still feeling the effects of that weird episode? :hug:
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Yep! Now to try and persuade the people at my meeting today that I'm not drunk :laugh:
Still feeling the effects of that weird episode? :hug:
Yep, most of my spoken sentences don't make sense and I struggle to remember what I'm on about. That and my meds make me uncoordinated and slur my speech. But if I don't go to this meeting I lose my benefit.. Hopefully this'll encourage them to up my money! ;D
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I did.
..... about four hours ago, actually.
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Yes, early this morning.
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No, and I've slept most of the day away.
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Time for my lunch time meds.
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I took mine a while ago.
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Yes, I had to think about it, but I do remember fumbling with the childproof cap on the container. :P
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Yup.
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I dream a lot without my meds. The dreams are usually quite interesting, but rarely entirely pleasant, and they leave me feeling exhausted when I wake up. Last night, my dreams involved trying to wake up before dinosaurs ate me, being held captive on a melting snow-pack which concealed a dangerous drop into a crevasse, escaping and paying a drug gang to smuggle me up a river into a South American rainforest by speedboat, struggling to maintain the ecosystem of a small wildlife preserve in the face of changing climatological conditions and trying to figure out who was killing fire salamanders that I had on exhibit in a museum.
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Yes, and went to sleep shorty after my noon dose of 10mg dexamphetamine. :yawn:
I can fall asleep after my doses of dexamphetamine too. Lately it seem like they don't work. I need them to work for uni, don't want to daydream in my classes.
Mine usually regain their effectiveness for a while after I take a break from them for a few days. I'm anticipating quite a large boost in effectiveness once I start back on my meds after the 9-day break that I'm taking for this sleep study.
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I dream a lot without my meds. The dreams are usually quite interesting, but rarely entirely pleasant, and they leave me feeling exhausted when I wake up. Last night, my dreams involved trying to wake up before dinosaurs ate me, being held captive on a melting snow-pack which concealed a dangerous drop into a crevasse, escaping and paying a drug gang to smuggle me up a river into a South American rainforest by speedboat, struggling to maintain the ecosystem of a small wildlife preserve in the face of changing climatological conditions and trying to figure out who was killing fire salamanders that I had on exhibit in a museum.
Sheesh...and the most excitement I've had recently was my sex with McJ dream 2 nights ago!
Seriously though, my dreams are usually the most vivid and totally exhausting when I have a lot on my mind. And I agree, that feeling of waking up exhausted sucks completely....it's an awful feeling.
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only if someone is looking >.>
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Technically I took them yesterday.
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I dream a lot without my meds. The dreams are usually quite interesting, but rarely entirely pleasant, and they leave me feeling exhausted when I wake up. Last night, my dreams involved trying to wake up before dinosaurs ate me, being held captive on a melting snow-pack which concealed a dangerous drop into a crevasse, escaping and paying a drug gang to smuggle me up a river into a South American rainforest by speedboat, struggling to maintain the ecosystem of a small wildlife preserve in the face of changing climatological conditions and trying to figure out who was killing fire salamanders that I had on exhibit in a museum.
Who needs exercise with active dreams like these? With all the locations it's a shame you can't get air miles for traveling in your sleep.
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Yes, I took them.
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I just did! I must get through this day properly so I can relax at home afterward! :viking:
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Yes!!! :asthing:
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Yes. Consistency does make a difference with medications.
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Yes, I did take them.
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Yes, and my multivitamin too! I'm almost out of multivitamins, time to buy more! :chin:
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Forgot, will take them right now.
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I took some vitamin tea. :laugh:
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Yes, this morning.
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Forgot, will take them right now.
Can't remember if I actually did. :facepalm2:
Night dosage time now.
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Meds and multivitamin, down the hatch! :thumbup:
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Vitamin nicotine. ;)
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Um, I don't take any meds.. Do take purified fish-oil and B-vitamins capsules though..
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Yes, as a matter of fact I did. I also picked up more at the pharmacy.
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Yes. But I can't say it too loud or I forget to take them the next time. I think they conspire against me.
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Yes. But I can't say it too loud or I forget to take them the next time. I think they conspire against me.
Then send them to the Tower! :queenie:
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As a matter of fact...no!
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Yes I did.
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Yes, I did.
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Yes I did when I woke, should do again before going to bed. Hope not to forget.
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This thread reminded me to take my afternoon meds.
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I won't take mine just yet, because I might want a morning nap, and the meds make it a bit harder to sleep. :chin:
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OK, now I have taken them, am posting this in case I forget and go to take them again! :screwy:
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OK, now I have taken them, am posting this in case I forget and go to take them again! :screwy:
I have done that with dexamphetamine (taken my dose, forgotten and then took it again) and it was not a pleasant experience.
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Yes.
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Just took my multivitamin, washed down with :coffee: !
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OK, now I have taken them, am posting this in case I forget and go to take them again! :screwy:
I have done that with dexamphetamine (taken my dose, forgotten and then took it again) and it was not a pleasant experience.
I count out a day's worth of pills each morning and put them into a container. That way, I always know how many I've taken and how many I've still to take.
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Shame on me. I have been up since two hours before dawn and I have not yet taken my morning meds. Shame on me.
Going now to do so.
Thanks for asking.
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I did take them, yes. I shall now take my multivitamin! :viking:
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OK, now I have taken them, am posting this in case I forget and go to take them again! :screwy:
I have done that with dexamphetamine (taken my dose, forgotten and then took it again) and it was not a pleasant experience.
I count out a day's worth of pills each morning and put them into a container. That way, I always know how many I've taken and how many I've still to take.
Yeah I do that now for the most part too (got small container in my uni bag) and it helps. I made the mistake of taking two doses when I first started taking meds for ADHD.
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Yes, I took them.
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The Princess Royal just took her morning meds at 3 p.m.
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I did
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I did, and forgot to mention it! Ooops. :laugh:
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Yes, plus a painkiller.
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I have taken my meds, and will soon take my multivitamin. Fun fact: The multivitamins are orange! :nerdy:
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Yes, this was one thing I actually remembered today.
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No
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Yes.
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Yes, and will do again quite soon.
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Yes, although I am late taking my evening meds (should be with dinner).
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Yes, and I took my multivitamin as well. Ready to rock! :headbang:
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Yes, I did.
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uh-oh
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I just took four dexamphetamine in two hours and I don't feel anything. Maybe I am getting placebos!
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I just took four dexamphetamine in two hours and I don't feel anything. Maybe I am getting placebos!
That happens to me occasionally. I think sometimes it's because my stores of dopamine have been depleted; dexamphetamine displaces stored dopamine within the vesicles of neurons and forces it out into the extracellular space, and only some of it gets pumped back into neurons through reuptake transporters and repackaged into vesicles; the rest is degraded into homovanillic acid and needs to be replaced via the conversion of L-tyrosine into L-dopa and then into dopamine. Once the stores of dopamine are exhausted, dexamphetamine can only squeeze it out of the cells at the rate that it's synthesised.
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Not yet, but I'mjust on my way to the shower and will take them after that.
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I have taken mine, and will soon take my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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uh-oh
*wobbles in with the meds in a tiny golden case for Her Majesty* :queenie:
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I couldn't sleep until 5 AM this morning, so I took 5 mg diazepam.
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uh-oh
uh-oh too.
And it can be felt. :-\
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Yes, I took them. Eventually.
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Thanks to Lady Weeble and her golden case I did both sets today.
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I just took four dexamphetamine in two hours and I don't feel anything. Maybe I am getting placebos!
That happens to me occasionally. I think sometimes it's because my stores of dopamine have been depleted; dexamphetamine displaces stored dopamine within the vesicles of neurons and forces it out into the extracellular space, and only some of it gets pumped back into neurons through reuptake transporters and repackaged into vesicles; the rest is degraded into homovanillic acid and needs to be replaced via the conversion of L-tyrosine into L-dopa and then into dopamine. Once the stores of dopamine are exhausted, dexamphetamine can only squeeze it out of the cells at the rate that it's synthesised.
This is probably what is happening to me. I am thinking of taking a week off from taking them when we have our study week (when there are no lectures or tutorials). I haven't had that much time off taking them in years. I really should have done this in my summer holidays though.
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Thanks to Lady Weeble and her golden case I did both sets today.
Happy to help, Your Majesty! I take care of the little things so you can run the Empire! :viking:
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I just took four dexamphetamine in two hours and I don't feel anything. Maybe I am getting placebos!
That happens to me occasionally. I think sometimes it's because my stores of dopamine have been depleted; dexamphetamine displaces stored dopamine within the vesicles of neurons and forces it out into the extracellular space, and only some of it gets pumped back into neurons through reuptake transporters and repackaged into vesicles; the rest is degraded into homovanillic acid and needs to be replaced via the conversion of L-tyrosine into L-dopa and then into dopamine. Once the stores of dopamine are exhausted, dexamphetamine can only squeeze it out of the cells at the rate that it's synthesised.
This is probably what is happening to me. I am thinking of taking a week off from taking them when we have our study week (when there are no lectures or tutorials). I haven't had that much time off taking them in years. I really should have done this in my summer holidays though.
I took a 9-day break from it for my EEG at the hospital, but I'm having trouble adjusting back to it now that I'm taking again, and it feels like my brain has been reacting badly to it since I went back on it.
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I just took mine with some Sunny Delight (original tangy Florida style)! :green:
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Yes. took them.
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Just did.
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Indeed I did, and I will add my multivitamin in a little while! :thumbup:
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Yes.
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Yes, and it's time for :coffee: !
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of course I did
I dont want to DIE ! :O
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of course I did
I dont want to DIE ! :O
We don't want you to die either. :hug:
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We don't want you to die either. :hug:
awww.
just for you, ill stay alive :hug:
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You'll be stuck here for a good while yet, but we all die.
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You'll be stuck here for a good while yet, but we all die.
Yes, but for now, let's have some fun! :party:
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well, Ill be happy with another 40 years :)
can you all picture me at 70 ? my tattoos'll be all droopy
"Is that as star on your neck or a sad old man ?"
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Thanks to this lovely thread, I remembered my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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OMG HOW DID YOU POST AFTER ME !
CONSPIRACY !
edit : lol, one second difference :D
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:snowman:
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Belated, but yes.
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Yes, I took my meds and my multivitamin, counting down my last week of the evening job! :2thumbsup:
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Yes.
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I did. I took my early regimen on time and my late ones are just now due.
Thanks for asking.
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About time for the night ones. And about time for bed for this girl too. Been a packed day.
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I haven't taken my pills for months.
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I haven't taken my pills for months.
How are you feeling without them? :orly:
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Why do forget my evening/dinner meds? I need more simplicity and structure in my life.
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Why do forget my evening/dinner meds? I need more simplicity and structure in my life.
And an "I". :zoinks:
Yes, I took mine.
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I dropped two of mine on the floor but I took them anyway! Progress! :viking:
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I took my meds and my multivitamin, and I am ready to rock! :headbang:
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Yes.
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Forgot the morning bit. Will apply night layer soon. And take a multivitamin too.
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Yes.
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Yes, I just took them now! :thumbup:
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yes
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No coffee yet so my caffeine fix isn't in yet :zombiefuck:
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No coffee yet so my caffeine fix isn't in yet :zombiefuck:
Quick! Drink some of this, STAT! :coffee:
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No coffee yet so my caffeine fix isn't in yet :zombiefuck:
Quick! Drink some of this, STAT! :coffee:
Going to get one out this morning when I drop my son at school it's hard to hold out that long though
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Yes, and they're working quite nicely.
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Not all of them. Am giving the dexamphetamine a break. And I am so tired. Yawned all day. I think I will go to bed early.
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Not all of them. Am giving the dexamphetamine a break. And I am so tired. Yawned all day. I think I will go to bed early.
I hope you have a good sleep and feel refreshed afterward. :hug:
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Yes. And I took a painkiller a few minutes ago.
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Yes. And I took a painkiller a few minutes ago.
For the headache? I hope it helps. :hug:
I took both my meds and my multivitamin! Go me! :2thumbsup:
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It did help.
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I took my meds, now it is time for the multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Yes, I took them.
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need to do that!
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Not yet. I will, eventually, but it's Sunday morning and I'm easing into the day.
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Yup, but it is not stopping the growing of the affected area. Getting creepily close to my eye :(
Don't want to go on oral antibiotics. Hates them.
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Yes.
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About to.
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I took my meds earlier, and I have just taken my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Yes, thanks for asking was about to forget. I had gone to bed that late that it would have been too early when I woke up for the meds.
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Yes, thanks for asking was about to forget. I had gone to bed that late that it would have been too early when I woke up for the meds.
Aren't you glad you started this thread? It's a gift that keeps on giving! :thumbup:
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Yes, thanks for asking was about to forget. I had gone to bed that late that it would have been too early when I woke up for the meds.
Aren't you glad you started this thread? It's a gift that keeps on giving! :thumbup:
Yes, I am. It has helped me to take my meds many times already.
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Yes, thanks for asking was about to forget. I had gone to bed that late that it would have been too early when I woke up for the meds.
Aren't you glad you started this thread? It's a gift that keeps on giving! :thumbup:
Yes, I am. It has helped me to take my meds many times already.
It has helped me too, with my meds and especially with my multivitamins. :thumbup:
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Took mine this morning.
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I just did, less than a minute ago! :angel:
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Did, and things are improving again. Doesn't feel like there is a complete sandpit in my right eye at the moment.
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i have new meds
i did not throw them up
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i have new meds
i did not throw them up
gratz
i took my meds... at my grand parents and stressed as hell... there not helping >.<
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Done, hope not to forget to pick up my refill this afternoon.
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Took them.
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Indeed I did! I will take my multivitamin in a little while. :thumbup:
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I took mine this morning.
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I took mine last night.
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Yes, I did. But the effect got undone by me enjoying the sun outside today. Even after 4 pm it was too strong.
Time to dig up the sunblocker again. UGH!!
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New meds seem to be working, some.
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Yes, I did.
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Yes. Meh.
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I forgot.
/me goes and takes them.
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new meds are good!
Sorry to repeat, but I have not thrown up the new regimen yet!
WHEWW!~
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Yes. Thanks to this thread I seldom forget.
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I took mine, yes, and in a little while I will add my multivitamin. Hyke helped a lot of us by starting this thread. :)
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Thanks. Did it because I kept forgetting my own. Glad it is helping others too.
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Yes I did! Now it is time for my multivitamin! :viking:
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mornings are down the hatch
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new meds are good!
Sorry to repeat, but I have not thrown up the new regimen yet!
WHEWW!~
Glad the doctor prescribed you ones that work. :)
About to take my afternoon meds.
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Yes, I took them earlier this evening.
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Took my eye drops now. It's like pouring acid on the eye. Stings like fuck.
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You must be :viking:
Laser surgery in the eye itself hurt like hell 20 years ago. I couldn't even sleep or rest for the pain in one eye. :thumbdn:
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I imagine laser surgery today is less painful, considering how commonplace it is.
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Yes. It doesn't hurt at all from what I've heard. Back then they scraped the eye with something like a small scalpel before the laser surgery itself. 50 minutes after surgery the anastaethic stopped working and... :zombiefuck:
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Yes. It doesn't hurt at all from what I've heard. Back then they scraped the eye with something like a small scalpel before the laser surgery itself. 50 minutes after surgery the anastaethic stopped working and... :zombiefuck:
I've been thinking about having laser surgery done but I suspect I'm getting too old to fully enjoy its benefits. I'd still need reading glasses. :-\
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Yes. It doesn't hurt at all from what I've heard. Back then they scraped the eye with something like a small scalpel before the laser surgery itself. 50 minutes after surgery the anastaethic stopped working and... :zombiefuck:
I've been thinking about having laser surgery done but I suspect I'm getting too old to fully enjoy its benefits. I'd still need reading glasses. :-\
I suspected I needed reading glasses as I was REALLY struggling reading anything on my screen and someone much younger came along and said "How the fuck do you read what's on there? The resolution is terrible!"
They seemed to be wanting an answer so I offered "What the fuck's a resolution" So computers are not really my thing. What can I say?
Oh sorry. Meds thread.I am drinking bourbon and coke for medical purposes.
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Yes. It doesn't hurt at all from what I've heard. Back then they scraped the eye with something like a small scalpel before the laser surgery itself. 50 minutes after surgery the anastaethic stopped working and... :zombiefuck:
I've been thinking about having laser surgery done but I suspect I'm getting too old to fully enjoy its benefits. I'd still need reading glasses. :-\
Call or mail some clinic and ask. It's better to do it while you're young, but the technique is constantly improving, so it might work well enough anyway.
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Yes. It doesn't hurt at all from what I've heard. Back then they scraped the eye with something like a small scalpel before the laser surgery itself. 50 minutes after surgery the anastaethic stopped working and... :zombiefuck:
I've been thinking about having laser surgery done but I suspect I'm getting too old to fully enjoy its benefits. I'd still need reading glasses. :-\
Call or mail some clinic and ask. It's better to do it while you're young, but the technique is constantly improving, so it might work well enough anyway.
Yeah Odeon, I was told the best benefit to me would be when my eyes had degenerated quite a bit. I'm surprised if you have just had surgery, your Opthalmologist has not discussed what the benefits / non benefits of laser would be. Did you not ask?
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Yes. It doesn't hurt at all from what I've heard. Back then they scraped the eye with something like a small scalpel before the laser surgery itself. 50 minutes after surgery the anastaethic stopped working and... :zombiefuck:
I've been thinking about having laser surgery done but I suspect I'm getting too old to fully enjoy its benefits. I'd still need reading glasses. :-\
Call or mail some clinic and ask. It's better to do it while you're young, but the technique is constantly improving, so it might work well enough anyway.
Thanks. I will.
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Yes. It doesn't hurt at all from what I've heard. Back then they scraped the eye with something like a small scalpel before the laser surgery itself. 50 minutes after surgery the anastaethic stopped working and... :zombiefuck:
I've been thinking about having laser surgery done but I suspect I'm getting too old to fully enjoy its benefits. I'd still need reading glasses. :-\
Call or mail some clinic and ask. It's better to do it while you're young, but the technique is constantly improving, so it might work well enough anyway.
Yeah Odeon, I was told the best benefit to me would be when my eyes had degenerated quite a bit. I'm surprised if you have just had surgery, your Opthalmologist has not discussed what the benefits / non benefits of laser would be. Did you not ask?
These people are surgeons that want to cut into your eye muscles. It's very far from their mo to discuss laser surgery.
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I took my meds, and in a few minutes I will take my multivitamin! Love this thread! :thumbup:
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Yes up to 10mg adderall think I am getting the dry mouth the doctor told me about
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Yes up to 10mg adderall think I am getting the dry mouth the doctor told me about
Besides the dry mouth, are you getting any other effects? Is it helping? :orly:
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Since Friday I've been doing quite well remembering.
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Since Friday I've been doing quite well remembering.
Let's keep bumping this thread so we continue on our path of good health! :thumbup:
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I took my other meds as usual. Time for the eye drops soon.
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I took my other meds as usual. Time for the eye drops soon.
How is your head eye feeling today? :orly:
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Since Friday I've been doing quite well remembering.
Let's keep bumping this thread so we continue on our path of good health! :thumbup:
This is INTENSITY SQUARED. We don't merely bump, we bump and grind.
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Since Friday I've been doing quite well remembering.
Let's keep bumping this thread so we continue on our path of good health! :thumbup:
This is INTENSITY SQUARED. We don't merely bump, we bump and grind.
Sort of like THIS -----> :belly:
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Yes up to 10mg adderall think I am getting the dry mouth the doctor told me about
A little more energy maybe but no help in the focusing department
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Yes up to 10mg adderall think I am getting the dry mouth the doctor told me about
A little more energy maybe but no help in the focusing department
Maybe at a slightly higher dose then. Good luck. :thumbup:
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I took my other meds as usual. Time for the eye drops soon.
How is your head eye feeling today? :orly:
Head is better now than earlier. Eye is driving me batshit.
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I took mine earlier, time to bump this thread! It will remind me to take my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Bumped up to 15mg now more energy not sure about the focus yet definitely suppressing my appetite though
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Took the fourth and last ointment of the day for my eye.
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Yes and they have a candy like taste
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Yes, and they are only starting to work.
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Applied the first of today's eye meds. The rest of the meds will come later.
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Yes I did, and the multivitamin will soon follow. :thumbup:
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Took my regular ones, plus #2 of 4 of the eye med.
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Yup, and medicated offspring too.
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Only #4 of today's eye meds left to take.
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I took mine a few minutes ago.
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Some of them but not my usual ones.
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Thank you for bumping this thread, I will take mine now! :thumbup:
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About to take my night meds.
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About to take my night meds.
But it's morning. :dunno: :smarty:
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Nope. Came off Paxil 3 years ago. It was worse than quitting smoking >:(
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Still waiting for my meds to take full effect.
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Glad my offspring is an insomniac. She's still awake.
Completely forgot her evening meds.
Just "summoned" her down for the pill swallowing ordeal.
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she was :viking:
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So far so good.
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Nope. Came off Paxil 3 years ago. It was worse than quitting smoking >:(
If it was anything like coming off Zoloft, I sympathise with you.
Only today's 4th and final eye med left to take.
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Nope. Came off Paxil 3 years ago. It was worse than quitting smoking >:(
You used to smoke? How old were you when you started and when you stopped?
:zombiefuck:
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Nope. Came off Paxil 3 years ago. It was worse than quitting smoking >:(
You used to smoke? How old were you when you started and when you stopped?
:zombiefuck:
He still smokes. He's just changed what he smokes. ;)
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Nope. Came off Paxil 3 years ago. It was worse than quitting smoking >:(
You used to smoke? How old were you when you started and when you stopped?
:zombiefuck:
I was really dumb. I started at 24 and stopped at 31. About a pack a day at the end.
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Nope. Came off Paxil 3 years ago. It was worse than quitting smoking >:(
You used to smoke? How old were you when you started and when you stopped?
:zombiefuck:
I was really dumb. I started at 24 and stopped at 31. About a pack a day at the end.
:plus: for quitting as soon as you did. Now your little one will grow up breathing clean air!
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Nope. Came off Paxil 3 years ago. It was worse than quitting smoking >:(
You used to smoke? How old were you when you started and when you stopped?
:zombiefuck:
I was really dumb. I started at 24 and stopped at 31. About a pack a day at the end.
:plus: for quitting as soon as you did. Now your little one will grow up breathing clean air!
Thanks. That was why I quit. We wouldn't start trying until the air was clear :angel:
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Yes I did. Thank you to this thread or else I would have forgotten.
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Yes I did. Thank you to this thread or else I would have forgotten.
Hyke did us a great service by starting this thread. Yay hyke! :thumbup:
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I echo Celticgoddess. Now to take my meds.
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Nope. Came off Paxil 3 years ago. It was worse than quitting smoking >:(
You used to smoke? How old were you when you started and when you stopped?
:zombiefuck:
I was really dumb. I started at 24 and stopped at 31. About a pack a day at the end.
:plus: for quitting as soon as you did. Now your little one will grow up breathing clean air!
Thanks. That was why I quit. We wouldn't start trying until the air was clear :angel:
That makes a lot of sense, but I guess you must have rebelled against your upbringing in every way you could think of.
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I took my medicine a few minutes ago.
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I used to smoke but quit in 2005.
And yes, I have taken my morning meds.
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I'm almost positive that I did! It's a little foggy, but I really think I did! :asthing:
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Just took my multivitamin as well. :thumbup:
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Just took my multivitamin as well. :thumbup:
Plenty of calcium?
Weebles should wobble but their bones shouldn't crack.
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Just took my multivitamin as well. :thumbup:
Plenty of calcium?
Weebles should wobble but their bones shouldn't crack.
*peers at the label* Actually, it contains only 10% of the daily recommended amount of calcium! :orly:
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Calcium is :viking: but not as :viking: as potassium, for instance.
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Just took my multivitamin as well. :thumbup:
Plenty of calcium?
Weebles should wobble but their bones shouldn't crack.
*peers at the label* Actually, it contains only 10% of the daily recommended amount of calcium! :orly:
Oh noes!! Go drink some milk and eat some cheese :cheese:
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Yes and they have a candy like taste
Lucky you, I take Edronax (antidepressant) and it is revolting. Dexamphetamine are not much better. Best med for taste was Lamictal, that tasted like blackcurrant.
Just took my lunchtime meds.
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Still no meds. Am missing out? I am feeling a little left out :-\
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Just took my multivitamin as well. :thumbup:
Plenty of calcium?
Weebles should wobble but their bones shouldn't crack.
*peers at the label* Actually, it contains only 10% of the daily recommended amount of calcium! :orly:
Oh noes!! Go drink some milk and eat some cheese :cheese:
*scurries to the fridge to make up the deficit* :cheese:
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Still no meds. Am missing out? I am feeling a little left out :-\
Well, you do have your medicinal :scotch: at times, that sort of counts!
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Yes, I took my meds today.
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I took mine first thing when I got up! :2thumbsup:
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Still no meds. Am missing out? I am feeling a little left out :-\
Well, you do have your medicinal :scotch: at times, that sort of counts!
Fell better now
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Yes, I took mine just a little while ago. :thumbup:
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Yes. :green:
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Almost.
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Almost.
Awww, did you miss your mouth? I do that occasionally. :hug:
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Yes
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Me too! Time for a multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Yes, I took most of them. Not the eye meds, though, because I'm hoping I no longer have to.
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I just took my blood sugar and it was only 64. So, no insulin.
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Took a Xanax.
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Took a Xanax.
They are one of the nastiest tasting pills around :zombiefuck:
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Took a Xanax.
They are one of the nastiest tasting pills around :zombiefuck:
I bet Edronax is worse. It sometimes make me gag when I take it. It is the only antidepressant I know of that has to be taken twice a day.
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I just took my meds with a sip of Sunny Delight (tangy original)! :2thumbsup:
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Took a Xanax.
They are one of the nastiest tasting pills around :zombiefuck:
I bet Edronax is worse. It sometimes make me gag when I take it. It is the only antidepressant I know of that has to be taken twice a day.
You would think they could come up with a pleasant coating like Tic Tac's
I just took mine dry, Adderall tastes a bit like Pez
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Took a Xanax.
They are one of the nastiest tasting pills around :zombiefuck:
I bet Edronax is worse. It sometimes make me gag when I take it. It is the only antidepressant I know of that has to be taken twice a day.
You would think they could come up with a pleasant coating like Tic Tac's
I just took mine dry, Adderall tastes a bit like Pez
Mmm yes, orange Tic Tacs would be nice. I used to take Lamictal and that tasted like blackcurrant, don't see why they couldn't do that with other medications.
As far as I know, we don't have Adderall in Australia.
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Yes, this morning.
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Yes, and thanks to this thread reminding me, I have just taken my multivitamin! :2thumbsup:
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Why, yes! Yes I did! Thank you for asking. :toporly:
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Me too, me too.
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Took a Xanax.
They are one of the nastiest tasting pills around :zombiefuck:
I bet Edronax is worse. It sometimes make me gag when I take it. It is the only antidepressant I know of that has to be taken twice a day.
You would think they could come up with a pleasant coating like Tic Tac's
I just took mine dry, Adderall tastes a bit like Pez
Mmm yes, orange Tic Tacs would be nice. I used to take Lamictal and that tasted like blackcurrant, don't see why they couldn't do that with other medications.
As far as I know, we don't have Adderall in Australia.
Orange Tic Tacs :autism: That is what kiddie aspirin tasted like when I was a child I loved it
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Took a Xanax.
They are one of the nastiest tasting pills around :zombiefuck:
I bet Edronax is worse. It sometimes make me gag when I take it. It is the only antidepressant I know of that has to be taken twice a day.
You would think they could come up with a pleasant coating like Tic Tac's
I just took mine dry, Adderall tastes a bit like Pez
Mmm yes, orange Tic Tacs would be nice. I used to take Lamictal and that tasted like blackcurrant, don't see why they couldn't do that with other medications.
As far as I know, we don't have Adderall in Australia.
Orange Tic Tacs :autism: That is what kiddie aspirin tasted like when I was a child I loved it
Kiddie aspirin from Bayer?
The kid paracetamol I have here tastes like peppermints.
Oh, and yes, did use the meds.
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Yeah from Bayer :laugh: I still get orange tic tacs sometimes for the nostalgic taste
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I love orange tic tacs.
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I love orange tic tacs.
I used to have Tic-Tacs all the time but they were causing tooth decay, so I switched to sugar-free mints! :orly:
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Yes I did.
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I sure did! I'm ready to face the day! :thumbup:
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Just got night meds to take.
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I did take mine, thank you for asking! :2thumbsup:
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Yes, I think so. :-\
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Yes, did.
Forgot yesterday, forgot sunscreen too yesterday. Bad combo, forgetting both of them. I've got a face with lumpy purple patches, and lots of red. :hahaha:
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^ What causes the lumpy purple patches?
Yes I took mine, and it's always only due to this thread. So glad we have it! :thumbup:
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Yes, took mine.
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Yes I did, I love this thread! :thumbup:
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I haven't taken my night meds yet. I did fill my prescription today though so I have plenty.
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Yes I can even feel them working
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Yes I can even feel them working
Do they improve your focus then? :orly:
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Yes I did, now I will take my multivitamin and be ready to RAWK! :headbang:
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Yes I did.
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Did this morning, will do soon again.
Looked into a diet, said to help me with the inflammations. Then it said tap-water and mineral water were reliable sources to get a sufficient intake of calcium. :asthing: :asthing: :asthing:
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Yes, I have taken them, and I need to drop off my prescription today too! Time to get more meds! :viking:
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Yes. I'm considering a migraine pill but I don't know...
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I also took my mulitivitamin a little while ago! Got to stay nourished for the work day ahead! :viking:
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Shit. I forgot yesterday. Must do it today. Can't afford to be all over the place given that it's a highly social weekend.
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Yes but I'm skipping the for the weekend to see how it goes
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Yes I did
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Yes but I'm skipping the for the weekend to see how it goes
:o
Back when I was on meds, doing this would make me a raging asshole.
I didn't "rage" as much when I was on them
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Forgot my lunch time meds. Will take my afternoon meds now.
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Yes, I took mine, and I MUST get my prescription filled today! :orly:
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Me and meds don't mesh well together.
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Yes, I took them. Later I will call the pharmacy about my refill. :viking:
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Me and meds don't mesh well together.
All meds, or just a certain category of meds? :nerd!:
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Me and meds don't mesh well together.
All meds, or just a certain category of meds? :nerd!:
All meds. My blood is not human.
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Me and meds don't mesh well together.
All meds, or just a certain category of meds? :nerd!:
All meds. My blood is not human.
I do sense a resemblance to a certain Science Officer ... :vulcan:
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Me and meds don't mesh well together.
All meds, or just a certain category of meds? :nerd!:
All meds. My blood is not human.
I do sense a resemblance to a certain Science Officer ... :vulcan:
And I sense a deep curiosity within my non-human blood to know who you're talking about. :P
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Me and meds don't mesh well together.
All meds, or just a certain category of meds? :nerd!:
All meds. My blood is not human.
I do sense a resemblance to a certain Science Officer ... :vulcan:
And I sense a deep curiosity within my non-human blood to know who you're talking about. :P
Spock! You know, the famous Vulcan Science Officer from Star Trek! :vulcan:
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I'm getting better at taking my meds.
Also since I've signed up for a health service thingy I should be more diligent about my diabetes testing. And I've found out I can get my diabetes supplies free, which should encourage me to test as I should (think Wilfred Brimley).
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Me and meds don't mesh well together.
All meds, or just a certain category of meds? :nerd!:
All meds. My blood is not human.
I do sense a resemblance to a certain Science Officer ... :vulcan:
And I sense a deep curiosity within my non-human blood to know who you're talking about. :P
Spock! You know, the famous half-Vulcan Science Officer from Star Trek! :vulcan:
Fixed. :nerdy:
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Yes, I did.
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Me and meds don't mesh well together.
All meds, or just a certain category of meds? :nerd!:
All meds. My blood is not human.
I do sense a resemblance to a certain Science Officer ... :vulcan:
And I sense a deep curiosity within my non-human blood to know who you're talking about. :P
Spock! You know, the famous half-Vulcan Science Officer from Star Trek! :vulcan:
Fixed. :nerdy:
Ooops. It's been awhile since I've actually watched the show. :emb:
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Me and meds don't mesh well together.
All meds, or just a certain category of meds? :nerd!:
All meds. My blood is not human.
I do sense a resemblance to a certain Science Officer ... :vulcan:
And I sense a deep curiosity within my non-human blood to know who you're talking about. :P
Spock! You know, the famous half-Vulcan Science Officer from Star Trek! :vulcan:
Fixed. :nerdy:
Ooops. It's been awhile since I've actually watched the show. :emb:
You should have a spastic Star Trek marathon! :borg: :resist: :2thumbsup:
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Yes, I did.
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Yes, I took mine, and I picked up my refill yesterday too. I like this thread. :thumbup:
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Me and meds don't mesh well together.
All meds, or just a certain category of meds? :nerd!:
All meds. My blood is not human.
I do sense a resemblance to a certain Science Officer ... :vulcan:
And I sense a deep curiosity within my non-human blood to know who you're talking about. :P
Spock! You know, the famous half-Vulcan Science Officer from Star Trek! :vulcan:
Fixed. :nerdy:
Ooops. It's been awhile since I've actually watched the show. :emb:
You should have a spastic Star Trek marathon! :borg: :resist: :2thumbsup:
You guys are a bunch of nerds. I mean, Star Trek?
THIS is what you guys are a fan of?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SK0cUNMnMM
Yep, time for the meds. :autism:
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^ Their stretchy velour shirts were so cool, how could you not ... *Shatner pause* ...love them? :chin:
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^ Their stretchy velour shirts were so cool, how could you not ... *Shatner pause* ...love them? :chin:
They fight like snails and defy all laws of logic and reason in that video. I mean, one second that alien is severely damaged by a weirdass weak hit to the head. The next second, he proudly blocks a rock throw with his chest and throws a bigger one with ease towards the guy when he's already at a distance from him.
How can I love them after that horrible fight scene? :dunno:
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Yes, applied them.
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^ Their stretchy velour shirts were so cool, how could you not ... *Shatner pause* ...love them? :chin:
They fight like snails and defy all laws of logic and reason in that video. I mean, one second that alien is severely damaged by a weirdass weak hit to the head. The next second, he proudly blocks a rock throw with his chest and throws a bigger one with ease towards the guy when he's already at a distance from him.
How can I love them after that horrible fight scene? :dunno:
You can love them for the laughs they give you! :rofl:
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Forgot last night's (all nutritional supplements, so not critical). But I did this morning's.
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I have taken today's meds, and I have my refill all set for the next few weeks. :thumbup:
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Did, and will take some painkillers now.
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I remembered my multivitamin, thanks to this thread! :thumbup:
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vitamins are good for you, and make your pee neon yellow. :thumbup:
I just took my blood sugar and it was 89. PERFECT ! Some of you non-diabeetus people might have higher sugar that that. I'm awesome. still had to take my shot though.
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vitamins are good for you, and make your pee neon yellow. :thumbup:
I just took my blood sugar and it was 89. PERFECT ! Some of you non-diabeetus people might have higher sugar that that. I'm awesome. still had to take my shot though.
YES!!!!!!! Especially since I switched from a pinkish brand to one that is rusty orange! More dye = brighter pee! :nerd!:
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vitamins are good for you, and make your pee neon yellow. :thumbup:
I just took my blood sugar and it was 89. PERFECT ! Some of you non-diabeetus people might have higher sugar that that. I'm awesome. still had to take my shot though.
:plus: for careful monitoring of your blood sugar, and congratulations on a fine reading!
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Me and meds don't mesh well together.
All meds, or just a certain category of meds? :nerd!:
All meds. My blood is not human.
I do sense a resemblance to a certain Science Officer ... :vulcan:
And I sense a deep curiosity within my non-human blood to know who you're talking about. :P
Spock! You know, the famous half-Vulcan Science Officer from Star Trek! :vulcan:
Fixed. :nerdy:
Ooops. It's been awhile since I've actually watched the show. :emb:
You should have a spastic Star Trek marathon! :borg: :resist: :2thumbsup:
You guys are a bunch of nerds. I mean, Star Trek?
THIS is what you guys are a fan of?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SK0cUNMnMM
Yep, time for the meds. :autism:
I saw this one last night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB4jADOhvrs
:smarty:
Since you are such a Kirk fighting fan, I found this one just for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6MuK8PHzPg
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Cynics can laugh, but Kirk is a legend! :thumbup:
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Not funny, Callaway. :razz:
The Star Trek fight scenes remind me of the old Batman and Robin fight scenes. Almost the same slowass amateurish patterns in fighting. :LOL:
But damn, that woman looked uniquely hot with that hair style of hers.
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Not funny, Callaway. :razz:
The Star Trek fight scenes remind me of the old Batman and Robin fight scenes. Almost the same slowass amateurish patterns in fighting. :LOL:
But damn, that woman looked uniquely hot with that hair style of hers.
You thought that Shahna was hot? She made me think of a hot baked potato wrapped in aluminum foil.
:laugh:
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Not funny, Callaway. :razz:
The Star Trek fight scenes remind me of the old Batman and Robin fight scenes. Almost the same slowass amateurish patterns in fighting. :LOL:
But damn, that woman looked uniquely hot with that hair style of hers.
You thought that Shahna was hot? She made me think of a hot baked potato wrapped in aluminum foil.
:laugh:
Yes, but a HOT baked potato as you say. :laugh:
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Yes, I took my evening meds last night and my morning meds.
BTW - Star Trek does seem crude and juvenile now, but back in the day they were quite innovative. The props and wardrobe depts had to really be creative. For example, the scanner that Bones uses for medical tests is actually a salt shaker. The sliding doors are actually pulled open and shut by a crew member because they didn't have enough $ to buy motors to make the doors work.
I remember skipping school to see Kirk and Spock (in costume) interviewed on the Today Show before the series premiered.
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Yes, I took my evening meds last night and my morning meds.
BTW - Star Trek does seem crude and juvenile now, but back in the day they were quite innovative. The props and wardrobe depts had to really be creative. For example, the scanner that Bones uses for medical tests is actually a salt shaker. The sliding doors are actually pulled open and shut by a crew member because they didn't have enough $ to buy motors to make the doors work.
I remember skipping school to see Kirk and Spock (in costume) interviewed on the Today Show before the series premiered.
Star Trek was the best thing ever when I watched it the first time in 1970 or so.
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Yes, I took my evening meds last night and my morning meds.
BTW - Star Trek does seem crude and juvenile now, but back in the day they were quite innovative. The props and wardrobe depts had to really be creative. For example, the scanner that Bones uses for medical tests is actually a salt shaker. The sliding doors are actually pulled open and shut by a crew member because they didn't have enough $ to buy motors to make the doors work.
I remember skipping school to see Kirk and Spock (in costume) interviewed on the Today Show before the series premiered.
Star Trek was the best thing ever when I watched it the first time in 1970 or so.
And to show you how juvenile I still am, the best episode is "The Trouble with Tribbles."
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Yes, I took my evening meds last night and my morning meds.
BTW - Star Trek does seem crude and juvenile now, but back in the day they were quite innovative. The props and wardrobe depts had to really be creative. For example, the scanner that Bones uses for medical tests is actually a salt shaker. The sliding doors are actually pulled open and shut by a crew member because they didn't have enough $ to buy motors to make the doors work.
I remember skipping school to see Kirk and Spock (in costume) interviewed on the Today Show before the series premiered.
Star Trek was the best thing ever when I watched it the first time in 1970 or so.
And to show you how juvenile I still am, the best episode was "The Trouble with Tribbles."
I was in that one, playing a baby Tribble! :angel:
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Yes, I took my evening meds last night and my morning meds.
BTW - Star Trek does seem crude and juvenile now, but back in the day they were quite innovative. The props and wardrobe depts had to really be creative. For example, the scanner that Bones uses for medical tests is actually a salt shaker. The sliding doors are actually pulled open and shut by a crew member because they didn't have enough $ to buy motors to make the doors work.
I remember skipping school to see Kirk and Spock (in costume) interviewed on the Today Show before the series premiered.
Star Trek was the best thing ever when I watched it the first time in 1970 or so.
And to show you how juvenile I still am, the best episode is "The Trouble with Tribbles."
That was a good episode.
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Yes, I took my evening meds last night and my morning meds.
BTW - Star Trek does seem crude and juvenile now, but back in the day they were quite innovative. The props and wardrobe depts had to really be creative. For example, the scanner that Bones uses for medical tests is actually a salt shaker. The sliding doors are actually pulled open and shut by a crew member because they didn't have enough $ to buy motors to make the doors work.
I remember skipping school to see Kirk and Spock (in costume) interviewed on the Today Show before the series premiered.
Star Trek was the best thing ever when I watched it the first time in 1970 or so.
And to show you how juvenile I still am, the best episode is "The Trouble with Tribbles."
A good one, but the best evah is City on the Edge of Forever.
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Yes, I took my evening meds last night and my morning meds.
BTW - Star Trek does seem crude and juvenile now, but back in the day they were quite innovative. The props and wardrobe depts had to really be creative. For example, the scanner that Bones uses for medical tests is actually a salt shaker. The sliding doors are actually pulled open and shut by a crew member because they didn't have enough $ to buy motors to make the doors work.
I remember skipping school to see Kirk and Spock (in costume) interviewed on the Today Show before the series premiered.
Star Trek was the best thing ever when I watched it the first time in 1970 or so.
And to show you how juvenile I still am, the best episode is "The Trouble with Tribbles."
A good one, but the best evah is City on the Edge of Forever.
I never warmed too much to that one, although I realize it was the best filmed and acted of the series. My second favorite is "Miri" about the planet inhabited by children who catch a disease and die when they reach puberty. I got the terms Grups (grown-ups) and Onlies (you're only a child) from it. I still use the terms to this day.
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There were quite a few good ones in season #1, where Kirk didn't fight extras in monster suits.
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I have indeed taken my meds, and am now drinking my :coffee: to start my morning!
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Yes, I took mine.
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I have taken my meds AND my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Morning meds down the hatch for the PR and me.
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Yup, and fear I will have to get some extra tomorrow. :P Stupid eyelid.
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Yes, I have taken them, just had to confirm it by re-counting the capsules I have left! :laugh:
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I have done well and taken all my meds today. Cool to see some Star Trek in this thread. :)
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I have done well and taken all my meds today. Cool to see some Star Trek in this thread. :)
Especially the mention of Tribbles! :heart:
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I'm not a medicine taker at all but half an hour ago I took an Ibuprofen in the hope to get rid of this terrible headache that's been bugging me since yesterday. (It's already a tad milder, I think, at the moment.)
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Completely skipped yesterday, but did this morning's.
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Yes I did.
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I did take mine, and soon I will take my multivitamin as well. :viking:
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Just did
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Yes I did.
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I just took my multivitamin! Now I am ready to face the day! :viking:
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Yes, the morning ones.
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Had to use my asthma spray.
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^Is it spring related?
I just took my lunchtime meds.
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I forgot yesterday, but I remembered to take it today.
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^Is it spring related?
I just took my lunchtime meds.
Don't know. I've had problems lately.
Took my happy meds this morning, as usual (are you listening, Benji?).
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Just took my Strattera, the multivitamin will soon follow. :thumbup:
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Yep. Only it was meant to be dissolved in a glass of water and I just put the whole thing in my mouth. Ugh, the foam... The taste! :aff:
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Yep. Only it was meant to be dissolved in a glass of water and I just put the whole thing in my mouth. Ugh, the foam... The taste! :aff:
What was it, an Alka-Seltzer?
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:zombiefuck:
I don't even want to think about that.
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I haven't taken my medicine yet, but I will do it now.
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OK, done.
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Well, I have 32 minutes left to take my evening meds, so I'd better get swallowing.
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Yup, did smear the antibiotics.
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Just took Strattera, and am now having breakfast! 8)
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Took my happy pill this morning and the penicillin after dinner.
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Took my happy pill this morning and the penicillin after dinner.
I won't even ask why you're taking penicillin, you rake. I assume it was worth it?
I can't take the morning meds this morning because now it's afternoon. Darn.
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Took my meds, yes.
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I just took my Strattera, so I can be focused and productive at work. :headbang:
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I have taken my Strattera and my multivitamin, and am drinking :coffee: and eating fruit!
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I just put the whole thing in my mouth. Ugh, the foam... The taste! :aff:
I'd better get swallowing.
OK, done.
:zombiefuck:
I don't even want to think about that.
Am I the only one who sees this? :laugh:
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I just put the whole thing in my mouth. Ugh, the foam... The taste! :aff:
I'd better get swallowing.
OK, done.
:zombiefuck:
I don't even want to think about that.
Am I the only one who sees this? :laugh:
Tis the evil in you that makes you see such things! REPENT! :christ:
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:LMAO:
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All gone.
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Yes I did, though I have to count them again to be sure. Just added my multivitamin, now off to work! :viking:
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Yes, I did.
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Yes, and this time I waited till I was fully awake, so I'd remember it afterward! :2thumbsup:
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yes and can feel them kicking in now.
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yes and can feel them kicking in now.
Do they help you stay focused at work? :orly:
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yes and can feel them kicking in now.
Do they help you stay focused at work? :orly:
Yes and at anything else I am doing most of the time now I like it. When they first kick in I can feel a little jolt of energy that goes away within an hour then they just do their job
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yes and can feel them kicking in now.
Do they help you stay focused at work? :orly:
Yes and at anything else I am doing most of the time now I like it. When they first kick in I can feel a little jolt of energy that goes away within an hour then they just do their job
My Strattera does most of that, but without the jolt since it is a different kind of medication. :thumbup:
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Yes. And I was re-reading a book on ADHD last night and had forgotten about the PR being on a low carb, high protein diet as well as the L-Tyrosine. Well, I guess we're all going to be on that diet too.
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Yes. And I was re-reading a book on ADHD last night and had forgotten about the PR being on a low carb, high protein diet as well as the L-Tyrosine. Well, I guess we're all going to be on that diet too.
I hope the diet benefits all of you! I'm sure you will find ways to make it delicious. :viking:
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Lately, I've been dizzy at random times and even about to faint.
I think it's time I start taking meds after all these years of none.
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Lately, I've been dizzy at random times and even about to faint.
I think it's time I start taking meds after all these years of none.
Has the cause of the dizziness been diagnosed, and have you been prescribed medication for it? :orly:
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Lately, I've been dizzy at random times and even about to faint.
I think it's time I start taking meds after all these years of none.
Has the cause of the dizziness been diagnosed, and have you been prescribed medication for it? :orly:
Not yet.
I just can't be stuffed going to the Indian doc.
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the mall cop caught us so 12 minutes turned into 12 hours and I split him in half
and he jacked off on my stomach and licked it off of me
and I told him he was a good girl
and id buy him a wig, for his pretty head
now MY head
is
infested
with some sort of fungus I think
and emotionally unavailable people
suddenly
hope springs eternal
he is a virgin and I want to take it away
does that make me a bad person ?
I dunno
this fungus is coming out my ears
its' fluffy
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Pretty normal to me. Don't worry too much about it.
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Pretty normal to me. Don't worry too much about it.
phew ! I was worried there for a second
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I took my Strattera earlier, and I will now take a multivitamin. :viking:
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Yes, I took the happy pill and the asthma spray.
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Yup, need to order new.
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Thanks for reminding me--I need a refill.
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I don't recall taking it, but that part of the pill box is empty.
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No my cat hid them again >:D
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I took my medicine.
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I just did, thank you for reminding me! :thumbup:
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Yes, most of them.
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No, saving the last bit for tonight.
Did medicate the cat.
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No my cat hid them again >:D
It must be difficult living with a creature of higher intelligence. You should get a roommate so at least you have the advantage of numbers.
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On the right track again.
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Yes I did, now it's multivitamin time! :thumbup:
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Yup, should finally call in for the refill.
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Yes, I did.
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yes and they were a little weak
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Yea!!!!
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Yes I did. Soon I will need a refill, the weeks go by so fast! :orly:
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Yeah. I'm coming to the realization that I may have to count my food as medicine also if I'm to handle my diabetes better. And take my medicine-food the way it should be taken. :(
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Some of them will get the rest when I go to leave
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Yes I did, and I will now consume today's multivitamin! :viking:
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Yes. Not 2 minutes after I took the meds, I got a call from the gerontologist who told me I should only be testing my diabetes once a day in the a.m. That's a lot less pressure on me and my perfectionism.
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I just took mine, and I MUST call in a refill today, as I have only two doses left! :GA:
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Yup, I did. Well, that's Brufen (ibuprofen/painkiller).
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Yes. And I got new ones from the pharmacy.
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No, had a medical urgency with the PR (see the good thing today thread) and simply forgot.
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Took mine tonight and recently went to the doctor and got a refill.
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No, not yet.
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Yes, managed to squeeze another bit out of the tube. Hope I can do that at least another two times.
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Yes, managed to squeeze another bit out of the tube. Hope I can do that at least another two times.
Try cutting it open and using the medicine that "sticks" to the walls of the tube.
Took my weekly med, on to the daily regime. Will be an iffy day for the PR's seizures since she had no meds yesterday. Will start her again this morning.
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Yes, managed to squeeze another bit out of the tube. Hope I can do that at least another two times.
Try cutting it open and using the medicine that "sticks" to the walls of the tube.
Took my weekly med, on to the daily regime. Will be an iffy day for the PR's seizures since she had no meds yesterday. Will start her again this morning.
That's what I'll be doing Tuesday-morning indeed.
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Yes, I finally did take them. Plus pain meds.
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Yes and also used a lidocaine patch on my knee
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Yes and also used a lidocaine patch on my knee
Did that help?
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Indeed I did, and I have a whole month's supply ready to start tomorrow! :thumbup:
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Yes and also used a lidocaine patch on my knee
Did that help?
Some but I only have two left now
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Yes I did! It was the first dose from the new batch! :green:
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Yes
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Starting to get fed up with taking painkiller meds at the moment but it still is a tad too soon to stop.. so yes, I did.
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Starting to get fed up with taking painkiller meds at the moment but it still is a tad too soon to stop.. so yes, I did.
Are the painkillers for the tooth extraction? :orly:
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^ Yes, they are.
Normally I'm quite anti meds. Oh, everybody should suit themselves of course, I'm not judging here, but dunno.. meds and I don't go together well.
Well, the painkillers (ibuprofen) I now take are absolutely necessary though.. otherwise the pain would drive me up the wall, I think.
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^ Yes, they are.
Normally I'm quite anti meds. Oh, everybody should suit themselves of course, I'm not judging here, but dunno.. meds and I don't go together well.
Well, the painkillers (ibuprofen) I now take are absolutely necessary though.. otherwise the pain would drive me up the wall, I think.
Yes, for short-term relief of severe pain they are a blessing. :thumbup:
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^ Sorry CBC, for the interval there.. but this spazzio didn't know what to say other that yes. Still don't really.
Well OK.. a thought that's been present here today.. is that I'm glad I still have a fair amount of ibuprofen sachets left, for tomorrow morning my dentist is going to probably hurt me again but now I can fight the pain pre-emptively and take one just before going there.
Not sure if this is wise but think that will be the plan nevertheless.
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^ Sorry CBC, for the interval there.. but this spazzio didn't know what to say other that yes. Still don't really.
Well OK.. a thought that's been present here today.. is that I'm glad I still have a fair amount of ibuprofen sachets left, for tomorrow morning my dentist is going to probably hurt me again but now I can fight the pain pre-emptively and take one just before going there.
Not sure if this is wise but think that will be the plan nevertheless.
It doesn't sound wise. Why not call your dentist, instead of risking a bad drug interaction?
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It doesn't sound wise. Why not call your dentist, instead of risking a bad drug interaction?
Yeah, that sounds wise to do so. Maybe I will phone him tomorrow morning.. asking....
(thanks)
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Cancelled dentist appointment for tomorrow. Sick kid.
Bugger, now I won't be having my own, but his replacement. :-\
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Yes, I did.
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Yes I did, and my multivitamin too, and some :coffee: as well!
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Well, I got my refill yesterday......
And forgot to apply it today. :facepalm2:
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Yarp.
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Have to take my night meds still.
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I took it last night.
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I forgot my buspar this morning, but I took my night meds.
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I have taken my meds, but I am all out of my multivitamin, and must get more today! :orly:
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I have a hard time remembering my lunch time meds if I am out and about, like today. Remembered my afternoon meds though.
And good to see you, QuirkyCarla. :)
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I have just taken my supplements. I.e. purified fish oil, vita. B-complex, vita. C and half a zinc capsule.
Oh, and yay, no need for the painkillers any more.. :lutra:
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I took four premixed bottles of Wild turkey 101 proof Yay!!!
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Good to see you too, Renaeden. :)
I haven't taken my meds yet today. I'm glad this thread reminded me.
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Long time no see. What have you been up to gorgeous. No good I suspect. You tearaway :p
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Me, a tearaway? :laugh:
I finished university in December and have been working part-time while I search for a better job. I have a boyfriend in England who came to visit me last month which was pretty awesome. Since he went back, not much has been going on though.
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Yes, I did. I'm also going to drink some beer. For medical purposes, of course. :orly:
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Oh noes, forgot to buy the prescribed alcohol.
May try the creamy stuff I bought a while ago when my mum was staying over again. :lol:
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It's 2 p.m. so I don't think I'll take my morning meds.
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Self-medicating now.
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Didn't take my lunchtime meds as I woke up afterwards. Will remember my night time meds though.
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I have just taken my supplements. I.e. purified fish oil, vita. B-complex, vita. C and half a zinc capsule.
Oh, and yay, no need for the painkillers any more.. :lutra:
I'm glad the pain has subsided! Do your supplements help you heal faster? :viking:
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And yes, I have taken my meds, and I remembered to get multivitamins too! :angel:
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I'm glad the pain has subsided! Do your supplements help you heal faster? :viking:
Thanks CBC. And the mentioned supplements might help the healing process, yes.. but they are what I normally take per day. They help me.
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I'm glad the pain has subsided! Do your supplements help you heal faster? :viking:
Thanks CBC. And the mentioned supplements might help the healing process, yes.. but they are what I normally take per day. They help me.
I like my multivitamins! I'm back to the pastel peach ones, which hopefully will not cause neon pee like the orange ones did! :laugh:
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I'm glad the pain has subsided! Do your supplements help you heal faster? :viking:
Thanks CBC. And the mentioned supplements might help the healing process, yes.. but they are what I normally take per day. They help me.
I like my multivitamins! I'm back to the pastel peach ones, which hopefully will not cause neon pee like the orange ones did! :laugh:
:needpics:
:zoinks:
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I'm glad the pain has subsided! Do your supplements help you heal faster? :viking:
Thanks CBC. And the mentioned supplements might help the healing process, yes.. but they are what I normally take per day. They help me.
I like my multivitamins! I'm back to the pastel peach ones, which hopefully will not cause neon pee like the orange ones did! :laugh:
:needpics:
:zoinks:
I shan't post my pee on here, tis the internet and one never knows who might be watching! :M :P
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I'm glad the pain has subsided! Do your supplements help you heal faster? :viking:
Thanks CBC. And the mentioned supplements might help the healing process, yes.. but they are what I normally take per day. They help me.
I like my multivitamins! I'm back to the pastel peach ones, which hopefully will not cause neon pee like the orange ones did! :laugh:
:needpics:
:zoinks:
I shan't post my pee on here, tis the internet and one never knows who might be watching! :M :P
Link (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1070) :ninja: :zoinks:
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No meds yet.
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Too early for my meds, it is only 4:14 a.m. here! :yawn:
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What are you doing here? You should be in bed.
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What are you doing here? You should be in bed.
I was in bed, and then I woke up, so here I am! :happydance:
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Have taken all my doses except night pills.
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I have just taken my Strattera, and in a little while I will take my multivitamin. :viking:
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Yes!
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I have just recently taken my peach-colored multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Just now. BTW my geriatric vitamin is grey colored (what, you expected flaming red?)
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Just now. BTW my geriatric vitamin is grey colored (what, you expected flaming red?)
Soft pastel colors are probably better, since all that dye would just come out in your pee anyway! :laugh:
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Just now. BTW my geriatric vitamin is grey colored (what, you expected flaming red?)
Soft pastel colors are probably better, since all that dye would just come out in your pee anyway! :laugh:
TMI! TMI! TMI! :o Besides Queens don't pee. I'm not sure what we do, but it's not peeing.
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Just now. BTW my geriatric vitamin is grey colored (what, you expected flaming red?)
Soft pastel colors are probably better, since all that dye would just come out in your pee anyway! :laugh:
TMI! TMI! TMI! :o Besides Queens don't pee. I'm not sure what we do, but it's not peeing.
Hmmm, well, ladies GLOW rather than sweating, so ... hmmm ... :chin:
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Totally de-railing this thread.
Earth Closets
An earth-closet is a lavatory in which dry earth is used to cover excreta. Until Victorian times, the traditional `place of easement' for people living in the country was either a privy with a cesspit, or an earth-closet. Queen Victoria used an earth-closet at Windsor Castle, although many types of water-closet were available. For many years, the earth- and water- closets were rival systems with champions and detractors on both sides.
To make a simple earth-closet, you dug a hole in the ground, leaving the earth piled beside the hole. You could simply squat over the hole, but it was common to build a seat above it. After each visit you shovelled in a little earth on top of the excrement. This process continued until the hole was full, when you covered it over, and dug a new hole a short distance away.
School Loo
W Liddiard patented a commode ``particularly adapted for use indoors,'' and a multi-seater earth-closet for use in schools. Any number of units could be bolted together, side by side, and the earth-releasing mechanism operated from a distance, so that children could be prevented from playing with the device and wasting the earth.
Ash Loo
An 1873 dry-ash commode could be filled straight from the fire-grate. The cinders were automatically separated and kept for re-burning, while the fine ash covered the contents of the bucket every time the lid was raised. A later version had a removable drawer instead of a bucket, rather like some chemical lavatories today.
Euphemisms
A euphemism is a less distasteful word or phrase used as a substitute for something more offensive. Somehow the object and place in which people excrete has always been thought of as offensive, and we have no simple direct words for them. Both lavatory and toilet originally meant somewhere to wash; a water-closet is a cupboard or small room with a water supply.
Using such euphemisms seems to be general human behaviour; similar expressions crop up in many cultures and languages; see astronauts, Australia, Bible, France, Germany, New Zealand, trains, United States.
Euphemisms for lavatory
Here are some of the words and phrases used in Britain to mean what I call a lavatory: bog, cloakroom, close stool, closet, commode, convenience, garderobe, gents, heads, jakes, khazi, ladies, latrine, lavatory, loo, necessary, netty, place of easement, powder room, privy, shit-house, smallest room, thunder-box, toilet, water-closet, and WC.
Hamilton Ellis suggests that railway companies were responsible for the use of the word toilet. Eighty years ago some railway carriages had a room in which to wash, labelled `Toilet', opposite one with a water-closet, labelled `WC'. When the two rooms were combined, the `Toilet' label was used.
In the sanitaryware business a `lavatory' means a wash-basin; a recepticle for excretion is called a `closet'.
For the verb `go to the lavatory' we use these euphemisms: explore the geography of the house, go to the bathroom/cloakroom/loo/toilet, pay a visit, powder my nose, visit the smallest room, or wash my hands. At school we used to put up a hand and say `Please may I be excused?' So `to be excused' also meant to go to the lavatory.
Euphemisms for faeces (and defecate)
Big jobs, crap (crap, have a crap, take a crap), dump (do a dump), heap (do a heap), number two, plock (do a plock), plop-plop or plop, poo or pooh, shit, or stool (go to stool).
Euphemisms for urinate
Jimmy Riddle, micturate, pee, piddle, piss, pump ship, slash, strain the potatoes, water the garden/tulips/tomatoes, wee, or widdle, and, for men, point Percy at the porcelain, or shake hands with an old friend.
When asked to give a word of advice to newly-commissioned officers, the Duke of Wellington is supposed to have said `Never neglect an opportunity to pump ship!'.
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It's 2 p.m. so I don't think I'll take my morning meds.
I took mine at 2pm today. :P
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I have indeed taken my meds, so I can focus at work and get things done! :viking:
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Yes and running out must call the Dr
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Yes.
But I need to call my doc, thanks for reminding me.
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Yes.
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Yes ma'am
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Not yet. Should do it not long from now.
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I just did! I almost forgot! :duh:
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/thinks
Yes I did.
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I seem to be on a roll. Taking them.
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I did. Well, technically yesterday now as it's almost 2 am and not time to take the morning ones yet.
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Forgot, two days in a row now. And it shows and can be felt. :-\ :asthing:
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Forgot, two days in a row now. And it shows and can be felt. :-\ :asthing:
Can you set some kind of alarm or reminder, in a watch or phone or somewhere in the house? :hug:
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I have indeed taken mine, and am following up with some :coffee: !
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And again
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And I took mine too, and my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Yes. Even went back when I realized I'd left them at home when I went out for b'fast.
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Just the coffee, so far.
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Reduced dose almost out getting more Monday
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Yes, I did take them, I will take my multivitamin soon so I can go to work and be fabulous! :cheer:
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Have to take my night ones yet.
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Yes. And I'm self-medicating now. :beergrin:
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Am about to take another dose of dexamphetamine, one of the last doses as I have almost run out, will see the doctor on the 5th to get more and also ask about an alternative to haloperidol.
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I have indeed taken my meds, another work day is ahead! :hamsterwheel:
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Yes
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Yes
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double check
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Yes, about 30 more to go today though and I already feel high :autism:
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I have indeed taken my Strattera, and I will soon add a multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Edronax and haloperidol down the hatch.
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Just now. Need to pick some up today.
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Yes.
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I even remembered the midday dose for a change
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I did take mine. I hope I don't end up on antibiotics again, my cough has returned! :autism:
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You really should stop smoking CBC
Yes, I did use the antibiotic ointment this morning.
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You really should stop smoking CBC
:lol: If I really did smoke, I'd be sick all the time!
Actually, I think I've been overdoing the dairy foods again. (No offense. :P )
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You really should stop smoking CBC
:lol: If I really did smoke, I'd be sick all the time!
Actually, I think I've been overdoing the dairy foods again. (No offense. :P )
Me too. And cows just shouldn't do that.
Maybe I should get myself one of these:
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Yes, I remembered.
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what exactly does everyone take?
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Zoloft and asthma meds.
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what exactly does everyone take?
I take Strattera, 120 mg, every morning, then a multivitamin later on. :headbang2:
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what exactly does everyone take?
I take Strattera, 120 mg, every morning, then a multivitamin later on. :headbang2:
Scotch, 4 oz, every evening, then go to bed, :headbang2:
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Does it help? :P
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Yes
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Not yet. Just the coffee.
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Didn't take my lunchtime meds. I am not really doing anything or going anywhere so it doesn't bother me.
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I have indeed taken my Strattera! Now I can face the work day! :viking:
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Yep, just taken 2 tramadol, 2 paracetamol (500mg each), 1 lamotrogine, 1 diclofenac, 3 nurofen and my injection for my 10pm dose so I think that's it for the day.
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I used to take lamotrigine. Now just Edronax and dexamphetamine.
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Yes. And a host of meds for the cold I have.
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Yes
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Yes
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Both doses :thumbup:
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Yes.
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Aye, aye, Captain.
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Yes, I just did.
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No for Wednesday
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No for Wednesday by Royal decree,
but, yes for the first dose of Thursday.
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I just took my Strattera! :thumbup:
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Soon as I wake up enough to find them.
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Soon as I wake up enough to find them.
*wobbles breathlessly into the throne room, pillbox in hand* :GA:
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Soon as I wake up enough to find them.
*wobbles breathlessly into the throne room, pillbox in hand* :GA:
Thank you Lady Weeble. You are timely as always, and greatly appreciated.
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Did take my daily intake of supplements. Vitamin B-complex, vita. C, purified fish oil and extra zinc. Okay, although they aren't considered meds I tend to call/think of them as such for I believe they're helping me. (next to a fairly healthy diet that is)
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Yes. They gave me my meds during their morning rounds at the hospital.
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Yes. They gave me my meds during their morning rounds at the hospital.
You are in the hospital? ???
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Yes. They gave me my meds during their morning rounds at the hospital.
You are in the hospital? ???
Were in the hospital. Have a look in the "what have you done today" thread.
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Yes
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Yes, after taking a break for the past 4 days.
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Yes. Thanks for the reminder.
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No, not yet.
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Yes. They gave me my meds during their morning rounds at the hospital.
You are in the hospital? ???
Were in the hospital. Have a look in the "what have you done today" thread.
OK, sorry I missed that, I have not been on task lately. :nerdy:
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Yes, I have taken my Strattera, and am following it up with :coffee:
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Yes. I got new asthma meds, too. They seem to be helping.
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Yes
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Yes, didn't take afternoon ones though.
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Yes I did, and I think I'll need a refill soon too. :chin:
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Nope!
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yes
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First layer yes, second layer will happen soon.
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Finally, yes! Nexium and all my supplements!
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no, but today is only 52 minutes old.
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Yes.
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Not yet. I'm going to start by having a cup of coffee.
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Not yet.
Coffee sounds good.
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Yes, I took mine, I'm off to a great start! :roses:
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Yes, I did.
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Just did.
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fixing 2
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Just took the evening meds
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Thanks for reminding me. I have evening meds too, now.
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Not yet, but I will take them soon.
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Just took them.
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Yes
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Yes, but I need to take the evening meds.
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No, misplaced them two days ago, and haven't found them yet.
Have to order a new tube anyway.
Hope not to forget that tomorrow.
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I took them last night.
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Yes. :viking:
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Yes
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Have yet to take evening meds. Will do after I am finished here.
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Yes, found the tube.
Had not misplaced it at all. Had just misplaced other stuff on top of it. :asthing:
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Yes, I took them. The evening meds are left.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I slathered some on
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No, but it's almost 11 and I'm going out for b'fast. I'll take them then.
(The joys of old age and retirement Trigger11. Late sleep-ins.)
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Yes! Nexium d all my supllements that keep me alive.
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No, but it's almost 11 and I'm going out for b'fast. I'll take them then.
(The joys of old age and retirement Trigger11. Late sleep-ins.)
I forgot to take them even though they were in my pocket. :emb:. Since it's after 2 p.m. I guess I'll pass.
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I took them last night.
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Just going to take my lunchtime meds now. This thread reminded me. :)
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I missed them entirely on Thursday. Will have to do better since I'm supposed to have lab work done soon.
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Yes, half a minute ago or so.
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On my way to do this as soon as I make this post.
Done
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I remembered to fetch the refill right in time today. :viking:
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I took them last night.
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No, misplaced them two days ago, and haven't found them yet.
Have to order a new tube anyway.
Hope not to forget that tomorrow.
I'm here to remind you, ma'am. :police:
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No, misplaced them two days ago, and haven't found them yet.
Have to order a new tube anyway.
Hope not to forget that tomorrow.
I'm here to remind you, ma'am. :police:
Too late. I could do it all without you. :pirateship:
Here's the evidence of me being a smart girl:
I remembered to fetch the refill right in time today. :viking:
:green:
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No, misplaced them two days ago, and haven't found them yet.
Have to order a new tube anyway.
Hope not to forget that tomorrow.
I'm here to remind you, ma'am. :police:
Too late. I could do it all without you. :pirateship:
Here's the evidence of me being a smart girl:
I remembered to fetch the refill right in time today. :viking:
:green:
You are indeed an organized woman in control of your affairs! :thumbup:
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I took mine AND I got my new batch today at the pharmacy! :nerdy:
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I took mine AND I got my new batch today at the pharmacy! :nerdy:
:pirateship:
And passing on your compliment.
You are indeed an organized woman in control of your affairs! :thumbup:
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I took mine AND I got my new batch today at the pharmacy! :nerdy:
:pirateship:
And passing on your compliment.
You are indeed an organized woman in control of your affairs! :thumbup:
Thank you, thumbs up all around! :2thumbsup:
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Time for the night layer.
And then for some of that panacea called "sleep".
Universal medicine indeed, if it can be obtained in the right dosage.
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Time for the night layer.
And then for some of that panacea called "sleep".
Universal medicine indeed, if it can be obtained in the right dosage.
Sleep well, a good sleep is indeed very healing. :zzz:
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And I've got some catching up to do.
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No meds yet. And I've not remembered to take my asthma meds.
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Yes, seconds ago.
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Thanks for reminding me, I'll do it now! :thumbup:
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Yes I did.
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affirmative
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Yes, I opened my new batch of Strattera this morning! :thumbup:
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Yes.
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Yes I did, but I forgot my multivitamin, will take that right now! :thumbup:
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Yes, with b'fast.
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Yes, and added a Xanax and some Lunesta to handle the plethora of emotions I am feeling.
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Took the happy pill and the asthma meds.
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Yes might need some allergy stuff by the end of the day too
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Yes, both the Strattera and the multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Nope, but this reminded me to!
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Yes.
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Strattera and multivitamin, down the hatch! :thumbup:
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Yes
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yes
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Taken everything I should today. Just got night meds left. With a new med added. Exciting! :zoinks:
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Yes I did, and here's the exciting part: I found two capsules (a full day's dose) lying loose in my sock drawer,
so now I will have enough left in the new batch to last me till after my vacation! :2thumbsup:
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Not sure about the morning, but took the evening
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I did.
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Yes , I am fooling around with the dose and timing to get it just right , and yes my doc knows and encouraged me to but gave me a max dose not to exceed
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Yes, at least I think I took the am dosage
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Yes.
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oops
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Decided to try an alternative a week ago, because the ointment felt bad on my face, and my skin was a huge mess.
Now applying sudocreme in the evenings, sunscreen during the day, and cleaning in between with water, and/or some rose water. Face is improving big time. Hasn't been this good in years, and it is the first day in months that it isn't hurting or itching. Still small red inflammations, but nothing thick and or purple.
Also take a multivitamin pill with extra zinc, and a magnesium supplement.
So far so good.
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Don't everyone faint at once, yes to the mornings
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Yes. Although I'm wondering if I'm experiencing some unwanted side effects with the concerta.
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Yes. Although I'm wondering if I'm experiencing some unwanted side effects with the concerta.
What possible side effects?
I took my meds last night, including calcium and a multivitamin with extra Vitamin D.
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I remembered the weekly med, but forgot the morning meds. Oh, well
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Yes. Although I'm wondering if I'm experiencing some unwanted side effects with the concerta.
What possible side effects?
I took my meds last night, including calcium and a multivitamin with extra Vitamin D.
My heart beat is a bit irregular at times. I feel shortness of breath. And I feel slightly hyper after the med should be out of my body.
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Yes. Although I'm wondering if I'm experiencing some unwanted side effects with the concerta.
What possible side effects?
I took my meds last night, including calcium and a multivitamin with extra Vitamin D.
My heart beat is a bit irregular at times. I feel shortness of breath. And I feel slightly hyper after the med should be out of my body.
I wonder if the hyper feeling after the medicine is out of your body is just that, because one of the uses of Concerta is to tone down the hyperactivity of ADHD.
How long have you been taking it?
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Yes. Although I'm wondering if I'm experiencing some unwanted side effects with the concerta.
What possible side effects?
I took my meds last night, including calcium and a multivitamin with extra Vitamin D.
My heart beat is a bit irregular at times. I feel shortness of breath. And I feel slightly hyper after the med should be out of my body.
I wonder if the hyper feeling after the medicine is out of your body is just that, because one of the uses of Concerta is to tone down the hyperactivity of ADHD.
How long have you been taking it?
A little more than a week. I didn't use to be that hyper. My problem is more that of ADD without the H.
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Yes. Although I'm wondering if I'm experiencing some unwanted side effects with the concerta.
What possible side effects?
I took my meds last night, including calcium and a multivitamin with extra Vitamin D.
My heart beat is a bit irregular at times. I feel shortness of breath. And I feel slightly hyper after the med should be out of my body.
I wonder if the hyper feeling after the medicine is out of your body is just that, because one of the uses of Concerta is to tone down the hyperactivity of ADHD.
How long have you been taking it?
A little more than a week. I didn't use to be that hyper. My problem is more that of ADD without the H.
Mine too, feeling hyper now must feel uncomfortable. :-\
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Not sure I like the pills, tbh. I will have to talk to my doc.
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Concerta is long-acting Ritalin isn't it? It is expensive here if you are diagnosed as an adult (but if diagnosed as a child, it is available on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme which makes it $5.60 per prescription).
Recently I found out that there are more medications for ADHD available in the US than here in Australia. For instance, we don't have Adderall here. Dexamphetamine, Ritalin, Concerta and Strattera is all we have I think.
I took all my meds today. :)
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I don't think Concerta and Ritalin are the same but Concerta is long-acting.
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I don't think Concerta and Ritalin are the same but Concerta is long-acting.
Concerta and Ritalin are both methylphenidate, so they are the same medication, but Concerta delivers the medication over an eight to twelve hour period as opposed to all at once, like ordinary Ritalin does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerta)
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Uh, who me?????????
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Yes
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I don't think Concerta and Ritalin are the same but Concerta is long-acting.
Concerta and Ritalin are both methylphenidate, so they are the same medication, but Concerta delivers the medication over an eight to twelve hour period as opposed to all at once, like ordinary Ritalin does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerta)
Thanks. :plus:
My doc says I need to stop taking it. He suspects it is causing my problems.
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Yes and even bought a better type of Calcium pills
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It's good to see this thread bumped, as it is helpful. I did take my meds today. :thumbup:
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No, not yet.
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I just now took mine; the multivitamin will follow! :thumbup:
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Still experimenting.
Forgetting to be consistent though. :asthing:
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yes
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nope skipped em today
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:dunno:
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Yes.
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Yes I did, multivitamin will soon follow. :yarly:
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yes
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Yes I did! I even remembered my multivitamin! :cbc:
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Yes I did! I even remembered my multivitamin! :cbc:
Me too :2thumbsup:
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Yes I did! I even remembered my multivitamin! :cbc:
Me too :2thumbsup:
I'm glad you posted this, I still need to take today's multivitamin! :orly:
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yes. All of them.
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Yes, all of them
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Not yet. I will.
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Not yet. I will.
No procrastinating, get to it now! :police:
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Yes
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Yes. I may need an asthma med refill soon.
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yes
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Not yet, pondering on what to take today.
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Yes, too them.
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Why, yes I did. Thank you very much.
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Yes. I think I'm going to get rid of the Strattera, though.
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morning and night
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i haven't taken any meds for about six months now, save for the occasional Xanax.
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just took em. had to with spit because the dining car on the train was closed... it sucked
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Not yet. Just the coffee.
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Yes
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Not yet. Just the coffee.
Coffee is a medicine.
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I just finished taking the last of them. I'm taking two different antibiotics now, Avelox and Clindamycin, in addition to the Lisinopril, so I'm skipping the multivitamin because I don't want the iron and magnesium in it to adversely affect the Avelox.
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Silly.
I take my meds every day. If I dont, I die. That makes it easy to remember ;)
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Silly.
I take my meds every day. If I dont, I die. That makes it easy to remember ;)
How many times a day do you have to remember to take them?
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I take my shot 4 times a day ( but 5 shots total) , then my birth control at night. Which is more important is arguable :D
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I take my shot 4 times a day ( but 5 shots total) , then my birth control at night. Which is more important is arguable :D
If you did become pregnant, it might wreak havoc with your diabetes, so maybe the birth control pill would be very important. However you would die quicker if you forgot to take any insulin at all.
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Luckily I never ever wanted to have kids.
If I had one, it would destroy my kidneys and I would probably have to go on dialysis afterwards and maybe for the rest of my life . It would definitely shorten my life span and might even kill me to just be pregnant. Doctor said she really recommends I don't have them. No problem.
I ran into an old friend at some fair not too long ago, she is my age. She had about 4 kids tugging at her legs. She told me she was so sorry I never had kids. LOL, I felt sorry for HER. If I wanted them I would have had them.
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Luckily I never ever wanted to have kids.
If I had one, it would destroy my kidneys and I would probably have to go on dialysis afterwards and maybe for the rest of my life . It would definitely shorten my life span and might even kill me to just be pregnant. Doctor said she really recommends I don't have them. No problem.
I ran into an old friend at some fair not too long ago, she is my age. She had about 4 kids tugging at her legs. She told me she was so sorry I never had kids. LOL, I felt sorry for HER. If I wanted them I would have had them.
I wonder why pregnancy would be so bad for your kidneys. Are they OK now?
My aunt had three children and she was a brittle diabetic.
Her middle child died in childbirth, though. She carried him to term and he weighed 11 pounds 14 ounces. His shoulders got stuck while his umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck, so he died from lack of oxygen. She saw a high risk pregnancy OB for her last child and delivered her by c-section at 36 weeks.
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No, my kidneys are pretty fucked. I had diabetes for years undiagnosed and it wreaked havoc on them. I'm sure you remember a few months ago I was in the hospital with severe kidney issues. I get a lot of kidney infections, and have been on lisinopril in the past to"protect them". I'm probably going to have serious issues in the future.
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No, my kidneys are pretty fucked. I had diabetes for years undiagnosed and it wreaked havoc on them. I'm sure you remember a few months ago I was in the hospital with severe kidney issues. I get a lot of kidney infections, and have been on lisinopril in the past to"protect them". I'm probably going to have serious issues in the future.
I was hoping that they were OK now. I forgot that you were an undiagnosed diabetic for years. My aunt was 14 when she was diagnosed and I think that she was diagnosed fairly quickly.
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I was 25 when I was diagnosed. I am sure I had it a long time before that. I stay as healthy as I can, I just know that there will be problems that will be inevitable. I drink a lot of water.
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No meds yet, just the coffee. And I've quit taking the Strattera.
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I just finished taking the last of them. I'm taking two different antibiotics now, Avelox and Clindamycin, in addition to the Lisinopril, so I'm skipping the multivitamin because I don't want the iron and magnesium in it to adversely affect the Avelox.
You certainly research your medication interactions before taking your meds! :thumbup:
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Don wunna :angrydance:
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Didn't want to, but did.
BTW: All 3 of us now have had our Flu shots. I understand it's hitting early this year in my state/city.
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No!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
I have been craving a little coffee, though.
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i haven't taken any meds for about six months now, save for the occasional Xanax.
You don't need them at the moment?
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i haven't taken any meds for about six months now, save for the occasional Xanax.
You don't need them at the moment?
I don't feel like I do. If I keep my brain busy so it doesn't start to eat itself, I can live without meds. It helps that the job I have now is one of my obsessions, so it doesn't get boring or monotonous.
I've found that a lot of physical activity seems to do wonders as well. Helps me sleep better at night, then I feel more balanced and alert during the day.
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i haven't taken any meds for about six months now, save for the occasional Xanax.
You don't need them at the moment?
I don't feel like I do. If I keep my brain busy so it doesn't start to eat itself, I can live without meds. It helps that the job I have now is one of my obsessions, so it doesn't get boring or monotonous.
I've found that a lot of physical activity seems to do wonders as well. Helps me sleep better at night, then I feel more balanced and alert during the day.
Makes sense.
Good for you to have a job like that. :thumbup:
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I just finished taking the last of them. I'm taking two different antibiotics now, Avelox and Clindamycin, in addition to the Lisinopril, so I'm skipping the multivitamin because I don't want the iron and magnesium in it to adversely affect the Avelox.
You certainly research your medication interactions before taking your meds! :thumbup:
I came home from the doctor's office and went straight to the Avelox website to check on interactions before I took the first pill because I had never heard of this medication before. It also said that NSAIDS taken with it could cause some adverse reactions, so I haven't taken any since I started taking Avelox. I saw other possible adverse reactions, but this is a bad infection so it's worth the risk to me.
I have taken most of my medications today, but I still need to take Lisinopril, Clindamycin and Vitamin D some time before bedtime.
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Didn't even know you are sick, callaway. Wishing you well soon.
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Didn't even know you are sick, callaway. Wishing you well soon.
Thanks Jack. I have an infection in the bursa in my right elbow, so the whole joint is hot, swollen and painful and there's a sort of lump that looks like a golf ball under the elbow skin. However, the area affected has been decreasing since I started taking Avelox along with Clindamycin.
This isn't my elbow, but this is what it looks like except that on mine, the red, hot, swollen area extends a few inches both up and down the arm.
(http://www.mendmeshop.ca/_img/inflamed-bursa.jpg)
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YIKES!!!!!!!
Glad to read the meds are doing good.
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Took them.
I'm really glad to be rid of the Strattera. Most of the side effects are gone now.
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yes... GOD DAMN I HATE MY RISPERIDONE! but i like my sleeping pills... being able to sleep more than an hour a night is nice. goodnight all.
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Yes, yes I did.
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YIKES!!!!!!!
Glad to read the meds are doing good.
Thanks.
The culture results came back and it is MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRSA)).
They also checked to see which antibiotics it is susceptible to and Doxycycline was the best one that I'm not allergic to, so I switched last night from the two antibiotics I was taking to just Doxycycline.
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^^ take care of yourself, and get better soon. I have a sensitivity to doxycycline, I get very very sleepy to where I cannot wake up so when I had a PID I had to be switched. It is a very powerful antibiotic. MRSA is very serious. Since you have a child in school you are at risk for it. I hope this all goes away soon.
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^^ take care of yourself, and get better soon. I have a sensitivity to doxycycline, I get very very sleepy to where I cannot wake up so when I had a PID I had to be switched. It is a very powerful antibiotic. MRSA is very serious. Since you have a child in school you are at risk for it. I hope this all goes away soon.
Thanks. I'm allergic to sulfa antibiotics, Amoxicillin, and Erythromycin, but so far that's all. I used to take Minocin for acne and I think that I took IV Doxycycline as a precaution against infection before a surgery that I had, so I hope that it's going to be all right for me.
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MRSA is scary but you are BRAVE! Hope you will soon be well. :hug:
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Yep, get well soon.
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YIKES!!!!!!!
Glad to read the meds are doing good.
Thanks.
The culture results came back and it is MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRSA)).
They also checked to see which antibiotics it is susceptible to and Doxycycline was the best one that I'm not allergic to, so I switched last night from the two antibiotics I was taking to just Doxycycline.
:( Hope the docycycline will do it's job well.
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^^ take care of yourself, and get better soon. I have a sensitivity to doxycycline, I get very very sleepy to where I cannot wake up so when I had a PID I had to be switched. It is a very powerful antibiotic. MRSA is very serious. Since you have a child in school you are at risk for it. I hope this all goes away soon.
Thanks. I'm allergic to sulfa antibiotics, Amoxicillin, and Erythromycin, but so far that's all. I used to take Minocin for acne and I think that I took IV Doxycycline as a precaution against infection before a surgery that I had, so I hope that it's going to be all right for me.
dont die on us callaway. or ill have to kill you
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Cal, you're smart and you'll whip this thing with one elbow tied behind your back.
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Cal, you're smart and you'll whip this thing with one elbow tied behind your back.
I think I will, almost literally, since I don't use my right arm for that much right now.
My mother-in-law had the exact same thing last June, but it hit her a lot harder because she thought that it was gout at first and didn't go to the emergency room immediately, but waited for a doctor's appointment with her regular doctor, who immediately sent her to the emergency room, saying , "Go straight to the emergency room right now, or you will die." The emergency room had IV antibiotics waiting for her when she got there.
Since I knew soon after it woke me up that it was probably the same thing she had in June, I knew to go to the emergency room right away, and I think that getting antibiotics so quickly probably saved me a lot of pain and suffering that she had to go through. She called me earlier today and scolded me for doing too much. My husband is leaving for India on Friday and she doesn't think he should leave when I'm still sick.
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I took both doses of the doxycycline today, but I still need to take the lisinopril, the Vitamin D, and the pain medicine so I can sleep.
I can ignore the pain pretty well in the daytime, but it really bothers me when I try to sleep.
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nope! DOH! >.<
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Cal, you're smart and you'll whip this thing with one elbow tied behind your back.
I think I will, almost literally, since I don't use my right arm for that much right now.
My mother-in-law had the exact same thing last June, but it hit her a lot harder because she thought that it was gout at first and didn't go to the emergency room immediately, but waited for a doctor's appointment with her regular doctor, who immediately sent her to the emergency room, saying , "Go straight to the emergency room right now, or you will die." The emergency room had IV antibiotics waiting for her when she got there.
Since I knew soon after it woke me up that it was probably the same thing she had in June, I knew to go to the emergency room right away, and I think that getting antibiotics so quickly probably saved me a lot of pain and suffering that she had to go through. She called me earlier today and scolded me for doing too much. My husband is leaving for India on Friday and she doesn't think he should leave when I'm still sick.
Okay, here's the schedule:
Odeon will do the laundry
Lutra will cook
One of Eris' boys will clean house.
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:LOL:
Um, will Eris' boy clean up a messy kitchen too? :P
(* and picturing Odeon doing laundry in the background) :laugh:
Nah, seriously.. really hope you get well soon, Callaway. Sounds like quite a bugger.
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i guess im stuck scooping the doggy poo off the front yard than?....
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i guess im stuck scooping the doggy poo off the front yard than?....
It's good to know your place ;)
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i guess im stuck scooping the doggy poo off the front yard than?....
It's good to know your place ;)
hey. at least ill have something to throw at people who piss me off ;)
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Silly little thread that is useful. yes.
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I forgot to take my morning meds, which may be part of why my anxiety level is up. I'll soon be taking my night meds.
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I have taken everything except for the vitamins.
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I need to take my painkillers but I cant be bothered to move to the kitchen to get them, maybe later.
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I took both doses of the doxycycline today, but I still need to take the lisinopril, the Vitamin D, and the pain medicine so I can sleep.
I can ignore the pain pretty well in the daytime, but it really bothers me when I try to sleep.
I know what you mean, my little aches disturb my sleep, it must be so much worse with what
you have. I hope you heal fast! :hug:
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Cal, you're smart and you'll whip this thing with one elbow tied behind your back.
I think I will, almost literally, since I don't use my right arm for that much right now.
My mother-in-law had the exact same thing last June, but it hit her a lot harder because she thought that it was gout at first and didn't go to the emergency room immediately, but waited for a doctor's appointment with her regular doctor, who immediately sent her to the emergency room, saying , "Go straight to the emergency room right now, or you will die." The emergency room had IV antibiotics waiting for her when she got there.
Since I knew soon after it woke me up that it was probably the same thing she had in June, I knew to go to the emergency room right away, and I think that getting antibiotics so quickly probably saved me a lot of pain and suffering that she had to go through. She called me earlier today and scolded me for doing too much. My husband is leaving for India on Friday and she doesn't think he should leave when I'm still sick.
Okay, here's the schedule:
Odeon will do the laundry
Lutra will cook
One of Eris' boys will clean house.
And I will do the dishes, I'm semi-professional! :multitask:
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Yes, I took my morning buspirone (in the afternoon) today.
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I'm going on 5 months of being completely med free as far as my daily meds. As for the occassional meds (like Xanax for panic attacks), only needed 3 in the last 3 months. So far, so good *crosses her crossable parts*
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I have had the morning antibiotics, but I will take the evening ones now.
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Not the morning.
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I have been taking my Strattera every day, but have forgotten my multivitamin a few times
recently because I am also taking aspirin some mornings for various middle-age aches and
pains. :prude:
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I just took the evening ones, minus the multivitamin and calcium.
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Yes, I took them.
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Forgot the morning again. :(
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Forgot my own thought up plan of attack.
So, feeling raw, and looking flaky.
Pasted a good layer of zinc ointment on my face, L-Lysine first thing in the morning tomorrow.
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I took my evening meds a while ago and took the morning antibiotic this morning.
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Picking up the regime of L-lysine, zinc ointment and rosewater is already having effect.
Works so much better on me than the anti-biotics. Lots of stuff suggested on the internet makes no sense at all, but, these suggestions did make sense, and, it indeed works, for me.
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No to the morning (bad Queen) and just took the evening.
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Yes, thanks for reminding me.
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Yes, I did.
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No to the morning (bad Queen) and just took the evening.
Her Majesty is not bad, just preoccupied. :)
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Yes I did, now I will take my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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No to the morning (bad Queen) and just took the evening.
Her Majesty is not bad, she's just drawn that way. :)
Fixed.
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Forgot lunch ones but took the afternoon ones. Usually it is the other way around.
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I remembered my morning antibiotic but took it a little later than usual since I slept late.
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Yes, I did, including some painkillers, but, only half as much as the two days before. :thumbup:
Time to whiten my face with zinc-ointment soon. It's amazing how this works so much better than the anti-biotics.
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I didn't take my morning meds and I didn't sleep last night. No wonder I'm in a bad mood.
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yes
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I need to go take the evening ones right now. Thanks for reminding me.
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I need to go take the evening ones right now. Thanks for reminding me.
Done.
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This thread just reminded me to take my meds, thanks for bumping it! :thumbup:
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Forgot the morning and it's too late to take them.
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Yes. I took them this morning.
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I took my morning med, but it's too early to take the evening ones yet.
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Yes, I took mine. Thanks.
I need a new prescription, tho.
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Yes, and added magnesium to the regime again too.
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Yes I did, still need to take the multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Yes, and added magnesium to the regime again too.
Same here. What form do you use? I got the magnesium citrate powder. Orange flavor. mmm.
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Took the morning bunch
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Have to take my afternoon dose.
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Nope. Glad this reminded me.
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I have taken the morning antibiotic and I still need to take the evening medicines.
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yes, thank god.
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Not yet.
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Yes and I can feel them working
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Yes. Can't feel them working, tho.
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Yes, I did. :hyke:
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I took the evening ones last night but I still need to take the morning one.
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Again, I have not taken my morning meds. I will have to make sure I take my night meds later.
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Yes, I can go to sleep now.
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I'm not sure if I took my morning ones, kind of think I did. Will take the evening ones now.
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Again, I have not taken my morning meds. I will have to make sure I take my night meds later.
I almost forgot the night meds too, but this thread reminded me. :LOL:
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I have taken all of them now.
I have only one more antibiotic pill to go.
:cheer:
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yes, just took my last ones of the day. but planned to stay up a bit later so didnt take the sleeping pill.
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Missed the weekly med, but took the morning meds.
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Yes, I rarely for get them these days as I really like how they work both on my attentiveness and sleep patterns
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Just took the evening ones.
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I took my last antibiotic pill this morning and took my other stuff this evening.
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I gave the PR her evening meds and she promptly threw them up. Thank heavens we have some in reserve. Sent her to bed without them rather than have her try it again.
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I took my last antibiotic pill this morning and took my other stuff this evening.
How are you now?
I took mine this morning. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and will hopefully get a new prescription for the ADD.
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I took my last antibiotic pill this morning and took my other stuff this evening.
How are you now?
I took mine this morning. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and will hopefully get a new prescription for the ADD.
Good luck with the appointment. I just took my meds thanks to this thread! :thumbup:
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Yes, the weekly one was a day late, but that's not that important.
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Yes. applied last bit, and swallowed prescribed supplements.
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nope.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14#ws)
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All are accounted for.
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Yes
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Yes.
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Yes I did, now I must add the daily multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Doubled my dose by myself. Time will tell whether this was a good idea. Really need that extra serotonin right now though.
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Doubled my dose by myself. Time will tell whether this was a good idea. Really need that extra serotonin right now though.
Ooo be careful. :hug:
I took my night dose ages ago.
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Doubled my dose by myself. Time will tell whether this was a good idea. Really need that extra serotonin right now though.
Probably not. What's your prescribed dose?
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I took my last antibiotic pill this morning and took my other stuff this evening.
How are you now?
I took mine this morning. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and will hopefully get a new prescription for the ADD.
Sorry that I missed seeing this thread before, but I'm much better now.
My elbow hurts considerably when I bump it accidentally and I'm still babying it a bit but it's so much better than it was. It's not hot and swollen anymore.
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I took my last antibiotic pill this morning and took my other stuff this evening.
How are you now?
I took mine this morning. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and will hopefully get a new prescription for the ADD.
Sorry that I missed seeing this thread before, but I'm much better now.
My elbow hurts considerably when I bump it accidentally and I'm still babying it a bit but it's so much better than it was. It's not hot and swollen anymore.
Glad to hear it. I have been wondering. Will your elbow heal completely?
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No almost out taking a break for a couple of days to see how it goes
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Yes. And pain meds to hlp manage the neck.
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Due to take lunchtime meds now.
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More pain meds.
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I took my Strattera and my multivitamin earlier, and have just taken an 800mg Motrin
as a preemptive strike against soreness I might feel when the novocaine has fully worn off!
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I took my last antibiotic pill this morning and took my other stuff this evening.
How are you now?
I took mine this morning. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and will hopefully get a new prescription for the ADD.
Sorry that I missed seeing this thread before, but I'm much better now.
My elbow hurts considerably when I bump it accidentally and I'm still babying it a bit but it's so much better than it was. It's not hot and swollen anymore.
Glad to hear it. I have been wondering. Will your elbow heal completely?
It should eventually heal completely. The doctor who was treating it told me that the pain when I accidentally bump it might last for months, though. He injured his olecranon bursa in a mountain biking accident and his elbow was still painful when he bumped it.
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I'm glad you are better, anyway. :)
Haven't taken my meds yet. Talked to my doctor and he upped my dose, but I have not yet started that.
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Yes, I have.
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I have taken my meds, and also 400mg of ibuprofen for my aches and pains! :prude:
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Getting a new prescription tomorrow
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Yes
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No, not yet, thanks for reminding me. :autism: :hyke:
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Haven't taken my meds yet. Talked to my doctor and he upped my dose, but I have not yet started that.
Are you taking Concerta?
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Haven't taken my meds yet. Talked to my doctor and he upped my dose, but I have not yet started that.
Are you taking Concerta?
Ritalin. Concerta was fab apart from the slight breathing problems.
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Yes got them today and took them looking forward to a good nights sleep
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Damn, forgot the evening ones. And they have to be taken with food. I'm full.
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I took them earlier this evening.
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Just took the evening ones without food anyway.
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Yes, took them in the morning.
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yup
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yes
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Yes it's nice to be back on them so much more focused and awake during the day
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Evening ones are taken care of. Now to fill the PR and my weekly pill boxes.
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No more pill boxes for me only one pill now and I keep them in the stash drawer under the passenger seat of my van
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Yes; I only wouldn't if I wanted to get dizzy and lightheaded (which I never would.)
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No more pill boxes for me only one pill now and I keep them in the stash drawer under the passenger seat of my van
Will the temperature affect the effectiveness of the meds? I know some have to be kept at a certain temperature or they lose their effectiveness.
When I put the meds in the pill boxes, the pill boxes are kept in ziplock bags. That way the humidity and air doesn't affect them as much (the pill boxes aren't air tight) and if they get dropped the pills don't go all over the place.
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No more pill boxes for me only one pill now and I keep them in the stash drawer under the passenger seat of my van
Will the temperature affect the effectiveness of the meds? I know some have to be kept at a certain temperature or they lose their effectiveness.
When I put the meds in the pill boxes, the pill boxes are kept in ziplock bags. That way the humidity and air doesn't affect them as much (the pill boxes aren't air tight) and if they get dropped the pills don't go all over the place.
I thought of that but most of the time in the heat the windows are down and under the seat in a sealed drawer it doesn't get that much hotter than in the house and I don't think the cold effects them. I began doing this after forgetting to take them all the time. It also keeps them in a safe place
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nope i have not. and i forgot them at home. as i am off island i will have to go without them for about a week. HELLO WITHDRAWLS!
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^Oooh you are going to feel terrible! Don't know what you are taking though.
Once I left an Epilim pill out (I forgot to take it) and when I picked it up later it was all icky and gooey. Have never seen that before.
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Withdrawal is awful but it could take more than a week for the serious stuff to kick in, depending on the med.
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Yep. It's not enough though :-\
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Yes; I only wouldn't if I wanted to get dizzy and lightheaded (which I never would.)
What kind of medication do you take, is it for low blood pressure? :orly:
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One time I dropped a Strattera on the floor but took it anyway! :arrr:
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Yes I did.
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I took all of mine a while ago.
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I took all of mine a while ago.
Not meant to take all of them!
Oh wait I get it.
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Yep. :green:
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So far, so good.
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Yes
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I took them.
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So far so good
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Not yet.
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havent taken mine yet. oops. when I go pee, I will go downstairs and get a drink afterwards and maybe summat to eat. then I will take them. right now I have nothin to drink them down with
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I just took them.
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Yes, this morning. Had my dose upped.
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Yup, and took some of what I forgot last night too.
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Yes, this morning. Had my dose upped.
Are you already noticing a difference?
Had a talk about Ritalin few weeks ago. That man said he had people taking it on demand, on a regular basis, and, a few taking it on a regular basis, with breaks, for the nights they wanted to drink.
They are going to discuss my need for medication.
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Late, but yes.
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Yes, this morning. Had my dose upped.
Are you already noticing a difference?
Had a talk about Ritalin few weeks ago. That man said he had people taking it on demand, on a regular basis, and, a few taking it on a regular basis, with breaks, for the nights they wanted to drink.
They are going to discuss my need for medication.
Yes, I've noticed a difference. I'm far more focussed for up to 10 hours. It's not without side effects but so far they seem to be minor and worth it.
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I just took them. Thanks for the reminder.
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odeon, the side effects should lessen with time. After I took my dex this morning my appetite completely disappeared until dinner time. That happens rarely.
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Yes, this morning. Had my dose upped.
Are you already noticing a difference?
Had a talk about Ritalin few weeks ago. That man said he had people taking it on demand, on a regular basis, and, a few taking it on a regular basis, with breaks, for the nights they wanted to drink.
They are going to discuss my need for medication.
Yes, I've noticed a difference. I'm far more focussed for up to 10 hours. It's not without side effects but so far they seem to be minor and worth it.
What happens after those 10 hours?
Would love to have the ability to focus for an extended time. Seems to get worse and worse over the years. :-\
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Yes, this morning. Had my dose upped.
Are you already noticing a difference?
Had a talk about Ritalin few weeks ago. That man said he had people taking it on demand, on a regular basis, and, a few taking it on a regular basis, with breaks, for the nights they wanted to drink.
They are going to discuss my need for medication.
Yes, I've noticed a difference. I'm far more focussed for up to 10 hours. It's not without side effects but so far they seem to be minor and worth it.
What happens after those 10 hours?
Would love to have the ability to focus for an extended time. Seems to get worse and worse over the years. :-\
Things get back to normal after that time, attention-wise, but sleep is affected anyway.
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Yes, this morning. Had my dose upped.
Are you already noticing a difference?
Had a talk about Ritalin few weeks ago. That man said he had people taking it on demand, on a regular basis, and, a few taking it on a regular basis, with breaks, for the nights they wanted to drink.
They are going to discuss my need for medication.
Yes, I've noticed a difference. I'm far more focussed for up to 10 hours. It's not without side effects but so far they seem to be minor and worth it.
What happens after those 10 hours?
Would love to have the ability to focus for an extended time. Seems to get worse and worse over the years. :-\
Things get back to normal after that time, attention-wise, but sleep is affected anyway.
Sleep getting even worse?
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Yes, this morning. Had my dose upped.
Are you already noticing a difference?
Had a talk about Ritalin few weeks ago. That man said he had people taking it on demand, on a regular basis, and, a few taking it on a regular basis, with breaks, for the nights they wanted to drink.
They are going to discuss my need for medication.
Yes, I've noticed a difference. I'm far more focussed for up to 10 hours. It's not without side effects but so far they seem to be minor and worth it.
What happens after those 10 hours?
Would love to have the ability to focus for an extended time. Seems to get worse and worse over the years. :-\
Things get back to normal after that time, attention-wise, but sleep is affected anyway.
Sleep getting even worse?
Yes. I'm just not tired.
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Yes, this morning. Had my dose upped.
Are you already noticing a difference?
Had a talk about Ritalin few weeks ago. That man said he had people taking it on demand, on a regular basis, and, a few taking it on a regular basis, with breaks, for the nights they wanted to drink.
They are going to discuss my need for medication.
Yes, I've noticed a difference. I'm far more focussed for up to 10 hours. It's not without side effects but so far they seem to be minor and worth it.
What happens after those 10 hours?
Would love to have the ability to focus for an extended time. Seems to get worse and worse over the years. :-\
Things get back to normal after that time, attention-wise, but sleep is affected anyway.
Sleep getting even worse?
Yes. I'm just not tired.
Is the lack of sleep a problem, or, has your day just gotten longer, because of the Ritalin?
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Yes, this morning. Had my dose upped.
Are you already noticing a difference?
Had a talk about Ritalin few weeks ago. That man said he had people taking it on demand, on a regular basis, and, a few taking it on a regular basis, with breaks, for the nights they wanted to drink.
They are going to discuss my need for medication.
Yes, I've noticed a difference. I'm far more focussed for up to 10 hours. It's not without side effects but so far they seem to be minor and worth it.
What happens after those 10 hours?
Would love to have the ability to focus for an extended time. Seems to get worse and worse over the years. :-\
Things get back to normal after that time, attention-wise, but sleep is affected anyway.
Sleep getting even worse?
Yes. I'm just not tired.
Is the lack of sleep a problem, or, has your day just gotten longer, because of the Ritalin?
Not sure but I think it is a problem. Focus and thinking things through are not the same. I had problems with the latter yesterday, probably because I am tired but do not feel it.
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Yes, this morning. Had my dose upped.
Are you already noticing a difference?
Had a talk about Ritalin few weeks ago. That man said he had people taking it on demand, on a regular basis, and, a few taking it on a regular basis, with breaks, for the nights they wanted to drink.
They are going to discuss my need for medication.
Yes, I've noticed a difference. I'm far more focussed for up to 10 hours. It's not without side effects but so far they seem to be minor and worth it.
What happens after those 10 hours?
Would love to have the ability to focus for an extended time. Seems to get worse and worse over the years. :-\
Things get back to normal after that time, attention-wise, but sleep is affected anyway.
Sleep getting even worse?
Yes. I'm just not tired.
Is the lack of sleep a problem, or, has your day just gotten longer, because of the Ritalin?
Not sure but I think it is a problem. Focus and thinking things through are not the same. I had problems with the latter yesterday, probably because I am tired but do not feel it.
So, the problem may more be that you don't feel that you are tired, than the actually not being tired?
That's a problem indeed.
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Yes, I phrased it wrong, earlier.
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I haven't taken mine yet. I really should.
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Today was so filled with paperwork-type crap that I didn't have the mindset to take them.
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I did. My routine works.
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I don't remember and cant be bothered to check right now.
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I took mine earlier tonight.
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I have taken some of mine. Forgot the lunchtime ones but I am not doing anything that requires concentration anyway.
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Not yet.
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Most of it, and some paracetamol. :P
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Yes
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Yes, and something for the headache.
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I haven't had any coffee today, and should drink some before I get a headache. :orly:
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Will take the evening ones, brush teeth, take a bath and then do a Pepys, I hope.
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Took mine a few minutes ago.
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Yes, even the sunday one.
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Took mine earlier tonight.
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It's 2 in the morning over here, so no, not yet. I really should be in bed! :tard:
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First one is being processed now. :P
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Still way too early, why am I not in bed FFS?! :facepalm2:
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Still way too early, why am I not in bed FFS?! :facepalm2:
Yes, WHY aren't you in bed FFS???!!!
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Yes, I took mine.
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Still way too early, why am I not in bed FFS?! :facepalm2:
Yes, WHY aren't you in bed FFS???!!!
I DON'T KNOW!!!! :GA:
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Still way too early, why am I not in bed FFS?! :facepalm2:
Yes, WHY aren't you in bed FFS???!!!
I DON'T KNOW!!!! :GA:
Awwwwwwww.
Turn of the computer, no matter how nice we all are, and no matter how much you have missed us.
Then go to bed, even when not sleeping, you may rest enough to get through the day.
Sweet dreams of all of us calling you out is an exciting option too of course. :autism: :viking:
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Still way too early, why am I not in bed FFS?! :facepalm2:
Yes, WHY aren't you in bed FFS???!!!
I DON'T KNOW!!!! :GA:
Awwwwwwww.
Turn of the computer, no matter how nice we all are, and no matter how much you have missed us.
Then go to bed, even when not sleeping, you may rest enough to get through the day.
Sweet dreams of all of us calling you out is an exciting option too of course. :autism: :viking:
It would be hilarious to wake up and find a bunch of you people calling me out! :2thumbsup:
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Still way too early, why am I not in bed FFS?! :facepalm2:
Yes, WHY aren't you in bed FFS???!!!
I DON'T KNOW!!!! :GA:
Awwwwwwww.
Turn of the computer, no matter how nice we all are, and no matter how much you have missed us.
Then go to bed, even when not sleeping, you may rest enough to get through the day.
Sweet dreams of all of us calling you out is an exciting option too of course. :autism: :viking:
It would be hilarious to wake up and find a bunch of you people calling me out! :2thumbsup:
It may come, when you least expect it. Just like the second coming. :vibe:
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Still way too early, why am I not in bed FFS?! :facepalm2:
Yes, WHY aren't you in bed FFS???!!!
I DON'T KNOW!!!! :GA:
Awwwwwwww.
Turn of the computer, no matter how nice we all are, and no matter how much you have missed us.
Then go to bed, even when not sleeping, you may rest enough to get through the day.
Sweet dreams of all of us calling you out is an exciting option too of course. :autism: :viking:
It would be hilarious to wake up and find a bunch of you people calling me out! :2thumbsup:
It may come, when you least expect it. Just like the second coming. :vibe:
Speaking of that, one more post and you will have 16,000! :orly:
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Just have night ones left to take.
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Yes I did, now I must take my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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I took my awesome meds. Just haven't taken my crazy meds yet.
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Yes
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Yes, now I need to take my multivitamin and start my working day! :viking:
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Just have night ones left.
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So far, so good.
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On a wee bit of a roll now in taking them.
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Yes.
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I'm too pooped to pop my pills.
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No and I really should. Will be getting up shortly to take them.
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I still need to take mine too.
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Yes, I took them before leaving home.
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Yes, and I got my refill last night too, so I'm all set! :cbc:
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Still have night ones to take.
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Took mine last night shortly after posting.
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Will take mine after I log out.
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I did indeed take mine, felt nicely focused at work today. :thumbup:
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:2thumbsup:
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Just have night ones to go.
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Yes, I took them.
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Morning meds - check.
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Yup
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It's only 4:45 a.m. here, too early for meds. :M
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It's only 4:45 a.m. here, too early for meds. :M
Did you take your night meds?
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It's only 4:45 a.m. here, too early for meds. :M
Did you take your night meds?
I only have morning meds, and since making the above post I have taken them! 8)
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Only have night meds to go, which I will take soon. New meds make me tired, hope that side-effect wears off soon.
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No, but they are right in front of me.
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Yes.
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No, but they are right in front of me.
Mission accomplished
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Not yet.
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I took mine.
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Just now.
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Forgot, should do that soon.
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Yes, everyone in the house has had their meds.
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Just the night ones to go. Have realised that the new meds make me feel tired and weak for about 2 hours and then the effect goes away. Weird.
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Time for my multivitamin! :viking:
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yes
(love these cbc posts, quicky posts that up my post count)
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It's the oldest postwhore trick in the book.
And no, I haven't taken mine yet.
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yes
(love these cbc posts, quicky posts that up my post count)
Thank you, Your Majesty, I am happy to help! :viking:
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It's the oldest postwhore trick in the book.
And no, I haven't taken mine yet.
I'll take mine now, this thread has reminded me! :thumbup:
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I took mine a while ago.
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Can't take them yet, it's only 2:55 a.m. here! :yawn:
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Not yet.
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Going to take my night ones earlier tonight to see if that helps me sleep.
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Yes I did, now I need to wake up with some nice coffee! :coffee:
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Yes and now wondering how well Phenergan mixes with an antipsychotic. :D
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Yes and now wondering how well Phenergan mixes with an antipsychotic. :D
As long as the prescribing physician knows everything you are taking, it should be OK,
but when in doubt, ask a pharmacist, s/he should be able to help you! :nerd!:
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I didn't go to my regular pharmacist this time (actually I have two regulars - one near mum's and one near GA's) because they didn't have the 20mg version of Zeldox I was prescribed. Oh well I took just one Phenergan, that should be ok.
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I didn't go to my regular pharmacist this time (actually I have two regulars - one near mum's and one near GA's) because they didn't have the 20mg version of Zeldox I was prescribed. Oh well I took just one Phenergan, that should be ok.
Did that work out OK? Do you feel all right? :orly:
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I have taken my meds, now I need to take my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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I used to be on Zoloft and Paxil. I stopped taking them for almost a year now.
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I used to be on Zoloft and Paxil. I stopped taking them for almost a year now.
Did you stop abruptly, or taper off under medical supervision? :orly:
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Forgot this morning.
The new brand of L-Lysine tastes like the smell of a pharmacy. Should take it though, it does make that I don't need the anti-biotics.
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Forgot this morning.
The new brand of L-Lysine tastes like the smell of a pharmacy. Should take it though, it does make that I don't need the anti-biotics.
Yes, you really should take your medications as directed! :police:
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I didn't go to my regular pharmacist this time (actually I have two regulars - one near mum's and one near GA's) because they didn't have the 20mg version of Zeldox I was prescribed. Oh well I took just one Phenergan, that should be ok.
Did that work out OK? Do you feel all right? :orly:
It totally knocked me out! Awesome. But I can't keep taking Phenergan. I haven't tonight - have just taken my other meds and I don't feel tired. No surprise. ::)
I used to be on Zoloft and Paxil. I stopped taking them for almost a year now.
Those are two antidepressants I haven't taken. Did they work for you?
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Forgot this morning.
The new brand of L-Lysine tastes like the smell of a pharmacy. Should take it though, it does make that I don't need the anti-biotics.
Yes, you really should take your medications as directed! :police:
It does not really matter that much when I take it, but, the mornings are most convenient. Apparently you should not eat for half an hour after taking that supplement, nor two hours before.
But, taking it first thing in the morning, makes that I want to chew it up, don't want a huge pill like that to drop on the lining of my empty stomach every morning. This brand really tastes like medicine.......
The effect is massive though. And, being able to cut back on antibiotics always is a good thing. In this case even more, because I began to over-react on the antibiotics. Might keep the purple inflammations away from my face, it made it very red and itchy still.
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I used to be on Zoloft and Paxil. I stopped taking them for almost a year now.
Those are two antidepressants I haven't taken. Did they work for you?
I used to be on Zoloft and Paxil. I stopped taking them for almost a year now.
Did you stop abruptly, or taper off under medical supervision? :orly:
They actually worked for me, but I stopped abruptly, and it was not easy. I had to do it since I was asked to do so by my local church, who doesn't understand what autism was. So far, I'm still off my meds, but I resorted to smokes instead.
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I used to be on Zoloft and Paxil. I stopped taking them for almost a year now.
Those are two antidepressants I haven't taken. Did they work for you?
I used to be on Zoloft and Paxil. I stopped taking them for almost a year now.
Did you stop abruptly, or taper off under medical supervision? :orly:
They actually worked for me, but I stopped abruptly, and it was not easy. I had to do it since I was asked to do so by my local church, who doesn't understand what autism was. So far, I'm still off my meds, but I resorted to smokes instead.
I would say the smokes are less healthy. :D That was a big sacrifice you made, I hope it is appreciated. And I guess you know the first place now that needs a bit of autism advocacy. Your church! As for stopping abruptly, I don't know how you managed, I once came off an antidepressant rapidly under medical supervision and that was bad enough.
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I used to be on Zoloft and Paxil. I stopped taking them for almost a year now.
Those are two antidepressants I haven't taken. Did they work for you?
I used to be on Zoloft and Paxil. I stopped taking them for almost a year now.
Did you stop abruptly, or taper off under medical supervision? :orly:
They actually worked for me, but I stopped abruptly, and it was not easy. I had to do it since I was asked to do so by my local church, who doesn't understand what autism was. So far, I'm still off my meds, but I resorted to smokes instead.
I'm sorry you felt pressured to quit taking meds that helped you because of a church that
doesn't understand why you take them in the first place. Do you still attend that church?
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Renaeden and Couldbecousin, I admit, that was pretty hard. I suffered a heavy withdrawal during that time, and I resorted to binging food and chain-smoking. And my meltdowns were becoming more frequent. As for my attendance, it dwindled since I quit my job over a month ago, only limiting myself to volunteering during services and small-group meetings.
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I used to be on Zoloft and Paxil. I stopped taking them for almost a year now.
Those are two antidepressants I haven't taken. Did they work for you?
I used to be on Zoloft and Paxil. I stopped taking them for almost a year now.
Did you stop abruptly, or taper off under medical supervision? :orly:
They actually worked for me, but I stopped abruptly, and it was not easy. I had to do it since I was asked to do so by my local church, who doesn't understand what autism was. So far, I'm still off my meds, but I resorted to smokes instead.
IMO, no church has any business asking you to stop taking medication that you are taking under a doctor's care.
What kind of church was it anyway, $cientology?
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Callaway, I hated that pathetic excuse for a "church" as much as you do.
But while it isn't the institution itself, it was my discipler who urged me to stop taking meds, which later proved to be hypocritical since he was on the same meds I took 6 months after I stopped.
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Callaway, I hated that pathetic excuse for a "church" as much as you do.
But while it isn't the institution itself, it was my discipler who urged me to stop taking meds, which later proved to be hypocritical since he was on the same meds I took 6 months after I stopped.
I hope that he sought you out and apologized to you six months later when he realized that he needed to take the same medication himself. I also hope that the next time someone tells you to do something that doesn't feel right in your gut, that you investigate further before just obeying them.
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I used to be on Zoloft and Paxil. I stopped taking them for almost a year now.
Those are two antidepressants I haven't taken. Did they work for you?
I used to be on Zoloft and Paxil. I stopped taking them for almost a year now.
Did you stop abruptly, or taper off under medical supervision? :orly:
They actually worked for me, but I stopped abruptly, and it was not easy. I had to do it since I was asked to do so by my local church, who doesn't understand what autism was. So far, I'm still off my meds, but I resorted to smokes instead.
Your church forced you to stop taking your meds but cigarettes are OK?
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Callaway, I hated that pathetic excuse for a "church" as much as you do.
But while it isn't the institution itself, it was my discipler who urged me to stop taking meds, which later proved to be hypocritical since he was on the same meds I took 6 months after I stopped.
Heh, I wondered about Scientology as well. :D
Wondering if you will start your meds again and kick the smokes habit?
In other news, I have taken my morning and lunchtime meds. No positive effects from new meds, just side effects. Muscle fatigue for a few hours after I take them and periodic hands tremor.
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"Scientology" was my first thought as well. "Fundies" was my second.
TBH, "Jenny McCarthy" was my third. It's the same kind of ignorance.
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"Scientology" was my first thought as well. "Fundies" was my second.
TBH, "Jenny McCarthy" was my third. It's the same kind of ignorance.
Years ago I read about a fundamentalist Christian church whose pastor counseled a
bipolar parishioner to quit taking her meds because according to the Bible,
once she became "born again," she was a new creation in Christ and didn't need meds.
I don't remember how long she was off them or exactly what happened,
but apparently it was a disaster. Clergy should not try to practice medicine. :duh:
(Unless they are also medical doctors of course.)
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"Scientology" was my first thought as well. "Fundies" was my second.
TBH, "Jenny McCarthy" was my third. It's the same kind of ignorance.
Years ago I read about a fundamentalist Christian church whose pastor counseled a
bipolar parishioner to quit taking her meds because according to the Bible,
once she became "born again," she was a new creation in Christ and didn't need meds.
I don't remember how long she was off them or exactly what happened,
but apparently it was a disaster. Clergy should not try to practice medicine. :duh:
(Unless they are also medical doctors of course.)
Bipolar?!? That must have gone well. ::)
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"Scientology" was my first thought as well. "Fundies" was my second.
TBH, "Jenny McCarthy" was my third. It's the same kind of ignorance.
Years ago I read about a fundamentalist Christian church whose pastor counseled a
bipolar parishioner to quit taking her meds because according to the Bible,
once she became "born again," she was a new creation in Christ and didn't need meds.
I don't remember how long she was off them or exactly what happened,
but apparently it was a disaster. Clergy should not try to practice medicine. :duh:
(Unless they are also medical doctors of course.)
Bipolar?!? That must have gone well. ::)
Yeah, that's the impression I got. Pastors ought to stay out of this stuff. :thumbdn:
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I suppose radiation therapy is the work of the devil for these people too.
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I suppose radiation therapy is the work of the devil for these people too.
Well, there are fundie parents who refuse proper medical treatment for their sick kids. :(
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I have heard of Born Again Christians being against psychiatric meds before I think. They don't seem to understand that a mental illness is still an illness, just like a physical one.
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I have heard of Born Again Christians being against psychiatric meds before I think. They don't seem to understand that a mental illness is still an illness, just like a physical one.
Yeah, I don't want to put them all in the same category as the pastor who told his
bipolar parishioner to quit taking her meds, but some of them do seem to think the
Bible has all the answers and that modern science is "of the devil."
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I had to think for a minute but then I remembered: I did take them. :thumbup:
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I took mine last night.
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yes
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I so agree. I am currently a born-again Christian, and I few of my small-group members understand what autism really is, and are actually lauding me that I stayed off my meds. Why so is way beyond me.
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I have heard of Born Again Christians being against psychiatric meds before I think. They don't seem to understand that a mental illness is still an illness, just like a physical one.
We got a little bit of psychiatry in our studies, and a chunk of psychology, so that we would recognise when to refer a church-member. And, to know a bit about what to do with those people spit out by the health system, out of psychiatric care, that went looking for some kind of care and warmth.
First thing over optimistic students got told was to never think faith could cure a mental illness.
But, have seen thoughts like that with an evangelical friend of mine. Thoughts like that are damaging, not only for mental health, also for the safety someone can find in the religious community. When faith is not enough to cure you, that will probably be a sign that your faith is not enough, or that god doesn't love you. So, damaging for that person in many ways. Even family may shun a patient. (And, some groups are the same when it comes to physical illnesses too, have seen it, and, I am quite easy going, but that has gotten me to loath some people for good)
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Time for some night supplements.
And time to think on medication in general.
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will take the evenings in just a bit
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Yes, took them.
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Yes, I took them.
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Yes I did, now time for my multivitamin! On with my day! :viking:
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I so agree. I am currently a born-again Christian, and I few of my small-group members understand what autism really is, and are actually lauding me that I stayed off my meds. Why so is way beyond me.
I don't envy you at all. Wait till you get sick of it.
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Took all the meds that I have to today.
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Yup. Sofar, so good.
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Yes :2thumbsup: :thumbup:
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Yeah. And PA and the PR.
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I took them last night.
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The three of us are well medicated. And I authorized my diabetes testing supplies.
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Not yet. I will, eventually.
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Yes I did, I thank this thread for reminding me! :thumbup:
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Yes but I am almost out and evidently there is an Adderall shortage :thumbdn:
Going to try and get a refill today hope they have it
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Not awake enough yet. Will do it later.
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No, not yet.
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Just took them.
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I will, at some point.
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Took the weekly one. The others are temporarily in the kitchen, not by the computer and thus not handy.
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Took mine. A lot later in the day than I should, but better late than never.
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Yes and was able to get a refill yesterday
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Yes to the evening bit.
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Just need to take the evening ones
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Yes but I am almost out and evidently there is an Adderall shortage :thumbdn:
Going to try and get a refill today hope they have it
I read somewhere there was a Ritalin shortage over there as well, have no idea why though.
I have just taken lunchtime meds.
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Reminds me, I need a Ritalin refill.
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Yes and was able to get a refill yesterday
:plus: for scoring a refill; how widespread is the Adderall shortage?
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Took night ones early.
(http://d37nnnqwv9amwr.cloudfront.net/photos/images/masonry/000/042/592/1260273810797.png)
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Yes and was able to get a refill yesterday
:plus: for scoring a refill; how widespread is the Adderall shortage?
It appears to be nationwide. They had to check at the pharmacy the last two times I got now to see if they had any left. I have heard the time release version in more widely available but I have problems with time release pills as they tend to fail and release the whole dose at the same time
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Yes and was able to get a refill yesterday
:plus: for scoring a refill; how widespread is the Adderall shortage?
It appears to be nationwide. They had to check at the pharmacy the last two times I got now to see if they had any left. I have heard the time release version in more widely available but I have problems with time release pills as they tend to fail and release the whole dose at the same time
Really? How is it possible? :-\
Wondering if that can happen with Ritalin.
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Took night ones early.
(http://d37nnnqwv9amwr.cloudfront.net/photos/images/masonry/000/042/592/1260273810797.png)
:plus: for the cutest medication smiley EVER!
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That image bothers me, tbh. :-\
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Yes and was able to get a refill yesterday
:plus: for scoring a refill; how widespread is the Adderall shortage?
It appears to be nationwide. They had to check at the pharmacy the last two times I got now to see if they had any left. I have heard the time release version in more widely available but I have problems with time release pills as they tend to fail and release the whole dose at the same time
I wonder why there is a nationwide shortage. Are a lot of people obtaining it illegally?
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Don't know about Adderall but my Ritalin isn't strong enough for the junkies. It's addictive, sure, but I doubt you could get anywhere near high.
But what do I know? I'm so innocent in these matters. :dunno:
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That image bothers me, tbh. :-\
Sorry. :(
Will keep posting until we are on the next page.
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Erm, no that is too many posts. But anyway, I forgot my meds because I slept in. So I didn't take them until lunch time. Now it is almost time for night meds.
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Don't know about Adderall but my Ritalin isn't strong enough for the junkies. It's addictive, sure, but I doubt you could get anywhere near high.
But what do I know? I'm so innocent in these matters. :dunno:
Ritalin is popular under students it seems. Makes it possible to make all nighters studying. So, yes, there is an off the counter market for Ritalin too.
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I have taken my Strattera and my multivitamins, life is good. :thumbup:
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I took mine last night and will take them again tonight.
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Forgot to take them this morning and it's too late now for them (after 2 p.m.)
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I only have four days left :( and its expensive! DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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That image bothers me, tbh. :-\
Sorry. :(
Will keep posting until we are on the next page.
Don't worry about it. It's not THAT bad. :laugh:
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Technically I took mine yesterday.
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uhm, that makes that, technically, I did not take all yesterday. The night ones still are awaiting me.
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Don't know about Adderall but my Ritalin isn't strong enough for the junkies. It's addictive, sure, but I doubt you could get anywhere near high.
But what do I know? I'm so innocent in these matters. :dunno:
Ritalin is popular under students it seems. Makes it possible to make all nighters studying. So, yes, there is an off the counter market for Ritalin too.
Have seen students dealing Ritalin in the back of the uni library. :D
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I haven't taken mine yet, but I will now.
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I haven't taken mine yet, but I will now.
Done.
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No, I just woke up. Don't rush me.
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I feel better for taking my meds at a reasonable time today. Just have the night ones to go.
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I took my meds earlier and will now add my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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I did, and I feel much better now. :P
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They are staring at me with sad little eyes, just looking so lonely. I guess I should take them.
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Eyes?? What kind of meds do you take?
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Eyes?? What kind of meds do you take?
I-buprofen perhaps? :autism:
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Eyes?? What kind of meds do you take?
I-buprofen perhaps? :autism:
:oneliner:
I say you put a lid on those jokes. :zoinks:
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Yes, finally.
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Eyes?? What kind of meds do you take?
I-buprofen perhaps? :autism:
:oneliner:
I say you put a lid on those jokes. :zoinks:
Aye aye, sir! :zoinks:
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Eyes?? What kind of meds do you take?
I-buprofen perhaps? :autism:
:oneliner:
I say you put a lid on those jokes. :zoinks:
Aye aye, sir! :zoinks:
Iris my case. :P
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lashes CBC and Odeon.
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Who are you to criticise? You seem to be an excellent pupil.
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morning and night
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Yes, I did. Just now.
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Yes, I took them a few hours ago.
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Yes I did! Got to stay on top of my routine! :thumbup:
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About to take night ones now.
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Yes
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Took half an ibuprofen p/m an hour ago. Stormy winds made my left jaw hurt up again. Probs the sensible thing to do is to phone my dentist tomorrow and let him check for something wrong there later on. (bugger)
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I took them last night after midnight, so yes.
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Yes.
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Yes, I took them.
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Crap, just remembered I have yet to take night ones.
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Took half an ibuprofen p/m an hour ago. Stormy winds made my left jaw hurt up again. Probs the sensible thing to do is to phone my dentist tomorrow and let him check for something wrong there later on. (bugger)
Yes, I highly recommend that, neglecting a bad tooth just leads to more pain.
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Meds taken. It bothers me that sometimes the Epilim pills crumble sometimes when I pop them out, makes feel like I don't want to take them. That is irrational though and I do take them.
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Meds taken. It bothers me that sometimes the Epilim pills crumble sometimes when I pop them out, makes feel like I don't want to take them. That is irrational though and I do take them.
Maybe instead of popping them out, you could cut the foil with something sharp like the tip of a knife and carefully remove the pills so they don't crumble.
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Yeah I have a small pair of scissors I could use for this purpose. It is weird how some of the pills crumble to bits while the others stay whole.
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morning is down the hatch
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morning is down the hatch
Down my hatch too.
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morning is down the hatch
Down my hatch too.
My hatch too, Strattera and my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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:thumbup:
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I knew there had to be a reason to be found, for me logging in here, while my bed is missing me.
I was about to forget my evening meds.
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Mission accomplished.
Excuse for not being in bed validated. :viking:
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The evening meds needed reminding. Will take them now.
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Not only did I take my meds earlier, I also picked up my refill at the store! :thumbup:
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Yes, I did.
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I just did, this thread reminded me! :cbc:
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morning ones have been taken care of
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Yes.
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just took a sleeping pill... i feel kinda groggy... :yawn: good night axe murderer that lives in my closet
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I have taken Strattera, aspirin and cough syrup! Time for my multivitamin! :viking:
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I have taken my night meds: Edronax, Epilim and Zeldox.
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morning yes
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How I wish I had meds to take.
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How I wish I had meds to take.
You could buy some vitamins in order to join us in the daily ritual. :orly:
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How I wish I had meds to take.
You could buy some vitamins in order to join us in the daily ritual. :orly:
Decongestant and nasal spray
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How I wish I had meds to take.
You could buy some vitamins in order to join us in the daily ritual. :orly:
Good idea. Now if only I can get my sick ass off this chair.
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Yes
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How I wish I had meds to take.
You could buy some vitamins in order to join us in the daily ritual. :orly:
Good idea. Now if only I can get my sick ass off this chair.
What kind of sickness is it? I have just had bronchitis. :orly:
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Yes
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No, not yet, but I will now.
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Done.
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Yes I did.
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Yes
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I'm going to.... and so far.... Its helping!!!!!!
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^Good. :)
I just have night meds to go, it will be a while before I take those.
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Just did...
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Not yet, but I will take them soon.
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Yes, but decided not to take the Ritalin today.
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yes
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Yes
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Yes, but decided not to take the Ritalin today.
Cheers!
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I took mine.
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just now Warning - do not take meds with a frozen alcoholic drink. Your insides will freeze
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Yes, but decided not to take dexamphetamine today.
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yes
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just stuck a needle in my belly for the second time today
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Yes.
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I need to consider thinking of food as part of my medicine. I'm assuming I just had an episode of high blood sugar (impossible to avoid sleeping).
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Today I have taken Strattera, my multivitamin and some vile-tasting cough syrup! :sick:
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^^ the boy takes strattera. he says it helps him.
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^^ the boy takes strattera. he says it helps him.
It helps me too, does he have any bad side effects from it? :orly:
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^^ the boy takes strattera. he says it helps him.
It helps me too, does he have any bad side effects from it? :orly:
yes, and he has to take some other pill for the side effects but I dont remember what it is called. He also takes abilify. He most certainly has adhd
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I am looking to try Abilify next if this Zeldox/Geodon doesn't work. But it is very expensive here.
Anyway, took Edronax, Zeldox, Epilim and dexamphetamine (because I am going to drive) today. Also took Caltrate.
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What Strattera side effects is he trying to handle with other meds?
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Took the weekly med. Soon to take the morning meds.
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I'm still taking the vile-tasting cough syrup, to clear my chest! :arrr:
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I took them last night.
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Yes I even took a nap after my afternoon Adderall which has listed sleeplessness as a side effect but not for me.
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Yes I even took a nap after my afternoon Adderall which has listed sleeplessness as a side effect but not for me.
Sometimes I sleep for a long time during the day, catching up on missed sleep. :yawn:
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Naps during the day are special. Every hour of them seems to be equal to three hours at night for me
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Naps during the day are special. Every hour of them seems to be equal to three hours at night for me
I love a good afternoon nap, when I'm able to fall asleep that is. 8)
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Naps during the day are special. Every hour of them seems to be equal to three hours at night for me
I love a good afternoon nap, when I'm able to fall asleep that is. 8)
I can almost always fall asleep in the afternoon
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Naps during the day are special. Every hour of them seems to be equal to three hours at night for me
I love a good afternoon nap, when I'm able to fall asleep that is. 8)
I can almost always fall asleep in the afternoon
Strattera sometimes keeps me partly awake so I lightly doze instead of really sleeping.
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Naps during the day are special. Every hour of them seems to be equal to three hours at night for me
I love a good afternoon nap, when I'm able to fall asleep that is. 8)
I can almost always fall asleep in the afternoon
Strattera sometimes keeps me partly awake so I lightly doze instead of really sleeping.
Adderall is essentially speed and has done wonders not just for ADD stuff but has greatly improved my sleep
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Naps during the day are special. Every hour of them seems to be equal to three hours at night for me
I love a good afternoon nap, when I'm able to fall asleep that is. 8)
I can almost always fall asleep in the afternoon
Strattera sometimes keeps me partly awake so I lightly doze instead of really sleeping.
Adderall is essentially speed and has done wonders not just for ADD stuff but has greatly improved my sleep
That's very cool, I'm glad you're being helped by it. :)
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Naps during the day are special. Every hour of them seems to be equal to three hours at night for me
I love a good afternoon nap, when I'm able to fall asleep that is. 8)
I can almost always fall asleep in the afternoon
Strattera sometimes keeps me partly awake so I lightly doze instead of really sleeping.
Adderall is essentially speed and has done wonders not just for ADD stuff but has greatly improved my sleep
That's very cool, I'm glad you're being helped by it. :)
I was amazed at the effects myself. Tonight though because of the nap I think I will be up very late
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Naps during the day are special. Every hour of them seems to be equal to three hours at night for me
I love a good afternoon nap, when I'm able to fall asleep that is. 8)
I can almost always fall asleep in the afternoon
Strattera sometimes keeps me partly awake so I lightly doze instead of really sleeping.
Adderall is essentially speed and has done wonders not just for ADD stuff but has greatly improved my sleep
That's very cool, I'm glad you're being helped by it. :)
I was amazed at the effects myself. Tonight though because of the nap I think I will be up very late
Staying up late -----> more postwhoring, that's a good thing! :2thumbsup:
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Naps during the day are special. Every hour of them seems to be equal to three hours at night for me
I love a good afternoon nap, when I'm able to fall asleep that is. 8)
I can almost always fall asleep in the afternoon
Strattera sometimes keeps me partly awake so I lightly doze instead of really sleeping.
Adderall is essentially speed and has done wonders not just for ADD stuff but has greatly improved my sleep
That's very cool, I'm glad you're being helped by it. :)
I was amazed at the effects myself. Tonight though because of the nap I think I will be up very late
Staying up late -----> more postwhoring, that's a good thing! :2thumbsup:
Thinking the same thing but for now I have to go and tend to things in my office
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Naps during the day are special. Every hour of them seems to be equal to three hours at night for me
I love a good afternoon nap, when I'm able to fall asleep that is. 8)
I can almost always fall asleep in the afternoon
Strattera sometimes keeps me partly awake so I lightly doze instead of really sleeping.
Adderall is essentially speed and has done wonders not just for ADD stuff but has greatly improved my sleep
That's very cool, I'm glad you're being helped by it. :)
I was amazed at the effects myself. Tonight though because of the nap I think I will be up very late
Staying up late -----> more postwhoring, that's a good thing! :2thumbsup:
Thinking the same thing but for now I have to go and tend to things in my office
That's a great office you have, must be fun to work in that environment. :thumbup:
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Naps during the day are special. Every hour of them seems to be equal to three hours at night for me
I love a good afternoon nap, when I'm able to fall asleep that is. 8)
I can almost always fall asleep in the afternoon
Strattera sometimes keeps me partly awake so I lightly doze instead of really sleeping.
Adderall is essentially speed and has done wonders not just for ADD stuff but has greatly improved my sleep
That's very cool, I'm glad you're being helped by it. :)
I was amazed at the effects myself. Tonight though because of the nap I think I will be up very late
I think it's amazing that it is helping you sleep.
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Naps during the day are special. Every hour of them seems to be equal to three hours at night for me
I love a good afternoon nap, when I'm able to fall asleep that is. 8)
I can almost always fall asleep in the afternoon
Strattera sometimes keeps me partly awake so I lightly doze instead of really sleeping.
Adderall is essentially speed and has done wonders not just for ADD stuff but has greatly improved my sleep
That's very cool, I'm glad you're being helped by it. :)
I was amazed at the effects myself. Tonight though because of the nap I think I will be up very late
I think it's amazing that it is helping you sleep.
It has regulated my crazy sleep cycling to a fairly normal one which is great. I still have times when it can be bad but not like it used to be. All this after all kinds of sleep meds failed after I got used to them.
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No sleep meds work as intended on me. They either do nothing or do too much or too late.
My son uses melatonin, and it works well for him.
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I have taken my Strattera. I need to buy more cough syrup. :chin:
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Yes
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I took my meds last night.
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:thumbup:
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I just read about side effects of the new med I am on and it doesn't list what happened to me (increase in motivation, less need for sleep, generally feeling more "up") as a side effect. If anything, that shouldn't have happened at all. Pity that has worn off now, anyway. Back to my old depressive self again.
Still got night meds to go.
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What new med was that, Ren?
Took my meds. Wondering if I should avoid taking Ritalin for two days in a row.
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It is ziprasidone (Zeldox/Geodon), an antipsychotic.
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No. I took the morning meds with me for b'fast with my friend and I think I left them in the car, which is at the shop. Too lazy and blah to get another dose out.
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Yes, yes I did.
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Took them
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Yup
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Yes. :headbang2:
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Strattera, multivitamin and icky expectorant cough syrup, down the hatch! :viking:
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I'm fairly sure I did. Vaguely remember doing it. Won't risk taking them twice.
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Yup, and made my offspring take theirs too.
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Yes I snuck out to my van at lunch and got them
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No, but I need to take them right now.
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No, but I need to take them right now.
OK, took them.
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Took my night ones about an hour ago.
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Took the Zoloft but not the Ritalin.
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Yes
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Not the morning ones and the afternoon ones I took late :dunno:
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Yes, I did.
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I have taken my Strattera, my multivitamin AND a swig of cough syrup! :thumbup:
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Wow I took Phenergan last night so I could have a deeper sleep and I practically slept all of today as well. I even took dexamphetamine when I got up but that wasn't enough, I went back to bed and slept some more.
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Wow I took Phenergan last night so I could have a deeper sleep and I practically slept all of today as well. I even took dexamphetamine when I got up but that wasn't enough, I went back to bed and slept some more.
You must have really needed the sleep.
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All of them
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Most of my medication has been taken. Another 100mg of Lamictal is scheduled later tonight, and maybe some Niaspan too. I'm supposed to be taking 60mg of Prozac a day, but I'm going to try to go down to 40mg and maybe get my psychiatrist to take me off Prozac completely next time I see her.
Seems like almost everyone is on medication these days. Better living through chemistry!
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Yes, took them.
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Most of my medication has been taken. Another 100mg of Lamictal is scheduled later tonight, and maybe some Niaspan too. I'm supposed to be taking 60mg of Prozac a day, but I'm going to try to go down to 40mg and maybe get my psychiatrist to take me off Prozac completely next time I see her.
Seems like almost everyone is on medication these days. Better living through chemistry!
I used to take 250mg of Lamictal, that was an excellent medication while it lasted. It is really expensive here in Australia though.
What other antidepressants have you tried? And what are you keen on trying?
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I used to take 250mg of Lamictal, that was an excellent medication while it lasted. It is really expensive here in Australia though.
What other antidepressants have you tried? And what are you keen on trying?
I've tried so many medications I can't remember them all. Luvox was what I was on before I switched to Prozac. My first week on Prozac I felt GREAT, but my good mood diminished very quickly. Maybe it was just a placebo effect, I was really depending on it to be a life-saver. :-\
I don't know what drugs I might want to try next. My psychiatrist is planning to up my dosage of Lamictal soon, so I might request to just try that by itself for a while. Sorry you couldn't keep on the Lamictal, it's easily been the best drug I've tried.
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I used to take 250mg of Lamictal, that was an excellent medication while it lasted. It is really expensive here in Australia though.
What other antidepressants have you tried? And what are you keen on trying?
I've tried so many medications I can't remember them all. Luvox was what I was on before I switched to Prozac. My first week on Prozac I felt GREAT, but my good mood diminished very quickly. Maybe it was just a placebo effect, I was really depending on it to be a life-saver. :-\
I don't know what drugs I might want to try next. My psychiatrist is planning to up my dosage of Lamictal soon, so I might request to just try that by itself for a while. Sorry you couldn't keep on the Lamictal, it's easily been the best drug I've tried.
Have you had any problems with heartburn while on prozac? I had it very bad and that was one of the reasons I switched to a different med at the time
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Have you had any problems with heartburn while on prozac? I had it very bad and that was one of the reasons I switched to a different med at the time
Nope, no heartburn. The only side effect I've noticed is: Anorgasmia (inability to achieve orgasm), & Genital anesthesia.
Not cool, man. Don't make my weenie sick.
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The Princess Royal takes generic Lamictil for her epilepsy.
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Lamictal was awesome for me for mood stabilising but I came off it because I thought I didn't need it any more (wrong) and because it was so expensive, even the generic one. Here in Australia, Lamictal is only available cheaply if a person has epilepsy that isn't controlled by other anti-epileptics. At one stage I was paying $150 for a box of it. And because I went up to 250mg it cost even more.
So I put up with strong emotions/moods for a while then went back to the doctor and that is why I am back on Epilim (sodium valproate). Which I now have to have a blood test for, tomorrow. Epilim also helps with headaches, I don't get anywhere near the amount that I used to get when I wasn't taking it.
And my Zeldox/Geodon has been raised to 40mg twice a day. The doctor really thinks I have bipolar. He thinks the effects I had (less sleep, more motivation, generally feeling very good) was hypomania that was stopped from getting worse by the Zeldox. Yet I think it was the Zeldox that induced that mood. But it is meant specifically for treating mania. So I don't know what that was about. :-\
But I liked it.
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Yes
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Yes, I took them.
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Yes, I took them.
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Just took night ones.
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yes
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Surprisingly yes. Lately I've been forgetting the morning dose.
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Day ones have been taken.
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I took mine last night.
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I have taken my Strattera and my multivitamin, all set for the day. :thumbup:
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+
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Yes, took mine.
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Yes.
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my sugar was 158, a little too high. had to take 4 units of insulin
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my sugar was 158, a little too high. had to take 4 units of insulin
It's good that you monitor it so closely. :hug:
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thanks :hug:
yeah i take my blood sugar 4 times a day. it is usually like 100. Normal is 80 - 100. A regular person can go a little over that if they just ate a whole bnch of sweet, tho. If it is ever over 150, you most certainly have diabetes. The highest I ever measured mine was 536 and the lowest was 36.
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Yes, I took them.
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thanks :hug:
yeah i take my blood sugar 4 times a day. it is usually like 100. Normal is 80 - 100. A regular person can go a little over that if they just ate a whole bnch of sweet, tho. If it is ever over 150, you most certainly have diabetes. The highest I ever measured mine was 536 and the lowest was 36.
YOU HAVE DIABETIS!?
sereously, thanks. now when ever i see a post by you all i will think about is this video: Youtube Poop Wilford Brimley Eats People With Diabetes 50 HOURS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9oDqqT4veg#)
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Yes, I did.
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I may have mentioned it before, but I've now stopped my psych meds (seroquel and valproate)...So I no longer need to take them. :2thumbsup:
But I took my other meds (HRT and vitamins)
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That's a good thing. :)
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That's a good thing. :)
Is it? Well..It's good I'm off those meds particularly as they were making me depressed and suicidal. But I'm not entirely sure either way whether it's a good idea of be off psych meds entirely...
I've just been noticing for a few minor and intermittent signs similar to my first hypomanic episode, so I'm just wondering if I stayed off meds would another episode be inevitable...and therefore should I go on meds to prevent it? But if I do will that just bring back the depression?
Something I'm pondering.
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If you can manage without meds, you should be, IMO, and that's what I meant when saying it was a good thing.
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If you can manage without meds, you should be, IMO, and that's what I meant when saying it was a good thing.
Ah, well yeah :)
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:thumbup:
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Good grief people!!!!!!!!!!!! No one's taken meds for 8 days? No wonder the site's so nutsy.
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Good grief people!!!!!!!!!!!! No one's taken meds for 8 days? No wonder the site's so nutsy.
I have been taking mine all along like a good Weeble. :angel:
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Good grief people!!!!!!!!!!!! No one's taken meds for 8 days? No wonder the site's so nutsy.
I managed to take mine every day, except once I forgot them until I woke up in the middle of the night and took them then, probably because this thread wasn't popping up in my unread posts to remind me.
:laugh:
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I have taken them he past 7 days, before that, I forgot for over a week, and it showed.
Damage of that now nearly all undone.
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Let's keep bumping this thread so people remember! I took mine just now! :thumbup:
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I took the zoloft bt not the ritalin. I've decided to have a few days of the latter.
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Let's keep bumping this thread so people remember! I took mine just now! :thumbup:
Maybe this thread could be stickied?
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Let's keep bumping this thread so people remember! I took mine just now! :thumbup:
Maybe this thread could be stickied?
Good idea, QV.
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Yes
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why does this need to be stickied?
are we a forum for retards?
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why does this need to be stickied?
are we a forum for retards?
Yes. See posts 2727 onwards.
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why does this need to be stickied?
are we a forum for retards?
You are posting here, aren't you? :smarty:
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I have been taking mine. I meant to have a break from dexamphetamine over these holidays but I never did it, whoops.
With the new meds (ziprasidone) I have to take them with or immediately after food so that is a pain at dinner time. Don't know what I will do on Sunday as I am going to my sister's for dinner.
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why does this need to be stickied?
are we a forum for retards?
You are posting here, aren't you? :smarty:
well, i AM a retard... you have a point :zoinks:
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I thought I had forgotten, but the compartment is empty for this morning, so I guess I did.
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Yes, I took mine.
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Not yet.
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I took mine before I drove to the airport.
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I dunno about you, Adam, but I had forgotten mine till I saw this thread. :-[
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I have taken mine, along with my multivitamin, now off to work! :viking:
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yup.
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I took mine, including vitamins.
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Roger that.
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Oh wait... I need to take my meds.... *grabs pill bottle*
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Yes I did.
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Yes.
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Yes I did, now I should take my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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I just did. Thanks for the reminder.
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done.
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Over the gums
Round the tongue
Look out tummy
Here she comes.
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I take 7 tablets in the morning.
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I took my Strattera but forgot my multivitamin! I'll take it now. :thumbup:
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Yes
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Yes. didn't take the Ritalin, though.
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No! I'm rebelling!
Tho that'll probly only last til Hunny realises I haven't took it....
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Hi Toad. :santa:
Nice to see a glimpse of you.
And, no, didn't take any meds this day. The day is young, I need some sleep first. Maybe I'll take some melatonin, before going to bed.
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I took my meds this morning. Completely forgot last night's ones though. So now the pill foils are uneven because usually I finish one at night and start a new one in the morning. Somewhere in the back of my mind I am uneasy about this oddness.
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Friday has all been squared away
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I took my medicine including the vitamins.
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Not yet.
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Saturday's are done and gone.
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No, but I will. Eventually.
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Done.
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yup, on an empty stomach.
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Nearly forgot them again but yes I did take them.
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I still haven't taken my multivitamin. I need it to give me strength! :viking:
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I still haven't taken my multivitamin. I need it to give me strength! :viking:
Took my weekly med, the morning meds, including an additional vitamin by accident. So, maybe I took it for you?
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I took mine plus two Aleve.
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I just took 3 dexamphetamine.
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Yes, I did.
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Yes, plus two Aleve, again.
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Yes. Back taking Ritalin, too.
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yup
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:thumbup:
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Yes
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Yes, I just did. Thanks again for reminding me.
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Yes. Routines are important.
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I still haven't taken my multivitamin. I need it to give me strength! :viking:
Took my weekly med, the morning meds, including an additional vitamin by accident. So, maybe I took it for you?
I'm glad one of us remembered! I hope you had a super day. :)
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Yes
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Yes, I took them just now.
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Just did. The new sodium valproate is a different brand and they are purple instead of boring white.
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Yup. No Ritalin for me today, though.
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yes
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Yes, I took them.
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yes
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just downed them with a coffee
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Tuesday evening...Oh did I ever.
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Yes.
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Yes, I am ready for the work day, let's get to it! :hamsterwheel:
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Forgot. Will take them now. Am meant to take them with or immediately after food and I keep forgetting.
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I took them last night.
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Took one pill. I'm planning to change the time I take some of the meds from a.m. to p.m., so there's a bit of a mishmash for a few days until I get everything straight in my head.
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No. CBA
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Not yet.
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I just took mine.
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I took mine, eventually.
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Yes, I took them just now.
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Yes. All of them, and a migraine pill.
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Yes
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Done
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I did. I even took my dexamphetamine exactly as I should which is a rarity. Usually I mess up with the timing or the dosage.
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I think I made a boo-boo. I took my blood pressure pill twice yesterday and once today instead of just once a day. See my March 3 post. Got confused on the number of pills I needed to change the timing on. Although I'm properly loopy because the BP is low and peeing a river, I'm going to be alright.
Add = Everything has been re-sorted and filled properly. Took the evening meds just now.
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Yes, I took mine.
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Yes I did and they DON'T WORK!
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Missed the a.m. ones, but took the p.m. ones.
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I took mine this evening. Thank goodness I only have to remember to take them once a day now.
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Yup.
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The PR and I are medicated this morning.
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Yup, as is my litter.
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I think so. Or maybe it was yesterday.
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I think I am going for a hand full of melatonin. (got a bottle with 0.1 mg pills)
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I'd almost forgotten the p.m. meds. Thank you, thread.
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Yes, thanks for the reminder.
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No, not yet. I probably should.
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Almost forgot again.
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Yes, apart from the Lysine. I forgot to take it before eating anything. Now I have to wait till two hours after eating. Hope not to forget. Face is a mess.
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Yes, I have taken mine. I'm going back to work today, I need the alertness! :orly:
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Yes, I took them.
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In just a moment I can say yes.
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Not yet. I just got up and made coffee.
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I took mine a while ago.
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Yes and they don't work.
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Forgot. But, did not forget the meds for the offspring.
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this morning
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This morning.
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This morning.
Copy cat. :kitten:
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This morning.
Copy cat. :kitten:
I don't copy cats. :tard:
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This morning.
Copy cat. :kitten:
I don't copy cats. :tard:
(http://www.intensitysquared.com/Smileys/default/pancakebunny.gif) Would you make a pancake and have a bunny serve it?
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This morning.
Copy cat. :kitten:
I don't copy cats. :tard:
(http://www.intensitysquared.com/Smileys/default/pancakebunny.gif) Would you make a pancake and have a bunny serve it?
Now you're making no sense. :nerdy:
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This morning.
Copy cat. :kitten:
I don't copy cats. :tard:
(http://www.intensitysquared.com/Smileys/default/pancakebunny.gif) Would you make a pancake and have a bunny serve it?
Now you're making no sense. :nerdy:
I don't have to make sense, I'm a ditzy female. You on the other hand are a computer gerd (geeky nerd) and have to make sense.
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I don't know what you mean.
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I don't know what you mean.
Show-off gerd.
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The message is perfectly clear, though.
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The message is perfectly clear, though.
To a Finn or a Swede.
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The message is perfectly clear, though.
To a Finn or a Swede.
Anyone reading hex. ;D
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I took my medicine, and I farted.
The latter gave immediate relief.
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I have taken my meds, and soon I will take my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Yes and they don't work.
Yes and I don't think mine do either. :-\
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The message is perfectly clear, though.
To a Finn or a Swede.
Anyone reading hex. ;D
:lol:
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Yes, BTW.
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Some of em.
I don't need all my scripts that i get daily, every day. And some of the stuff I do take, ain't shit you can GET prescribed.
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I just took my Strattera, now I need my :coffee: and music!
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Had the most important.
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The message is perfectly clear, though.
To a Finn or a Swede.
Anyone reading hex. ;D
Did you just put a hex on me? After all you are a Witchlet.
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The message is perfectly clear, though.
To a Finn or a Swede.
Anyone reading hex. ;D
Did you just put a hex on me? After all you are a Witchlet.
Not a real witch, though, so not sure I could pull off a hex.
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Coffee feels nice.
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Yes, I did take my meds.
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Didn't take the morning meds until 3:30 p.m. Didn't want a diuretic and green beer in my body at the same time. :zombiefuck:
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Yes. :)
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yes.
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Why, yes I did, thank you for asking! :eyelash:
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No, I can't afford alcohol or dope this week! :lol:
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But, of course
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I took the Zoloft but not the Ritalin.
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Taking more coffee! lol
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Yes, taking pretty good care of myself lately.
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Good, Hykes! Why not before that, though? lol
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Yes
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Yes
Good girl! lol
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I always take my meds, first thing in the morning. :angel:
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Good girl! lol
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Yes, just took them.
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Taking my coffee now, lols.
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Bruce, don't you think that should go in the what am I drinking thread? You spam enough as things stand.
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Oh, OK, sorry.
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I'm about to take the evening ones, the next day of course.
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Not yet, and, now I will have to wait, till the last bite I had was two hours ago.
Oh well, there is a chance that I will remember in time, to take them today.
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Yes, I've been a good cow today.
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Yes, I took the regular ones last night and Vicodin a while ago.
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Yes, I did.
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Yes, the morning ones.
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Yes but the afternoon as needed turned out to be a bit too much :thumbdn:
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Yes. :zoinks:
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Yes
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took the ones last night and the ones this morning at the correct times.
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Yes. Um, I might have said that already today.
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Some of them. I don't take all of them every day, more on a 'doctr trusts me to know my doses and possibly how my meds actually work on the molecular level better than he ever will' basis. So pain meds aside I take them all as I need them. Neither before or after needing them.
Sometimes I will
take much more than is written, sometimes a tiny amount. Since I had to trek to the only local pharmacy that does the oh so tasty chloroform-flavoured codeine linctus in both opioid withdrawal and agony with every step I took in both knee, hip and back thanks to being unable to get an appt with my doc for a re-rx, making me go cold turkey from 120mg of oxycodone per day, now 'tis time for very cold beer and a syringe full of oxy.
Mmmmmm...I just love the feeling of (micron-filters, they will save your life!). Filtered, loaded up and ready to go
Oh and I may as well take a multi-vitamin as well. And some tizanidine, maybe one capsule of chlormethiazole too, I've used my last ones, and have been so majorly overloaded the past few days I just wanted to curl up and die. One of those 'stop the fucking world,I want off' moments.
Time to go drink that second pint of stella and bang up that 20mg oxy:) I'm so thirsty, don't cope too great with all this searing heat, so I'm just going to shoot my oxycodone, banish any hint of withdrawal thanks to being unable to get an appointment on my refill due date. The BD microfine insulin syringes SUCK. 30 gauge needle is grea, but its so short I can never, ever hit a vein, fuckers are subcut dosing. F
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Hope that goes well, Lestat!
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I took mine, including a Vicodin.
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Yes, I took mine.
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Yup, and managed not to forget the sun-blocking cream too. :viking:
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About to take the mornings. Did an Adam on last night's meds.
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About to take the mornings. Did an Adam on last night's meds.
* worries about possible republican tendencies *
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I think I took mine today. :-\
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About to take the mornings. Did an Adam on last night's meds.
* worries about possible republican tendencies *
No, Adam frequently, "can't be arsed."
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About to take the mornings. Did an Adam on last night's meds.
* worries about possible republican tendencies *
No, Adam frequently, "can't be arsed."
What if such an attitude would not only concern your medication, but also your empire.
We need our Queen, healthy, and caring.
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Yes, I took mine.
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Yes, I took my aspirin. :tard:
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Yes.
Did not take my time to drink something this morning though....
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Yes, but I'm going to take a few days off the Ritalin.
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Yes and last night's as well at the proper time.
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Yes, including some Aleve.
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Not yet.
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Music count? It helps my moods, a bit!
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Yes.
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Meadow sure seems to be on something today?
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Meadow sure seems to be on something today?
Keep that to the call-out Bruce.
No need to spread flames all over the forum.
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I'm not flaming, I'm wondering, here. It puzzles me.
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Meadow sure seems to be on something today?
I'm not flaming, I'm wondering, here. It puzzles me.
My guess would have been no, this is her unmedicated.
BTW, I took my medicine last night , but maybe I should take some Aleve for my tooth.
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yes
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Yes
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Perhaps Meadow doesn't have meds, then?
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ask her in her ask away thread. Keep this one for what it is meant for.
* Damn, I am getting protective of my thread *
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Ha, don't suppose she'd answer that one! ooooh!
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Yes
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Yes.
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Some. Figure I might pop a sleeping pill or three and try and get some sleep in a bit, after I finish reading a few journal articles.
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yes
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Yes, I took my meds this morning.
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Yup, but, not according to protocol. Did not wait for half an hour to have something to eat afterwards.
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I took them, plus two Aleve.
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:tard:
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Oh, no, Hykes, that's dangerous! Does alcohol count? I'm about to have some....
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Oh, no, Hykes, that's dangerous! Does alcohol count? I'm about to have some....
Not dangerous, just less effective.
Did need the food though.
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Yeah, I don't suppose it'll make that much difference & it's your body! l o l
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Yes, I took my meds and my multivitamin, another work day awaits! :viking:
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I took YOUR meds :trollface:
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Yeah, I don't suppose it'll make that much difference & it's your body! l o l
Some things need utmost precision, in taking them, others don't. This was safe.
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^Like me and Zeldox, I am meant to take it with food but sometimes I forget and take it much later. Its effectiveness is apparently then halved. Doesn't really bother me though as it is pretty ineffective anyway, I am coming to realise. But there aren't many antipsychotics left that fit the same profile that I can try. :-\
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Nope. Get back to me in roughly 3 hours ;) (12pm daily +8pm evening dose of various, life-sustaining things like insulin and cortisol)
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Yes, but I'm going to take a few days off the Ritalin.
Why? And how has it gone?
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I took YOUR meds :trollface:
But, but, but I need them! :'(
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Yes, finally. I woke up a while ago after falling asleep on the couch and took them.
Nope. Get back to me in roughly 3 hours ;) (12pm daily +8pm evening dose of various, life-sustaining things like insulin and cortisol)
So you are diabetic and have Addison's disease?
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Yes, but I'm going to take a few days off the Ritalin.
Why? And how has it gone?
I've found that I build up a tolerance to it. It helps to stay off it a few days.
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I took YOUR meds :trollface:
But, but, but I need them! :'(
That's why I took them. :evillaugh:
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I took YOUR meds :trollface:
But, but, but I need them! :'(
That's why I took them. :evillaugh:
THAT'S why I screwed up that cake at work today! J'accuse! :orly:
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I took YOUR meds :trollface:
But, but, but I need them! :'(
That's why I took them. :evillaugh:
THAT'S why I screwed up that cake at work today! J'accuse! :orly:
I also ate the cake. :trollface:
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I took YOUR meds :trollface:
But, but, but I need them! :'(
That's why I took them. :evillaugh:
THAT'S why I screwed up that cake at work today! J'accuse! :orly:
I also ate the cake. :trollface:
You must be delirious. I locked that cake in the freezer at work. :P
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He must have found the key.
:laugh:
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He must have found the key.
:laugh:
I'm going to alert security and we will take extreme measures! :police:
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He must have found the key.
:laugh:
I'm going to alert security and we will take extreme measures! :police:
What kind of cake was it?
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Someone left the cake out in the rain.
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Someone left the cake out in the rain.
I don't think that I can take it because it took so long to bake it and I'll never have that recipe again.
:D
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That got the most votes for worst song in an informal poll of Dave Barry's readers back in the 1990s. :laugh: But "The Candyman" :thumbdn: was the runner up that had the most vehement voters denouncing it.
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I took YOUR meds :trollface:
But, but, but I need them! :'(
That's why I took them. :evillaugh:
THAT'S why I screwed up that cake at work today! J'accuse! :orly:
I also ate the cake. :trollface:
Twin Weeble in the making.
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You all deluded, that cake was clearly a lie.
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He must have found the key.
:laugh:
I'm going to alert security and we will take extreme measures! :police:
What kind of cake was it?
Two thin layers of chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream in the middle, whipped cream
on top. My boss suggested it so we could use up the ice cream. It looks OK! :orly:
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He must have found the key.
:laugh:
I'm going to alert security and we will take extreme measures! :police:
What kind of cake was it?
Two thin layers of chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream in the middle, whipped cream
on top. My boss suggested it so we could use up the ice cream. It looks OK! :orly:
How could you fuck up something that easy? :dunno: :hahaha: :zoinks:
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Someone left the cake out in the rain.
I don't think that I can take it because it took so long to bake it and I'll never have that recipe again.
:D
That song is kind of awful in a fabulous way, I love it! :pinkbeat:
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He must have found the key.
:laugh:
I'm going to alert security and we will take extreme measures! :police:
What kind of cake was it?
Two thin layers of chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream in the middle, whipped cream
on top. My boss suggested it so we could use up the ice cream. It looks OK! :orly:
How could you fuck up something that easy? :dunno: :hahaha: :zoinks:
Did you read where it says THIN LAYERS? The top layer had to be placed on top of
the ice cream by turning the cake pan upside down. I usually do that sort of thing
well, but yesterday I did not have the pan quite centered and the top layer landed crooked
and some of it broke off and landed on the floor. :'( So I covered it up with the cream!
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I took YOUR meds :trollface:
But, but, but I need them! :'(
That's why I took them. :evillaugh:
THAT'S why I screwed up that cake at work today! J'accuse! :orly:
I also ate the cake. :trollface:
Twin Weeble in the making.
You say that as if it were a bad thing! :zoinks:
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You all deluded, that cake was clearly a lie.
It's real, real I tell you! I made it, I should know! :rollingpin:
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You all deluded, that cake was clearly a lie.
It's real, real I tell you! I made it, I should know! :rollingpin:
GLaDOS, is that you?? Why are you pretending to be a Weeble?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/Glados.png)
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You all deluded, that cake was clearly a lie.
It's real, real I tell you! I made it, I should know! :rollingpin:
GLaDOS, is that you?? Why are you pretending to be a Weeble?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bf/Glados.png)
I am a Weeble, why are you pointing that camera at me? :cbc:
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You all deluded, that cake was clearly a lie.
I'm not deluded, but I do so love grappling transsexual little girls in my cold, loving embrace while flicking a necrotic, smelly tongue in their ears.
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Wow, that's super creepy...
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(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/iamjooish/Ammunition/Smiling.jpg?t=1317537530)
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Back on subject: Yes
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You all deluded, that cake was clearly a lie.
I'm not deluded, but I do so love grappling transsexual little girls in my cold, loving embrace while flicking a necrotic, smelly tongue in their ears.
Fortunately, GA's a transsexual big girl.
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I can refer to teens and young adults as "little girls" if I WANNNNT!!!! :P
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I guess that depends on how you define 'big' :P
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"Oh you have spirit for one so small"
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I am only 164cm in height, but then I am heavy :P
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*whips out his American-metric converter*
...liar.
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I guess that depends on how you define 'big' :P
I am only 164cm in height, but then I am heavy :P
Did you cry when you broke your finger?
Big Girls Don´t Cry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVBvy2cc0Io#)
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tehehe, no I didn't cry. But I did whinge that hurt (ask renaeden), and I felt sick, shakey, a bit cold, and generally in shock.
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I took YOUR meds :trollface:
But, but, but I need them! :'(
That's why I took them. :evillaugh:
THAT'S why I screwed up that cake at work today! J'accuse! :orly:
I also ate the cake. :trollface:
You must be delirious. I locked that cake in the freezer at work. :P
I emptied that freezer. :trollface:
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You all deluded, that cake was clearly a lie.
I ate the lie. :trollface:
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Back to the topic: I took an ibuprofen for my neck, but not the crazy meds.
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I have taken my crazy meds for the night.
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Nope...
but I did take the ones I forgot last night when I got up today >.<
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I am only 164cm in height, but then I am heavy :P
I am short as well, but substantial in weight! :sumo:
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ceilidh is not that short :P
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ceilidh is not that short :P
I am 164cm.
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Haven't taken my meds yet.
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I took my morning ones...didn't want to though..But did anyway.
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I should have.
Waiting for the right moment to catch up on them.
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I have taken my meds; now it is time for my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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Just picked up a fresh script earlier. I can't bloody wait until I have my consult with the fracture clinic, I am hoping I can get the guy to do me a corticosteroid shot for the hip. I'm sick of having traumatic experiences every time I have to hitch a lift in my old man's car, or when I have to pull on my combat boots, and bend down to lace the pestilent things....tighten...yoink...owfuck...tighten...yoink---owfuck lather, rinse repeat. I'm fed up of not being able to bend at the waist, but to have to bend, carefully on my good leg instead, extend/draw up my bad leg/hip side.
Time to go lie down for a bit, have a fag and crank out the Rammstein, get some sleep, then maybe get some eats. Last few day I was down to just enough codeine syrup to stop me hitting W/D, no appetite, majorly overloaded, starving hungry but couldn't eat a bite.
I'm feeling so much more human now, I can't wait until its chow time.....can't decide weather to have roast chicken, chinese crispy duck&pancakes or chinese tofu/spicy black bean sauce.....choices, choices....or maybe a nice piece of fish...one thing is for sure....cold beer will need to accompany my grub. A glass of bailly's, then bugger me if its not bed time for my sleep-deprived self.
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Nobody wonders if you took any meds today.
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Lol...one doctor called me 'a pharmaceutical dustbin', made me laugh my arse off that did.
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Ha, whenever I have spare meds, I'll be sure to toss them in you, then?
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Ha, whenever I have spare meds, I'll be sure to toss them in you, then?
You do realize that is more than likely illegal?
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No, you don't say? :o
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yes
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yes. doing rather well with it
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I took mine.
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I took mine with some chilled apple juice that triggered an esophageal spasm. :violin:
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Brought them with me to b'fast, but couldn't find them. found them in the car after we drove off :facepalm2:
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Yup
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Yup
Me too, AND my multivitamin! Bring on the day! :viking:
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Depends what the meds are. Tell ye' what though..I wouldn't mind a bong right about now :P
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*sneaks weed to lestat*
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Yes, I took mine.
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I have forgotten for 2 days in a row and my body joints ache.
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I have forgotten for 2 days in a row and my body joints ache.
Did you take them now?
I'm off to bed. Will take some pre-emptive painkiller.
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No, I'll have some sherry tonight and start the meds again in the morning.
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Yep. They don't work as well as they used to, but oh well. :dunno:
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Started tonight, but somehow one of the Rx pills was in the box twice. Adam'd to figure out which one, so I just took what I'd put out. It's okay, I just checked and it's the paxil.
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I did, but I had to flip a coin to decide to do it.
...clearly I'm not well.
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Yes. The joints are aching too much and the sinus/allergy tipped the scales for taking them.
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Yes, I took them.
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Yes, forgot yesterday, and the price is being paid. :-\
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I did, but I had to flip a coin to decide to do it.
...clearly I'm not well.
How soon can you talk to your doctor? :-\
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As for me, I have taken my meds, and will soon take my multivitamin! :thumbup:
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I did, but I had to flip a coin to decide to do it.
...clearly I'm not well.
How soon can you talk to your doctor? :-\
Thursday
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I took to many medication and shall soon run of of the benzo I was Rx'ed withdrawing should be interesting :nerdy:
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I did, but I had to flip a coin to decide to do it.
...clearly I'm not well.
How soon can you talk to your doctor? :-\
Thursday
/me spanks Ceil, then fondles her a bit
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I did, but I had to flip a coin to decide to do it.
...clearly I'm not well.
How soon can you talk to your doctor? :-\
Thursday
/me spanks Ceil, then fondles her a bit
Was that called for?
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Yes
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Yes
I see someone's been doing a little 'mind reading' again...
:headbang2:
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I took to many medication and shall soon run of of the benzo I was Rx'ed withdrawing should be interesting :nerdy:
Can you get an emergency prescription or refill? :orly:
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Yes, I did.
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I took to many medication and shall soon run of of the benzo I was Rx'ed withdrawing should be interesting :nerdy:
Can you get an emergency prescription or refill? :orly:
Well the refill isn't until the 24th as in approved for refill...Next Tuesday...Refill yes but insurance won't allow until then...I may just call them to ask if I can get an emergency Rx good idea...
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About to take the evening ones. Managed to get the PR to take both doses of her medicines too.
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yes, I did.
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I took to many medication and shall soon run of of the benzo I was Rx'ed withdrawing should be interesting :nerdy:
Can you get an emergency prescription or refill? :orly:
Well the refill isn't until the 24th as in approved for refill...Next Tuesday...Refill yes but insurance won't allow until then...I may just call them to ask if I can get an emergency Rx good idea...
Occasionally my pharmacy doesn't have enough of my meds in stock to give me a whole
batch, and so they will give me a few days' doses to carry me over till the rest comes in. :apondering:
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I did, but I had to flip a coin to decide to do it.
...clearly I'm not well.
How soon can you talk to your doctor? :-\
Thursday
/me spanks Ceil, then fondles her a bit
:slap: :boxers: :loup:
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Yepper
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Burned one (good to see you here btw), PM me if sending you some (I have loprazolam and nitrazepam here) would be helpful. Not sure how quickly it would get there.
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pills. never understood the facination? :zoinks:
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Benzos do nothing for me, recreationally speaking. Absolutely bugger all. I just take them now and then to help me sleep, I've always had sleeping patterns that were.....odd.
Might just go neck some chlormethiazole and an antihistamine now though...or, more probably, a benzo, since I'm about to drink some of the bottle of mojito cocktail I have and chlormethiazole has interactions with alcohol metabolism (it prolongs the clearance time, and is more often used as a detox med for alcoholics, than a downer. I'm resistant to benzos though so I get that also on my scripts)
Oh, and a squirt of nasal decongestant. My nose is a bit stuffy, and its getting about time I had a fag then crawled into bed for the day. I hate sleeping with a stuffy or blocked nose and one of my meds, an adrenal blocker of sorts, causes congestion as a side effect, so I get a xylometazoline spray on rx to block its action locally.
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Lestat have you ever crushed a pill before? :trollface:
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:thumbup:
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Lestat--if you want to engage in illegal activities, please do it off the site. I believe your offer to Burned One is against the TOS.
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But he isnt a pill junkie bro, He told me himself! :trollface:
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Benzos do nothing for me, recreationally speaking. Absolutely bugger all. I just take them now and then to help me sleep, I've always had sleeping patterns that were.....odd.
Might just go neck some chlormethiazole and an antihistamine now though...or, more probably, a benzo, since I'm about to drink some of the bottle of mojito cocktail I have and chlormethiazole has interactions with alcohol metabolism (it prolongs the clearance time, and is more often used as a detox med for alcoholics, than a downer. I'm resistant to benzos though so I get that also on my scripts)
Oh, and a squirt of nasal decongestant. My nose is a bit stuffy, and its getting about time I had a fag then crawled into bed for the day. I hate sleeping with a stuffy or blocked nose and one of my meds, an adrenal blocker of sorts, causes congestion as a side effect, so I get a xylometazoline spray on rx to block its action locally.
Do they make Breathe Right Strips in the UK? Those really help me! :orly:
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Crushed a pill? now and then....If I'm going to take my benzos sublingually, crushing them, or at least breaking them up into a few smaller pieces helps them dissolve quicker. Don't have to with the loprazolam, but my nitrazepam pills are big buggers and take ages to fall apart.
Or if I'm going to prep oxycontin for IV with a micron filter, etc. then they need to be finely ground up to powder, dumped into a vial, and left to soak for about 5-10 minutes to get most of the oxy out.
*is currently self medicating with a big plate of battered king prawns in sweet and sour sauce and cold beer...mmm...heaven:D*
And couldbe, I think they do. they certainly make something like that. I don't want to bother wearing something on my nose though. And in this case, the xylometazoline spray, or oxymetazoline, acts in the exact opposite way to the med that causes the congestion, tizanidine (which I use to prevent overstimulation/overloading, occasionally as a muscle relaxant when my back plays up, and to sleep), only locally, leaving the tizanidine to work systemically. The latter allowing for longterm use of the spray also, preventing tolerance to it, and rebound congestion which would otherwise occur.
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I think you need a deconjestant spray for your nose because of those thin little white lines. I've done coke before bro, I know exactly what happens when you snort drugs.
In any reguards, I bet you know the difference between a bag of cement dust and the real deal. :trollface:
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Yes, I took them.
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yes.
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It's way too early to take them, it's only 3:17 a.m. here. :P
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It's way too early to take them, it's only 3:17 a.m. here. :P
Your Karma is the year of the "Slag by Nieuwpoort" or 402 :M
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Yes, I took mine.
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Nope forgot. Oops.
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Yah, I just did. And have tomorrow's packed.
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Just took a 10mg oxynorm (oxycodone IR), 500mg of pregabalin (for neuropathy following my knee surgery a few years back) and 10mg of tizanidine.
Oh, and a few sprays from a nicotine mouth spray. I'm out of rolling baccy and its way too late to get any more, aside from an all night garage, which charges extortionate prices and I'd have to endure walking there, so I'll pass on that.
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Yes, I took them.
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Yepper
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yes
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Yes, I finally did after falling asleep on the couch watching Saturday Night Live.
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Not yet.
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I'm curious, what meds do you all take? (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,19688.new.html#new)
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Don't we have a thread like that somewhere?
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Don't we have a thread like that somewhere?
I couldn't be bothered looking for it :dunno:
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Don't we have a thread like that somewhere?
I couldn't be bothered looking for it :dunno:
It's good for the statistics, anyway. :zoinks:
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Yes
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I take-loprazolam, nitrazepam, chlormethiazole, tizanidine, gaviscon, oxycontin, oxynorm, (IR oxycodone capsules), pregabalin, a xylometazoline spray, to counteract the nasal congestion caused by tizanidine, and indomethacin, a strong NSAID antiinflammatory.
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I take-loprazolam, nitrazepam, chlormethiazole, tizanidine, gaviscon, oxycontin, oxynorm, (IR oxycodone capsules), pregabalin, a xylometazoline spray, to counteract the nasal congestion caused by tizanidine, and indomethacin, a strong NSAID antiinflammatory.
Yes, we are well aware of your junkie habits :autism:
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Fuck you, and bugger the horse yeh rode in on with a stick wrapped in razor wire, I'm not a junkie.
Actually, the benzos, and chlormethiazole, I almost always never use the full script, and just let them build up, same with the lyrica/pregabalin (its crosstolerant with GABAergics, it does help with the neuropathy in my leg though, and its handy when I want something by way of a relaxant;but not nearly as heavy duty as chlormethiazole, or a benzo).
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Fuck you, and bugger the horse yeh rode in on with a stick wrapped in razor wire, I'm not a junkie.
Actually, the benzos, and chlormethiazole, I almost always never use the full script, and just let them build up, same with the lyrica/pregabalin (its crosstolerant with GABAergics, it does help with the neuropathy in my leg though, and its handy when I want something by way of a relaxant;but not nearly as heavy duty as chlormethiazole, or a benzo).
Uh huh. And the stuff you shoot up, what is that treating? And two kinds of Oxy? :baked:
You admit you do it for recreation, you do it daily, you inject it into a vein. Junkie is as junkie does. Take pride in it.
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I only shoot oxy occasionally. And what its treating, is my knee and hip. I fell on a piece of glass as a kid, and had my knee stamped on as it was healing, after I had the glass removed. Its been bad ever since. Had surgery on it, which didn't help much. Stopped it locking and collapsing, but failed miserably at treating the pain and swelling. My tendon is fucked, really swollen and painful.
I take oxycontin to provide a steady-state of oxy continuously throughout the day and night, so I don't have to deal with sudden spikes and depressions, and the oxynorm at a lower dose for a rapid acting dose. Along with indomethacin, a strong anti-inflammatory.
The change in gait thanks to my knee has made my hip go. Probably bursitis, and thats even worse than my knee. Way, way worse. Its got so bad some days that I have had to lie on my good side, and use my upper body strength to haul myself up the stairs.
The surgery sucked, caused some nerve damage, leaving me with neuropathic pain, which is what the pregabalin is for, mainly. Opioids really suck at treating neuropathic pain, most opioids don't touch it at all for most neuropathy patients. Only a very few opioids do work for it, those with some NMDA antagonist properties, like laevomethorphan, laevo-methadone, or ketobemidone. None are available in my country. l-methadone might be, I'm due to go to an appointment with a pain clinic soonish, I'm going to inquire about laevo-methadone, to see if any of the methadone brands available in the UK are the L-isomer. Or about other NMDA antagonist opioids.
I am so fucking fed up with my hip. Next time I see my doc, I'm going to see what has to be done to get me a corticosteroid shot into my hip. I can't even sit down without a whole load of pillows under my arse.
And yes, I do take it recreationally now and then. I enjoy opioids. No different from drinking alcohol, I just happen to prefer opioids to booze. I do drink, but not very much, I do like a nice cold beer with my dinner, and my filter coffee, I like to spike it with a shot or two of tia maria. Gorgeous with fried calamari.
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I took my meds, must remember to order a refill tomorrow! :orly:
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Yes, apart from my pregabalin/lyrica. I feel no real need for it today, the neuropathy in my legisn't bothering me so far today. Although sods law says that the very picosecond I hit the 'post' button then it will go apewaste on me,
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Yes
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Yes, I took them.
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Yes I did, and I found a recent vial with three more days' worth of meds! :thumbup:
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Yes I did, and I found a recent vial with three more days' worth of meds! :thumbup:
Are we related? I've been giving the PR and myself the prescribed Rx only. I'd mislaid our weekly pill box thingies. Found them this morning where PA had put something on top of them. Now it's full Rx and OTC forward.
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Got off that shit years ago :viking:
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Took mine this morning.
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I did indeed, including the lyrica today, as those nasty, shooting pains down my leg, courtesy of the botched surgery causing the neuropathy, decided to show up in force today.
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Yes
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I took mine a few minutes ago.
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I took mine a few minutes ago.
^This.
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yes
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Not yet, I just woke up and made coffee.
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Yes, finally.
I fell asleep on the couch without taking them but I took them a few minutes ago.
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jup.
* craves coffee, all of a sudden *
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jup.
* craves coffee, all of a sudden *
I have some right here, to follow the meds down my esophagus. :coffee:
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yes
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I took mine, eventually.
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I took mine, eventually.
You're supposed to take them on schedule, as directed. :police:
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AM and PM
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I took mine, eventually.
You're supposed to take them on schedule, as directed. :police:
Sowwy. :tard:
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I took mine, eventually.
You're supposed to take them on schedule, as directed. :police:
Sowwy. :tard:
Just don't let it happen again. You will now be monitored. :police:
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This thread reminded me to take them last night, but I forgot to post that I did.
:-[
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This thread reminded me to take them last night, but I forgot to post that I did.
:-[
But you took them, that's the important thing. :thumbup:
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I took mine, eventually.
You're supposed to take them on schedule, as directed. :police:
Sowwy. :tard:
Just don't let it happen again. You will now be monitored. :police:
:hide:
I took mine, I really did!
This thread reminded me to take them last night, but I forgot to post that I did.
:-[
But you took them, that's the important thing. :thumbup:
Don't trust her, Callaway, it's a trap! :o
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I took mine, eventually.
You're supposed to take them on schedule, as directed. :police:
Sowwy. :tard:
Just don't let it happen again. You will now be monitored. :police:
:hide:
I took mine, I really did!
This thread reminded me to take them last night, but I forgot to post that I did.
:-[
But you took them, that's the important thing. :thumbup:
Don't trust her, Callaway, it's a trap! :o
I'm so frightened.
:hide:
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Took mine today yea. :D
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The early morning ones a couple of hours ago. Other soon.
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I have taken mine, and will monitor odeon and Callaway to be sure they do too! :police:
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"Let your food be your medicine" - Hippocrates
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"Let your food be your medicine" - Hippocrates
Apparently my food makes me lack things. (Hip hip hurray for being a veggie)
Supplements make my skin a lot better.
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I have taken mine, and will monitor odeon and Callaway to be sure they do too! :police:
I took mine! I promise!
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oh yeah. I need to take the pm ones with food. like right now.
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Cumberdale has 666 karma. Always thought him a bit...satanic :P
Didn't GET most of my meds today. Was in hospital due to running out, and the docs being closed on a bank holiday, which caused a seizure.
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Cumberdale has 666 karma. Always thought him a bit...satanic :P
Didn't GET most of my meds today. Was in hospital due to running out, and the docs being closed on a bank holiday, which caused a seizure.
The PR has seizures when she doesn't take her meds as prescribed.
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I took my medicine.
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Yes.
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I think I took it. I'm not going to risk taking a second dose. :tard:
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Cumberdale has 666 karma. Always thought him a bit...satanic :P
I'm an angel .... really
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Cumberdale has 666 karma. Always thought him a bit...satanic :P
I'm an angel .... really
So was Lucifer.
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I think I took it. I'm not going to risk taking a second dose. :tard:
The scrutinizer needs surveillance?
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Cumberdale has 666 karma. Always thought him a bit...satanic :P
I'm an angel .... really
So was Lucifer.
Exactly :eyebrows:
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Cumberdale has 666 karma. Always thought him a bit...satanic :P
I'm an angel .... really
So was Lucifer.
Exactly :eyebrows:
I would plus you for that if you didn't already have 666.
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Took mine.
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Took mine too.
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Cumberdale has 666 karma. Always thought him a bit...satanic :P
I'm an angel .... really
So was Lucifer.
:evilplus: Ooooo BURN!
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I think I took it. I'm not going to risk taking a second dose. :tard:
The scrutinizer needs surveillance?
I need to start using my pill container with compartments for every day. :tard:
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Too early for today's meds. Too early to be awake! It's 3:09 a.m.! :GA:
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Too early for today's meds. Too early to be awake! It's 3:09 a.m.! :GA:
Have you ever tried a very strong cup of coffee, and then straight to bed, without any delay?
For some it works.
It has done so for me some times.
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I think I took it. I'm not going to risk taking a second dose. :tard:
The scrutinizer needs surveillance?
I need to start using my pill container with compartments for every day. :tard:
Start using that container this very day.
No procrastination on this young lady. :police:
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Had everything of my new routine.
Works really well. Past ten days, only one day that my face felt slightly sore.
Those ten days I realised how it had been hurting a lot, for a very long time, even after the improvement of skipping anti-biotics, and taking L-Lysine.
My eyes are free of inflammations. The cow is pleased with that.
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Had everything of my new routine.
Works really well. Past ten days, only one day that my face felt slightly sore.
Those ten days I realised how it had been hurting a lot, for a very long time, even after the improvement of skipping anti-biotics, and taking L-Lysine.
My eyes are free of inflammations. The cow is pleased with that.
I am happy for my favorite cow. It's great to find the right treatment plan! :hug:
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I did indeed take both my Strattera and my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Yes I did.
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I took mine a while ago.
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Took the crazy med but not the hyper med.
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Just took some lyrica (pregabalin)
Hopefully my hip will shut the fuck up soon. The neuropathy is really playing up something awful.
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Yes. And I doubled up on the pain and muscle spasm meds. The dosage is still within the prescribable range, meaning they make pills the strength of double the prescribed range.
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Took the pain meds.
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Yes, I took them.
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partly.
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partly.
What does that mean? Are you storing them in your cheeks? :zoinks:
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partly.
What does that mean? Are you storing them in your cheeks? :zoinks:
I am not a hamster. :M
Did not take the stuff that you have to take at least half an hour before, or two hours after a meal with proteins.
And, kind of have the munchies today, so, have not had that two hour time after a snack yet. :thumbdn:
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partly.
What does that mean? Are you storing them in your cheeks? :zoinks:
I am not a hamster. :M
Did not take the stuff that you have to take at least half an hour before, or two hours after a meal with proteins.
And, kind of have the munchies today, so, have not had that two hour time after a snack yet. :thumbdn:
Hmmm, have you been taking any ... other meds today? :stoned:
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Took my crazy meds, eventually.
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Yep. Just shot some oxy. Can't remember if I took my antiinflammatories, so I'm not going to take any today, Indomethacin isn't a drug you want to OD on. I'll just use some locally applied NSAID gel (felbinac gel)
I am in two minds, as to what to do first, having just woken up.
Two choices. One being to go to tesco/sainsbury's to buy some OTC morphine, the other, being to set up the lab, and purify some piperazine phosphate I have for a project, creating an AMPAkine nootropic drug that I have been studying up on in preparation for. Like most of the AMPAkine nootropics, they look very promising, show very little toxicity, but have had very, very few reports of human trials.
The one I am working on, DM-235, I can find no human trials for whatsoever.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12070754 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12070754)
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partly.
What does that mean? Are you storing them in your cheeks? :zoinks:
I am not a hamster. :M
Did not take the stuff that you have to take at least half an hour before, or two hours after a meal with proteins.
And, kind of have the munchies today, so, have not had that two hour time after a snack yet. :thumbdn:
Hmmm, have you been taking any ... other meds today? :stoned:
:laugh:
No, haven't done that in years.
Would be good though, most it does for me is relaxing my skin and muscles. And, increasing sensitivity in a nice way. I'm not that affected otherwise by it. Could do with that feeling of relaxation slowly overtaking me. * smiles at the thought *
Just had nervous munchies I think.
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Took the crazy meds and the painkillers.
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OOPS!
Thanks for reminding me.
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Took mine, plus cold medicine.
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OOPS!
Thanks for reminding me.
Well, well, well. Look who showed up.
Yes, everyone took their meds.
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Not yet. Don't stress me.
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Yes, but I have run out of my multivitamins. :duh:
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Yes and I will say that the anti-inflammatory med has made a difference in the various body aches I don't have now.
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Yes and I have knew reason to come back hear more often.
Again, thanks for caring.
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Took the crazy meds and the painkillers.
My so called "crazy meds" I can not take every day and I refuse any reason toward such a path. I am NOT depressed; I am obsessed and dis posessed with things chings dings and hings that no one understands.
I have to say, often, "None of me is about what you want!!"
Wish we could talk someday.
Hope you are well, Odeon.
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As well as I deserve to be, I think. It's good to see you around here, DD.
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I took them plus some cold medicine.
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Yes, I took the crazy meds.
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As well as I deserve to be, I think. It's good to see you around here, DD.
Good to have some time free to just be about.
... as far as "deserve" ...
... that is almost as horrible as "earn" or "work for"
There are several enslaving terms that I have a hard time coming to grips with, these days.
To respond directly, you have most likely earned and deserve more than you have.
... and thank you.
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Yes, just took them plus some cold medicine.
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Good to see you back DD.
Took my morning stuff.
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As well as I deserve to be, I think. It's good to see you around here, DD.
Good to have some time free to just be about.
... as far as "deserve" ...
... that is almost as horrible as "earn" or "work for"
There are several enslaving terms that I have a hard time coming to grips with, these days.
To respond directly, you have most likely earned and deserve more than you have.
... and thank you.
About the "deserved": I had a slight headache, stemming from being dehydrated which was all my fault. :)
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Yes.
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Yes, yes I did.
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But of course! Soon I will take my multivitamin as well. :thumbup:
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Yes, I did.
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Yes, I did.
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Yep.... I already did.... I hope -_-
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Hmm. Did I?
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I started my day with Prilosec OTC, which appears to help with my morning heartburn,
then took my Strattera, now I will take my almost-forgotten multivitamin! :tard:
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I started my day with Prilosec OTC, which appears to help with my morning heartburn,
then took my Strattera, now I will take my almost-forgotten multivitamin! :tard:
I used to have terrible heartburn 3 or 4 times a week. It disappeared completely my second week of being vegan and hasn't come back since. I was kind of surprised as I keep reading about all these people curing their health problems this way, but didn't actually expect results as I am a pessimist at heart.
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I started my day with Prilosec OTC, which appears to help with my morning heartburn,
then took my Strattera, now I will take my almost-forgotten multivitamin! :tard:
I used to have terrible heartburn 3 or 4 times a week. It disappeared completely my second week of being vegan and hasn't come back since. I was kind of surprised as I keep reading about all these people curing their health problems this way, but didn't actually expect results as I am a pessimist at heart.
I do eat a lot of awful fatty food and am quite fat at this time. I can do better! :viking:
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Yes
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Took the crazy meds and the uppers.
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Most of it, I think.
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Yes.
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:headbang2: Yes.
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Prilosec OTC is my new bestest friend. Strattera is jealous. :autism:
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Did.
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yes
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Yes.
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Took the crazy meds and the uppers.
Don't say "uppers" to your doctor, you will get frowned at. :P
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I have taken the Prilosec and the Strattera, and will now add the multivitamin. 8)
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Took the crazy meds and the uppers.
Don't say "uppers" to your doctor, you will get frowned at. :P
But "crazy meds" will pass unnoticed? :-\
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And yes, I think I took my meds.
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I really love Prilosec. Just thought I'd say so in case anybody missed it earlier. :autism:
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I really love Prilosec. Just thought I'd say so in case anybody missed it earlier. :autism:
Sorry, say again? :zoinks:
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I took my meds last night.
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I took the prescribed dosage of my meds
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Yes, took them.
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Yes, including the weekly one.
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I think I forgot the multivitamin, I'll take that now! :orly:
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I almost forgot my morning meds, had to go back home and take them
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Yes, which is why I haven't slept. Had a bad reaction. Still lingering effects.
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I took mine last night.
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Yes.
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Yes, I took mine.
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Took the crazy meds and the uppers.
Don't say "uppers" to your doctor, you will get frowned at. :P
But "crazy meds" will pass unnoticed? :-\
I am not sure, heh.
I took mine this morning. Am taking less dexamphetamine today.
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I took them last night.
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Yes
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Yes, I took them this morning.
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I took mine very late today! I had an episode of vertigo and felt slightly nauseated,
so I went back to bed and slept till 11:30 a.m., which I NEVER do, then took the meds.
I guess I needed the sleep. I hope I don't have more vertigo. :sick:
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I have not taken them yet, but I'm just about to take them now.
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yes.
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Yes.
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Yes
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I've been a good little girl and taken my meds.
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Yup
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Yes.
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:2thumbsup:
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Not yet. It's Saturday and I'm not taking the uppers today, only the crazy meds.
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Yes!
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Prilosec OTC, Strattera and multivitamin, all down the hatch! :thumbup:
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:thumbup:
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I took them last night.
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Yes.
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No, and I ate about half an hour ago (meds should be taken with food), whoops. I will get up and take them now.
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Yes, I did.
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Not yet.
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Just now
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And I did. Eventually. Almost forgot.
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And again for the evening meds. Found out I'd not been taking the med for my arthritis which would explain why the burning and flutters have returned. The back is okay though.
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Skipped them today
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Yes.
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Just did.
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Getting up now, to start the routine. :P
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Yes
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:thumbup:
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Not yet :-\
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So far, yes
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Don't have any, but sure would enjoy a Xanax about now.
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I did. Now focussing on beer.
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Yes, Mother.
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Don't have any, but sure would enjoy a Xanax about now.
Hope you are ok.
I didn't take all my dexamphetamine like I had planned, but I feel ok without.
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:pwned1: I don't take meds....
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:pwned1: I don't take meds....
Yet... :mischief:
Stick around here long enough and you'll probably end up needing some :GA:
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:rofl:
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I took my Prilosec and Strattera earlier, and have just added the multivitamin. :thumbup:
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I took mine. :)
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Yes
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:pwned1: I don't take meds....
Pussy.
PA takes 10 Rx and OTC for a total of 12 pills and 3 eyedrops a day.
The PR takes 9 Rx and OTC for a total of 16 pills a day and a quarterly shot.
I take 11 Rx and OTC for a total of 15 pills a day and 1 pill a week.
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I feel so inferior. I only take the uppers and the crazy meds. And some painkillers, every now and then. And the asthma meds.
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Yeah...cos more meds is a good thing... :GA: :dunno: :facepalm2:
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Exactly. Can you feel the love from Big Brother? :P
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:tv: :apondering:
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Haven't taken mine yet.
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Did.
And had some wine yesterday. :green:
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I didn't realise I take 16 pills a day. Edronax is the worst, smells and tastes terrible. I don't recommend chewing dexamphetamine either.
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I take between 13 and 15 pills per day.
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I did, eventually.
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yes
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Yes.
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No meds to take ....
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Fantastic contribution.
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yes
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Yes.
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yeah of course - I love my meds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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no
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no
Why not?
I took mine after breakfast.
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Just did. Part of my morning ritual.
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Nearly done.
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I have taken my Strattera and will soon take my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Just took mine a little while ago.
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Yes
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Yes, I just took mine.
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Taking a multivitamin now, just to be safe.
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Nope
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Taking a multivitamin now, just to be safe.
I am a great believer in multivitamins! Time for mine! :thumbup:
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Nope
I mean yep. Forgot that I did.
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Yes, I took mine.
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One more to go, then I am done for the morning ones.
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Yes I did, I took some of my new batch of Strattera! :thumbup:
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Yes
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Took strong painkillers for the headache. No joy.
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Just took the evening ones.
Have a complaint - the chemist I went to last time wrote on my script that my meds had been dispensed twice instead of once. Which means my script won't last as long and I will have to go to the doctor early for a new script which will cost me. Seriously, that chemist sucks and I will try not to go there again.
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I took the meds but forgot my multivitamin. I'll take it now. :thumbup:
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I forgot to take them before I fell asleep on the couch last night, but I took them this morning.
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Not the uppers, just the crazy meds.
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Done.
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I took the morning ones. I'm skipping the evening ones and substituted a beer instead. Odeon is a wise teacher.
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Since it's after 10, I decided to take the evening meds and add a muscle relaxant and a pain pill since I know my legs will give me fits tonight. They usually do when I'm overtired.
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I took them.
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No, I just woke up.
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Why, yes, yes I did! Thank you for asking! :toporly:
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I took them, eventually.
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I only took my weekly med since it's the day for it. Won't take anything else until tomorrow morning since my sleep cycle is all turned around.
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I just took mine.
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yes
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Yes, I did.
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Yes. Asthma meds, too.
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Not yet.
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Took eye drops for the allergy. :GA:
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Yes. The PR, however has continued on her hit and miss ways and had a seizure at the bowling alley. She is now officially off having the primary responsibility for taking her meds. Master Sergeant Mom is now in charge.
And yes, they are all laid out for the week, this time in twice daily prescription bottles. This makes it easier for her to swallow them ALL, without some ending up on the floor in the transfer from the hand to the mouth.
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Just took mine. :2thumbsup:
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Yes I did, now I must take my multivitamin to keep up my strength! :viking:
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Yes, and the PR as well.
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Yes, I took them a few minutes ago.
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No, I forgot. Going to do it now.
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Yes.
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Yes, I did.
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Yes, I just did.
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Yup.
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I've forgotten
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Yes.
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some
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all, so far.
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Yes but no
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Yes
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Just did. Refilled my medicine cabinet yesterday.
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forgot one, I think.
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No, I didn't. Well, slightly..I did shoot up an oxycontin, but I need to take my anti inflammatory, after I have eaten, NSAIDs are not friendly to the GI tract, and indomethacin is known to be a particularly nasty one in that respect. Need to take some tizanidine also, to stop me having problems with myoclonus.
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They're about to be ingested
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I did take my meds.
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forgot al of it.
Will take now what can be taken now.
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Yes I did.
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Almost back on track.
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Yes
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I did. :pirateship:
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Just about to
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Time for the multivitamin! Mustn't forget! :orly:
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Yes, I did.
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Yes, I took them.
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No. I haven't got any. I have to wait until tomorrow. Got an appointment with my doc at 10.20 to get a new script.
Taken 250mg of 5-(2-aminopropyl)indole, up the nose, might take some 6-APB also, depending on how the 5-IT feels. I don't want anything overstimulating; but it should make me nice and alert for the lab work I have to do. Getting ready to do a LAH reduction, if I can find my argon tank and some dry tetrahydrofuran, going to reduce some 2,5-dimethoxyphenyl-4-methyl-beta-nitrostyrene, the precursor nitrostyrene to one of Shulgin's inventions, 2C-D. Something I've wanted to try for quite some time. I'm way overdue for a good trip out in the woods to do a psychological cleansing and reboot.
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No, not yet.
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Yes, I did.
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I'm waiting impatiently for today to blasted well be over, so I can go get my new rx.
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I did, eventually.
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Skipped the a.m ones. The p.m. ones are right in front of me.
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aye
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Not sure I took the crazy meds today. For some reason my routines aren't working.
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Yes
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Yes, I made sure I took them all.
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Yes, I took them.
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Yes. Almost forgot, though.
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Yes I did.
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Yes. I have been through a living fucking hell on earth for the last 4 days or so. Had a myoclonic seizure, causing my knee collapse, and worse, it was right near a cupboard full of lab glass, with a sharp edged piece of thin wood for a door. Luckily I didn't break any of my most treasured possessions, but basically sliced my face to shreds. Ambulance was called, and paramedics arrived, taking me to hospital. I should have had a doc appt to get a new script, and I missed it thanks to them. I had almost no food, or drink, for days, in a brightly lit hospital full of docs, nurses etc. who know fuck all about spesh people. Had a grand total of 2mg lorazepam on intake, to help calm down the withdrawal from a mixture of chlormethiazole, two benzodiazepines, 120mg of oxycodone a day (a pretty strong opioid painkiller, most as oxycontin. and the rest as oxynorm 10mg caps, instant release oxycodone)....plus a randomish amount of codeine, oral morphine now and then when I could be bothered buying some, as its OTC here in the UK, so when I fancy a bit of a treat, I'll buy some, although not daily. I also drink a bit of opium poppy tea, when pods are in season and I can harvest my crop. (tastes absofuckinglutely HIDEOUS, and smells so bad that I almost relch at the slightest whiff of the stench it gives off. I actually prepare it on the stove, wearing a gas mask (which the paramedics ruined the filter cartridge of, searching for drugs...split it open, destroying it totally beyond hope of repair. Fucking pricks, speaking of drugs, took with them a bunch of my rx meds, and several 6-(2-aminopropyl)-indole pills. Havent got them back yet. Narrowly missed 20g of methoxetamine too, a deschloroketamine/PCE/PCP analog. Well, minus the couple of grams I'd already shot up.
That would have proved VERY expensive had they stole it, at least if I couldn't have got it back. Hopefully I'll be able to get the 5-(2-aminopropyl)indole back. They missed the 100mg each of 4-methoxy-PCP and 3-methoxy-PCP, as well as a positional isomer of AMT, and a gram each of AMT base and 5-methoxy-n,n-diallyltryptamine base.
Would have been at least £300 to replace all that. probably more. at most, maybe £400.
Not something I could afford at once.
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Missed Wed and Thurs morning pills. took the pm ones.
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Yep. Just took the morning ones. 40mg oxycontin, 250mcg clonidine, 100mg each of lyrica and indomethacin, 30mg baclofen, took a 50mg dose of my former devilslut housemate's lamotrigine rx (an anticonvulsant). Along with a nice big fat breakfast :) Oh boy, was I ever hungry. I've been crowbegotten starving after my hospital stay and their stingy bastards who thought keeping hold of every last drop of tea, hot chocolate and even once I supplied my OWN teabags from home, they treated me as greedy for wanting a bit of hot water and a bit of sugar. Hell, I even had my old man bring me some sugar from home, and asked only for hot water. How is that greedy?
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yes
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Just the crazy meds.
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Yes.
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I've been more missing them than hitting them this week.
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Yes, all of them.
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Morning ones yes, aside from the corticosteroid spray, just about to use that. Its working a treat bringing down the swelling in my nose.
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Yes
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Had the first bit. Next will follow soon.
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Yes.
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Just shot an OC 40. About to try and find an ancient rx I have for some muscle relaxants (baclofen) as I have a cramp in my left calf. Its from the early 2000s, 2k2-2k4 or thereabouts, but I never saw any point in throwing a rx-only script away, after all, I was bound to get cramp again at some time. Works ok as a sleep aid also, nothing fantastic but not too bad.
Also just had my antiinflammatory, an antihistamine (fexofenadine, a long-acting nonsedating one, I HATE sedating antihistamines, this works well for countering itching that comes as a side effect of my oxy. Sedating antihistamines just make me feel shitty, tired and unable to rest, impair concentration and memory)
All thats left right now is a corticosteroid nasal spray to bring the swelling down from whacking my nose repeatedly during those seizures, and the one I usually use, a xylometazoline/oxymetazoline spray (actually I use it as a dropper, the dispenser is more convenient than the actual dropper type dispenser, a squeezy bottle rather than an annoying small bottle and pipette that its never possible to get the last bit out), to prevent the clonidine I'm on from causing nasal congestion.
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Just the crazy meds.
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first bit
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Just took my OC and clonidine (well half way through taking them, I always add more water after cooking up the OC to get out all I can). Still need my steroid spray thingy and my nasal decongestant.
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I don't take meds on a regular basis, but I took 10mg of amytryptilin to see if the reflux symtoms will decrease. The doc I was at a few days ago is one of the world experts on this, and he said that it is nothing to worry about, but it's incredibly irritating. Amytryptilin might help.
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I'm stopping my anti-inflammatory for my arthritis. One of the side effects is extreme fatigue and sleepiness. I've been sleeping 12 to 14 hours a day recently. I'm switching to a smaller dose of an OTC medicine for a while.
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What antiinflammatory are you on yer' highness?
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I took 10mg of amitryptilin again. Will probably take 1mg of flunitrazepam later :angel:
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Not a common benzo. Is it used regularly in your country? potent stuff.
I've had nitrazepam scripts before, probably my favourite benzo, long lasting, potent, but not TOO long lasting. I prefer a non-benzo called chlormethiazole though, odd stuff, comes in capsules of liquid freebase, which smells really funky if it gets out. And get out it does. Melts plastic bottles with the fumes that come off them if its dispensed in a bottle that isn't glass.
Acts more like a barbiturate (which I have experience of. Heavy duty stuff) than a benzodiazepine.
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No, it is not regularly used here anymore. It was some decades ago.
I do have pretty heavy prescriptions on diazepam from time to time though.
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Not a big fan of diazepam, its too weak. Takes me an entire box of the stuff to even feel it.
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What antiinflammatory are you on yer' highness?
Meloxicam, generic Mobic. My sleep cycle is shot to hell and beyond, probably since PA's surgery in December. I'm going back on the Meloxicam and will try eye shades since we have a night light on in the bedroom to help PA maneuver. Perhaps that's why I'm not falling asleep easily.
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I've tried it, didn't help much, was put on it for a while after I half fell/half jumped off a railway bridge. Got chased by a massive pack of pikey vermin that came suddenly steaming out of a bar I was headed for, looking for the first person in sight to...well..probably beat the snot out of.
So I legged it, and hopped over what I THOUGHT was a wall. Only it wasn't. It was a railway bridge with a 30 foot drop into a bloody great bramble patch on the other side.
NOT a fun experience I dare say.
Oddly...I only took one of my oxycontin today. I should take two, but I haven't noticed any sign of withdrawal even though I popped my first one at something like 8am, its nearly 12 PM. Although my leg and ankle are hurting pretty badly, so I think I'll crush one up and..err...plug it :P
Just took my OC, and 0.5mg of clonidine (adrenal blocker of sorts) with it. That should be a lot better after it kicks in :)
And I think I'm going to take a couple of my old baclofen rx. Its years old, but still nothing wrong with it. Its a muscle relaxant, I kept my old rx, and added my former housemate's rx that was left behind when I kicked her to the curb and told her never fucking come back. Got hundreds of baclofen pills still, so I've been taking them to help deal with the constant cramp I have in my calf. Bloody constant it is, never just fucks off for a few hours and leaves me alone.
Gah..I could, for once, do with a stimulant to help me keep awake all night, I need to study the highway code as much as possible, in preparation for my driving lesson tomorrow. Switching from a manual to an automatic for my lessons. Instructor thinks its better, as all he had to go on, was my first lesson, which was JUST after coming out of hospital twice after those damn myoclonic episodes. Massively overloaded, had no meds for days (and did they help with that? buggery did they while I was in there, just gave me an oxy script when I actually LEFT the place!
My motor coordination was absolutely shot to shit, was recovering from such a huge overload. Hospitals always do that, but after 2 seizures, my brain felt like it had been kept in a cement mixer full of REALLY pissed off kraits for a week. Add that to my knee constantly collapsing, and one gets the absolute worst possible time ever to have a first driving lesson.
Switching to an automatic will give me one less thing to worry about, changing gear is less to think about, easier to concentrate on getting a decent pedestrian body count that way:D
No uppers available though at the moment apart from caffeine which doesn't agree too well. The pigs still have some of my lab supplies, along with my guns at the moment, although I will get them back, from when they raided the place on a fishing expedition with a blatantly illegal warrant, and there is 100mg of desoxypipradrol in there, in a small bottle of 1mg/1ml solution dissolved in 35% ethanol (I think thats the EtOH concentration anyhow).
It would be JUST what I need right now, a long acting (in the case of desoxy, a VERY long acting), quite selective dopamine reuptake inhibitor, it does have some noradrenergic action, but IIRC the Ki (measure of binding affinity) for the dopamine transporter is twice as low (lower number for a Ki value means tighter binding for the target) at DAT as it is for NET (noradrenaline transporter). Something like 0.25mg of desoxy would be perfect for hyperfocussed studying.
As it is, I think I will brew a jug of poppy pod tea, I find that pretty stimulating, but not at all rough like classical uppers are, just helps me focus my attention, and will help with my bad leg to boot. If I can work up the guts to overcome that filthy taste and the 'Oh my bloody christ' stench that goes with it. My stomach wants to heave just thinking about it.
Got a nice batch of pods that have been drying for a week or so. Fresh ones, straight from the plant, are the most disgusting, fully dried poppy straw actually doesn't taste of much at all...just sort of musty, slightly like dried hay, although bitter due to the alkaloid content, which has to be covered up with lots and lots of sugar.
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What antiinflammatory are you on yer' highness?
Meloxicam, generic Mobic. My sleep cycle is shot to hell and beyond, probably since PA's surgery in December. I'm going back on the Meloxicam and will try eye shades since we have a night light on in the bedroom to help PA maneuver. Perhaps that's why I'm not falling asleep easily.
That's what I'm taking for my knee now, but it doesn't make me sleepy at all.
I was taking OTC Naproxyn Sodium at near prescription levels, but I was getting more bruises than an overripe peach and I don't bruise so easily on Meloxicam.
I just took all the meds, BTW.
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Yes.
(Tried the sleep mask last night + a pain pill because I could tell my legs were going to be restless. Slept quite well.)
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I too, find a blindfold to bee a good sleep aid. Have you considered earplugs for a better sensory blackout still; queen V?
I find they help, although they are a sod to take out. I keep a haemostat on the bookshelf that runs between my bedside and the wall to get the earplugs out. Can't do it with my fingers.
Taken my meds plus some of my leftovers from previous scripts for the muscle relaxer baclofen and for pregabalin/lyrica, thanks to driving giving me a whole bunch of cramps in my legs and a right royal bugger of a sore back :( they have helped, but I do fancy a couple of large cups of vodka.
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What antiinflammatory are you on yer' highness?
Meloxicam, generic Mobic. My sleep cycle is shot to hell and beyond, probably since PA's surgery in December. I'm going back on the Meloxicam and will try eye shades since we have a night light on in the bedroom to help PA maneuver. Perhaps that's why I'm not falling asleep easily.
My mother has now installed a movement sensitive light under the bed. The moment my dad gets his feet out of bed, a light will shine over the floor. It will not lighten the entire room. And, it will switch off after a set time again. It does make moving safe for him, and sleeping an option for her.
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Took part of what I should have taken.
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Took the crazy meds.
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I took all of mine.
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Not yet.
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Yes, I took them a while ago.
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I'm not in that part of my morning routine yet.
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Roger, that.
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I did, eventually.
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Got a ritalin prescription today.
Pharmacy had to order it, so, it will be in after the weekend.
Am curious.
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Got a ritalin prescription today.
Pharmacy had to order it, so, it will be in after the weekend.
Am curious.
Good luck with it. It's brilliant when ou get the dosage right.
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Got a ritalin prescription today.
Pharmacy had to order it, so, it will be in after the weekend.
Am curious.
Good luck with it. It's brilliant when ou get the dosage right.
I'm starting with a low dosage. Follow up, week after starting.
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Got a ritalin prescription today.
Pharmacy had to order it, so, it will be in after the weekend.
Am curious.
Good luck with it. It's brilliant when ou get the dosage right.
I'm starting with a low dosage. Follow up, week after starting.
Everyone starts with a low dosage. The tricky part comes when you build up a tolerance to the stuff (which can happen pretty fast) and take a break. But I maintain it's just brilliant if your mind is all over the place.
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Got a ritalin prescription today.
Pharmacy had to order it, so, it will be in after the weekend.
Am curious.
Good luck with it. It's brilliant when ou get the dosage right.
I'm starting with a low dosage. Follow up, week after starting.
Everyone starts with a low dosage. The tricky part comes when you build up a tolerance to the stuff (which can happen pretty fast) and take a break. But I maintain it's just brilliant if your mind is all over the place.
And that is what I am hoping for indeed.
I also like the idea of being able to have my mind wandering all over in the weekends.
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Got a ritalin prescription today.
Pharmacy had to order it, so, it will be in after the weekend.
Am curious.
Good luck with it. It's brilliant when ou get the dosage right.
I'm starting with a low dosage. Follow up, week after starting.
Everyone starts with a low dosage. The tricky part comes when you build up a tolerance to the stuff (which can happen pretty fast) and take a break. But I maintain it's just brilliant if your mind is all over the place.
And that is what I am hoping for indeed.
I also like the idea of being able to have my mind wandering all over in the weekends.
Might be a good idea to have two prescriptions--my first day or two after a break are 20mg while the subsequent ones are 30mg.
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Got a ritalin prescription today.
Pharmacy had to order it, so, it will be in after the weekend.
Am curious.
Good luck with it. It's brilliant when ou get the dosage right.
I'm starting with a low dosage. Follow up, week after starting.
Everyone starts with a low dosage. The tricky part comes when you build up a tolerance to the stuff (which can happen pretty fast) and take a break. But I maintain it's just brilliant if your mind is all over the place.
And that is what I am hoping for indeed.
I also like the idea of being able to have my mind wandering all over in the weekends.
Might be a good idea to have two prescriptions--my first day or two after a break are 20mg while the subsequent ones are 30mg.
She's having me started at three times 5 mg a day. And, wants me to have them every day for a while, to get a proper 'feel' for what it does. Next week she will very likely increase the dosage. By the time she thinks I know what it does, and have got the right dosage, I'll be free to "play" with it in terms of taking days off, she said.
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Got a ritalin prescription today.
Pharmacy had to order it, so, it will be in after the weekend.
Am curious.
Good luck with it. It's brilliant when ou get the dosage right.
I'm starting with a low dosage. Follow up, week after starting.
Everyone starts with a low dosage. The tricky part comes when you build up a tolerance to the stuff (which can happen pretty fast) and take a break. But I maintain it's just brilliant if your mind is all over the place.
And that is what I am hoping for indeed.
I also like the idea of being able to have my mind wandering all over in the weekends.
Might be a good idea to have two prescriptions--my first day or two after a break are 20mg while the subsequent ones are 30mg.
She's having me started at three times 5 mg a day. And, wants me to have them every day for a while, to get a proper 'feel' for what it does. Next week she will very likely increase the dosage. By the time she thinks I know what it does, and have got the right dosage, I'll be free to "play" with it in terms of taking days off, she said.
Sounds like a good idea. Cos you will be needing days off.
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Got a ritalin prescription today.
Pharmacy had to order it, so, it will be in after the weekend.
Am curious.
Good luck with it. It's brilliant when ou get the dosage right.
I'm starting with a low dosage. Follow up, week after starting.
Everyone starts with a low dosage. The tricky part comes when you build up a tolerance to the stuff (which can happen pretty fast) and take a break. But I maintain it's just brilliant if your mind is all over the place.
And that is what I am hoping for indeed.
I also like the idea of being able to have my mind wandering all over in the weekends.
Might be a good idea to have two prescriptions--my first day or two after a break are 20mg while the subsequent ones are 30mg.
She's having me started at three times 5 mg a day. And, wants me to have them every day for a while, to get a proper 'feel' for what it does. Next week she will very likely increase the dosage. By the time she thinks I know what it does, and have got the right dosage, I'll be free to "play" with it in terms of taking days off, she said.
Sounds like a good idea. Cos you will be needing days off.
The guy I spoke to before meeting the doctor said he had different types of clients. Some needed breaks, some needed taking it all the time. He agreed with me that the positive thing of Ritalin was that breaks were an option.
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Yes, that's what my doctor says, too. Some patients take it every day while others need a break every now and then.
Took mine today.
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Yes. Also just took an antacid tablet for the nausea. We don't have any nausea medicine in the house.
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I am indeed compliant with my medication routine. :angel:
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Most of them. Still got to take one of my oxycontin, and 0.25mg clonidine before I go to bed. Not sure when that will be though. And this synthetic herb smoke 'black mamba' stuff is helping nicely with my sore knee.
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Just about to. My hip and knee are killing me.
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Yes
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Just took the crazy meds.
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I have taken my Strattera and will soon take my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Yes.
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Just took the crazy meds.
Are those the ones that talk to themselves and think you're out to swallow them?
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Just took the crazy meds.
Are those the ones that talk to themselves and think you're out to swallow them?
Those aren't the crazy ones. They know it's going to happen.
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Just taken my morning dose of oxy, shot with 3/4mg IM clonidine, hopefully that should stop the damn cramp in my left calf. Its been there for months and comes back again no matter what I try :(
Needed that, my knee has been playing up a lot of late. I'll take my antiinflammatory (indomethacin) when I have got out of bed and had something to eat, it needs taking with food to prevent it causing GI tract troubles.
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Yup, I'm now on Ritalin.
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Ritalin forte est :viking:
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Moooooooohh. :hyke:
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And what do you think about it?
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I think it is doing something. Seem to procrastinate a little less, but, who knows, I may just have a good day today.
The shutting down of my brain was later in the evening than it usually is.
But, one day, what does one day mean?
Also wonder what the effect is of dividing my day in strict 4 hour blocks. That is a defining of time that I do not usually have that strict. Could create an effect too.
Will see how it is, after a whole week. :nerdy:
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Had to check, but yes I did.
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Yes I did, and I'm almost due for a refill! :apondering:
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The evening ones are right in front of me.
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Gah....1.5 hours until I am due for a refill myself.
Well...no..I am fucking OVERdue. And I am fucked off about it to boot. I want to go and slam some oxy, then go and sort my backpack out, fill it with bottles of coke and chow, some carrier bags, and my mushroom field-guides, then go for a good LONG walk. One that I won't come back from until way after dark, to a frying pan, some bacon, bread and butter.
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I think it is doing something. Seem to procrastinate a little less, but, who knows, I may just have a good day today.
The shutting down of my brain was later in the evening than it usually is.
But, one day, what does one day mean?
Also wonder what the effect is of dividing my day in strict 4 hour blocks. That is a defining of time that I do not usually have that strict. Could create an effect too.
Will see how it is, after a whole week. :nerdy:
Do you have the time-released version?
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I'm really, REALLY not a fan of the XR version at all. Concerta blows IMO.
Needed extraction in my experience with it to be pleasant. But that said I do not like stimulants in general really.
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yes
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I think it is doing something. Seem to procrastinate a little less, but, who knows, I may just have a good day today.
The shutting down of my brain was later in the evening than it usually is.
But, one day, what does one day mean?
Also wonder what the effect is of dividing my day in strict 4 hour blocks. That is a defining of time that I do not usually have that strict. Could create an effect too.
Will see how it is, after a whole week. :nerdy:
Do you have the time-released version?
No, regular version.
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I like the time-released one. It works better for me.
And Lestat--I love Concerta but it gives me breathing problems. Some non-essential component in it, says my doctor.
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Yes, finally.
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I like the time-released one. It works better for me.
And Lestat--I love Concerta but it gives me breathing problems. Some non-essential component in it, says my doctor.
So, you are hoping for a generic brand version, without said non-essential component?
Non-essential components can be truly dangerous, for some people.
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Yes, definitely the case for some people. For instance, there seems to be lactose in almost everything, and quite a lot of people are lactose intolerant. Not dangerous, but certainly not pleasant either, and for those people, it must be tricky finding ANY meds that are usable.
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Yes, definitely the case for some people. For instance, there seems to be lactose in almost everything, and quite a lot of people are lactose intolerant. Not dangerous, but certainly not pleasant either, and for those people, it must be tricky finding ANY meds that are usable.
Have seen someone with an allergic reaction on non-essential components in chemotherapy twice. Not nice at all.
For one it was "just" utterly painful, all the nerve-endings kinda burned. She was in agony.
Other man, nearly died, because of the reaction. He had to get a different kind of chemo, with more side-effects, and less effective, but, without that bloody component.
I took my meds today, btw.
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I like the time-released one. It works better for me.
And Lestat--I love Concerta but it gives me breathing problems. Some non-essential component in it, says my doctor.
I would like it if I had that option but most time release things don't seem to work for me, they tend to just dump the full dose at one time.
Took my morning ones
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Yes
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I have tried Ritalin but I felt zombified on it so I never even tried Concerta. I think that is really expensive anyway. There is no extended release version of Dexamphetamine here. The only other option we have here is Strattera and I am already taking something that is supposedly similar to it, reboxetine.
Took my morning ones.
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I like the time-released one. It works better for me.
And Lestat--I love Concerta but it gives me breathing problems. Some non-essential component in it, says my doctor.
So, you are hoping for a generic brand version, without said non-essential component?
Non-essential components can be truly dangerous, for some people.
I have Ritalin. It doesn't have the nasty side effects, for some reason.
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Odeon - do you have to adjust the timing of your meds since you're in Canada?
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I have tried Ritalin but I felt zombified on it so I never even tried Concerta. I think that is really expensive anyway. There is no extended release version of Dexamphetamine here. The only other option we have here is Strattera and I am already taking something that is supposedly similar to it, reboxetine.
Took my morning ones.
Concerta and Ritalin are both ridiculously expensive here.
Strattera is cheaper but it completely fucks me up.
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Odeon - do you have to adjust the timing of your meds since you're in Canada?
Yes, but the meds are jet-lagged and can't sleep.
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I have tried Ritalin but I felt zombified on it so I never even tried Concerta. I think that is really expensive anyway. There is no extended release version of Dexamphetamine here. The only other option we have here is Strattera and I am already taking something that is supposedly similar to it, reboxetine.
Took my morning ones.
Concerta and Ritalin are both ridiculously expensive here.
Strattera is cheaper but it completely fucks me up.
The generic brand of Methylphenidate is more than 8 times cheaper than Concerta here. And Strattera is even more expensive than Concerta, what I can find.
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Yes. I'm hoping the day comes when I don't need my fucking meds.
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Yes
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Yes, but I almost forgot.
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Yes.
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Yes, I did.
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I have taken my Strattera and will now take my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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No.
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Yes.
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I was going to say that I'll take the evening ones in a few moments, when I realized I'd taken them already. :facepalm2:
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Taking your meds twice is BRAVE. :arrr:
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Taking your meds twice is BRAVE. :arrr:
If you take too many meds you might experience side effects. :baked:
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I took them last night, but I haven't taken them today yet.
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Taking your meds twice is BRAVE. :arrr:
If you take too many meds you might experience side effects. :baked:
Which is why it's BRAVE! :arrr:
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Taking your meds twice is BRAVE. :arrr:
If you take too many meds you might experience side effects. :baked:
Which is why it's BRAVE! :arrr:
And then you need medical help, which is even BRAVER! :nurse:
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Taking your meds twice is BRAVE. :arrr:
If you take too many meds you might experience side effects. :baked:
Which is why it's BRAVE! :arrr:
And then you need medical help, which is even BRAVER! :nurse:
Or just spend the night in the loo. ;D
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Taking your meds twice is BRAVE. :arrr:
If you take too many meds you might experience side effects. :baked:
Which is why it's BRAVE! :arrr:
And then you need medical help, which is even BRAVER! :nurse:
Or just spend the night in the loo. ;D
That's not BRAVE, though. :fos: It's just painful!
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Anyway, I didn't take my meds today, in case anyone missed that. :P
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Anyway, I didn't take my meds today, in case anyone missed that. :P
You seem to be functioning fine without them! :insane:
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The day is way too young, to have taken any meds yet.
Anyway, I didn't take my meds today, in case anyone missed that. :P
Is that because you are abroad?
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All gone and accounted for.
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I took mine, minus the Meloxicam.
I can't take Meloxicam because of the upcoming surgery.
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Pursuaded a doc to give me double the oxy and clonidine i usually get.
Got home, and slammed 6x40mg oxy IV, and a few 25mcg clonidine pills rectally.
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The day is way too young, to have taken any meds yet.
Anyway, I didn't take my meds today, in case anyone missed that. :P
Is that because you are abroad?
Yup. My routines are off. I kept forgetting.
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Pursuaded a doc to give me double the oxy and clonidine i usually get.
Got home, and slammed 6x40mg oxy IV, and a few 25mcg clonidine pills rectally.
I conned a medical professional into giving me drugs I don't need so I could slam them in my arm and up my ass. No, I'm not a junkie. This is just a hobby of mine :M
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I didn't exactly con them, I just had to pursuade the bugger to give me enough pain meds. Docs here in the UK are really over-conservative when it comes to opioids. My knee and my hip are getting a lot worse, as is the myoclonus problem that I have. The latter has caused seizures, and caused me to have a bad accident that resulted in me slicing my arm open in several places, three VERY narrowly missing tearing open an artery.
The clonidine I take is actually intended for suppressing overloads, does a great job, as well as helps me have a regular sleep pattern (which is otherwise all over the bloody place, random wake/sleep cycle and insomnia, sometimes I went without sleep for days at a time before I got on it)
But it also helps lessen the myoclonic jerking, and while on it, I've not had any fits.
Without my oxy, I am more or less housebound these days, often stuck lying on my good side, able to do nothing much but read, and use the computer, although I need a whole load of pillows and cushions on my chair so as to be able to sit down without feeling like I'm having red hot nails hammered into my hip, and my knee repeatedly stamped on.
When I went to town recently, on my pain meds, I actually thought I was going to get literally stuck there. Got so bad that I had to sit down and rest every few steps. All because the docs here are so fucking frit to give enough pain meds to anybody. Cancer patients do fine on that score, or people involved in traumatic accidents that have to have big pieces of debris pulled out of their bodies.
But other pain, no matter how severe, it took me YEARS of fighting to get on the dose of oxy I am on. Docs tried to give me just codeine, and then dihydrocodeine, which are just WAY too weak to do much. I could swallow an entire box of DHC, or take the maximum dose of codeine possible (the liver can only process 400-500mg at a time, depending on the individual and their personal enzymatic makeup in the liver dept.)
They do help, a little, better than nothing at all, but its completely impossible to get an adequate level of pain relief from either. Add to that the relatively short duration of action of DHC, it resulted in me going into withdrawal due to the peaks and troughs created in plasma levels as it was metabolized, even while taking it just as prescribed.
Thankfully I have an appt with a specialist pain clinic soon. Hopefully they won't be wet behind the ears when it comes to actually starting appropriate treatment.
On what I get now, I am always struggling just to get by. Having to resort to IVing the things sometimes in preparation for going out. I'm 26, and have to walk with a staff, or cane. I should not have to put up with being mostly confined to the house, able to manage walking to the shops but not much further. That is no life. All because the docs are too afraid to step up and do what is needed.
It isn't like I am about to overdose, I've studied opioid SAR extensively, I know the properties of most opioids, including plenty the docs will never have even heard of. I know enough not to turn blue and be found on the floor in the morning.
So whats worse? the possibility of...not sure what they are worried about actually. Whatever it is, weighed against a young guy, who is, unless he actually goes to the extent of shaving a quarter off his OCs, building them up, until I have a little spare, just so I can do the things I enjoy in life instead of being confined indoors, lying on my bed, with a pillow between my knees like an old, old man.
So yes, I am going to do anything and everything I can, to ensure that I get enough meds. I'm not asking them for a whole fucking ton of fentanyl or something. Just enough of a painkiller or painkillers to have a decent, free life, where every single step doesn't send lightening bolts of white hot agony through my leg and hip.
I dread having a cough for instance. If I cough, the sudden recoil is really damn painful. Even taking a shite hurts my hip.
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Yes, I took my meds.
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I took mine.
Think I need to have a talk about upping the dosage of the methylphenidate, next time I see the doctor. For now, it is OK, but, holidays don't last forever. Also feels like I am getting used to the dosage I have now.
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Does it help?
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I didn't exactly con them, I just had to pursuade the bugger to give me enough pain meds. Docs here in the UK are really over-conservative when it comes to opioids. My knee and my hip are getting a lot worse, as is the myoclonus problem that I have. The latter has caused seizures, and caused me to have a bad accident that resulted in me slicing my arm open in several places, three VERY narrowly missing tearing open an artery.
The clonidine I take is actually intended for suppressing overloads, does a great job, as well as helps me have a regular sleep pattern (which is otherwise all over the bloody place, random wake/sleep cycle and insomnia, sometimes I went without sleep for days at a time before I got on it)
But it also helps lessen the myoclonic jerking, and while on it, I've not had any fits.
Without my oxy, I am more or less housebound these days, often stuck lying on my good side, able to do nothing much but read, and use the computer, although I need a whole load of pillows and cushions on my chair so as to be able to sit down without feeling like I'm having red hot nails hammered into my hip, and my knee repeatedly stamped on.
When I went to town recently, on my pain meds, I actually thought I was going to get literally stuck there. Got so bad that I had to sit down and rest every few steps. All because the docs here are so fucking frit to give enough pain meds to anybody. Cancer patients do fine on that score, or people involved in traumatic accidents that have to have big pieces of debris pulled out of their bodies.
But other pain, no matter how severe, it took me YEARS of fighting to get on the dose of oxy I am on. Docs tried to give me just codeine, and then dihydrocodeine, which are just WAY too weak to do much. I could swallow an entire box of DHC, or take the maximum dose of codeine possible (the liver can only process 400-500mg at a time, depending on the individual and their personal enzymatic makeup in the liver dept.)
They do help, a little, better than nothing at all, but its completely impossible to get an adequate level of pain relief from either. Add to that the relatively short duration of action of DHC, it resulted in me going into withdrawal due to the peaks and troughs created in plasma levels as it was metabolized, even while taking it just as prescribed.
Thankfully I have an appt with a specialist pain clinic soon. Hopefully they won't be wet behind the ears when it comes to actually starting appropriate treatment.
On what I get now, I am always struggling just to get by. Having to resort to IVing the things sometimes in preparation for going out. I'm 26, and have to walk with a staff, or cane. I should not have to put up with being mostly confined to the house, able to manage walking to the shops but not much further. That is no life. All because the docs are too afraid to step up and do what is needed.
It isn't like I am about to overdose, I've studied opioid SAR extensively, I know the properties of most opioids, including plenty the docs will never have even heard of. I know enough not to turn blue and be found on the floor in the morning.
So whats worse? the possibility of...not sure what they are worried about actually. Whatever it is, weighed against a young guy, who is, unless he actually goes to the extent of shaving a quarter off his OCs, building them up, until I have a little spare, just so I can do the things I enjoy in life instead of being confined indoors, lying on my bed, with a pillow between my knees like an old, old man.
So yes, I am going to do anything and everything I can, to ensure that I get enough meds. I'm not asking them for a whole fucking ton of fentanyl or something. Just enough of a painkiller or painkillers to have a decent, free life, where every single step doesn't send lightening bolts of white hot agony through my leg and hip.
I dread having a cough for instance. If I cough, the sudden recoil is really damn painful. Even taking a shite hurts my hip.
Yes, I took my meds.
One of these things is not like the other :zoinks:
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Do you think I should elaborate?
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Do you think I should elaborate?
Not unless you can top 13 paragraphs that ends with you describing how you shove your pills up your ass. :autism:
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Thanks but no thanks.
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Does it help?
Yes, it does.
My thoughts are not all tumbling over one another all the time, I procrastinate less, and, I don't "get lost" between 5 and 6 pm, but am fit till after 9 pm. I'm getting tired around 11 pm, and, that is not a bad time to go to bed. Before, I would be past my urge to sleep at that time.
I'm less snappy at the kids after 8 pm too. So, for now, I like it.
It is not giving me the "zombie" feel.
And I really like the idea that I can choose to have a regular day without meds, if I want to. Tumbling abundance of thoughts and images isn't always bad.
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Do you think I should elaborate?
Not unless you can top 13 paragraphs that ends with you describing how you shove your pills up your ass. :autism:
If you ever get that urge, please, do it without pics. :M
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Does it help?
Yes, it does.
My thoughts are not all tumbling over one another all the time, I procrastinate less, and, I don't "get lost" between 5 and 6 pm, but am fit till after 9 pm. I'm getting tired around 11 pm, and, that is not a bad time to go to bed. Before, I would be past my urge to sleep at that time.
I'm less snappy at the kids after 8 pm too. So, for now, I like it.
It is not giving me the "zombie" feel.
And I really like the idea that I can choose to have a regular day without meds, if I want to. Tumbling abundance of thoughts and images isn't always bad.
It's a bit like that for me, too. My problem is that I sleep even less with them than without.
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Does it help?
Yes, it does.
My thoughts are not all tumbling over one another all the time, I procrastinate less, and, I don't "get lost" between 5 and 6 pm, but am fit till after 9 pm. I'm getting tired around 11 pm, and, that is not a bad time to go to bed. Before, I would be past my urge to sleep at that time.
I'm less snappy at the kids after 8 pm too. So, for now, I like it.
It is not giving me the "zombie" feel.
And I really like the idea that I can choose to have a regular day without meds, if I want to. Tumbling abundance of thoughts and images isn't always bad.
It's a bit like that for me, too. My problem is that I sleep even less with them than without.
I sleep OK, as long as no one interrupts my sleep after 4 am.
Without Ritalin, I fall asleep without any problem, after the cat wakes me at 5, now I don't. But, since I do fall asleep more early, that is not a massive problem. I would like the cat to drop his insecure habit to wake me at night, when he wants to eat. There is food in his bowl, and he is allowed to eat without my approval. :P
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And, now I am going to bed way too late. Not because of the meds though. But, because I needed the time without hearing my kids or other humans. Lets hope that Sirius will let me sleep tonight.
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I have indeed taken my meds, off to work for another day! :hamsterwheel:
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Work? Do you 'make' electricity, by making a hamster wheel go round and round? :green:
(nah, sørry, lame jokelet)
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Work? Do you 'make' electricity, by making a hamster wheel go round and round? :green:
(nah, sørry, lame jokelet)
:lol1: If I could do that, I'd be self-employed (and rich)!
I work in the kitchen of a retirement home, preparing food for the old folks. :oldman:
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^ You know, I wondered (what kind of job you had).. but that was my guess. Um, say hi to all the elderly for me, will you.
Um, like: Hello Mr Johnson and Miss Smith.. Dutch lutra says hi. :nerdy:
Who?
:green:
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Yup, I took my meds.
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Took my antiinflammatories, had a pleasant few hours after taking my oxy and clonidine. Clonidine really potentiates the sedating/euphoric properties of opioids, and seems to help with the analgesic properties somewhat too.
Not what I take it for, but as they say, never look a gift horse in the mouth.
I take it to stop overloads from happening, for which it does a fantastic job.
Also helps with sleep, and increases my appetite; which is good, as I normally have very little desire for food. Without being on an alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonist I usually have to force myself to eat, unless I have gone so long without eating I HAVE to eat, or start feeling faint and dizzy.
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Took most of what I was supposed to take.
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I've found that Ritalin does wonders for keeping my OCD under control.
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I've found that Ritalin does wonders for keeping my OCD under control.
Really? That's cool cos I need the Zoloft for that.
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^ You know, I wondered (what kind of job you had).. but that was my guess. Um, say hi to all the elderly for me, will you.
Um, like: Hello Mr Johnson and Miss Smith.. Dutch lutra says hi. :nerdy:
Who?
:green:
:lol1: I'm sure they will say Hi to you too, young man!
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Yes.
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Yes
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Yes, although I almost forgot.
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Yes. Thankfully my morning routines seem to work again.
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Yes, I took all of them, including pain medication.
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yes.
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No, this morning was just too hectic.
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I took mine, as always. I am a good patient. :nerdy:
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Yes. Crazy meds and uppers, both.
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Yes, but I forgot my multivitamin till this thread reminded me. :tard:
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About to take my evening meds
Brush my teeth
And off to bed.
Night to all.
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Just did. :2thumbsup:
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Yup, but, was late with putting on sunscreen. Luckily, it is kinda clouded today.
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Once again, this thread has reminded me about my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Accidental double dose of max of Prozac. I doubt it is fatal. Has happened before.
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Yes, took mine.
I've been taking L-Lysine following Hyke's advice.
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Yes.
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I think I did. It was early and I was a little foggy. :tard:
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I think I did. It was early and I was a little foggy. :tard:
Well, of course you're foggy. We're in London.
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Yes, I did.
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Yes
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Forgot the last bit. Will take it now, none the less, even when it is late.
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So, took my last Ritalin of the day an hour later than allowed. Can't afford to crash too early today.
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When do you need to take it at the latest?
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They said I should not take one after 4 pm, to not mess up my sleeping pattern too much. I should be OK. If all goes according to plan, I'll have the girls in bed a bit more early, I should get enough time alone to be able to relax and sleep, after they are in bed.
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That's very late. It would destroy whatever sleeping patterns I have.
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Tonight I needed the clearheadedness it can give me. And, I have to take three pills a day, with four hour intervalls. They are not time released. I feel ready for bed. So, it doesn't pan out bad at all.
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Oh, I see. Mine are time released.
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Mine too. I take one 20mg dose in the morning.
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I take 30.
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I am now on 3 times 5, but, will up that, once summers holidays are over. Don't know if I will go to 30, or to 20. I need it the most end afternoon, and evening. So, thinking about only upping the last dosage. Will discuss it soon, with my doctor.
My work is that relaxing and well structured, that, maybe I will skip the morning dosages, when working.
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After a break I start at 20, then up it to 30 the following day.
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I have taken my 120mg of Strattera and my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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no. and that's a bad sign. way too much on my mind and to do. really need to take care of myself. right now the major medicine I need is sleep. I've been up for 24 hours straight.
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no. and that's a bad sign. way too much on my mind and to do. really need to take care of myself. right now the major medicine I need is sleep. I've been up for 24 hours straight.
:( :hug:
I took mine today.
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have had a pill vacation to give my organs a break.
going back to bacopa starting with 1 twice a day, and i just took the first dose.
it takes the edge off the train wreck.
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/thinks
Yes, I took mine today.
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http://ceser.in/ceserp/index.php/ijed/article/view/334 (http://ceser.in/ceserp/index.php/ijed/article/view/334)
I am personally quite wary of Bacopa. It has been shown to hyperacccccumulate heavy metals from the soil, to the extent where it has been considered for use in bioremediation efforts directed against contamination, including against mercury, arsenic, cadmium, aluminium toxicity. Cd in particular is concerning, Cadmium makes lead look like a nice convenient paint flavouring for little kiddies playthings in comparison, Absolutely frightfully toxic stuff, and completely useless in terms of biological role (although I was most surprised to learn that an enzyme expressed by marine diatoms (little planktonic critters that build ornate cages, sculpture-like exoskeletal structures), I had never before hear of any biological use for Cd whatsoever.prior to just now.
Fascinating *raises one eyebrow in classic Spock fashion*
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no. and that's a bad sign. way too much on my mind and to do. really need to take care of myself. right now the major medicine I need is sleep. I've been up for 24 hours straight.
Please do take care of yourself, little Majesty, you are needed! :hug:
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I did, just now.
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I almost forgot :blonde: but then I remembered.
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Nup.. did, just 15 minutes ago, take my supplements though.
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Not till late morning after Kyle noticed how scatter brained I was and asked about it
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I forgot, and realised in a conversation with C how chaotic and procrastinationactive I was, and why. That was half an hour after I should have taken the last pill of the day. When that dosage kicked in, I made a decent meal.
The difference is very clear, with or without. Even my mother noticed.
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thanks for the reminder. I need to take my evening-pill-with-a-meal pill.
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Yes, although they helped with my concentration they did nothing to wake me up like they usually do
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Just took 5x192mg chlormethiazole, an antihistamine (chlorphenamine) and my OC. Had my antibiotics earlier...uggh I hate those. Glad I'm halfway through the course already. In a LOT less pain than I was. Needed to shoot 4, even 5 oxy 40s a day at the very, very worst just to move it enough to dress the arm. Since I mostly drained it though it has helped a lot. Still limited movement range in that arm though.
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Not yet.
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Forgot that it was Sunday, so I missed my weekly med (needs to be taken on an empty stomach). Will take it tomorrow.
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Need a new rx tomorrow.
Still can't straighten the arm but at least it hurts less.
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About to take the last of them and toddle off to bed.
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Yes, I took mine.
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I took mine.
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Just got back from the docs, took a few chlormethiazole and my antibiotics, chewed up an OC40, and grinding 3 more up for a shot, then its time to relax for a change, and get reading everything I couldn't pay attention to last night.
Had the bite wound on my arm properly dressed, walked out with some decent stuff etc. All is well right atm, apart from my paralysed other hand. That HAS to be working later this week, for my driving lesson. Quite possibly having had seizures in the past I can't legally drive...but I'm on a highway to a pauper's old age if I can't, so to speak. And sod that.
I want, before I die, to have my own particle accelerator (a cyclotron, or maybe cyclosynchrotron even), sure I am not going to be able to afford several petawatts in capacitor banks:P but it would bee sweet as hell to build my own, mainly for the ability to produce small quantities of tritium, in doing so, bee-ing extremely for ex. X-raying stuff, actually forming elements fron others, de novo, I would absolutely love to have a ring, made from Ir, that I had worked hard, (and me being 'lil 'ol Kanner's me....play just as hard at the same time:D)
FUCK, I just came within a femtosecond or so of losing my oxy! I always do first a quick wash with an emptied amp of sterile saline, but then to get the remainder of the goodies just begging for a one-way ticket to the venous network of Lestat Rett, I give the powder a good soak in a wee glass vial before filtering again and slamming the rest.
After a night in miserable knee and hip+arm pain, oh, my fucking blue, furry CHRIST that first bite at the cherry felt so good, Sleep-deprived me almost dropped his vial and syringe. As it was, scarcely a droplet escaped, only to be caught on a finger and slurped up:) Fuckers never give me enough just to control my pain levels, and if not well rested, in agony and with those cursed myoclonic attacks I would have been fucking well gutted. For me, RX day is shooting day and a GOOD long, refreshing sensory blackout thrown as best as possible together in my room, save for plenty of 'Draconian; and also the trees; jack-off-jill,fields of the nephilim, rammstein, drowning pool, cradle of filth and friends, to soothe my severely sleep-deprived, starving hungry, myoclonic-attack-prone and etremely bloody grumpy central nervous system, what with the adrenal output squirrelyness.
Mmmm...this feels GOOD, not just a hyperalgesic state told 'well well, what have we heeeeere now? off we jolly well twatting bugger, I usually only shoot 2 a go, this time I'd crunched one up in the docs 'twixt my teeth...bitter lol, then prepped three more, figured sod it, its treat day, time to stamp right up the anal sphincter of my tolerance and out my nearest window :P
And very nicely it did too. I think I'll have a sedating antihistamine, a quick squirt of a nasal decongestant spray (I take this all the time, usually a bad idea, but in my case its to block the congestion I get as a side effect of alpha-2 adrenoreceptors, speaking of which, I haven't yet had any of my clonidine then rest. Undecided as to finishing my oxy shot or saving the other half. I'll have it now though I think, I don't want it to sit and...breed something....first of all, I want a nice big cold drink, I am ridiculously thirsty right now. Then time for a pipe before bed. If I can't manage to roll a smoke with only one movable hand
Y'know what they say though....where theres a will there is a wa.....errm...scratch that...there is the hope of a rich, dead relative to be exploited :eyebrows:
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Driving with the risk of seizures is not a good idea.
Going fast, weighing 1000 kgs, that could mean a lot of damage to others and/or to yourself.
Pondering on renewing my drivers licence, now that I have not had partial blackouts for an extended time. If I do, I'll take some driving lessons too. Been 6 years since I drove the last time.
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I wouldn't think of driving ifI thought there a risk.
normally my problem presents either as localized muscle fasciculation, and/or a brief, although occasionally pretty painful muscle twitch (myoclonus), no loss of consciousness, and now I'm on the combination of chlormethiazole and something to suppress adrenal output (clonidine) thats controlled pretty well, I don't think I've noticed it at all since.
During the major myoclonic episodes I've had, which were few and far between, oddly, I didn't lose
consciousness.
My main worry actually about driving, is pain. Knee, hip, foot to a lesser degree. Docs on the whole here are REALLY fucking stingy with analgesics of the opiate nature.
But I need to be able to drive really, I can't walk far now, getting to the end of the road the short street I live off is difficult, even with a staff or my cane.
On the plus side though, walking with a 5-foot wooden staff tends to put wouldbe pikey thug types off, and send them looking for easier pickings:P
Blackouts? what happened?
Taken most of everything, other than my antibiotic, I need to wait a couple of hours though because it can't be taken with antacids/indigestion remedies, and i just had a swig of gaviscon to settle my stomach, and about to take a small IM dose of chlorphenamine (sedating antihistamine/antimuscarinic agent, again, to stop nausea) And about to take my last OC dose for today.
I do hope I can find a sterile pin somewhere. I'm running damn low, and completely run out of 30g needles. Other than used, cleaned ones that are only ever to be used in the lab, for injecting/withdrawing samples from a reaction, or for adding reagents via cannula that react with air and/or atmospheric water vapor. I won't be sticking any of those in me. Sod that.
I might have another chlormethiazole cap before bed, but that depends on how I feel, more likely I'll go with clonidine instead, its quite an effective sleep aid, and nonaddictive. Actually works better than most sleeping pills for me.
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Just got reminded by this thread to take my diabetes Rx with my meal. New Rx and timing. Went from extended release to double the dose 2x a day.
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Never knew you were diabetic QV. Insulin, I'm guessing, if me shooting OC was what reminded you.
Gah...come to think of it, I REALLY should have poisoned one or two of the lancets used for blood glucose testing used by my psychotic fuck devil-whore former housemate :lol1:
Although I'm still kicking myself up my own arsehole for not taxing hey glucose meter, I could have made use of it, for whemever I am testing something new, for providing more in the way of supplementary bioassay data. Bugger. Lost the chance now the venomous little slag has been deported...lol, at least the benzos and painkillers were got to though, and a good slap given. Not nearly as much as the scheming fucker deserved though for all the shit she caused.
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Yes, I'm a type 2 diabetic. It was the title of the thread that reminded me to take my pill. Don't need insulin yet, with luck and taking care of the diabetes I never will.
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Yes, I took mine.
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So far, so good.
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Wanting a particle accelerator is UNUSUAL! :nerdy: Also BRAVE! :arrr:
I just took my Strattera. Occasionally, on a day off, I will delay taking it so I can
fall back to sleep and have trippy dreams. I sleep somewhat less soundly on
Strattera and sometimes can't have a proper daytime nap once it is in my system,
so today I waited and had a nap and a long, tiring dream! :zzz:
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Took the L-Lysine.
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Haven't taken a single pill all day. :thumbdn: on me.
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Lunesta dreams await me...
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Does a pineapple milk shake count as medicine? Nah, didn't think so.
Will take the evening ones now and add an Ambien since Trigger11 put the idea of a night's good sleep in my mind.
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The green moth still hasn't shown up to whack me in the head. >:(
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The green moth still hasn't shown up to whack me in the head. >:(
Maybe Tinkerbelle will show up instead and shower you with pixie dust.
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The green moth still hasn't shown up to whack me in the head. >:(
Maybe Tinkerbelle will show up instead and shower you with pixie dust.
I was hoping you were gonna say she was gonna do something else to me to help me sleep. :apondering: :angel:
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The green moth still hasn't shown up to whack me in the head. >:(
Maybe Tinkerbelle will show up instead and shower you with pixie dust.
I was hoping you were gonna say she was gonna do something else to me to help me sleep. :apondering: :angel:
She's so tiny, I'm not sure you would fit. However she could knock you on your head with her wand.
Hope you get to sleep soon. I'm toddling off to bed now.
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Just did.
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Lunesta dreams await me...
Does that big green moth come and cover your face? :orly:
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Yes, I took my Strattera AND an Aleve for the back spasm! :yarly:
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Those Z-drugs are strange beasts in my experience.
I've been tried on all three of the current ones, zolpidem was just.....fucked up. Made me trip. I only intended to check my email, read a bit before going to bed, but instead, seemingly stayed up for ages on MSN, after it had started working without my really realizing it masking no sense whatsoever.
Burned one would know better than I would though, as I don't remember a damn thing.
Zopiclone does something similar, but a lot less extreme. Mainly just hearing strange noises out of the blue, as I was half asleep.
The other one, zaleplon was just rubbish, ultrashort-acting, and far, far too weak to even notice.
Today, taken some of them, some I only take later though. Had a nice long lie-in, thanks to the stuff I take to stop myoclonus/seizure stuff from happening, being a damn strong sleeping pill also. I used to take it for that reason, solely at night, now I take it during the day as well. Woke about 8am, took the morning dose of chlormethiazole, fast forward to about 6pm:P
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Need something to calm down my bloody hip.
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yes
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That reminded me odeon, I need to take my anti-inflammatories.
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I took mine, this morning.
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Nope! Don't think the innards could take it righ now.
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Yep, and the innards are NOT happy! :zombiefuck:
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You seen anybody about it yet odeon? Not that it will make it any less painful, but you have my sympathies on that. I know too well what its like. I'm ok...ish, during the day. Well..no...am I sodding hell, but I can force myself to bear it, as long as I don't have to go on long walks, into town etc. At night is the worst, I need to stick a couple of pillows between my knees to serve as padding.
Which reminds me, I need to go see my own doc tomorrow, which means waking up at about 8am, else I'll run out of oxy on sunday, which would be a right cunt, especially as almost no pharmacies are open to get OTC pain meds (cough syrups actually, the only OTC opioids sold AS analgesics are in combination with paracetamol, and at such a low dose per unit I consider it borderline subclinical, even in somebody who has never used painkillers before, having no tolerance whatsoever. But the cough syrups are a bit of an OTC anachronism I suspect, although wrongly so, at least that leaves something that can be done without having to go, begging bowl in hand to a dr)
I hate that whole royal clusterfuck of inconvenience. I like my regular 'personal' GP. He knows what he is doing, and won't fuck me over, and he is one that I can actually talk to , while trying to figure out the best way to deal with anything needing sorting, but there is another I sometimes have to see, and I feel really uncomfortable around her,no matter why I'm there. Not to mention would possibly have killed me, had I been another patient that didn't have a good working knowledge of medicine. Tried rx'ing me co-amoxiclav once, immediately after being told of a possible anaphylactic reaction to penicillins and (untested...staying that way!) other beta-lactam antibiotics.
Thats the sort of basic error that should be getting stamped on, HARD, in med school, before anybody gets killed over it happening to an actual patient.
And another one, who I REALLY cannot fucking stand, a real bitch TBH. Went ages back, she was the old witch with appointments left, so go figure.
At the time, I was on painkillers, clonidine, two benzos and chlormethiazole. Wasn't on oxy at the time, but a different one. I'd been on them long enough to make damn sure suddenly stopping would have been dangerous. Opioid withdrawal won't kill a healthy person, it has happened, but in the prison population that I'm aware of, where a guy coming off something or other was left to starve to death, being unable to eat, but benzos/chlormethiazole, after long enough, that could certainly kill someone, or leave them brain damaged. I know of someone in the US, for instance who stroked out after suddenly being cut off 'cold turkey', and is pretty lucky to have survived after being abruptly cut off a huge fucking dose of clonazepam without any attempt to taper him.
He got left in a wheelchair for a while AFAIK.
As soon as this idiot asked what I did for a living, and found out I had no work, she told me I would be 'happier if all these meds are stopped'. I wonder if being spesh had anything to do with that. Lucky for me, again, it was my own common sense not to be taking the benzos/heminevrin daily that saved my arse. Still went through hell getting left without the rest of my meds for the rest of the day, and night. My regular doc was fuming when I told him.
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apparently madmick/JB didn't
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You seen anybody about it yet odeon? Not that it will make it any less painful, but you have my sympathies on that. I know too well what its like. I'm ok...ish, during the day. Well..no...am I sodding hell, but I can force myself to bear it, as long as I don't have to go on long walks, into town etc. At night is the worst, I need to stick a couple of pillows between my knees to serve as padding.
No, I haven't. There have been too many doctor's appointments lately, with my eyes and everything, and I keep putting it off. And then it's better, all of a sudden, and I don't even think about it for a while.
There's always the cane. :zoinks:
Problem is, I never understood how people can get used to a cane. It helps but my hand hurts after using it for a while. So what House does may look cool but his hand's got to hurt like hell.
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About to take my evening meds and go to the bed ball. Night to all.
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Not yet.
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I took my night ones early as I had dinner early.
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Lol, I have been compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P
as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.
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Lol, I have been compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P
as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.
I just do the cane and the non-PC comments, not the opioids. :P
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Lol, I have been compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P
as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.
As an aside, the PR has been complaining off and on about her mouth itching. We thought/think her lactose intolerance may have turned into a milk allergy. I looked up "itching mouth" on the Internet. One site has 216 diseases it can be associated with. Makes the possibility of a milk allergy a lot more comforting, even if a little dangerous. Right now Benadryl handles it.
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Lol, I have been compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P
as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.
As an aside, the PR has been complaining off and on about her mouth itching. We thought/think her lactose intolerance may have turned into a milk allergy. I looked up "itching mouth" on the Internet. One site has 216 diseases it can be associated with. Makes the possibility of a milk allergy a lot more comforting, even if a little dangerous. Right now Benadryl handles it.
I do benadryl every day
with my allergic reactions, it comes in handy
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Lol, I have been compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P
as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.
As an aside, the PR has been complaining off and on about her mouth itching. We thought/think her lactose intolerance may have turned into a milk allergy. I looked up "itching mouth" on the Internet. One site has 216 diseases it can be associated with. Makes the possibility of a milk allergy a lot more comforting, even if a little dangerous. Right now Benadryl handles it.
I do benadryl every day
with my allergic reactions, it comes in handy
With 3 people taking Zyrtec, the generic from Sams is a necessity. I think it's about 400 pills for $20. We use Benadryl also when the PR has had an active day and needs to sleep. That is to say, we give it to her.
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Lol, I have been compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P
as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.
As an aside, the PR has been complaining off and on about her mouth itching. We thought/think her lactose intolerance may have turned into a milk allergy. I looked up "itching mouth" on the Internet. One site has 216 diseases it can be associated with. Makes the possibility of a milk allergy a lot more comforting, even if a little dangerous. Right now Benadryl handles it.
I do benadryl every day
with my allergic reactions, it comes in handy
With 3 people taking Zyrtec, the generic from Sams is a necessity. I think it's about 400 pills for $20. We use Benadryl also when the PR has had an active day and needs to sleep. That is to say, we give it to her.
excellent for sleep & anxiety.
Dont want a sunburn............benadryl, also
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Lol, I have been compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P
as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.
As an aside, the PR has been complaining off and on about her mouth itching. We thought/think her lactose intolerance may have turned into a milk allergy. I looked up "itching mouth" on the Internet. One site has 216 diseases it can be associated with. Makes the possibility of a milk allergy a lot more comforting, even if a little dangerous. Right now Benadryl handles it.
I do benadryl every day
with my allergic reactions, it comes in handy
With 3 people taking Zyrtec, the generic from Sams is a necessity. I think it's about 400 pills for $20. We use Benadryl also when the PR has had an active day and needs to sleep. That is to say, we give it to her.
excellent for sleep & anxiety.
Dont want a sunburn............benadryl, also
if you take to much for to many days, will cause memory loss
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Lol, I have been compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P
as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.
As an aside, the PR has been complaining off and on about her mouth itching. We thought/think her lactose intolerance may have turned into a milk allergy. I looked up "itching mouth" on the Internet. One site has 216 diseases it can be associated with. Makes the possibility of a milk allergy a lot more comforting, even if a little dangerous. Right now Benadryl handles it.
Do NOT let House treat it. :P
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He usually gets shit done, even if it does involve giving a patient one disease to slow the progression of a lethal one, or a serving of magic mushrooms :P
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Yes, that he does. But what I like most in the series is his great sense of humour. I suspect some of it is thanks to Hugh Laurie. I suspect a lot of people will think he's simply insulting everyone in sight but it's not that easy.
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Yes, definitely. House is funny as shit. Hugh Laurie just seems the right guy for the role.
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It's what does that series for me. It's like Top Gear--yes, it's about cars but it could be about anything. It was never about the cars, not really.
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Lol, I have been compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P
as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.
As an aside, the PR has been complaining off and on about her mouth itching. We thought/think her lactose intolerance may have turned into a milk allergy. I looked up "itching mouth" on the Internet. One site has 216 diseases it can be associated with. Makes the possibility of a milk allergy a lot more comforting, even if a little dangerous. Right now Benadryl handles it.
Do NOT let House treat it. :P
Or CBC :nurse:
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Lol, I have been compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P
as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.
As an aside, the PR has been complaining off and on about her mouth itching. We thought/think her lactose intolerance may have turned into a milk allergy. I looked up "itching mouth" on the Internet. One site has 216 diseases it can be associated with. Makes the possibility of a milk allergy a lot more comforting, even if a little dangerous. Right now Benadryl handles it.
Do NOT let House treat it. :P
Or CBC :nurse:
She walks with a cane?
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Lol, I have been compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P
as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.
As an aside, the PR has been complaining off and on about her mouth itching. We thought/think her lactose intolerance may have turned into a milk allergy. I looked up "itching mouth" on the Internet. One site has 216 diseases it can be associated with. Makes the possibility of a milk allergy a lot more comforting, even if a little dangerous. Right now Benadryl handles it.
Do NOT let House treat it. :P
Or CBC :nurse:
She walks with a cane?
Sadly, she's uncaney.
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Back on topic. Yes
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I accidentally took my evening meds instead of my morning meds. My mom is bitching about it.
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I took my oxy, yes.
Oh, I don't have a prescription for that :angel: :eyelash:
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I accidentally took my evening meds instead of my morning meds. My mom is bitching about it.
From a Mom with a MMD (Medical Mom Degree), tell your mom to chill out. You're not going to die.
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Lit, any chance you could PM me where to get some from, off RX?
I just do not get given enough to properly kill the pain in hips and knees, or, despite NMDAr antagonists such as ketamine, 3-methoxy-PCP, methoxetamine, or the other PCP analogs I've tried.
Ducky, you are an adult, old enough that your mother has no right to bitch and whine about your meds, thats between you and your doc.
Just tell her to zip her trap and piss off out of your face DFG. She sounds like a bit of an old hag from what you have told me of her:P
Just taking one of my 2 spare oxy pills, having a lot of trouble locating a vein though, fuck.
10 minutes or so later...gotcha, little fucking bugger. Much better. Headache fucked off and died :)
Looking back, glad I chose OC rather than OTC liquid codeine cough mixture, not confident that my innards wouldn't reject it today, and it cannot be shot (codeine is strictly a prodrug needing metabolism in the liver, and can easily cause pulmonary oedema if IVed.
At least banging my OC, that way avoids giving my stomach the opportunity to throw it up, the codeine formulation I bought tastes bloody vile; I know nobody else who will drink it. Full of guiacol, so it both smells foul, and tastes of astringent wood shavings..
I doubt even the both of the bottles I picked up would have knocked off that level of headache.
I have no chlormethiazole though, the hospital doc couldn't break the rules for RX'ing that far, as I could find no past bottle in my room to bring to him.
The oxy and clonidine have stopped me fitting though.
Also had 40mg of baclofen from an old script from years ago, its a muscle relaxant, a GABAbR agonist, although a fairly crappy one. Better than nothing at all though, I've been having an unceasing, constant severe cramp in my left calf. Oxy will numb it enough not to feel it, but its still there in the background to torment me at night and leave me hurting when my last shot of the day wears off:(
Its been there for about 4-5 months, and simply will not go away, even with baclofen and trying to massage it out. Feels as though somebody just stamped on my legs (unfortunately I have experience of that, having had my knee stamped on repeatedly as a kid by a big pack of charver pikey fuckwits...I did cover one of the fuckers in horse shite later though, and shanked another one :))
Took 300mg of lamotrigine in the morning, although I don't have a script for it, 'tis leftover bipolar meds from The Crazy Hell-Whorebag, 200 at first, and a further 100 after about half an hour, some chlorphenamine (sedating antihistamine and anticholinergic agent, a good antinauseant, and good at stopping me itching when I do my OC shots, in addition to 10mg of domperidone and an immodium pill
Also a nasal decongestant spray, xylometazoline, need to take that again now, come to think of it, I get it on script to stop nasal congestion, a side effect of alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonists like clonidine. Took a box of tizanidine I found in my backpack, a little alcohol, and my indomethacin, a strong NSAID type antiinflammatory, as well as some topical ibuprofen gel for my knee.
I just found a loaded bong too, of AM-2201, not smoked it yet, going to the shops to get a few beers first. Also had a few homemade capsules, each containing 4mg of nicotine freebase, as I couldn't smoke in the morning without choking. Can do now, Got a pack of cigars:)
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Lit, any chance you could PM me where to get some from, off RX?
Oh, I'd be glad to, but it's from someone I know, not from the internet, and there aren't many of them left now :-\
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Bugger.
I might just have to go smurfing round every pharmacy in manchester for codeine syrup, and pull out some BF3-ether complex to demethylate it to morphia. I prefer morphine to oxy, it gives much more of a rush when IVed.
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Manchester? Do you know Adam?
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Not personally, why?
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Not personally, why?
No reason really. It's just that we don't have too many members who live in the same general area, much less same city.
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Took 300mg of lamotrigine in the morning, although I don't have a script for it, 'tis leftover bipolar meds from The Crazy Hell-Whorebag, 200 at first, and a further 100 after about half an hour
What do you take the lamotrigine for? I don't know if it will actually do anything when taken in one-off doses like that. I found it was a good med, had it as a mood stabiliser, 250mg a day. But it was really expensive and its effects wore off after a couple of years.
Took my morning meds today.
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About to take the evening meds, late as usual
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I don't take it regularly, but it happened to be in the house, my former housemate, the slag from perdition was on it, when I gave her the boot, lol I went through all her stuff and had away with all her meds that may be of any use, in exchange for the bitch jacking and hiding my meds, sending me crashing down in WD.
Took it because the myoclonic seizure was beginning and I needed to minimize it, to make sure I didn't end up injuring myself, like the time I went arse over bollock down the stairs, landing on both my bad knee, and flat on my nose.
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Took mine.
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Nothing today, unless one counts from when sunday technically started.
Heh, I've been up all night, yet half awake, eyes almost closed, pupils trying to shrink to pinpoints, even despite the mydriatic effects of antihistamines also packing antimuscarinic ACh antagonists trying to give me dinner-plate eyes, wide,staring, hatchet-killer-esque kind of eyes when I take sedating antihistamines such as the chlorphenamine I've been using for the oxy-induced itching, its been driving me fucking nuts. Not to mention the fly bite, that ended up giving me an abscess, the dressings make the covered bit of arm itch like fury, and demanding much use of the hairbrush-on-a-stick back scratcher
8 AM and time for me to check the postwhore-itis on a few forums, here, AFF, and a cland. chem. forum, have a cigar, pop an antibiotic for my AM dose, and take a couple of squirts of xylometazoline to keep my sinuses/nose clear when I take my morning dose of clonidine.
Going to (shocking, I know!) skip my morning shot of oxy, I just have no need of it right now, I'm in no pain, nor restless legs, or myoclonus issues etc. 5 OC 40s throughout the night did me just right.
I did have to put a dab or three of local anaesthetic, (lidocaine+benzocaine) mixed into tea-tree oil on the IV tracks though. Its a nuisance but I just cannot rotate my IV sites as efficiently as usual atm, as there is no way I could either hold a rig, stick it in my arm or push the plunger down, my wrist and hand are incapacitated, and just folds up like a scored bit of paper if
I attempt to put weight on it at all.
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Lestat, I just remembered about lamotrigine - it needs to be titrated slowly so you don't get the reasonably well-known rash that comes along with other symptoms that can make you sick enough to be hospitalised.
My knowledge of pharmacology is limited but i know i shouldn't take other people's medications at doses not prescribed.
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I've hopefully simplified my life by taking my morning meds with b'fast, my evening meds with dinner and my night meds after my bath. I've been trying to find something that works after the doctor changed my diabetes pill to 2x a day. I was getting all confused on when to take the dinner/night meds which should really be taken at different times.
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Not on schedule but I did
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I took my Strattera but forgot the multivitamin. I'll take it now. :thumbup:
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I'm aware of the possible stevens-johnson syndrome, aka 'the rash of death', but I know how I react to lamotrigine. I judged the remote possibility of such, or worse, TEN, acceptable, especially as it would be discontinued immediately on the slightest evidence.
I'm quite attached to my skin, and would like to stay that way.
Better than going down the stairs face first, ending up out cold and narrowly avoiding a nasty wakeup call in the form of getting shot with narcan in the ER.
Or myoclonus resulting in slicing my forearm to ribbons on a circular saw blade. And for that matter, I don't want any more scars on my face especially.
In other words, not ideal, but better than nothing at all.
I'd expect the anticonvulsant effects of antiglutamatergic effects to to stabilization of presynaptic sodium channels in the closed conformation, from as lamotrigine to present far more rapidly than might a psychological change resulting from E.g neuroadaptive changes in plasticity, which I wouldn't be at all surprised if that is the reason for mood stabilizing effects (which are known to be less effective if started during an episode than as a preventative/maintenance during, E.g bipolar psychosis, personality disorders and the ilk.)
Wikipedia states somewhere in the region on 5-10% taking lamotrigine may experience rash of minor nature, and need to discontinue, whereas only a few of these progress to severe reaction, and the mortality rate is stated to be 1/50,000.
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I almost forgot. Don't know why my routines are off again.
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Lol, I have been compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P
as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.
I just do the cane and the non-PC comments, not the opioids. :P
It really is better that way.
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As long as you didn't get glass through your tendon, have it stamped in by pikey trash as it was healing, then get left with nerve damage after a fucked operation.
Or seizures that sent you falling down the stairs, nose and knee padding the landing, and falling on knee alone later in hospital. Having a hip thats even more absocuntinglutely agonizig isn't nice either. You would want analgesics if you were me from the waist down Odeon.
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As long as you didn't get glass through your tendon, have it stamped in by pikey trash as it was healing, then get left with nerve damage after a fucked operation.
Or seizures that sent you falling down the stairs, nose and knee padding the landing, and falling on knee alone later in hospital. Having a hip thats even more absocuntinglutely agonizig isn't nice either. You would want analgesics if you were me from the waist down Odeon.
You claim you need "analgesics" for unbearable pain, but you readily admit that you choose your analgesics based on "the rush" you get when injecting it into a vein. My mom is a junkie, so I understand the skilled way in which addicts justify their behavior, but at some point they need to realize that they aren't fooling anyone else.
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I don't try to hide it. Other than of course, sterile practice, minimizing appearance of IV tracks, because I want to stay looking good.
I don't need to justify myself to anybody. And as such, I am heavily influenced by both factors. Both the need for analgesia, and strong analgesia at that, and also, the rush. The way I see it, thats not much different to my having a preference for say, pickled black olives with chilli sauce dripped into the former site of the stone, over green ones, for preferring russian standard vodka over toilet-cleaner like smirnoff, or liking to smoke cuban cigars (when I can afford them mind you....too much bloody tax revenue going into the fetid embrace of the political coffers.
Meds wise, yes, I have preferences, who doesn't, who is both on meds, and who has been tried on various different equivalent meds? Some are more effective than others; Like my preference for chlormethiazole if I am going to take a GABAa agonist for its antiseizure properties, sleep aid, anti-anxiety OR recreationally once in a while. Or my preference for morphia over oxy, IF it is given by the IV route, if its to be taken orally or rectally, then my choice, if such is available, will be oxy; morphine is extensively metabolized by hepatic cytochrome
p450-3A4, CYP-p450-2D6, as well as excretion as gluconuride and sulfate conjugates. Only something like 35% or so of a given dose of oral morphine is actually going to end up where it is needed.
IV, morphia is, for me, less itchy, gives a greater rush, and much more of that lovely warm, soft, weighted blanket feeling wrapped round me, as well, as at a totally equipotent dose using conventional figures to work that out, and dose titration, a better tool for the job. I.e less pain.
In general though I prefer some variety, 'tis the spice of life so they say:D
I mean, I'd sooner have my regular rx, finally sorted when I see the pain clinic for the first time, to a level that Doesn't leave me either still sore as hell, severely exertion intolerant on that side, but doesn't knock me senseless either. I'd still shoot it, but only now and then, in that case, as it is, most of the other opioids I have access to are mainly via the oral route, with formulations intended only for non-parenteral use. Mainly j.collis browne's mixture (morphine as oral liquid OTC), pulmo bailly, fucking vile tasting codeine cough mix, codeine linctus, the latter with added terpin hydrate, basically pine resin turpentine, which I find almost undrinkable; gee's linctus-tincture of opium, or gee's linctus candies.
On the other hand, you would have to pay ME to take tramadol. Its gross, an SNRI/5HT releasing agent, that lowers the seizure threshold, and feels to me, dirty, jittery, and pretty much still in pain, compounded by the nasty noradrenergic effects-yuck. Anybody want to buy an adrenal gland? a fair bit of mileage on the clock, but only two previous owners (hey, I am part-personally owned by one certain lovely stalker:P:D)
As well as various plant based goodies. Poppy crop time comes round a couple of times a year, or one in the pipeline for testing soon as it it be ready for birth out of the flask, for IV use, being the propionyl ester of loperamide (yes, immodium), or for oral use only, kratom leaf tea/resin/alkaloid isolate, a southeast-asian small tree that has quite a respectable analgesic and rec. potential (also legal almost everywhere save thailand, maybe burma, and a few places its indigenous to, freely available online though, and, |I mention this because you brought up that your mom is struggling with a monkey.
What does she use? if thats not too personal? as kratom, has a wide and long history of safe use, lacks the compulsivity of a spike in the arm, and watching a fountain of blood shoot up into the rig in slowmo. A traditional use where it is indigenous in asia, is to use it to detox. I've used it many times, both to enhance analgesia, and if I run out on a weekend, by accidental making of an appt. to see my doc on a day wrong for a 7-daily rx, or of course, when troubled by n00b 'doctors' that neither know the patient, or who would have been better off applying for work in bergen-belsen or dachau:P
I hope your mom, if she is in need to, can beat her dependency. MLA (thats you under a new handle isn't it?
As for justifying it...why would anybody need to, as long as they are not hurting others with their use? I speak of myself there, or others who are either on longterm pain meds, chippers, etc, who keep a hold on their use, mainly.
The type of junkie goat-rapist who goes around preying on other people's vulnerabilities, stealing meds (I've had that done to me by my bipolar, borderline, malignant narcissist waste of autistic genes, along with benzos, chlormethiazole, and others...bitch didn't take them for it's own use, at least not my pain meds, just did it to hide them so she could make sure A-she looked good coming to the 'rescue' with her own, and likely B-make damn sure I couldn't have any when she couldn't take the opioids of the rx at the time that I had, due to anaphylaxis. If she wasn't getting anything good then she didn't want me to either; fucking sewage incarnate gorgon-bitch.)
Those fucking tossers I have absolutely zero sympathy for. If I get left without, then I have to go without, and just do whatever I can to manage the discomfort of w/d, and the pain that of course comes flooding back.
I wish that type of skag-rat success in getting clean, and sorting their life out. But otherwise I wouldn't piss down one's throat if they begged me to pull some chemistry tricks out of my hat and cleave hepatic metabolites back to morphine out of urine (it can be done, if there is enough morphia in the person's system.
Me? I have only ever jacked meds from one 'person'
AFTER finding out about the months worths of my own meds being taken from me and hidden under it's bed. Not to mention the getting herself invited here to stay as my guest, housemate, friend and repeated sexual, emotional and physical assaults and degradation by mother, father grandfather and brother. False rape claims against one guy from this country, not me, but accused a guy formerly from AFF, grassed him in to the pigs, had me get her back, back her up, not knowing she was lying her arse off...hell, for the lack of the price of a train ticket, she came within hours of getting him a bullet in the head.
Yes, he does have form for stalking, but he is a real A-grade gimp, who couldn't rape his way out of his own used diaper with all the tritium, deuterium and 239Pu between his anal ring and the US history of WMD programs:P I don't LIKE the guy, pikachu, but being a minor creep and general grand high wazzock-priest of eternal muppetry isn't; IMO, a valid reason for getting a revolver stuck in his mouth (which didn't happen to him in the end, but when confronted over the phone, he broke down, blubbering like a baby, sounded near enough like he just shat and pissed his knickers
Erinye-fuckingwell-Medusa-Bitch-From-Tartarus was a compulsive liar, assaulted me more than once then blamed it all on everything from bipolar, an almost completely factitious 'case' of dissociative identity disorder, parental rape and battery flashbacks.
And more besides....having to physically wrestle her and disarm her when she was hadesbent on SI. Or how about, after being taken to three of my 'special' mushroom hunting places, being shown, after expressing the desire to know more about what they are about, what the experience is, our having found a small patch, just enough Psilocybe cyanescens for two people to have one good serving each, with a little top-up for any further psychospiritual exploration work&play that wanted doing after everything was integrated.
We split them equally, on a scale accurate to 10mg. Fair as can be, yet what did I get?
Nothing. They 'disappeared'
And I can't prove it, but I KNOW that weed went missing, and am 99.999999% certain that she stole out of the house to, not steal, but SMASH several gallons of DMT-saturated xylene, carefully hidden in a storm drain that really was not going to be seen, ever, by anybody else, after fearing an imminent raid by the filth.
Thats the only, one and only thing I have ever done, like that. The means, in this justified the end...I wasn't lacking meds, having talked my regular doc and asked him if he could replace them.
This remains the only time I've ever stole meds or money (fucking slapper got busted jacking 20s my old man's wallet). After all that, and more, It/she did to me and my family. Splitting me and burned one up, and something that above all else put together, stressed my stalker, and spoke ill of her. Stress for her is serious, as she can't produce ACTH, save in tiny quantities.
My stalker (I won't name her here, or her net handle, to avoid trolling..she IS family. Family I would crawl on my belly through broken glass for if it meant sparing her pain or sorrow. Hell, I'd throw myself in front of a speeding car to push her, or her kids out of the way without hesitation.
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As long as you didn't get glass through your tendon, have it stamped in by pikey trash as it was healing, then get left with nerve damage after a fucked operation.
Or seizures that sent you falling down the stairs, nose and knee padding the landing, and falling on knee alone later in hospital. Having a hip thats even more absocuntinglutely agonizig isn't nice either. You would want analgesics if you were me from the waist down Odeon.
I probably would.
I don't judge, btw. MLA sort of does but that's the MLA we all know and love. My opioid comment was strictly about me and I don't pretend to know what other people need to get by.
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Just about to take my last meds for the day-my before-bed oxy shot, 50mcg of clonidine, piriton, and my late dose of chlormethiazole.
I don't care if people judge me, people I need to work with me such as my doc aside.
My regular doc knows I shot up quite a lot of mket, 4- or 3-methoxy-PCP etc in my time, but won't fuck me over.
Going to let that stew in its vial for a few, while I go warm up my tofu in spicy black bean sauce and roll a fag.
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Quite forgetful lately, but, had the morning dose.
Getting a new prescription today, and maybe an upping of the later dosage too.
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Yes
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Took mine.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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:arrr:
Have now got an upped late dose indeed. Will see how that works.
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Feel like taking every pill I have and just swallowing them all at once to see what would happen.
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Forgot to take my pm meds with dinner. Will take them now since I've just eaten some red grapes.
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I took mine. Fresh Ritalins. :zoinks:
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Not all of them, took a shot of oxy (3x40mg oxycontin, crushed to dust, filtered with an 0.2 micron filter), going to take a couple of 4mg chlorphenamine and my clonidine. Might take one of the free etizolam pills (a thienoazepine, benzodiazepine basically with the benzodiazepine ring replaced by a thiophene ring) and see how it performs compared to my chlormethiazole.
I don't want it to color the experience trying this new synthetic cannabinoid, AM-2233, though, as I'm bioassaying it for the first time today:)
Finally managed to get a few decent tokes on it in my ice pipe, but it needs about 5-6 different lighters to swap between, letting each cool down while the others get cycled, as it has a FAR greater melting point than say, n,n-dimethyltryptamine, 5-methoxy-n,n-diallyltryptamine or alpha-methyltryptamine, or methamp/methcathinone HCl. Otherwise I'd surely burn my fingers clean off. Not to mention break the lighters.
Gong to try some in a conventional pipe or bong methinks.
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I think I might be depressed. It's been a long time since that was the case. Supposed to be pretty typical of 1L students. Can't go back on Paxil though. Would rather die.
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I think I might be depressed. It's been a long time since that was the case. Supposed to be pretty typical of 1L students. Can't go back on Paxil though. Would rather die.
How much sleep are you getting?
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I think I might be depressed. It's been a long time since that was the case. Supposed to be pretty typical of 1L students. Can't go back on Paxil though. Would rather die.
How much sleep are you getting?
Last night was 3 hours, but that was shorter than usual.
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Took them.
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Scattered brain me didn't take the morning meds.
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I think I might be depressed. It's been a long time since that was the case. Supposed to be pretty typical of 1L students. Can't go back on Paxil though. Would rather die.
I can sympathize with you. Back in the early 1990's while studying for the CPA exam which I didn't want to do, I got so depressed and stressed out I made an ineffectual threat against the big boss of the outfit. I went to a health therapist the next day, which was probably the major action that saved my job for a while. Any post-graduate courses are stressful.
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I took my meds today.
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I think I might be depressed. It's been a long time since that was the case. Supposed to be pretty typical of 1L students. Can't go back on Paxil though. Would rather die.
How much sleep are you getting?
Last night was 3 hours, but that was shorter than usual.
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Don't let it get out of control. Talk to someone, see a doctor.
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I took most of mine.
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Can't go back on Paxil though. Would rather die.
I was on Paxil once, about eight or nine years ago. Horrible, horrible medication. Going off it was hell.
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Not yet.
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I didn't, had the weekend off so skipped a couple days. Can definitely tell a difference.
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I did, eventually.
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left out the morning dosage for two days, sleeping in was good.
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Yea.
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Yes.
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Yes, should not forget to pack some for the afternoon.
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Can't go back on Paxil though. Would rather die.
I was on Paxil once, about eight or nine years ago. Horrible, horrible medication. Going off it was hell.
Yes. Highly addictive stuff, with no warning label.
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I have been on it. It is the Devil itself :thumbdn: I got hallucinations of it. I think the Brits have even banned it.
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Yes
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I forgot. :(
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Yes. :viking:
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I took some, but none that I have a prescription for :orly:
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I forgot only one, one that I don't have a prescription for.
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Yes but the second dose I took late so I might be up late
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Yes.
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I remembered.
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Had the L-lysine, next thing will come in half an hour.
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Yes.
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yes
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Yes.
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Yea. Not quite working. :finger: Prozac
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Yes. Skipped the Ritalin today, though.
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Skipped the morning and noon Ritalin, and took half of the afternoon dosage.
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Yes, will take the evening meal pills in a minute
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No yet. I will, though.
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Yes, now going to add a multivitamin and a garlic capsule. :nerdy:
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I stopped taking my sertraline a few days ago. Turned out I was getting serotonin syndrome from the combination of sertraline and dexamphetamine, and it only became apparent when the psychiatrist doubled the dose of the sertraline about 10 days ago and I started getting tremors soon afterwards. Before that, I'd just been feeling generally shitty and didn't know why.
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I did.
Found a chlormethiazole cap on the floor clearing my room out..might take that now.
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Yes, now going to add a multivitamin and a garlic capsule. :nerdy:
A vampire move into the neighborhood?
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took my osteoporosis pill and my nighty-night ones. took none of the others.
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Almost forgot. Going to take them now.
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Just had a shot of OC.
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No, but at least I've found them again and will start again with the evening meal dose.
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Started Zoloft today! Anybody have anything good to say about it? :zombiefuck:
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Was offered Zoloft once but decided on Edronax instead. I have heard that Zoloft is one of the better ones though.
Forgot my meds at the normal time because my routine got messed up (it was the cat's fault) so I ended up taking them after I had brushed my teeth, Blech.
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No, but at least I've found them again and will start again with the evening meal dose.
took them and will take the nighty-night med soon.
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Started Zoloft today! Anybody have anything good to say about it? :zombiefuck:
It works. For me it is the difference between debilitating OCD and being able to focus on my other spazziness.
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Started Zoloft today! Anybody have anything good to say about it? :zombiefuck:
Worst experience of my life. I elaborated in another thread already.
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Interesting how different our experiences seem to be.
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It seems like a LOT of people on the spectrum react badly to SSRIs.
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Um, how many are a lot, exactly? :-\
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Had some meds.
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Interesting how different our experiences seem to be.
Brain chemistry is interesting, and how differently people respond to these meds proves just how little we understand how it works.
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Exactly? I couldn't put a precise figure on it, but a great many of those I know do react really badly to SSRIs, and I see a lot of posts on various autie/aspie forums that recount nasty experiences with them.
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I have had a bitch of a night and I'm about to take
1 Ambien - Sleep
1 Aspririn - Heart health
2 Benadryl - Sleep
2 40 mg Celexa - Depression
1 Flexaril - Muscle relaxant
1 Meloxicam - Arthritis pain
10 mg Melatonin - Sleep
1 Zyrtec - Allergies
and go to bed. You notice I've covered the alphabet from A - Z.
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Interesting how different our experiences seem to be.
Brain chemistry is interesting, and how differently people respond to these meds proves just how little we understand how it works.
So true. True and scary.
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Exactly? I couldn't put a precise figure on it, but a great many of those I know do react really badly to SSRIs, and I see a lot of posts on various autie/aspie forums that recount nasty experiences with them.
Many of the nasty experiences happen when people stop using them, I believe. I went cold turkey, a couple of years ago, and it was not a pleasant experience.
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Exactly? I couldn't put a precise figure on it, but a great many of those I know do react really badly to SSRIs, and I see a lot of posts on various autie/aspie forums that recount nasty experiences with them.
Many of the nasty experiences happen when people stop using them, I believe. I went cold turkey, a couple of years ago, and it was not a pleasant experience.
:agreed: Lexapro was fine until I came off it. The brain zaps were horrible.
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Interesting how different our experiences seem to be.
Brain chemistry is interesting, and how differently people respond to these meds proves just how little we understand how it works.
So true. True and scary.
:indeed:
I'm glad to visit a health-clinic that is very observant and careful in and when prescribing meds. For people on the spectrum, the reactions seem to be more often not standard, on the medication. They closely monitor that. Not all unexpected side-effects are bad btw. But, for some, finding the right medication, if it is there, can take a while.
A friend of mine went through two bad experiences with anti-depressants, before he found one that finally made the depression disappear. So, for him, some SSRI's really suck, where the last one is a miracle for him.
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I meant reactions immediately on starting one of the SSRIs, not coming off them. That is known to be a pretty fucking rough experience.
Just took my morning oxy shot, and a quinine tablet for the muscle spasm in my leg, just about to take my morning dose of chlormethiazole and clonidine also, and some indomethacin later.
I decided to slightly more than double the dose of chlormethiazole though, as when I went to get it out of the bottle I found I had a whole bunch of capsules left, I thought I only had three, but instead there was a decent sized handful still left.
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Yes.
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I meant reactions immediately on starting one of the SSRIs, not coming off them. That is known to be a pretty fucking rough experience.
I get a moderately pleasant reaction on starting them, but it only lasts a day or two. Weeks/months later, the side effects start becoming significant.
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Yes, now going to add a multivitamin and a garlic capsule. :nerdy:
A vampire move into the neighborhood?
Well, I do live in a city with a fairly high crime rate, ya never know! :autism:
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I did, yes. And pain meds.
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yes
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Think I had it all today.
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Yes. It doesn't help.
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Tell me about it. Been there, done that.
Fed up of these muscle spasms in my leg. The new one, quinine, that they just tried, thought it might have helped a tiny bit at the very first, but no. Complete failure.
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Not all of them. I forgot.
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Just got back from an appt. with my GP.
Dropped the quinine, as it wasn't helping, and he gave me some valium to help relax the muscles (and as a side effect, help me sleep), just 2mg nightly, not sure that will do anything, as I will already have a tolerance to GABAergics due to being on chlormethiazole, which will be crosstolerant with benzos, as its a GABAa positive allosteric modulator too, albeit one that acts more like a barbiturate than a benzodiazepine or Z-drug in terms of its action on the GABAaR chloride channel, molecular biology-wise. But it can't hurt.
Not the biggest fan of diazepam, it isn't my favourite benzo by any means, but we shall see. I fucking hope it does help stop the spasms, its unbelievably painful.
Not taken any of my meds today, other than my oxy, just shot up 3 pills, think I might just bang another one, although I'm undecided, in two minds weather or not I want another. Feeling pretty good though, I didn't sleep at all last night thanks to the cramps, but oh my gods, the feeling of strong opiates flooding through my veins is such a relief :)
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I took all the ones I was supposed to take.
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^Same plus some meds for a headache.
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Yes
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I took everything except for the lisinopril and I plan to take it tomorrow morning.
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Not yet.
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One OC by mouth, one in the arm, my antibiotic early dose, a couple of squirts of xylometazoline nasal decongestant (the clonidine I'm on only has, for me at least, the one annoying side effect of giving me an awful blocked nose, bad enough to make it quite impossible to breathe, so despite the fact that those decongestant sprays are in most cases meant for a few days to a week use at most, in my case I get it on weekly prescription with the rest of my meds.
Also took 50mcg of clonidine, and a smear of topical antibiotic cream for the ear lobe wound, and a little more on where I had the abscess from that bastard of a fly. Thats healed, just left a scar as is expected, although there is still a little, shallow bit of unhealed broken skin. No severe infection, if any at all, but its being slow healing, figured theres no harm in wiping a trace of antiseptic on there to clear away any possible residual infection, or if there isn't any, I don't think there is, just to keep it clean and prevent the open skin getting infected in the first place, help it heal quicker. same for my wrist, where I gashed it on a circular saw, I think there may be a trace of slightly infection. Between the antibiotics and the topical one though it should heal pretty quick now, I hope.
Took a couple of big slugs of gaviscon and a strip full of antacids too, not because I had heartburn, but to make my pain meds stay around a few hours longer, as by making the urine alkaline, excretion is delayed, making the same dose go a little further. And to help make sure my stomach is protected from my being on the indomethacin, its one of the big guns, as far as antiinflammatories go.
Although I have to wait for some reason, before taking antacids, for 2 hours after taking my erythromycin, not sure of the exact reason, but it must be dependent on stomach PH perhaps, for successful absorption, either that or perhaps the basic calcium salts etc in there might inactivate it. Have to ask my doc about that, out of curiosity.
Oh, and 2mg diazepam under my tongue to help relax my muscles and ease the cramps. Its helping, but only a bit effective. I can at least move it more afterwards. I am pretty insensitive to diazepam though as far as benzos go, I react strangely to some, such a for instance, I have a paradoxical rxn to oxazepam, makes me shake and twitch and feel pretty crappy. Going to ask my doc on monday if he can switch me to the benzo I usually use, when I do use benzos (ones I don't buy myself, in which case I prefer pyrazolam), I used to be on nitrazepam, which is decently long acting, and actually does help me sleep too, I've not been sleeping well lately.
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Took the crazy meds and as many painkillers as I'm allowed to.
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yes
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Oh, and 2mg diazepam under my tongue to help relax my muscles and ease the cramps. Its helping, but only a bit effective. I can at least move it more afterwards. I am pretty insensitive to diazepam though as far as benzos go, I react strangely to some, such a for instance, I have a paradoxical rxn to oxazepam, makes me shake and twitch and feel pretty crappy. Going to ask my doc on monday if he can switch me to the benzo I usually use, when I do use benzos (ones I don't buy myself, in which case I prefer pyrazolam), I used to be on nitrazepam, which is decently long acting, and actually does help me sleep too, I've not been sleeping well lately.
5mg diazepam sublingually is about the lowest dose that I can feel doing anything, and I've only taken it a handful of times, so it's not an acquired tolerance.
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I did take my meds.
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Yeah, agreed. I don't know why they even bother making 2mg pills, its a rediculously low dose.
Although ick, paradoxical rxn, not pleasant. Went back to my docs, and got put on something I used to be on, for overloads, only this time as a myorelaxant. Tizanidine, which works fucking brilliantly. And since I am already on clonidine, the two work the same way, and will synergize pretty well.
Benzo-wise, got some pyrazolam on its way, which is pretty effective stuff, one of the triazolo-benzos, such as alprazolam, and triazolam. Highly potent, like the former two, but much longer lasting, around 6-8 hours or so. Structurally speaking, its sorta the bastard child of bromazepam and triazolam :P
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Yes, I have taken my Strattera, multivitamin and garlic capsule! :thumbup:
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Yes.
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Just got put on a decent muscle relaxant finally, tizanidine. An alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonist, which is just what I needed anyway for other reasons (or rather, more of such action, already on clonidine)
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Took my pain meds.
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Forgot this morning, but took the early evening meds. Doc has added 2000 IU of Vitamin D3, which I'll start as soon as I buy it.
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Almost forgot, but, remembered only an hour late. So, still time for the mid-day dosage.
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Took ibuprofen to make things hurt less.
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^That, plus paracetamol.
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I took only the one this morning, so far.
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I was so turned around today, no. but I will take the night time meds and a pain pill.
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Yes, I took them.
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About to take lunch time ones.
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the night time pills and the pain pill are doing their job quite well. I am off to bed.
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Yes, took them all.
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Yes, just now
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Yes, the one I take in the morning now.
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I could have had them all, but, missed out on a supplement. Nothing bad.
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I took all the evening ones this evening.
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Yes, I did. I took them all.
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I still think people are overdosing when they say they took all their meds. :P
About to take my lunchtime meds.
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:laugh:
Waiting for Ritalin and paracetamol to kick in. Hope they kick in softly. :P
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I took the morning one.
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I still think people are overdosing when they say they took all their meds. :P
About to take my lunchtime meds.
:laugh:
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:laugh:
Waiting for Ritalin and paracetamol to kick in. Hope they kick in softly. :P
That's an odd combo.
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I could only get some of my meds, most pharmacies don't carry tizandine. Or chlormethiazole.
The most important ones I got though. I could only get a very, very late appt with my doc. Almost all the pharmacies were closed. I got my oxy though, I usually get my stuff by 10-half ten in the am, but this meant fucking about running round different supermarket pharmacies.
Fucking relief though that I got my OC, had to wait ages after my last dose had worn off though. Glad I had that 3-hydroxyphencyclidine though, as it is a pretty damn effective analgesic, not just a dissociative anaesthetic and DARI, but actually a fairly effective opioid.
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:laugh:
Waiting for Ritalin and paracetamol to kick in. Hope they kick in softly. :P
That's an odd combo.
Needed clarity, and, there was this loud headache being counter-productive, on top of my own inner skull creativity.
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:laugh:
Waiting for Ritalin and paracetamol to kick in. Hope they kick in softly. :P
That's an odd combo.
Needed clarity, and, there was this loud headache being counter-productive, on top of my own inner skull creativity.
Whatever works is good.
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:laugh:
Waiting for Ritalin and paracetamol to kick in. Hope they kick in softly. :P
That's an odd combo.
Needed clarity, and, there was this loud headache being counter-productive, on top of my own inner skull creativity.
Whatever works is good.
Sledgehammers, on heads of others, sometimes is the best treatment for a serious headache.
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Just about to boot some oxy, just took my antibiotics (erythromethycin, and one of the tetracyclines), just took my morning (or rather ..whenever i actually wake up) dose of chlormethiazole and clonidine.
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I took the morning one this morning.
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Gah...my fucking so called doctor (NOT the one I usually see, the one I HAVE to see sometimes, when he isn't working) ALWAYS expects a 7 day rx of all my meds to last between 10-14 days.
Result is a massive overload, beyond fucking belief.
Fucking paki bastard. Bloody crowbegotten whoreborn fucking twatting bastard. I'm going to thank him personally, next time I have to see the tosser.
If I wouldn't get banned from ever ever returning from the doc's, I'd go in there and bang the cunt right out straight out for what he has done to me for it.
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Gah...my fucking so called doctor (NOT the one I usually see, the one I HAVE to see sometimes, when he isn't working) ALWAYS expects a 7 day rx of all my meds to last between 10-14 days.
Result is a massive overload, beyond fucking belief.
Fucking paki bastard. Bloody crowbegotten whoreborn fucking twatting bastard. I'm going to thank him personally, next time I have to see the tosser.
If I wouldn't get banned from ever ever returning from the doc's, I'd go in there and bang the cunt right out straight out for what he has done to me for it.
You could probably blow a hobo for a fiver, then score some smack. :viking:
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Took mine. I think. :-\
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Took 400mg of ibuprofen today. I'm being pretty sparing with it since I had an ulcer not too long ago, but stuff keeps hurting.
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I took mine.
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Forgot my lunchtime meds but then I don't really need them.
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I took mine.
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A minute ago I took my supplements.. which are vitamin B-complex, vit C, purified fish oil and extra zinc. No (head-) meds for this chap but I take mentioned supps on a daily basis.
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Yes. About to do my last pain meds for today, some clonidine and an antihistamine.
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Yes
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Yes.
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yes
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Yes I did, along with my multivitamin and garlic capsule! :thumbup:
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Most. I cant remember if i had the antibiotics or not so im just going to wait until tomorrow for those.
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Yes, I took them all.
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I just did.
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Most. I cant remember if i had the antibiotics or not so im just going to wait until tomorrow for those.
Wouldn't wanna OD on antibiotics. That could have serious consequences for your health.
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Yes, I have taken my Strattera for ADD, my multivitamin, my garlic capsule
for my immune system, and an L-Lysine tablet to knock out my cold sore. :insane:
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Yes!
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Have to check, did I, or didn't I take them during lunch.
Yes, I've been a good girl. :thumbup:
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Yes, and I took them last night as well.
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Took the afternoon batch too.
What will be my reward, for being such a good girl?
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I did.
Thanks for asking.
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Took the afternoon batch too.
What will be my reward, for being such a good girl?
You will produce colorful milk with healing properties! :hyke:
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Yes, and I took them last night too.
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Yes, indeed I did.
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I left them at home by accident and suffered the consequences. Major sleep crash at 11 a.m. and achey knee. Will take them as soon as I finish lunch.
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Took the afternoon batch too.
What will be my reward, for being such a good girl?
You will produce colorful milk with healing properties! :hyke:
I have retired from the noble art of giving milk quite some years ago. :M
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Took the afternoon batch too.
What will be my reward, for being such a good girl?
You will produce colorful milk with healing properties! :hyke:
I have retired from the noble art of giving milk quite some years ago. :M
But the meds are about to bring you out of retirement. ;)
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took the evening meal meds
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I took the morning one but not the evening ones yet.
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I took the evening ones a little while ago.
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Yes, I took mine.
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Took the afternoon batch too.
What will be my reward, for being such a good girl?
You will produce colorful milk with healing properties! :hyke:
I have retired from the noble art of giving milk quite some years ago. :M
But the meds are about to bring you out of retirement. ;)
:runaway:
That would have me shitting all colours of the rainbow because of anxiety.
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So far, the people at this house had the medication they were supposed to have.
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Yes, I did.
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I did indeed.
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Had a bit of methylphenidate, but, not the full amount. Weekend. :viking:
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Strattera, multivitamin, L-Lysine, garlic and aspirin, all down the hatch! :arrr:
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Yes, I just took the morning one and I also took the night ones last night.
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Just the crazy meds.
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Skipped the morning batch, but had the rest, despite it being the weekend.
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returning to good habits. Yes.
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Yes, I did.
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Me too, me too.
* Jumps up and down *
* now, did I take the right meds? :apondering: *
Yeah, I did, not actually jumping up and down.
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I took the evening ones last night, but not the morning one yet.
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I took the morning medicine as well.
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Took the first of the co-codamol I got from my GP 3.5 hours ago, but it doesn't seem any better than plain paracetamol. Dosage is 2x 30mg/500mg pills to be taken 4 times a day.
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Yes, I took them.
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yes
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I took the evening ones.
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Whoops, this just reminded me to take my evening ones.
Edit: Done.
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Yes.
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I took the evening ones this evening and the morning one this morning.
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I have taken everything except the :coffee: I need to wake me up!
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Yes, I did.
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I did.
My pills yesterday worked so well I forgot to eat. Bloody Ritalin side effects.
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Without Ritalin, forgetting to eat is even more common for me, than with Ritalin.
It's having kids that makes me eat my meals, the way I should.
Took my meds btw.
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Yes, I took them.
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Not yet.
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Not yet, should do that now.
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I did. :viking:
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yes.
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Taken today: Strattera, multivitamin, garlic capsule, L-Lysine and glutathione. :nerd!:
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Yes, I did.
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Putting up with pain at the moment so that I can delay taking 1000mg of paracetamol until I'm about to go to sleep. That way, I'll get about 4 hours out of it before I start waking up from the pain. Pity about the whole destroys-your-liver thing that limits the amount I can take; if it wasn't for that, I'd just take some now and top it off again when I was going to sleep.
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Yes.
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Good to have this reminder. Did take the morning batch, will now take the lunch one.
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Yes.
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Yes.
Wondering if my feeling hyper today has to do with my Ritalin dose being wrong, all of a sudden. :-\
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yes
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Yes.
Wondering if my feeling hyper today has to do with my Ritalin dose being wrong, all of a sudden. :-\
Has your dose been changed, or are you just metabolizing it differently? :nerd!:
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Yes.
Wondering if my feeling hyper today has to do with my Ritalin dose being wrong, all of a sudden. :-\
Has your dose been changed, or are you just metabolizing it differently? :nerd!:
I haven't changed anything, AFAIK.
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*slams an OC, withdraws blood into my rig...takes a mouthful, then gobs it as a bloody loogie in MLAnus' fat,piggy mush*
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Yes, except for the meloxicam because I'm trying to see if I can do without it.
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Yes I did, and I remembered to pick up my refill earlier this week. :thumbup:
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*slams an OC, withdraws blood into my rig...takes a mouthful, then gobs it as a bloody loogie in MLAnus' fat,piggy mush*
Yup. You aren't thinking about me at all. :zoinks:
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Not yet.
And I need to get refills.
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Yes.
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Yes I did, all of them, plus :coffee: to wake me up!
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Yes, I took them. and now I dont feel better :doggy:
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Yes, I took the crazy meds.
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Done, and, started my day with a painkiller. :P
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I did.
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Yes.
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And, yes again.
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I woke up from the muscle pain at 4am this morning. Took some paracetamol and managed to get back to sleep, but was in pain again when I woke up later on. I can only take the paracetamol every 4 hours but I only get 3 hours of relief from it.
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Might be worth adding in some ibuprofen peter, or something similar, the two can be mixed safely, as paracetamol isn't an NSAID.
Have you seen a doc to find out whats causing it?
As for me..taken most of them.
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I've had problems with a duodenal ulcer in the not-too-distant past, so I'd rather avoid ibuprofen. The pain is caused by muscle spasms, which in turn is caused by something that's being investigated by a bunch of specialists at the hospital. I'm waiting for the results of a few genetic tests at the moment. The spasms last for 12 hours or more per muscle, and for the past month or two I've been in constant pain since at least a few muscles have been spasming at any given time. One spasm caused an injury 21 months ago that still hasn't fully healed and causes quite severe pain at times.
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I've had problems with a duodenal ulcer in the not-too-distant past, so I'd rather avoid ibuprofen. The pain is caused by muscle spasms, which in turn is caused by something that's being investigated by a bunch of specialists at the hospital. I'm waiting for the results of a few genetic tests at the moment. The spasms last for 12 hours or more per muscle, and for the past month or two I've been in constant pain since at least a few muscles have been spasming at any given time. One spasm caused an injury 21 months ago that still hasn't fully healed and causes quite severe pain at times.
How are your mineral levels? IIRC you do already take magnesium. What about the balance and amount of other minerals?
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I've had problems with a duodenal ulcer in the not-too-distant past, so I'd rather avoid ibuprofen. The pain is caused by muscle spasms, which in turn is caused by something that's being investigated by a bunch of specialists at the hospital. I'm waiting for the results of a few genetic tests at the moment. The spasms last for 12 hours or more per muscle, and for the past month or two I've been in constant pain since at least a few muscles have been spasming at any given time. One spasm caused an injury 21 months ago that still hasn't fully healed and causes quite severe pain at times.
How are your mineral levels? IIRC you do already take magnesium. What about the balance and amount of other minerals?
I don't know what my mineral levels are, but nothing like that has ever been flagged as a problem in the many blood tests I've had. I sometimes take a combined calcium/magnesium supplement, but it can make me feel worse (or better, but more often worse) and generally makes my urine very cloudy, so I'm not routinely taking it at the moment. I've got my hopes set on dopa responsive dystonia at the moment, since it's highly treatable and would explain both the physical issues and the depression, anxiety and ADHD.
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I took mine.
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I took mine except for dexamphetamine because I am not going anywhere today.
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I took mine. I need a refill.
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I'm just about to. I woke up again from the pain last night, but was too tired and in too much pain (it hurts more when I move) to get up and take paracetamol, so I just put up with it and tried to get a bit more sleep for an hour or two.
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I've had problems with a duodenal ulcer in the not-too-distant past, so I'd rather avoid ibuprofen. The pain is caused by muscle spasms, which in turn is caused by something that's being investigated by a bunch of specialists at the hospital. I'm waiting for the results of a few genetic tests at the moment. The spasms last for 12 hours or more per muscle, and for the past month or two I've been in constant pain since at least a few muscles have been spasming at any given time. One spasm caused an injury 21 months ago that still hasn't fully healed and causes quite severe pain at times.
How are your mineral levels? IIRC you do already take magnesium. What about the balance and amount of other minerals?
I don't know what my mineral levels are, but nothing like that has ever been flagged as a problem in the many blood tests I've had. I sometimes take a combined calcium/magnesium supplement, but it can make me feel worse (or better, but more often worse) and generally makes my urine very cloudy, so I'm not routinely taking it at the moment. I've got my hopes set on dopa responsive dystonia at the moment, since it's highly treatable and would explain both the physical issues and the depression, anxiety and ADHD.
Any chance you store stress in your muscles?
I know I do that, sometimes enough to get incapacitated.
Physiotherapy works well for me. My therapist does now and then press me to take magnesium, because it makes it tangibly easier for her to get through the knots.
Have also had a splint for the worst arm muscle for a while, to force it to relax at night. Worked miracles.
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I've had problems with a duodenal ulcer in the not-too-distant past, so I'd rather avoid ibuprofen. The pain is caused by muscle spasms, which in turn is caused by something that's being investigated by a bunch of specialists at the hospital. I'm waiting for the results of a few genetic tests at the moment. The spasms last for 12 hours or more per muscle, and for the past month or two I've been in constant pain since at least a few muscles have been spasming at any given time. One spasm caused an injury 21 months ago that still hasn't fully healed and causes quite severe pain at times.
How are your mineral levels? IIRC you do already take magnesium. What about the balance and amount of other minerals?
I don't know what my mineral levels are, but nothing like that has ever been flagged as a problem in the many blood tests I've had. I sometimes take a combined calcium/magnesium supplement, but it can make me feel worse (or better, but more often worse) and generally makes my urine very cloudy, so I'm not routinely taking it at the moment. I've got my hopes set on dopa responsive dystonia at the moment, since it's highly treatable and would explain both the physical issues and the depression, anxiety and ADHD.
Any chance you store stress in your muscles?
I know I do that, sometimes enough to get incapacitated.
Physiotherapy works well for me. My therapist does now and then press me to take magnesium, because it makes it tangibly easier for her to get through the knots.
Have also had a splint for the worst arm muscle for a while, to force it to relax at night. Worked miracles.
If I am storing stress in my muscles, it's giving them a good workout; I saw the GP today and he was impressed with the muscle development in the regions where I get the most pain (I haven't been able to intentionally work out for the past couple of years for various reasons). I told the GP that the co-codamol wasn't working for me, so he gave me ibuprofen and some proton pump blockers so that the ibuprofen wouldn't cause problems with what's left of the duodenal ulcer I had a year or two ago. I asked him about muscle relaxants, but he didn't want to go down that route.
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The combination of ibuprofen and paracetamol is working quite nicely so far. I just hope my stomach and liver hold out.
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I took the crazy meds.
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I took my morning ones including the new one (fluoxetine). I have taken it in the past - it was the very first antidepressant I tried. It did nothing back then but then I was only on a low dose. I have to go back to the psych in a month to let him know how it is going.
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Yes, and I needed it.
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The combination of ibuprofen and paracetamol is working quite nicely so far. I just hope my stomach and liver hold out.
You seem to have been stuck with a shitstorm of problems, I am sorry for that. :hug:
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As for me, I am medicated, caffeinated and on the move! :viking:
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I took the crazy meds and the eye drops.
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Yes
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No. Need to wait another `1 3/4 hours or so to pick up a refill from the docs today.
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Yes I did! Off to work! Thanksgiving is this Thursday! :GA:
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Taken my new could-potentially-turn-me-into-a-sex-maniac meds.
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Taken my new could-potentially-turn-me-into-a-sex-maniac meds.
Can I be first in line? Please? Please?
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Taken my new could-potentially-turn-me-into-a-sex-maniac meds.
Can I be first in line? Please? Please?
Just as long as the line is orderly and there's no pushing/shoving/biting/crying/fainting.
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I'll have the Palace guards maintain order.
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I'm guessing L-dopa, or a dopamine agonist, peter?
I've been on one of the latter, piribedil, that I trialled along with the histamine-modulating drug betahistine, as part of a nootropic regime. Found no hint of any satyrisis though (thankfully...there seems to be a shortage of Kanner's and HFA girls. I do date aspies also, but the former are my sexual preference by a long shot)
If I'm right in my guessing, I.e a DA receptor agonist, or L-DOPA (as L-DOPA/carbidopa combination of course), its not just sexual mania they can cause, but they have been known to induce compulsive spending, and gambling, as well as increased impulsivity
You have mentioned paralytic episodes, muscle pain and stiffness
Have you been checked for parkinson's? do you also get muscle tremors, and perhaps have to move slowly?
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I get the slow movement (very slow; sometimes I slow down so much that I'm basically frozen in place), but I don't get tremors; just muscle twitches and fasciculations. I only get tremors when I take sertraline at >50mg/day. I'm not sure if I've been checked for Parkinson's, but I'm sure the hospital specialists would have looked into it if they thought I had any chance of having it; they've tested me for plenty of other obscure things that they thought I had a very marginal chance of having, just to be safe.
The new med is Sinemet Plus (http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbidopa/levodopa); it's a combination of L-dopa and carbidopa. The carbidopa increases the CNS selectivity of the dopamine boost from the L-dopa and reduces the rise in dopamine in the peripheral nervous system. Still, it's not perfect; I got really nauseous for a while after taking my first dose, and that was 1/6th of what I'm supposed to be taking 6 weeks from now. My starting dose is 1 tablet of 25mg carbidopa/100mg L-dopa per day, and I've to increase it by 1 tablet per day each week until I get to 6 tablets per day (150mg carbidopa/600mg L-dopa).
My chance of developing hedonistic homeostatic dysregulation (http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine_dysregulation_syndrome) is vanishingly small, from what I've gathered. I'm naturally hedonistically challenged, and I'm just hoping that it'll bring me up to a normal level of enjoyment and motivation. I think the dysregulation is more of an issue in Parkinson's patients where they're on very high doses for years (>1500mg of levodopa per day), and had a natural tendency towards that kind of thing to start with.
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Took my meds. :viking:
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Most of them. About to take my last dose of oxy for the night (one of the 20mg ones I got to up and add to my usual 40s), an antihistamine, and my late doses of clonidine and chlormethiazole. And some APAP if theres any in my old man's drawer. I don't have any myself, as I usually do not take parashitamol at all. Its next to completely useless. But right now, the way my hip is flaring up I need every tiny scrap of help I can get.
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Took my sex-maniac meds, but going to see the doctor again about the intense nausea it's causing; the letter from the neurologist said to prescribe Domperidone (http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Domperidone) if that occurs (not to be confused with Dom Pérignon, though that would be fine too). Maybe I'll be a lactating sex-maniac.
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Eye's causing me more pain again so I took a Tramadol.
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Took my sex-maniac meds, but going to see the doctor again about the intense nausea it's causing; the letter from the neurologist said to prescribe Domperidone (http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Domperidone) if that occurs (not to be confused with Dom Pérignon, though that would be fine too). Maybe I'll be a lactating sex-maniac.
Ha, one of its trade names is Nomit. Replace one letter and you have...
Took my meds.
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Didn't end up bothering with the APAP, or chlormethiazole last night, I just nodded off to sleep in my computer chair.
Just taken my morning OC-40. Going to have the 20mg one in a moment, after I've had a rollup.
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Tramadol's finally helping. :2thumbsup:
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Belated, but, yes, I did.
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I took a whopping dose of N-[2-(5-methoxy-1H-indol-3-yl)ethyl] acetamide last night. Ground it up into some hydroxilic acid and inserted it per os. Man, was that a crazy night. Passed the fuck out afterwards and didn't regain consciousness for 8 whole hours.
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I've never found melatonin to be an effective sleep aid, but it does seem to cause some crazy-vivid, in some cases, lucid dreaming.
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I took a whopping dose of N-[2-(5-methoxy-1H-indol-3-yl)ethyl] acetamide last night. Ground it up into some hydroxilic acid and inserted it per os. Man, was that a crazy night. Passed the fuck out afterwards and didn't regain consciousness for 8 whole hours.
:lol1:
Sounds great.
* starts a quest through cupboards, to have a similar experience. *
I've never found melatonin to be an effective sleep aid, but it does seem to cause some crazy-vivid, in some cases, lucid dreaming.
Works for both my kids, does a bit for me, but not in changing my dreams. They can be everything without any medication.
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I've never found melatonin to be an effective sleep aid, but it does seem to cause some crazy-vivid, in some cases, lucid dreaming.
It certainly can't compete with your usual massive doses of hard narcotics. But can be pretty potent to people with normal biology.
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Melatonin never did much to me, but it helps my son a lot.
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Melatonin is an odd one in terms of sleep aids. It seems not to be so much of a tranquillizer or hypnotic/sedative, but more of a regulator of circadian rhythms . I've tried it before, and for a time got it on RX. Couldn't really tell weather it was working or not. But it didn't seem to help with my sleep problem, that being a massive delay in sleep onset time, often as much as 6-7 hours before I'd fall asleep, at least, before I found the right combination of meds, which helps with that as a side effect.
The effects on dreaming were interesting though. Its triggered an OOBE once before, after smoking just a little herb whilst taking the melatonin.
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I've never found melatonin to be an effective sleep aid, but it does seem to cause some crazy-vivid, in some cases, lucid dreaming.
A friend of mine has used it, and had some trippy dreams. I want to try! :toy:
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Ebay couldbe.
Don't bother with any of those ultra-microdose tablets, though. Some ripoff merchants claim 'scientifically tested/approved' etc. etc. about sub-milligram doses. Personally I'd recommend between 5 and 10mg. Its very safe stuff, pretty much nontoxic and is in general, well tolerated.
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Melatonin helps me to sleep, but it leaves me feeling groggy in the morning.
I just took my new anti-sex-maniac-pills-induced-nausea-pills. I'll take the sex maniac pills in 30 minutes. The GP was curious about how I was getting on with the sex maniac pills, and said it's an unusual treatment. He seemed pleased with the results, which have been quite positive other than the nausea (which the Domperidone is supposed to pretty much eliminate).
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Ebay couldbe.
You can buy melatonin at any drug store, pharmacy, grocery store, or Wal-Mart.
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Ah. Its rx-only in the UK. Although legal to buy and possess without a script. I don't see why they made it rx only, given its vast margin of safety, and near lack of either side effects, addiction/abuse potential or toxicity.
Would be far more convenient if they would just stock it in health food shops, pharmacies etc. rather than having to go online, pay shipping, wait for delivery etc.
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I take 10 mg Melatonin and a 10 mg Zolpidem (Brand name, Ambien) each evening. The will put me to sleep in about 30 minutes.
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Zolpidem is WEIRD shit. I've been rx'd it before, and at even half the recommended 10mg dose, it made me trip like crazy. In a very different way to true psychedelics such as psilocybin, DMT, AMT, etc.
Reminded me much more of that other funky GABA agonist dissociative/psychedelic, muscimol, from fly agaric mushrooms.
Had something similar happen to me on the other Z-drug, zopiclone. That gave me really peculiar auditory hallucinations...I'd be lying in bed, and all of a sudden, hear cartoonish springing, 'boing' type noises, popping, crackling sounds, and all sorts of other stuff that sounded like it had come straight from a looney tunes cartoon.
The other one, zaleplon, did nothing whatsoever, completely useless, ultrashort acting crap.
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Zolpidem is WEIRD shit. I've been rx'd it before, and at even half the recommended 10mg dose, it made me trip like crazy. In a very different way to true psychedelics such as psilocybin, DMT, AMT, etc.
Reminded me much more of that other funky GABA agonist dissociative/psychedelic, muscimol, from fly agaric mushrooms.
Had something similar happen to me on the other Z-drug, zopiclone. That gave me really peculiar auditory hallucinations...I'd be lying in bed, and all of a sudden, hear cartoonish springing, 'boing' type noises, popping, crackling sounds, and all sorts of other stuff that sounded like it had come straight from a looney tunes cartoon.
The other one, zaleplon, did nothing whatsoever, completely useless, ultrashort acting crap.
I guess that's why Medicine isn't an exact science. I've not had any problems with Zolpidem. PA will go under (sleep) with 2 aspirins, 4 aspirins have no effect on my sleep.
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I'm somewhat surprised that zolpidem is still used much, quite a lot of people have that psychedelic/dissociative trippy response to it. There have been lots of cases of people taking just the rx'd dosage, then going out arse naked and doing all sorts of things whilst on tripped out autopilot. Even driving, causing accidents, and afterwards, people have absolutely zero memory of the incidents, its VERY amnestic stuff.
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I'm somewhat surprised that zolpidem is still used much, quite a lot of people have that psychedelic/dissociative trippy response to it. There have been lots of cases of people taking just the rx'd dosage, then going out arse naked and doing all sorts of things whilst on tripped out autopilot. Even driving, causing accidents, and afterwards, people have absolutely zero memory of the incidents, its VERY amnestic stuff.
PA and I joked about me having sex unconsciously while taking it. So far it hasn't happened.
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Ebay couldbe.
Don't bother with any of those ultra-microdose tablets, though. Some ripoff merchants claim 'scientifically tested/approved' etc. etc. about sub-milligram doses. Personally I'd recommend between 5 and 10mg. Its very safe stuff, pretty much nontoxic and is in general, well tolerated.
You can buy it at just about any drugstore or health shop in the US and Canada.
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Ah. Its rx-only in the UK. Although legal to buy and possess without a script. I don't see why they made it rx only, given its vast margin of safety, and near lack of either side effects, addiction/abuse potential or toxicity.
Would be far more convenient if they would just stock it in health food shops, pharmacies etc. rather than having to go online, pay shipping, wait for delivery etc.
It's a modern-day Catch-22. Someone once marketed it (or ogt it labelled as) as medicine when introducing it in select countries in Europe. These countries all require clinical studies and tests before approving it, but since it's an over-the-counter product where it is produced, the companies had no interest in conducting such expensive tests for what essentially are small niche markets, for the most part.
It's interesting that the UK still accepts its rx status, considering the size of the population. Sweden, OTOH, is even worse when it comes to prescribing Melatonin. Basically, they don't, not any longer.
/end pet peeve
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Zolpidem is WEIRD shit. I've been rx'd it before, and at even half the recommended 10mg dose, it made me trip like crazy. In a very different way to true psychedelics such as psilocybin, DMT, AMT, etc.
Reminded me much more of that other funky GABA agonist dissociative/psychedelic, muscimol, from fly agaric mushrooms.
Had something similar happen to me on the other Z-drug, zopiclone. That gave me really peculiar auditory hallucinations...I'd be lying in bed, and all of a sudden, hear cartoonish springing, 'boing' type noises, popping, crackling sounds, and all sorts of other stuff that sounded like it had come straight from a looney tunes cartoon.
The other one, zaleplon, did nothing whatsoever, completely useless, ultrashort acting crap.
I guess that's why Medicine isn't an exact science. I've not had any problems with Zolpidem. PA will go under (sleep) with 2 aspirins, 4 aspirins have no effect on my sleep.
Strange isn't it. My mum gets sleepy when she takes paracetamol.
Years ago I took the antidepressant Effexor (venlafaxine). It gave me really bad panic attacks. Yet it is meant to treat anxiety and panic disorder.
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Zolpidem is so strongly amnestic you may not even realize if you did, QV.
Hmm...come to think of it, this might just be the stuff to have some fun with in that way. I can think of several cute classically autie girls who I'd just LOVE to have my drink spiked by, and be used in all sorts of very, very naughty ways by while out cold :D
Interesting about your mom on APAP. I wouldn't be surprised if its due to paracetamol being a prodrug for AM-404, an endocannabinoid reuptake inhibitor/fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibitor (FAAH inhibitor), that blocks degredation of the body's endogenous cannabinoid neurotransmitters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM-404 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM-404)
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No.
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Zolpidem is so strongly amnestic you may not even realize if you did, QV.
Hmm...come to think of it, this might just be the stuff to have some fun with in that way. I can think of several cute classically autie girls who I'd just LOVE to have my drink spiked by, and be used in all sorts of very, very naughty ways by while out cold :D
Interesting about your mom on APAP. I wouldn't be surprised if its due to paracetamol being a prodrug for AM-404, an endocannabinoid reuptake inhibitor/fatty acid amide hydrolase inhibitor (FAAH inhibitor), that blocks degredation of the body's endogenous cannabinoid neurotransmitters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM-404 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM-404)
Come to think of it, PA has been rather tired these days. ;)
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Ebay couldbe.
Don't bother with any of those ultra-microdose tablets, though. Some ripoff merchants claim 'scientifically tested/approved' etc. etc. about sub-milligram doses. Personally I'd recommend between 5 and 10mg. Its very safe stuff, pretty much nontoxic and is in general, well tolerated.
You can buy it at just about any drugstore or health shop in the US and Canada.
Heck, I could even get some at the supermarket sometime.
But not for awhile, I'm dogsitting next week and I can't afford to sleep too deeply. :P
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Yes.
Although I didn't take a pain pill or muscle relaxant last night, I slept well even with the rigors of Christmas shopping.
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I did.
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Just took the first of the evening meds.
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Just took 3x192ng chlormethiazole capsand 60mg of my oxycontin. Still need to take some clonidine, and I think I'll have some paracetamol along with some tizanidine, a muscle relaxer/adrenal blocker.
Been having just about the worst flareup of my knee and hip thats ever happened before, think I may have torn something in my knee. I can only sit down if I have a huge pile of cushions and pillows under me, and lying down in bed hurts like hell.
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I took some for cramps I was having in my uterus area and in my left leg.
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Yes, and this morning I will pick up the refill I ordered. :thumbup:
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Yes. I took the crazy meds and the eye drops.
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yes
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Yes, although several hours late.
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I just did.
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Yup.
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Just picked up a refill, just this minute got home and took some of my meds (oxycontin, an antihistamine and chlormethiazole), about to take some tizanidine (muscle relaxant/adrenergic blocking agent) to ease the cramp in my leg.
Much better. Christ...last night was awful. Felt like my leg was going to tear itself in half the cramp got that bad. Its been there for many months, constantly, and the only break I get is when I take my muscle relaxers. The tizanidine works bloody great, but I only have 2x2mg pills per day on my rx, although I'm trying to persuade my doc to give me a bit more. The problem is, its short acting. Kills a few birds with one stone, so to speak, as aside from being a muscle relaxant, its also an alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonist, which helps stop the adrenal storms I've had problems with (although thankfully not had one lately), and also stops me overloading, kills overloads before they ever even get a chance to get past the stage of mild sensory irritation.
Only lasts a few hours though, so I don't take it during the day, unless I'm starting for some reason, to get overloaded, usually I go without during the day, so I can take both at night, and prevent the cramping from stopping me getting any sleep.
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Yes, all 14 pills. Although very late in the morning.
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Uggh...my hip is STILL twatting sore as hades, despite shooting 5xOC 40s, and 2-3of the 20mg pills I recently, after months and months of agitating for a dose increase, managed to get added to my pain management regimen.
Going to take some parashitamol after I've eaten my chinese (double portion of king prawns in black pepper sauce, mmmmmmm...delish!), don't know why, as I've always found APAP to be near enough inactive, even when given via an IV line. Need to take my indomethacin too, a strong NSAID-type antiinflammatory,which needs to be taken with food, to prevent it doing a number on one's GI tract.
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Yes I did, right after I gave the dogs their meds. :thumbup:
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Yes, I did.
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I took the evening ones. Don't know if I mentioned this, but I found out Saturday that I should have been taking my arthritis medicine twice a day instead of once a day. It helps to read the label on the bottle correctly.
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My hip is starting to get a bit sore. Could do with another hit of oxy.
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Yes, and Dr checked and prescribed a new batch today too.
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Doubled my dose of sex-maniac meds, as per my schedule.
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I have taken my meds and so have the dogs. :angel:
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The docs are taking your meds couldbe ? isn't that a little unusual? :autism:
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My hip is starting to get a bit sore. Could do with another hit of oxy.
Grapefruit juice goes really well with that. A couple glasses a day helps intensify the analgesic properties.
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The docs are taking your meds couldbe ? isn't that a little unusual? :autism:
My dog got hold of one of my dexamphetamine pills when she was a puppy, sucked on it for a bit (they have sugar in them, and they're sweet), and spat it out after about half of it had dissolved. She then spent the next few hours hyperventilating, alternating between racing around the house and hiding under my desk, and generally not having a great time.
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Thanks for the tip MLA. Although I did know about that one. Works for some opioids, but not others. Not had any grapefruit juice in a while actually, might just pick some up, I love the stuff, especially the kind with the fruit pulp still in it. Or better yet, fresh grapefruit for breakfast, reminds me of when I was little, used to have it for breakfast when I went to visit my (now dead) grandmother.
I'm thinking of asking my doc about flupirtine, although I'm not sure if its used in the UK or not. Its a novel, non-NSAID, non-steroidal, non-opioid analgesic. Not to replace my oxy, indomethacin (strong arsed NSAID) and corticosteroid shots but as an add-on.Novel mode of action, IIRC it works by works by opening of a subtype of inward-rectifying G-protein coupled potassium channels, having downstream effects as an NMDA receptor antagonist, stabilizing the voltage-dependent Mg2++ blockade of the NMDAr complex ion channel. That should give it some efficacy
against neuropathic pain, something which opioids are not very good at.
I'd quite like to give it a trial if its available, nonaddictive, with apparently few side effects and little development of tolerance.
The GFJ trick works by inhibition of hepatic cytochrome P450-3A4 enzymem one of a fair few CYP-P450 type liver enzymes, and one that generally munches up many opioids into inactive metabolites, and it does the same for benzodiazepines also, and will make them last longer.
In fact, quite a lot of meds warn to be careful with, or not to consume grapefruit juice whilst taking XYZ medication.
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In fact, quite a lot of meds warn to be careful with, or not to consume grapefruit juice whilst taking XYZ medication.
Including oxy :M
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Yes, I took mine
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The docs are taking your meds couldbe ? isn't that a little unusual? :autism:
No, the dogs take their own meds as directed. :laugh:
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I almost forgot. This thread is very useful, sometimes.
/takes his meds
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There was an article in a recent newspaper on the GFJ interaction actually. Seemingly its much more widespread than originally thought, including cancer drugs, anticonvulsants, some immunosuppressants, statins and all sorts of other things.
Hardly surprising though, given some 90% or more of drugs are metabolized by one or more CYP-P450 liver enzymes. Sometimes GFJ increases plasma concentrations, and sometimes it does the opposite, rendering the drug less effective.
Just about to take my morning OC 20, and a muscle relaxant. Finding it really hard to bend at the moment, I just can't manage it, to bend down at the hip/waist. Tried to pic up a fag I'd dropped in the kitchen before it burnt the doormat, and I had to balance on the counter top and bend only at the good knee.
Time to stick some steroid cream on my swollen feet too. Had to go out earlier, and I could barely fit them into some loose, usually comfortable slippers.
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Oh and I checked the package insert for my oxy 40s, and it made no mention at all of GFJ. Was slightly surprised about that, usually big pharma go out of their way to cover their own sleazy arses...hell,one brand of clonidine I got, actually came with a large print warning to consult your doctor before taking any, if the patient is in a coma :autism:
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In fact, quite a lot of meds warn to be careful with, or not to consume grapefruit juice whilst taking XYZ medication.
Including oxy :M
They started warning people when the grapefruit diet became popular.
I took my meds about 2 hours ago.
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Took my dexamphetamine, Sinemet, domperidone, sertraline, ibuprofen and omeprazole. Spent an hour lying in bed with a cold sweat and nausea from the Sinemet.
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Shit, no, I didn't! I need to get on that right now! :GA:
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I did.
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affirmative
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I took mine, and made sure my canine buddies took theirs too. :)
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Yes I did, and gave the dogs their meds for the last time till next visit. :thumbup:
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Yes I did. They are good for me.
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I did, yesterday.
The ones of today will have to wait till after a short night of sleep.
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Yes I did. They are good for me.
We are all individuals. :borg:
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In fifty minutes, I'll have my first dosage.
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Yes I did. They are good for me.
We are all individuals. :borg:
I'm not! :P
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Just took my night meds: reboxetine, sodium valproate and ziprasidone.
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Yes.
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Strattera, L-Lysine, and multivitamin, all down the hatch! :thumbup:
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Yes. :2thumbsup:
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Not yet, it's only 1:11 a.m. here. WTF am I doing up so late? :duh:
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Not yet, it's only 1:11 a.m. here. WTF am I doing up so late? :duh:
Go to bed. :police:
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Not yet, it's only 1:11 a.m. here. WTF am I doing up so late? :duh:
Go to bed. :police:
Just a few more posts. :angel:
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I even remembered my lunchtime meds.
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I even remembered my lunchtime meds.
Thank you, was about ot forget those too. Forgot the morning methylphenidate, but, did get my L-Lysine, and did apply my penciclovir.
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done.
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All set! I am grateful to my cow friend for mentioning L-Lysine. :)
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JUST got back from an appt with my doc. Finally got enough of my meds to last me until a couple of days from now, when I have an early morning appt.
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Just took my morning dose of oxy, and about to do the same with the clonidine.
Had that early morning appointment, as crowborn annoying as it was to have to get up and be there for 10:30 am.
Glad I did though, as I finally had managed to get an appointment with my regular doc (who is often on holiday and damn difficult to get hold of. Unless I get him to prebook my next appointment every time I go in, all of them get taken the moment the surgery opens)
And he switched me from 60mg of my oxy twice daily, to 80 twice a day, and it has really made all the difference. I was pretty shocked at the time, as I didn't even ASK him to. Normally its about as easy as juggling puff adders to get appropriate levels of analgesia out of ANY doc in this country. But he said that he realizes how much pain I'm in now, after finding out that a walk of maybe one hour into town leaves me having to rest my bad leg and lie down for 2 days after, 3 on a bad day.
I'll be very glad when I FINALLY get my MRI scan done, as my doc is going to re-do the methylprednisolone/local anaesthetic block for my knee and hip after that. Those worked fantastic at easing the stiffness in both my hip and knee both, and to a degree, to bring the swelling down I get in my knee. (its been even more severely swollen, just below my kneecap, from where I had surgery to remove some hypertrophic bone growth from behind my left patellar tendon, and even on strong antiinflammatories, its been refusing to go down, even after 6-7 years)
Bloody fed up with it.
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All set! I am grateful to my cow friend for mentioning L-Lysine. :)
Me too. :)
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You two are making me all shy.
I took a break from all the meds this weekend. L-Lysine, because I forgot to take it with me, the rest, because I wanted the break.
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I forgot to take the morning ones, but I will take the evening and night time ones.
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You two are making me all shy.
I took a break from all the meds this weekend. L-Lysine, because I forgot to take it with me, the rest, because I wanted the break.
Now your milk will be all-natural! :thumbup:
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Seems like you've been looking forward to drinking Hyke's milk.
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Seems like you've been looking forward to drinking Hyke's milk.
I do appreciate fine dairy foods! :cheese:
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You two are making me all shy.
I took a break from all the meds this weekend. L-Lysine, because I forgot to take it with me, the rest, because I wanted the break.
Now your milk will be all-natural! :thumbup:
Told you before, I have retired from the honourable task of giving milk.
Now I am only good to deliver some fine, hopefully very mature, leather in the far, far future.
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Just went in for a repeat steroid shot in my bad knee/hip, and my doc gave me my regular meds 2 days early to save me going in twice.
Just took the morning dose of clonidine, and shot a couple of oxy 80s.
About to take my morning doses of indomethacin (anti-inflammatory), chlormethiazole (I take it to stomp on my myoclonus problem/infrequent myoclonic seizures, but its also a detox med for pissheads and a barbiturate-esque sedative/hypnotic.)
Just took my early dose of chlorphenamine too. May take 2-4mg of tizanidine, a myorelaxant which works pretty well to potentiate opioids too but later, if I do. Don't really need it atm, as the double sized shot of oxycontin made damn sure that I am having no issues with the cramp in my calf.
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I did take my meds.
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I took mine, almost wish I hadn't, since I could not nap afterward. :tard:
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Yes, but they don't seem to have helped. I'm all over the fucking place.
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Just did. Not feeling focussed yet, though.
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About to take afternoon meds.
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:thumbup:
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In the mood to sedate all people within a 100 meter range at the least.
But, refrained from medicating half the village, only took my own pills.
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Now, there's an idea, I could take my meds.
Last batch will be late then, but, since I will have to be wide awake and alert, because on the way home, till 11:30 pm, that's OK.
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Just got to get home from the hospital after my MRI So i can take my oxy, clonidine, a couple of sedatives, finish cooking my pepperoni pizza and crash in bed for the rest of the night
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Yes
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Yes, I did. Wondering if I need to adjust them, though. I've been OCD-ish lately.
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A second yes for my evening meds. Only the nighttime ones to go.
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Mmm...thats better. Finally got a good few hours sleep. Was so tired, that the oxy/chlormethiazole/clonidine/tizanidine +a sedating antihistamine put me out whilst still in a sitting position at the computer.
Just woke up, sprawled over the keyboard :P
Sleep deprivation really doesn't play well with me, even being awake for 2 days leaves me completely out of it.
Just took 4x192mg chlormethiazole, about to get into bed, smoke my pipe and read the newspaper while I wait for those to work and put me to sleep.
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I'm feeling so left out. I don't take meds on a regular basis like you guys do. :(
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I just did.
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I'm feeling so left out. I don't take meds on a regular basis like you guys do. :(
Don't worry,
Your time will come. In fifty years you may have one of those nifty boxes, where you can meticulously sort all your pills for a week, into three or four different portions per day.
Time for L-Lysine and methylphenidate.
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That's a relief.
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:indeed:
Time heals a lot.
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Its a bugger remembering when to take what, I'm on so many different ones:
clonidine, to prevent overloading-50mcg TDS (blocks or reduces [nor]adrenaline release])
tizanidine-a myorelaxant, works the same way as clonidine, although shorter acting and less of a hypotensive agent, 4mg BD. Enough of a dose of this stuff makes for a guaranteed knockout within minutes, no matter how badly I couldn't sleep beforehand.
Indomethacin-an NSAID type antiinflammatory, for my knee/hip problems, 50mg, TDS.
Oxycodone, as oxycontin 80s, nominally twice a day, but it varies according to how bad everything is hurting...and weather I fancy a little extra now and then :P
Chlormethiazole-mainly used as a sleeping pill, or alcoholic's detox med. I take it as an anticonvulsant, to prevent myoclonic twitching in my arms/legs/chest wall, I don't usually have full-blown seizures, although it has happened before. Barely bothers me since I got on this stuff, works great. Although it smells funny and eats through plastic like acid burns through wood, or acetone melts through polystyrene foam. 192mg BD. And handy, as I can use it just as a normal sleep aid if ever I need one.
Xylometazoline decongestant spray as needed, because clonidine and tizanidine both cause me nasal congestion as a side effect.
Fexofenadine, 120mg/d. Nonsedating antihistamine to stop the oxy and chlormethiazole-induced histamine release being annoying.
Chlorphenamine, or chlorpheniramine as the yanks call it-4mg QDS, although I can take a couple more if needs be and the pain meds are causing excessive itching.
Movicol-prevents opioid constipation from happening.
Gaviscon, to protect my stomach from the antiinflammatories.
Pantoprazole-20mg/d, a proton pump inhibitor that lessens acid secretion into the stomach. Protects my GI tract from the indomethacin, and helps stop acid reflux bothering me, as it quite often does otherwise.
I think thats everything.
Aside from OTC meds, paracetamol as and when, if my leg flares up and I'm desperate enough, as its useless bloody stuff, don't know why I even bother.
Codeine/morphine/tincture of opium cough syrup. Both to help when my knee/hip are really bothering me. Handy to have these as OTC meds, so when I'm out in town or the city center I can grab a couple of bottles of cough mixture from the nearest pharmacies and drink those. And it makes for a nice way to relax too :D
Although its a pain in the arse, pharmacies are only allowed to sell one bottle of cough syrup per customer, which means I have to trek round town visiting a few chemists to get enough to break through my opioid tolerance-it takes me about 100mg of morphine orally for me to feel it, unless I block its hepatic metabolism via CYP-P450-3A4 and CYP-P450-2D6 using a big dose of codeine, plus some grapefruit juice, in order to saturate said enzyme pathway.
And I find that NMDA antagonists such as n-ethylketamine, deschloroketamine, or 4-MeO-PCP help reduce opioid tolerance, as well as help with the neuropathic pain, which isn't really very responsive to opioids. Not to mention, I love a good K-hole, or the equivalent hole experience with PCP or ket analogs :autism:
Just took one OC80, my pantoprazole and 75mcg of clonidine.
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I'm feeling so left out. I don't take meds on a regular basis like you guys do. :(
Nobody takes regular meds like he does :zoinks:
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the oxy/chlormethiazole/clonidine/tizanidine +a sedating antihistamine put me out whilst still in a sitting position at the computer.
Nodding out again Snookums? Tsk tsk. Did you manage not to piss yourself this time?
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I'm feeling so left out. I don't take meds on a regular basis like you guys do. :(
Don't worry,
Your time will come. In fifty years you may have one of those nifty boxes, where you can meticulously sort all your pills for a week, into three or four different portions per day.
Time for L-Lysine and methylphenidate.
:LOL: Each one of us has at least one. I take 19 pills a day, the PR takes 11 pills a day and PA takes 9 pills a day plus eye drops. Since I'm in charge of dispensing the pills, a pill box is a critical need.
As a hint from someone who has had to chase the blasted pills across the floor, if you do use a pill box with hinged compartments keep it in a ziplock bag. When it falls on the floor (and it will) the pills stay in the bag. The ziplock bag also keeps moisture out and pests out.
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There was no first time forthat, MLAnus. I am not like you, I have those things called 'class' and 'humanity'. You can wallow in your own ordure, both physical and verbal all you want; I''ll pass on that myself.
As for my meds, I just recently had both my oxy dose upped, and that of tizanidine. Still getting used to it. 80mg of oxy by mouth won't make me nod out, just make me very relaxed. But with the increase in my tizanidine, plus being on chlormethiazole, and clonidine, that lot sure will do. Tizanidine is pretty heavily sedating stuff on its own, I only need to take maybe 1-2x extra of the new 4mg pills I'm getting for it to knock me out cold.
QV-you do the meds for the PR and PA? how come they don't do it themselves?
I wouldn't mind one of those weekly dispenser type things. I do have a small traveling size 1 day one, but its far too small to fit all my meds in it. And its plastic, which means I can't carry the chlormethiazole, its really aggressive in the way it attacks plastic. Can only be dispensed in glass bottles. I've had it given by the pharmacy I used to use, in plastic ones, despite telling them of that property, and they were too stingy to give me glass ones.
The result was the vapors seeping from the capsules turned the bottles cloudy, sometimes softened them, and occasionally even welded the bottle caps to the bottles themselves, leaving me to have to saw the tops off with a hacksaw,
The pharmacy I get all my meds from now is great though, they don't have a problem with giving me the glass ones every time. Although I couldn't keep using the pharmacy I used to anyway, as they told me that chlormethiazole was no longer available and had been discontinued by the manufacturers, which turned out to be so much verbal diarrheoea-it was just their suppliers stopped doing it.
The place I score from now though is great. They always make sure that the three meds I always need to take right away on getting hold of them, my oxy, clonidine and chlormethiazole, are outside the main bag of my meds when I get a new script, so I can get them out quick without having to search through everything.
And lol...they have a REALLY good looking head pharmacist too. Tall, very, very thin, small, perky looking rack, and a stunner of a smile. If she were a spazz too...I so would have asked her out :evillaugh:
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There was no first time forthat, MLAnus. I am not like you, I have those things called 'class' and 'humanity'. You can wallow in your own ordure, both physical and verbal all you want; I''ll pass on that myself.
Memory problems again? :(
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I took mine. I'd love to be without them but it seems I actually function better with them.
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@ Lestat - The PR functions on a 9 y/o level and isn't to be trusted to dispense her own meds. Also with her Cerebral Palsy we'd probably be chasing pills around the room. Using one hand makes it difficult as you've experienced.
PA is going to be 71 in Jan and has attention and vision problems. He's probably an undiagnosed ADHD - Inattentive type, but on the mild side. He gets flustered when dealing with too many things (like too many meds) at once. I let him manage his eye drops and rely on him to take his pills, but I put them in the box.
BTW, I've been the principal driver since he wrecked his car before our 3rd date. Driving makes him anxious.
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How old is her ladyship, your highness?
If she is 18+, she might want to come and join us.s If ever she does, of course, I'll do my utmost to make her feel welcomed:)
And yes, I've took most of my meds, the oxycontin, some chlormethiazole, clonidine and the proton pump inhibitor, pantoprazole. Along with some fexofenadine and chlorphenamine, both antihistamines,because my oxy was making me itch.
Still need to take my antiinflammatory though. Need to eat first before I do that.
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Yes, but they don't seem to have helped. I'm all over the fucking place.
Every once in awhile, when I first started taking Strattera, I felt that way.
I wondered on those occasions if a few empty capsules had made it into my batch. :apondering:
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How old is her ladyship, your highness?
If she is 18+, she might want to come and join us.s If ever she does, of course, I'll do my utmost to make her feel welcomed:)
And yes, I've took most of my meds, the oxycontin, some chlormethiazole, clonidine and the proton pump inhibitor, pantoprazole. Along with some fexofenadine and chlorphenamine, both antihistamines,because my oxy was making me itch.
Still need to take my antiinflammatory though. Need to eat first before I do that.
She's 23. The PR managed to get on the site a time or 2 when I'd stepped away from the computer while logged in. Fortunately she only pm'd a member or two. I'd be willing to let her join, but with her level of immaturity she'd be scared off with the first boob picture or mention of penis. Besides, I don't think this website is ready for multi-generational members.
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Do we have any, as you word it 'multi-generational' members here? anybody's kids, or parents, other relatives here as a pair?
If the PR doesn't like boobs (really, there is no accounting for taste..surely, everybody lurves a nice pair of boobs :P), or mention of dick, muff, interaction 'twixt dick and muff, then she can always walk away, to come back later, or not, as she feels like it.
Although it wouldn't take long to find out what her reaction would be, lol. This place is a hotbed of iniquity an sick autie/aspie humor. And thats just the way we like it :autism:
Took my meds, plus a bottle of codeine cough mixture, because my knee is pretty damned sore at the moment, and the oxy wasn't covering it. That can't kick in too soon right now.
Next time I see my doc, I need to remember to ask him for something for breakthrough levels of pain.
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Yes, but they don't seem to have helped. I'm all over the fucking place.
Every once in awhile, when I first started taking Strattera, I felt that way.
I wondered on those occasions if a few empty capsules had made it into my batch. :apondering:
I have had bottles of dexamphetamine like that. I wondered if they were just blank pills. I remember once I took 13 in a day when my regular dosage is meant to be 6. And I still didn't feel any effect. I was at uni trying to write and I couldn't concentrate no matter how hard I tried. I ended up just going home pretty annoyed.
Just took my afternoon pills. I don't have a pill box except for one I keep for a day's meds when I go out. I keep all my meds in a drawer in my room and pop them out as I need them.
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Yes, I took min. I think.
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I just took an L-Lysine pill from the batch I bought tonight. :headbang2:
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:thumbup:
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No. Not taken anything as of yet. I got my meds very late yesterday, as I could only manage to get a last minute appointment, luckily just before the pharmacies closed, which meant I could take what should have been the morning dose of my meds yesterday evening, and double up on the oxycontin and chlormethiazole.
Haven't had anything yet, although since I've just eaten I can take my indomethacin (antiinflammatory, should always be taken with food, and preferably a slug of gaviscon to protect the stomach, as NSAIDs can do a number on the GI tract, and indomethacin is known to be a bugger for that; although I have had no trouble myself)
Unless one counts the transdermal scopolamine patch for my recent sickness that I put on yesterday, that'll last for another 4 days or so, and a couple of squirts of xylometazoline nasal decongestant spray. Haven't taken a morning dose of oxy yet, I don't need it in any great rush, at the moment, as doubling up on it late in the day, having had none in the morning due to my late appointment means its still working at full strength. can take my time with thatl although I'll probably take it in a few minutes or so. I'm in no hip or knee pain, certainly not withdrawing from it, and still hardly able to keep my eyes open for more than about 5 seconds at a time, without nodding off into little micro-sleeps.
I do have a pretty sore neck and lower back though, so I will take the morning one anyway I think, plus a couple of muscle relaxers (tizanidine). Think my neck and shoulders are sore and stiff from having fallen asleep sat at the computer, using the keyboard for an impromptu pillow :autism:
Just took most them now; the indomethacin morning dose, morning OC, couple of antihistamines (fexofenadine), pantoprazole (proton pump inhibitor, blocks stomach acid secretion, helps protect one's innards from the NSAIDs I take for tendinitis in my knee), a couple of tizanidine tablets to ease the stiffness in my back and neck-the back of my neck was pretty bloody sore, and some clonidine, that I take to stop overloading from happening in the first place, or if it does,then to bring me out of it almost as soon as the pills dissolve under my tongue.
Only thing left is chlormethiazole, a sleeping pill/anticonvulsant, that I take to keep my myoclonus problem from bothering me.
Time to curl up in bed, have a smoke while I read the morning paper, then take a nap while I wait for the postman to bring my order of goodies :)
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Ah, time to get that L-Lysine. This morning I forgot, and then I already ate something. It is processed best in an empty stomach, apparently.
Face needs all the help it can get, with these weather conditions. But, it's doing OK.
And, I'm back on the Ritalin routine for over a week now. Skipped it completely during the holidays. I've then let the events dictate my behaviour. :P
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Yes
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Yes. And I'm going to take that L-Lysine, too. Thanks, CBC! :thumbup:
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Too many pills. Ugh, sick of eating pills all the time. Possibly because some of them actively make me feel sick.
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Forgot to take my Ritalin twice today, but, did have the most important of the three pills I'm supposed to take. The 4 pm one.
Did not forget the L-Lysine, nor the enzyme thingy that is supposed to help my skin even more.
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What does the L-Lysine do?
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Somehow it helps prevent cold sores, and some other inflammations. It is advised to people with rosacea too. I'm using it for the latter, but do not mind hardly ever having cold sores as a side-effect.
The other option for me would be long term oral antibiotics, the topical antibiotic ointment isn't doing any good for me any more, it now triggers my face to inflame even more. L-Lysine does more for my face than the ointment ever did. It can't prevent my face from looking crap due to the frosty weather though. But, as long as it is not aching, I can live with that.
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Increase of fluoxetine today, to double of what I was taking before.
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Just the crazy meds.
Oops. Almost forgot the eye drops.
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Yes. And I'm going to take that L-Lysine, too. Thanks, CBC! :thumbup:
You are welcome! I take mine every day and it seems to work. :)
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Reboxetine, sodium valproate and ziprasidone down the hatch.
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I took the crazy meds and the L-Lysine.
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I took the crazy meds and the L-Lysine.
Me too, and the multivitamin! I take the L-Lysine twice a day now. :orly:
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Why twice a day? :-\
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Why twice a day? :-\
The bottle says I should. :tard:
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Why twice a day? :-\
The bottle says I should. :tard:
My bottle says I only need it once a day. :nerdy:
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Why twice a day? :-\
The bottle says I should. :tard:
My bottle says I only need it once a day. :nerdy:
Your bottle is lying to you because it wants me to win. :P
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What would you win? :-\
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What would you win? :-\
I would win the prize for taking the most L-Lysine! :autism:
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What would you win? :-\
I would win the prize for taking the most L-Lysine! :autism:
And what is the prize, exactly? :tard:
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What would you win? :-\
I would win the prize for taking the most L-Lysine! :autism:
And what is the prize, exactly? :tard:
Winningness! :hadron:
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What would you win? :-\
I would win the prize for taking the most L-Lysine! :autism:
And what is the prize, exactly? :tard:
Winningness! :hadron:
Absence of cold sores.
Forgot to take all meds first few days of the flu...... the tingling spot on my lower lip reminded me that I could not forget all. So, back to the L-Lysine routine. That cold sore never made it further than a tingling red spot. Even when the flu was one of the tougher flu's I've had, so far.
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What's your dosage?
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At the moment 2000 mg a day.
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I can't get myself back to the routine. Keep forgetting the ritalin.
My alarm did warn me, but, I was in the middle of a conversation with the teacher of my youngest, so, I ignored it. :facepalm2:
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I'm off it at the moment.
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I'm so far off schedule on taking my meds that it's ridiculous.
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What use if a schedule if life doesn't follow it?
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I took mine today. :2thumbsup:
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Yes I did, and I am off to the psychiatrist to get another prescription written! :thumbup:
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So far, so good. And I also medicated the youngsters depending on me. Multitasking. :viking:
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The smell of the anti-nausea pills makes me nauseous.
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What use if a schedule if life doesn't follow it?
The schedule tells me where I don't want to be.
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What use if a schedule if life doesn't follow it?
The schedule tells me where I don't want to be.
What use is that, if you will happen to be there any how?
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Took my handful. Though the Zeldox is no longer working, I am too scared to just come off it. I will have to see my psych and probably get the dose raised.
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Didn't take them all, and now stuff hurts.
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What use if a schedule if life doesn't follow it?
The schedule tells me where I don't want to be.
What use is that, if you will happen to be there any how?
I meant that I don't like to have schedules for medicines. Or pretty much anything else come to think of it. I think I'm confused.
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I took mine while wondering about how the meds taste.
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Just remembered one that I didn't take today or yesterday. I wish they could just combine all my pills into one single pill that I stuff up my arse each morning.
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Just remembered one that I didn't take today or yesterday. I wish they could just combine all my pills into one single pill that I stuff up my arse each morning.
Talk to Lestat if he is still alive.
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Besides my normal meds, I have received three numbing injections prior to dental work. :tard:
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What use if a schedule if life doesn't follow it?
The schedule tells me where I don't want to be.
What use is that, if you will happen to be there any how?
I meant that I don't like to have schedules for medicines. Or pretty much anything else come to think of it. I think I'm confused.
Check your schedule, it may be the right time to be confused, this very moment. :tard:
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Besides my normal meds, I have received three numbing injections prior to dental work. :tard:
How did it go?
And are you now on additional painkillers?
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I just did.
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I have taken all that I am meant to today. Don't know why I bother though, they aren't working.
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:thumbup:
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Don't know if I had the last one. Will realise if I did or not soon. :P
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He is alive, and staying that way.
Just haven't been posting so much lately because my keyboard has given up the ghost, and I'm having to borrow my old man's computer when I can. And I haven't been too well lately, some nasty stomach bug, projectile blood vomiting, the shits, GI pains etc.
Barely eaten in 3 weeks...well, I have, but it just wasn't staying put, one way or the other everything was going straight through me. food, meds, etc.
Couldn't take my meds by mouth and have them stay there for more than a few minutes, so I took what I could sublingually/buccaly (between cheek and gum), shot the oxy, which actually I haven't much at all of late. As I'm on two controlled/delayed release meds, both the oxycontin, and lansoprazole...or pantoprazole, forget which (its a proton pump inhibitor, these are anti-reflux and anti acid drugs, that block the secretion of acid into the stomach, used for reflux and heartburn, along with treatment for ulcers, and as a prophylactic against GI tract damage from extended use of NSAID type antiinflammatories, or aspirin.
The PPI happens to be in the form of tiny little tablets that have a coating layer that makes sure they only release their active ingredient lower down the GI tract, and I'd noticed that basically they were going straight through me and being passed intact without having chance to act at all.
So I sure as hades wasn't having my oxys wasted that way (would I fuck be picking them out of a lake of unmentionables..ewwww)
Some meds I had to drop totally, I've stopped taking my indomethacin for the time being, as NSAIDs are well known for being GI tract irritants, and I don't wish to expose my innards to more of an insult than they have suffered already.
Just went in to see the doc today, a new guy who I haven't seen before, and thankfully he was more than willing to sort me out with a fresh supply of everything to see me through until I had my next appointment due. Actually I wasn't anywhere near being due for the meds themselves, but not only did he give me them, he gave me considerably more than I had asked for.
So, for a change, I figure I'll put my feet up, relax with a nice handful of OCs and tranquilizers :)
The nausea, vomiting etc has subsided, and I successfully treated the squits using tormentil root and yarrow (herbs that are good remedies against diarrhea)
Had to drop the anticonvulsant, which I wasn't happy about doing, as chlormethiazole I find, unless I chug a drink afterwards to wash the capsules down, and/or gaviscon, it irritates wherever the local area is when the liquid caps burst, so as not to waste any, I DID chuck a couple up, but I' back on it now.
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Does anyone else have the suspicion Lestat and SirLes are related? Maybe we should ban member names with Les in them to keep the weight of the posts down. I hear postage is going up and my picture on the postage stamps can barely lift an ounce.
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Only their mother can tell them apart.
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Related? he wishes :D
My mother...I doubt that. Sadly, I don't think it will be all that long, until she loses the ability to tell who my family are. It isn't quite that bad yet, but I think it will get there.
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I took mine.
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I think the high protein meal I had last night (mostly roast pork and haggis) interfered with the Sinemet, and I woke up several times during the night with muscle cramps in my back. It's a known issue with Sinemet; amino acids in the blood tend to out-compete it for the limited number of active transport sites across the blood-brain barrier.
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Started a higher dose of Zeldox (ziprasidone), up to 60mg twice a day and a higher dose of fluoxetine - 60mg in the morning. Unfortunately, fluoxetine only comes in 20mg capsules so it means I have to take three of them.
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I took my meds. Felt like there was a lot of them.
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My new ziprasidone comes in a larger box even though the capsules are the same size. I wonder if the crazier you are, the bigger the meds box. And the capsules are now white instead of blue, boring.
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No. I was feeling independent. Also, I got up at 6:30, fed PA, went back to bed until almost noon. The whole day has been off kilter.
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Forgot the lunch time dosage, but, had the rest.
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This morning? Yes
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Speaking of health and medicine.
Rethink Breast Cancer presents: Your Man Reminder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsyE2rCW71o#ws)
I feel better already.
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I think I took mine. :-\
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Late, but, yes, I did.
I may need some tranquilisers though. :GA:
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Didn't take them yesterday or the day before and woke up this morning with a fair bit of pain in my back muscles. I hate these meds, but I'm also not a huge fan of the pain I get without them.
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I took the crazy meds but not the hyper meds.
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yes
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Yes, I did, and now I'm going to have a wholesome shower.
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yes
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I did. But I forgot the L-Lysine.
Yay for this thread. I'm going to take it now.
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Yes, morning and evening
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I did.
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I did too.
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i'm just about to take my "meds" hehe...
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:finger:
Besides my normal meds, I have received three numbing injections prior to dental work. :tard:
How did it go?
And are you now on additional painkillers?
No, I didn't even take ibuprofen afterward, it went very well. :thumbup:
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I took mine.
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Yes I did, and am now drinking :coffee: and listening to music!
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I did, too.
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I'm getting fucking frustrated by docs in general. They are generally clueless about pain management.
The ACTUAL pain management specialist doc I saw, ALL he did, was repeatedly emphasize that opioids produce tolerance and tell me that he didn't like scripting them for about `15 minutes, then tell me my appointment is over, and he will talk to my GP.
He never did. And my GP? he is a decent, compassionate guy, and a very senior doctor in the trafford catchment PCT area.
But fucks sake...he first suggested switching me from oxycontin to buprenorphine patches, saying that he thought precipitated withdrawal (bupe is a partial agonist at Mu-ORs) would be unlikely at the dose he had in mind.
If that WAS true, it would be completely and fucking totally useless for both analgesia AND preventing withdrawal from oxy during any switch over.
I shot that idea down right away, so he gave me a few fentanyl patches. Unfortunately he is clueless enough not to know how to adjust dosing of fent for longterm opioid dependent patients. Sure, it has a reputation for being fuckoff potent stuff...but he tried starting me on 12mcg/hour patches.
When I'm on a dose of oxy that would require at the VERY minimum, some 150-200mcg/hour
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time for the lunch pill.
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Hopefully, I'll be better at taking them now that I'm on Prozac, which seems to be working. With depression I didn't care whether I took my meds or not.
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I took mine.
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Two and one-half days in a row. :2thumbsup:
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Just got mine at 8:30am.
Going in again tomorrow to see my regular doc, about those fentanyl patches, and try to get him to give me a decent dose.
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Took mine.
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I did indeed.
Actually, by sheer good luck I ended up getting twice my regular script. I went in for a steroid shot in my knee, having gone in for my meds to a different GP. My usual one just assumed i was due and gave me the lot again.
Not only that but prebooked my next appointment 2 days before I'm due to actually use the last of my meds (assuming I just had the one rx)
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I may have overdone the cough syrup today at work. I kept saying "sizzurp" and laughing like a fool. :autism:
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I may have overdone the cough syrup today at work. I kept saying "sizzurp" and laughing like a fool. :autism:
Drugs are bad for you :M
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I may have overdone the cough syrup today at work. I kept saying "sizzurp" and laughing like a fool. :autism:
Drugs are bad for you :M
(http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c62/Jus3h/Inutilidades/mmmkay.jpg)
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Taking
meds beer now.
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Lol couldbe!
What kind of syrup did you get?
I got a couple of bottles of codeine syrup myself the other day while I Went into town to go pick up some stuff from the local head shop; Its OTC here, works well to take the edge off my hip and knee pain, although my doc accidentally gave me double my meds this week.
Just staying over with my friends kelli and sarah. Taken my meds, or most of them, had another oxycontin though, my hip is fucking killing me.
Hopefully that should do the trick for now, as I forgot to pack my steroid and antiinflammatory creams with me. I'm due for getting them refilled 2 days earlier than meant to also.
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Hopefully, I'll be better at taking them now that I'm on Prozac, which seems to be working. With depression I didn't care whether I took my meds or not.
I am on Prozac too. 60mg daily. They call it Lovan here though. I just say fluoxetine. And I can say that it has done nothing for my depression. So the psych took me off sodium valproate and put me on lithium.
All lithium does is give me the shakes that are very noticeable (someone from uni even sent me an email about it) and a constant low-grade headache that pain meds can't touch. I've also had my heart do a weird irregular series of beats a couple of times too. Lithium is awesome /sarcasm.
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Lol couldbe!
What kind of syrup did you get?
I got a couple of bottles of codeine syrup myself the other day while I Went into town to go pick up some stuff from the local head shop; Its OTC here, works well to take the edge off my hip and knee pain, although my doc accidentally gave me double my meds this week.
Just staying over with my friends kelli and sarah. Taken my meds, or most of them, had another oxycontin though, my hip is fucking killing me.
Hopefully that should do the trick for now, as I forgot to pack my steroid and antiinflammatory creams with me. I'm due for getting them refilled 2 days earlier than meant to also.
Actually sizzurp is cough syrup with codeine and promethazine; mine contains dextromethorphan, the notorious
DXM; abusers of it are said to be "robo-tripping." But I didn't take *that* much, only enough for my cough. :angel:
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^I like promethazine, it helps me sleep. Unfortunately the nurse who came and visited me took all mine and the other spare meds I had.
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Hopefully, I'll be better at taking them now that I'm on Prozac, which seems to be working. With depression I didn't care whether I took my meds or not.
I am on Prozac too. 60mg daily. They call it Lovan here though. I just say fluoxetine. And I can say that it has done nothing for my depression. So the psych took me off sodium valproate and put me on lithium.
All lithium does is give me the shakes that are very noticeable (someone from uni even sent me an email about it) and a constant low-grade headache that pain meds can't touch. I've also had my heart do a weird irregular series of beats a couple of times too. Lithium is awesome /sarcasm.
I get the fluoxetine also. Generics are a lot cheaper. I'm always just a little amazed at how people's chemistry differs. PA will be asleep in no time with 2 aspirins while 2 aspirins don't do much for me.
My g'friend's daughter who has TSC, has a tremor in her hands and a mild head shaking as a remnant reaction to one of her epilepsy drugs. They weaned her off as safely/quickly as possible.
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^I like promethazine, it helps me sleep. Unfortunately the nurse who came and visited me took all mine and the other spare meds I had.
I hope you get the help you need, including help with sleep. :hug:
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^I like promethazine, it helps me sleep. Unfortunately the nurse who came and visited me took all mine and the other spare meds I had.
By what authority?
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I... really don't know. I am a suicide risk apparently so they wanted to make sure I don't have access to meds I don't need. I actually feel a bit worse now because I no longer have the option of taking those meds. So I am stuck here.
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^I like promethazine, it helps me sleep. Unfortunately the nurse who came and visited me took all mine and the other spare meds I had.
By what authority?
I was wondering that too. :-\
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^I like promethazine, it helps me sleep. Unfortunately the nurse who came and visited me took all mine and the other spare meds I had.
By what authority?
I was wondering that too. :-\
They have had instances of police collecting old meds to 'dispose of them' in the news here, some of them where legitimate take back programs others were not
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I should take another L-Lysine, better get some food first. :apondering:
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I took mine.
Plus my new eye drops that are supposed to make my left eye better. They are a bit like acid when applied, more than enough to make my other problems seem trivial in comparison. :-\
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Lol couldbe!
What kind of syrup did you get?
I got a couple of bottles of codeine syrup myself the other day while I Went into town to go pick up some stuff from the local head shop; Its OTC here, works well to take the edge off my hip and knee pain, although my doc accidentally gave me double my meds this week.
Just staying over with my friends kelli and sarah. Taken my meds, or most of them, had another oxycontin though, my hip is fucking killing me.
Hopefully that should do the trick for now, as I forgot to pack my steroid and antiinflammatory creams with me. I'm due for getting them refilled 2 days earlier than meant to also.
Actually sizzurp is cough syrup with codeine and promethazine; mine contains dextromethorphan, the notorious
DXM; abusers of it are said to be "robo-tripping." But I didn't take *that* much, only enough for my cough. :angel:
Likely story.
Bad Weeble. :police:
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:thumbup:
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I took mine.
No, wait, I almost forgot the acid I'm supposed to pour on my left eye. :-\
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:thumbup:
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Forgot
Somehow I can't get myself back to the routine. :-\
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I need to get new meds. I have a new eye drop prescription.
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I sympathze odeon. I had much the same experience, after getting some hydrogen peroxide in my eye, bleaching my hair in readiness for dying it blue. The eyedrops were almost worse than the H2O2, and damned if they did any good. Vision in one eye is reduced to a blur from more than a couple of feet away.
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Will your eye be all right? :-\
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Gone.
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I don't know. I'd guess probably not. It has got no better, aside from stopping stinging quite so much, nearly 2 weeks ago that I actually got the H2O2 in there, and I still can't see for shit.
Although that was the same eye as is already pretty screwed, after something I was doing in my early-mid teens went awry, and blasted a mixture of hot, concentrated caustic soda/methanol solution (amongst other things, which shall remain unnamed :P ) out of the neck of a flask, that got me right in the eye, as all the shitty luck would have it, at the one moment I needed to adjust my face protection.
Murphys law in action or what.
Hey queeradmin, or whoever the derp you are, do you do 'banal, pathetic and concentration-cap-worthy-level-of-boring attempts at trolling in large print too, for the visually impaired amongst us?
If you MUST spam this shite, at least be an equal opportunity utter failure at life.
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Echolalia is :asthing:
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Isn't it though.
I am usually given a bye at work for any of my echoes, except for when I do some on the communication system for all to hear.
:hide:
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Took mine, and went to a pharmacy for my new eye drops. They didn't have them. :(
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Yes.
@ Odeon - Isn't it funny what pharmacys don't have at the oddest times?
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It's annoying, that's what it is.
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Lol couldbe!
What kind of syrup did you get?
I got a couple of bottles of codeine syrup myself the other day while I Went into town to go pick up some stuff from the local head shop; Its OTC here, works well to take the edge off my hip and knee pain, although my doc accidentally gave me double my meds this week.
Just staying over with my friends kelli and sarah. Taken my meds, or most of them, had another oxycontin though, my hip is fucking killing me.
Hopefully that should do the trick for now, as I forgot to pack my steroid and antiinflammatory creams with me. I'm due for getting them refilled 2 days earlier than meant to also.
Actually sizzurp is cough syrup with codeine and promethazine; mine contains dextromethorphan, the notorious
DXM; abusers of it are said to be "robo-tripping." But I didn't take *that* much, only enough for my cough. :angel:
Likely story.
Bad Weeble. :police:
My considerable body weight enables me to take more syrup with few ill effects. :angel:
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I sympathze odeon. I had much the same experience, after getting some hydrogen peroxide in my eye, bleaching my hair in readiness for dying it blue. The eyedrops were almost worse than the H2O2, and damned if they did any good. Vision in one eye is reduced to a blur from more than a couple of feet away.
Have you seen a doctor about the reduced vision? :-\
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I sympathze odeon. I had much the same experience, after getting some hydrogen peroxide in my eye, bleaching my hair in readiness for dying it blue. The eyedrops were almost worse than the H2O2, and damned if they did any good. Vision in one eye is reduced to a blur from more than a couple of feet away.
Have you seen a doctor about the reduced vision? :-\
Never mind, just saw your answer elsewhere. I think you need to wear goggles when mixing chemicals. :(
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Now that I am in hospital, I have to wait for the meds to be given to me. I have already had dinner so I want them now, but will probably have to wait until 8pm.
They are switching my ziprasidone over to Seroquel (quetiapine, or quietapine as I like to call it because quiet is what it makes you), hoping that it will take the edge off my anxiety. I don't like the idea too much as Seroquel is another of those meds that makes one put on weight and I am already taking lithium which causes weight gain. Still, I wouldn't mind a decent night's sleep and that is certainly what I will get with Seroquel.
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I didn't really see the point of wearing goggles just to bleach my hair. I do if I am actually working on something in the lab (excluding harmless stuff that wouldn't do any damage if it did get in there), but a full SCBA mask/rebreather would be a bit....er...overkill, just to bleach my hair.
As for when I originally fucked my eye up...
I was knocking out a coupled of kilos of GHBNa salt from GBL. Only I didn't know about needing to use boiling stones at that age, I hadn't yet gone to secondary school and learned about that.
Adjusted my goggles to scratch my nose...would you fucking well believe it, thats the exact moment it chose to erupt.
That was NOT a fun night. Cleaning gamma-butyrolactone, caustic soda, and methanol off the walls, windows, ceiling, fridge....floor....you name it, it was there, eating away at the plastic/rubber fittings.
To this day I am still pretty surprised that A-nobody said anything, B-it didn't STINK (y-Butyrolactone smells filthy awful) and C-that the caustic/GBL mix didn't eat all the paint off the walls.
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Haven't taken my meds yet.
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Just got reminded for the evening meds. Yup.
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Uggh.
What a fucking day. No meds at all left until monday.
Aside from a box of tizanidine I didn't know I had, found on my bedroom floor.
Had to knock myself out with alcohol, bottle of champers and schnapps.
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Did have the L-Lysine. Will try not to forget the Ritalin in 40 minutes.
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I've had mine, except for the L-Lysine. Thanks for reminding me. :)
Time for my eye drops now, I think. I got two different ones and none of them seems to be helping. >:(
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:-[
What is it? Infection, allergic reaction, something else, overreacting?
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Uggh. feel like shit.
All I've had are a bottle of weak shit codeine cough mix, a little oral morphine, and some fluro-cocaine.
No oxy or antiseizure meds until a couple of hours from now. I feel like hammered fecal matter.
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:-[
What is it? Infection, allergic reaction, something else, overreacting?
It started with the eye surgery. As for why it happened, I guess I'm just lucky. :-\
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Took mine. Am stopping the fluoxetine and ziprasidone, going up on the quieta- I mean quetiapine and will be starting sertraline at the end of the week. It is pretty much the last antidepressant I can try.
I am not too keen on stopping ziprasidone as it has been a good medication but apparently quetiapine can do all that and more.
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I either take my meds or I die. At least the ones that keep me alive don't have side-effects
:-\
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Yes
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Welcome back.
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Oops, forgot the last bit. Will have that now.
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Yes, I did.
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Morning - check
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Morning - check
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"Happy," so, yeah.
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Yes I took mine this morning. Have to get a refill on L-Lysine tomorrow.
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I've been a good girl all day long.
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I've been a good girl all day long.
:LMAO: :rofl:
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* ponders on the reaction of Her Majesty. *
They say laughter is the best medicine. :nerdy:
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I took mine. I really need to laugh more. These meds are no fun.
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I took mine. I really need to laugh more. These meds are no fun.
Here, have a laugh on me. :tickle:
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I took mine. I really need to laugh more. These meds are no fun.
Here, have a laugh on me. :tickle:
:laugh:
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Yes.
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I've been a good girl all day long.
Me too!
Wait, maybe I have been good, but I do not really think I have been as much of a girl as other times.
:dunno:
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It's annoying, that's what it is.
... and they offer you twenty four hour service, but the pharmacist leaves at six PM, FFS!!
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I've been a good girl all day long.
Me too!
Wait, maybe I have been good, but I do not really think I have been as much of a girl as other times.
:dunno:
:laugh:
I took my meds, and I was effective today, so, I think the meds did what they had to do.
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I took mine.
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forgot the last bit. :-\
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It can be bloody annoying when pharmacies all close in the evening. Very rarely ever happens, especially as my GP prebooks appointments for me. The good thing about my surgery, is the regular GP I have, he is one of the most senior ones in the health service for the trafford area of manchester, and he is both compassionate, and unlike quite a few docs, EMTs, hospital nurses etc. that I've had the dubious 'pleasure' of interacting with, he really knows his stuff, and unlike many, isn't at all arrogant, if I bring up clinical evidence supporting/against a suggestion, doesn't have a hissy fit if I bring in some journal articles etc. to back up an idea I have ('what do you think your doing? I'm not even going to bother looking or listening, I'm the doctor and I always know best' type of an attitude, which regrettably seems all too common)
Once in a while though if I can't get an appointment with him and have to take someone else, or if its an emergency fit-in, as the surgery opens at 8:30am, and by 8:35, all the ones with my doc are almost certainly taken, everybody wants his slots, by 8:50, you are bloody lucky to get anybody at all; not to mention the phone lines are instantaneously jammed the moment they become active, means I have to walk up there some 15-20 minutes in advance to make sure I'm the first one there before the big long que forms if I can't get a pre-book (the receptionists are lying toads, and claim they can't do it. (BS, I've seen them do it), so I have my doc himself book the next one in advance.
But a handful of times I've only managed to squeeze in at about 6pm, when all the local pharmacies close but for those in supermarkets, which very often don't even have all my meds in stock, the muscle relaxer/adrenal suppressant tizanidine in particular is a bugger to get hold of, many places don't carry it at all, or if they do, they don't have the higher dosage format that I take.
Means going all the way into manchester city center where there is a pharmacy that is open all day and night, every day and night, including xmas, bank holidays etc. A pain in the arse of a journey, especially when I actually needed my meds at 9am or so, and only get anything at nearly 11pm.
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Not yet. I will, though.
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Not yet. I will, though.
And the check is in the mail, right?
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Yes, and I sorted out the week's meds.
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Not yet. I will, though.
And the check is in the mail, right?
Definitely. I did take my meds, eventually.
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I took a day off. Wanted to only skip the morning ones, but forgot to take supplies with me, when visiting my mother.
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Yes
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Yes.
It seems the cortisone did what it was supposed to for my left eye. It's not particularly itchy or stingy for the first time in months.
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Yes, I did, and applied the new sunscreen too. It is a lot better than the one I got last time. It doesn't sting or bite. :2thumbsup:
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Only 6 of 8 shots of espresso. I need a nap.
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Only 6 of 8 shots of espresso. I need a nap.
..Seriously?
DUDE!
Missed your input.
Come back!
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Only 6 of 8 shots of espresso. I need a nap.
That would put out any proper spaz!!
Hey, I am pushing against meds just now.
I have a huge backstash of pain meds I have not taken. Not sure what my plans are for these, but it is all about the future, at this point.
Take my Blood Pressure meds on queue, though.
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Only 6 of 8 shots of espresso. I need a nap.
..Seriously?
DUDE!
Missed your input.
Come back!
i heart you.
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Only 6 of 8 shots of espresso. I need a nap.
..Seriously?
DUDE!
Missed your input.
Come back!
i heart you.
OK, there's that, returned in spades, but bring your brain back to the "needy," pleasages expressed like hell, if necessary.
:hair:
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Only 6 of 8 shots of espresso. I need a nap.
..Seriously?
DUDE!
Missed your input.
Come back!
i heart you.
OK, there's that, returned in spades, but bring your brain back to the "needy," pleasages expressed like hell, if necessary.
:hair:
sorry dawg, I'm a once was.
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Of course
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Not buyin' it.
There are a few of us ...
OK, to be real, there is one of me that would love to see you again on a daily basis, but I am no longer around as much.
... on a daily basis, I am enjoying the "intense" parts of what life has shoved down my ... well, you know.
If this moment is to be "Out for now" then, GODSPEED, my "friend" to you and all that you know!!
:plus: for perseverance.
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When I get time I'll post the story about the conversation I had the other night with a dude in the bathroom.
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When I get time I'll post the story about the conversation I had the other night with a dude in the bathroom.
Was it a "deep throat" conversation?
Sounds intense.
:penis:
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I DID take me Blood Pressure meds, but, I am getting off my pain meds, I am just NOT telling the doctor that I no longer need to have my pain meds renewed each week.
(you never know when a few handfuls of opiates will come in handy, right?)
:mischief:
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Yes
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Yes, I did. And I got a new prescription. The doctor was pleased to see that I had my blood pressure back to "beautiful". I was pleased to.
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I did.
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I did too.
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But it's another day now and I have yet to take my meds.
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Same here, going to skip most, but not the L-Lysine.
Don't want the effect of ritalin wearing off at 10 pm. I want to have the power to move on after that, and then to get myself a nice drink before I go to bed.
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I skipped the Ritalin today.
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:viking:
You can haz beer tonight?
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I took the morning ones only need to make sure I sleep good tonight
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:viking:
You can haz beer tonight?
I can indeed haz beer tonight.
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:viking:
You can haz beer tonight?
I can indeed haz beer tonight.
But, you weren't organised enough to get yourself some crisps?
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:viking:
You can haz beer tonight?
I can indeed haz beer tonight.
But, you weren't organised enough to get yourself some crisps?
Sadly no. I would kill for a bag now, and I stress *kill*.
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Only missed one pill today.
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Was dumb enough to forget the L-Lysine two days in a row.
Wonder if that blepharitis is not only to be blamed to the sunshine of today, but also to my negligence. :-\
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I did.
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I had what I needed, so far.
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So far so good
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Indeed. Hope not to forget the rest of the day, like I did yesterday. :facepalm2:
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I took mine.
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Yes
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I did, I did, I did.
And I taw a puttytat. :flo: :kitten:
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The crazy meds, the spazz meds and the L-lysine.
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L-Lysine done.
My morning is so organised, by others, that I'm going to skip the morning ritalin. Now only hoping not to forget the other dosages.
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Does caffiene count?
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Oh yes, it does.
Wait for it, soon it will be illegal to get it without a prescription. :probe: The powers that be want to take care of your "health" and their income.
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You must obey because they know what's best for you.
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Shure. :apondering:
We have a liberal government now. (Well, partly) The liberal minister of health wants to take away the right from people to choose their own doctor. It will all be ordained from above. Where she will find the money to finance a task-force assigning people to their designated doctor, I don't know.
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That doesn't seem liberal. Sweden is more liberal than that. What has happened to the Netherlands?
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I took my prescriptions. I can't find my weekly pill box, so when I find it I'll start back on the OTC. I just had it yesterday and it's always in one place. ???????????
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What has happened to the Liberals? They are the mildly right-wing party here. And giving up the ideas of liberty very rapidly, as far as I understand.
Quite a few senior politicians, from all kinds of political parties, are pushing to get a new government formation, based on the former elections. No one understands a shit of what politically is getting proposed and decided with this government.
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I took my prescriptions. I can't find my weekly pill box, so when I find it I'll start back on the OTC. I just had it yesterday and it's always in one place. ???????????
Have you had any visitors? Or has the PR had visitors?
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Took my methylamphenidate. Double dosage at 4 pm. Needed all the focus I could get. (It is mine to choose how much I take at 4 pm, no weird experimenting or so.)
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I took my prescriptions. I can't find my weekly pill box, so when I find it I'll start back on the OTC. I just had it yesterday and it's always in one place. ???????????
Have you had any visitors? Or has the PR had visitors?
No. I just found them, behind me on the other desk, not on the computer desk as usual. Probably my oopsie.
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I took my prescriptions. I can't find my weekly pill box, so when I find it I'll start back on the OTC. I just had it yesterday and it's always in one place. ???????????
Have you had any visitors? Or has the PR had visitors?
No. I just found them, behind me on the other desk, not on the computer desk as usual. Probably my oopsie.
Better an oopsie than a visitor not knowing what is not theirs to take.
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You must obey because they know what's best for you.
thats the facetious spirit.+1
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That doesn't seem liberal. Sweden is more liberal than that. What has happened to the Netherlands?
Democracy happened. :laugh:
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That doesn't seem liberal. Sweden is more liberal than that. What has happened to the Netherlands?
Democracy happened. :laugh:
It looks more like a democratic stalemate.
Did take what I need to take, btw. :viking:
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I did, I took all of mine like the good citizen I am.
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Go on like this, and you may get decorated on a national holiday one day. Imagine the day when King Carl XVI Gustaf or in a few years, Queen Victoria will decorate you for being such an inspirational good citizen, by taking all your meds on the right time, in the right order and the right way too.
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Go on like this, and you may get decorated on a national holiday one day. Imagine the day when King Carl XVI Gustaf or in a few years, Queen Victoria will decorate you for being such an inspirational good citizen, by taking all your meds on the right time, in the right order and the right way too.
I can put some Christmas lights and tinsel on him and top it off with a star on his head.
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I just took an aspirin, a pain pill, a muscle relaxant, 10 mg melatonin and a sleeping pill. I am feeling quite floaty and fuzzy and nice and warm. Lovely feeling.
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So far today I have taken Strattera, L-Lysine, a multivitamin, two aspirin and a swig of cough syrup. :insane:
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Go on like this, and you may get decorated on a national holiday one day. Imagine the day when King Carl XVI Gustaf or in a few years, Queen Victoria will decorate you for being such an inspirational good citizen, by taking all your meds on the right time, in the right order and the right way too.
You provide inspiration for my plight. I'm already looking forward to today's batch.
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I just took an aspirin, a pain pill, a muscle relaxant, 10 mg melatonin and a sleeping pill. I am feeling quite floaty and fuzzy and nice and warm. Lovely feeling.
please be careful.
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I'm one of those folks who have a high tolerance for meds in general. One aspirin will put PA out for the night. It took all of that to make me sleepy. I usually take that every night (less the pain pill. I mowed the back yard yesterday).
I took my morning meds and my blood sugar was acceptable before b'fast. Should do something to burn off the extra blood sugar. I think I'll include exercise as one of my meds. Having this thread does seem to make me more aware of medications and taking them.
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I'm one of those folks who have a high tolerance for meds in general. One aspirin will put PA out for the night. It took all of that to make me sleepy. I usually take that every night (less the pain pill. I mowed the back yard yesterday).
I took my morning meds and my blood sugar was acceptable before b'fast. Should do something to burn off the extra blood sugar. I think I'll include exercise as one of my meds. Having this thread does seem to make me more aware of medications and taking them.
my wife has family that has died from too many prescription meds. I have read other whore stories as well. Thus my concern. Glad you are careful. And yes, exercise is good meds.
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I have taken mine like the good citizen I am.
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I drank a cup. Joe and am suffering through the rest.
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Yes, and will definitely not miss the bedtime ones.
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Lemon curry? :toporly:
Was this the first time you hear of the Lemon Curry incident??
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I did. Noticing a difference in how I react to Ritalin. I'm building a tolerance to it. Again.
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I did. Noticing a difference in how I react to Ritalin. I'm building a tolerance to it. Again.
snort it
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Lemon curry? :toporly:
Was this the first time you hear of the Lemon Curry incident??
I got that line off Monty Python, didn't know it was a "thing" on here. :orly:
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I did. Noticing a difference in how I react to Ritalin. I'm building a tolerance to it. Again.
Taking a break from it for a couple of days now, since the days are very restricted in the options they offer, so no escaping ADD brain options.
Thinking on getting a prescription for my face. Don't want oral antibiotics for an elongated time, but don't want this face either. :P
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I took mine. :orly:
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Yes, including a pain pill for the aches from doing too much and the cough that's starting. Pain pills work wonders for suppressing coughs.
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Glad I checked out this thread, I forgot one of my L-Lysine! :GA:
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Glad I checked out this thread, I forgot one of my L-Lysine! :GA:
Me too,
Thank you Weeble, for reminding me.
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Glad I checked out this thread, I forgot one of my L-Lysine! :GA:
Me too,
Thank you Weeble, for reminding me.
Thank you for starting this thread, it is a real public service! :thumbup:
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Yes, but now I want to lay down and I can't for an hour because of the antibiotic.
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Yes, but now I want to lay down and I can't for an hour because of the antibiotic.
last night, I wasn't sure if I should be concerned or jealous.
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Yes, but now I want to lay down and I can't for an hour because of the antibiotic.
last night, I wasn't sure if I should be concerned or jealous.
Allergies, they're not for wusses. At least I survived the night. You don't have to worry much about me. PA has said if I ever stop snoring he's calling 911.
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Yes, but now I want to lay down and I can't for an hour because of the antibiotic.
last night, I wasn't sure if I should be concerned or jealous.
Allergies, they're not for wusses. At least I survived the night. You don't have to worry much about me. PA has said if I ever stop snoring he's calling 911.
Re: the snoring, have you been tested for sleep apnea? :-\
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Yes, but now I want to lay down and I can't for an hour because of the antibiotic.
last night, I wasn't sure if I should be concerned or jealous.
Allergies, they're not for wusses. At least I survived the night. You don't have to worry much about me. PA has said if I ever stop snoring he's calling 911.
Re: the snoring, have you been tested for sleep apnea? :-\
I was tested about 8 years ago and I didn't have it. My doctor says I have it now, but I don't see the need for a test. The solutions are a sleep mask (expensive even with insurance and uncomfortable), sleep on an angle (possible solution) and losing weight (uproarious laughter).
Speaking of sleeping on an angle, whatever happened to Lestat?
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Don't know. He hasn't been around in a while. :-\
Maybe he misses MLA too much. :P
I took my crazy meds and the L-Lysine, but I've been off the spazz meds the last few days. Could be why I have problems focussing.
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Don't know. He hasn't been around in a while. :-\
Maybe he misses MLA too much. :P
I took my crazy meds and the L-Lysine, but I've been off the spazz meds the last few days. Could be why I have problems focussing.
Are you letting your stomach rest up for a few days? :orly:
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I'm going to take the focus meds tomorrow. It's a holiday, I needz them. :tard:
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Everything I should have taken so far today. However I took my antibotic with my vitamins by mistake. Oops.
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Be careful QV.
I worry.
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took the night-night ones.
don't worry MCJ. I'm not destined to die of drugs.
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took the night-night ones.
don't worry MCJ. I'm not destined to die of drugs.
just don't go driving around intersections. Ocu try road is ok.
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Don't know. He hasn't been around in a while. :-\
Maybe he misses MLA too much. :P
I took my crazy meds and the L-Lysine, but I've been off the spazz meds the last few days. Could be why I have problems focussing.
Are you letting your stomach rest up for a few days? :orly:
Yes. And also, if I'm not going to work, I tend to stay off the Ritalin because I build up a tolerance rather easily.
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So far
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Will ad a new one to my regimen next week. I gave in, will take long term anti-biotics. :P
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Yes
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Forgot to take sertraline yesterday and only remembered to take it today when I started wondering why I felt so shitty.
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You know only after a single day's abstinence?
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yes
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Yes, I did. I forgot yesterday, though.
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Took some, forgot some. I'll live.
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Took a well lubed cucumber up my arse and now I'm feeling good.
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I took mine.
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Had what I need in the morning. Not taking Ritalin till lunch time.
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You know only after a single day's abstinence?
Yeah. I know it's supposed to be one of these 'only does anything if you take it for a month or more' drugs, but it has a pretty noticeable effect in the short-term for me.
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Yes, I did.
I've been a very good girl, medication wise. But a horrible one when it comes to giving in to my sweet tooth. :P
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No, and my back is letting me know I missed my meds.
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You know only after a single day's abstinence?
Yeah. I know it's supposed to be one of these 'only does anything if you take it for a month or more' drugs, but it has a pretty noticeable effect in the short-term for me.
Wow. It takes a couple of days for me to notice.
I took mine. I have a new eye infection and will need meds for it.
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Yes, had what needs to be taken in the morning.
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No, and my back is letting me know I missed my meds.
I missed a dose of L-Lysine yesterday, and today I have a tiny cold sore. :thumbdn:
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^If you only missed a day you would have gotten them anyway.
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I took mine.
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Started on my doxycycline. Kind a weird, because my face is pretty good this morning. Especially compared to last couple of days.
Will try not to forget L-Lysine later. Need to read on the ingredients of the tablets, to see within what time span from the anti-biotics, I can take those.
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I got another round of cortisone eye drops to fight off a new infection. :(
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yes
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Had it all. Including a herbal relaxing tea.
Time for bed. Don't want to, but, have to, I think. :P
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Yes, the evening one.
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Yessir.
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Yes, I did, and they seem to be working.
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I did indeed.
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Yes, I took the most important ones.
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Yes, trying to reach sanity and health(ier ways)
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Yes, I did.
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Today and every day, I always take my meds! :angel:
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40 mg of Prozac.
When i first joined here, i was severely depressed and taking 120 mg plus 60 mg Geodon. I am super bitchy lately because i recently went down from 60 to 40 mg. I aint pacified anymoere. I wontt takke crap from anyone anymore. Especially not my crazy bipolar mommy.
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Any chance of moving out?
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I took mine.
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Any chance of moving out?
I have 2 potential roommates. I can't afford to live on my own and I dont trust strangers. I want to have roommates that wont rob me blind. I am working on it. It is getting nearer. I am antsy.
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Any chance of moving out?
I have 2 potential roommates. I can't afford to live on my own and I dont trust strangers. I want to have roommates that wont rob me blind. I am working on it. It is getting nearer. I am antsy.
Planning on moving out of town too?
On topic, yes, I took the doxycycline. It's working miracles. I'm almost feeling pretty. :laugh:
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Any chance of moving out?
I have 2 potential roommates. I can't afford to live on my own and I dont trust strangers. I want to have roommates that wont rob me blind. I am working on it. It is getting nearer. I am antsy.
Planning on moving out of town too?
On topic, yes, I took the doxycycline. It's working miracles. I'm almost feeling pretty. :laugh:
I might have to. My internship is out of town.
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Any chance of moving out?
I have 2 potential roommates. I can't afford to live on my own and I dont trust strangers. I want to have roommates that wont rob me blind. I am working on it. It is getting nearer. I am antsy.
Planning on moving out of town too?
On topic, yes, I took the doxycycline. It's working miracles. I'm almost feeling pretty. :laugh:
I might have to. My internship is out of town.
That may be the best move, getting out of town.
and yes, took my meds again.
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I either forgot or didn't want to this morning. Can't remember which. But, no.
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Yes, I did.
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Yes
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The day was organised enough during "office hours" to only take spazz meds in the end of the afternoon.
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Just did.
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I did, including early spazz meds for this very day. :GA:
Face keeps getting better and better. Even when there is a mild blepharitis developing on the right side.
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chemo therapy pills among others and you cant touch them. 2 time I am being dead serious not comming back, I have aterminal illness. THEY SAID I HAVE ASPERGERS AND PARANOID SCZOPHREINA TOO.
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chemo therapy pills among others and you cant touch them. 2 time I am being dead serious not comming back, I have aterminal illness. THEY SAID I HAVE ASPERGERS AND PARANOID SCZOPHREINA TOO.
how long do you have?
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Welcome back.
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welcome back.
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Took mine, finished my trial time, and just called the doctors to ask for the next few weeks of pills. Can fetch them in the afternoon. :headbang2:
Keep forgetting to take the L-Lysine though, have to do that at another time of the day now.
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Time for the last dose of spazz-meds of the day.
Did get my new doxycycline in.
Had a walk.
Being a model citizen again today. :autism:
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chemo therapy pills among others and you cant touch them. 2 time I am being dead serious not comming back, I have aterminal illness. THEY SAID I HAVE ASPERGERS AND PARANOID SCZOPHREINA TOO.
how long do you have?
All those supplements have obviously taken there toll.
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Bunch have to take, among them narcotics for my cancer and laxatives because they can cause constipation :mischief:
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Taking narcotics is :viking:
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almost in remission, that is the problem its that little bit left that can kill me. I havent got a woman pregnant or finished judo, or another martial art.
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Took mine, finished my trial time, and just called the doctors to ask for the next few weeks of pills. Can fetch them in the afternoon. :headbang2:
Keep forgetting to take the L-Lysine though, have to do that at another time of the day now.
I take the L-Lysine 3 times a day now, I'm a believer! :thumbup:
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Yes, I took mine. :voodoo:
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Yes
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Propranalol, hydroxyzine and a vitamin. Im all set :)
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Yes, and I did not forget the L-Lysine today. :hyke:
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Yes, and I did not forget the L-Lysine today. :hyke:
that is the best news I've heard all year.
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I miss Lestat. He was good for 35 or 40 page post on his daily meds. And none of it understandable.
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Yes, and I did not forget the L-Lysine today. :hyke:
that is the best news I've heard all year.
Thank you, thank you. I can tell you I did not forget it yesterday afternoon either.
This morning I took my low dosage doxycycline again. My skin keeps improving. Not at the absurd speed as it did the first few days, but, still improving.
I'm allowed to have dairy by now. Been nearly three hours, since I took it. Thinking about a nice cup of coffee.
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Had my coffee, my headache is gone. :thumbup:
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Spazz meds, hyper meds, L-Lysine and now, coffee.
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I was a good girl today.
Also had my Tuesday walk.
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yes
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Yup and one extra to help with my mood dip. :grrr:
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Yes, I did.
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I wasn't sure this morning if I had remembered my Strattera. I think I did. :tard:
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yes
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yes.
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I did. Now I can be a productive citizen. :2thumbsup:
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I did. Now I can be a productive citizen. :2thumbsup:
Same here, I could have been that. Doesn't feel I was though.
Did do an extra Tuesday walk though. Two strolls in a park in the morning, and the scheduled walk in the afternoon.
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Yes
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Yes, I did.
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I did, but I dropped one of my Strattera on the floor. :emosad:
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I did, and now I am ready for the day.
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Yes. My adderall is pink. I feel like I'm taking barbie pills.
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Will you turn into a barbie?
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Will you turn into a barbie?
*looks down*
Nope. No DDs yet. My toes aren't permanently pointed, either. Maybe I'm not taking these properly...
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Yes. My adderall is pink. I feel like I'm taking barbie pills.
Trendy. :2thumbsup:
My methylphenidate is just boring white.
Took my meds today, so far. Now I should not forget to take my L-Lysine, changing of habits sucks, when it comes to meds.
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Does anybody ever take the wrong medications?
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Does anybody ever take the wrong medications?
Dunno :tard:
Could be. But so far nothing devastating has happened, as far as I can tell.
When I was on birth control pills I did mess up now and then. Either forgetting, (not that often) or waking in the middle of the night, thinking I forgot, and taking one with bleary eyes in the dark. Only to find out in the morning that I had taken two the day before. :facepalm2:
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Yes. My adderall is pink. I feel like I'm taking barbie pills.
Yay for Barbie! :blonde: All the popular girls take pink meds! :cheer:
Aqua - Barbie girl (Official music video) HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_pTeDz4Zpk#ws)
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Does anybody ever take the wrong medications?
No, but I did once almost take extra-strength Motrin instead of my multivitamin ... or something like that. :tard:
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I took the antibiotics.
For the rest I took a day off.
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Took the crazy meds and the L-lysine.
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Took the crazy meds and the L-lysine.
Glad I clicked on this, I missed an afternoon dose of L-Lysine! :orly:
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Took the crazy meds and the L-lysine.
Glad I clicked on this, I missed an afternoon dose of L-Lysine! :orly:
We provide a valuable service to the community. :2thumbsup:
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Took the crazy meds and the L-lysine.
Glad I clicked on this, I missed an afternoon dose of L-Lysine! :orly:
We provide a valuable service to the community. :2thumbsup:
This thread helps me to stay sane, healthy, and free of crusty sores! :autism:
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Took my pills, but I didn't use my food effectively as medicine. Dumb.
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I did.
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Did what I need to have till now.
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Yes I have! I am also trying these tiny thuja occidentalis pellets for wart removal. :nerd!:
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You have to believe in wart treatment. That will make it work better. No matter what the treatment is.
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You have to believe in wart treatment. That will make it work better. No matter what the treatment is.
I do believe! I know I will prevail! Amen! Hallelujah! :snowman:
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Had my antibiotics, my first and second methylphenidate and did not forget the L-Lysine. :viking:
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My focus still is going anywhere but where I want it.
I think I need a kick in the bovine behind.
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It's good for my postcount though, not doing what I should be doing. :M
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It's good for my postcount though, not doing what I should be doing. :M
I'm counting my blessings. :laugh:
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Morning :thumbup:
Dinner :thumbdn:
Evening ?
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I have been taking my thuja occidentalis pellets regularly, to see if they get rid of the flat warts. :viking:
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I have been taking my thuja occidentalis pellets regularly, to see if they get rid of the flat warts. :viking:
dont rabbits eat pellets too?
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I have been taking my thuja occidentalis pellets regularly, to see if they get rid of the flat warts. :viking:
dont rabbits eat pellets too?
Different kind. These are tiny white pellets, like mini hailstones, made from a coniferous tree. :green:
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I took mine. :2thumbsup:
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So far, so good.
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Still trying my thuja occidentalis pellets, I hope they work! :crossed:
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
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(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
It really is that bad. I get involved in things and time just melts around me. Intense special interests make it so much worse. If I'm painting, or drawing, or writing, or reading hours can pass and I'll be completely oblivious to flow of events outside of my skull.
Before the medicine my house was covered in frantic post-it notes. Now it is not entirely wallpapered in post-its, but merely peppered with a few, slightly less frantic lists and reminders. :2thumbsup: I can live with that. The only problem is that my new-found ability to focus has made me a bit OCD about some things. Ah well. I can work with that. As fun as it can be, I can't work with chaos!
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I forgot everything but the antibiotic. That one I do not forget. First thing in the morning thing.
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
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(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
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I dropped my lunchtime L-Lysine on the bathroom floor at work, so ... no. :sick:
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
...
...
...
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(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
No, but I definitely checked. He was eating clover on the side of my neighbor's house. No pancake. Should I make some for him?
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
...
...
...
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(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
No, but I definitely checked. He was eating clover on the side of my neighbor's house. No pancake. Should I make some for him?
Make a big pancake and see if he would like to wear it as a beret! :green:
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
...
...
...
...
(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
No, but I definitely checked. He was eating clover on the side of my neighbor's house. No pancake. Should I make some for him?
Make a big pancake and see if he would like to wear it as a beret! :green:
It is all fun and games until someone gets rabies.
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Yes. I'm in a thick brain fog. Considered crushing and snorting medicine this morning.
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
...
...
...
...
(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
No, but I definitely checked. He was eating clover on the side of my neighbor's house. No pancake. Should I make some for him?
Make a big pancake and see if he would like to wear it as a beret! :green:
It is all fun and games until someone gets rabies.
Where does the rabies come from?
Will it be spread by pancakes?
How does it get in those pancakes?
And isn't the weather gorgeous outside?
Only had my antibiotics this morning. Hope not to forget getting a batch of prescription meds for a kid this afernoon, between 15:15 and 17:00.
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
...
...
...
...
(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
No, but I definitely checked. He was eating clover on the side of my neighbor's house. No pancake. Should I make some for him?
Make a big pancake and see if he would like to wear it as a beret! :green:
It is all fun and games until someone gets rabies.
Where does the rabies come from?
Will it be spread by pancakes?
How does it get in those pancakes?
And isn't the weather gorgeous outside?
Only had my antibiotics this morning. Hope not to forget getting a batch of prescription meds for a kid this afernoon, between 15:15 and 17:00.
So that's where rabies comes from!
My mother told me to be wary of cute woodland creatures with breakfast foods on their cranium.
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
...
...
...
...
(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
No, but I definitely checked. He was eating clover on the side of my neighbor's house. No pancake. Should I make some for him?
Make a big pancake and see if he would like to wear it as a beret! :green:
It is all fun and games until someone gets rabies.
Where does the rabies come from?
Will it be spread by pancakes?
How does it get in those pancakes?
And isn't the weather gorgeous outside?
Only had my antibiotics this morning. Hope not to forget getting a batch of prescription meds for a kid this afernoon, between 15:15 and 17:00.
So that's where rabies comes from!
My mother told me to be wary of cute woodland creatures with breakfast foods on their cranium.
Your mother sounds like a wise woman.
My mother sent us out playing in the woods, but then pancakes aren't running free on critter heads in Europe.
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
...
...
...
...
(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
No, but I definitely checked. He was eating clover on the side of my neighbor's house. No pancake. Should I make some for him?
Make a big pancake and see if he would like to wear it as a beret! :green:
It is all fun and games until someone gets rabies.
Where does the rabies come from?
Will it be spread by pancakes?
How does it get in those pancakes?
And isn't the weather gorgeous outside?
Only had my antibiotics this morning. Hope not to forget getting a batch of prescription meds for a kid this afernoon, between 15:15 and 17:00.
So that's where rabies comes from!
My mother told me to be wary of cute woodland creatures with breakfast foods on their cranium.
Your mother sounds like a wise woman.
My mother sent us out playing in the woods, but then pancakes aren't running free on critter heads in Europe.
What a strange place Europe must be, with your bare-headed critters, tiny cars, and tinier coffee!
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
...
...
...
...
(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
No, but I definitely checked. He was eating clover on the side of my neighbor's house. No pancake. Should I make some for him?
Make a big pancake and see if he would like to wear it as a beret! :green:
It is all fun and games until someone gets rabies.
Where does the rabies come from?
Will it be spread by pancakes?
How does it get in those pancakes?
And isn't the weather gorgeous outside?
Only had my antibiotics this morning. Hope not to forget getting a batch of prescription meds for a kid this afernoon, between 15:15 and 17:00.
So that's where rabies comes from!
My mother told me to be wary of cute woodland creatures with breakfast foods on their cranium.
Your mother sounds like a wise woman.
My mother sent us out playing in the woods, but then pancakes aren't running free on critter heads in Europe.
What a strange place Europe must be, with your bare-headed critters, tiny cars, and tinier coffee!
Rural coffees are bigger than city coffees. (Proverbial at least)
How big is a coffee for you?
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
...
...
...
...
(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
No, but I definitely checked. He was eating clover on the side of my neighbor's house. No pancake. Should I make some for him?
Make a big pancake and see if he would like to wear it as a beret! :green:
It is all fun and games until someone gets rabies.
Where does the rabies come from?
Will it be spread by pancakes?
How does it get in those pancakes?
And isn't the weather gorgeous outside?
Only had my antibiotics this morning. Hope not to forget getting a batch of prescription meds for a kid this afernoon, between 15:15 and 17:00.
So that's where rabies comes from!
My mother told me to be wary of cute woodland creatures with breakfast foods on their cranium.
Your mother sounds like a wise woman.
My mother sent us out playing in the woods, but then pancakes aren't running free on critter heads in Europe.
What a strange place Europe must be, with your bare-headed critters, tiny cars, and tinier coffee!
Rural coffees are bigger than city coffees. (Proverbial at least)
How big is a coffee for you?
It depends. At home I make a cup of probably 6 - 8 oz with my coffee press. At restaurants I've been served coffee in cups that are larger than many soup bowls.
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g439/aspiemomma/YEE_1888_zpsdbfd687a.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/aspiemomma/media/YEE_1888_zpsdbfd687a.jpg.html)
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/semper_crede/9-21-05054.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/semper_crede/media/9-21-05054.jpg.html)
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This evening I dabbed my flat warts with a 3% solution of hydrogen perxide. I read online that it might help. :tard:
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I took my meds. I can now be productive again. :borg:
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I took my meds. I can now be productive again. :borg:
We like you better productive. :borg: To be unproductive :resist: is to betray the Collective!
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I took my meds. I can now be productive again. :borg:
Waiting for my chemically enhanced productivity to kick in. Late today. But, that's OK. Will be a longer haul tonight, so the crashing down happening an hour later is not a bad thing.
Had my antibiotics first thing in the morning.
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
...
...
...
...
(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
No, but I definitely checked. He was eating clover on the side of my neighbor's house. No pancake. Should I make some for him?
Make a big pancake and see if he would like to wear it as a beret! :green:
It is all fun and games until someone gets rabies.
Where does the rabies come from?
Will it be spread by pancakes?
How does it get in those pancakes?
And isn't the weather gorgeous outside?
Only had my antibiotics this morning. Hope not to forget getting a batch of prescription meds for a kid this afernoon, between 15:15 and 17:00.
So that's where rabies comes from!
My mother told me to be wary of cute woodland creatures with breakfast foods on their cranium.
Your mother sounds like a wise woman.
My mother sent us out playing in the woods, but then pancakes aren't running free on critter heads in Europe.
What a strange place Europe must be, with your bare-headed critters, tiny cars, and tinier coffee!
Rural coffees are bigger than city coffees. (Proverbial at least)
How big is a coffee for you?
It depends. At home I make a cup of probably 6 - 8 oz with my coffee press. At restaurants I've been served coffee in cups that are larger than many soup bowls.
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g439/aspiemomma/YEE_1888_zpsdbfd687a.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/aspiemomma/media/YEE_1888_zpsdbfd687a.jpg.html)
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/semper_crede/9-21-05054.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/semper_crede/media/9-21-05054.jpg.html)
Our home made cups are not that different.
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Interesting. Our home made cups are nearly always smaller than anything you would buy at a coffee shop or a restaurant.
I nearly passed out several times yesterday, so today I took my meds plus some vitamins and lots of water. The dizziness is gone today. I wish I knew what the hell was wrong yesterday.
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
...
...
...
...
(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
No, but I definitely checked. He was eating clover on the side of my neighbor's house. No pancake. Should I make some for him?
Make a big pancake and see if he would like to wear it as a beret! :green:
It is all fun and games until someone gets rabies.
Where does the rabies come from?
Will it be spread by pancakes?
How does it get in those pancakes?
And isn't the weather gorgeous outside?
Only had my antibiotics this morning. Hope not to forget getting a batch of prescription meds for a kid this afernoon, between 15:15 and 17:00.
So that's where rabies comes from!
My mother told me to be wary of cute woodland creatures with breakfast foods on their cranium.
Your mother sounds like a wise woman.
My mother sent us out playing in the woods, but then pancakes aren't running free on critter heads in Europe.
What a strange place Europe must be, with your bare-headed critters, tiny cars, and tinier coffee!
Rural coffees are bigger than city coffees. (Proverbial at least)
How big is a coffee for you?
It depends. At home I make a cup of probably 6 - 8 oz with my coffee press. At restaurants I've been served coffee in cups that are larger than many soup bowls.
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g439/aspiemomma/YEE_1888_zpsdbfd687a.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/aspiemomma/media/YEE_1888_zpsdbfd687a.jpg.html)
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/semper_crede/9-21-05054.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/semper_crede/media/9-21-05054.jpg.html)
Our home made cups are not that different.
i just like really long quotes
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
...
...
...
...
(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
No, but I definitely checked. He was eating clover on the side of my neighbor's house. No pancake. Should I make some for him?
Make a big pancake and see if he would like to wear it as a beret! :green:
It is all fun and games until someone gets rabies.
Where does the rabies come from?
Will it be spread by pancakes?
How does it get in those pancakes?
And isn't the weather gorgeous outside?
Only had my antibiotics this morning. Hope not to forget getting a batch of prescription meds for a kid this afernoon, between 15:15 and 17:00.
So that's where rabies comes from!
My mother told me to be wary of cute woodland creatures with breakfast foods on their cranium.
Your mother sounds like a wise woman.
My mother sent us out playing in the woods, but then pancakes aren't running free on critter heads in Europe.
What a strange place Europe must be, with your bare-headed critters, tiny cars, and tinier coffee!
Rural coffees are bigger than city coffees. (Proverbial at least)
How big is a coffee for you?
It depends. At home I make a cup of probably 6 - 8 oz with my coffee press. At restaurants I've been served coffee in cups that are larger than many soup bowls.
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g439/aspiemomma/YEE_1888_zpsdbfd687a.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/aspiemomma/media/YEE_1888_zpsdbfd687a.jpg.html)
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/semper_crede/9-21-05054.jpg) (http://media.photobucket.com/user/semper_crede/media/9-21-05054.jpg.html)
Our home made cups are not that different.
i just like really long quotes
Quote this one! It is even longer!
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Interesting. Our home made cups are nearly always smaller than anything you would buy at a coffee shop or a restaurant.
I nearly passed out several times yesterday, so today I took my meds plus some vitamins and lots of water. The dizziness is gone today. I wish I knew what the hell was wrong yesterday.
Please ask your doctor about it if it happens again. :-\
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Interesting. Our home made cups are nearly always smaller than anything you would buy at a coffee shop or a restaurant.
I nearly passed out several times yesterday, so today I took my meds plus some vitamins and lots of water. The dizziness is gone today. I wish I knew what the hell was wrong yesterday.
Please ask your doctor about it if it happens again. :-\
:thumbup: I will.
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For all the good they seem to be doing now. Aching back, swelling feet, aching hands, aching feet, just plain miserable. Took one pain pill about 45 minutes ago. Probably need another. May take a trip to the docs tomorrow early.
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For all the good they seem to be doing now. Aching back, swelling feet, aching hands, aching feet, just plain miserable. Took one pain pill about 45 minutes ago. Probably need another. May take a trip to the docs tomorrow early.
:( That sounds miserable. Feel better. (That's an order!)
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I took my meds. I can now be productive again. :borg:
We like you better productive. :borg: To be unproductive :resist: is to betray the Collective!
I'm doing what I can for the Collective. :borg:
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How exactly is one supposed to remember that it is time for adderall, manage to avoid distraction before ingesting the adderall, and remember where the adderall is, before you've had your adderall?! ???
I remembered this morning but it was later than it should have been. I wish the time released stuff worked as well as the immediate release form. It is so hard to remember to take it 3X a day! Damn my distractible brain, and all these...
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(20 minutes later)...
...sorry, there was a bunny outside. What were we talking about?
Did the bunny have a pancake on its head? Those bunnies are the cutest! :bunny:
No, but I definitely checked. He was eating clover on the side of my neighbor's house. No pancake. Should I make some for him?
Make a big pancake and see if he would like to wear it as a beret! :green:
It is all fun and games until someone gets rabies.
Where does the rabies come from?
Will it be spread by pancakes?
How does it get in those pancakes?
And isn't the weather gorgeous outside?
Only had my antibiotics this morning. Hope not to forget getting a batch of prescription meds for a kid this afernoon, between 15:15 and 17:00.
So that's where rabies comes from!
My mother told me to be wary of cute woodland creatures with breakfast foods on their cranium.
Your mother sounds like a wise woman.
My mother sent us out playing in the woods, but then pancakes aren't running free on critter heads in Europe.
What a strange place Europe must be, with your bare-headed critters, tiny cars, and tinier coffee!
Rural coffees are bigger than city coffees. (Proverbial at least)
How big is a coffee for you?
It depends. At home I make a cup of probably 6 - 8 oz with my coffee press. At restaurants I've been served coffee in cups that are larger than many soup bowls.
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g439/aspiemomma/YEE_1888_zpsdbfd687a.jpg) (http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/aspiemomma/media/YEE_1888_zpsdbfd687a.jpg.html)
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Our home made cups are not that different.
i just like really long quotes
Quote this one! It is even longer!
awesome!
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I took my meds. I can now be productive again. :borg:
We like you better productive. :borg: To be unproductive :resist: is to betray the Collective!
I'm doing what I can for the Collective. :borg:
We appreciate that. :borg: Let us walk you back to your desk. :borg: :borg: :borg:
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I took my meds. I can now be productive again. :borg:
We like you better productive. :borg: To be unproductive :resist: is to betray the Collective!
I'm doing what I can for the Collective. :borg:
We appreciate that. :borg: Let us walk back to our desk. :borg: :borg: :borg:
Fixed. :borg:
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I took my meds. I can now be productive again. :borg:
We like you better productive. :borg: To be unproductive :resist: is to betray the Collective!
I'm doing what I can for the Collective. :borg:
We appreciate that. :borg: Let us walk back to our desk. :borg: :borg: :borg:
Fixed. :borg:
Thank you. We are at our desk now. We feel better. We are one. :borg: :borg: :borg:
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I took my meds. I can now be productive again. :borg:
We like you better productive. :borg: To be unproductive :resist: is to betray the Collective!
I'm doing what I can for the Collective. :borg:
We appreciate that. :borg: Let us walk back to our desk. :borg: :borg: :borg:
Fixed. :borg:
Thank us. We are at our desk now. We feel better. We are one. :borg: :borg: :borg:
Fixed. :borg:
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Damn, no.
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Not yet.
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I took my meds. I can now be productive again. :borg:
We like you better productive. :borg: To be unproductive :resist: is to betray the Collective!
I'm doing what I can for the Collective. :borg:
We appreciate that. :borg: Let us walk back to our desk. :borg: :borg: :borg:
Fixed. :borg:
Thank us. We are at our desk now. We feel better. We are one. :borg: :borg: :borg:
Fixed. :borg:
We see what you did there. How silly of us not to have seen our error. We appreciate it. :borg:
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Test
Meds
Food
Coffee
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Yes, eventually.
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Yes, and thinking it is time to get some bloodwork done on vitamins.
Doxycycline is doing miracles for my skin, but, I'm starting to show signs of vitamine B shortage, I think. Vitamine D and Magnesium levels could be lower than should be too. Better have it checked.
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Yes, including some pain med because my back is annoying me.
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Yes I did, and I picked up my refill in a timely fashion. :thumbup:
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Yes, along with some vitamins and fish oil. And later, vodka.
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Yes, along with some vitamins and fish oil. And later, vodka.
One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong. :P
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Yes, along with some vitamins and fish oil. And later, vodka.
One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong. :P
:M It is strictly for medicinal purposes. I'm feeling particularly ill today, so I'd better make it a double.
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Yes, along with some vitamins and fish oil. And later, vodka.
One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong. :P
Fish oil....right?
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Vodka :whatthe:
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I did. :orly:
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I did too. There was no Vodka on my medication list this morning.
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yes
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Check.
I need a new prescription.
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Yes
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Yes. Now it is time for a dose of learnin'.
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Yes.
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Yes along with one of my last two percocets for my aching back
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I can't remember.
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I can't remember.
you need to postwhore more
will improve your memory
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:bunny:
Yes.
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I took mine. I think I may be building up a tolerance to Ritalin again.
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Yes. Now it is time for a dose of learnin'.
As Hoss on Bonanza said to the school children, "Come on inside, kids, I gotta learn ya some grammar." :hmmm:
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Just took mine.
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I haven't taken my afternoon L-Lysine yet, because I haven't eaten lunch, which is a bit odd. :apondering:
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I haven't taken my afternoon L-Lysine yet, because I haven't eaten lunch, which is a bit odd. :apondering:
L-Lysine is better absorbed by the body when taken not simultaneously with food.
(That's why I keep forgetting to take it lately. I seem to be snacking way too often.)
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I haven't taken my afternoon L-Lysine yet, because I haven't eaten lunch, which is a bit odd. :apondering:
L-Lysine is better absorbed by the body when taken not simultaneously with food.
(That's why I keep forgetting to take it lately. I seem to be snacking way too often.)
I did not know that! How long after a meal do you take it? :orly:
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I haven't taken my afternoon L-Lysine yet, because I haven't eaten lunch, which is a bit odd. :apondering:
L-Lysine is better absorbed by the body when taken not simultaneously with food.
(That's why I keep forgetting to take it lately. I seem to be snacking way too often.)
I did not know that! How long after a meal do you take it? :orly:
Two hours after, or half an hour before a meal maximises the effect of the L-Lysine.
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I haven't taken my afternoon L-Lysine yet, because I haven't eaten lunch, which is a bit odd. :apondering:
L-Lysine is better absorbed by the body when taken not simultaneously with food.
(That's why I keep forgetting to take it lately. I seem to be snacking way too often.)
I did not know that! How long after a meal do you take it? :orly:
Two hours after, or half an hour before a meal maximises the effect of the L-Lysine.
Thank you, most excellent bovine physician! :hyke:
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My meds have been changed around.
Dexamphetamine, moclobemide (no more SSRIs for me, this one is a reversible MAOI), haloperidol (to make Lestat happy :P ), lithium, quetiapine, benztropine and Seretide (for asthma)
I visit the local pharmacy so often now.
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How are things with you now, Ren?
I took mine.
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I am shocked haldol is even used now. It has a known, proven dopaminergic neurotoxic metabolite, similar to the imfamous parkinsonian toxin MPTP (barry kidston, 'case of the frozen addicts' case, guy was cooking up a prodine type opioid, one of the pethidines (or meperidine as the yanks call it), only he tried to shortcut the procedure by heating, resulting in a dehydration to a tetrahydropyridine, which then went and immediately, permanently, irreversibly destroyed his nigrostriatal dopaminergic tract. Bingo, instant near totally paralytic parkinsons disease.
The damage from this type of neurotoxicity DOES NOT HEAL. It is cumulative. I would switch ANY other AP, than haldol. IMO. shouldn't be used anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloperidol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloperidol)
Have a read of that and see if you don't think the stuff is poison.
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Did, and added nasal spray to the regime. Was run down with fever, sore throat, earpain and what not yesterday. Nasal spray and lots of sleep did do me a lot of good. Now just having mild symptoms of what was yesterday, and some dizziness.
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:asthing:
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Forgot to take my hay fever tablet, and I paid the price all day :angrydance: :angrydance: :angrydance:
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I've been sneezing like mad for the last hour or two. :GA:
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Madmick hasn't taken his meds in years.
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He should. Especially the cyanide.
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He needs to drink bleach and die of scrotum cancer.
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Yes, I took my morning meds, AND I WILL NOT FORGET TO TAKE MY SLEEP MEDS TONIGHT AT A DECENT HOUR.
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Not yet. I need to get going.
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Forgot, but I did manage to take the anti-inflammatory.
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Yes, I did, including nasal spray.
Hope not to forget fetching the new batch of doxycycline from the pharmacy tomorrow between 3:15 pm and 5:00 pm. Will get a talk about vitamine check and such in a month. I'm not in a hurry.
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Currently off the spazz meds.
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Just now. I'm considering adding decent wake-up and bed-time hours as part of my medicine.
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I did not forget to get my new batch of doxycycline. It was ten to five when I jumped on my bike to get them. :viking:
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I did, including the spazz meds.
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Yes, including being awake at 7, although I didn't get out of bed until 7:45.
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How are things with you now, Ren?
I took mine.
I am ok but still have anger management issues. The quetiapine is meant to calm me down but it doesn't really.
I am shocked haldol is even used now. It has a known, proven dopaminergic neurotoxic metabolite, similar to the imfamous parkinsonian toxin MPTP (barry kidston, 'case of the frozen addicts' case, guy was cooking up a prodine type opioid, one of the pethidines (or meperidine as the yanks call it), only he tried to shortcut the procedure by heating, resulting in a dehydration to a tetrahydropyridine, which then went and immediately, permanently, irreversibly destroyed his nigrostriatal dopaminergic tract. Bingo, instant near totally paralytic parkinsons disease.
The damage from this type of neurotoxicity DOES NOT HEAL. It is cumulative. I would switch ANY other AP, than haldol. IMO. shouldn't be used anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloperidol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloperidol)
Have a read of that and see if you don't think the stuff is poison.
I read it but don't understand a lot of it.
I never knew this:
"It appears to be particularly successful when given to birds, e.g., a parrot that will otherwise continuously pluck its feathers out."
I was put back on haloperidol because the Zeldox/Geodon was affecting my heart, with a prolonged QTc interval. It didn't bother me but it bothered the doctors, so it was goodbye to a good med. :(
The haloperidol and lithium both have side effects I would rather do without so I got given benztropine - which also had side effects (blurred vision and constipation (no, I did not dig my shit out :zoinks: )) which are finally gone now.
I couldn't believe it when the doctors said I should take haloperidol again. I thought they would come up with something different like they did with the moclobemide.
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Yes, meds, sensible b'fast and out of bed before 8 a.m.
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Not yet. I should.
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Yes. My blood sugar was an amazingly reasonable level considering the amount of ice cream I ate last night. However, my body doesn't feel all that great.
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I just got back home from the pharmacy, my old man gave me a lift in the car so I could pick my shit up.
This place doesn't half take AGES to fill out my scripts, All in all, picking up the pre-done scripts from the docs, going to the nearby pharmacy, where there was a full complement of staff working, and just one other customer who was waiting also.
So this time I came prepared, lol; asked for my oxy pills to be done separately, and first before my other meds, as I needed them right away. That, and a pair of pliers in my pocket, some filters, a disposable one-use sterile cooker (little sterile-packed mini cup with a fold out tab to stabilize it at the bacvk, knocked out of thin sheet metal stampings), as well as one each of a rig and 28g point and a couple of one-serving saline mini-pods. Got my stuff, went to grab a paper from the paki shop at the corner, so I could nip into the payphone box on the way back for the long, long wait, and quickly prep one of my oxycontin (mine are the OC80s), and spike up before going back in.
MMMmmmmm that was JUST what was called for as a start to today, especially in this continuing blistering heatwave. And to say the very least, nice and relaxing. Lool...A speedball for breakfast ahahaha (although in this case, made from oxy, with a bit of the analog of methamphetamine where a thienyl ring replaces -phenyl rather than heroin and cocaine in the same rig...still, yum yum; tossing in maybe 1/3-1/2 of a point f methiopropamine gave it a rather delectable perky, zingy kick)
Although, I think in future though that I shall take a second sterile disinfectant swab, and more than just the 2x1ml salime amps; they, along with my works, cooker, filters etc. all come free of charge, courtesy of a needle exchange in the city center :)
The 2ml (in total) of saline isn't really enough for safely p preparation of oxycontin; as OCs take up a fair bit of water once dusted up into powder form in a cooker (no heat, cold cooked to prevent gelling up into an intractable gloopy mess of shit. Oh, and bring A-some clonidine (I love a couple
of the 25mcg clonidine pills I get onscript; the effects being very, very powerfully anxiolytic, even as effectively so as a moderate dose of an an anxiolytic benzodiazepine suchas a mid-sized dose of valium or temazepam (I don't find the latter hypnotic myself, although most apparently do. They filter very will, (not benzos, these should never be slammed up, poor water solubility, which can lead to all manner of nastiness)
Grrr....where the fuck is my tourniquet.. I never need one, or almost never. Only usually in the grip of a really devilishly frozen cold winter, when surface veins constrict and bugger off deeper underground. Pain in the arse.
And yes, I took most of my meds for the day. Not taken my night time dose of chlormethiazoe though, and only taken 1/4 of my myorelaxant dose. And I skipped my topical NSAID antiinflammatory spray (diclofenac) because at the moment, despite having had most of my meds, I'm pretty tactile-sensitive today and I can't be fucking doing with having to touch the painful area of my leg were the peripheral neuropathy is affecting it, I absolutely loathe that area being touched at the best of times.
It doesn't bother me though after I've gotten a shot of OC or brown in me though, opioids for some reason make me a hell of a lot less touch sensitive in general. So I'll get the knees/hips sprayed in just a moment ;) xD
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Yes. I wasn't feeling well last night, so I took my evening beds and went to bed at 7:30 p.m. Slept through to 4:45. Then just dozed off and on until 6:30.
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Shit. I knew I forgot to do something.
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Mmm...today has been a relief, and no mistake. I am so glad to have my antiseizure and pain meds, and fresh supply of adrenal suppressants back again. Spent the day nodding out on OC 80s, which is while not actual sleep, which I have had none of in almost a week, certainly plugged the gap until I do go to sleep tonight, and kept me much more comfortable than I was.
Aside that is, from slowly coming round from a 3 pill oxy/half point of MPA speedball, to find I was still holding the glowing roach end of my fag, and that my trousers were on fire :P
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I did.
I'm still amazed by the effect the anti-biotics have. I go outside without fear, OK, wearing lots of sunscreen, but I do that for years now. A bit of sun does not make my head explode in inflammations. Skin is still getting better and better, even after more than 8 weeks, didn't know it could be better, but, see the improvement happening.
I am getting pigmentation spots though. But, they don't hurt, they are over-sized freckles, and I have plenty of those, so why not ad a few bigger ones?
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Just about to have a shot of oxy, before I tip everything off my bed, whip off all my clothes and lie down to veg out with a good book.
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Just about to have a shot of oxy, before I tip everything off my bed, whip off all my clothes and lie down to veg out with a good book.
Do you have a simple fan, to aim at yourself? Makes life a lot more pleasant, when in/on bed in hot weather.
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Not yet. Well, not counting the coffee.
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Yes, although I forgot yesterday morning's.
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I haven't, hyke. I need to get one. ATM I am just popping into the garden every once in a while, and turning the hose on, and just pointing it skywards, so I get covered in a nice icy cold rain.
Just been to my docs today, wasn't the usual guy I like to see, but the woman I saw is ok, if not so generous as my usual guy. Got her to put me on something new though, shes added gabapentin to my med regime, its kind of an oddball, with only one clinically used relative, pregabalin (lyrica). Both alpha2delta-type voltage-gated calcium channel agonists, for controlling my neuropathic pain, which resulted from the meatball surgery inflicted on my bad knee.
And WOW...what can I say...I am most impressed. Neuropathic pain is generally a total bitch to treat, opioids do not touch it, well, they do make it more bearable, but only in the sense of 'I am still hurting, but I really could give less of a shit right now' type of relief. Pain is there, but masked by the warm opiate fuzzies.
This on the other hand, actually stops the burning, tingling, and intermittent 'lightening bolt upside 'yer CNS' type sensations. And its also relaxing, having some pharmacological properties in common with benzodiazepines (which its seemingly crosstolerant with to a degree), and its done a great job on the otherwise constant, and very, very painful muscle spasms I get in my left leg. Walking to go berry-picking just a few minutes ago, I was in very little pain, even without much opiates in my system. I did have a pot of poppy pod tea at around 3-4am yesterday, but no oxycontin since the day before. And a small shot of dipropionyl-heroin (H, but rather than acetylating morphine, propionyl chloride is used, its stronger, slightly slower acting, but also longer acting). But that had mostly worn off. I would have been in a whole world of pain if I hadn't had the gabapentin.
I think after a week or two, I'll ask my doc to up the dose a little, after giving my body time to adjust to it, but I don't think it will need that much more, as its pretty damn effective as is. Such a relief, I've been tormented by that neuropathic pain for a long time. The only things that have brought relief otherwise, have been low-dose ketamine analogs, eticyclidine, or 4-methoxy-PCP.
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Neuropathic pain sucks. I rather give birth to twins, without sedation, not even for the stitches, than have an attack of that again. First thing I do, when I feel it coming is call my physiotherapist. She's a treasure, she knows how to bring me huge relief. And she can be part of preventing it from getting worse.
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Yes, I did. The PR, on the other hand, is being non-compliant. She had a major seizure this evening. She has sworn to do better. (Yes, I do tell her to take her meds, lay them out for her, but don't follow up since I have other things I need to do. She should be more reliable.)
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I hope the PR feels better soon. Seizures blow, and does the post-ictal brain-fried-shitty feeling afterwards that tends to linger.
Haven't had one in quite some time, thanks to my meds, but the last one was ugly, sent me arse over tit down the stairs, taking them every step at a time, after first whacking my face against several hard objects trying to get somewhere safe as it came on. Split my face open, scarred pretty bad, ended up coming to in the ICU having almost lost an eye, knocked myself clean out going flying down the stairs, with some sonofawhore coming at me with a rig full of narcan (opiate antagonist, the stuff they stick smackheads with that OD, brings them round, saves their life, but makes the person on the receiving end wish they hadn't, by putting them into a full-blown turbocharged precipitated withdrawal. Came round JUST in time to grab hold of the medic's arm, and stop that happening) as I HADN'T overdosed, but had a myoclonic seizure, completely unrelated.
That VERY nearly turned from 'ugly' to 'just kill me quickly and get it the fuck over with already'
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Thanks Lestat. The PR doesn't feel up to bowling today, so even 12 hours later it's telling on her. I am going to make sure she takes her meds, even if it makes me a mean, evil mother.
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I did. I think. :-\
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Sort of.
But for pain control I've been stuck with poppy pod tea. Although I did just finish cooking up a shot of home-baked 6-monoacetyl (mostly) and some, but less, diacetylmorphine black tar skag. Testing the pod isolate I've been working hard at all day. Nice fucking rush to say the least :)
Should be good when its refined down to something white and crystalline, and propionylated in place of acetylation...should be REAL good.
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After my epic snotfest of a week ago, Ive managed to remember to take my hayfever pills every day :congrats:
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Most of them.
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Why she bitch about taking her meds? I'd have thought seizures were the lesser of two evils.
I don't mind taking my antiseizure meds (chlormethiazole), as I don't get any side effects from it at all, other than it helping me sleep, and making alcohol phenomenally potent. (a few pints of beer, and I'm on the floor, compared to being able to drink a pint and a half of spirits in a single shot whilst not having the med in my system)
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Why she bitch about taking her meds? I'd have thought seizures were the lesser of two evils.
I don't mind taking my antiseizure meds (chlormethiazole), as I don't get any side effects from it at all, other than it helping me sleep, and making alcohol phenomenally potent. (a few pints of beer, and I'm on the floor, compared to being able to drink a pint and a half of spirits in a single shot whilst not having the med in my system)
She's been taking epilepsy meds for 21 years (since she was 3). We're both tired of it. And I agree, the seizures are the lesser of the two evils.
The epilepsy meds are lamotrigine (Lamictil) and Zonegran (zonisamide).
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Lamotrigine isn't too bad, at least, unless you are one of the tiny minority who's skin all falls off. That sounds like it pretty much sucks ass :P
My former housemate was on it for bipolar, and it got left here when i kicked her out for being a psychotic devilbitch borderline fuckweasel. So I've ended up using it a few times when trouble was going to happen. No experience with zonisamide personally though. Chlormethiazole and an alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonist (clonidine, although this is by no means an anticonvulsant, but I think what might be causing my myoclonus and myoclonic seizures, is an overproduction of (nor)-adrenaline) and even on its own it helps a great deal. Not a typical case though.
I hope PR is feeling better after that last one. *hugs*
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No I didn't. I haven't got a bean.
Just going to pick up my refill now, having taken my last doses last night (plus a pot of pod tea, as the oxy wasn't doing enough, and my leg was really hurting badly, cramping like a bitch. The pod brew though helped ease that pretty well, thanks to all that yummy morphine/codeine/thebaine goodness:)) (thebaine is actually not much of an opioid, rather, it is a strycnine-like convulsant poison, but its present in small quantities, and like small doses of strychnine, give poppy pod tea its stimulating, peppy properties that oral morphine or/and codeine on their own do not possess.
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Not yet, but I will.
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yes!
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Both the PR and I have taken our meds this morning.
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Is her delightful ladyship feeling better? Do give her my regards and wish her well healh wise for me?
Yes I took most of my meds, haven't yet taken the muscle relaxant, tizanidine. Although I don't have any issues a reall]t Its also an adrenergic blocker of sorts so I should take it
(It is an alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonist, like clonidine, or xylazine etc. Alpha2 ARs are the autoreceptor for the adrenergic system, autoreceptors are those that act as negative feedback sensory, if there is too much (nor)adrenaline floating around in ones system, it stamps on the brakes and immediately cuts (nor) adrenaline release.)
And it can be used to calm people who are using stimulants, and to combat the sometimes severe vasopressor properties and vasoconstriction, where betablockers cannot. As beta blockers, just block beta receptors, leaving the alpha1 subtype for more or less the where is left for all that excess (nor)adrenaline has to go SOMEWERE. Alpha1 mediates blood vessel tone, and dilatation/constriction.
So paradoxically, beta blockers should NEVER BE USED TO COMBAT ST K}}}}}
As doing so can cause severe vasoconstriction.
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The PR and I will survive. Thanks Lestat. She's a bit of a hypochondriac, which is to be expected with two elderly parents.
I'm about to have both of us take our evening meds.
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Not yet. I will have to post about this later. :P
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Not yet. I will have to post about this later. :P
:cbc:
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I have taken mine and the PR has just been handed hers.
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Yup
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I took my meds yesterday, but not today.
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Yes
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Yes, went for the whole lot today.
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I went out for b'fast and didn't have my meds with me. The PR had her morning meds . I'm about to do the evening meds for us.
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Took my meds!
I am back to work, now.
Working part time still hurts. It is quite easy to remember my PAIN meds. I tend to take the BP meds at the same time.
:violin:
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The PR and I
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I'm not sure I did! I felt foggy and tired much of the day. :apondering:
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The PR and I have been properly medicated.
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Not yet. I just got up.
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Not yet. I just got up.
If you just got up, do you still need the meds? :zoinks:
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The PR and I have been properly medicated.
I've taken care of my household too.
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Not yet. I just got up.
If you just got up, do you still need the meds? :zoinks:
Some other pills. :P
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Another successful morning
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Yes :hyke:
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Not my usual meds, no, not yet. But I'm having coffee for medicinal purposes. ;D
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yes
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Yes both times
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I only take Nexium daily, but yes. I may take a Xanax, but more to relax my back, which is super-sore at the moment.
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I'm up to hour with my meds. The PR, however, is still sleeping, so no meds yet for her.
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Yes, I did.
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I did, eventually.
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I have forgotten my night meds - I brushed my teeth and then realised. Now I have to take them and then brush my teeth again.
Quetiapine, haloperidol, lithium and moclobemide are my night meds.
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I took my morning meds, but forgot to give the PR hers. She slept late.
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I took mine. :)
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Left mine at my mother's place. I do have some here, so that's not a problem. I also forgot to bring my sunscreen with me from my trip to her. :facepalm2:
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I took my regular meds as well as some advil for a nasty headache and some sudafed for a sore throat.
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I took mine.
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Had mine.
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yes of coarse
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the PR and I did
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Yes, including cortisone for the latest eye infection.
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Me takes me meds
:GA:
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The PR and I did
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Thanks to this thread, I ook mine just now. :)
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My doc tells me that one more prescription and he will "work me off of the opiates." Sounds like Cold Turkey to me. :cbc:
He wants to get me back on Tramadol for the remaining period of my recovery. After one year I will have recovered and only need "maintenance" after that.
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I took mine. The cortisone is helping. My eye is less gooey now.
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^I can't believe that is still going on. Your poor eye.
:hug:
I can't remember if I took mine this morning. It is afternoon now so I will just take the night ones.
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Took the antibiotics, and the methylamphenidate.
Need the latter, certainly during holidays. And, keep getting positive comments on the effect of the former.
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Yes
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I've been forgetting my L-Lysine. I'd better go take some now. :tard:
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Take your L-Lysine, dear Weeble!
I took what I needed to take, so far.
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Took them as I am meant to.
There is also Rhinocort now, a nasal spray to keep my nose unblocked. Works well but it is expensive.
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The closest thing I have to meds is zyrtec. Which means that when I sneeze, I get to say that I'm off my meds, and I find that funny :GA:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9MjWBInGZ0
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Forgot my meds today, probably because I'm travelling.
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Yes
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Check.
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Start of the day is OK.
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Not yet.
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Had the antibiotics.
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Yes
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Check.
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Mostly. Been a bit slapdash and halfarsed about it but got most of em done.
Not that I could forget to do my oxy shots, that would 'remind' me in a most unwelcome way if I did.
Still got to take my gabapentin, that I get scripted for the neuropathic pain in my left leg; it helps with the otherwise constant, severe cramping also. Going to take that after I finish munching on my pizza, and take a dose of tizanidine (muscle relaxant) and chlormethiazole (anticonvulsant, doubles as fucking strong arsed barbiturate-esque tranqs) also.
And a quick squirt up the hooter of a xylometazoline nasal spray, as the anti-adrenergic properties of clonidine and tizanidine both cause nasal congestion due to indirect antagonism of alpha1 adrenoreceptors thanks to general suppression of (nor)adrenaline release, causing dilation of the blood vessels which then leads to a stuffy schnozzle.
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I'm supposed to swish with this mouthwash my dentists prescribed, and he wants me to do it three times a day for about a minute.
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Ooooooooohh. Thanks for this thread. I'd probably forgotten. Will take them now.
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I'm supposed to swish with this mouthwash my dentists prescribed, and he wants me to do it three times a day for about a minute.
Still haven't done it :GA:
(http://www.tuxboard.com/photos/2010/09/derp-escude.jpg)
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Most of them.
Been into town, and had some other stuff not on my regular meds list, quite a few bottles of codeine liquid cough mixture, as going into the city center involves me walking a long way, and all over the place once I actually hit town itself. Means going round several different pharmacies to get enough, but it helps take the edge off the otherwise searing, brutal pain I get in my left hip, thanks to bursitis.
Feel nicely relaxed, even after having a few shots of the thiophene analog of methamphetamine. Still pleasantly chilled out, all the more so after a few cold beers and a bong or three :)
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Check.
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Yes, but I forgot the PRs.
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I took all of mine, including the Prilosec OTC that lets me enjoy my favorite foods again! :pizza: :drool:
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Neither the PR nor I had our morning meds. I am looking forward to my aspirin and sleeping pill, which are laid out for me. I need to give the PR hers.
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Neither the PR nor I had our morning meds. I am looking forward to my aspirin and sleeping pill, which are laid out for me. I need to give the PR hers.
Here's your bedtime tea, Your Majesty! :cbc: :tea: You'll need it to wash down the pills!
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Yes.
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Neither the PR nor I had our morning meds. I am looking forward to my aspirin and sleeping pill, which are laid out for me. I need to give the PR hers.
Here's your bedtime tea, Your Majesty! :cbc: :tea: You'll need it to wash down the pills!
thank you kindly, Lady Weeble. Ahhhhh. Just the right amount of medicinal alcohol in it too. I've given the PR her eye drops and she'll come in soon for her night meds.
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Not yet. Will sort out the morning batches for all who need some in this household.
Did get a prescription for another ten weeks from the GP for my doxycycline.
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I need to take my hyper meds regularly.
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I forgot the morning meds in the rush to get to the bowling alley with the PR.
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Not yet.
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I need to take my hyper meds regularly.
Same here. I am getting a bit better in not not taking them, lately. Today, I failed.
Did take the anti-biotics. Dreading the moment I have to take a break from them. :tard:
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I've swished once today.
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I've swished once today.
How long have you been practicing the swishing? What do you hope to achieve with swishing? And, are you seeing results?
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Took mine.
I need to get refills.
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Done.
Pondering on taking something for the head too. :P
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I've swished once today.
How long have you been practicing the swishing? What do you hope to achieve with swishing? And, are you seeing results?
My dentist prescribed it for sensitivity after I got some fillings.
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My teeth already feel better
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I took mine, but I really, really need to get the refills. TODAY.
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Yes. Now I can go back on some OTC meds for minor aches. You can't have aspirin within so many days before giving blood.
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Nothing yet, today. It's a bit after 2 am. I should take some sleep, I guess.
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Just got up, so not yet.
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Had the antibiotics. The rest can wait.
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I took the crazy meds but skipped the hyper meds.
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Now regret skipping the meds to focus.
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I've been a good girl today. :lutra:
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Yes
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Sort of. Ish. Taken some, possibly the pills, powders and potions were all done on the rx for some others thought the sudden desire to go back to the docs surgery and start deprotonating receptionists, starting at the little toes, and gradually lowering them deeper also applied to IT and as such panicked a bit and did one the receptionist and maaaayyybe Well, at least, getting in the beginning of aforementioned process.
If it wasn't for the soothing balm provided mother gaia provideth in the form of those 'lil natural nitrogenous bundles of goodness, allies most firm with carbon and oygen being so generously afforded a spacious home in those all inclusive Papaver somniferum, such fine beginning points for oxycodone I would be totally irresponsible for a tragic accident involving flesh eating driver ants, some concrete, a diaper, a drainpipe, several tubes of superglue, a can of lighter fuel and a microwave alongside certain neurotypical individuals.
What gives one might wonder? and 'the fuck indeed, gives?
I don't sleep. I can't sleep, for I A-have completely squirrely sleep patterns, unpredictable as shit, always have, always will I'm sure. I have insomnia and they didn't give me my fucking tranks/anti seizure meds. None of em, not a single capsule. Nor any clonidine. OR sedating antihistamine...although thankfully a days worth of my muscle relaxer, tizanidine, pretty fucking similar to clonidine. Need to stop my hands from shaking whilst I'm trying to give myself what should be my morning 'bucket of cold water over the person, fried peppery chilli and soy sauce and worcester&brown sauce marinaded, fly agaric seasoned (essential spice for cooking meat dishes IMO but it cannot be purchased as a spice, only a shamanic/head shop type product online etc. and it MUST be prepared correctly to render it non-poisonous and psychotropic....easily done, but important. Although it seens to put others off using it for some odd reason...it can turn a tasty beef stew into something that would tempt me to keep chewing my way through first the plate and then potentially also the table scrumthebollocksingmotherfuckumptious) fillet steak and icy cold mug of ale and morning wakey-wakey rise'n'shine enlivening warm, comfy, relaxing but big deep pressure squeeze from one hot as fuck kanner's porn-megastar (that the world is so desparately in need of!...c'mon theres gotta be some foxy classic girls on I2 with thoughts of porn modeldom?????? :D)
my customary shot of a pair of OC 80s.
Docs surgery opens half 8 in the morning, no earlier, no later. I pick(ed) all my various scripts and thusly meds, up on monday, every monday, failing something like a bank holiday.
So......what does this tired, cranky, sleepdeprived, desparately hungry and thirsty autie find when he turns up.
The previous monday had been a bank holiday so was let know to come in and get a rx for one days stash of rx meds basically; and then in the meantime without discussing with me, and whats more seeking my permission, but not to even fucking TELL me about it. decide to PERMANENTLY change my pickup day to tuesdays.
Acting like, when I have NEED of my meds, the unannounced change thrown me off, and without my fully functioning phone to set alarms and use as my personal organizer, and the room itself needing a hades of a tidy-by-willy pete and his friend, Mr.Napalm :P
That there WERE no anomaly correcting remaining meds to be had today. Monday, expect to need, DO need, cannot conjure up any but certain ones fromm a squirt of piss in the styx, a few over the counter or readily available reagents and some scotch mist in the lab. So naturally I go to pick up my script for this week, and instead get met with a most obnoxious grilling as to why im even there, when I was told, yapyapyapap, and the tone of it all being that it was my fault, I'm bad, I'm in the wrong, wrong-doing almost.
So now I'm not due today....ALWAYS TUESDAYs now. Thankfully my doc was, and is, a decent man. Hardly like I've been selling my meds for...well for anything. I need them; especially my oxycontin, chlormethiazole, chlormethiazole, and adrenal blockers, could never be sold off at ANY price for these reasons.s
I EVENTUALLY manage to negotiate the fucking neurotypical, to get it to at least communicate the awareness of the situation and my needs to the doctor for THEM to decide weather or not to assist me. I get told to wait. So I waited patiently for almost four and a half hours just for them to get off it's fucking chocolate starfish and go tell the good Dr. Who I ring back in a while to be told yes, by the reception I may have a single day's worth I.e today's, whilst I wait for tomorrow.
Beggars fucking belief, not to mention vexed the shit out of me, just the sheer point of changing the day permanently, without asking me and totally throwing me off , which was and IS most unwanted and a,, why for the love of twatting fuck not just let me have my rx as usual, today, in full, rather than dividing it into portions of a day it?
And after eventually getting the pills at half 2 at in the afternoon, not half of the stuff is even THERE once I get to the pharmacist. My regular meds, not all of it was even on the fucking script sheets once I got to the actr. pharmacy to cash it in for my
But couldn't be be doing with any MORE aggro, I just wanted to go home, sit my accidentally corrosive-burnt arse crack down and have a long overdue and to be honest, pretty much fought and argued and pled for, have what I did get, and tend said arsecrack-crater with some lidocaine, antiseptic and the shot of oxy I'd bloody well argued like shit for (sorry the fuck for asking, nay, demanding not to be left to go suffer and withdraw, when I have not been negligent, committed no act of fault nor wrongdoing)
I was so fucking vexed after that that my hands were shaking and I came within a picosecond of a myoclonic jerk forcing me to throw my freshly prepped shot solution over the floor, no clonidine to block excess catecholamine release from causing peripheral overstimulation and then no oxy at all, then I would have gone from stressed, tired, pained in the stomach from lack of available food to plain furious IMO. But as it is I managed to load up, and boot the fuck up eventually, even doing it left handed to get in at least a halfarsed-reasonable number of tries to register piloting with my left hand (I'm right handed, but its sensible for any regular IV user to move sites so as not to constantly piss off tissue in the one favoured naturally the most, mainly in my case the left basilic and cephalic veins at the elbow inner crook mainly, or various sites on the back of my right hand, although only if I'm using a 28g pin or smaller, although apparently most people hate using the backs of hands, finding it very painful. I always did when doctors or nurses try IV or taking blood there, but not when I do so myself using a decent needle.
Least-wrists. ONLY with 31 or smaller, and even then it was pretty much a last, last, last choice, suitable-ish site (too many nerves, bloodvessels to use IMO), and of course groin or jugular, which I simply have never, never plan to, and will never use...let alone my fucking knob. Apparently people do haha, poor cunts [when it falls off, poor cunt that gets left behind! )
But damn, oh my god, after all that frustraited, shitty-feeling wait getting left so long overdue, and I so sleepless and all over sore, it was one HELL of a sigh of relief you lot could have heard it from here almost.
And I didn't even come close to finishing it, so I in effect, thanks to nodding off at my chair, still have three quarters and a bit or so left. Time to relocate to bed methinks, sitting upright falling asleep for hours with a crater corroded into an arsecrack hurts like a bitch, even with IV opiates.
Fucking pencilnecked inbreed NT badger-cocked* stuffed shirts; ugh.
(* is that a good thing?.....only if you happen to be a girl badger :P )
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Yes, I did. And I finally, after plenty of procrastinating, had my blood drawn to test for vitamin B deficiencies.
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In the process of so doing. Just recently got back from the docs surgery and pharmacy. Got the right quantity and right kind of meds, and for whats more, all of them :P this time.
But for fucks sake...what part of 'I need that in a GLASS dispensing bottle, chlormethiazole melts through plastic' do the dumb pakis in that pharmacy not understand? Its even on the branded heminevrin bottles 'must not be stored/dispensed in plastic containers' or something like that. How plain can you get.
Make the world idiot proof....and all that will happen is a village somewhere will produce and lose a better quality idiot.
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I took mine.
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:thumbup:
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Yup
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Just woke up. Part-way through taking my oxycontin, lol; alternating between shooting up and stuffing myself silly with the huge bowl full of pickled black olives that I have beside me :D Mmmmm, I just can't get enough when it comes to pickled olives.
(update....olives gone, all 6 jars of the buggers, down to the last little nibble....yum!)
*Pokes vein......eyelids start to go all droopy.....muscle relaxation, appetite just increased, now I'm ravenous after just waking up*
Still got to take my chlormethiazole, clonidine, tizanidine, buscopan and gabapentin.
Time for some food and drink. I fancy some of my mojito and soda with fresh lime, to go with the remains of the triple cheese and green pickled olive deep pan pizza. Perhaps some of the roast chicken thats in the fridge too, as theres only a couple of slices left of my olive pizza, which means that will dissappear in two or three large bites.
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Only Lestat would reply to "Did you take your meds today?" with a book and an accompanying pamphlet. :hahaha:
:P
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Only Lestat would reply to "Did you take your meds today?" with a book and an accompanying pamphlet. :hahaha:
:P
:laugh:
I took mine.
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book and pamphlet?
Where did I say I was reading (in this thread/last few posts here?
No I haven't taken my meds. I'm just about to do my morning oxy shot though.
Got to go pay fore more meds though later when the banks open, as I have 100x0.5mg pyrazolam pills on order online, along with a fair sized collection of research chemical synthetic cannabinoids :mischief:
*reaches for micron filter, pops it on the end of syringe, draws up the goodies, removes filter and swaps it for needle*
*shoots first portion and goes to reload*
Mmmmmmm that feels nice.
*Lestat reclines back in chair with a satisfied smile on his face. Thats some good shit :oooh:
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I still need to take the multivitamin and the L-Lysine. :orly:
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Yes
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Why don't they make theriac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theriac) these days? That is medication for a Roman - opium and viper's flesh :viking:
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I still need to take my second L-Lysine. :orly:
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Great time to read this. I am in time to take my methylphenidate. Did have the antibiotics.
Hope to hear results from bloodwork tomorrow.
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the Sunday one
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Had it all.
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Today is all mixed up
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Yes but I took the afternoon one late and will probably be up very late tonight because of it
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I did.
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I have taken my prescribed dose of Jack Daniels to cure the ills of holiday. I am feeling really good now. I feel like dancing
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Shouldn't you be knocking Ouzo down? Or is that only as a starter before dinner?
I took what I needed today.
Including exercise. Bit over 30 km, on Mondays.
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yes
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yes
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yes
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I have taken my prescribed dose of Jack Daniels to cure the ills of holiday. I am feeling really good now. I feel like dancing
Waltz?
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No.
Have no meds, and suffering for it. Yet the docs won't give me the half day worth of meds it takes to avoid a guaranteed few hours of withdrawal from everything EVERY time I am due.
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No.
Have no meds, and suffering for it. Yet the docs won't give me the half day worth of meds it takes to avoid a guaranteed few hours of withdrawal from everything EVERY time I am due.
:hug:
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Yes......
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I just did.
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Yes, and with a goodly lot of antisickness meds to boot.
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yes
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I did. I can again be a productive citizen.
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Some of them. Still have to take the chlormethiazole and a dose of my pain meds, myorelaxant (tizanidine), clonidine (adrenergic blocker in a roundabout way) and gabapentin if I need it, although my neuropathic pain is, so far today, so good, keeping quiet.
Ugh..ew....gross. One of the chlormethiazole caps leaked a bit..gods does that ever taste awful, smells like metallic gone-off apples with a hint of manky old mint, tastes acrid as fuck.
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yes
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Well 'today' hasn't really started yet and won't for a while. A quick shot and a sleeping pill before I crawl into bed will do me nicely :)
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I felt really productive today, so, only took the antibiotics. And, lo and behold, I was pretty productive and coherent indeed. Even with kid changing the routine I had planned for us to have.
Hope to keep it up a bit more, need to get dishes done and washing hanging.
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Just took the night time ones.
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Yes, I did. Included the focusing pills too.
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I did.
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I did. And I had my kilometers again too. :hyke:
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Sort of. Picked up my refill earlier today morning, but only got round to doing a morning shot of oxy, as I've been all sleepy, wake'n'bake, and I picked up new books yesterday, the hunger games and its sequel in the trilogy. I want the one i don't have now though. Read through the both books last night from start to very last page, read the first one then the one after it :P
Lol one thing about me, is that I am a very VERY quick reader. If I get a really good book to get stuck into, with nothing that absolutely must be done, no distractions then the most likely outcome is that I'll have read the book without ever putting it down, not uncommonly reading it cover to cover in a matter of hours, even for a huge book. like LOTR, or multiple books in a series. Really recommend the hunger games series so far. Loved the first books, literally unputdownable other than when I went either for a piss, or for a bong.
So I got majorly distracted, just took the pain meds, although now I'm reminded, having forced my arse to move, check email and such things. Best take the rest now I think of it; not to mention get one of the toasted cheesy sandwiches I picked up yesterday whilst sat to eat in a cafe down my neck, more than one come to think of it, not to mention some of the nice cold bottles of carling citrus I grabbed on my way home yesterday.
I'm ravenous after waking up from all that walking and eventually falling asleep after my looooooooooooooong reading marathon.
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Yes
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Some. I admit, I've been really sloppy about them today.
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Yes. Hoping the hyper meds will kick in to give me some ability to focus.
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yes
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Good to see this now. I need some, right away.
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done
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Yes and will later also
300mg wellbutrin
5mg Abilify
10mg Pravastatin
no need for Cialis again :(
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Some. Mainly the oxy. Just now taking some of the morning dose of the rest lol (and another shot of OC :))
Ick....need to put on steroid cream. I absolutely loathe the touch of many skin topical preparations. Its not so much the texture as....something I can't really word, but its there and I don't like it one bit.
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According to the surgery schedule, yes. Back on full meds this evening.
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According to the surgery schedule, yes. Back on full meds this evening.
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
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Yes. I will soon be a productive member of society again.
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Some. Got to take my evening dose of chlormethiazole, some gaviscon and scopolamine butylbromide to keep my stomach calm, and methinks, pop another shot of oxy. Got tizanidine (anti-adrenergic myorelaxant) on my schedule as well as gabapentin. I might take the latter, but I don't think I'll take a full dose of the tizanidine, as my leg isn't cramping at the moment, I'll just take a little to keep things that way I think.
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I did. I am taking good care of myself.
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Yes. All this studying has reminded me to take my dexamphetamine on time. Sometimes I don't feel it doing anything though. I often think they put blank pills in with the real ones.
Also now I am taking Rhinocort, a nasal spray. Taking it means I don't feel like I have a cold all the time.
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Yes.
:flyingbat:
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I took them about 5 minutes ago.
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Yes, forgot the four o clock ones. Pondering on whether to take them still, or not. Could make it a late night. But, that's not too bad.
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Yes, forgot the four o clock ones. Pondering on whether to take them still, or not. Could make it a late night. But, that's not too bad.
Done, I may regret this later.
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Yes
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Yes, long enough ago that technically, I'm allowed to lay down again.
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I took mine.
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Yes, did. Will take the focus aid early in the morning too, today, I think. Haven't done that for half a year or so. But, need it.
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Focus aid hyke?
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Focus aid hyke?
Generic brand version of Ritalin. :hyke:
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yep all of them
I am right full
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It's about 4 a.m. Didn't take my sleeping pill and of course I didn't sleep. Took a pain pill not to long ago. It seems to be kicking in.
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Yes
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Technically it was yesterday.
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Yes
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Yes.
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Check.
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Check.
What was the outcome, when you checked. Did you take them, or not? The public wants to know.
I took my antibiotics. On my way to take other stuff.
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Check.
What was the outcome, when you checked. Did you take them, or not? The public wants to know.
I took my antibiotics. On my way to take other stuff.
You'll be happy to know that I took my meds today.
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All morning meds accounted for and taken
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All my prescribed meds of the day have been taken, and enjoyed.
May throw in some magnesium supplement and some melatonin, but, may forget about that too.
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I took mine. Crazy meds, hyper meds and the Lysine.
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Started with hypermeds this morning, by accident. I usually don't take them, when working. It was only when I swallowed it that I realised this was not big enough to be the antibiotic capsule. :tard:
Oh well, had that directly after the hyper pill. Amazing isn't it, how quick my concentration and focus got better after swallowing the methylphenidate. :hahaha:
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Started with hypermeds this morning, by accident. I usually don't take them, when working. It was only when I swallowed it that I realised this was not big enough to be the antibiotic capsule. :tard:
Oh well, had that directly after the hyper pill. Amazing isn't it, how quick my concentration and focus got better after swallowing the methylphenidate. :hahaha:
Why don't you take them when working? That's when I need mine.
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Started with hypermeds this morning, by accident. I usually don't take them, when working. It was only when I swallowed it that I realised this was not big enough to be the antibiotic capsule. :tard:
Oh well, had that directly after the hyper pill. Amazing isn't it, how quick my concentration and focus got better after swallowing the methylphenidate. :hahaha:
Why don't you take them when working? That's when I need mine.
My work gives me both structure, and change of scene. Tasks are very clear, and they all make sense too. It's not hard to stay focused. Most of the times I do not need them, when working there. At home, in the afternoon, that is when my focus is completely gone, and that is the time when I need to prepare a meal, make sure the ladies get their homework done, that they get fed and that they get in bed in time too. It's very easy for me to lose track there. And, my kids are perfectly normal when it comes to their moods and shorter fuses right before dinner time on top of my confusion. :P
There are weeks I can go without any methylphenidate, and it all goes well. When everything seems to collapse around me, structure and focus wise, I put myself on the medication regime, till it works all well enough to let it slip again. I like what the meds do for my focus, but I also love the random brain wanderings I have without them. My doctor is OK with how I use them. Soon she may hand me over to the GP for check-ups. I asked her to note down how I use it, and how that is good for me for the GP, when that time comes.
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Yes
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Not yet.
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Had the anti-biotics. 16 more days, and then I have to take a break. :-\
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I took mine.
I need to buy L-Lysine, though.
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Yes
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I did.
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So far, so good. And I've sat up straight long enough too. Now I could bend over, or lie down, without doing damage to my esophagus, if I wanted.
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:thumbup:
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yes I have
My medications are causing me to cry too much
I cry at the least little thing that touches my heart
Dont tell me meds cant change the way you feel or act.
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yes I have
My medications are causing me to cry too much
I cry at the least little thing that touches my heart
R
Dont tell me meds cant change the way you feel or act.
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Remember when Effexor caused me to go into a psychosis?
I bought a razor sharp hunting knofe on eBay my mother confiscated. Lutrash gets all uppity about. Faggot and nigger, yet feels the needs to talk trash about me taking meds. His life sux, tho. If the highlight of his day is creeping on "flirting with" some gal at a coffee shop. I got a free upgrade to large without asking by a cute barrista. Hell likely get charged with stalking at some point. The hypocrisy is staggering. :LOL:
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I took mine.
I need to buy L-Lysine, though.
I should check how much L-Lysine I have left. :apondering:
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L-Lysine! What would Caesar have said about that? :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr:
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L-Lysine! What would Caesar have said about that? :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr:
He would have served it at all breakfasts in the palace.
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Yes. I can tell I've been missing a few days here and there. My back and neck are letting me know they need attention.
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I did indeed take my meds today. I also picked up more at the pharmacy.
:indeed:
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About to hand out and take meds.
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L-Lysine! What would Caesar have said about that? :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr:
"BRAVE!!!"
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L-Lysine! What would Caesar have said about that? :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr: :arrr:
"BRAVE!!!"
:indeed:
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Took my morning meds earlier and just took my night med.
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Not yet.
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So far.
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Just did, including the newly refilled L-Lysine.
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I did.
9 days of anti-biotics left. I am on the L-Lysine routine with more dedication, knowing my doxyclycline relief will soon be gone.
Dreading it a bit. This is not the season to stop. But, it never is.
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Yes
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yes
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I don't take "mind medicine" as my brother calls it, but I took 40mg esomeprazole for my stomach - I hate it :thumbdn:
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Yes
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I did, yes.
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Yes, just about a minute ago.
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Took morning meds when I got up
have others for later
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Yep, took mine. Apart from prescription medication I take glucosamine (Ceilidh didn't want it any more and I thought why waste it), Caltrate and Rhinocort, a nasal spray that relieves hayfever.
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I did.
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Yes, I did.
One more week of doxycycline left.
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Just took my night meds. I will run out of lithium and quetiapine soon so I will have to go to the chemist.
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I did.
After five more days, will see what happens. Dreading it a bit. Bit more than a bit.
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It is time for my night meds.
One thing I forgot at the chemist was Caltrate.
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I did.
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Apparently, all members are off their meds. :M
That explains a lot. :zoinks:
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I want to be on theriac, like Marcus Aurelius.
Being on opium and viper's flesh is :viking:
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I want to be on theriac, like Marcus Aurelius.
Being on opium and viper's flesh is :viking:
Post what happens. :thumbup:
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I'm out of opium, and the vipers aren't out this time of the year :thumbdn:
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I'm out of opium, and the vipers aren't out this time of the year :thumbdn:
:(
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Aye,
I did take some meds couple of days ago. They made me really silly and giggly. :asthing:
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Apparently, all members are off their meds. :M
That explains a lot. :zoinks:
I wish.
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I did eventually take my morning meds....at 1pm.
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I'll soon be off my meds if I don't pick up new ones.
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I did eventually take my morning meds....at 1pm.
Time your dosage with another time zone. :arrr:
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Yes
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quit taking my meds a couple of days ago
will be drug free by and for X-mas
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I wouldn't dare to stop mine now.
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I need to be more adequate in taking my anti :GA: :GA: :GA: :GA: meds.
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Well, finally, yeah.
Went all week without my blood pressure medication, ran out of my pain medication two days later, Christmas Day.
Now I have it straightened out, but the pharmacy could not call the docs - holiday and all- and the "private emergency" (BULLSHIT!!) number my doctor gave me was not responsive. I just got it all sorted today.
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After a brief vacation, I'm back on my meds.
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I tried that for a little over a week at xmas. Gladly started them again.
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I took mine.
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Yes, but despite that, I feel the tingling that may announce a new cold sore.
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:( :hug:
I took mine.
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Yes, and I made the PR take hers before I would give her her b'fast.
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Yes, to all of them.
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No. I forgot them at home.
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I did.
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No. I forgot them at home.
I don't recall seeing anyone post "No" before. :P
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No. I forgot them at home.
I don't recall seeing anyone post "No" before. :P
I am pretty sure equivalents, like "I forgot" have been posted.
I did take my meds btw. :viking:
I'm all balanced out now, you can ask my kids. :M
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No. I forgot them at home.
I don't recall seeing anyone post "No" before. :P
I am pretty sure equivalents, like "I forgot" have been posted.
I did take my meds btw. :viking:
I'm all balanced out now, you can ask my kids. :M
I will ask Odeon for his opinion when he sees you. :M
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I took mine and can now be a productive member of society again, at least for the next few hours.
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I took mine and can now be a productive member of society again, at least for the next few hours.
I should do that too, so I can be productive at home. I better make this a CBC de-hoarding day, now that I can't go to work.
Did take my L-Lysine. And my tingles of a few days ago did not evolve into a cold sore.
:hyke:
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I took mine and can now be a productive member of society again, at least for the next few hours.
I should do that too, so I can be productive at home. I better make this a CBC de-hoarding day, now that I can't go to work.
Did take my L-Lysine. And my tingles of a few days ago did not evolve into a cold sore.
:hyke:
Yes, gentle cow! Show that clutter who's boss! :hyke: :hyke:
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I took mine and can now be a productive member of society again, at least for the next few hours.
I should do that too, so I can be productive at home. I better make this a CBC de-hoarding day, now that I can't go to work.
Did take my L-Lysine. And my tingles of a few days ago did not evolve into a cold sore.
:hyke:
Yes, gentle cow! Show that clutter who's boss! :hyke: :hyke:
The force of the Weeble is strong. :cbc:
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I took mine and can now be a productive member of society again, at least for the next few hours.
I should do that too, so I can be productive at home. I better make this a CBC de-hoarding day, now that I can't go to work.
Did take my L-Lysine. And my tingles of a few days ago did not evolve into a cold sore.
:hyke:
It does work. I'm really glad I got the tip.
I took mine. I am to see the idiot doctor, later today. The one who prescribed Seroquel to me. I need to get rid of her. I really, really need to get rid of her.
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I took mine and can now be a productive member of society again, at least for the next few hours.
I should do that too, so I can be productive at home. I better make this a CBC de-hoarding day, now that I can't go to work.
Did take my L-Lysine. And my tingles of a few days ago did not evolve into a cold sore.
:hyke:
It does work. I'm really glad I got the tip.
I took mine. I am to see the idiot doctor, later today. The one who prescribed Seroquel to me. I need to get rid of her. I really, really need to get rid of her.
That can be arranged. :litigious: :orly:
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I took mine and can now be a productive member of society again, at least for the next few hours.
I should do that too, so I can be productive at home. I better make this a CBC de-hoarding day, now that I can't go to work.
Did take my L-Lysine. And my tingles of a few days ago did not evolve into a cold sore.
:hyke:
It does work. I'm really glad I got the tip.
I took mine. I am to see the idiot doctor, later today. The one who prescribed Seroquel to me. I need to get rid of her. I really, really need to get rid of her.
That can be arranged. :litigious: :orly:
Let's have a chat and see what can be done. :P
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Hope you can get a better doctor, Odeon.
I just took my meds, thanks to I2. Saw this thread and thought: "Now, there's an idea". :hyke:
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I took mine.
And yesterday I finally found out what happened to my old doctor. I'm going to schedule an appointment with him.
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:thumbup:
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:asthing:
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I may have taken an extra L-Lysine this morning. It was early and I was confused. :tard:
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Yes both in the morning and afternoon :2thumbsup:
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Yes! I am fully medicated. :2thumbsup:
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Yes! I am fully medicated. :2thumbsup:
Me too! I even bought multivitamins after being without them for 3 days. :thumbup:
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If you can believe it, I did. I got up at 6:30, took my meds, ate b'fast and went back to bed.
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Working on a sinus headache, so: 10 mg melatonin, anti-inflammatory for arthritis, pain pill, 81 mg aspirin, sleeping pill, OTC allergy pill. It takes a lot to put me out.
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I took mine. I can now be productive for the remainder of the workday.
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Productivity meds have been taken.
Not working anymore.
Tantrums, overloads and what not in the making for all at home.
Being productive and strong would be nice.
:P
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I took mine. Not feeling productive, though.
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Productive, now, there's an idea.
I will take some meds in an hour. I could do with productive.
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Took mine but am wondering about the Seroquel (quetiapine). Because of it I am prone to sleepwalking.
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What a lucky timing to go to this thread.
I am due for my last dose of ritalin of the day. I forgot the last dosage both yesterday and the day before. So, the moment I needed it the most, I got the "after Ritalin" bouncing brain.
Funny, kid had a friend visiting, who also is on the spectrum and on Ritalin. She looked at me and said: You took your meds early in the day and not after that, didn't you? And I responded, the same is true for you I think. My poor daughter, she felt completely left out, being the only composed non bouncing spazz.
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Done. :flyingbat:
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Yes
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I took mine. Not feeling productive, though.
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Yes both morning and afternoon ones for the first time in a few days
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Not yet.
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I took mine but I ran out of the L-Lysine and need to go shopping.
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Yes, took all prescribed things of the day.
Will set my alarm for the next batch in 8 hours.
Time for some sleep.
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Not yet.
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Yes, I did.
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I did, eventually.
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Totally filled up with all the prescribed stuff.
Tomorrow, there will be less.
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I took mine. Feeling more productive for each second passing now.
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I took mine late but I did take them. Night ones due in a few hours.
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Yes.
Aside - I had an intense talk with the PR about her reluctance to take morning meds. Her brand epilepsy drug was $920 this month. Since she only pays $3 for it, it's not fair to someone else who could be getting medicine if she only takes it once a day rather than twice. (Well, hopefully you understand my morning logic.)
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^And she doesn't want seizures right? I think that is a good incentive to take them!
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^And she doesn't want seizures right? I think that is a good incentive to take them!
(Un)fortunately her seizures don't happen often. Maybe one or two every 6 weeks or so. So it only gets impressed on her infrequently.
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Not yet.
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No
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No, not yet.
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Forgot my morning meds but will definitely take my night ones.
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I have a built-in reminder, so yes.
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Yes
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I just did.
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I took my morning meds.
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:thumbup:
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Had the L-Lysine,
Will try to remember to take ritalin at 12 and 4 pm. It is time to get my normal routine back.
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Nearly took morning ones twice as I forgot I took them the first time. It has happened before.
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Took mine.
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I forgot my L-Lysine, better fix that now.
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Nearly took morning ones twice as I forgot I took them the first time. It has happened before.
:laugh:
Good to see I am not the only one that fuzzy. I hardly ever forgot to take my contraception, but, I did wake more than once, in the middle of the night thinking I had forgotten them. Only to find out in the morning that I had taken a double dosage.
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Nearly took morning ones twice as I forgot I took them the first time. It has happened before.
:laugh:
Good to see I am not the only one that fuzzy. I hardly ever forgot to take my contraception, but, I did wake more than once, in the middle of the night thinking I had forgotten them. Only to find out in the morning that I had taken a double dosage.
Whoops! When I was working, I took a double dose of dexamphetamine in the morning one time. I felt a bit awful for a good few hours.
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Not yet. It's Saturday morning and my morning routines are off.
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Not yet. It's Saturday morning and my morning routines are off.
It's Saturday afternoon, and my routines still are completely off.
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I did take mine, eventually. In case you were wondering.
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I had the L-Lysine, and some of the Ritalin.
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yes
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so far, so good.
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Yes. I'm considering adding my exercise here, since it is a form of medication. Although it will probably be the previous day's report - 1.5 miles on the bike.
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Yes. I'm considering adding my exercise here, since it is a form of medication. Although it will probably be the previous day's report - 1.5 miles on the bike.
I did 5 kilometres today. Was harder than I expected. But, will do it again tomorrow.
Should do something like crunches still, today. :-\
On the bright side, I took all meds.
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Went to the gym after the AA meeting. Did 1.5 miles in 1 minute, 15 seconds less time than last night. My heart rate has decreased too. Maybe there is something to this exercise thing after all.
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I took the spazz meds, the hyper meds and the L-Lysine.
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Went to the gym after the AA meeting. Did 1.5 miles in 1 minute, 15 seconds less time than last night. My heart rate has decreased too. Maybe there is something to this exercise thing after all.
You are doing well.
Took the meds, so far. Got a check-up, and a good talk. I can keep going on with the Ritalin as I am doing, and I got some mental back-up.
I promised my daughter I would go cycling again today. The walk in the nearby town was quite a lot though. :P
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Took the afternoon one a little late hoping that it will keep awake to my normal bedtime and get me back on my regular schedule
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Yes I did
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I did.
I need a refill.
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Forgot. Will remedy that now.
Should not forget to pick up refill later today. Can do that between 15:15 and 17:00.
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I did not take my morning or dinner meds. I'm about to take my night meds. I rode 2 miles today in 20 minutes and 4 seconds.
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Forgot the morning and afternoon meds. Set the alarm to have 4 o clock ritalin.
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I did.
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I do well remembering to take my morning and night meds, but have trouble remembering my dinner meds. Went to the gym yesterday a.m. and couldn't even ride a half of a mile. Maybe because it was less than 12 hours since the last gym visit? :dunno: Anyway, back to the gym today.
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Took mine, haha! Forgot morning ones yesterday.
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I did take my meds, but didn't make it to the gym because of a bad sleep last night.
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Not yet.
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Morning :thumbup:
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No, and it is too late now.
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Yes. Good for me.
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I've been a good girl.
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I took mine. Lately I've been wondering if they help at all.
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I took mine. Lately I've been wondering if they help at all.
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I skipped mine for a few weeks in a row. After that, I was happy to start the hyper meds again. Still taking them at will, but skipping them for three weeks is a bit too long. Not having a routine in that time was not helping either.
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I did indeed. Well some of them.
I would have been due to pick up my prescriptions at half 8 in the morning today. But I had to go make an appointment to see my doc yesterday, as I had a really severe flare-up with my bad hip and knees.
Left with my morphine script doubled and some IR oxycodone thrown in. Although I was at the time I saw him, and when he asked what I had in mind for breakthrough pain relief, really distracted and having some problems with processing being delayed a while, as oxy is not what I had in mind, I got myself taken OFF the oxycontin 80s I was taking, so I could have instead a Rx for morphine sulfate.
Was quite pleased about that though, getting my dose upped, especially as I had to use the last of my morph pills on saturday as I could barely walk and could put no weight on my ankle without it trying to turn inwards and collapse, along with a bloody brutal, searing pain shooting up my leg (I mean, the pain doing the shooting up, not that I shoot up, that is [although I use my morphine IV, now with a wee splash of oxy IR added to the shots as they cook. anyway, or turn it into gear and analogs do the same.
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Just took L-Lysine. Why do they make the pills so big? :GA:
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I honestly don't remember. Today was not a good day for focusing on myself. Tomorrow will be better.
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I took mine. Lately I've been wondering if they help at all.
I skipped mine for a few weeks in a row. After that, I was happy to start the hyper meds again. Still taking them at will, but skipping them for three weeks is a bit too long. Not having a routine in that time was not helping either.
I've been more scatterbrained than usual lately. But maybe that's stress.
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I took mine. Lately I've been wondering if they help at all.
I skipped mine for a few weeks in a row. After that, I was happy to start the hyper meds again. Still taking them at will, but skipping them for three weeks is a bit too long. Not having a routine in that time was not helping either.
I've been more scatterbrained than usual lately. But maybe that's stress.
Very likely. :hug:
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Just took L-Lysine. Why do they make the pills so big? :GA:
They make the pills to fit the size of the mouth. :hahaha: :P
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I took mine. Lately I've been wondering if they help at all.
I skipped mine for a few weeks in a row. After that, I was happy to start the hyper meds again. Still taking them at will, but skipping them for three weeks is a bit too long. Not having a routine in that time was not helping either.
I've been more scatterbrained than usual lately. But maybe that's stress.
Very likely. :hug:
I know a lot of it is stress but it's one thing to know about it and another to actually do something about it.
Anyway, I took my meds, earlier.
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just took my morning meds
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I had to stop taking the Ritalin. It was making me really fucking angry and aggressive.
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Took mine.
Welcome back, EBM. It's good to see you. :)
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Hi ebm. Is there any alternative for you to try?
Just took night meds; haloperidol, quetiapine, moclobemide and lithium.
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Not yet.
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Earlier I took my head meds and Caltrate.
Just now took dexamphetamine.
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Seeing this just in time.
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yes.
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I took mine.
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and I went to the gym last night at 11 pm and rode 1.5 miles in 16 minutes. I'd not been going since PA was feeling poorly and the PR was needy. But hopefully I'll get back on the track.
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I took mine.
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Have to wait a bit longer.
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yes
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Fucking right I did, and then some.
Was having a bit of a tweakfest on the ice and herbage last night, ended up shooting through something like 1.8g of the former :P
If it wasn't for its being today my meds were due to be refilled in the early AM, I wouldn't have gone for that, fuck off would I :P
The result would be a catatonicpostapocalyptic nuke site of a comedown.
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I'm not sure. Darn.
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Fucking right I did, and then some.
Was having a bit of a tweakfest on the ice and herbage last night, ended up shooting through something like 1.8g of the former :P
If it wasn't for its being today my meds were due to be refilled in the early AM, I wouldn't have gone for that, fuck off would I :P
The result would be a catatonicpostapocalyptic nuke site of a comedown.
Sounds healthy?
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Yes, I took them. And I did not forget to get new ones from the pharmacist. :hyke:
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I took the dinner time meds. I'm planning on heading out to the gym later tonight.
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Took them and saw that I need a benztropine refill soon.
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I took the dinner time meds. I'm planning on heading out to the gym later tonight.
Rode 1.62 miles in 17 minutes. And did some upper body no-machine exercises. I also took my evening Rxs.
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I took mine. Not that any of it helps.
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I took mine. Not that any of it helps.
Sometimes it feels like that doesn't it?
I have taken stimulants and then fallen asleep.
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I took mine. Not that any of it helps.
Sometimes it feels like that doesn't it?
I have taken stimulants and then fallen asleep.
I do that all the time. I'll take 20mg of dexamphetamine and then sleep like a log for 4 hours.
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Yes. And I did 1.75 miles in 18 minutes.
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I took mine. Not that any of it helps.
Sometimes it feels like that doesn't it?
I have taken stimulants and then fallen asleep.
They've felt pretty much useless lately.
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I took mine. Not that any of it helps.
Sometimes it feels like that doesn't it?
I have taken stimulants and then fallen asleep.
They've felt pretty much useless lately.
Maybe it is time for a break? You did that a few times, didn't you?
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I took mine. Not that any of it helps.
Sometimes it feels like that doesn't it?
I have taken stimulants and then fallen asleep.
They've felt pretty much useless lately.
Maybe it is time for a break? You did that a few times, didn't you?
I'm on a break now. I think the problem is that the dosage is wrong.
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Yes. And I did 1.9 miles in 19 minutes.
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Yes. And I did 2 miles in 20 minutes. That means I'm averaging about 6 miles per hour. Not bad for an out-of-shape old broad.
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Yes.
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No.
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Yes. Yesterday I skipped the ride since I'd only been able to do 14 minutes the day before. I'm guessing 2 days on, 1 day off will have to be the routine. Will go this afternoon with PA.
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Not yet. I've just made coffee and that's a priority.
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Yes.
And I did some exercises and rode 2.3 miles in 22 minutes.
That makes a total of 29.9 miles. Not a hell of a lot, but an awesome achievement for me. I started on March 8 riding .6 of a mile in 7 minutes.
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Took mine.
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back on taking them.
And rode a bit on the bike this morning. On Tuesdays, I will ride a bit with my youngest to school, and then back for me. I aim to go back to work on the bike soon. But for now, it is not a smart thing to do. Overdoing it made me go through my back last week. Bloody abs, they should come back faster.
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Took the pills, but skipped the gym
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Check.
Getting a headache as I write this.
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Check.
Getting a headache as I write this.
Damn you, getting one as I read this.
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Check.
Getting a headache as I write this.
Damn you, getting one as I read this.
Sorry.
I took my meds.
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Took all the meds. Gym = 2.34 miles in 23 minutes. Now over 32 miles to California.
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Took all the meds. Gym = 2.34 miles in 23 minutes. Now over 32 miles to California.
Did they have to race you to the ER? Or were your packages nearly empty?
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took the morning ones, forgot the dinner ones. Pushed/shamed/motivated myself into going to the gym. Another 2.23 miles in 23 minutes.
Nope, no ER yet. I'm definitely taking it rationally and slowly. I do the bike and then spend some time doing stretching exercises and some minimal upper back work.
f I did need some artificial respiration there are sure a lot of hunky guys there who I wouldn't mind if they inflated my lungs.
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took the morning ones, forgot the dinner ones. Pushed/shamed/motivated myself into going to the gym. Another 2.23 miles in 23 minutes.
Nope, no ER yet. I'm definitely taking it rationally and slowly. I do the bike and then spend some time doing stretching exercises and some minimal upper back work.
f I did need some artificial respiration there are sure a lot of hunky guys there who I wouldn't mind if they inflated my lungs.
You are a sensible woman, finding a situation so safe and protected. :angel:
:plus: for the lusty incentive to work out.
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Not yet. Busy posting.
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Yes I did...and then some :P
Although I didn't take my oxycodone IRs, fuckers didn't give me any, said I need to see my doc first, because as far as opioids go, only the morphine is on repeat.
Although its no great problem, I only got my refills today, so it isn't as though lacking the oxy will cause me to withdraw or owt, I slammed about 15 (rx'd 2xtwice a day :P) 30mg morphine sulfate tabs first thing I did when I got home after picking them up, along with the very last of my coke (mmm...speedballs...naughty, very naughty, but very very nice :P:D) and popped a couple of chlormethiazole caps (an old, antiquated, and by all accounts excellent, barbiturate-esque sedative/hypnotic. Smells funky, melts plastic but packs a punch like a runaway tank)
I've been meaning to get hold of my doc anyhow about the oxy IRs, as I'm angling for pethidine instead.
Haven't yet taken any tizanidine (a muscle relaxant that blocks noradrenaline release that I take for the constant, un-ceasing cramp and over-tight tendons in the back of my leg), but haven't needed to yet, as I've spent much of the day in a relaxed, fuzzy floppy heap, nodding out on the morphine, so I haven't been in any pain, for a very welcome change.
Clonidine? yes.
Chlorphenamine-yes.
Fexofenadine-no.
Just remembered my antibiotic now.
Ranitidine-some, not all.
Voltarol (diclofenac) spray-a couple squirts way earlier, could do with more methinks.
Hysoscine (scopolamine)-butylbromide peripherally selective quaternary ammonium salt-a little earlier on, not used any of the CNS-active slow release patches today.
Gaviscon-no.
Omeprazole (proton pump inhibitor), not yet.
Xylometazoline nasal decongestant drops/spray-can't remember, haven't needed it yet.
Mometasone (strong, long acting corticosteroid), no not yet, need to, don't want to, procrastinating, or I would procrastinate if I could be fucking well bothered. I think I will do after I shoot up again and it wears off later, or might make some dipropionylmorphine, (think smack on steroids, slightly, ever so slightly slower to come on than brown is, but far longer acting, a little more than twice and a half times the potency of H, very, very strong, and very very good stuff, makes plain ol' unesterified, vanilla morphine sulfate look like fucking baby formula by comparison); and after I dispose of the batch of Tollen's reagent I made last night for the purposes of creating a silver mirror on the inside of a test tube, and test a couple of things for the presence of an aldehyde moiety. Its a solution of ammoniacal, basified silver nitrate, that plates out metallic silver in the presence of an aldehyde but not a ketonic carbonyl group, with the odd exception, such as ketones with a hydroxyl group alpha to the C=O carbon. Useful versatile reagent, if a bit expensive to make, what with needing silver nitrate but it cannot be stored, due to the potential for formation of silver nitride, an extremely shock-sensitive primary HE. So the Tollen's needs to go and be made safe, and get reprocessed for the silver content to refine it down to metallic silver, or back to AgNO3.
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You put us all to shame.
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Yes. And did my stretching exercises and rode 2.4 miles in 24 minutes. Total in 26 days of riding is a bit over 42 miles. Tomorrow should be a "no bike" day. I'll see how I feel - 2 days on, 1 day off.
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Me, odeon?
Why so?
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Me, odeon?
Why so?
Most of us post "took my meds" or something similar here. Your post is a little bit more than that.
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Today-no, not really.
Just halfway through taking my first dose of morphine.
Mmm...thats better :D
Antibiotics done, chlormethiazole and clonidine, the only other one I want now is the ranitidine I take for acid reflux.
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Not taken my morning meds yet. This has reminded me. :)
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I've taken some of them. Exercise is on hold while some anti-inflammatory medicine I stopped is re-started. My body is just too off to even do stretches.
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Took mine.
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I've taken some of them. Exercise is on hold while some anti-inflammatory medicine I stopped is re-started. My body is just too off to even do stretches.
You do look mighty and very slender in your avatar. :viking:
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I took mine.
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One more dose of L-Lysine and I'll be done for the day! :thumbup:
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Topsy turvy day, meds the same.
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Topsy turvy day, meds the same.
I shall bring the Royal Medicines along with your tea! :cbc: :tea:
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Topsy turvy day, meds the same.
I shall bring the Royal Medicines along with your tea! :cbc: :tea:
So you're drugging the queen's tea? :o
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I'll take mine later. I just got up.
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Topsy turvy day, meds the same.
I shall bring the Royal Medicines along with your tea! :cbc: :tea:
So you're drugging the queen's tea? :o
I am bringing her meds on the silver tray so she can take them with tea, commoner. :M :P
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In awhile I will take my midday L-Lysine with lunch as my laundry gets done. :angel:
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Topsy turvy day, meds the same.
I shall bring the Royal Medicines along with your tea! :cbc: :tea:
So you're drugging the queen's tea? :o
I am bringing her meds on the silver tray so she can take them with tea, commoner. :M :P
That's the story. ;)
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Topsy turvy day, meds the same.
I shall bring the Royal Medicines along with your tea! :cbc: :tea:
So you're drugging the queen's tea? :o
I am bringing her meds on the silver tray so she can take them with tea, commoner. :M :P
That's the story. ;)
Are *YOU* trusted to wait on the Queen in her chambers? No, you are not. :M :P
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Topsy turvy day, meds the same.
I shall bring the Royal Medicines along with your tea! :cbc: :tea:
So you're drugging the queen's tea? :o
I am bringing her meds on the silver tray so she can take them with tea, commoner. :M :P
That's the story. ;)
Are *YOU* trusted to wait on the Queen in her chambers? No, you are not. :M :P
Perhaps I should be. :trollface:
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You *SHOULD* be arrested for your trolling. Why don't you come with us. :police: :trollface: :police:
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You *SHOULD* be arrested for your trolling. Why don't you come with us. :police: :trollface: :police:
Yes, I will come with you to the queen's chamber. :zoinks:
:cbc: :trollface:
:queenie:
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You *SHOULD* be arrested for your trolling. Why don't you come with us. :police: :trollface: :police:
Yes, I will come with you to the queen's chamber. :zoinks:
:cbc: :trollface:
:queenie:
If you even attempt it, the Royal Guards will bounce you out on your ass! :hahaha:
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All this bickering. I've forgotten to take the morning meds. Bother.
ALL MY FAULT.
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You *SHOULD* be arrested for your trolling. Why don't you come with us. :police: :trollface: :police:
Yes, I will come with you to the queen's chamber. :zoinks:
:cbc: :trollface:
:queenie:
If you even attempt it, the Royal Guards will bounce you out on your ass! :hahaha:
Their puny spears are no match for proper punctuation. :viking:
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I took my meds.
It isn't entirely clear if the punctuation mark took his, though.
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I took my meds.
It isn't entirely clear if the punctuation mark took his, though.
The punctuation mark seems to be mimicking the Weeble a lot lately. Maybe the punctuation mark lost it's inner self. :tard:
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I started my day with paracetamol, because of a non-migraine headache.
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I took my meds.
It isn't entirely clear if the punctuation mark took his, though.
I took my meds.
It isn't entirely clear if the punctuation mark took his, though.
The punctuation mark seems to be mimicking the Weeble a lot lately. Maybe the punctuation mark lost it's inner self. :tard:
Don't mind me; I'm just postwhoring. :P
I am not nearly as :trollface: as :cbc:. :toporly:
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The morning ones
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I took my meds.
It isn't entirely clear if the punctuation mark took his, though.
The punctuation mark seems to be mimicking the Weeble a lot lately. Maybe the punctuation mark lost it's inner self. :tard:
We should help the punctuation mark to regain its inner self. :P
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And I took mine, unlike the punctuation mark who is obviously off his meds. :M
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Took the L-Lysine, now it is time for the methylphenidate.
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Time for my Strattera! Mustn't forget that! :GA:
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I took my meds.
It isn't entirely clear if the punctuation mark took his, though.
The punctuation mark seems to be mimicking the Weeble a lot lately. Maybe the punctuation mark lost it's inner self. :tard:
We should help the punctuation mark to regain its inner self. :P
/me is suspicious of this vague statement.
:orly:
If you're going to suggest digging my inner self out, I'll politely decline. :GA:
And I took mine, unlike the punctuation mark who is obviously off his meds. :M
:spaz:
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Yeah, and re-started the gym.
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I took my meds.
It isn't entirely clear if the punctuation mark took his, though.
The punctuation mark seems to be mimicking the Weeble a lot lately. Maybe the punctuation mark lost it's inner self. :tard:
We should help the punctuation mark to regain its inner self. :P
/me is suspicious of this vague statement.
:orly:
If you're going to suggest digging my inner self out, I'll politely decline. :GA:
We only want your blood. :flyingbat:
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I took my meds.
It isn't entirely clear if the punctuation mark took his, though.
The punctuation mark seems to be mimicking the Weeble a lot lately. Maybe the punctuation mark lost it's inner self. :tard:
We should help the punctuation mark to regain its inner self. :P
/me is suspicious of this vague statement.
:orly:
If you're going to suggest digging my inner self out, I'll politely decline. :GA:
We only want your blood. :flyingbat:
The blood of an ancient mastodon may cause accelerated aging. :nerdy:
On the other hand, it may be the source of eternal life too.
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I took my meds.
It isn't entirely clear if the punctuation mark took his, though.
The punctuation mark seems to be mimicking the Weeble a lot lately. Maybe the punctuation mark lost it's inner self. :tard:
We should help the punctuation mark to regain its inner self. :P
/me is suspicious of this vague statement.
:orly:
If you're going to suggest digging my inner self out, I'll politely decline. :GA:
We only want your blood. :flyingbat:
:GA: :moomin: :hyke:
I took my meds.
It isn't entirely clear if the punctuation mark took his, though.
The punctuation mark seems to be mimicking the Weeble a lot lately. Maybe the punctuation mark lost it's inner self. :tard:
We should help the punctuation mark to regain its inner self. :P
/me is suspicious of this vague statement.
:orly:
If you're going to suggest digging my inner self out, I'll politely decline. :GA:
We only want your blood. :flyingbat:
The blood of an ancient mastodon may cause accelerated aging. :nerdy:
On the other hand, it may be the source of eternal life too.
It's not a risk that you have to take. :orly:
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I took my meds.
It isn't entirely clear if the punctuation mark took his, though.
The punctuation mark seems to be mimicking the Weeble a lot lately. Maybe the punctuation mark lost it's inner self. :tard:
We should help the punctuation mark to regain its inner self. :P
/me is suspicious of this vague statement.
:orly:
If you're going to suggest digging my inner self out, I'll politely decline. :GA:
We only want your blood. :flyingbat:
:GA: :moomin: :hyke:
I took my meds.
It isn't entirely clear if the punctuation mark took his, though.
The punctuation mark seems to be mimicking the Weeble a lot lately. Maybe the punctuation mark lost it's inner self. :tard:
We should help the punctuation mark to regain its inner self. :P
/me is suspicious of this vague statement.
:orly:
If you're going to suggest digging my inner self out, I'll politely decline. :GA:
We only want your blood. :flyingbat:
The blood of an ancient mastodon may cause accelerated aging. :nerdy:
On the other hand, it may be the source of eternal life too.
It's not a risk that you have to take. :orly:
You're right, we can test it on the Weeble first.
She will happily supply us with all medical geeky details of her experiences on your blood.
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It's not a risk that you have to take. :orly:
You're right, we can test it on the Weeble first.
She will happily supply us with all medical geeky details of her experiences on your blood.
:GA:
:moomin:
Who knows what would be created if my blood was added to the Weeble's body? :cthulhu: :hide:
Hopefully, my influence would cancel out some of the trolling. :M
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:moomin:
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Yes and gymned.
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It's not a risk that you have to take. :orly:
You're right, we can test it on the Weeble first.
She will happily supply us with all medical geeky details of her experiences on your blood.
:GA:
:moomin:
Who knows what would be created if my blood was added to the Weeble's body? :cthulhu: :hide:
Hopefully, my influence would cancel out some of the trolling. :M
She'll grow a trunk, as a side-effect, for sure.
(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc445/hetiswat/weeblewithtrunk_zps30b4a681.jpeg) (http://s1212.photobucket.com/user/hetiswat/media/weeblewithtrunk_zps30b4a681.jpeg.html)
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I forgot the dinner meds, and just took the night meds. Went to the gym, 1.5 miles in 16 minutes. Cumulative miles 49.3.
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Not yet. Just got up.
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It's not a risk that you have to take. :orly:
You're right, we can test it on the Weeble first.
She will happily supply us with all medical geeky details of her experiences on your blood.
:GA:
:moomin:
Who knows what would be created if my blood was added to the Weeble's body? :cthulhu: :hide:
Hopefully, my influence would cancel out some of the trolling. :M
She'll grow a trunk, as a side-effect, for sure.
(http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc445/hetiswat/weeblewithtrunk_zps30b4a681.jpeg) (http://s1212.photobucket.com/user/hetiswat/media/weeblewithtrunk_zps30b4a681.jpeg.html)
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I was going to post another bacon title... :P
Yes, I took my meds.
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Yes and rode 1.5 miles.
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Yes, I did.
And I have been riding my bike three days in a row.
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I did, except for the NSAIDs. I worry about them.
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Yes. And I did 2 miles (20 minutes) and stretches today despite missing yesterday. I'm now up to 20 stretches of each part of my body and 54.7 miles
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I did, except for the NSAID that fucks up my intestines.
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I did, except for the NSAID that fucks up my intestines.
It's time for your GFCF diet, then. :tard: Your Ass Burgers will be served without buns. :autism:
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I did, except for the NSAID that fucks up my intestines.
It's time for your GFCF diet, then. :tard: Your Ass Burgers will be served without buns. :autism:
It's time for my meds, actually.
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Yesterday I made them all. Went to the gym, an easy 10 minutes on the bike (.9 miles) and 10 stretches of the old body parts.
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Yup, but taking pain meds as well, because, I plan to do gardening, not just FUCKING work.
I plan for some fun
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I took mine.
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Odeon, you should generally take the NSAID with food (if you can, or at least a milky drink)
And its worth asking your doc for a prescription for a combination of ranitidine or cimetidine, and a proton pump inhibitor (blocks stomach acid production), as well perhaps as some gaviscon to take alongside the NSAID, especially the PPI, it will greatly reduce GI irritation and risk of a bleed or ulcer.
Some NSAIDs are less friendly to the innards than others, which are you on, how much and what for?
I haven't taken any of my meds today. I only just woke up, after yesterday mysteriously disappeared:P
Time for a shot of gear&cyclizine, to take my morning (or rather yesterday night's) dose of clonidine, and a muscle relaxer for my leg. After I slake my thirst and suck down a few cancer sticks that is.
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Naproxen, for the %/&€/& pain in my &€#&% finger.
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And yes; I took my meds today.
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I did, so far, so good. Not under the impression it is doing anything for me today, though.
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just took my morning meds
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Had my noon dosage of generic ritalin too.
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Why not try a topical NSAID? less likely to bother the gizzards and burn you a spare chocolate starfish.
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Why not try a topical NSAID? less likely to bother the gizzards and burn you a spare chocolate starfish.
The doc said I should try the NSAIDs for a two-week period.
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Yes. And I should be going back to the gym soon. A week of intestinal problems circulating within the family and a sore back have kept me from there.
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I've been pretty good about the L-Lysine lately. :angel:
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I took my meds today.
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Took the NSAIDs. Depending on them now.
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This thread reminded me, I forgot my morning multivitamin and L-Lysine! :runaway:
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:thumbup:
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I took mine.
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:thumbup:
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Check.
Need to refill the meds, tho.
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Anti-biotics to the rescue
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Yes
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So far, so good. Thanks again to :hyke: for starting this fine thread!
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:thumbup:
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Applied lots of sunscreen. :P
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Haven't taken my meds yet. Well, excepting coffee.
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Sunscreen and anti-biotics, yes, to both of them. Paracetamol too. Could not bring myself to have other stuff.
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Sort of.
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Sort of.
Shortest Lestat post ever. :orly:
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It's only 4:07 a.m. here, so no, I haven't. :P
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Not yet. I need my coffee first.
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Sort of.
Shortest Lestat post ever. :orly:
:laugh:
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Not yet. I need my coffee first.
Coffee *IS* a med, it's the most important one of the day! :coffee:
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yes
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I was too wired to concentrate on anything other than what I was doing at the time when I made that post.
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I was too wired to concentrate on anything other than what I was doing at the time when I made that post.
I briefly wondered if your account had been hacked! :orly:
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No, why?
Although I am locked out of my skype/msn atm, i cant remember the password.
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No, why?
I'm just so used to your very detailed descriptions of your various substances, and of
the processes of using them. I couldn't believe how little you had to say about it this time. :laugh:
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Heh. I was tweaking at the time, and had my head buried in study.
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I have one more L-Lysine to take before going to bed. 8)
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Took mine. I can now be a productive citizen. :borg:
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Took mine. I can now be a productive citizen. :borg:
That's good, because we have a lot to do today! :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg:
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Just the morning meds. And now the night ones.
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Same as yesterday.
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Not yet. I should but I don't know where I put the new ones.
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Did you pick them up recently? Could they still be in your car?
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I found them, eventually. :woohoo:
And took the NSAID. It was sorely needed.
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I found them, eventually. :woohoo:
And took the NSAID. It was sorely needed.
Hooray for finding them! Where were they? :oranna:
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I found them, eventually. :woohoo:
And took the NSAID. It was sorely needed.
Hooray for finding them! Where were they? :oranna:
As mentioned in another thread, where they were actually supposed to be. :-[
I took my meds today.
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Some of them, the anti-reflux meds and some part of my pain meds, not taken any oxycodone today, just morphine. I skipped my morning dose at least of the tranks, as I've been drinking alcohol (for the first time in at least a couple of months)
Got a crate of bourbon-flavoured lager called 'dead crow' and a big bottle of chilli pepper schnapps that I'm just about to start. (along with a quarter oz of skunk. Did have about 3g of some mighty fine snow, but thats all been turned into speedballs and gone in my veins now. All gone :'()
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I'm on track so far. Yesterday I replenished my supplies of multivitamins and L-Lysine. :thumbup:
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I did.
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I just took the last L-Lysine of the day. :thumbup:
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Some, 'today' is still partly yesterday. I took a shot of mixed analgesics of the opioid kind, and hosed my iffy knee down with voltarol/diclofenac spray (NSAID), because the fucking cunt thing was making me ache and suffer.
I'm going back downstairs after rolling a cancer stick, and it being first light at dawn, after I get back upstairs I'm having my sleeping pill, applying the needed quantity of corticosteroid ointment to my feet, splashing a bit of lavender oil on my pillow, throwing on my new Katatonia album; ripping a last bong, draining the remainder of my bottle of beer then sprawling out on the bed.
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Refilled my script of moclobemide today, found they had a name - Amira - and that they are made in India. They are also round instead of ovoid and a bright instead of pale yellow.
Took it anyway. As long as they work.
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I took mine.
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NO. :GA:
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Had the NSAID but not the other stuff.
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I had the other stuff.
No pain killers were taken in this household today. :viking:
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I took the other stuff, eventually.
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Yes
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I did.
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Yes to Prilosec, Strattera, L-Lysine, multivitamin and :coffee: !
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I should.
Did have a medication talk with a doctor for the youngest though. Adapting the experiments again.
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Yes, and a pain pill and some acetaminophen
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Yes, and a pain pill and some acetaminophen
*wobbles in :cbc: :tea: with tea to wash down the pills*
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Yes, and a pain pill and some acetaminophen
Would Her Ladyship like a hoofy massage?
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Yes, and a pain pill and some acetaminophen
Would Her Ladyship like a hoofy massage?
A gentle stroking with your tail or tongue would be most welcome.
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Yes, and a pain pill and some acetaminophen
Would Her Ladyship like a hoofy massage?
A gentle stroking with your tail or tongue would be most welcome.
I'll ask Lady Weeble to bring some warm towels.
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Ren, just be careful on the moclobemide.
I take it your doc has explained the dietary restrictions and pharmacological restrictions that go along with the use of an MAOI?
Although moclobemide is a RIMA, (reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase A) meaning that dietary tyramine and other similar dietary pressor amines can compete for the MAO-a enzyme, displacing moclobemide to do so, so it isn't so dangerous as the older MAOIs like tranylcypromine and phenelzine* for instance)
*hydrazine moiety in a med? how delightfully appetizing.... < / sarcasm)
Me? I took the ones that matter, thought I was out of morphine until the pharmacy opens later on this morning and I can pick my refills up, but during a quick tidy of my room floor, what did I find..but two 30mg morphine sulfate XR caps. Right when I was feeling it start to bite, wearing off wise from my last dose.
Perfect timing too, just before I finished the 2g of charlie I got yesterday. Yum...a speedball was JUST what I needed to wake me up some :P.
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I did. I lead an exciting life. :M:
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I forgot the lunchtime L-Lysine. No worries. I'll take it now and then take another near midnight. 8)
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:thumbup:
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I took mine.
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I need one more L-Lysine before bed! :orly:
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I need one more L-Lysine before bed! :orly:
So take it. :nerd!:
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I need one more L-Lysine before bed! :orly:
So take it. :nerd!:
I took it hours ago, duh. :fp: :P
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I need one more L-Lysine before bed! :orly:
So take it. :nerd!:
I took it hours ago, duh. :fp: :P
Yet you are still spazzing all over the forum. :P Perhaps you should take another one. :orly:
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L-Lysine is a supplement, not a psych med. Consider Googling before posting. :fp: :P
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L-Lysine is a supplement, not a psych med. Consider Googling before posting. :fp: :P
Take two more, then. :P Once you accept :FSM: as your savior, you'll discover that there are no supplements in the afterlife.
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L-Lysine is a supplement, not a psych med. Consider Googling before posting. :fp: :P
Take two more, then. :P Once you accept :FSM: as your savior, you'll discover that there are no supplements in the afterlife.
I bought a couple of frozen spaghetti dinners. I wonder if He knows. :FSM:
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About to.
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Ren, just be careful on the moclobemide.
I take it your doc has explained the dietary restrictions and pharmacological restrictions that go along with the use of an MAOI?
Although moclobemide is a RIMA, (reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase A) meaning that dietary tyramine and other similar dietary pressor amines can compete for the MAO-a enzyme, displacing moclobemide to do so, so it isn't so dangerous as the older MAOIs like tranylcypromine and phenelzine* for instance)
*hydrazine moiety in a med? how delightfully appetizing.... < / sarcasm)
You are telling me to be careful with a med that I have taken for over a year with no ill effects (even eating cheese!) And you are taking speedballs and even heroin on occasion? Oh, the irony.
Here is something that will cheer you up, my haloperidol dose has been increased to 5mg every night. Went to six chemists to find it and eventually gave up and ordered it in at the chemist closest to me.
My Seroquel dose has been lowered as I am just getting too fat. So, 50mg regular release at night and I sleep really well.
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L-Lysine is a supplement, not a psych med. Consider Googling before posting. :fp: :P
Take two more, then. :P Once you accept :FSM: as your savior, you'll discover that there are no supplements in the afterlife.
I bought a couple of frozen spaghetti dinners. I wonder if He knows. :FSM:
He knows. :M
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Took the NSAIDs.
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Should take afternoon dexamphetamine now.
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Just had 30mg of IR oxycodone, a couple hundred mcg clonidine, a cap of chlormethiazole an old-fart of a tranquillizer, (they contain just short of 200mg each, as its freebase in a suspension or emulsion in oil, and are quite strong), that was a while ago though so I think I might just have 2 more of the latter. Plus a stick of liquorice rock candy, the oldschool type thats mainly sold, alongside coltsfoot rock (which I absolutely adore) in small mom'n'pop pharmacies, or in sweet shops that cater to 'blast from the past' old fashioned kinds of sweets, thats for medicinal purposes too, honest it it :P
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Sweets/lollies and chocolate definitely can be used for medicinal purposes. ;)
Have to take my meds now: Caltrate, moclobemide, dexamphetamine, lithium and benztropine.
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If I do not take my meds then I feel so much pain that I would rather die than take another step.
Yes. Today, I toook my meds, even the ones that are designed to keep my blood pressure in check.
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I know how you feel there DD.
Just got off my arse to go downstairs to get a bite to eat before coming back up to prep my morning shot, a morphine/oxy 60/10 mixture.
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Oh fuck thats better!
Convenient too, its good when I don't need to go play vasculature hide-and-seek. I hate that, especially happens when its cold out, and everything seems to want to shrink down as much as possible and generally head south for the winter.
This time I didn't even have to strap my tourniquet on.
*Lestat tosses in another 10mg oxy IR cap and reaches for a clean filter, finishes chowing down on his hot cross bun, leans over to crank up the volume on his new stereo and killswitch engage CD before drawing up the latter half of the OTHER bit of his breakfast:)*
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Not yet. I should.
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I should.
Should medicate offspring too.
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Got a new NSAID to test.
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Painkiller.
If this gets worse, I may be tempted to use one of the bigger NSAID's I still have from before my gall-bladder op.
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Took my new NSAID last night. It's better than the other one.
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Can't have ANY NSAIDs... paracetamol is like taking smarties and codine knocks me out.... yep, I'm screwed!
Haven't taken meds today and I think I may have missed them yesterday and its starting to show.... :jaded:
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My new NSAIDs are terrific, in that they do remove most of the pain and the stiffness, but they mess up my stomach. My tummy hurts. :(
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My new NSAIDs are terrific, in that they do remove most of the pain and the stiffness, but they mess up my stomach. My tummy hurts. :(
I hope somebody figures out soon what is causing the pain, so it can be cured ( ? ) :hug:
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Just took my last L-Lysine of the day/night. It's after 3 a.m., so another day has started. :autism:
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My new NSAIDs are terrific, in that they do remove most of the pain and the stiffness, but they mess up my stomach. My tummy hurts. :(
I hope somebody figures out soon what is causing the pain, so it can be cured ( ? ) :hug:
I hope so too. I met with my GP and convinced her to refer me to a specialist. That might take a while, though. Everybody's on holiday.
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My new NSAIDs are terrific, in that they do remove most of the pain and the stiffness, but they mess up my stomach. My tummy hurts. :(
gentle :hug:
Did you ask for stomach protection meds? All NSAIDs can fuck up your stomach.
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Yes.
Aside to odeon - maybe take them with something like yogurt? or buttered toast?
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My new NSAIDs are terrific, in that they do remove most of the pain and the stiffness, but they mess up my stomach. My tummy hurts. :(
gentle :hug:
Did you ask for stomach protection meds? All NSAIDs can fuck up your stomach.
I did. These are worse than the last ones, though.
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Yes.
Aside to odeon - maybe take them with something like yogurt? or buttered toast?
I've tried but to little avail. Well, not yoghurt but toast.
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Yes.
Aside to odeon - maybe take them with something like yogurt? or buttered toast?
I've tried but to little avail. Well, not yoghurt but toast.
It's not the effect of the NSAID entering the stomach, it is what the NSAID does to your system. Would you get it otherwise than orally, the effect on the stomach would be the same.
Time to call your doctor. Ulcers are not what you need right now.
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I'll call her. I thought the tummy ache was a common side effect, though.
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No I haven't. Don't have any for another 2 hours, when the surgery opens to go score my scripts.
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Not yet.
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Just two of them, a 5ml rig full to near saturated solution of morphine sulfate, and a few caps of chlormethiazole base (an old-fashioned sedative/hypnotic/anticonvulsant, most usually used as a specialist med in alcohol detox, but its pretty much like the better of the barbiturate family, rather than at all benzo-like, got some squirrely physiochemical properties, smells funky, eats plastic, and old fashioned, but nevertheless I got scripted the stuff [on request, as an alternative to benzodiazepines, which I really can take or leave in general] for myoclonus)
Fucking love the stuff, very effective downer in general, and I have only had two maybe three major seizures in all the years since I got the chlormethiazole added to my script, and both were set off by a bad reaction to too large an IV or IM dose of 3-methoxy-PCP.
Just dropped a couple hundred mikes of clonidine, and am about to toss down 100-150mg cyclizine (ick! tastes awfully bitter and generally horrid), as well as just unpacking some oxycodone IR capsules for a second painkiller shot.
So I've not taken everything, but still, what I have, is making me feel very relaxed, sleepy and chilled out, not to mention that gorgeous rush that comes on injection-use of morphine. Mmmm, that rush, its just delightful.
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There we go, 50mg oxy in me, only things remaining are a proton pump inhibitor, tizanidine (a muscle relaxer, and a bleedin' strong one at that, same pharmacology as clonidine, but less of a hypotensive agent, and much stronger as a myorelaxant), raniditine (going to have my GP change that last one to cimetidine, to take advantage of the inhibition of hepatic cytochrome P450-3A4, in order to retard the anabolism of my morphine and oxy script, and allow higher in vivo concentrations to persist for longer, without actually TAKING any more oxycodone or MS)
And about to take a couple of swigs of gaviscon, I've a bit of heartburn.
Otherwise I feel fucking lovely.
(feel free to try feeling me, if your A-autistic, preferably Kanner's, and between the ages of 14 and about 60-ish, and are C-good looking, and D-ideally really spazzy.
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And yes, I've taken nearly everything.
(by that I mean, some of all my meds, not 'got my meds and scarfed the entire three boxes of painkillers, along with the tubs of tranq caps, myorelaxants the moment I got them home')
Lol. I JUST this moment woke up from a deliciously deep, warm and relaxing nod that I've had going on since earlier afternoon; only to come back to the land of the awake, and realize I still have a mortar and pestle full of unshot oxy and morphine solution that just needs to be drawn up into a syringe, have a needle attached, after that and filtration etc. is done, then shot.
I will sleep lovely tonight :)
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Not yet.
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Not yet, nor did I medicate household.
Did treat the cats against fleas though. :orly:
And picked up new meds from the apothecary yesterday.
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Only a little. Did half of the shot of morphine I prepared for the morning, and then added a capsule of oxy IR to the remainder, topped up with water etc. Just filtering and getting ready to poke it now :)
Took my morning dose of clonidine too.
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yes
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I did. And a yucky heartburn chewing pill thing.
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Recently I have been getting heartburn. I found that drinking milk helps. But it is something I will probably see the doctor about eventually. :-\
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I think the heartburn has to do with the NSAIDs.
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Quite likely NSAIDs, Ren. Try taking Gaviscon along with your doses of NSAID, its better than the standard calcium/sodium (bi)carbonate antacids, the alginate will help line your esophagus, and DO eat before taking the NSAIDs. Taking on an empty stomach makes them more prone to causing irritation, heartburn, ulcers, third world poverty.
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:thumbup:
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Took mine. And the NSAIDs, last night.
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Took some oxy, and morphine, nothing else thus far, my old man wasn't out of bed so I couldn't go and get the full lot, as the nearest pharmacy to my place of living doesn't carry certain of my prescriptions in stock/cannot obtain one or two of them from their suppliers at all, so I just went out to grab my painkillers.
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I took mine, plus I refilled.
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Quite likely NSAIDs, Ren. Try taking Gaviscon along with your doses of NSAID, its better than the standard calcium/sodium (bi)carbonate antacids, the alginate will help line your esophagus, and DO eat before taking the NSAIDs. Taking on an empty stomach makes them more prone to causing irritation, heartburn, ulcers, third world poverty.
I don't take any NSAIDS. What does Gaviscon taste like? I know I have a problem because it hurts my esophagus (sp) whenever I eat or drink anything really hot. Never had this before the last six months or so.
As for today, taken my meds today plus an extra dexamphetamine because I am feeling particularly fuzzy-headed.
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:thumbup:
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Quite likely NSAIDs, Ren. Try taking Gaviscon along with your doses of NSAID, its better than the standard calcium/sodium (bi)carbonate antacids, the alginate will help line your esophagus, and DO eat before taking the NSAIDs. Taking on an empty stomach makes them more prone to causing irritation, heartburn, ulcers, third world poverty.
I don't take any NSAIDS. What does Gaviscon taste like? I know I have a problem because it hurts my esophagus (sp) whenever I eat or drink anything really hot. Never had this before the last six months or so.
As for today, taken my meds today plus an extra dexamphetamine because I am feeling particularly fuzzy-headed.
Gaviscon often comes in a minty taste. It foams, and is really weird stuff to have in your mouth.
It is meant to help with heartburn and reflux. I used it now and then during pregnancies. Or when I was that tired that I'd get heartburn, and the heartburn would then keep me from sleeping.
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Minty? My least favourite flavour. I shall go to the chemist in the next week and see what they have. Thanks hyke.
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took the p.m. meds and made it to the gym again.
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I took mine.
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Nexium - Check
Neurontin - Check
Cymbalta - Check
Zanax - Check
Percocet - Check
Multi-Vitamin - Check
Vitamin B - Check
Vitamin D - Check
Flaxseed Oil - Check
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I did.
I need to refill the L-Lysine, though.
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I got so many refills of L-Lysine, while forgetting to take it, that I found out yesterday that I have three sealed pots, and one that has been opened. It is time to seriously get back to the L-Lysine.
Did take the focus meds.
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I got so many refills of L-Lysine, while forgetting to take it, that I found out yesterday that I have three sealed pots, and one that has been opened. It is time to seriously get back to the L-Lysine.
Did take the focus meds.
I haven't been taking my L-Lysine regularly, resulting in the mother of all cold sores after the conference. I guess I was stressed.
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Nexium - Check
Neurontin - Check
Cymbalta - Check
Zanax - Check
Percocet - Check
Multi-Vitamin - Check
Vitamin B - Check
Vitamin D - Check
Flaxseed Oil - Check
I used to take Cymbalta for depression. Good med but it wore off after a while.
Yesterday had to get more benztropine, dexamphetamine, Seretide and quetiapine.
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I took mine, except for the L-Lysine that I still haven't refiled.
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^See above.
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yes
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Yup.
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Running out of Rhinocort.
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I *still* need to refill the L-Lysine. :GA:
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Should I send you a bottle? I've got three unopened packages here. Bought double packages on offer twice.
I've taken the L-Lysine, btw.
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Thanks, but all I have to do is to remember to buy it. :)
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Thanks, but all I have to do is to remember to buy it. :)
Maybe this (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,15862.msg1047199.html#new) will help you.
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:thumbup:
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About to take it, and then a late, yummy, breakfast will follow. :hyke:
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Took my morning meds. Didn't yesterday and felt a bit down. In hospital I was told that dexamphetamine are a good antidepressant and I guess I agree with them on that. Due for my afternoon dose.
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Not yet. I will, in a bit.
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Yes
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Always take mine
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Not yet.
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Not yet either.
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I just did.
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So did I. Hopefully I don't fall asleep. Have a house inspection today.
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Not yet. I keep forgetting, this morning.
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I forgot to take them at noon. Have set my alarm to make me take them at 4 pm.
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I took mine.
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I've learned my lesson. My meds will be taken. And yes, I've taken them today
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yes
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House inspection ren? what, who and why?
Took mine, had a nice big shot of morph a few hours ago, 280-290mg, followed by another 60 shot up, and 10mg controlled release morphine orally. Just making up another shot whilst I search and organize my printed scientific journal article library according to weather the topics are physical chemistry (synthetic I mean), nuclear/particle/quantum physics, biology/microbiology with a separate folder/binder for all my ergot fungus and LSD related journal/forum articles/thread printouts, and lastly, neurobiology/cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology unrelated to the ergot work I'm doing and general toxicology, neuroscience, and medical biochemistry.
Got another the contents 120mg morphine sulfate being ground up in my mortar and pestle, those little tiny bead type controlled release, I love those, better than the 10mg pills as the cap contents do not have an anti-abuse type time release that gels up if water is added to the powdered pills making them too hard to filter, and best used by plugging. The caps on the other hand have fuck all in the way of either anti-abuse (nonexistent) mechanisms and near enough no binder/filler material at all, making them just perfect and easily filtered for booting up the contents or isolating the morph to make dipropionylmorphine, mono- or diacetylmorphine if propionyl chloride or propionic anhydride is unavailable, although I have a good amount of propionyl chloride on the lab shelves at the moment :)
Been using a lefetamine analog, 1,1-diphenylmethyl)-2-phenethylpiperidine, otherwise known as diphenidine lately, partly recreationally and to improve my creativity and out-of-the-box thinking, its a stimulant, in a sense an amphetamine analog of a distant sort, as well as a dissociative anaesthetic of the NMDA antagonist flavour, although structurally unrelated to the PCP and ketamine family of arylcyclohexylamines that for a a long time were the main NMDA antagonists recreationally used and medically used, although this diphenylmethylpiperidine based compound isn't used medically anywhere I am aware of, but as NMDA antagonists strongly reduce tolerance to both stimulants and opioids, I'm finding it most useful. I figure too that given the mild opioid agonist properties of lefetamine itself, that diphenidine and its methoxy relative methoxphenidine aka MXP, will prove to be opioids themselves in their own right. Diphenidine certainly does substitute well for opioids and IMO would be a great tool in clinical detox use for opioid addicts, to switch over, either fully or partially, and then reduce first the opioid the addict uses, or switch them to a preferred opiate, then slowly taper off, followed by either tapering off the diphenidine or continuing to use it but at a lowered dose.
Lovely stuff it is too. I'm getting FAR more bang-for-buck, metaphorically speaking (although I do not pay for my prescriptions) from my morphine and oxy, can if I run low, switch to diphenidine mostly or even fully, for a few days, drop my tolerance faster than a bucket of diarrhea out of a cholera victim's arsehole, then get my scripts refilled etc, with a newly lowered tolerance, such that a hit of morph/oxy that would have just relaxed and offered pain relief is again enough to flatten me spreadeagled out on the sofa in front of the TV, maybe after a nice fried mushroom supper, and a bowl of hot shiitake and steak chilli for my tea, and some of those delicious sweet and tangy wild bullace plums to nibble on whenever I get peckish.
The diphenidine goes lovely with the new cannabinoid offering from my local head shop, an E-cig refill based on STS-135, a hell of a potent indole-based cannabinoid. Lots of appetite stimulation, which is normally very low in me, creativity, pain relief, get loads of really refreshing sleep.
Will have 100-150mcg of clonidine, a muscle relaxer or two to prevent my leg cramping, plus some diclofenac sprayed on my bad knee, hip and a temporarily sore knuckle joint on one of my fingers, and just before bed, methinks I'll have a sleeping pill, most likely a dose of chlormethiazole/heminevrin. That, along with the morphine (note-be extremely careful mixing sedative-hypnotics and opiates due to respiratory depression risk)
I've of course, carefully built up the dose of sedative until I feel both effective range reached for me, and it being compatible with both my unreduced, pre-diphenidine tolerance level and to my new much lower tolerance/dosage requirement for my morphine and/or oxy.
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yes
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Not yet, except for the NSAIDs that I took last night.
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Lestat - Ceilidh and I rent a place from an agency called Access Housing. Just like all rentals, we get inspections. It means madly making the house neat, clean and tidy.
Just about to take my night meds.
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I took mine. Yay.
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should have. :-\
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took mine.
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Not got any, as my script refill is due in 23 minutes. Looking forward to hoovering up a couple of lines of oxy and a nice juicy shot of morphine sulfate. The oxy is really handy as its IR, and doesn't need to be powdered for IV use, just filtered, and the caps can be opened into ones hand and snorted so I'm not faced with a walk home from the pharmacy withdrawing needing my meds, as its a fair walk.
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I am stopping Seroquel (quetiapine). 85kgs is too much for a little short person like me to weigh. I hope this makes a difference since I take 2 other meds that cause weight gain.
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I took mine, including the hyper meds.
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No Seroquel for me tonight. That leaves haloperidol, moclobemide and lithium.
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I took mine.
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This morning, yes. Last night, not sure.
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yes
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Not yet. I will.
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just took morning meds
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All 13 pills
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Last day for the prednisone. :asthing:
Thank heavens, because I'm running out of stuff to clean. :twitch:
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I remembered the NSAID last night. Not that it seems to do anything for me right now. :-\
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I took my meds, including the NSAIDs.
I want better pain meds.
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No, because the docs surgery dropped the ball and fucked up getting my scripts printed and signed as is usually done even before the day I set foot in the place for a refill, this time it wasn't, and the useless twats that screwed things up then expected me to wait, and worse they expect me to wait until 12 to pick up what SHOULD have been ready for 8:30am.
And I can't GET the NSAID product I (now used to) use, a diclofenac spray, which I liked for its liquid consistency and rapid drying when applied, no sensory annoyance with that, but the buggers behind the voltarol brand have seemingly decided to pull it, leaving me unable to find it anywhere as leftover stock.
Did just have some steroid shots done into both hips though which has been making things noticeably less painful though.
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Fuck....thats a bloody relief! Finally got my meds, better late than never I suppose.
The pharmacist in charge at the place I pick up my stuff is a gem at times, didn't mind one bit giving me that portion of my pain meds thats an IR formulation, the oxycodone I take for breakthrough pain/giving the morphine a little more welly when I prep my shots, the icing on the cake, so to speak, I throw in just a bit of oxy to a much larger serving of morph, and it helps give the latter a bit of kick, so to speak, helps fill in for potency what morphine fills in for on the 'quality' stakes, oxy is strong alright, but its got fuck all rush, whereas I find morphine/H/dipropionylmorphine have a fantastic rush, although at least in the case of morphine itself, I'm finding that I have to use a dirty great cannon of a syringe barrel, a 5ml at least, due to the relatively speaking, lower potency of morphine (as the sulfate salt, max. solubility at room temperature in water is about 60mg/ml, so I'm finding that I now have approached/hit the saturation point using my preferred shooting kit, a 2.5ml barrel/28, 30 or 31g point, depending on what the contents of the syringe are, and the viscosity of the solution to be administered, and have to do a full-up 5ml rig with saturated solution of morphine to not be a complete pain in the arse to do, and not need multiple fillings of the syringe/new needles being wasted, due to having to go back for seconds, in accounting for dosing with respect to tolerance.
Buggering nuisance.
But taken today? most, no. Just this moment did my first hit of morphine of this new rx refill, and took some IR oxy first thing whilst I waited, due to already being hours late thanks to the docs surgery, already feeling that start to kick in, and just starting to feel a nice juicy big shot of my morphine catch it up, already starting to feel nicely warm, fuzzy and contented, which is a big improvement on before I set out, when I had rather a nasty grumpy mood come over me, mainly due to a combination of feeling the aches and pains my pain meds and other things are meant to actually treat and deal with, uncovered/withdrawal forced on me due to the delay, and the fact itself of the fuckup and having to wait tapping my feet feeling restless and irritable, not to mention in considerable physical pain with my joints and my bad hand.
Perhaps I should ask those responsible for the up-enfuckage in question to examine the finger in detail. Its my middle finger, coincidentally. And coincidentally, certain people really need to go home and fuck a syphilitic pig in the ass and then throw themselves off beachy head :P
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Yup I did :yarly:
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Yes, today was a good day for the "cluttered overactive head" meds.
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Yes but almost out of it should be getting a new Rx tomorrow
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stopped taking the Abilify for a couple of days
Keeps me tired all the time
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I did, yes.
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Yes but almost out of it should be getting a new Rx tomorrow
Thanks for reminding me. Need to get a new batch for one of my daughters.
* makes call *
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Done.
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Yes... thank you for reminding me.
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Yes and picked up new ones
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Yes.
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Yes, I was a good girl all day long.
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Yes, I did.
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:indeed: I did take them...
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I didn't take my morning ones because I got up too late and then forgot. Have to get more moclobemide, lithium and dexamphetamine tomorrow.
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Not yet. Took the NSAIDs last night, tho.
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yup...
and my supplements :zoinks:
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not yet
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I did. Not that they seem to help today.
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painkiller
:headache:
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(burp) yup took em today
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I have never taken a professional position where insurance was withheld for 5-months. I did not stock up on meds and ran out. I fanilly bit the bullet, paid for an office visit $125 after 40% discount for cash. I then had to pay over $60 for the meds. I took them today!
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Everyone's meds have been taken. The PR didn't take a pain pill all day today. I gave her one just before she went to bed tonight, just to make sure that she will sleep well.
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Everyone in this household has been medicated too.
It is time for a few weeks of Ritalin again. I am losing track of myself.
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Yes.
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Had No choice. In hospital
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:hug:
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Took meds.
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Took haloperidol, moclobemide and lithium. Only three pills at night now.
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Took my meds this morning. But once again no choice on the matter
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Took my meds this morning. But once again no choice on the matter
Did Nurse Ratched give them to you?? :orly:
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I enhanced my focus today.
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Took my meds this morning. But once again no choice on the matter
Why are you in hospital? Are you ok?
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Not yet.
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painkiller :headache:
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I did, eventually.
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yes
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I stopped taking my Ritalin. It made me very irritable and aggressive.
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^How long were you taking it for? Do you have any alternatives?
I took my morning meds a few hours ago.
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I took it for about a year. I cut out most processed sugars and am eating more raw vegetables and feel way better.
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I take dexamphetamine and I have found it to be harsher than Ritalin. The up and down more pronounced. I have been taking it since 2004.
It is good that diet change has worked for you. I could learn from your example.
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late. but I took them
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I refused my meds today and everyday. I am phobic about big pharma. They control the research, I know members of the Lilley Family, and big pharma is laughing all the way to the bank.
Face who you are and love what you see!
Get more exercise if needed and watch what you eat. Keep your mind your mind. Embrace the placebo effect! your mind is amazing!!!
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Yeah. The diabetics should exercise and embrace the placebo effect. ::)
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I took my meds. I need something beyond the placebo effect.
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I hate to imagine what my depression would be like without meds. I probably wouldn't be here today.
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Glad you are here.
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Thank you Hyke. :) At the moment I am glad too.
Just took evening meds.
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nope. supposed to take morning ones, but couldnt be fucked to get out of beds
under strict orders to take the new candy with food, so it does not disolve the lining of my stomoch. and door to the kitchen in the other house on the property. was locked. (comunal kitchen, dont ask)
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Glad you are here.
I am glad you're here too.
However, big pharma takes no prisoners.
There are some psychiatric conditions where chemical intervention is warranted. They are the minority. Mostly the autism community feed pharma. These people are wealthy to the extreme based on your pill-popping. Both placebo and exercise rival the effects of big pharma pills.
I reject big pharma.
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Glad you are here.
I am glad you're here too.
However, big pharma takes no prisoners.
There are some psychiatric conditions where chemical intervention is warranted. They are the minority. Mostly the autism community feed pharma. These people are wealthy to the extreme based on your pill-popping. Both placebo and exercise rival the effects of big pharma pills.
I reject big pharma.
Right. There's no medical treatment for autism, but some people have co-morbids. Go start a big pharma debate in the politics subforum. This thread is to remind the spazzes to take their meds. :hahaha:
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Okay Gofer, we will remind the ones who need them to take the meds - do it NOW!
I will try to find that other thread sometime soonnn,,,,
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:plus:
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I've not yet supported big pharma but plan on doing so soon. :zoinks:
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nope. fuck!
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I've not yet supported big pharma but plan on doing so soon. :zoinks:
:indeed:
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Everyone has had their medications.
In case you're wondering,
PA takes 11 different Rx each day
The PR takes 6 different Rx and supplements each day. Plus a shot every 3 months.
I take 11 different Rx and supplements each day and one once a week.
Some of the meds are taken twice a day, so 28 is the minimum.
Guess who has ultimate responsibility for seeing that all the meds are taken?
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I did. Not that they help a lot right now.
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Everyone has had their medications.
In case you're wondering,
PA takes 11 different Rx each day
The PR takes 6 different Rx and supplements each day. Plus a shot every 3 months.
I take 11 different Rx and supplements each day and one once a week.
Some of the meds are taken twice a day, so 28 is the minimum.
Guess who has ultimate responsibility for seeing that all the meds are taken?
Do you each have those week boxes with 28 compartments in it?
Medicated kid, and took supplement myself. I should medicate myself too. Bloody unorganised mind.
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I forgot my afternoon dose. Whoops.
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Took the NSAIDs last night but haven't touched the morning ones yet.
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Most of it.
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Yes. All of it.
I might be getting new meds prescribed for me, following yesterday's joints ultrasound. It seems I have some swelling I'm not getting rid of.
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Did they ever check you on parvo/fifth disease?
Took what I need to have, so far.
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No, they didn't. My symptoms seem to match psoriatic arthritis.
The rheumatologist is a spazz if I ever saw one. He knows everything about his subject, avoids eye contact at all costs and has a rotten bedside manner. I trust him completely.
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^I feel lucky to have only bursitis in one joint.
Have only the night meds left to take.
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No, they didn't. My symptoms seem to match psoriatic arthritis.
The rheumatologist is a spazz if I ever saw one. He knows everything about his subject, avoids eye contact at all costs and has a rotten bedside manner. I trust him completely.
:laugh:
First time I saw my new GP, it was as if he was a very capable vet. I did appreciate that a lot.
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No, they didn't. My symptoms seem to match psoriatic arthritis.
Our modern life style is inflammatory. The only cure is lots of birth control
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Took my morning meds as prescribed. Joints seem to be better today.
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yes sir I do believe i have taken them... :asthing:
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oops, forgot the morning ones.
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Haven't taken the morning ones yet.
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What is this morning you are talking about. Looks like this day did not have one?
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What is this morning you are talking about. Looks like this day did not have one?
Morning, by definition, is that time of day when I wake up and post here. :M
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Just took night ones. Only take three pills at night now, how cool is that?
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What is this morning you are talking about. Looks like this day did not have one?
Morning, by definition, is that time of day when I wake up and post here. :M
Holidays here, at the moment. So, at the time you started posting, I had fed the cats, had given my daughter a painkiller, and had turned on the washing machine. After that it was time to enjoy my bed again.
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No, they didn't. My symptoms seem to match psoriatic arthritis.
The rheumatologist is a spazz if I ever saw one. He knows everything about his subject, avoids eye contact at all costs and has a rotten bedside manner. I trust him completely.
Like a less charming House, then. I'm glad. :thumbup:
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What is this morning you are talking about. Looks like this day did not have one?
Morning, by definition, is that time of day when I wake up and post here. :M
So, yesterday it started at 10:05 am. :tard:
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yes I did
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I have just taken lunch meds (d5s)
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What is this morning you are talking about. Looks like this day did not have one?
Morning, by definition, is that time of day when I wake up and post here. :M
Morning hasn't broken yet?
Time for the scent of :coffee: over Sweden.
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What is this morning you are talking about. Looks like this day did not have one?
Morning, by definition, is that time of day when I wake up and post here. :M
Holidays here, at the moment. So, at the time you started posting, I had fed the cats, had given my daughter a painkiller, and had turned on the washing machine. After that it was time to enjoy my bed again.
I just got up. :zoinks:
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What is this morning you are talking about. Looks like this day did not have one?
Morning, by definition, is that time of day when I wake up and post here. :M
Morning hasn't broken yet?
Time for the scent of :coffee: over Sweden.
I haven't slept this late in a while. We had guests and I self-medicated.
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Goodmorning. :laugh:
I just took my L-Lysine.
Will take ritalin from noon on, I think. Scatterbrain squared.
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Goodmorning. :laugh:
I just took my L-Lysine.
Will take ritalin from noon on, I think. Scatterbrain squared.
Good morning. :)
My Ritalins would keep my up all night if taken now. They are the sustained-release type.
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^Is it called Concerta? That is what it is called here.
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No, Concerta is a different med. I tried it before I was prescribed Ritalin but got breathing difficulties from it, for some reason.
I have to pick up meds for my joints today. Finally got a prescription for something beyond NSAIDs.
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took them all and some acetaminophen and a pain pill.
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Not yet, did give the rest of the household the stuff they needed though.
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will take mine at 7am
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Took the night meds AND the morning meds. I'm going to have another supremely productive day. :hamsterwheel:
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Thanks for the reminder, I am now 12 minutes late with taking productivity meds.
I'd better hurry.
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Done!!!
Also set the alarm for the next two dosages. I don't want a rebound before 9 pm. :vortex2:
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I've built up a tolerance to Ritalin again and need to take a break from it. :-\
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I do not really like the effect of Ritalin, so only take it when I really need it. I should be taking it for a few weeks now, to get back to a working structure in my days.
Last months, I've been adapting to the moment on a daily, sometimes hourly basis, I completely ruined what was left of a healthy routine. It was necessary to do all that adapting though. Wore me out. But strange enough, I am better at doing that when not on Ritalin. Kid is getting more regular now, so, I can start building up a routine again.
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As I wrote in the other thread, my new meds are making me nauseous. Oh joy.
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Done!!!
Also set the alarm for the next two dosages. I don't want a rebound before 9 pm. :vortex2:
Got the date wrong on the alarm :hahaha: :GA: :GA:
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I took my morning meds.
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Will take them now. And set my alarm.
Time to get more productive, and to kick inertia.
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Yes both times
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Yes, And I will take a pain pill before bed
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I took my morning meds, just now.
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I took mine, but I still has the Ass Burgers. :gwah:
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Not sure I should take the new meds. The headache I get from them is horrendous.
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^ What are they for?
I have had breakfast but I haven't taken my meds yet.
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Yes and some additional ones since I was working the election
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^ What are they for?
The arthritis.
Upped the dose again today. Waiting for the inevitable headache.
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Headaches from meds sound like the worst kind.
Taken my morning meds.
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^I can set my watch after the bloody headaches. And now there's tinnitus, too. :GA:
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^I can set my watch after the bloody headaches. And now there's tinnitus, too. :GA:
Sounds like hell.
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^I can set my watch after the bloody headaches. And now there's tinnitus, too. :GA:
Sounds like hell.
It is.
So yesterday I couldn't take it anymore and talked to a rheumatologist. She said I should get off the meds and confirm that it's them causing this. Both the headache and the tinnitus are known side effects.
After a week or so, I am to start taking them again, but I will up the dose more slowly this time and stop if I get the side effects again.
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I did!
I have one particular med (only on my second month, out of six total I have to take) that I take once per week. It causes serious nausea and I have to take it on an empty stomach to get the greatest benefit.
Others are easy, taking them once per day, but this once per week thing is almost impossible to remember.
Other than preparing for the local, weekly garbage truck, who does anything once per week?
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I did!
I have one particular med (only on my second month, out of six total I have to take) that I take once per week. It causes serious nausea and I have to take it on an empty stomach to get the greatest benefit.
Others are easy, taking them once per day, but this once per week thing is almost impossible to remember.
Other than preparing for the local, weekly garbage truck, who does anything once per week?
That's how my mum manages not to forget her once a week pill. She connects it to a chore she does once a week. So, Sunday morning, she takes her pill, and then will do her ironing. She is not allowed to lay down or recline after taking this pill on her empty stomach. Preferably she should walk or stand for half an hour. So combining it with a standing chore helps her remember, and makes that she is upright.
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I should, in six minutes. Better do it now, or I will forget.
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done
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yes
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Took mine as I should.
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I took mine, minus the evil arthritis stuff.
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:hug:
Think I took mine, don't remember.
Shows that I forgot my L-Lysine for weeks though. Cold sore, and rosecoloured inflammations budding on my face.
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:hug:
I took mine.
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Due for my lunch time meds.
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Oops. I forgot. Good thing this thread exists.
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will take mine at 7am
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Just took my morning meds. It is afternoon but I just woke up and had breakfast.
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Just took mine.
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Both my medical and spiritual meds.
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Not yet.
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Not yet, but I did have coffee.
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took them just now
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I took mine, earlier. Feeling more productive already.
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Yes, I did...and they didn't help. Damn holiday season, people are fucking nuts. :GA:
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I did.
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I will at 7am
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I took mine.
Going to talk with my doctor about new meds today.
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I took mine.
Going to talk with my doctor about new meds today.
Did anything interesting/hopeful come out?
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I took mine.
Going to talk with my doctor about new meds today.
Did anything interesting/hopeful come out?
Not really. Well, at least not yet. They did some additional blood work and she is going to confer with her colleagues.
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I took mine.
Going to talk with my doctor about new meds today.
Did anything interesting/hopeful come out?
Not really. Well, at least not yet. They did some additional blood work and she is going to confer with her colleagues.
Will you be their special interest? :zoinks:
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I took mine.
Going to talk with my doctor about new meds today.
Did anything interesting/hopeful come out?
Not really. Well, at least not yet. They did some additional blood work and she is going to confer with her colleagues.
Will you be their special interest? :zoinks:
:laugh: I wish.
Haven't heard from them yet. I hope it won't take too long.
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Yes I have taken them today...a recent change to my Lexapro I changed back because it was hell...I wasn't myself, biting my families heads off, hated it...now I'm back to normal thank you Jesus... :yarly: I'm OK with being on Lexapro forever AMEN because coming off of it was just BAD NEWS ??? :headhurts:
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Took mine. Not that they help, right now.
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yup
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I did.
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I should.
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L-Lysine taken.
Rest may come later, or not. Depends on my focus of the day.
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I did. Hyper meds don't help, though, and the spazz meds aren't doing enough.
I ran out of L-Lysine a week or two ago, with disastrous results since my stress was more than enough to contribute to a new cold sore that wouldn't have been anywhere near as bad with the L-Lysine.
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I did. Hyper meds don't help, though, and the spazz meds aren't doing enough.
I ran out of L-Lysine a week or two ago, with disastrous results since my stress was more than enough to contribute to a new cold sore that wouldn't have been anywhere near as bad with the L-Lysine.
This post just reminded me to take my nighttime L-Lysine! :GA:
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I also am taking lots of antacids these days. Losing weight should help somewhat. :apondering:
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Took mine.
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I also am taking lots of antacids these days. Losing weight should help somewhat. :apondering:
I've never heard of anyone needing antacids because of weight. ???
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I also am taking lots of antacids these days. Losing weight should help somewhat. :apondering:
I've never heard of anyone needing antacids because of weight. ???
I've noticed the heartburn gets really bad when my weight gets above a certain number.
Probably because my own stomach fat presses against my solar plexus and squeezes my esophagus. :sick:
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:2thumbsup: both the usual ones and some sinus pills
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yup
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I took mine.
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Took my morning ones but have missed lunchtime dex.
Told Ceilidh off for not taking her meds for two days.
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Not yet. Just got up.
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Goodmorning.
Will take my L-Lysine now. And probably a painkiller too. :P
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:thumbup:
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Told Ceilidh off for not taking her meds for two days.
Is she going to come back here?
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Told Ceilidh off for not taking her meds for two days.
Is she going to come back here?
I see her online!! :GA: Maybe she'll post.
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I took the morning ones but suspect I missed the ones last night.
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took my night tranquilizer medication...(joke it's supposed to knock you out) what with ambien and two other's I'm still wide awake...
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Done.
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yes
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I took my dexamphetamine late when I realised I had to drive.
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I did.
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yup
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Yes. I can now be a productive citizen for the remainder of the day.
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No, did not seem wise after a 22 hour day and only a bit more than two hours sleep.
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No, did not seem wise after a 22 hour day and only a bit more than two hours sleep.
What's going on? You OK? :-\
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No, did not seem wise after a 22 hour day and only a bit more than two hours sleep.
What's going on? You OK? :-\
I'm OK. Slept like a log this night.
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Yes. Did.
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Not yet.
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yes
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yup
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Not yet. But plan to take dexamphetamine too. I need to focus.
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yes
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Yes.
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oops
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Just did. :M
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did.
Time for coffee.
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yes
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Almost time for lunchtime meds.
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I did, yes.
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Yes.
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Nope...
Come to think of it I don't think I did yesterday either...
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Nope...
Come to think of it I don't think I did yesterday either...
TOAD!!!!
Posting a row of happy goats.
:goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat:
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Nope...
Come to think of it I don't think I did yesterday either...
TOAD!!!!
Posting a row of happy goats.
:goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat: :goat:
HYKEEEEEEEEEEEE
ello
yay for happy goats!
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I just did.
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Supplements have been taken, over an hour ago.
Wow, that almost makes me look active and efficient. :P
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Just took my night meds. Only 3 pills.
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:thumbup:
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For the first time in 3 days I can say yes :2thumbsup:
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Almost forgot!
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I did. I'm off the NSAIDs, though. They've started causing breathing problems for me. :(
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Yes I did
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Not yet.
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yes
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I did, eventually.
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Took mine late but I did take them. Night meds are all that is left.
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I did. Still not taking the NSAIDs, though.
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Did not take methylphenidate for a very long time.
Did take it now bit after noon. It is nice to feel my mind clearing up. Think I will need to obediently take it for a few weeks now. Will help.
Almost getting teary, because of the clarity. Weird. Did not have that happening before. Not bad though. And not really emo.
:P
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^You remind me of myself, I feel foggy without meds.
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Yes, I did.
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I did. I think. :- \
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painkiller.
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Just got night meds left.
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I wish I had a painkiller.
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I wish I had a painkiller.
Maybe someone in the building has some. Receptionists and such often have some in their desk-drawers. Common thing to be asked for as a receptionist.
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I wish I had a painkiller.
Maybe someone in the building has some. Receptionists and such often have some in their desk-drawers. Common thing to be asked for as a receptionist.
No receptionists. :(
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not yet but I need too...the eh negative bleh ness is :GA: *goes to take them*
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Going to take my afternoon meds in about 15 minutes.
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I did. Yay.
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Fuck....thats a bloody relief! Finally got my meds, better late than never I suppose.
The pharmacist in charge at the place I pick up my stuff is a gem at times, didn't mind one bit giving me that portion of my pain meds thats an IR formulation, the oxycodone I take for breakthrough pain/giving the morphine a little more welly when I prep my shots, the icing on the cake, so to speak, I throw in just a bit of oxy to a much larger serving of morph, and it helps give the latter a bit of kick, so to speak, helps fill in for potency what morphine fills in for on the 'quality' stakes, oxy is strong alright, but its got fuck all rush, whereas I find morphine/H/dipropionylmorphine have a fantastic rush, although at least in the case of morphine itself, I'm finding that I have to use a dirty great cannon of a syringe barrel, a 5ml at least, due to the relatively speaking, lower potency of morphine (as the sulfate salt, max. solubility at room temperature in water is about 60mg/ml, so I'm finding that I now have approached/hit the saturation point using my preferred shooting kit, a 2.5ml barrel/28, 30 or 31g point, depending on what the contents of the syringe are, and the viscosity of the solution to be administered, and have to do a full-up 5ml rig with saturated solution of morphine to not be a complete pain in the arse to do, and not need multiple fillings of the syringe/new needles being wasted, due to having to go back for seconds, in accounting for dosing with respect to tolerance.
Buggering nuisance.
But taken today? most, no. Just this moment did my first hit of morphine of this new rx refill, and took some IR oxy first thing whilst I waited, due to already being hours late thanks to the docs surgery, already feeling that start to kick in, and just starting to feel a nice juicy big shot of my morphine catch it up, already starting to feel nicely warm, fuzzy and contented, which is a big improvement on before I set out, when I had rather a nasty grumpy mood come over me, mainly due to a combination of feeling the aches and pains my pain meds and other things are meant to actually treat and deal with, uncovered/withdrawal forced on me due to the delay, and the fact itself of the fuckup and having to wait tapping my feet feeling restless and irritable, not to mention in considerable physical pain with my joints and my bad hand.
Perhaps I should ask those responsible for the up-enfuckage in question to examine the finger in detail. Its my middle finger, coincidentally. And coincidentally, certain people really need to go home and fuck a syphilitic pig in the ass and then throw themselves off beachy head :P
Second to last post. Did Lestat finally do himself in?
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Didn't realize he was ever suicidal. :dunno:
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She might have meant accidentally. He comes and goes, seems to have always been that way though.
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She might have meant accidentally. He comes and goes, seems to have always been that way though.
Accidentally on purpose? IV drug addicts tend to have short lifespans whatever the motivation.
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Yes, I am fully medicated and ready to face the day! :2thumbsup:
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Took my meds too.
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:thumbdn:
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Should take afternoon meds but I don't really need them.
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I did, earlier.
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yes
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Taken morning meds a bit late.
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Check.
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Damn , i musta posted in this thread sometime back in my murky past.
So , everytime I check "new replies to your posts" this question sits there at the top like an accusation:
Did you take your meds today?
And I find myself thinking, yeah, coming back to this forum yet again, scratching around for something interesting to reply to, no wonder they're asking me me that, got me sussed, alright, i really should be doing something more constuctive...
maybe it wouldn't be so bad if i actually did take regular meds. maybe, then, my aspie brain would do the proper aspie thing and take it literally.
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Yep, but I only take thyroxine, and the odd co-codamol when I am stressed.
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Yep, but I only take thyroxine, and the odd co-codamol when I am stressed.
co-codamol for stress?
never heard of that one. thought it was just a painkiller .
i should be taking thyroxine too, but they couldn't find a formulation i can tolerate (too many food intolerances)
*shrug*
i've got so many health issues right now, i'm not worried about it. i only needed a low dose anyway
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dang
now its too late.
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Took them as I should.
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I took mine.
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Have to take my last meds of the day in a few hours.
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Bock to taking L-Lysine in the morning. And I took some noon Ritalin. Now have to make sure I don't forget the 4 pm dosage, or
:vortex2:
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Back to taking mine on a regular basis
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Back to taking mine on a regular basis
Did that bring you back here?
Welcome back!
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Back to taking mine on a regular basis
Did that bring you back here?
Welcome back!
*curiously checks SB1's post records*
Hmm. I should reappear more often, if you get a "Welcome back" everytime you vanish for 12 days. :zoinks:
On the other hand, it could get a bit tedious
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Just don't disappear. But hey, welcome anyway. ;D
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Back to taking mine on a regular basis
Did that bring you back here?
Welcome back!
*curiously checks SB1's post records*
Hmm. I should reappear more often, if you get a "Welcome back" everytime you vanish for 12 days. :zoinks:
On the other hand, it could get a bit tedious
Was it really such a short time ago? I was fairly absent minded lately. So, did not notice him being around. Now I did.
Welcome back to you too, btw. Did not welcome you back yet.
And, did you take your meds?
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Welcome back, Hyke.
I took my meds.
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Just night meds left; moclobemide, haloperidol and lithium.
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Took mine.
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Welcome back to you too, btw. Did not welcome you back yet.
And, did you take your meds?
Thanks :)
Ummmm...
Damn , i musta posted in this thread sometime back in my murky past.
So , everytime I check "new replies to your posts" this question sits there at the top like an accusation:
Did you take your meds today?
And I find myself thinking, yeah, coming back to this forum yet again, scratching around for something interesting to reply to, no wonder they're asking me me that, got me sussed, alright, i really should be doing something more constuctive...
maybe it wouldn't be so bad if i actually did take regular meds. maybe, then, my aspie brain would do the proper aspie thing and take it literally.
The basic problem is that I have too many food/chemical intolerances, so I've pretty much given up on meds.
So now I feel left out :violin:
Hmm. Maybe I should start a "Why don't you take your meds?" thread.
But on the other hand , it would be hard to find a reason for posting in that one every day.
-Walkie
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Yes I did
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Just took my meds. Really late but I took 'em.
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Welcome back to you too, btw. Did not welcome you back yet.
And, did you take your meds?
Thanks :)
Ummmm...
Damn , i musta posted in this thread sometime back in my murky past.
So , everytime I check "new replies to your posts" this question sits there at the top like an accusation:
Did you take your meds today?
And I find myself thinking, yeah, coming back to this forum yet again, scratching around for something interesting to reply to, no wonder they're asking me me that, got me sussed, alright, i really should be doing something more constuctive...
maybe it wouldn't be so bad if i actually did take regular meds. maybe, then, my aspie brain would do the proper aspie thing and take it literally.
The basic problem is that I have too many food/chemical intolerances, so I've pretty much given up on meds.
So now I feel left out :violin:
Hmm. Maybe I should start a "Why don't you take your meds?" thread.
But on the other hand , it would be hard to find a reason for posting in that one every day.
-Walkie
Not the intention of the thread, I can assure you.
The thread "what are you drinking right now" often was my reminder that I had not been drinking anything for way too long. And the thread kept me hydrated. So, I made one for meds too.
And now and then I post here telling that I did not take my meds.
Will probably not take them today. Think it may be better for my brain not to.
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The point of this thread is to increase your post count. Yes, it has proved to be useful on occasion, but it, like most other threads here, are for postwhoring.
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So, you postwhored, but not effectively enough.
I expected another post, where you would tell whether you took your meds or not. :P
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So, you postwhored, but not effectively enough.
I expected another post, where you would tell whether you took your meds or not. :P
That looks like highly effective postwhoring to me.
He's actually got you commanding him to post again. :clap:
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I did.
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Yes, you commanded me in posting again. But did you take your meds too? Or was this one of those 2 in one posts?
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I think I did.
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Yep, just my thyroxine...considering looking into some kind of anti depressant or mood stabliser... I have not been on any such medication though in many years, and am a bit wary of going down that route. Anyone found an effective anti depressant that is not rife with side effects? I don't think taking codeine as a substitute can't be very healthy. :lol1:
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^ I take moclobemide, which is a reversible MAOI (meaning you don't get irreversible changes in your gut so you can't eat cheeses and other stuff), it is an antidepressant. I have tried pretty much all the SSRIs and am not allowed tricyclics (because one can overdose on those easily) so a MAOI it is. I have had no side effects on it at all. I have been on it for about 2 years and have had no trouble.
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I took mine.
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Took mine at a decent morning hour this time.
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I took mine.
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:thumbup: sure have
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I did.
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Yes
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I have. Next dose, just before 3pm.
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Not the spazz meds, yet.
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Took physiotherapy in stead. :hyke:
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fixing to take mine
they go good with a coffee
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^Med instructions usually say to have them with a glass of water. But I never do.
Have to take night meds yet.
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Not yet. I'm drinking coffee while trying to wake up. It's enough.
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just took them
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yes I did..
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Yes. Took them.
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no
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Afternoon dose is nearly due.
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Yes, including new arthritis meds.
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Yes, including new arthritis meds.
Is this based on an educated guess from the doctors?
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Yes, including new arthritis meds.
Is this based on an educated guess from the doctors?
Not sure how educated the guess is. ::)
It's basically an anti-inflammatory that is supposed to be well-suited for people with arthritic problems.
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I used to have pretty bad arthritis in my wrists and I used to take Vioxx for it (that med has been taken off the market now). Gradually the pain went away but now I find that I can't do certain exercises at the gym because my wrists won't support my weight - they just hurt too much and are too weak. I didn't know there would be a remaining effect of arthritis. Bummer. :(
Taken lunchtime meds.
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yup...
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I used to have pretty bad arthritis in my wrists and I used to take Vioxx for it (that med has been taken off the market now). Gradually the pain went away but now I find that I can't do certain exercises at the gym because my wrists won't support my weight - they just hurt too much and are too weak. I didn't know there would be a remaining effect of arthritis. Bummer. :(
Taken lunchtime meds.
:hug:
It depends on the type of arthritis, I suppose. My shoulders apparently show some wear typical of earlier inflammations in an ultrasound scan.
Sounds as if you might still have arthritic problems. Have you had an ultrasound to check your wrists?
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No I haven't had an ultrasound but that would be interesting. I have full flexibility, they are just weak and can't take my weight (which is, I admit, pretty heavy). I am going to see my GP in a few weeks, so I will ask about it.
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They can see traces of past arthritis-related damage so it's very useful. Apparently I have some in my shoulders.
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Yes.
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No I haven't had an ultrasound but that would be interesting. I have full flexibility, they are just weak and can't take my weight (which is, I admit, pretty heavy). I am going to see my GP in a few weeks, so I will ask about it.
Is there someone skilled in posture at the gym? The way you hold your hands/wrist/arm can make a big difference in how much it can carry.
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Yes, including new arthritis meds.
Is this based on an educated guess from the doctors?
Not sure how educated the guess is. ::)
It's basically an anti-inflammatory that is supposed to be well-suited for people with arthritic problems.
Hope they'll make a difference for you.
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Yes, including new arthritis meds.
Is this based on an educated guess from the doctors?
Not sure how educated the guess is. ::)
It's basically an anti-inflammatory that is supposed to be well-suited for people with arthritic problems.
Hope they'll make a difference for you.
Nothing huge, so far. I doubt they'll help much, considering they aren't very different from the NSAIDs I was forced to stop taking. The tendonitis is still bad, especially the heels.
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Yes, including new arthritis meds.
Is this based on an educated guess from the doctors?
Not sure how educated the guess is. ::)
It's basically an anti-inflammatory that is supposed to be well-suited for people with arthritic problems.
Hope they'll make a difference for you.
Nothing huge, so far. I doubt they'll help much, considering they aren't very different from the NSAIDs I was forced to stop taking. The tendonitis is still bad, especially the heels.
Did you mention that at your stress course?
Tendons can get quite a beating from stress. Because with prolonged stress, muscles may stay tense overnight, keeping high tension on tendons also at night.
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Yes, including new arthritis meds.
Is this based on an educated guess from the doctors?
Not sure how educated the guess is. ::)
It's basically an anti-inflammatory that is supposed to be well-suited for people with arthritic problems.
Hope they'll make a difference for you.
Nothing huge, so far. I doubt they'll help much, considering they aren't very different from the NSAIDs I was forced to stop taking. The tendonitis is still bad, especially the heels.
Did you mention that at your stress course?
Tendons can get quite a beating from stress. Because with prolonged stress, muscles may stay tense overnight, keeping high tension on tendons also at night.
I did, yes. She's very careful to allow for variations in positioning and posture when teaching us the exercises. There are moves that are incredibly painful after fifteen minutes of meditation, but I have learned to avoid some of them.
What bothers me the most about this whole arthritis thing is that it is sometimes incredibly painful to play an instrument. I want to, I need to, but I can't do it for any longer period of time.
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No I haven't had an ultrasound but that would be interesting. I have full flexibility, they are just weak and can't take my weight (which is, I admit, pretty heavy). I am going to see my GP in a few weeks, so I will ask about it.
Is there someone skilled in posture at the gym? The way you hold your hands/wrist/arm can make a big difference in how much it can carry.
This happens during a weights class and there is an alternative exercise I can do so that helps.
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yes I did...need to refill my birth control however, for the PCOS...I'm starting to wonder if there is another way to suppress the PCOS I've been doing the working out bit and that has helped, inch loss and more lean mussel has as well...I say this because my grandmother and mom have estrogen related issues like too much for too long before they knew that estrogen therapy did that...
it is lo dose, still I am getting older, 32 this coming September so looking for perhaps alternative ways...also the sleep meds are eh just making me feel groggy all day long...They just put me back on what stopped working in the first place...it will stop again at some point and eh I am looking for a natural way to get this sleep lack of it or too much under wraps...I think getting a job will help quiet a lot once I do after I pass my A plus tests...
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Nope. I probably should.
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I actually had to take extra pain medication, today.
Rough day, indeed!
Total Physical Inventory of our entire store this evening. Made it home before midnight (boss cut us early starters - we arrive at work around seven AM - loose earlier than those who had to stay and continue counting shit to the bitter end), but I have to be back there in less that four hours.
Hoping to wind down enough for a power nap, soon.
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I'd love some pain meds right now. I think my arthritis makes the aching joints part of the flu worse.
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I'd love some pain meds right now. I think my arthritis makes the aching joints part of the flu worse.
Pretty sure that is a "given."
I am actually trying to get off ALL of my pain meds. I had been using Oxy- or Hydro- codone for more than four years.
About a year ago, my prescription for Hydrocodone was one hundred fifty tablets per month, because it was expected that I would use four to six per day.
I managed to "kick" them on my own and asked for a different prescription. (do not misunderstand; as I began to "kick" I created a backstash of those left I did not ingest) (Now I know there is a body of influence that states that keeping a backstash only sets me up to fail in my quest to be off them, but that also assumes a particular weakness in ones intent to actually get off of them, once and for all. I do not agree that having a safety net to fall back upon is a dangerous thing, once you are finally ready to make sure you DO quit them.) It has been eleven months since I had opiates and I still have my stash, which I have not touched.
These days, I take only Tramadol and aspirin for what is left of my pain. I am making it.
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I wouldn't mind them now, but yes, I see what you mean.
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I wouldn't mind them now, but yes, I see what you mean.
I could try to "mail" you some, but I seriously doubt that they would ever pass through a New York inspection. ... and we would both be busted.
:police:
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I wouldn't mind them now, but yes, I see what you mean.
I could try to "mail" you some, but I seriously doubt that they would ever pass through a New York inspection. ... and we would both be busted.
:police:
Yeah, I guess so. Better not, then.
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Took my meds.
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Just BP meds, for me.
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yes I have...
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Technically it was yesterday...
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Yes I did
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Not yet. Need to drink coffee first.
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I should not have forgotten that L-Lysine for months. Now I have a budding cold sore. And my facial skin is pretty flaky and bumpy too.
:hahaha:
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I am out of my chemotherapy medication that helps me to grow bone. Something wrong with the PHarmacy's "auto renew" with that prescription.
PHuck!! Now I have to re-do it all, they tell me.
About to take all the rest on time, in a few minutes.
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Took my meds.
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Would be a good time to take my chemotherapy meds, since my stomach has been empty for about six hours. It is a once a week thing I have to do.
Actually went "went commando" for three days straight, now, regarding taking pain meds. Feel fine now.
Today was rough, but I am going to try it again tomorrow and see how it goes.
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Almost forgot to take my meds this morning. Was on the way out the door when I remembered.
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Yes, all 12 of them
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Not yet. Can't be arsed.
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Yes, all 12 of them
12?? What on earth do you take? I thought I took a lot (7).
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Nope, not yet.
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Only the L-Lysine.
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Too them. Feeling more productive already.
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Too them. Feeling more productive already.
But less accurate in spelling. :P
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yup
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Due for my lunchtime meds.
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No, I'm late. Almost midnight, guess I should go home and take em.
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Too them. Feeling more productive already.
But less accurate in spelling. :P
You win some, you lose some. :P
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And I tooK mine. :P
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Yes I did
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Yes, except for the hyper meds. I need to start taking those again.
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^Why did you stop? The biggest break I give myself is two days.
Have only got night meds to go.
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I guess I simply forgot and formed a new habit. :-\
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I guess I simply forgot and formed a new habit. :-\
Same.
Should get myself back into a hypermed routine again.
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Yes.
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I did.
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Yuppers
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Laughing hysterically. Can't share why.
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Laughing hysterically. Can't share why.
Aw, come on, My Majesty. :tickle:
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Due now for my lunchtime meds.
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I just did.
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Laughing hysterically. Can't share why.
Those are some good meds. :zoinks:
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Laughing hysterically. Can't share why.
Those are some good meds. :zoinks:
I made funneh posts. :M
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Laughing hysterically. Can't share why.
Hope it was a good laugh. Hysterical laughs can be tricky.
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I took my meds.
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took to many... :thumbdn:
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I did, earlier.
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Not yet. Still waking up. :GA:
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^Likewise. It's Saturday morning and I need to wake up first.
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yes
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Yes.
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havent taken mine in over a week
am starting to feel 'normal'
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Yes I did.
Also took some melatonin, not long ago.
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Did.
I need to renew a prescription soon.
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havent taken mine in over a week
am starting to feel 'normal'
Hope you will be ok, sky blue.
I am due for afternoon meds.
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I should get my stuff together. Using the gym as medication today.
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Yup
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yes
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Yes, I did.
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yes I did
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Yes, I did. And it got me active in a pleasant way.
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Yes. It didn't really activate me, but I didn't expect it to.
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I had not been taking Ritalin for a long time, apart from two times in the evening. So, reacting clearly on it now. (Need it too at the moment, no doubt about that.)
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took them this morning
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Yes, and have set the alarm for the next dosage.
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Yeah, I did.
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Yes.
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No, not today. Barely slept, ritalin would have me bonkers today.
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Going to take dexamphetamine a bit later than usual today as I have to drive to the cinema.
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Oops
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Yes.
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Yes, took the late dosage, skipped the rest.
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Need extra prosac
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Not yet.
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Yep. All of them. :angel:
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:thumbup:
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Not yet. Just got up.
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Sure did... :thumbup:
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So much for good intentions.
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I did.
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Just took afternoon dose.
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yea but a middle ear infection is making me annoyed and short
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yea but a middle ear infection is making me annoyed and short
Do you have lidocaine, (xylocaine, or lignocaine) oil drops to sooth it a bit? Takes the worst from the pain, and is applied topically, so you do not get all kinds of weird side-effects.
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I did. :M
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Some of them. :tard:
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Not yet.
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None yet.
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I did take mine, eventually.
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yup...
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Not yet. I am late.
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yes
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I did, yes. Back on the hyper meds, too.
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No :headslap:
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Yeah, barely. PA and I had to high tail it to the house to let someone in. I threw my meds into a paper bag (hey, it was handy.) After that was finished I drove him back to the apartment, ran some errands. Where were the meds? On the floor of the car, undamaged. Took the suckers
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Yes. Most of them. :P
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yes
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Missed lunch ones because I had a sleep.
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Yes.
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I sure did...
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yes
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I did.
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Not yet.
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Yes.
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Just now remembered to.
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I did.
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They are late but still taken. Also, just figured out I have to see my psychiatrist soon for a dexamphetamine script. There is $240 down the drain.
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Yes. Although I skipped the hyper meds.
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Went out for b'fast. I'd wrapped the morning meds in a brown paper napkin (couldn't find a pill bottle). Evidently the waitress thought it was trash and threw them away. Oops.
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Not yet. I'm still trying to wake up. :yawn:
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Night meds to be taken yet.
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We've been a bit irregular the past few days. The PR had a seizure in the store.
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I don't remember :(
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Skipped the morning ones just took the afternoons
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No, not yet.
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:/
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I did.
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I have been good lately about remembering my meds.
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Hayfever meds are a big must. If I forget them, the day turns into a snotty mess :headhurts:
Lesson learned. I do not forget my meds :viking:
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Hayfever meds are a big must. If I forget them, the day turns into a snotty mess :headhurts:
Lesson learned. I do not forget my meds :viking:
:2thumbsup: for keeping snot to yourself.
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Hayfever meds are a big must. If I forget them, the day turns into a snotty mess :headhurts:
Lesson learned. I do not forget my meds :viking:
:2thumbsup: for keeping snot to yourself.
Sadly not always to myself. I was out without tissues, and I must have redecorated at least 2 busy trams before I managed to find toilet roll :tard: I could almost have cried. I was just having one long continuous sneezing fit :zombiefuck:
I really should have known better. I'm allergic to everything, including it seems, my own hair :dunno:
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Geesh. I hope your immune system calms down for you.
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Geesh. I hope your immune system calms down for you.
It's kinda funny. I'm perfectly healthy, but everything just seems to make me sneeze. Animals, cut grass, hair, damp, rubbing my eyes, cigarette smoke.
I have good tablets at the moment. As long as I remember to take them, everything goes well. When I forget :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
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Geesh. I hope your immune system calms down for you.
It's kinda funny. I'm perfectly healthy, but everything just seems to make me sneeze. Animals, cut grass, hair, damp, rubbing my eyes, cigarette smoke.
I have good tablets at the moment. As long as I remember to take them, everything goes well. When I forget :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
It's like your immune system has OCD :P
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Geesh. I hope your immune system calms down for you.
It's kinda funny. I'm perfectly healthy, but everything just seems to make me sneeze. Animals, cut grass, hair, damp, rubbing my eyes, cigarette smoke.
I have good tablets at the moment. As long as I remember to take them, everything goes well. When I forget :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
It's like your immune system has OCD :P
That's a good way of putting it. I have always has mild OCD, so its no surprise my body does :green:
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No meds taken yet. I've yet to do anything useful today.
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Geesh. I hope your immune system calms down for you.
It's kinda funny. I'm perfectly healthy, but everything just seems to make me sneeze. Animals, cut grass, hair, damp, rubbing my eyes, cigarette smoke.
I have good tablets at the moment. As long as I remember to take them, everything goes well. When I forget :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
It's like your immune system has OCD :P
That's a good way of putting it. I have always has mild OCD, so its no surprise my body does :green:
:)
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I even remembered to take the afternoon meds.
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I did. :)
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Not taking dexamphetamine until about 4:30pm because I will be going to the gym shortly after.
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^Why?
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Because I wasn't doing much at home. If I am just bumming around all day I don't take dex. Then I went out to the gym and I had a review of my workout plan. I wanted to concentrate on that so I took dex.
Not long until I run out of dex as I only have half a bottle. But I am seeing my psychiatrist tomorrow for a new script.
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Ah, right. Thanks.
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Yesterday I totally forgot about my morning meds. Not this morning though.
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Not yet.
I need refills. :-\
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This thread reminded me to take them. On my to-do list.
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Not yet. I will.
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just took mine
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I did. Gave myself some chemical kicks in the posterior, to get myself active. It worked. :hyke:
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Couldn't take my morning meds until 2 p.m. because of the PR's surgery
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Took all my meds as I should. Didn't feel like dex worked, yawning all day.
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:thumbup:
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Have yet to take my three night meds.
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I just got up, so not yet.
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Have taken my meds but still finding it hard to concentrate on my essay.
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Damn. Forgot.
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Does looking at them count?
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I doubt it.
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Took mine this morning.
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:thumbup:
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Have taken mine. Will take the afternoon dose just before 3pm.
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:trainwreck:
aaand its too late now.
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Yes.
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some
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Not yet. I will.
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will take mine at 7am
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About to.
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Yes and made the PR take her too.
The PR doesn't do mornings graciously (wonder where she got that from). However a scare last night where a "cousin" had a major seizure and had to be taken to the hospital may have something to do with her acceptance this a.m.
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Not yet. Worryingly, I forgot to take them yesterday.
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Not yet. Worryingly, I forgot to take them yesterday.
:hitler: We haf ways of making you take your meds. :whipped: :arrr: :spank: :litigious: :rollingpin: :rollingpin: :rollingpin: :nurse:
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Just about to take lunchtime meds.
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Not yet. Worryingly, I forgot to take them yesterday.
:hitler: We haf ways of making you take your meds. :whipped: :arrr: :spank: :litigious: :rollingpin: :rollingpin: :rollingpin: :nurse:
:eyelash:
Tempting, but just write me a note, will you.
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I Adamed the morning meds, but took the night meds plus a pain pill.
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You what? :-\
Haven't taken mine yet.
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Took mine except for the afternoon meds. Didn't really need them.
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You what? :-\
Haven't taken mine yet.
Adamed has been used before by QV, probably in different spelling too, because the search function came up with only one other example (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,18031.msg940967.html#msg940967). And I am sure I have seen more, and also an explanation once.
It's something like "arsed" and QV was inspired by Adam during the time she coined the word.
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You what? :-\
Haven't taken mine yet.
Adamed has been used before by QV, probably in different spelling too, because the search function came up with only one other example (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,18031.msg940967.html#msg940967). And I am sure I have seen more, and also an explanation once.
It's something like "arsed" and QV was inspired by Adam during the time she coined the word.
:worship:
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I haven't, yet. I should. There's quite a bit of pain right now.
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Just about to take afternoon meds. I am driving to the shops so I need them.
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Thinking today will be a several Xanax day. Still haven't fallen asleep and it is 0300.
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Gave in and took a Xanax, 2x Generic Tylenol PM, and 2x Melatonin. Sleep or coma, either is fine by me.
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Not yet. I need to.
I also need to talk to the docs about better pain meds.
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Just took night meds.
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I think I forgot. :-\
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Picked up my moclobemide and benztropine meds at the chemist. Now I know I won't run out tomorrow.
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I need to pick up some meds, too. Thanks for reminding me.
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Heh, no worries. :)
I haven't taken my afternoon dose of dex. Not really doing anything so don't need it.
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Turns out I have no prescription. :GA: Now I have to get a new one in a hurry.
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I want something.
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Well, you can't have mine. :P
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Why not? It's not that they are helping you.
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:emb:
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Not yet. I should. This is not a good morning.
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Forgot my lunch ones because I didn't have any lunch.
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Got my haloperidol from the chemist and on the bottle is written, "New tablet appearance". The bottle has completely changed colour, size and lid imprint but the tablets are exactly the same.
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Some of them.
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Getting ready to.
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No, not yet.
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Should take a painkiller.
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I did, except for the pain meds.
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Took mine late because I got up late.
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Not yet.
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Dang, I had told myself today I would take the focus meds again.
But with the start of the day today, I completely forgot. Don't think my head would like it either.
Shit.
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I forgot my lunchtime and afternoon meds. No wonder I felt foggy at the gym.
Night meds will be taken soon.
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Not yet. I need to.
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yes
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Just did.
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Not on ritalin any more!
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Not on ritalin any more!
Totally away from it? Or for the time being only?
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Not on ritalin any more!
Totally away from it? Or for the time being only?
Totally done. The Doctor was concerned about my heart rate with it and was ready to prescribe a low dose beta blocker to go with it. After Amber told us that Concerta was making her anxious and deciding to get off the stuff, I decided I would rather remove a med than add another. Daughter leads by example. My attention span has been a tad better since I began yoga and meditating a few years ago.
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When I crashed, last year, I had to resort to beta blockers. Ritalin was out of the question.
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yes
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Should have taken the occasional Ritalin. I was home later than I wanted. But I desperately need some structure in my head, because of all the tasks that still need doing today.
Over an hour late. Think I'll still go for it.
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The morning ones
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No, but I did have bourbon :-\
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And I'm having wine! 8)
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Not yet, I just got up.
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Goodmorning.
I medicated the calves, but not myself yet.
I am the one in this household who is up. Pondering on going back to bed again though.
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Just did. I'm all set for the day. :viking:
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Just took an extra high dosage of melatonin. I will make sure that I get sleepy soon. Did sleep way too little the past few nights.
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No meds yet.
I bought melatonin in the US in August to see if it would help me with the jet lag after getting back. Surprisingly it did help.
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The first over the counter melatonin sold here was in 0.1 mg pills. Advice 2 pills every evening. But for some effect, a lot more was needed.
Now they sell it in 2 and 5 mg doses.
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Well, when I tried it before to help me sleep, it didn't do a thing. Nothing. Zip. Wondering why.
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Actually took afternoon meds (just dexamphetamine) an hour ago. Usually I forget them if I am out and about.
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Yup. :)
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Actually, no not time yet. Lol.... but I did yesterday.
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I too them. However my b'fast must have been too something or the other because I crash-slept after it despite my diabetes medicine. Odd because it's a b'fast I've had before - chicken fried steak and gravy, toast, hash browns and 2 eggs. Time for some serious changes on my part.
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I just took my morning meds. Even though it is nearly afternoon. I seriously slept in.
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I did.
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I just took my morning meds. Even though it is nearly afternoon. I seriously slept in.
I also slept in today. But I don't need to take them for a few more hours.
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Did take my L-Lysine. Will take painkiller.
Time to check in in the resident headache thread. :P
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Not yet. I just got up.
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painkiller.
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Just need to take haloperidol, moclobemide and lithium before bed.
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Took mine last night...although for a moment I wondered if I did.
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I'm about to.
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yes and gave the PR hers. Whether she took them.....................
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I did.
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Yes, eventually.
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Yes, taking afternoon Ritalin again since a few days.
I'm getting some kind of sleep rhythm again because of it.
Was completely wrecked because of the time change.
I had been scatterbrained for weeks too, so it was about time I took this again. Keep forgetting the noon dosage though.
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I took Ritalin yesterday, for the first time in weeks. OMG what a difference it made. Maybe I shouldn't have stopped.
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I use it weeks in a row, and then take a break again till I get really stuck in daily life again, with disorganisation, procrastination and scattered brains.
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I didn't forget my afternoon dose of dex. It meant I put a load of washing on and did the dishes with little procrastinating.
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I've been missing the a.m. dose too often lately. So today is a must.
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Did not forget the afternoon dosage. That is three days done well in a row. :headbang2:
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I remembered, today. :2thumbsup:
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yes
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Not yet.
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I should. Almost half an hour late, but will still take it.
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Haven't taken mine yet either!
Edit: taken morning meds now.
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No, not yet. I should.
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:thumbup:
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Me too. :thumbup:
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About to.
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I have been taking mine. However, according to my psychiatrist there may be a problem with my taking lithium. My kidneys seem not to like it. I will be having a blood test tomorrow to see if there's any further deterioration. If there is more of a problem I will have to switch to another mood stabiliser.
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Not yet.
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:thumbup:
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Forgot.
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I will, I will.
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Same here, I will, later.
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Yeah and this antibiotic is wreaking havoc with my GRD.
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Woke up early and took them, then went back to bed.
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I will, I will.
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Forgot my L-Lysine and multivitamin. :facepalm2: I'll take them now.
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Forgot my L-Lysine and multivitamin. :facepalm2: I'll take them now.
I'm going to take them right now! :GA:
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Just took afternoon meds. Didn't have lunch ones.
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I did, except for the NSAIDs. They fuck up my stomach.
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:thumbup:
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I did, except for the NSAIDs. They fuck up my stomach.
You've probably already thought of this. Try taking them with something to eat or some milk to cushion the effects.
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I did, except for the NSAIDs. They fuck up my stomach.
Have you got prescribed stomach protecting medication? With elongated use of NSAIDs you should not be without. If you don't have it, ask your pharmacy or your doctor. It's not a luxury but a must.
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I did, except for the NSAIDs. They fuck up my stomach.
You've probably already thought of this. Try taking them with something to eat or some milk to cushion the effects.
Yes. Eating doesn't help, unfortunately.
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I did, except for the NSAIDs. They fuck up my stomach.
Have you got prescribed stomach protecting medication? With elongated use of NSAIDs you should not be without. If you don't have it, ask your pharmacy or your doctor. It's not a luxury but a must.
Yes, I have. It doesn't help a lot these days. Not taking the pills helps more. It's a choice between a rock and a hard place.
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Have taken the Strattera, still need to take the multivitamin and the L-Lysine. :nerdy:
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I did. I am now a productive citizen.
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I did. I am now a productive citizen.
Me too! I'm becoming a decent housekeeper! :multitask:
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I did. I am now a productive citizen.
Me too! I'm becoming a decent housekeeper! :multitask:
Is your hair in curlers when you do your housekeeping? And do you wear a flowery apron?
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I did. I am now a productive citizen.
Me too! I'm becoming a decent housekeeper! :multitask:
Is your hair in curlers when you do your housekeeping? And do you wear a flowery apron?
No, but my mother wore printed aprons and smocks, and often had her hair in curlers. :rollingpin:
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I did. I am now a productive citizen.
Me too! I'm becoming a decent housekeeper! :multitask:
Is your hair in curlers when you do your housekeeping? And do you wear a flowery apron?
No, but my mother wore printed aprons and smocks, and often had her hair in curlers. :rollingpin:
Looks like those curlers weren't improving her mood.
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No, but my mother wore printed aprons and smocks, and often had her hair in curlers. :rollingpin:
I liked the printed aprons my grandmother wore. She had her hair in a braid rolled into a low bun.
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I did. I am now a productive citizen.
Me too! I'm becoming a decent housekeeper! :multitask:
Is your hair in curlers when you do your housekeeping? And do you wear a flowery apron?
No, but my mother wore printed aprons and smocks, and often had her hair in curlers. :rollingpin:
Looks like those curlers weren't improving her mood.
Curlers can be uncomfortable if they're pulling at the hair. :thumbdn:
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Curlers can be uncomfortable if they're pulling at the hair. :thumbdn:
And then to think many people slept/sleep with them.
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Curlers can be uncomfortable if they're pulling at the hair. :thumbdn:
And then to think many people slept/sleep with them.
I used to use them myself, in junior high school, to curl the front of my hair. :autism:
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Curlers can be uncomfortable if they're pulling at the hair. :thumbdn:
And then to think many people slept/sleep with them.
I used to use them myself, in junior high school, to curl the front of my hair. :autism:
My mother rolled my hair in damp strips of fabric every night, before I went to bed when I was little. She wanted a girl with curls.
I remember one night when mum wasn't home and my dad had to do the night ritual. Those huge hands, trying to get that fine hair done on the tiny head of a kindergarten girl.
:rofl:
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Yes, I took my meds. And yes, my mum had those curlers.
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Curlers can be uncomfortable if they're pulling at the hair. :thumbdn:
And then to think many people slept/sleep with them.
I used to use them myself, in junior high school, to curl the front of my hair. :autism:
My mother rolled my hair in damp strips of fabric every night, before I went to bed when I was little. She wanted a girl with curls.
I remember one night when mum wasn't home and my dad had to do the night ritual. Those huge hands, trying to get that fine hair done on the tiny head of a kindergarten girl.
:rofl:
I had them also. In New Orleans they were called "poppyotts" (Phonetic)
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i wish i had some of my meds to take but the primary care we found refused to refill any of them, including my expired epi-pen, my inhalers, and my adhd meds. i did take all my other meds from the specialist and my supplements. by far the most fun is the xylitol gum prescribed by my dentist.
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i wish i had some of my meds to take but the primary care we found refused to refill any of them, including my expired epi-pen, my inhalers, and my adhd meds. i did take all my other meds from the specialist and my supplements. by far the most fun is the xylitol gum prescribed by my dentist.
Bastards! Why did they refuse? :grrr:
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I did. I have been a well-functioning citizen all day, thanks to them,
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i wish i had some of my meds to take but the primary care we found refused to refill any of them, including my expired epi-pen, my inhalers, and my adhd meds. i did take all my other meds from the specialist and my supplements. by far the most fun is the xylitol gum prescribed by my dentist.
Bastards! Why did they refuse? :grrr:
Because he thinks he's better than my doctors in the U.S. who diagnosed me. He was unable to get into med school in the U.S. (he's from MA) and failed his residency in psychiatry even in Canada. When I questioned it he got defensive, but this was after he claimed that I did not have ADHD, but rather was depressed and anxious. Of course his one year certificate is better than my psychiatrist's over 20 years of experience in treating things like ADHD. The one year certificate is what you get when you can't pass the residency requirement. Since he didn't listen to my history he didn't know that I spent years working in the ER with residents of all sorts, so he didn't realize I knew his deal.
He kept saying that I didn't need a new epi-pen because they are good after expiration, and I guess he didn't believe that I have asthma. Both the epi-pen and the inhaler are stimulants and he may have thought that I was using them to get high. Luckily my specialist believed me and wrote the scrip for the inhalers - I caught a virus that exacerbated the asthma and was having real trouble. I won't need the epi=pen up here until summer - it's for bee stings. As for the ADHD meds, let's just say that we are suffering.
I did take my supplements today. They take the edge off.
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+
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I always take my meds. When I don't take them bad things happen.
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i wish i had some of my meds to take but the primary care we found refused to refill any of them, including my expired epi-pen, my inhalers, and my adhd meds. i did take all my other meds from the specialist and my supplements. by far the most fun is the xylitol gum prescribed by my dentist.
Bastards! Why did they refuse? :grrr:
Because he thinks he's better than my doctors in the U.S. who diagnosed me. He was unable to get into med school in the U.S. (he's from MA) and failed his residency in psychiatry even in Canada. When I questioned it he got defensive, but this was after he claimed that I did not have ADHD, but rather was depressed and anxious. Of course his one year certificate is better than my psychiatrist's over 20 years of experience in treating things like ADHD. The one year certificate is what you get when you can't pass the residency requirement. Since he didn't listen to my history he didn't know that I spent years working in the ER with residents of all sorts, so he didn't realize I knew his deal.
He kept saying that I didn't need a new epi-pen because they are good after expiration, and I guess he didn't believe that I have asthma. Both the epi-pen and the inhaler are stimulants and he may have thought that I was using them to get high. Luckily my specialist believed me and wrote the scrip for the inhalers - I caught a virus that exacerbated the asthma and was having real trouble. I won't need the epi=pen up here until summer - it's for bee stings. As for the ADHD meds, let's just say that we are suffering.
I did take my supplements today. They take the edge off.
As a Massachusetts native, I'm ashamed of this fool. How soon can you get a new doc? :grrr:
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Just took the last of my old batch of Strattera. One more batch before I need a new script. :heisenberg:
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I always take my meds. When I don't take them bad things happen.
What kind of things? :orly:
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Yes. Although the spazz meds no longer do much good. I build up a tolerance very quickly.
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I always take my meds. When I don't take them bad things happen.
What kind of things? :orly:
On my medication, I am a happy functioning, intelligent person with some barely noticable Asperger traits. Without the drugs I am a nervy, volatile paranoid with withdrawal psychosis and I "suffer" from Aspergers.
I admit that this is not exactly "bad" on a cosmic scale, but it is certainly uncomfortable from my perspective.
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I always take my meds. When I don't take them bad things happen.
What kind of things? :orly:
On my medication, I am a happy functioning, intelligent person with some barely noticable Asperger traits. Without the drugs I am a nervy, volatile paranoid with withdrawal psychosis and I "suffer" from Aspergers.
I admit that this is not exactly "bad" on a cosmic scale, but it is certainly uncomfortable from my perspective.
Sounds like fun. What exactly are you taking? Sounds like antidepressant withdrawal. That stuff is worse than crack.
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yes
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I always take my meds. When I don't take them bad things happen.
What kind of things? :orly:
On my medication, I am a happy functioning, intelligent person with some barely noticable Asperger traits. Without the drugs I am a nervy, volatile paranoid with withdrawal psychosis and I "suffer" from Aspergers.
I admit that this is not exactly "bad" on a cosmic scale, but it is certainly uncomfortable from my perspective.
Sounds like fun. What exactly are you taking? Sounds like antidepressant withdrawal. That stuff is worse than crack.
A mix of Propranolol (Beta-blocker) and Notriptyline (2nd gen SSRI anti-depressant). The withdrawal is worse than when I gave up smoking 20 a day cold turkey. But the change they have made to my life is such that I don't ever want to go back to the undrugged version of myself. He was an asshole. I never want to meet him again.
P.S. For those in the know.... Yes. I do get the fun side effect of nortriptyline.
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Propranolol was once considered for me but I can't take it because I have asthma. So benztropine it is.
That is cool that you have found the right meds for you. :)
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Had to look up Nortriptyline. Wikipedia says it's a second-generation tricyclic antidepressant, not an SSRI.
What's the "fun" side effect?
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My doc called me to update after the results from the blood panel.
I was a bit worried as to the outcomes but no trouble with pancreas, liver, thyroid, all elemental nutrients are perfect, testosterone is a bit high considering my age, but nothing to worry about. Only troubling area was that my cholesterol has flipped from mostly the good kind to too much of the bad kind.
He put me on Lypitor to help control serum cholesterol levels, and gave me something for leg cramps.
Adding these two to the mix makes six medications I am supposed to take. Seven if I include the daily aspirin dose. Some I take in the morning, some at night, one only on an empty stomach.
:GA:
Yes, I took my morning regimen, which also includes a handful of vitamins, which I take on my own. Doc knows and says that they "won't hurt."
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Had to look up Nortriptyline. Wikipedia says it's a second-generation tricyclic antidepressant, not an SSRI.
What's the "fun" side effect?
How do I put this?
It takes you longer to get to the top of the hill, but when you do the view is wonderful.
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Had to look up Nortriptyline. Wikipedia says it's a second-generation tricyclic antidepressant, not an SSRI.
What's the "fun" side effect?
How do I put this?
It takes you longer to get to the top of the hill, but when you do the view is wonderful.
Is this about enlarged testicles. :zoinks:
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Had to look up Nortriptyline. Wikipedia says it's a second-generation tricyclic antidepressant, not an SSRI.
What's the "fun" side effect?
How do I put this?
It takes you longer to get to the top of the hill, but when you do the view is wonderful.
Is this about enlarged testicles. :zoinks:
He is talking about geography. :tard:
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Had to look up Nortriptyline. Wikipedia says it's a second-generation tricyclic antidepressant, not an SSRI.
What's the "fun" side effect?
How do I put this?
It takes you longer to get to the top of the hill, but when you do the view is wonderful.
Is this about enlarged testicles. :zoinks:
He is talking about geography. :tard:
Geography was not listed among the possible side-effects. :apondering:
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oops :GA:
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Had to look up Nortriptyline. Wikipedia says it's a second-generation tricyclic antidepressant, not an SSRI.
What's the "fun" side effect?
How do I put this?
It takes you longer to get to the top of the hill, but when you do the view is wonderful.
Is this about enlarged testicles. :zoinks:
He is talking about geography. :tard:
Geography was not listed among the possible side-effects. :apondering:
No, now I am really confused. :tard:
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Had to look up Nortriptyline. Wikipedia says it's a second-generation tricyclic antidepressant, not an SSRI.
What's the "fun" side effect?
How do I put this?
It takes you longer to get to the top of the hill, but when you do the view is wonderful.
Is this about enlarged testicles. :zoinks:
He is talking about geography. :tard:
Geography was not listed among the possible side-effects. :apondering:
No, now I am really confused. :tard:
You should see your doctor about that. :nerdy:
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Had to look up Nortriptyline. Wikipedia says it's a second-generation tricyclic antidepressant, not an SSRI.
What's the "fun" side effect?
How do I put this?
It takes you longer to get to the top of the hill, but when you do the view is wonderful.
Is this about enlarged testicles. :zoinks:
He is talking about geography. :tard:
Geography was not listed among the possible side-effects. :apondering:
No, now I am really confused. :tard:
You should see your doctor about that. :nerdy:
To get me meds with a view? :orly:
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Had to look up Nortriptyline. Wikipedia says it's a second-generation tricyclic antidepressant, not an SSRI.
What's the "fun" side effect?
How do I put this?
It takes you longer to get to the top of the hill, but when you do the view is wonderful.
Is this about enlarged testicles. :zoinks:
He is talking about geography. :tard:
Geography was not listed among the possible side-effects. :apondering:
No, now I am really confused. :tard:
You should see your doctor about that. :nerdy:
To get me meds with a view? :orly:
I was thinking about you getting some help with the confusion.
Rooms come with views, meds may come with hallucinations.
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How about this one.....
The postman is a little late, but he always brings a special delivery.
Nope. That just sounded wrong. Let's stick with hills and views.
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I don't complain. Mrs FourAce doesn't complain.
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Yep, two shots of Brandy! :orly:
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Damn. 2 days in a row for the morning meds.
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I don't complain. Mrs FourAce doesn't complain.
Nudge nudge wink wink. :eyebrows:
No meds for me yet. I will, though.
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Not yet! Thank you for reminding me. :thumbup:
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I don't complain. Mrs FourAce doesn't complain.
Nudge nudge wink wink. :eyebrows:
What's this crap?
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Just another day in I2. ;)
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I don't complain. Mrs FourAce doesn't complain.
Nudge nudge wink wink. :eyebrows:
What's this crap?
Side effect from medication for FourAceDeal. Apparently he takes more time to make love to his wife now, and likes it better.
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I don't complain. Mrs FourAce doesn't complain.
Nudge nudge wink wink. :eyebrows:
What's this crap?
Side effect from medication for FourAceDeal. Apparently he takes more time to make love to his wife now, and likes it better.
Yes. And if I wasn't English I could have just said it like that.
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I don't complain. Mrs FourAce doesn't complain.
Nudge nudge wink wink. :eyebrows:
What's this crap?
Side effect from medication for FourAceDeal. Apparently he takes more time to make love to his wife now, and likes it better.
Yes. And if I wasn't English I could have just said it like that.
I'm a brutal Dutch bovine. I can translate it for you in such a way that the rest can understand. :M
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Took my supplements. Too tired and too little sleep to dare to take the ritalin.
Should get more sleep and get myself on ritalin for a few weeks again. But that takes some calm of the mind that I do not have right now.
So I'll take the risk of :trainwreck:
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Yes I did. Almost choked on the damned L-Lysine horse pills! :zombiefuck:
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yes
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I took mine late but better that than not at all. I feel a lot better when I take my meds.
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Yes I did, am just now having my first coffee! :coffee:
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I took mine. And now I'm hungry.
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yes
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I took mine. And now I'm hungry.
Wonder what kind of meds those were, to make you hungry. Oh yes, I wonder! :stoned:
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I took mine. And now I'm hungry.
Wonder what kind of meds those were, to make you hungry. Oh yes, I wonder! :stoned:
Are you curing your lack of imagination? :fly:
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Not yet. I should.
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Not yet, but I will. It's still early. 8)
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Night meds - haloperidol, moclobemide and lithium.
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Night meds - haloperidol, moclobemide and lithium.
I temporarily forgot where you are, and wondered why you took night meds in the morning. :asthing:
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Teehee, it is night time here!
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I did. I was very productive all day.
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I can usually ignore the warnings about mixing my medication with alcohol when it's just red wine. That's made of fruit and it's one of my five a day. Besides, Jesus drank wine.
But tonight I've knocked back beta blockers and anti depressants washed down with absinthe. I think unless I'm a 19th century French impressionist then I've crossed a line.
I think I should go to bed now.
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Morning meds - moclobemide, benztropine, dexamphetamine, lithium and Caltrate.
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Sleep meds..............always a pleasure.
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I can usually ignore the warnings about mixing my medication with alcohol when it's just red wine. That's made of fruit and it's one of my five a day. Besides, Jesus drank wine.
But tonight I've knocked back beta blockers and anti depressants washed down with absinthe. I think unless I'm a 19th century French impressionist then I've crossed a line.
I think I should go to bed now.
The deck of cards that lived!
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Took the spazz meds.
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I can usually ignore the warnings about mixing my medication with alcohol when it's just red wine. That's made of fruit and it's one of my five a day. Besides, Jesus drank wine.
But tonight I've knocked back beta blockers and anti depressants washed down with absinthe. I think unless I'm a 19th century French impressionist then I've crossed a line.
I think I should go to bed now.
Yikes. Be sure to post when you're awake, so we know ... :orly:
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I will after this song. I already have a cup of water so I might as well. 8)
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I will after this song. I already have a cup of water so I might as well. 8)
Strattera, L-Lysine, multivitamin, all down the hatch. 8)
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I can usually ignore the warnings about mixing my medication with alcohol when it's just red wine. That's made of fruit and it's one of my five a day. Besides, Jesus drank wine.
But tonight I've knocked back beta blockers and anti depressants washed down with absinthe. I think unless I'm a 19th century French impressionist then I've crossed a line.
I think I should go to bed now.
Yikes. Be sure to post when you're awake, so we know ... :orly:
I feel ill today.
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I took mine last night.
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I can usually ignore the warnings about mixing my medication with alcohol when it's just red wine. That's made of fruit and it's one of my five a day. Besides, Jesus drank wine.
But tonight I've knocked back beta blockers and anti depressants washed down with absinthe. I think unless I'm a 19th century French impressionist then I've crossed a line.
I think I should go to bed now.
Yikes. Be sure to post when you're awake, so we know ... :orly:
I feel ill today.
Glad you made it through the night. Hope you're drinking lots of water. :orly:
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Took them late but still took them. I feel awful if I don't.
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Took my Strattera, still need to take the multivitamin and the L-Lysine horse pills. :tard:
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I forgot my massive L-Lysine pills too. And some multivitamin would not hurt either.
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I forgot my massive L-Lysine pills too. And some multivitamin would not hurt either.
I don't know why the L-Lysine pills have to be so big. :dunno:
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I forgot my massive L-Lysine pills too. And some multivitamin would not hurt either.
I don't know why the L-Lysine pills have to be so big. :dunno:
If they did sold it as powder you could mix it with your coffee in the morning and make a kind of coffee flavoured porridge.
:puke:
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I forgot my massive L-Lysine pills too. And some multivitamin would not hurt either.
I don't know why the L-Lysine pills have to be so big. :dunno:
If they did sold it as powder you could mix it with your coffee in the morning and make a kind of coffee flavoured porridge.
:puke:
I guess the pills aren't so bad. :laugh:
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I did, yes.
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about to
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I should head out to the apothecary and pick up my prescriptions.
Tomorrow morning I'll give in and will take antibiotics again.
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Took my three pills for the night.
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Picked them up. Will start tomorrow.
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:thumbup:
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Yes I have. All set for another ass-kicking day! :arrr:
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Yes, face is already starting to soften because of the antibiotics.
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I did, both the spazz and the hyper meds.
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Have yet to take afternoon meds. For some reason the lunchtime dose made me jittery.
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Not yet. Waiting for the antacid to settle first. 8)
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I did. They don't seem to help today.
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Took them late because I slept in but I still took them.
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I did, yes.
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Letting the Prilosec settle first, so the gelatin coatings don't make me nauseous, as they sometimes do. 8)
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I think I did. :-\
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I think I did. :-\
I don't take mine first thing after I wake up, because then I won't remember for sure. :-\
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Just did. I've gotten really good at managing the L-Lysine horse pills. :P
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I think I did. :-\
I don't take mine first thing after I wake up, because then I won't remember for sure. :-\
I have to, right now, since all I do is take a quick shower and get dressed before driving to work.
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I did, and after taking all these horse pills, I can swallow a coated ibuprofen without water. :roses:
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I HAVE A SUSPICION I FORGOT.
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Took the antibiotics first thing in the morning. Am now allowed to have milk-products, multivitamins and such again.
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Took all 3 doses of dexamphetamine because I needed them (started school today)
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I don't know. I was barely awake.
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Yes I did. It's one of the few things I've done right so far today. :P
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Laughs hysterically (private joke)
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Antibiotics have been swallowed.
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Haven't taken anything yet. Going to wait just a bit. 8)
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Strattera, multivitamin, L-Lysine horse pills, all down the hatch! :2thumbsup:
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I think I did. Maybe. I don't know. I wasn't really awake.
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Everyone taken and accounted for.
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Not exactly. Had some, my gabapentin, chlormethiazole, the adrenal blocking meds, but went a day without by accident, fell asleep yesterday after taking the chlormethiazole and my muscle relaxant, kept me asleep all day and overnight, and much of the day today, so my pain meds had worn off completely, woke up and that hit me like a truck *shudders*, nothing that cannot be rectified, but I do find it REALLY annoying when I oversleep way too long and wake up feeling shitty.
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Not exactly. Had some, my gabapentin, chlormethiazole, the adrenal blocking meds, but went a day without by accident, fell asleep yesterday after taking the chlormethiazole and my muscle relaxant, kept me asleep all day and overnight, and much of the day today, so my pain meds had worn off completely, woke up and that hit me like a truck *shudders*, nothing that cannot be rectified, but I do find it REALLY annoying when I oversleep way too long and wake up feeling shitty.
I love it when you talk chemical.
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I wasn't, real, way ly CBC, it just was the fact that my meds kept me asleep long enough for my pain meds to have worn off, meaning by the time I woke up, I'd gone more than a day without taking my morphine/oxy, and since I was last around here I've had the former of those increased some, as what I was taking formerly for my joints was helping with the joint pain in my knees, and my left hip is actually a lot better now than it used to be, but I have the bursitis bilaterally. Changed a couple of other things too, like switching from taking ranitidine to its relative cimetidine, both are pretty similar anti acid-reflux drugs, which is the main reason for taking either. Some of the docs gave me a bit of a wide-eyed look when asking for my prescription to be altered, whilst I explained to them my reason for wanting to change from one med to a more or less identical relative of it in most respects, but the idea is to use the cimetidine to block hepatic cytochrome P450 metabolic pathways that normally are responsible for chewing up morphine and its close relatives by tying up the capacity of the two enzymes in question, cyp-p450-2D6 AND CYP-p450-3A4, allowing my pain meds to hang around for much longer. None of the docs I approached knew about that, seemed fairly surprised, wondering who told me how etc. (nobody, it was simple enough to work out)
If only your average NTs understood 'autie, go figure' as the be-all and end-all excuse for so many such things left apparently needing some sort of explanation. If it isn't then it bloody well should be.
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Just took them. Getting really good at handling the L-Lysine horse pills! :arrr:
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Probably.
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Oh fuck, forgot to pick up prescriptions.
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Thanks for reminding me. I have a prescription to pick up, too.
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Thanks for reminding me. I have a prescription to pick up, too.
Apothecary is closed now. Not enough at home for the weekend. :GA:
Called a friend of kid, with same medication. She'll help us out for the weekend.
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Days like this, that I wish I was BACK on ritalin! ::) OY
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:thumbup:
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Thanks for reminding me. I have a prescription to pick up, too.
Apothecary is closed now. Not enough at home for the weekend. :GA:
Called a friend of kid, with same medication. She'll help us out for the weekend.
Wow, glad I live down the road from a chemist that's open until 8pm, 7 days.
Took my 7 morning pills.
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Got all-day open pharmacy here which is handy, opens early, 8am which is handy when I need to pick up a new rx and are scratching up the walls to go get out when my last scripts last dose of morphine and oxycodone has all but worn off completelty, and unfortunately the way everything is set up I get stuck with having to wait a day or 2, before I can get a new one.
Although this is lestat we're talking about. i'm getting the urge to get the lab up and refurbished too, 'tis about time that morphine sulfate were made into something altogether more potent.
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Yes I did. I have a medication appointment later this morning. 8)
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Might have. I dunno.
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I DID.
We went to the urgent care, where it's $80 and first come first served. The $200 doctor refused to refill my Ritalin because he thought he would play psychiatrist. We brought the bottles in to the $80 urgent care guy and he wrote for 11 months of medication.
The lion sleeps tonight. I was down to about two hours a night.
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I DID.
We went to the urgent care, where it's $80 and first come first served. The $200 doctor refused to refill my Ritalin because he thought he would play psychiatrist. We brought the bottles in to the $80 urgent care guy and he wrote for 11 months of medication.
The lion sleeps tonight. I was down to about two hours a night.
Sleep well Wolfie.
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I did.
I've had doctors who, all of a sudden, want to play psychiatrists and question my meds and my dx. It's infuriating and it's demeaning, and I'm always left wondering why they do it. There was this one doctor, she was actually retired but they had brought her back since there was a shortage of doctors and who quite obviously didn't believe ADHD was real and anyone who wanted Ritalin exhibited drug-seeking behaviour, who told me that I'm doing so well and I don't need any of my prescriptions. Condescending cunt.
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I did.
I've had doctors who, all of a sudden, want to play psychiatrists and question my meds and my dx. It's infuriating and it's demeaning, and I'm always left wondering why they do it. There was this one doctor, she was actually retired but they had brought her back since there was a shortage of doctors and who quite obviously didn't believe ADHD was real and anyone who wanted Ritalin exhibited drug-seeking behaviour, who told me that I'm doing so well and I don't need any of my prescriptions. Condescending cunt.
What I wonder is why these quacks think they know more than psychiatrists with years of experience.
I wish they could walk in my shoes for just one day. Just one day of no sleep, of walking from one room to another and not remembering why they're there, of putting something on a table and having it vanish into the black hole, of having a single day's chores and work be overwhelming, and failing the "idiot check" when all that's on it is the keys, the phone, the wallet and the money.
They have no idea it's painful. The problem is the same as with autism - people jump on the bandwagon and then those of us who really fit the diagnosis aren't taken seriously. I've had it happen with Celiac disease - which I have, and people say, oh, are you doing that fad diet?
No. I am not doing a fad. I am trying to stay alive. People who have this and don't maintain the diet die within five years of diagnosis.
Ugh, derailed.
Only one dose so far. Hoping things get better soon, though the last time it was a long haul of intermittently forgetting it which makes it take longer. Going to carry it with me and try to be religious about it.
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I DID.
We went to the urgent care, where it's $80 and first come first served. The $200 doctor refused to refill my Ritalin because he thought he would play psychiatrist. We brought the bottles in to the $80 urgent care guy and he wrote for 11 months of medication.
The lion sleeps tonight. I was down to about two hours a night.
Sleep well Wolfie.
I got about four hours total - good for me. I am aiming for 6.
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I did.
I've had doctors who, all of a sudden, want to play psychiatrists and question my meds and my dx. It's infuriating and it's demeaning, and I'm always left wondering why they do it. There was this one doctor, she was actually retired but they had brought her back since there was a shortage of doctors and who quite obviously didn't believe ADHD was real and anyone who wanted Ritalin exhibited drug-seeking behaviour, who told me that I'm doing so well and I don't need any of my prescriptions. Condescending cunt.
I used to work with a brilliant, fidgety, disorganized, spectrum-y guy who was dx'd with ADHD as a child
but never medicated. He tried to get dx'd as an adult, years later, and unfortunately ended up in the office
of some jackass psychiatrist who "doesn't believe in adult ADHD" and told him "You've been able to sit still
for 10 minutes, therefore you don't have anything wrong with you." I don't think my co-worker ever tried
another doc after that. It's a fucking shame. The dude probably had a genius I.Q. but he was stuck
waiting tables in a retirement home at age 38, never was able to make anything of himself. :thumbdn:
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I did.
I've had doctors who, all of a sudden, want to play psychiatrists and question my meds and my dx. It's infuriating and it's demeaning, and I'm always left wondering why they do it. There was this one doctor, she was actually retired but they had brought her back since there was a shortage of doctors and who quite obviously didn't believe ADHD was real and anyone who wanted Ritalin exhibited drug-seeking behaviour, who told me that I'm doing so well and I don't need any of my prescriptions. Condescending cunt.
I used to work with a brilliant, fidgety, disorganized, spectrum-y guy who was dx'd with ADHD as a child
but never medicated. He tried to get dx'd as an adult, years later, and unfortunately ended up in the office
of some jackass psychiatrist who "doesn't believe in adult ADHD" and told him "You've been able to sit still
for 10 minutes, therefore you don't have anything wrong with you." I don't think my co-worker ever tried
another doc after that. It's a fucking shame. The dude probably had a genius I.Q. but he was stuck
waiting tables in a retirement home at age 38, never was able to make anything of himself. :thumbdn:
Wish he'd seen my psychiatrist. The guy's brilliant. He explained to me how it is that so many people in the U.S. have ADHD symptoms - those people were more likely to be pioneers due to their symptoms. I wonder if it means that people in California have the worst cases? I took my morning meds a little late because I slept. :green:
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I'm glad you slept. Screw that jackass who didn't want to fill your prescription! :slap:
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I didn't take the Prilosec today, yet I feel fine. :orly:
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I took mine and changed the PR's mood drugs from the pm to the am. Hopefully they'll be more effective.
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Yes, I did, but I am taking two more meds these days AND they have to be taken at bedtime instead of awakening.
This suxxors!
:hahaha:
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Yes. An hour late because I overslept. :green:
five hours last night.
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Yes. An hour late because I overslept. :green:
five hours last night.
Nice! Did you have any dreams that you remembered? :)
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Done, both the anti-biotics in the morning and the Ritalin a while ago.
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Took the Strattera about an hour ago, still need to take the multivitamin and the L-Lysine. :orly:
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I just remembered before I saw this thread. And I'm off...........
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I just remembered before I saw this thread. And I'm off...........
Me too, time for the horse pills! :laugh:
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I just remembered before I saw this thread. And I'm off...........
Me too, time for the horse pills! :laugh:
Aaah, those I forgot this morning. Time to make up for that. Might as well take my multivitamin too. Am not allowed to take that in the morning anymore.
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Still haven't taken the horse pills. I keep forgetting. :facepalm2:
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Forgot the Ritalin. >:(
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Forgot the Ritalin. >:(
Forgot your anti-forgetting meds, which you can't remember to take because you didn't take them ... :GA:
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Forgot the Ritalin. >:(
Forgot your anti-forgetting meds, which you can't remember to take because you didn't take them ... :GA:
It's fucked up, I know.
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Forgot the Ritalin. >:(
Forgot your anti-forgetting meds, which you can't remember to take because you didn't take them ... :GA:
It's fucked up, I know.
That'll be me in 20 years, forgetting my Alzheimer's meds. :prude:
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I finally took the multivitamin and the L-Lysine. Frickin horse pills. :P
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The only horse pill I have is Caltrate. I take it with the head meds.
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The only horse pill I have is Caltrate. I take it with the head meds.
The store was out of the brand of L-Lysine I ususally buy, so I got stuck with these thick round pills! :orly:
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I miss my Ritalin! I went thru the exam from hell in Portland Maine with Dr. Baer and an 'Intern" from HELL. Yes, doors are not sound proof! :P
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Yes. An hour late because I overslept. :green:
five hours last night.
Nice! Did you have any dreams that you remembered? :)
I might need more time than that. It's only been one night.
I think I took mine today. Morning for sure, but for the afternoon I took one out and it was too early so I put it down, now I can't find it but that doesn't mean I took it. If I don't sleep tonight I'll know but still not for sure.
It's time to go back to the pill minder and alarms on my watch.
Done the alarms.
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Not yet. I just got up.
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It's 2:52 in the morning here, so no. :P
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Yes, so far so good.
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Not yet, too busy taking out my trash! Gotta take them now! :GA:
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Argh! Not sure! I took one out and then realized I needed to arrange the afternoon dose.
Found a good pill minder for my keychain and installed it.
Then couldn't remember if I had taken one of those.
Technically I could take another a little earlier and then one at 4:30 since I was on that much in the past but I think I will just wait for the alarm on my watch to go off.
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All set for another day of kicking ass at work and destroying mouse habitats at home! :litigious:
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The PR and I are on a roll. 3 days in a row.
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I took all my meds, today.
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clearly missed a dose - maybe two. not sleeping tonight. I was pretty sure about the afternoon dose until now.
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About to do so. I feel pretty good this morning. :)
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PR and I :thumbup:
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afternoon yes, morning not sure.
things fall apart very easily for me.
i have a bazillion pill minders and none of them work for me (first of all i'd need to know where they were...)
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I drank wine, it has mellowing agents! ;)
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Yes I did. Getting very good with the horse pills. :P
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:2thumbsup:
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Both doses today.
today is a day off from shots - they start again tomorrow.
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Took all the usual stuff earlier, just recently dry-swallowed a Prilosec. :thumbup:
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yes
and today's shot was one of the least painful. it helped...man, that mouse seems really trapped - it keeps running back and forth on the shelf. Maybe it's in a panic.
now there's a meme for you - a mouse doing the panic dance.
...to warm up the medication.
Finally! It jumped.
this has been a CBC entertainment post
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yes
and today's shot was one of the least painful. it helped...man, that mouse seems really trapped - it keeps running back and forth on the shelf. Maybe it's in a panic.
now there's a meme for you - a mouse doing the panic dance.
...to warm up the medication.
Finally! It jumped.
this has been a CBC entertainment post
Jumped where? Into a trap? I couldn't be dealing with those critters at close range at all. :GA:
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All done. I hardly mind even the biggest pills anymore. 8)
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What are you on thats causing pain? Just generally speaking, taking care to avoid extravasation of whatever is being taken.
Some substances seem to be worse than others for that. In my experience, morphine has to be one of the worst, if I miss a bit and dump some of a shot into tissue instead of a vein it burns like fury; producing a large patch of hives, it doesn't last too long. Although compared with, for instance, oxycodone, which causes almost none of the stinging, smarting and itching that comes with missing with morphine, H, dipropionylmorphine and their close relatives.
What I hate though, is a miss in the feet, unless I quickly apply some corticosteroid ointment and a dab of voltarol (topical NSAID diclofenac gel), as it leaves the foot sore and makes wearing shoes no fun at all if a miss makes them swell. I already have enough annoyance with my feet and ankles swelling, due, I think, to pompholyx, as that leaves my feet/ankles all swollen and painful during a flareup.
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yes
and today's shot was one of the least painful. it helped...man, that mouse seems really trapped - it keeps running back and forth on the shelf. Maybe it's in a panic.
now there's a meme for you - a mouse doing the panic dance.
...to warm up the medication.
Finally! It jumped.
this has been a CBC entertainment post
Jumped where? Into a trap? I couldn't be dealing with those critters at close range at all. :GA:
it jumped to the floor after I took away its normal route down.
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What are you on thats causing pain? Just generally speaking, taking care to avoid extravasation of whatever is being taken.
Some substances seem to be worse than others for that. In my experience, morphine has to be one of the worst, if I miss a bit and dump some of a shot into tissue instead of a vein it burns like fury; producing a large patch of hives, it doesn't last too long. Although compared with, for instance, oxycodone, which causes almost none of the stinging, smarting and itching that comes with missing with morphine, H, dipropionylmorphine and their close relatives.
What I hate though, is a miss in the feet, unless I quickly apply some corticosteroid ointment and a dab of voltarol (topical NSAID diclofenac gel), as it leaves the foot sore and makes wearing shoes no fun at all if a miss makes them swell. I already have enough annoyance with my feet and ankles swelling, due, I think, to pompholyx, as that leaves my feet/ankles all swollen and painful during a flareup.
It's eprex for anemia. One more month of weekly shots to go, I think. The mistake was letting it get to room temperature which in our house is around 65F. This time I put it inside my shirt for a few minutes before the shot and after we left it out for the prescribed 15 minutes.
took my other meds right on time today.
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Thats EPO-α is't it? No personal experience with it, I take it that it stings a bit?
Just make sure you get plenty red meat in your diet if your anaemic (assuming iron deficiency of course).,
One thing that bugs me, as far as irritation due to meds goes, is the way I can feel the burning/stinging up 'behind' the nose (what it feels like anyway) because of the histamine release. I used to get the same thing happen when I took chlormethiazole as well, although it appears that a tolerance to that particular effect has developed, I always used to feel a sharp prickling up inside the bridge of my nose as it takes effect.
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Strattera, multivitamin, L-Lysine, all down the hatch. Took ibuprofen earlier. :thumbup:
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:2thumbsup:
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I did, yes. And I started taking eye drops to take care of the eye infection.
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I did, yes. And I started taking eye drops to take care of the eye infection.
Can you see any improvement? :facepalm2:
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I bought cough syrup today. I might be needing it soon. :P
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I did, yes. And I started taking eye drops to take care of the eye infection.
Can you see any improvement? :facepalm2:
I see what you did there. :oneliner:
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I bought cough syrup today. I might be needing it soon. :P
That's the first step on the road to drinking.
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I bought cough syrup today. I might be needing it soon. :P
That's the first step on the road to drinking.
It's for the upper respiratory thing I have developing. Really. :angel:
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I bought cough syrup today. I might be needing it soon. :P
That's the first step on the road to drinking.
It's for the upper respiratory thing I have developing. Really. :angel:
Drink lots of it; you won't need alcohol, or better yet, get some with codeine.
I once saw a guy in the ER who was high from dextromathorphan. He had the widest pupils in bright flourescent light. He'd gotten hold of some pure stuff that was stolen from a pharma firm. Usually what they do is drink a lot of cough syrup. I guess he didn't realize the pure stuff would be so strong.
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Taken some, although not every one of my morning meds, just had to go to my docs surgery to pic up my refills, which were all due today, bar a bottle of gaviscon, as I still have some left. Just as well that I get it on prescription, as a large bottle of gaviscon liquid is REALLY expensive, considering that the ingredients are every one,
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Of them massive scale pharmaceutical ingredients, Na2CO3, KHCO3, alginate (an extremely viscous naturally occurring polymer coming from alginic acid, which is found naturally, it comes from seaweed, and very very commonly used as a thickening agent in both pharmaceutical excipients and active ingredient in the case of anti gastric reflux meds, as well as for thickening foods, the rest of it are flavourings, either mint, or aniseed, both in use on truly enormous scales worldwide, and a few bits of other shite such as preservatives (parabens, IIRC, could be mistaken there though as to the type of preservative, but I don't think so, can't be arsed getting off the sofa downstairs to go upstairs and look at the ingredients listings :P)
I get mine on prescription, thankfully; I really think the pricing of it over the counter is an unjustifiable ripoff, the large bottles are in the region of £7-ish to £8-something. The amount of gaviscon I need to use, that would fucking bankrupt me for sure, I wonder if I'd actually be able to go 6 months without ending up penniless, sleeping under a motorway bridge on a bed made of hundreds of melted down amber glass bottles in a sort of moulded-glass cot made of all those previously emptied bottles :chores:
Just got back to finishing off this post from going to get some more of my meds, a little oxy, just 30mg, along with the remaining contents of a pre-prepped rig that had been forgotten a little earlier, containing a bit of MS, the remainder, basically, of what cannot be dissolved in water once solubility limits are reached, and cannot be further circumvented via the means of using water of an increased temperature for the reason of not I.V'ing water of a temperature that would burn. About to go and get myself a cap of chlormethiazole, some clonidine, a pramipexole (dopamine receptor agonist, of the non-ergot alkaloid-based variety, agonist at D1, D2, D3 and D4, with the overall preference in terms of intrinsic agonist activity being weighted towards a D3r preference [how large a response of a drug by the cells acted upon vs the activity of the bodys own natural, native neurotransmitter for that receptor at the concentration sufficient to evoke a response of maximal amplitude being taken as 100., thats what is meant by the term intrinsic activity, ''IA'']
I want some cimetidine, but I can't find where I put the bottle.
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I did, yes. And I started taking eye drops to take care of the eye infection.
Can you see any improvement? :facepalm2:
Not yet. Maybe tomorrow.
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I did, yes. And I started taking eye drops to take care of the eye infection.
Can you see any improvement? :facepalm2:
I see what you did there. :oneliner:
So did I, but I decided to ignore it. :P
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I did, yes. And I started taking eye drops to take care of the eye infection.
Can you see any improvement? :facepalm2:
I see what you did there. :oneliner:
So did I, but I decided to ignore it. :P
Is ignorance bliss?
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:2thumbsup:
Just a note
:thumbup: means I took my meds
:2thumbsup: means both I and the PR took our meds
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8mg tizanidine (a muscle relaxer that works by blocking secretion of adrenaline/noradrenaline, probably the most effective drug I've ever taken thats of the myorelaxant type, at least, those specifically designated thus, as opposed to substances that possess muscle relaxer effects incidentally, E.g alcohol, ether, chloral hydrate, weed and other cannabinoids, opiates etc.)
And 30mg morphine, 20mg of oxy with a cimetidine tablet, a cyclizine and a couple of buscopan to make sure my stomach stays well behaved and settled, which it is doing.
Just remembered I forgot to take the clonidine I went up there for also, and the gabapentin. Oh well, not a problem, I'll just pop up and grab those.
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:2thumbsup:
Just a note
:thumbup: means I took my meds
:2thumbsup: means both I and the PR took our meds
nice. i will remember that.
you'd think they'd come up with time release so i only had to remember once. but most people don't take and afternoon dose as it keeps them up at night. i took my afternoon dose 3 hours late at 6pm and overslept. usually i get up between 6:30 and 7am and today Py had to wake me up at 9:15am.
took the morning dose. so far so good.
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The afternoon dosage is the hardest to remember and the worst to forget.
So, today I only had the afternoon dosage. :laugh:
Need it, because I'll get a visitor later today who is contagiously ADHD with a passion.
I'll probably sleep like a log tonight.
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I bought cough syrup today. I might be needing it soon. :P
That's the first step on the road to drinking.
It's for the upper respiratory thing I have developing. Really. :angel:
Drink lots of it; you won't need alcohol, or better yet, get some with codeine.
I once saw a guy in the ER who was high from dextromathorphan. He had the widest pupils in bright flourescent light. He'd gotten hold of some pure stuff that was stolen from a pharma firm. Usually what they do is drink a lot of cough syrup. I guess he didn't realize the pure stuff would be so strong.
Mine's OTC, though I did need to show ID in order to prove that I am legally an adult. :autism:
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I did. Gagged on one of the L-Lysine horse pills, managed to get it down finally. >:(
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:2thumbsup:
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I did, yes. And I started taking eye drops to take care of the eye infection.
Can you see any improvement? :facepalm2:
I see what you did there. :oneliner:
So did I, but I decided to ignore it. :P
Is ignorance bliss?
Not really.
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I haven't taken any cough syrup in many hours, I probably should. :orly:
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I did. Gagged on one of the L-Lysine horse pills, managed to get it down finally. >:(
I chew them to bits and then wash them down with lots of water.
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I did. Gagged on one of the L-Lysine horse pills, managed to get it down finally. >:(
I chew them to bits and then wash them down with lots of water.
I suppose I could chew mine. Or crush them with a spoon and add applesauce, like my mother did! :2thumbsup:
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Morning, yes. Afternoon, I forgot.
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Yeah, most of them. Been out in town all day though today, for the majority of the day, getting back only late, so scheduling went down the toilet. Took a few irregular bits and shits, needed some aspirin, as well as some Gee's linctus, and a tube of topical local anaesthetic gel, to soothe the raw wound that I'm trying to get to heal after hurting my hand, and taking infection at the site of the wound.
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All of them, plus a swig of cough syrup straight from the bottle! :beer:
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I did, and I am so proud. ;D
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I did, and I am so proud. ;D
:congrats:
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I should take my L-Lysine. The anti-biotic regimen makes that I can't take the usual stuff in the morning. So, I risk forgetting them on a daily basis.
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:2thumbsup:
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I've been taking ibuprofen and swigging cough syrup! :beer:
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Yes, and the shot too.
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Just did. No gagging on the L-Lysine this time. :thumbup:
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:2thumbsup:
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Yes I have, including a swig of cough syrup! :beer:
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after driving through a snowstorm we forgot the shot so I have to have two tomorrow. otherwise all done.
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Yes, and I am having my caffeine now, to complete the treatment! :coffee:
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:2thumbsup:
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not sure but i think i missed the afternoon dose because of traveling. i heard the alarm in my watch go off but we were just coming off the slopes so i think i didn't take it. however i am so tired from being up there that i think i will sleep OK tonight.
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Yes, I took mine. Suspecting the NSAIDs are making my stomach hurt.
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:bigcry: nope. Neither the PR nor I.
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:bigcry: nope. Neither the PR nor I.
Can you still make up for that, or is it too late now?
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:bigcry: nope. Neither the PR nor I.
Can you still make up for that, or is it too late now?
Too late. I've been giving the PR her mood meds in the A.M. since I think she needs to be "happier" at that time rather than while sleeping. She just came in and while talking to me, she had a minor seizure. And I had a "falling into a deep sleep for 2 hours" because I didn't take my blood sugar pills and didn't think enough about the right foods while running errands. It's only about 4 hours to the night dosing. We'll live.
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forgot the afternoon dose.
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Not yet. I will, tho.
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Took my morning, lunch and afternoon ADHD meds. I really need them for the amount of computer work I am doing. Night time meds of moclobemide, lithium and haloperidol are all that's left.
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I'm all set for the day, unless I need ibuprofen or a swig of cough syrup later! :beer:
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both doses and got the word from the doc that since my neutrophils are through the roof, no more shots (at least for the next couple of weeks). That means only one a week.
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Just gave the PR her morning pills after 2 p.m. Bad day for her. I really need to be more conscientious about those pills. We've had tornado warnings across the lake (50 miles away) and tornado watches here. But that's not really an excuse. Just got busy with other stuff I shouldn't have gotten busy with.
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Any chance PA can take over medication responsibility?
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Any chance PA can take over medication responsibility?
:rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO:
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Any chance PA can take over medication responsibility?
:rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO:
Is that a no?
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:2thumbsup:
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Any chance PA can take over medication responsibility?
:rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO: :rofl: :LMAO:
Is that a no?
PA is in charge of his own meds. Except that I have to deal with any problems and listen to him counting out each pill when he puts it in the weekly box (:angrydance: Damn, where am I? I hate this! Why do I have to do this? etc. every few pills), listen to "Oh, shit! I forgot to take my meds!" at least every other day, etc.
I love the man, but I literally have to turn on the computer for him, resolve any and all screen issues, etc. Although he has grey hair, he is a dumb blond. :blonde:
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not sure. having a bad day. when i get sick everything goes to hell. the good thing is that although i never miss shots (they are administered by py) i don't have them today because they are suspended fot 2 weeks. i didn't know that it was possible to have too many neutrophils.
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Not yet, no.
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Only night meds left.
It is usually the morning meds that I forget to take sometimes if my routine changes (which it does often).
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All set for another day. Thank god I don't have to remember midday stuff. :orly:
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It is a real pain in the arse to have to take lunch time meds and afternoon meds. I am going to Tafe and there are people everywhere so taking meds discreetly can be difficult. So far no one has asked me anything or commented. I hope to keep it that way.
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:2thumbsup:
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both doses.
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Nope, been too busy with a stomach virus.
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I'm not the only one . Something evil just rampaged through the family's collective digestive systems. Listeria possibly, given that my old man likes camembert cheese and masses of it have recently been recalled due to listeria contamination, its got my old man, my mom, one of her carers that comes in the morning to get her out of bed etc. and me. Been barfing out torrents of corrosive green billious christ only knows what, the kind of hyperacidic nasal mucosa torching, throat burning lava spew that only comes after eating or being otherwise exposed to a particularly vicious brand of food poisoning. The kind that has no name as such, but could be fairly well represented by a sort of 'gluurrkkhhhghhhhhhnngghhhkkkkk...' noise, played from an out of tune brass instrument, inserted right up to the horn, squarely within the anus of an epileptic baboon
sucking on the bare severed mains input of a freshly dissected hair dryer.
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I imagine my turn will come. The PR was the one who had it. I've never used so much bleach to clean floors (several times) before. At least she seems to be getting better.
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Glad to hear shes feeling a bit more chirpy. I hope I'm getting over the worst of this nasty little sucker, it ripped through the entire family and took out one of my mom's carers for a while too.
Floors? damn, I managed at least, if not to bork up in the toilet, then at least into the sink, when it felt like what was fighting its way back up from my innards was going to be a bit less...lumpy, after horking up most of the pieces of semidigested chicken curry. But a damnably close call several times, with all of 10 seconds warning, sudden nausea in between times of relative comfort, interrupted by having to suddenly yark in quite spectacularly projectile fashion.
How something can contrive to be both orange and green, simultaneously, I really do not know. Nor do I particularly wish to contemplate.
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Not yet. I will, eventually.
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Yes, finally, after repeated reminders from this thread. :tard:
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nope. never take them on Sundays
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nope. never take them on Sundays
You rest on the Sabbath? :orly:
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I threw out the rest of the L-Lysine horse pills after a nasty gagging incident.
I was able to find and buy a different brand that's more manageably shaped and sized. :2thumbsup:
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My new old-lady ( 50+ ) multivitamins are a tasteful shade of dusty lavender. :prude:
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You take lavender as a medicine?
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You take lavender as a medicine?
Not yet. Plenty of time for that later, when I'm an elderly hypochondriac. :trollskull:
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You take lavender as a medicine?
Not yet. Plenty of time for that later, when I'm an elderly hypochondriac. :trollskull:
Ah, I see, these tired eyes need some sleep, or these old eyes need better glasses, or this brain needs to read more careful.
Probably all three options are true. :-\
I read My new old-lady ( 50+ ) multivitamins AND a tasteful shade of dusty lavender. :prude:
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Dear iittle cow :hyke: have some vitamin C for your tired eyes! (http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/eating/carrots-smiley-emoticon-emoji.png)
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both doses.
now i just have to work on the supplement protocol - that's a lot more pills.
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Only supplement I take is Caltrate. It has calcium and vitamin D in it.
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Took my meds. :)
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Yup, and enough time has passed. I'm allowed to take supplements.
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All done. It's easier with my new L-Lysine, with pills I can swallow without choking. :thumbup:
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:2thumbsup:
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Yep, Vicodin for some moderate post-op pain.
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Pain meds.
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Yes and now I am all out got to go get more tonight
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Yes
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both doses.
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Took morning doses, but still hane to take my night time meds. Glad you reminded me.
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Not yet, it's only 5:23 a.m. here. :P
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Yes.
And I am allowed to take the supplements now.
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Yes.
And I am allowed to take the supplements now.
Always be sure you have permission before taking your supplements. :police: :hyke: :police:
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I just took 'em. Getting caffeinated and charging my phone for the dental appointment! :tard:
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I just took 'em. Getting caffeinated and charging my phone for the dental appointment! :tard:
Will you be taking selfies? :trollskull:
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I just took 'em. Getting caffeinated and charging my phone for the dental appointment! :tard:
Will you be taking selfies? :trollskull:
I'll need internet entertainment as I sit in the chair, waiting and waiting and waiting. :P
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I just took 'em. Getting caffeinated and charging my phone for the dental appointment! :tard:
Will you be taking selfies? :trollskull:
I'll need internet entertainment as I sit in the chair, waiting and waiting and waiting. :P
If you feel the urge to take a selfie, don't let common sense and such keep you from doing it.
:zoinks:
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I took both yesterday but I must have been sick because I don't remember much of anything from yesterday.
took morning so far - I think. I took it out, got distracted, and now it's missing. I did also take a drink so most likely that is what happened.
I am cleaning my own nest today so I will find it if I didn't take it.
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Whoops, no, not yet. Thank you to Hyke for making this thread to remind us! :2thumbsup:
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There, I'm all set for the day. Ready for any challenge! :autism:
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I'd forgotten! :-[ Good thing this thread is stickied.
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oops, yeah. morning dose is away thanks to this thread.
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I did, both the spazz and the hyper meds. I know, some do not accept the validity of those latter ones.
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:2thumbsup:
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Fully supplemented and de-spazzed. :P
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I did, yes.
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no
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I actually nearly ran out of dexamphetamine before it was time to be able to get a refill. It is the first time that's happened. Before I used to have plenty because I used to miss doses. With me spending a lot of time at college and then doing homework, I have found that I need all my doses.
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Took morning meds so far.
I hate being dependent on meds, but there is a huge difference.
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I took mine, also a Prilosec. I need to get back onto a better diet. :P
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Yes. And thanks to this thread, I just remembered to pack them in my bag. I'm going to London tomorrow.
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I may need another swig of cough syrup later. :beer:
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both - morning a little late and afternoon right on time.
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:2thumbsup:
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Yes.
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Ready for another day! Back to the kitchen, let's git r done! :fatchef:
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I did, yes.
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new pill minder is working well. it's thin and fits in my pocket. going to try it for both morning and afternoon.
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The PR :thumbup:
Me :thumbdn:
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The PR :thumbup:
Me :thumbdn:
You must take care of yourself! :respect: Your queendom needs you!
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All pilled up and gearing up for another work day! :hamsterwheel:
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Yes, and took most of the supplements.
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all done
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Yes, this morning.
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All set. This thread is a great service to the site! :2thumbsup:
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It's probably the most useful thread of them all. Except for the constipation thread, obviously.
And yes, I took my meds like the good boy I am.
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Well done.
Took mine too, and took supplements.
Face is getting small inflammations despite meds though, and left eye is horribly itchy. :-\
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My sympathies. An itchy eye is maddening.
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Thank you, it is.
Glad I don't have the painful inflammation on my eyelids now though. That was going towards sight threatening.
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Ouch. Did you get meds to fix it?
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Hence the antibiotics. For up to maybe 6 months, and then hoping for the face and eyes to be relatively calm again for a year or more.
Last time I was on antibiotics was begin 2013, it was not till this year that it became a real problem again, apart from not too pretty a sight. So I hope this will keep me safe till 2019.
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:2thumbsup:
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Better late than never. Now I can start my day! :coffee:
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I did, yes.
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done both doses.
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Fully medicated and ready for Fantastic Friday! :headbang:
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I should take my supplements.
Medication happened hours before. So I can take those supplements now.
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Took my supplements with some OJ!
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:2thumbsup:
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Not today, no.
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Whoops, I forgot. :blonde: Luckily I can take thm now!
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Just took night meds. I have a good routine going for night-time meds.
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:2thumbsup:
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Melatonin and 12.5 mg of Benadryl on board! :yawn:
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Shit, I forgot again. I'm still adjusting to the time change. :yawn:
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:2thumbsup:
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Yes.
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Yes I did, with gratitude for what they do to help me. :)
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I did. Then, at the doctor's, they gave me a cocktail of pain meds and relaxants, plus an anesthetic. I don't remember much of what happened in there but I'm still high as a kite.
So surgery went well I think. And for the first time in months, my jaw joint doesn't hurt.
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I did. Then, at the doctor's, they gave me a cocktail of pain meds and relaxants, plus an anesthetic. I don't remember much of what happened in there but I'm still high as a kite.
So surgery went well I think. And for the first time in months, my jaw joint doesn't hurt.
TMJ procedure? I hope you will soon be grinning widely as ever! :trollskull:
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Forgot again. :facepalm2: If we didn't have this thread, I would have gone all day!
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I took them shortly afterward. So now I'm set for my day at home doing the laundry. :tard:
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I did. Then, at the doctor's, they gave me a cocktail of pain meds and relaxants, plus an anesthetic. I don't remember much of what happened in there but I'm still high as a kite.
So surgery went well I think. And for the first time in months, my jaw joint doesn't hurt.
TMJ procedure? I hope you will soon be grinning widely as ever! :trollskull:
Yeah, the TMJ procedure. I hope it worked.
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I did. Then, at the doctor's, they gave me a cocktail of pain meds and relaxants, plus an anesthetic. I don't remember much of what happened in there but I'm still high as a kite.
So surgery went well I think. And for the first time in months, my jaw joint doesn't hurt.
TMJ procedure? I hope you will soon be grinning widely as ever! :trollskull:
Yeah, the TMJ procedure. I hope it worked.
I have a couple of friends with TMJ! Glad I don't have it! <shudder>
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I have some crepitus in my left jaw joint. I hope it doesn't get worse. :tinfoil:
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:2thumbsup:
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I did. Then, at the doctor's, they gave me a cocktail of pain meds and relaxants, plus an anesthetic. I don't remember much of what happened in there but I'm still high as a kite.
So surgery went well I think. And for the first time in months, my jaw joint doesn't hurt.
TMJ procedure? I hope you will soon be grinning widely as ever! :trollskull:
Yeah, the TMJ procedure. I hope it worked.
I have a couple of friends with TMJ! Glad I don't have it! <shudder>
As you should. Still, things could be far worse.
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Yeah, the TMJ procedure. I hope it worked.
What exactly did they do?
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missed yesterday afternoon slept poorly now trying to catch up. so far good today.
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Yes I did, without even being reminded by this thread! Now I must drink my :coffee:
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Yeah, the TMJ procedure. I hope it worked.
What exactly did they do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33AzVJdrjKc
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Yeah, the TMJ procedure. I hope it worked.
What exactly did they do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33AzVJdrjKc
OMG your brains are leaking out! ! ! ! :GA:
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Ew.
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I'm all medicated and caffeinated and getting my :laundry: :laundry: :laundry: done!
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Yeah, the TMJ procedure. I hope it worked.
What exactly did they do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33AzVJdrjKc
OMG your brains are leaking out! ! ! ! :GA:
:tard:
I'm literally losing it.
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I took my meds, including new pain meds.
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I took my meds, including new pain meds.
How long before you know if the procedure is of benefit?
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i had my caffeine today too.
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I have taken everything, including an ibuprofen for my pounding head! :thumbup:
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Done, took most of my supplements too.
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I took my meds, including new pain meds.
How long before you know if the procedure is of benefit?
I'm seeing the doctor tomorrow. Hoping he'll be able to tell me.
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And about to take my meds now.
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Done.
Am allowed to take my supplements now.
Should not forget to apply sunscreen.
Otherwise I may turn into a short-neck giraffe.
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All set for another fabulous day at work. :autism:
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Some of them.
Pramipexole-yes (its a dopamine receptor agonist, of the non-ergot alkaloid flavour), took one earlier.
Fexofenadine- (long, long, LONG acting, nonsedating antihistamine), no, I didn't bother, its a heap of shite quite frankly. It may have a grossly extended duration of supression of mast cell degranulation. Its so long acting that people undergoing skin prick/patch testing for allergen sensitivity need several WEEKS washout period, if somebody has been using it long enough to reach a steady-state plasma level, as the prolonged blockade of mast cell degranulation thus prevents histamine release, ergo, buggering up the test completely (although if I were to go and look up fexofenadine in the index of my copy of the BNF, I'm not so sure its publishers would have used the word 'bugger' in a pharmaceutical monograph entry, somehow:P
Clonidine? yes, 125mcg earlier.
Tizanidine (similar to clonidine, alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonist, blocks noradrenaline release, but somewhat less effective at dropping blood pressure than is clonidine itself) lower weight potency, far more effective muscle relaxant-yes, 16mg earlier and a further 8mg a few minutes ago. I take it to unclench, unlock and help soothe the otherwise constant pain in my left calf muscle, courtesy of a botched knee surgery that left me with some nerve injury, the end effect being localized to the site of the actual injury rather than all of me, as it would do for someone with cerebral palsy, ending up pained, stiff and sore, with a constant muscle spasm in my calf.
Hurts like a total fucking bastard with it decides that whatever time it may be then would be the perfect time to flare up and do its worst, morphine, oxycodone, or morphine&oxy do dull the pain then, but thats ALL they do, there is nothing in the way of ameliorating the root cause behind it, not that a years old neuropathy is going to be fixable any time soon, at least, not if one isn't so stinking rich that money were no longer an object, in order to avail onself of the very latest in cutting edge medical assistance in that respect. I'm not, they aren't, and not likely to either.
So painkillers, steroids, NSAIDs, paracetamol, physically working out cramps if possible at all, gabapentin, and for what its worth, since I'm taking both anyway for reasons totally unrelated to the nerve pain itself, the morphine and oxy, keep taking as usual. Doesn't really do a great deal to be honest, for neuropathic pain, but, as the aphorism goes 'I'd sooner be hung for a sheep, as a lamb' (referring to livestock 'rustling' and the days of capital punishment, meaning if one is to do a thing, not to do so halfarsed about it. If a livestock-thief is going to do something to get busted and strung up, then they should make sure that at least they do so for that which is the most worth stealing [I.e, doing] so at least the person gets the most out of whatever the thing/situation/action/ etc. happens to be, and to go for the most high-value result of one's actions.
I.e 'to go the whole hog', if somethings worth doing, its worth doing properly, basically, although there are other, more subtle connotations to the phrase, that however, is the meat of things.
gabapentin,,not totally sure, I may have done, I might not, can't remember.
cimetidine, yes
cyclizine, yes,
gaviscon, no
chlormethiazole, not yet, had yesterday evenings dose, but none as yet today.
metronidazole-yes
Erythromycin-yes
Buscopan (hyoscine/scopolamine as the quaternary ammonium butylbromide salt, so it doesn't cause central antimuscarinic psychotogen type effects (scopolamine, more modernly termed hyoscine, from Hyoscyamus, the genus containing the henbane plants, toxic plants of the nightshade order, related to for ex, tobacco, potato, Daturas, Brugmansia, tomato, and deadly nightshade/belladonna causes similar deleriant poisoning that atropine does, but since quaternary ammonium salts have an inherent electrical charge, which means that hyoscine butylbromide is quite unable to pass through the blood-brain barrier, at least, other quats are, and no reason to think otherwise in this case, and if it cannot enter the CNS, it cannot then go on to cause central toxicity, only peripheral nervous system effects, so it should be impossible for it exert a deleriant type effect.
Hyoscine/scopolamine I take in another form also, as a sustained-release transdermal patch. Slow to take effect though. I never have been a huge fan of transdermal patch delivery of things, its always too slow to take effect, and if one comes off then its very unlikely one is able to stick it back on.
The hyoscine patches are forever dropping off, and being flesh colored aren't easy to see, and I'm always finding the fuckers stuck to carpets, walls, my linen, walls etc.
Same went for nicotine patches although most of those were silver-colored so easy to spot if they come off. Fentanyl patches...now those were just awful in every conceivable manner of speaking, HATED those, I got given a few fentanyl skin patches by one of my doctors once as an experiment in finding me suitable analgesia for my shitty old hips/knees, when I was seeking an alternative opiate to oxycontin 80s. One of my GPs gave me some fent patches, and they proved to be an absolute pharmacokinetic and logistical nightmare, being slow to take onset and reach an active plasma concentration of the drug itself, during which they neglected to give me a dose of some sort of carry-over med, by which I mean a single, or perhaps 2-3 dosage units of a suitably strong opioid, so that one doesn't simply have one's plasma levels of whatever opioid med was in use prior to switching to transdermal fentanyl drop like a stone, which can cause patients switching from oral/injected/intranasal, delivery etc to end up in a really nasty withdrawal whilst waiting out the period from last dose of opioid via conventional routes, to the time when enough fentanyl has been released from the patch matrix and absorbed by the user, which can take a while.
I was back into the surgery the very next day after being given those, to ask for at worst, the same oxy script that I'D been taking previously, or for an alternative, Which is when I switched from the XR oxy, to much lower dose IR oxy to give some rapid orally active, decently bioavailable support to the analgesic regime, and decided to use morphine as my work-horse main opioid.
Still left to take Omeprazole, a proton pump inhibitor (blocks stomach acid release), and probably a few other things, but can't just remember for sure off the top of my head, I'll need to go look in my bag of meds. And there is a bowl of half-finished chlormethiazole and bromoethiazole (The name for the analog of chlormethiazole where bromine replaces chlorine, not used in medical practice, but the name is logical enough, so good enough for me :P)
No reason not to include preparation of the Br-substituted analog as a side project whilst already aiming for chlormethiazole itself, seeing as how all the steps bar one are identical, the only difference being either to substitute thionyl bromide for thionyl chloride, or if using the Appel rxn with triphenylphosphine/CCl4, to swap carbon tetrabromide for plain common-or garden pleb variety vanilla carbon tet.
Wish it wasn't so much of a pissing swine to actually obtain carbon tetrachloride, its been judged and found 'heresy', in a manner of speaking, due to being a halocarbon, and not good for the environment, ozone layer, somewhat toxic, so it was taken out of any and all consumer-sale products such as dry-cleaning fluid and the like, and also, whilst not strictly speaking, subject to any form of ban that carries any force from eg. L.E, its even become relegated to the past in org.chemistry, save for uses where it really isn't suited well to being replaced, speciality uses etc. Things like use as a mere solvent, have gone the way of the dinosaurs, so its a bit of a swine to obtain for me, although I'm hoping that the main option open to me, would have some for sale, I hope.
If she turns out to have none to offer me, then its going to mean making some myself, making any precursors-to-precursors too if needs be, or trusting to luck, on the slim chance that I might be able to find an unbroken, undischarged antique fire extinguisher grenade (used to be fire extinguishing devices that were basically a hollow glass sphere filled with CCl4, to be thrown at a fire, thus smothering it with nonflammable carbon tetrachloride fumes. Not a very healthy idea, nor, as I understand, very effective either on fires large enough to justify being forcibly put out.
Some really rreallly old antique fire extinguishers used to be filled with it too, but like the fire-globes they aren't common, I've never actually SEEN one of either, not physically anyway, only pictures/photos, so I'd imagine that there is only a very slim chance of managing to find one on ebay. etc. etc. and even then, finding one that somebody other than myself had the same idea.
I'd sooner just buy some though in this case, to save me expense, effort and generally speaking, make the last step in the synth, which starts from the B-vitamin thiamine, followed by a bisulfite cleavage, metabisulfite seems to work too, which can be had OTC for those who don't either have a cultivated relationship(s) with reagent suppliers, or other good sources, as sodium metabisulfite is used in beer/wine making, not entirely sure what for, but there are sulfites in many wines, in small quanties as a preservative, some people have a sensitivity to sulfites and wines containing it can make the drinker feel pretty rotten if they drink it, not a wine drinker, or even somebody who can bear the stench of the vile stuff, I sure as shit wouldn't DRINK it, cheap and preservative laden or some posh-arsed , expensive bollocks.
Doesn't make a damn difference to me, where wine or champagne are concerned, WHAT the claimed quality of it, its all rank, acrid, noxious, stomach-turning putrescent dog faeces in a bottle.
Taken everything I can think of, off the top of my head, at least, most everything in terms of regular meds. All I can think of right now is a few hundred mg of 2C-B-FLY
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I did.
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I just did. I'm ready for the workplace! :pirate:
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I did, but later than usual. It was after 9 a.m. because I'm not working today. :yawn:
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I did.
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I did, but later than usual. It was after 9 a.m. because I'm not working today. :yawn:
I did the same because there is no college today, being Good Friday.
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Not yet. I will.
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All set for the work day. I'm in my 50s now. I have to stay on task! :pirate:
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I did. Painkillers. too.
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I did. Painkillers. too.
Do the painkillers do any good? :-\
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I could have used some! :-\
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I did. Painkillers. too.
Do the painkillers do any good? :-\
Sometimes. I wouldn't take them if they didn't.
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Pills are down. I'm drinking the fun part of my meds now. :coffee:
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Pills are down. I'm drinking the fun part of my meds now. :coffee:
The booze? :zoinks:
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If caffeine is a drug...yes! 8)
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Pills are down. I'm drinking the fun part of my meds now. :coffee:
The booze? :zoinks:
I am alcohol-free since ringing in Y2K.* :M :angel: I'm talking about caffeine!
* Unless you count whatever traces of alcohol may or may not be in my cough syrup. ;)
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Pills are down. I'm drinking the fun part of my meds now. :coffee:
The booze? :zoinks:
I am alcohol-free since ringing in Y2K.* :M :angel: I'm talking about caffeine!
* Unless you count whatever traces of alcohol may or may not be in my cough syrup. ;)
Been hitting the cough drops again? :zoinks:
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I take cough syrup for medicinal purposes only. :M :angel:
I have to drink it straight from the bottle. :beer: Not my fault the dose cup is too small.
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I take cough syrup for medicinal purposes only. :M :angel:
I have to drink it straight from the bottle. :beer: Not my fault the dose cup is too small.
But of course. We believe you. :zoinks:
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Only the morning ones but I took it almost midday
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Missed the am doses. made the pm doses
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I take cough syrup for medicinal purposes only. :M :angel:
I have to drink it straight from the bottle. :beer: Not my fault the dose cup is too small.
But of course. We believe you. :zoinks:
I need a large dose because of my weight. :seal: I have a higher tolerance. :angel:
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I'm fully medicated and caffeinated, and about to take on the day! :pirate:
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I have taken all my meds, and I am now getting caffeinated! :coffee:
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I have taken all my meds, and I am now getting caffeinated! :coffee:
SS, DD. Going to work in the afternoon to cover for a friend. :coffee:
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I did, yes, and I'm feeling much better thanks to Big Pharma. :M
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I did, yes, and I'm feeling much better thanks to Big Pharma. :M
I worship Big Pharma! :worship: :trollskull:
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I did, yes, and I'm feeling much better thanks to Big Pharma. :M
I worship Big Pharma! :worship: :trollskull:
It's a conspiracy. Obama and ISIS are also involved.
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I'm doing well with taking mine.
However, The PR did not take hers last night or this morning. I may move out and not leave a forwarding address when the melt-down comes.
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Does alcohol count as a med? :wine: Cause after a day of packing for the move, I needed it! And so did Carla! :P
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Self-medication is not approved by Big Pharma. :zoinks:
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Finally took everything, a little before 10 a.m., late for me, but it's a day off. 8)
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Yes. Another big day for Big Pharma. :zoinks:
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I couldn't give a shit if they approve of what gets done with certain of their medication products when supplied to a certain autie here....
My 'prope dope' (I.e the analog of heroin where the 3,6-dipropionyl diesters are used to replace the two acetyl esters in H) gears better then their gear so nyeh to them :P :D
Beats the snot out of H of the same purity any time :D
Just got my med refills today. So have taken some but not all my meds. Just self-medicating however, with a few fat bongs to help me sleep well tonight :)
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Fully pilled up. Having coffee now. :coffee:
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So far so good taking the afternoon ones in an hour or so
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Yes I did, a little late because I'm off work today. :nicegear:
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Just took a Prilosec. Fucking heartburn. :sick:
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I did. I feel much better now.
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I did. I feel much better now.
I did too. I feel better too. YES! We're all individuals! :crowd:
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Partially. Actually I shouldn't have had any meds left at all because I'm due for my refil today in about 15-20 minutes.
However I had a lot of unused adrenal blocker and muscle relaxers left, as well as a lot of unused gabapentin, some dopamine agonist (pramipexole) and even found, by pure luck, almost 200mg of morphine sulfate, in 10mg extended release capsule form, all in my old backpack from a long past hospital visit and discharge, as they give me enough meds to last until possibility of seeing my own doctors for my usual refills, esp. if its on a weekend discharge, because the docs are closed then.
They gave me a lot more than I usually would get, 100mg morphine caps and 10s, rather than 30s and tens, plus 20mg IR oxycodones rather than the usual 10s.
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The caps do prep nicely, but with tens its a pain, as I'd usually need at least a hundred of those for just one 1g shot. Too bad there were no 100s left. 100 and even 200mg XR morphine caps do exist, but are REALLY rare. Only ever seen 200s once, on the street, and cleaned the guy out so fast he even offered me a handful of free valium blues (10mgs) haha. Bought every
last single 200mg morph he had. And fuck me! good stuff those were! a bit less tolerant then, did a first hit with just TWO of those caps, the contents powdered in a mortar and pestle, dissolved, micropore filtered and banged up, or hit with a bit of propionyl chloride and base, to make the propionyl diester homolog of heroin, prope-dope for short, as I christened dipropionylmorphine. Once the base is cleaned out and acyl halide removed the product is THE best I've EVER had, bar only the same dipropionyl diester based proionyl-smack but made out of purified real opium rather than pharmaceutical morphine on its own. The other natural poppy alkaloids in there make it last all day from one dose, as well as lending it a wonderful stimulating property due to thebaine, in low levels, in large amounts its a convulsant poison, because it acts in the same way as does strychnine. But like strychnine, in amounts not sufficient to poison the person it goes into, its a nice stimulant, in an atypical way, mediated through strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors, so it doesn't release loads of nor/adrenaline and other catecholamines, and lacks all the associated adrenergic and cardio side effects of typical stimulants. Theres enough thebaine in pod tea or opium if eaten, plugged or refined to something injectable to change the character of the mainly morphine and codeine based effect significantly and to me at least, very pleasantly indeed.
Reminds me, its getting late, I need to plant out this years opium poppy crop very soon. Might do it today. Its tons of work, all year bringing water and fertilizer. But one does get a handsome reward when its all finished, wrapped up said and done, and all the lab work done too. Satisfying because one actually has to work for it, it makes filling that first rig, or the moment the wait is over, and you lift the first pipe full of raw, sticky, dark opium to your lips and breathe in that first heady, intoxicatingly floral scented cloud of smoke.
Now THATs living :D
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Just did. I have to get a refill tonight after work. :thumbup:
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Just took night meds.
Got to go to the chemist tomorrow and get more moclobemide. This time I will ask for an information sheet on it. I want to know whether or not I can eat Vegemite while taking it. Moclobemide is a reversible MAOI which means it doesn't make permanent changes to my digestive system. The doctor in hospital mentioned dietary restrictions but didn't say what they were.
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I did. I feel much better now.
I did too. I feel better too. YES! We're all individuals! :crowd:
We are not.
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Yes I did, and I have my new batch. No more refills, I must make an appointment! :apondering:
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I did. I feel much better now.
I did too. I feel better too. YES! We're all individuals! :crowd:
We are not.
Clearly we are. :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: :borg: Get with the program, pal!
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I did. As a result, my day was very productive.
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I did. As a result, my day was very productive.
My days are very productive as well! :2thumbsup:
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:thumbup: Not sure if The PR has taken hers. I put them out for her.
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Did I? sort of, I didn't with most of my pain meds yesterday, only a bare minimum but found a big fucker of a pile of morphine capsules that somehow must have gradually wormed their way under my bed, bit by bit from old scripts, else I'd have missed the part of my script gone AWOL, had it done so at once. So in taking what is technically this morning rather than yesterday night-which is also technically tonight, if that makes sense, had that, had last nights, and had yesterday morning's tonight/this morning on top, having not had it yesterday. Had my oxy yesterday, and a modest bit of the gear but not much where the morph is concerned. All well and good now however, nicely contented.
Why not just ask the PR?
Ren, don't chance it with fermented foods.
Moclobemide is a competitive MAOI (selective for the MAO-a isoform of monoamine oxidase also), the competitive MAO(a)Is are also termed 'RIMAs', reversible inhibitors of monoamine oxidase-A'
The way that RIMAs like moclobemide, or the betacarbolines like harmaline and tetrahydroharmine differ from the older MAOIs in clinical use, like phenelzine and tranylcypromine is that the former, the competitive inhibitors of MAO-a (monoamine oxidase has two distinct types, the mao-A isoform, and MAO-b. MAOa is expressed peripherally and centrally, whereas the 'b'
isoform is to be found within the brain. MAO-a is responsible for breaking down the endogenous monoamine neurotransmitters dopamine, serotonin, noradrenaline and the common dietary pressor amine tyramine, with type B mainly chewing up dopamine, as well as tyramine, and some other trace amines)
The term 'competitive' inhibitor means that the inhibitor will (shockingly, or what?:P) compete (sorry I'm just being a bit facetious here ren, not at your expense though at all :))
with the normal substrate for the enzyme. RIMAs are the competitive ones, and when a RIMA is bound to MAO-a, inhibiting its function, the substrate usually metabolized is capable of displacing the inhibitor from the enzyme-inhibitor complex, or, to use the technical term, 'telling it to jolly well go piss off'. This is in contrast with the noncompetitive (I.e irreversible) inhibitors, such as the old, first generation MAOIs like the hydrazines (ICK! hydrazine..nasty fucker of a moiety to go into a person, hydrazine itself is just ungodly toxic, plain N2H4 that is,
although not a drug. The group easily cleaves in vivo though in many hydrazine function containing substances to result in a reactive intermediate which forms a covalent bond once bound to MAO-a, between enzyme and the cleaved hydrazine part of the molecule, once covalently bonded then its essentially gone and poisoned the enzyme, knocking it out permanently, requiring the body to synthesize new MAO-a before regaining the functionality thereof)
Not all the noncompetitive MAOIs are hydrazines though, tranylcypromine for instance, isn't, and has some funky ass cylopropane ring as it reactive group. I don't actually understand WHY it works, but I've seen a cyclopropyl group on other enzyme inhibitors, for instance the fungal 'toxin' coprine, found in Coprinus species (the ink-caps, famous mostly for the way most of them spread spores by deliquescence, auto-liquefaction, they break down and dissolve into black goo. There are a few tasty ones, like the shaggy ink cap, or lawyer's wig, C.comatus. C.atrementarius, the common inkcap can be eaten, and although not wonderful, its not bad, good enough if they are to be found, but they contain a cyclopropane-containing compound called coprine, which like the alcohol-aversive drug for pissheads who have stopped being dependent physically on alcohol but who find themselves unable to resist returning to drink.
Both disulfiram/antabuse and coprine inhibit aldehyde dehydrogenase in the liver, preventing the breakdown of the toxic metabolite acetaldehyde, responsible, along with dehydration, for the stinking hangover we all know and loathe. This then builds up and causes a nonfatal, but reportedly so awful that one would wish it DID kill the poor rotten motherfucker unfortunate enough either to drink alcohol on antabuse, or who consume Coprinus mushrooms [C.comatus, the shaggy inkcap is an exception, and is free of coprine, no interaction, and is a very good and sought after, quite common wild mushroom. Delicious fried in butter, I've picked and eaten them many a time. the only snag is that they MUST be fresh, because they will literally start to deliquesce and dissolve into black slime within hours of being pulled from the ground, and if your not quick off the mark then you may well find that your supper is actually inky puddle of black goo instead of tasty treat. Once picked, its a race against the clock, to determine if you eat them or use them, boiled with water and a few cloves, to make a quite decent black writing and drawing ink (inkcaps actually used to be used for this often formerly, to make ink for everyday use, hence the name)
But drink alcohol after eating the COMMON ink cap, or plenty of other species in the genus, and that lil cyclopropane-based non-competitive enzyme inhibitor means the result is a combination of profuse sweating, tachycardia [very rapid heart beat], chest pains, severe vertigo and dizziness, stomach pains, pounding headache, flushing of the face and vomiting fit to make the result look like a blowjob from the girl in 'the exorcist' in reverse. Sideways. And twisted round in reverse on itself on one's nackers. Same goes for a couple of days after until more aldehyde dehydrogenase is available, if no alcohol be consumed then no harm will come to the diner. So much as a beer, and you will rue the very day your mother met your father with a holy passion.
If coprine were a competitive inhibitor, acetaldehyde could displace it from aldehyde dehydrogenase, allowing at least some to be broken down, and while it may or may not cause some symptoms, it would not do so with the same horrid severity as it does otherwise with alcohol alongside the meal or within the 2-3 days recovery period. But since its irreveran hisible, noncompetitive, no such luck, sorry unwary diner, see you in hell in about half an hour to a few hours from now :P
With the MAOIs, the old noncompetitive ones, the reaction is not nearly so benign, in fact it can be lethal. Nasty, nasty, nasty painful miserable way to die too *shudders*
What happens with the old noncompetitive ones, MAOa is needed to break down the pressor amines like noradrenaline, and dietary tyramine, (tyramine is the compound resulting from decarboxylation of the aminoacid tyrosine, normally destroyed as fast as it could be consumed, meaning we don't all die screaming as we stroke out/have a heart attack at the first meal containing soya, fermented foods, the likes of marmite, some seafood, pickled foods, processed meats etc)
Taking the older ones, and then eating such foods high in tyramine, ingesting caffeine, or taking stimulant drugs, drugs that act as serotonin receptor agonists, or which block transporters (SSRIs, SNRIs, NRIs, NDRI, SNDRIs, tricyclics, and other antidepressants like that; or drugs that act to release serotonin or serotonin/dopamine /noradrenaline in combination etc. such as MDMA, MDA, methamphetamine, indanylaminopropane 'IAP', alpha-methyltryptamine ,can cause a fatal hypertensive crisis, strokes, heart attack, dangerous or deadly hyperthermia, literally cooking some poor cunt alive in their juices. In general, any stimulant must be avoided on EITHER the competitive MAOIs OR the noncompetitive variety. Also, the opioids pethidine (called meperidine in the US), and tramadol, as both these also have some serotonin releasing effects, pethidine has caused deaths in the past when taken with an MAOI, I know not if tramadol has actually done so, but it sure as shit could, being an SNRI in addition to being an opioid)
Now, moclobemide, is a bit different, the kinetics I've explained, in practice, for the person taking moclobemide, there is a LOT more room for miscalculation, etc. with respect to diet
since as I said, when it has to, the tyramine, or other pressor can displace moclobemide from MAOa allowing it then to break down said pressors as usual. Can't happen with the noncompetitive ones. Stimulants, and excessive amounts of dietary pressor-loaded foods, like fermented stuff and yeast extracts, pickles and processed meats, many cheeses are damn dangerous with the old guard of first-gen MAOIs, but the RIMAs are vastly more forgiving and safer, dietwise. Stimulants remain a no-go on either, as do tramadol (yucky shit anyway IMO) and pethidine/meperidine.
I'd avoid vegemite, all the same, nevertheless. I'm not sure about it really, I've never actually either eaten it, or looked at how its made, but it strikes me as close enough to the likes of marmite and bovril to be a bit of a dodgy looking customer when it comes to people on MAOIs. I gather there is actually relatively little risk from RIMAs compared to noncompetitive MAO(a)Is
At least not where dietary tyramine is concerned. Stimulants remain verboten absolutely, as do serotonin releasers or reuptake inhibitors, such as SSRIs, tricyclics etc. and the recreational drugs that act as 5HT releasers, MDA, MDMA, MDE, alpha-methyltryptamine, IAP, 5-IT, that kinda thing. With 5HT2a (5HT stands for 5-hydroxytryptamine, a common shorthand for serotonin) agonists, this is much more of a grey area. As I shall by example, elucidate shortly for you, ren. Also, and this isn't otherwise obvious, tramadol is DANGEROUS, and pethidine, the strong opiate also known in the US as meperidine, peth being the brit name, pethidine can and HAS KILLED IN COMBINATION WITH AN MAOI!!! ABSOLUTE CONTRAINDICATION in BOTH TRAMADOL AND MEPERIDINE/PETHIDINE! do NOT mix! likewise, DO NOT MIX WITH DEXTROMETHORPHAN, the cough remedy/dissociative recreational drug!
With the 5HT2a agonist psychedelics (tryptamines like psilocybin, DMT, DET, DiPT, the complex heterocyclic polycyclic tryptamine ibogaine, which has been studied intensely due to its reputation for helping heroin and other opiate addicts ditch the monkey on their backs, as well as a history of native use in Gabon, by the Bwiti cult,
Then there is the class of psychedelic substituted phenethylamines like mescaline, 2C-B, 2C-I, 2C-D (soon...I get to taste this, and am quite looking forward to having the chance to sample a bit of this [2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylphenethylamine, the 2,5-dimethoxy ring substitution pattern is whats referred to as '2C-x' where x is a placeholder for a letter or letters signifying the heteroatom or polyatomic functional group present at the no.4 carbon of the phenyl ring, which is critical in determining the IF, and the nature of activity, while 'DOx is used for the corresponding substituted psychedelic amphetamine. , and those substituted amphetamines with ring/sidechain substituents corresponding to the phenethylamine psychedelics, generally having similar kinds of 'flavour' to them, so to speak but are much more potent by weight, and far far longer in duration.
And also, we have the lysergamides, the ergot alkaloid derivatives based on lysergic acid as the parent backbone, such as LSD, AL-LAD, LSZ (the dimethylazetidinylamide analog of LSD, a conformationally restricted analog of acid originally invented by the neuroscience researcher David Nichols to aid in probing the architecture of the binding site at 5HT2a and active 3d conformations taken by the receptor protein-LSx complex, to help learn about how 5HT2a is built, and more about the biological workings of psychedelics., and the likes of the 1-propionyl-derivative of LSD (tried this one actually myself just recently, although I wasn't quite as thrilled by it overall, I preferred LSD.
MAOI(a)s have been used to alter the activity of the tryptamines, or some of them, people experiment more now that there are more than just the tryptamines found in plant or animal sources (DMT, psilocin/psilocybin/baeocystin, 5-methoxy-DMT, bufotenine [5-hydroxy-DMT, halfway betwixt DMT and serotonin structurally), ibogaine (shouldn't be mixed with an MAOI! powerful adrenergic component to its activity, not that ibogaine is a recreational drug. A powerful psychedelic with a unique other side entirely, in that its been intensively studied because of its reputed and often , anecdotally from those who have undergone it, ability to help opiate addicts give the back-monkey a taste of The BanHammer, this isn't as such directly and solely due to its 5HT2a agonism, but its got effects on nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes that seem to have interaction with addictive adaptation, amongst lots of other targets, ibogaine is a whore of a drug, in terms of selectivity for receptor targets, a proper fucking slut bitch crackwhore, that seems to jump in bed with everything from 5HT, to dopamine, adrenoreceptors, opioid receptors, this lil bugger porks the every little binding-site-muff it can get her tongue into :P Ibogaine would neither be in the slightest safe, indeed I'd expect a similar or greater level of danger to concurrent use of pethidine or tramadol and an MAOI.
But ibogaine is a most extreme example of atypical, in the tryptamine family, its not just a simple n-alkylated, with or w/o a 5-position substituent to mask that polarity of the phenol, of serotonin analogs bearing a tert.amine based sidechain at the indolic 3-position. Big, complex, multicyclic weird bugger and apparently, not to mention most unsurprisingly, it gave the folks who first synthesized it when doing research on its antiaddictive properties, and isolating it from the plants that produce it, a right bastard of a headache, metaphorically speaking. Just relieved it wasn't me who had to cook a bun like THAT monster in his oven, christ, someone else can take that task on, bollocks if I'd even try, if it were not for routes now being available other people have worked out and performed.
Other more 'ordinary' tryptamines bearing a simple n,n-dialkyl substitution pattern, with no alteration of the phenyl portion of the tryptamine backbone, most should have room for very, very cautious exploration, although there are those that would most assuredly not. And unlikely candidates also.
The likes of DMT, DET (no thanks, given what I've read about DET and 5-MeO-DET [MeO-standing in for a methyl ether] the combination sounds not worth bothering with in case of DET, and in the case of 5-methoxy-n,n-diethyltryptamine it sounds absolutely foul), DPT [dipropyl], DiPT [n,n-disopropyl]. DBT is quite possibly inactive. * little clandestine chemist bit of doggerel humor..apologies.:P 'methyl is magic, ethyl's awful, propyl is hopeful but butyl is futile.''
And I guess one could add that the next longer carbon chain, whilst close, is nevertheless amyl-off.
*ducks to avoid the odd thrown coin, pebble, half-finished pint, etc. likely to come soaring through the air at that little improv. standup routine :P *
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The 5-substituted tryptamines though, like 5-methoxy-DMT (aka 5-MeO-DMT as its commonly known) HAVE been combined, CAREFULLY, with a competitive MAOI but its not advisable, unless one is very familiar with those kinds of drugs, and in particular, while its been done successfully, others have used more and had nasty reactions, enough to be a moderate contraindication, almost.
But it can be done. Only the competitive MAOIs though, something like phenelzine or tranyl' be a really fucking high level of both uncertainty and potential danger.
Even with a RIMA, I'd not fancy taking it up to more than a few milligrams (its a lot more potent by weight than is DMT to begin with, threshold maybe 0.5mg smoked, 5mg would be a hefty dose, and I've heard of more, 10 fr.ex. people tend to report that it was too intense to possibly carry so much sensory input going on at once that there is little memory of it and effectively 'white out', sort of like blacking out, but without any injury or loss of consciousness, but rather, a tsunami-force shockwave of a psychic impact that defiantly beggars any attempt to describe it without the person described TO, having already experienced the effects of it directly.
With the psychedelic phenethylamines, there has been various numbers of people who have tried various of them, at extremely low doses, exploring the posibilities of similar phenomena as is associated with the traditional ethnic use of DMT/MAOI containing plant species as complimentary pairs as the power, and the light, in composing ayahuasca brews [or as its called in brazil, daime, with an accent over the 'e', spelling-wise, or yage' which IIRC is one of the names for it around the amazon basin area generally [pronounced 'ya-h-ey' where the 'h' is not silent, but muted and half-pronounced, half breathed. And ayahuasca, pronounced 'eye-wass-ka' or sometimes 'aya-waska', not, as it looks 'I-ah-who-ask-her']
Most often, and probably most safely, amongst the phenethylamine psychs, mescaline. But others have tried the 2Cs sometimes here and there. If done AT ALL then with someone around that can assist or summon help if it had to be summoned. The psychedelic amphetamine counterparts to the 2Cs though, like any 'phet of any kind. No. Just. No.
Lysergamides, I don't know to be honest, I haven't actually looked it up. but to make a tentative, educated hypothesis based upon the known pharmacology of both a RIMA and of LSD, eht latter does have quite a lot of targets in the brain, inc. adrenoreceptors, beyond that, I can't be sure, but it suggests it may not be entirely safe. I don't know much at all concerning interactions between RIMAs and acids
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Yes. Yes I did. :tard:
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I did, second thing in the morning. First thing was a glass of water.
Now it is time to take some supplements and time to reward myself with coffee after that.
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Some.
Some pramipexole (mirapex, a dopamine agonist), tizanidine (muscle relaxer, related to clonidine), some clonidine itself. Gabapentin,
put on a couple of scopolamine transdermal patches, a few caps of oxycodone, a couple of cyclizine pills and some buscopan, for nausea as I threw up earlier and some chlormethiazole, couple of morphine shots. I rather fancy some more, but propionyl-H appeals more atm. There is another candidate molecule that I've been meaning to try. That being dibenzoyhatlmorphine. As well as the mixed 3,6-propionylbenzoyl morphine, and of course any route to to an asymmetric diester of morphine is going to result in a pair of positional isomers, 3-propionyl-6-benzoylmorphine, and 3-benzoyl-6-propionylmorphine. Both of which I have never tried, nor yet have I tried 3,6-dibenzoylmorphine.
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Lestat - I'm having a bit of a struggle making The PR a bit more responsible. You know: taking the meds I leave out for her, combing her hair twice a day, wearing a bra when outside, eating, etc. Long story, but I am seeing some improvement, although slowly.
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Yes I did. Just opened my last batch of Strattera. I need to make an appointment. :apondering:
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Just taken night meds.
Lestat, thanks for that info about moclobemide. :plus:
It is one of the more interesting meds I have taken. About stimulants - did you mean I shouldn't take them?
I take:
Dexamphetamine
Benztropine
Lithium
Haloperidol
Moclobemide
And a calcium + vitamin D supplement.
Would appreciate your input on these if you have time.
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I did. Forgot the allergy meds, though.
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Yes I did, a bit late because it's one of my days off. 8)
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morning stuff accomplished though i am still tweaking the supplements.
working on the caffeine as we speak.
more people would be compliant with meds if the medication was apple pie, which i am having with the tea
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Not yet.
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Just did. The new L-Lysines are easier to swallow, perhaps better coated. :thumbup:
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Only had the antibiotics. Oh, and painkillers, but they are not part of the daily routine.
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I may take an ibuprofen soon, having middle-aged aches and pains. :nerdy:
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Most of them.
Didn't take all the daily dose of gabapentin, but I often don't, I tend to use it now and then when the neuropathic pain caused by the nerve damage down my leg left by a failed knee op flares up, its usually not intolerable, especially taking opiates for the fucked up knee/tendonitis and bilateral trochanteric bursitis, neuropathic pain doesn't respond well to standard painkillers but it isn't, to me from my knee op at leasrt
but it isn't utterly impervious to 100% of their effects, they just don't do very well at treating it. But if they are to be taken anyway, I may as well regard that relief as a free bonus, killing two birds with one stone.
Nor did I bother taking the proton pump inhibitor, or the transdermal and oral scopolamine, didn't take either. Nor the fexofenadone (ultralong duration nonsedating antihistamine)
And a bit shit really.o
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Nope, not yet.
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Wait....you got PRESCRIBED the speed, and moclobemide, by a dr? good god jumping bastardly shit christ on a stick, he needs to be taken out and shot,
This is a KNOWN and very dangerous combination, good fucking god. I'm at a loss for words, for once. The irreversible MAOI types are absolutely forbidden with stimulants, even dietary tyramine can cause a hypertensive crisis, cause strokes etc. (at least MAO-a inhibitors, selegiline and other MAO-b selective inhibitors of MAO-b are alright, but with care, given selegiline loses selectivity and crosses over to MAO-a inhibition above a certain quite large dose. Ironically, in the case of selegiline it PRODUCES methamphetamine as a metabolite)
RIMAs are a lot safer, and people HAVE taken uppers with them, but damn, its the sort of thing which needs to be carefully monitored as it can easily go wrong. definitely talk to your doc ren, it
could have been an oversight, it happens, Ive been handed a script for amoxicillin before, seconds after telling the doc responsible I'm severely allergic to beta-lactam antibiotics (a lactam is a cyclized amide), so docs can be monumentally stupid at times, they don't get a free pass on that that we don't get.
Out of curiosity, whats it like, moclobemide, subjectively. The only RIMAs I have taken are the beta-carbolines like harmaline and tetrahydroharmine. I'd be interested if ever I find a source, in trying it to block metabolic degredation of DMT. Taking a pill would sure beat drinking yage' those ayahuasca brew, god DAMN they taste horrendous, probably not the
worst thing I ever tasted, but it sure wasn't far off!
Just took a pramipexole and a couple of tizanidine. Will be taking some morphine in a little while, I'm just getting it ready by grinding it up, the contents of the caps need to soak in
the water for the shot for a while to make sure one gets as much goodness out of the XR matrix as practical w/o my doing a chemical extraction, which takes time, and requires
evaporating off solvents etc before one gets the goods. I'm not waiting that long and I CBF making the effort to do so. I just want do do my shot and get back to the x-com, TFTD
game running on my pc atm, and back to stuffing 7-packs of 'timeout' bars down me. I bought quite a few packs as they were on offer for £1 each
Bugger. I can't find a fresh needle tip, of the kind I'm used to, only a really really hair-fine 31 gauge, which I don't care for, as I find them difficult and devilish fiddly to use, they bend
far too easily, blunt after just one attempt to locate the vein, rather than being alright to adjust the position of it a bit first, and infuriatingly are SO fine, that on registering (when blood backwashes into the barrel, its how you know your ready, with the needle IN the vein rather than in skin or soft tissue, or one way anyhow, its easy to tell if experienced in doing it, just
from the level of resistance felt on gently pushing the plunger) that the blood can clot, blocking the point and rendering it useless, before you actually finish taking the shot, I mean
while its actually going in, can take long enough to block such a narrow exit. Fiddly and annoying at best, although they at least hurt less than the 28g I usually get.
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Why, yes. Yes I did. :M :angel:
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Oh, sweet, I won't have to use those old fine gauge needles after all, not yet anyway. They are in sealed strips so fine to use from a safety POV, I just don't like them much.
I just found a single unused 28g in my room. Thats better, now I need not suffer the fiddly, pain in the arse ring that is the 31g or 32 .
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Dang it.
I don't know, I really don't know.
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Mmmmmhhhmmm thats much better. My right hip has been subdued, and my pain just had its fangs pulled, and of course now I am most pleasantly relaxed, just like being wrapped in a warmed up duvet made out of feathers and cotton wool, with a very nicely glowing sensation.
And just as good, didn't need to try a second time to put it in, registered perfectly on the very first attempt. Might have made that dose of MS somewhat on the strong side though, because I'm really
having to scrap like a demon in order not to just fall asleep at the computer with my cigarette lit. Just as well I decided to forgo taking a heminevrin along with the MS, then I would absolutely have
fallen asleep. One slightly annoying thing though is that I'm having a fair bit of orthostatic hypotension, presumably due to the tizanidine and/or clonidine as both are effective at dropping blood
pressure, making my vision blank out and getting dizzy on standing up, I needed to bend double at the waist when going to draw up the shot of MS and oxy, before I could again see.
Alright lying flat though or propped up a bit in bed, which I am now. Time to get back to my terror from the deep game methinks, my squad has a terrorist attack by the alien enemy to
suppress, and before that, is currently engaged in wiping out an entire military base of the bastards. Been bloody tough but so far I've not lost a single soldier from my combat diver team. Although its been a long, drawn out bloody mess of a campaign, with the war nowhere NEARLY over, with whilst I haven't had anybody killed, thats not been by much of a margin, plenty near fatal encounters, some critical injuries that would have killed my troops but for the new, if basic armor my science teams developed and engineering works built to order for me, although its meager protection
from the disgustingly powerful ultrasound based sonic weapons the enemy uses, even their smallest sidearm more usually results in an instant kill shot, even to an armored diver, hell, their handguns
alone are powerful enough to cripple and take out heavy tanks, saying nothing of the rifles, or their big fucking great sonic cannons. The one saving grace the sonic weapons have is a complete lack
of an automatic or burst fire capability, one shot is usually quite enough though, and seldom ever, ever survived by an un-armored soldier, although very rarely a sonic pistol round will only inflict a crippling wound that would prove fatal, but not instantly, allowing the newly developed medical kits I now issue to my men (and women of course) to be used to heal an otherwise
deadly wound before it kills the aquanaut, or to restore morale, heal some health etc. shoot them full of painkillers, or to revive a stunned, unconscious one with a stimulant agent.
And the explosive ordinance the buggers use, is so far in excess of the beefiest HEs x-com troops have available without having to capture, retrieve and research the alien's tech its just insane fr.ex
the ultrasound pulse grenades they carry obliterate walls and level buildings, unlike your side's entry level basic high explosive/antipersonnel grenades (although x-com get more variety, different types, such as dye grenades (think smoke grenade, but usable under water to provide cover), proximity mines, that sense nearby movement (will go off if disturbed by your own men though so care is needed to remember where you just put them, good for boobytrapping doors etc. so when opened the mine goes off straight in the hostile's face :D), large, really heavy, although very powerful
explosive charges that can only be thrown a few feet at most, but are best set to time delay before detonating, and used not as a grenade, but a breaching charge for forcing sudden entry into buildings, blasting the sides of a downed alien flying submarine out, rather than going in by the front door, removing obstacles in the path of one's agents etc.
And their equivalent to the undersea-only usable x-com torpedo launchers, whilst it doesn't have any alternate ammunition unlike the diver-portable shoulder-fired torpedo launcher, which can fire
both a standard HE round, a bigger, heavier more powerful HE torpedo, or even white phosphorus incendiary tipped torpedoes . They work on a line of sight basis of course, while the alien heavy artillery has one type of round, but its a guided missile that can follow a set of programmable waypoints in its path to the target, even can be set to nip round the corner of something, fly up in the water, move over the obstruction, then made to go pop through a window or door, before unleashing a gigantic, enormously destructive blast that will kill even a soldier in the very heaviest of armor types, reduce battle tanks to scrap metal, or whole buildings to smoking, burning ruins, to say nothing of what happens if some little shit decides to pop one in the front door of your full troop transport, losing you the craft because there is nobody left alive to pilot it, or whats left of it, should I say:P because the thing is in effect, more akin to a man-portable guided tactical nuke.
The launcher however is more or less a dedicated weapon, big, heavy, takes up a lot of space if stowed away in the backpacks, and the ammunition, a single soldier usually can carry maybe 5-6 -7 rounds including one in the other hand, and a round loaded in the launcher (single shot only, no magazine so one needs to reload after each shot), and its really a two handed, dedicated weapon
best deployed, imo, as part of a two man fireteam, the second man carrying no launcher, only lots of spare rounds, a support weapon like a gauss rifle or heavy sonic cannon, or at a real pinch
maybe an autocannon loaded with high explosive or white phosphorus shells rather than the usual armor-piercing ammo for them, allowing one soldier to lay down a withering hail of high explosives
or phosphorus shells, whilst passing reloads to your first man packing the guided missile launcher, who only gets issued a gauss pistol, for a compact sidearm capable of auto/burst fire unlike all
sonics, or maybe a sonic pistol, and one spare mag for either, the support troop being issued both plenty spare ammunition, and no shortage of grenades. Sometimes though I'll assign a third man to the fire support/heavy weapons team with a more powerful automatic weapon, like a gauss rifle, who carries a few spare clips of HE and WP shells, reloads for the gauss weapons, as well as a pair of medical kits, a thermal tazer, basically something like a cattleprod, that works by freezing an enemy causing crippling hypothermia, useable at point blank range only, but requires no ammunition,
thats used for taking live aliens prisoner for interrogation, research and vivisection, so as to find out the kinds of missions undertaken by the enemy, what they were upto before being captured, flying sub designs and capabilities, depending on the role of the captured unit, medic, navigator/pilot, squad leaders, basic soldier goons, specialist terrorist species unit types deployed as the enemy
answer to x-com tanks, which the enemy do not possess at all, instead, having the likes of some really deadly hover/flight-capable drones, which pack a unique sonic weapon that looks capable of automatic fire, either that or the game just makes it look that way because of the insanely fast reaction time allowing the drones to fire repeated single aimed or snapped off shots in volleys
making it not a true automatic fire, but functionally the same thing. As well as the likes of an under water-only giant genetically-altered and surgically modified nautilus with a powerful and very
accurate sonic weapon, a giant jellyfish, although these can only attack at point blank range. Tough enough to kill, but not a particularly critical threat. Some big, heavy, bipedal monstrosity
basically a psionically controlled animal, dinosaur-esque, only with a gob full of razorsharp metallic teeth implanted, and a pair of huge sonic cannons strapped one either side of the body in a harness
They aren't common thankfully, because they are tough as as old boots, aggressive as blazes, able to unleash some pretty impressive destructive capacity, taking an awful lot of sustained, unrelenting and aggressive punishment before your men can manage to drop one for good. Pretty much a tank made out of teeth and meat really.
The worst of their terrorist specialist troop types though are what looks like a floating/hovering, flight-capable giant brain, with one eye, a parrot-like beak, and a cluster of venomous
tentacles used to paralyze your men with a sting driven up through their body into their spine and brain, reducing them to a zombified slave, which slowly shuffles around, taking swipes at your men
hitting hard enough, but not fast moving at all, and NOT the jammiest sandwich in a picnic. Nasty thing about them though is that once killed, or possibly, after a delay of several turns, your former
diver swells up until their body ruptures open, and skin is split, allowing the egg implanted at the same time as the diver gets reduced to a brain dead drooling version of a rabid dog to hatch
, releasing a brand new parasite, fully grown and ready to start slaughtering. Unless killed by incendiaries, or possibly by the use of overwhelming, indiscriminate force, not sure of that,
then it'll hatch and the new alien once it sheds the remains of your trooper can go on to do much the same, spreading like a disease as more and more are overtaken and infested.
Nasty little bastards and no mistake, vital to be made the highest priority anywhere they are present. Not just the best, but the ONLY policy to adopt is to exterminate them with extreme prejudice
ignoring other species even heavily armed, unless with those big fucking guided rocket launchers, they are destructive enough to need killing on sight because of the great power of the rounds
and HUGE blast radius (its bigger even than some of the smallest ships the aliens use!), any hostile sighted with a launcher needs to be shot dead immediately without giving them
the tiniest chance to react, or take a turn and loose off one of those things, as they are easily capable of wiping out an entire squad, including tanks, if in the area covered by the
detonation.
But the terrorist 'tentaculat' critters need just the same treatment to prevent an exponentially expansive infection that rapidly spreads through your squad, each zombified host killed resulting
in the birth of another tentaculat if not put down with a flame based weapon to inflict the fatal blow. Best policy being to get as many of your aquanauts as possible ready and spitting out a sustained barrage of shots until the bastard is very, very, very dead, from long range, not letting fingers leave triggers until they are aiming at a pile of goo and organ slop :P
My science teams are currently working round the clock to research their guided missile launcher and its ammunition in order to be able to sell off the old torpedo launchers and ammo, and take the
alien built disruptor pulse launcher weapon with them into the field instead, to give the buggers a taste of their own medicine.
Sooner the better too, because I'm busy fighting a base assault mission, and there have so far been several sighted and killed. What makes them so damn dangerous though
is that their venomous zombifying attack ignores armor completely, and a single wound is terminal, without the possibility of survival or of being treated. The only answer is to
put a bullet between your diver's eyes, preferably while they are still alive, if there is insufficient time and resources available to ensure killing the alien, if they have got close enough to attack, then its more expedient to murder your own men before they ARE attacked. Thankfully, there is an effective countermeasure against them, namely, using a tank to draw their 'fire' (melee capable only, they lack the means to make a ranged attack, thank all merry flying furry fuckdom!), as tanks cannot of course, be made into a zombie, and the creature actually doesn't do a great deal of damage
with its attacks, the danger is a special effect rather than simple wounding, game calculates it separately from damage inflicted, and the tanks heavy armors render them highly resistant, although
not impervious. So one can use the tanks to draw fire away from vulnerable troops, while the latter pound on the critter mercilessly.
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And we thought Sir Les was bad? Lestat can write for miles, and miles and miles.
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*starts to realise he'd begun to hum the tune by 'the who' to himself* :P
Don't get the first reference though.
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Couldn't tell you who sang it, just knew the chorus or whatever that line is in the song. glad you're musically smarter than I.
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Its by the who.
Although I don't rightly know what 'musically smarter than' might mean. Unless your talking about rap and pop music, in which case it would not be setting the bar very high at all, and you could manage 'musically smarter' with a cereal boxes free kiddie toy plastic whistle stuck up your tradesman's entrance combined with an epileptic fit on an inflatable bouncy castle. Or a cat with tourette's with its nackers slammed in a microwave oven door and wrapped in tinfoil, with maybe a prerecorded CD featuring forks scriiiiiiiitch-ed down a plate, windows having bricks put through them and an orchestral group making their noise by arranging terminally flatulent people, in size, height and body weight-ordered rows, from a preteen girl who is an anorexic and achondroplasic dwarf at one end of the scale, right through to a morbidly obese male affected by pituitary gigantism. Fed on nothing but refried beans, chilli and pickled eggs, the lot of them. And once thusly arranged, playing the finished 'instrument' by means of blows struck with a ball-peen hammer, to the fingers, toes, nose and genital areas, to record the variations in pitch, tone, note and amplitude found in the
resultant shrieks and howls.
Otherwise, I'm not so sure that musical taste can be 'smarter', or its inverse. as in the english tongue at least, the suffix '-er' added to a word tends to mean a quantitative scale exists, as opposed to solely qualitative.
As I said though, other than (c)rap, pop, or R&B. And anything involving noise emanating from justin biebrat or whatever the fuck his name is, unless originating from the impact of a motor vehicle at high speeds, or the crackling of flame coming from his being covered in diesel and torched like a kkklansman's kkkross, only made out of a whopping great big, oozing, fetid rectal tumour instead of wood.
The Who, though, are certainly music, or were, not all of them are still alive, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are, but john entwistle, the bassist died a bit less than 15 years ago, early 2000s, found dead in his bed by the stripper/fan chick he took to bed the previous night, after causing himself a fatal heart attack, courtesy of ODing on coke, while keith moon the drummer, accidentally took himself out with an overdose of chlormethiazole, which is pretty lethal stuff if its taken in overdose, my guess is that it would never, ever have seen the light of day had it been a modern invention on the part of big pharma R&D, because of the way the barbiturates almost all got almost entirely nixed, other than a very few for outpatient use, in certain niche cases, and so those who are very old, and have been taking the likes of seconal (secobarbital) and amytal (can't remember which one) from when they were in common use, before they were pushed out of favor in exchange for the far less toxic in OD, benzodiazepines, and the totally shite z-drugs like zopiclone, because it would just be unfair, not to mention pointless to expect the very geriatric patient who has been on the earlier drugs since the year shit on a plate, to be forced to change to a benzo, and or undergo harsh, harsh withdrawals and get off the sedatives altogether, if they are old enough to be close to the end of their natural lives anyway. Why make them suffer, is the logic, for no gain in health, and a very probable actual reduction in quality of life. So some didn't quite get canned. Oddly chlormethiazole, which is not by any sense of the word, new, didn't end up with my having to dig up antiquated and obscure as hell proprietary research data from the pharm companies ancient leftovers before finding out about it, or getting to make any and try it for myself. Because the dose response curve is every bit as steep, a few capsules or a bit more syrup than a solid recreational/sedative dose, can be the difference between enjoying yourself and/or reaping the benefits of its being used as medication, and between never waking up again.
And its very, very dangerous indeed, if taken with alcohol, in any but the tiniest quantities. Fr.ex. I've known of people turning green around the gills and barfing their insides halfway to china and back after being given it as a treatment for alcoholism detox, they made the mistake of smuggling in a few of those little shot bottles of spirit you find as a one single nip in a prepacked tiny bottle serving per go, and drinking two of them. Guy in question, an alcoholic, a seasoned (or should I say, rather, well pickled) piss pot who had to have inpatient detox, and it was enough to make him SO drunk that he ended up on the floor, incoherent and chucking his guts up until from the sound of it, there was lucky to be a STOMACH left, let alone the contents of one, on the inside of the poor bastard. Kinda makes one stop and blink, when two miniatures is enough to render a long-term alky SO heavily sloshed that they end up on the floor doing their best audition for a part in a straight-to-VHS, low-budget remake of 'the exorcist'
Keith moon had been given it by his doctor, weather for alcohol detox or something else I can't remember, but was found with 30-something plus capsules in his stomach, when they opened his corpse up, only something like 6 had opened and released their contents into his system, the rest of them hadn't yet broken open inside him, but it was enough to kill him, in combination with whatever else was in him. Although I don't think that much on their own, in the absence of other factors, would have done, I take that much of the stuff often enough
and its nowhere near the level of producing cause for any unease or alarm, nor any dangerous level of respiratory depression if any. So there were other things in play to take him out I'm sure of it, as I have enough experience with chlormethiazole myself to be reasonably qualified, so to speak, in guessing at least roughly what it would do at a given level, up to a point, of course, because I have no intention of trying to push it and see how far it can be pushed, without pushing back.
The song is called 'I can see for miles'
Listened to The Who LOADS during my youngest years, my old man had a lot on vinyl, grew up on their music, along with the likes of deep purple, steppenwolf, sabbath, metallica etc.
Thinking about it, its probably very little surprise that I have the tastes in music that I do, really, considering I got brought up on a diet of them, and other rock of that ilk [steppenwolf is more blues, but they can be considered in the same light, with respect to my listening and tastes as a little'un. In those days there probably WASN'T much if any doom/funeral metal, or black metal, industrial or the like, when everything was on vinyl records, or magnetic tape, for the really modern and with-it!
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Wait....you got PRESCRIBED the speed, and moclobemide, by a dr? good god jumping bastardly shit christ on a stick, he needs to be taken out and shot,
This is a KNOWN and very dangerous combination, good fucking god. I'm at a loss for words, for once. The irreversible MAOI types are absolutely forbidden with stimulants, even dietary tyramine can cause a hypertensive crisis, cause strokes etc. (at least MAO-a inhibitors, selegiline and other MAO-b selective inhibitors of MAO-b are alright, but with care, given selegiline loses selectivity and crosses over to MAO-a inhibition above a certain quite large dose. Ironically, in the case of selegiline it PRODUCES methamphetamine as a metabolite)
RIMAs are a lot safer, and people HAVE taken uppers with them, but damn, its the sort of thing which needs to be carefully monitored as it can easily go wrong. definitely talk to your doc ren, it
could have been an oversight, it happens, Ive been handed a script for amoxicillin before, seconds after telling the doc responsible I'm severely allergic to beta-lactam antibiotics (a lactam is a cyclized amide), so docs can be monumentally stupid at times, they don't get a free pass on that that we don't get.
Out of curiosity, whats it like, moclobemide, subjectively. The only RIMAs I have taken are the beta-carbolines like harmaline and tetrahydroharmine. I'd be interested if ever I find a source, in trying it to block metabolic degredation of DMT. Taking a pill would sure beat drinking yage' those ayahuasca brew, god DAMN they taste horrendous, probably not the
worst thing I ever tasted, but it sure wasn't far off!
Moclobemide is a lot like many other antidepressants I have tried. No side effects or anything else. Though I do think it helps my depression, as does lithium.
It will be a while before I see my psych. I see my GP once every 3 months for a blood pressure check. I haven't had any headaches which I know are a sign of high blood pressure.
My mum had something called malignant hypertension when she was in her late teens. Her diastolic was over 200. The doctors thought she would have a stroke. It was written about in medical journals. So glad that wasn't hereditary. Last month I had my blood pressure taken. 110/70. I think I am ok.
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In effect, the MAOIs can be effective alright, the old noncompetitive variety included, from what I've read they are indeed effective, the reason they get such little use, and held back in reserve for the easing of otherwise treatment resistant depression for those not helped by other more forgiving agents, is precisely, in the case of the noncompetitive, irreversible MAOIs, because they aren't forgiving.
Moclobemide is a lot safer, and generally play a LOT better with dietary tyramine and other pressors intaken via diet, although it doesn't strike me as particularly sensible to deliberately provoke things, if someone were to do so (I am not accusing you of this, mind you), but competitive ones of that nature are FAR safer, the older breed can easily send people to hospital, or worse, if the diet isn't stuck to faithfully, and taking stimulants or serotonergic agents would be more suicidal than just stupid, with the likes of phenelzine and co, they have taken out more than a few over the years.
the reversible MAOIs, are so much safer, and the likes of eating some cheese or cured meat isn't so likely to do harm, I've certainly never noticed anything by way of problems on any of the instances in which I've both eaten something problematic with an irreversible MAOI, and have taken harmaline/harmine /tetrahydroharmine in the course of ayahuasca, well, something functionally identical to a simple (native shamen use all kinds of funky admixtures, some known of, some not, by western science, even sometimes some hairy shit like the nightshade type plants that produce the likes of atropine, scopolamine, but I sure as shit don't fancy THAT!, and the brews are often unique to the one who prepares it, personal recipes basically, although with a common base of a source of dimethyltryptamine and a source of an MAOI to prevent its metabolic inactivation before it has chance to act at all, the DMT that is) although I found it far more pleasant to extract both the DMT, and the MAOI, in order to turn a liter, to several liters of AWFUL tasting slop into a couple of neat little piles of crystals that can go into a pair of gelcaps, one for the inhibitor, used first, and left to take effect for a while, then the second half once the first has served its purpose. Main reason being because aya brews taste about as appetizing as a cup of cold cat sick. Not that I have
ever tried to, or ever plan to either :P And its even WORSE if made with syrian rue rather than yage' and the smell of that kind of mixture is enough to make one's stomach and nasal passages ahem...forgive me...rue the day they were born.
About your mom...shit me, stroke? I'm surprised the docs didn't have to scrape her off the ceiling in several separate installments, after her head exploded!
The combination of even a RIMA, and amphetamine in any but the tiniest of doses would make me personally more than nervous, but if you have tried it, started using the two AND are known to now be stable on the regime that does reassure me somewhat. Although definitely keep a close eye out for any nasty effects, and still avoid more or less any serotonergic anything, including 5-HTP and tryptophan. That doesn't end up with 'headache', but in 'that was the most agonizing thing I had ever experienced, after collapsing on the floor, immobilized, hyperthermic and at risk of rhabdomyolysis if it had continued. That isn't from a textbook, thats from an actual report made to me, by the person it happened to. They honestly thought they were going to die that day, on the floor of their fucking bathroom. Not strictly speaking, to do with an MAOI, but just an interaction between something else, and an antidepressant, I can't remember for sure what they other drug was, not a recreational, the person doesn't have anything to do with them, never has, but they had been taking the combination for some time, and the reaction came out of the blue, without warning, which resulted in serotonin syndrome. NOT a pleasant way to die, at all. Just as well I didn't know at the time in some ways, because I was way too far away to render any help at all, and I would have worried MYSELF into a stroke, perhaps, almost; because the one it happened to was, and is, someone who's life, wellbeing, and who's happiness I all hold dearer even than my own.
The regular monitoring is definitely a good idea though. Not that you really much choice in that respect, if your taking Li, what with how close a therapeutic plasma level is to a toxic one. I haven't ever had any truck with it myself though, there is no reason to. At least, I haven't actually ingested it, I've used enough of the metal, and on the rare occasion, its compounds. Got a fair bit of the metal itself around here, and I always do my bit for the environment if batteries of that kind die on me, and as everyone is always told, I recycle. Although I figure that the exhortations towards being
'green' and recycling probably weren't meant to mean dissection under argon (lithium metal, unlike the other alkali metals from sodium on down, reacts with nitrogen, which is far cheaper and usually
perfectly fine for most inert gas requirements. Li on the other hand, reacts to form the superbase lithium nitride)
Got plenty uses I can think of for Li, in its elemental state, comes in very handy as a reducing agent, and for use as a 'getter' if pressure/vacuum is unimportant but the interior of a closed vessel needs ridding of oxygen, sticking some lithium foil or wire in there is very effective, as a sacrificial substrate for oxidation, being consumed, and irreversibly [that is, by natural causes or by chance, rather than by artifice] binds the very last traces, the same principle is used in electronic vacuum tubes and the like, such as vacuum valve tubes as were in common use before the invention of the
transistor, they use a reactive metal in the same way, although iirc its more often barium that gets used, deposited in vacuo as a thin film on the surface of the glass within the tube to trap O2 that would otherwise impair or break the tube.
Used to use the foil that can be torn from the insides of lithium batteries for igniting thermite, when I was still too young to have an internet connection with which to purchase magnesium ribbon, or much money to spend on my supplies, which obviously, means I had to look elsewhere, as everything still had to come from SOMEwhere, so I had to be resourceful and also to economize, and at that stage in my life, to get good at working round such bars set in the path of my extra-curricular education, and hence come up with solutions like that (not to mention, unusually practiced at gutting batteries of all flavours in double-quick time (one soon does, if the batteries in question start to get hotter and hotter the moment the contents are exposed to air, or if accidentally shorted between the layers, as the goods are in the form of a roll, so its quite easy to nip through them accidentally whilst cutting through the casings, or when fathers that attempt to do their offspring a favour by recycling some of their broken e-fag batteries, only to toss the core into the lap of those offspring when they have no idea its coming. Then it heats up fast. Very fast, and it FEELS even faster when it tries to ignite between your legs, and the only thing to prevent a fire close enough, was to dump it in petrol before it caught fire:P)
NOT the most reassuring thing I've ever done, that much is for sure, running hell for leather upstairs to the lab and dunking a smoking lump of reactive, flammable metal in a cup full of naptha, doing a passable impersonation of a one-balled (get your minds out of the gutter, I claimed that spot first!) juggler, made to practice with a wasp nest, making every effort to run at full speed whilst throwing the offending accidental incendiary from hand to hand. One way to keep fit I suppose, although I don't envision the 100-meter oh-fucking-shit flaming scrotum leg-it-athon being
accepted as an olympic sport any time soon ;)
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What did you take MAOIs for?
I also take haloperidol and I know you are not too keen on that one. :P
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Meds..sort of. Morning pramipexole, yes, buscopan, transdermal hyoscine patches needed changing. Gabapentin, yes , cyclizine, morphine, chlormethiazole, clonidine , yes, same goes for
tizanidine, took a few of the latter earlier to let me get some sleep, which is often made difficult and painful both due to the nerve damage left by my failed knee op, I presume that is the case anyway
of the constant spasm in my calf. That can sometimes get really sore, and make it impossible to sleep w/o help.
Took an ondansetron tablet for my stomach earlier after I had to rush to the bogs and barf, that helped a LOT, nausea completely gone. One of my docs FINALLY said they would see to my having a camera stuck down my throat which should really never have been the acid reflux that it.
I took it/them (I.e, the harmine, harmaline, and in the case of yage' vine, tetrahydroharmine, this last however, to the best of my knowledge is specific to using yage' (Banisteriopsis caapi) and that there isn't THH to be found within harmala alkaloids if the natural, botanical source is used.
Ayahusaca (pronounced 'eye-WAS-kah', is a traditional ethnic psychelic preparation is basically a cocktail of various plants, varies depending on who is making it, and why. The barest
fundamental bones of it however, are a source of the psychedelic DMT (n,n-dimethyltryptamine), this is, in contemporary use, most often, smoked by vaporising it with an indirect flame, then taking in, and holding as deeply as one is capable, for as long as one can. The result is incredibly rapid, within seconds, an astonishing capacity to produce the strangest effects, such as oddly consistent reports of 'entity contact' where interactability exists therewith, and they seem so realistic, as to have provoked the likes of rick strassman, PHD, into
studying it in volunteers, collecting reports of what they experienced (the book is called the spirit molecule, I have it, quite a good, if at times astounding, and almost always eerie strange. The effect is intense, yet short-lived, ten, fifteen, twenty minutes for the initial flash and loading into the proverbial 'nuclear cannon, aimed at, and shooting the psychonaut out, straight into the fucking maelstrom of psychedelic manifestation that DMT on its own produces.
MAO-a however metabolizes DMT so fast that you could, without an MAOI in effect, take a fistful and swallow it, chances are that MAO will mop it up so fast that it never sees the light of day, and never gets to act at all. Certainly this has been explored by some, in multiple gram doses, vaping bypasses MAO however allowing it take hold and produce its efffects.
The natives, brazil and the amazon basin area, who use it, and indeed it has become part of accepted spiritual religious practice under the Daime' movement, union de vegetal, and others, in brazil, somehow realized that combining the DMT source with an MAOI, although of course not using that terminology, allows it to be taken orally, in the form of their ayahuasca brews. This also alters the character qualitatively, as well as quantitatively. In all honesty, I could tell very little difference between DMT/MAOI, and a dose of oral psilocin or psilocybin.although taken from their plant hosts by means of chemistry to allow the parts to be taken in capsule form, avoiding drinking one of the foulest things known to human tongue. Cup of cold cat sick really doesn't do it justice, its just rank, and vile, with where taste and smell are concerned alone, absolutely nothing by way of so much as a single redeeming feature. Gross.
(psilocin and the phosphoryl ester of it, psilocybin, from magic mushrooms (not the Amanita type, fly agaric is as different from psilocybin, in effect and chemically, as shit is from sugar)
are chemically very very close indeed to DMT, its simply 4-hydroxy-DMT, that phenolic group appears to be sufficient to protect it from MAOa and permits oral use without anything else.)
The idea is to use the enzyme inhibitor to block the catabolism of DMT, so its orally active.
Haldol, not somthing I've taken, but the stuff I've read on it, and the brain imaging scans I've looked at are shocking, it produces a metabolite called HPP+, or thats how it ends up
as a pro-drug to the permanently charged species HPP+, iirc this is by MAO-b, possibly MAO-a however, can't remember. The salient detail is that its toxic, gets reduced to the charged
species once it enters the cells of the brain, and owing to the charge, it cannot, then, leave. The result is it more or less 'cooks' the dopaminergic neurons, in the striatum but particularly within the substantia nigra, the part responsible for hosting a population of DA-ergic neurons, this is the one responsible for dopaminergic control over movement, destroying it results
in an artificially induced parkinsons disease.
The original discovery of that kind of toxicity, was by a couple who were into opiates, synthed an analog of pethidine, a reverse ester of an already known prodine type opioid, only, they
did not know, that whilst their route WORKS, and produces the drug, it MUST be done, whilst maintaining the freezing cold temperature required for certain steps. The result, was not MPP but a methylated tetrahydropyridine results via dehydration and loss of a molecule of propionic anhydride. This too, gets into brain cells, metabolized to the charged tetrahydropyridinium cation, can't leave and instantly obliterates that critical population of dopaminergic neurons responsible for movement.
Poor bastards ended up going from healthy to instant onset of chemically-induced parkinson's of the utmost severity. Guy ended up' locked in', virtually paralyzed because of what the toxic byproduct did, he had it form because the couple wished to raise the temperature and thus accelerate the rxn and get their gear quicker. Treated initially with laevo-dopa/carbidopa as is done for ordinary cases of parkinson's, initially to some success but it stopped working for him, eventually, if I recall the case well enough, that he required a stem cell graft, or some kind of nerve tissue graft to that area of his ravaged brain. Not sure what became of his partner. Poor motherfucking bastards. Christ, it seems like he came within picometers of a fate truly worse than death, crippled, fully aware, yet unable to move.
If you want, ren, I can dig up the data on haloperidol to back my claim up, although the toxic byproduct is a known and accepted entity. As is the cerebral atrophy longterm use of haloperidol causes. The neuroleptics don't seem all THAT healthy to begin with, especially in the elderly, who's deaths are accelerated by neuroleptic agents, those with a dementia are expecially vulnerable to them. Haldol is a bad actor though out of the bunch, the charged toxic metabolite isn't found with the other antipsychotics, although I haven't ever looked up weather the other butyrophenone types share that trait with haloperidol itself.
It isn't so much not being keen on it, I have never TAKEN it, I am just astonished that something with quite so profound a mode of toxicity could be suffered to remain in clinical practice
when there are many, many other APs around of all stripes. The toxic effect is chronic, and does not heal naturally. Cumulative also considering the mode of action is essentially
cytotoxicity. Toxic drugs when there are no alternatives, last resort antibiotics for otherwise intractable infections, or the likes of the various cancer drugs, including, believe it or not, mustard 'gas' (they aren't gases, the sulfur mustards at least are liquids, I've never directly handled a nitrogen mustard though, not sure if solid or fluid). Or arsenic derivatives for the treatment of sleeping sickness (african trypanosomiasis, the disease spread by the bite of an infectious tsetse fly, and the cattle disease called nagana), the first treatments were arsenicals and toxic as hell, some more modern, less toxic ones are in use now, but arsenicals still do get used afaik, because the alternative, is death, after a slow and cruel neurological deterioration over the span, sometimes of many months or even years. The reason for use, as such, outweighs the factors against the arsenic compounds being given. Better side effects than being a corpse.
Surprisingly enough, a very common over the counter remedy, loperamide, aka immodium, does a similar thing, undergoing toxification in vivo to another nasty little charge-carrying brain-fryer, LPP+, but loperamide is a peripherally active drug only, it does actually cross the blood-brain barrier I believe, but is then immediately spat out by multi-drug efflux pumps as quickly as it arrives. Newborn piglets, lacking a developed BBB, are actually killed by loperamide. And it mustn't be used on infants either, although it isn't at all widely known.
While it would take an awful, awful lot, to actually put me off the pharm R&D side of my doings alchymical, that kind of thing is a salutary tale, that should make any, and every citizen biochemist type sit up and take note, so to speak, and convince those who don't, to do their preliminary research, and testing before anything new goes into a living human being (I do NOT do animal testing, btw, just to make sure nobody thinks I'd sink such barbarity. I'd sooner go without, than HAVE to test on animals. I quite simply, find the practice utterly abhorrent, animal welfare is something that I have zero tolerance of, and if I see it, you can damn well bet your life savings that I WILL act to intervene.)
But that aside, it sure as hell provides motivation to be thorough and exercise great care in what I choose to do.
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When I first started taking haloperidol, I found out what you mean by parkinsonism. Worst was the stop-start motion trouble I had when brushing my teeth. I went to my doctor and he prescribed benztropine (couldn't have propranolol as I am asthmatic). After the two weeks' worth of side effects from that wore away, I was fine and have been ever since. I take haloperidol for tics and it works well in stopping those.
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Yes I did. All set for another day of kicking ass! :pirate:
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Not all of them, only my chlormethiazole and pain meds, and my pramipexole, as well as took a few muscle relaxers earlier, because my hamstrings are not just tight and twanging, but tuned WAY beyond top 'E'
Only just had those though. and just BARELY managed to take my pain meds, I'd prepared those and drawn it up, then gone and knocked the then empty container to the ground, just seconds after taking what I needed out of it. Two seconds earlier and my pain meds wouldn't have done anything but go on the floor.
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I did. A bit late this morning but better late than not at all. I slept in.
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Yes. I sort of doubt their usefulness today. :-\
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Yes, and I can feel the need to add a Prilosec. :sick:
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No. Only a small dose of chlormethiazole, a bit of oxy enough to prevent any withdrawal effects, two muscle relaxers (4mg tizanidine each) and a couple of 25ug clonidine.
Needed to put some of a mixture I had a bit of, consisting of a mixture of lidocaine and benzocaine on my feet. I'm having a flare of pompholyx. Happened yesterday, and its flayed off a large patch of skin on both feet. Fuck. Its so painful to walk now, jesus. *shakes somewhat*, I'm in so much pain right now its ridiculous, it literally feels like I've poured acid all over the soles and sides of me feet, down my raw, bare flesh.
Not quite as painful as that happening CAN be, its happened by accident before, not like the brutal, screaming hairy bastard, shocking AGONY that resulted from for instance, getting really concentrate perchloric down the palm of one of my hands *>85% HClO4, which literally disintegrated my skin (I've seen non-flesh organics quite literally disintegrate, smoking, or burst into flames in some cases upon application of that strength of perchloric acid, its a stronger acid than both conc. sulfuric, or concentrated HNO3 (nitric acid) (acid) dissociation constants: [(pKa) −3, 1.99 for H2SO4, for HNO3, 1.4, and that of perchloric, HClO4 is -10!] (lower numbers for acid dissociation constants mean a stronger acid, dissociation constant (acid), PKa, being the measure of how ionized into a proton and the conjugate base of the acid, thus being a measure of how available that acid's protons are whilst in solution, ergo, as the proton is the medium of acidity [not the best way to word it IMO, BUT about as good as its about to get given I've had no sleep at all tonight :P] close enough anyway.
So obviously, at -10 that makes perchloric acid an awful lot stronger than concentrated sulfuric or nitric acids, and unlike sulfuric, unless both very strong H2SO4, and hot, it doesn't display the property of being an oxidizing acid, hot, concentrated H2SO4 is oxidizing but never like nitric, and certainly not like perchloric, which is, once it gets concentrated then it is a strong oxidizing agent as well as strong acid. And it needs careful handling because it can form explosive residues by reacting with organics making conc HClO4 of 80% plus, especially heated quite dangerous stuff, its got a particularly NASTY habit too, of if spilled on a wooden bench, of reacting with the wood to form shock, and friction-sensitive explosive derivatives of the wood itself; and if used in a fume hood, that hood needs to be rigorously cleaned internally, including the ductwork to make sure there isn't a potential build up of any surprises of a kablooeysome nature, preferably a dedicated hood, if this is possible for the users/owners of the hood, although its not absolutely mandatory given sufficient care is taken. But I can't manage that, so must make do with careful cleaning of anything used in the handling of HClO4, I just can't afford, and don't actually have the space to FIT a dedicated single purpose one. for space is at a premium, since I lost the good luck of having a whole garage, excluding all the clutter, still, I used to have so, so much more room, the kind where I, when still learning, didn't have to worry too much about, for instance, the exothermic flashboiling and subsequent vaporization of a portion of chloroacetone (around a shot-glass worth, I'd made at the time, and no, it isn't something one would drink haha, or allow IN a drinking vessel, actually, when that happened it sent me pelting out of that enclosed space at what was as much frantic dive, as it was bipedal locomotion, covering my face, holding breath, letting it out only to swear both virulently and profusely in a torrent of choking, spluttering, face, nose and eyes streaming, stinging profanity, of the sort that would make a marine drill sgt. stop and blush pink, because mono- di- and trichloroacetones are all three of 'em, powerful lachrymators. Actually they don't smell too bad, if one speaks purely of WHAT they smell like, rather than considering their actual effect upon mucous membranes, airways, eyes, nostrils and skin, the smell still retains much of the character of the acetone used to prepare chloroacetone] Not that nowadays I cannot laugh about it, because looking back, to see my teen self in my 'mind's eye', first building up to a rhinoesque charge towards the garage door, which when the garage existed still, before its conversion to a room downstairs for my mom because of her disability, and while I was actually in the middle of working inside, I'd always draw the door down low, but not fully closed, for ventilation and to permit my rapid egress all the same if ever it became essential to do so for safety reasons (like then, that chloroacetone was being made in a beaker improvised from a shot glass, before I was able afford and buy a set of the more sophisticated kit of the kind to which I've not only become accustomed to having, but have perhaps become a little spoilt, in that I only use the improvised containers like that when there is a good reason, such as working with something intensely corrosive and very aggressive, etc. or that would befoul my treasures with those kinds of crap that just doesn't like to come off again. Such as the time I was busy having a go at making some of my own sulfur monochloride and disulfur dichloride by passing hot chlorine gas through a tube into a container of sulfur, kept molten, that sort of thing. Because damn, really hot Cl2 is not kind to tubing other than glass (disposed of after one use, because it went from flexible and clear, to cracked, crumbling, powdery and whiteish-creamy colored, with hints of sulfur on the other end within hours, changing color faster still. The vessel for the sulfur I improvised from a large off-the-shelf meth pipe, with a borosilicate (all lab glass should be, other than if something specialised like a quartz tube is needed for things that need to pass UV light, etc., as borosilicate unlike soda lime glass has an excellent resistance to thermal shock, due to its low expansion coefficient) bulb about the size of a navel orange, I.e around the size of a clenched adult male human fist, but a bit bigger and rounder) that came with a long glass stem to attach the chlorine stream supply line from where it was being generated by the HCl(aq) being oxidized with a portion of the industrial-strength NaOCl I was lucky enough one time to find in a skip, a 5or 6 gallon drum of it, with the contents nearly or actually totally untouched. That was to be consigned by the owners of the skip (hirers, rather) to the tip, so I went, begging bowl in hand and did my best Oliver impression (please sir, can I have some MOOOREEE?' (well not quite literally with a begging bowl, I have nothing of the kind, but certainly went round and managed to beg myself the entire drum full, although I did have to carry it home myself, which I expected no less of course. Although fucking christ, a 5-6 gallon drum of water would be heavy enough, but with a very concentrated solution of heavy, industrial-strength chlorine bleach (although commercial bleach has lye in it, this is just strong, strong hypochlorite) deadlifting that into the air to my shoulder height and over my head onto my bent back , that was so heavy I had to stagger back home, and a journey that unencumbered would take a half hour or thereabouts ended up taking hours, with my stopping to rest every few hundred feet, probably panting and sweating like a plantation slave under the crack of the overseer's whip hand in the midday tropical heat:P Although of course I WAS taking my newfound bounty home with me, regardless of how sore my arms and back, or how long it took to heave and lug it there because it was something for ME, that I greatly desired once setting eyes on it, which of course is a good motivator if ever there is one.
That NaOCl drum has STILL not run out, got lots left even though its my primary source of chlorine gas when I need some.
But that meth pipe (not bought for meth smoking, I went and bought it specifically, because there was, and IS no damn chance I'm going to start torching one of my OWN flasks, full of sulfur, when it can set afterwards. I didn't bother cleaning it out, just belting it with a hammer afterwards to reclaim the block of solidified sulfur. Only to find it had obviously formed some amount of sulfur halides, just I wasn't able that time to produce enough, to distill off the SCl2 and S2Cl2 as they formed, and leaving the sulfur with some presumably dissolved in it, because it STANK something terrible, acrid, part HCl, partly SOx and I'm pretty sure I could smell hints of hydrogen sulfide, the horridly toxic stinky rotten egg gas (its something like hydrogen cyanide gas in anything but traces such as come off rotten eggs. Most dangerously though it also paralyzes the olfactory nerve after exposure ( temporarily, assuming it doesn't also go on to kill the person outright, or simply drop them dead with one breath of it) so it can lead people
to think the H2S has gone away now, all is well and fine, I can't smell a thi*glurk!....dead!*.... because it HADN'T gone, it just knocked out the ability of the person so tricked by it, to smell that foul rotten egg reek after all)
Only a little, nothing dangerous, one needs little to detect the stink, one hens egg gone off is quite enough :P, but it was trapped in the solid matrix of part-used sulfur and continually offgassing in tiny amounts with the hydrochloric fumes and sulfur dioxide etc., so I tossed the lot. The pipe from the head shop bought for the experiments proved just the thing, only worth a few pounds so like the globe inside of solidified sulfur it could just be consigned to the scrapheap, unlike had it been some of my treasured equipment. Thats where the buckets and tin cans come in, etc., those have their place still. But where I CAN, I'm definitely a bit spoiled now that way in that I expect to use some nice quality glass rather than jerry-rigging everything up.
But of course now I'm old enough to have both internet connection, paypal/bank card and income that is nobody's but my own, and don't rely on (or get, not that I'd turn my nose up at one) an allowance, which was far more difficult when younger, and anything I could lay my hands on was something like a lottery win, in the case of fine equipment, because even having money, if I hadn't my own net connection) then actually translating the cash in my wallet into physically being exchanged and the goods asked for was far harder if possible ever.
Definitely something I got used to, and fast, being able to pop online and watch the auctions. Hehe now thats always something good to happen. And should be being done soon. I want to buy some new condensers, still heads and claisen adaptors most, plus I still need a manifold to make use of the vacuum pump my dad bought me for a birthday present the other year. After thats done though I can rarely help myself and resist a bit of a spending spree on new glass, and I need some more consumable supplies of various kinds, especially to replace a lot that was stolen from me by some greedy bastard who half inched some of my stuff. (the thought of what must have happened when certain unlabelled, but very unpleasant if allowed to contact air or moisture, things were opened, hopefully right next to the iodine he stole from me, and the solvents and other valubles, aluminium dust...oh boy. *I* knew what was in that jar on my lab shelf with the triple lots of nested, sealed, clingfilm-wrapped containers in the sealed dessicant filled glass jar full of, like the nested vessels within, dried argon gas to prevent it reacting with the atmospheric moisture, and O2, so there was no label.
But very reactive, and pyrophoric hydride reducing agent in there will have burst into a torrent of flame,and an intense one at that, metal fires are no joke to put out either. Hopefully destroyed what he stole and hurt him badly. If that thief threw WATER on to put it out....damn am I glad not to be close by when he did so if he did the intuitive thing to put a fire out. That would have just turned the entire thing into one giant fireball. Preferably with his face in it.
So all those reagents need replacing, some of them very, very, VERY scarce, and for which I am lucky enough to be able to buy, and not have to make them from scratch every time, but for which I have but the one lone supplier I've cultivated, but I'd never even dare ask for, anywhere else. Even if I could find some. I'll be able to, but only because of that good relationship. Those, IMO,are worth their 'weight' (metaphorically speaking, for of course it is a weightless nonphysical concept, not a thing that has mass) in gold.
About to have my dopamine D1/D3 agonist for the RLS and just have taken my gabapentin.
Meds, took another dose of chlormethiazole a little bit ago, an extra one, but thats because I had been lying on the sofa, taking a nap, and woke in the beginnings of a myoclonic seizure, so ran upstairs to grab a heminevrin from the bottle and take it as quick as I could before anything really bad happened. One thing I like about that med, is its not only effective, but being liquid in gelcaps it begins to take effect very quickly after swallowing a dose, so it works well to terminate that kind of thing before it can become more than some bodily jerking and muscle twitches, before I can lose consciousness if it decides to go that way. Actually, whilst given its a potent sedative hypnotic, and one of the most abusable, or recreational if someone wants to use it for that, that are ever given to someone on an outpatient basis (I,e excluding the likes of short-duration barbiturates, propofol, etomidate and the like, used in hospital general anaesthesia don't count) I don't know if I can get it done, but I want to ask my docs for a small increase in dose (I haven't once, in years asked for a dose increase of it, never tolerance-induced escalation etc., in fact it forms very little, in me, as used. ) but I'd like at least one more capsule per day, as its short-medium duration acting, so can wear off if I sleep, by the time I wake. Meant to take one in the morning, one at night, but if I had a third, I could then time it evenly split and I think that one more would be quite enough, two would be convenient sometimes, but not always needful, I'll ask, but would happily enough settle for an extra single unit per day. Just for the reason of how long it acts for, making it really easy for it to wear off and leave me waking to the beginnings of a seizure.
Kinda easy to sleep in all the more on it too, considering that its very much like the barbiturates in effect, and in comparison, benzodiazepines just embarrass themselves if they were to try and look that effective :P Slewping pills, surprise surprise, if used as antiseizure meds too, have a tendency for people to SLEEP :P:P
Not that if I am refused any more, and I don't think, after quite a few years of stable twice-daily dosing, and with it being so effective, and my having almost zero side effects, asking for that motivation is unreasonable. But if they won't, it can be taken care of without difficulty:)
I don't want a huge pile, daily, just enough for a little top-up of plasma levels, to let me sleep as I will, without having to worry about keeping either the bottle, or a single cap within reach (although I rather keep them in the glass bottles, not put in a pocket, because chlormethiazole MELTS plastic, indeed its meant never to be dispensed from pharmacies in anything but glass, unless there is a reason they haven't GOT a bottle of that kind to give. I'd imagine its none too friendly on synthetic clothing fibers either, I can definitely picture it having a go if I stuck a dose in the pocket of something other than natural fiber clothes)
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two days in a row - a recent record.
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Good. And I'm surprised you don't write it down and keep a note with you, for selfreference to make sure you have taken everything you need. Aren't some or all your meds related to your haematopoietic squirrelyness?
Took most of mine for today, I.e, yesterday just gone now. Forgot my proton pump inhibitor though, bugger, just remembered so that I'll do now once I dump the empty chocolate muffin case that I just finished with)
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Yes I did, and I have made a medication appointment for next month. :thumbup:
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Haven't yet taken my night meds but will after I write this.
For some reason my dexamphetamine is now packaged differently - still in a bottle but it is a shorter and fatter one. It also comes sealed with a packet of desiccant (sp) inside.
It is weird to see this change after it being the same since 2004.
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Haven't yet taken my night meds but will after I write this.
For some reason my dexamphetamine is now packaged differently - still in a bottle but it is a shorter and fatter one. It also comes sealed with a packet of desiccant (sp) inside.
It is weird to see this change after it being the same since 2004.
You did spell "desiccant" correctly, I Googled. :2thumbsup:
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Haven't yet taken my night meds but will after I write this.
For some reason my dexamphetamine is now packaged differently - still in a bottle but it is a shorter and fatter one. It also comes sealed with a packet of desiccant (sp) inside.
It is weird to see this change after it being the same since 2004.
You did spell "desiccant" correctly, I Googled. :2thumbsup:
Yeah, wasn't sure if it was double s or double c. ;)
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To a reasonable degree. Skipped a dose of pramipexole (mirapex, dopamine agonist preferring D1 and D3), didn't bother with any gabapentin until just recently, when I took 10x300mg capsules), haven't taken any ondansetron because I have not needed to. Did have a few buscopan though to make sure I don't get any stomach cramps, haven't yet put on a fresh transdermal hyoscine patch though ,I will in a bit. Can't remember how many cyclizine I've had today. Not too fussed. had most of things, still need to take my PPI. Had an additional boost to my pain meds while I was out in town, well sort of. two bottles of codeine cough mixture. Because he had to get a lift home after seeing his social worker, and after doing some grub shopping, with a load of heavy, heavy bags (about 50 quid worth of steak, plus every pack of shiitake mushrooms in Tesco, and a load of packs of fresh passion fruit (although he's eaten a lot of them already, he's got through about 6 packs of them, at least, so far.
Lol...he REALLY has had an appetite today after getting back home. Why?
The leather jacket he bought from a charity store for kids with cognitive disabilities, and presumably autism as well, £4.50 for the coat. And it came with a funny little lump in the side of the pocket in a tiny, insignificant hole in the lining, just managed to get one of his pairs of artery clamps in there and fish it out. Thought it was a bit of muck at first, just generic muck, or a chocolate chip from the muffin he had brought to scarf down on the way to see the social worker, until he felt the texture. Put a lighter flame to it briefly and sniffed.
He'd know that spicy, aromatic, strangely pepper-like scent ANYWHERE. Hashish. And good hash at that. Lestats not had any for ages , its been so, so long, all he's had since has been either skunk or synthetics. Wasn't a huge quantity, a wee nugget of dark treacly brown heaven-sent, peppery, spicy, aromatic, wonderful manna. Been waiting after ringing the prearranged signal to his old man for my lift home, which should have taken perhaps 10 minutes at most. Loads of traffic, no feedback, so didn't know if I was even GETTING my lift home, and with all those bags. Ended up stuck standing around on my bloody well tod for at LEAST half an hour, maybe ttwice that, but best guess is about 3/4 hour, in the howling wind, belting it down with rain, getting absolutely piss wet through, and frozen to the bone, more or less just looking like an exhausted, REALLY fucked the hades off drowned rat, and feeling sorry for himself. Not his old man's fault, heavy traffic. But all the same, no fun at all. So on finally getting home, having myself an ice cold beer, a belt of morphine sulfate, a rollup and a bite to eat, that was nice. But shucking out of my clothes, wriggling into a nice warm robe, and then as going to hang up the new leather, and finding that little present from lady luck. That hit the spot alright! And pretty good stuff too. Not the best he's had, and not the finest in flavour, but nor was it poor. Presumably had been in there a while, so some of the terpenoids responsible for much of the bouquet in skunk/hash, being volatile, will have evaporated from the surface layer exposed to air over time.
One thing that DEFINITELY, definitely has not declined though, is the potency. Got taken quite by surprise actually. Kinda sneaks up on one. Thought it may not be so good at first hint of a toke from the bong, as he's gotten sort of used to synthetics, some of which have an action fast enough to cause unconsciousness in seconds, if enough be vaporized. and smoking proper, ordinary skunk in a bong hits fast usually. This lil fucker, positively set me ears ringing and head buzzing.
A real creeper, but long lasting, and strong as hell once it actually kicked in fully. So far, went through half a supermarket's worth of passion fruit, two pizzas, stacked one on top of the other, a tub of raspberry sorbet, a couple of 4-packs of, plus one more in his pocket from before when he set off to see his social worker, some jelly babies, and a load of the bag full of sour bubblegum bottle chews he got the other day. Plus beer of course. Beer is always good :D
And a nice warming mug of navy rum to round things all off :)
There's still room for more though. But for now, not actually hungry as such, could fit more chow down there but no pressing need to stuff myself stupid. Quite content to put my feet up, pack a mix and have a toke of my lil windfall. Seems to have been my lucky day today. 3 separate finds of money, the smallest of them a pound. Well four, technically, since there was a corroding old penny in a pocket of that leather coat, but that just went in the bin. Hash, thats welcome any time. Can't say as I've got the slightest hint of a use for a manky old 1p piece and an almost as mangy, secondhand hairband:P
Not the only find though, a lost shopping bag with, nowt in there, but an untouched, unopened, sealed pack of honey and lemon cough candies. Not the active kind of cough candy, but nice enough
sweets in and of themselves.
Had most of my meds today, now. Although I think I'll have a last dose of morphine before I go to bed, stay up for a while, play some of that videogame I've been trying to crack since '95 (its actually worth
playing that long, as a fan of the series, they are a bit of a cult classic, if that makes sense. Not all that widely known, but the series really has its fans. And theres endless replay value, since its open-ended, as far as the missions are randomly generated from a set of basic templates. So theres endless replay value. And I'm doing alright, holding my own at least, although things are getting rather..well escalating from a series of armed engagements into one hell of a pitched, bloody conflict. At least though, now, my troops have managed to remain alive through a combination of luck, and good tactics. Got it on a
much higher difficulty setting too than I've played it before at. But regardless, alive long enough for sufficient research into the enemy's tech that enough nigger-rigged reverse engineered developments, not to mention some of the humans own surprises, to be fully kitted out in heavy, heavy armor, fielding some hybrid tech-based hover-tanks that are proving such effective force multipliers that I only need send in a small team of men, to make room in the troop transport for a pair of said tanks, keeping a few on base, to deal with any unwelcome visitors. (Hasn't everybody at some point, wanted a fucking tank, to answer the front door when the jehovah's witnesses come 'a thumpin' their bibles and wanking their watchtower. Only to end up having their nose picked for them. With the barrel of a cannon :P
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Yes I did. Drinking my coffee to complete the process of mental preparation for the day! :coffee:
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Took night meds somewhat early.
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Had the leftovers from my last nights dose of morphine this morning, but not a huge amount. And have no rigs left so didn't shoot. Took a couple of buscopan and an ondansetron tablet for my stomach. Can't remember if I had my muscle relaxer, but I'm going to have a couple now anyhow, which is fine, as my leg is sore. as usual. Could do with a proper helping of pain meds too.Not in anywhere close to
as much pain as my hips and knee can dish out to me. But I don't wish to be either. Prevention is better than cure, as they say. Although permanent cure isn't looking as though its going to happen, soon or otherwise.
That hash I found in my new coat yesterday though has definitely eased my pain though, would have been nice if there was a bigger piece, but I'm never one to be ungrateful for a gift from providence.
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Yes, I did. They don't help as much as I would hope.
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Some. Chlormethiazole, pain, and stomach meds mainly. Although delayed taking the chlormethiazole for a long time, as I decided to finish off my bottle of navy rum, and down a few beers whilst playing videogames early morning last night, I'd already taken some pain meds so adding quite so unforgiving a respiratory depressant, which also has a specific, and pronounced potentiating effect upon alcohol
, taking very little of the stuff to turn even a rampaging alcoholic green around the gills and spewing uncontrollably (not me, this was a secondhand report from someone that witnessed it, but an alcoholic was watched drinking a pair of those tiny wee one-shot miniature spirit bottles, smuggled in with him, and after being put on chlormethiazole, the two shots were sufficient to fell the guy, in a twitching, tmoaning pool of vomit. Pretty impressive, well, pretty spectacular at any rate, perhaps impressive isn't quite the right word, but certainly spectacular from what I was told. Takes quite some doing I'd have thought, to permit a mere two individual shots, or a little over, they have a tiny bit more in them than one mouthful each. On its own, alcohol alone, that wouldn't have even made me tipsy when I was ten years old, I'd tasted spirits by then, although I was never a heavy drinker, and had no built-up resistance to it at all, I drank, occasionally, usually with friends, but never so frequently that
building a tolerance was possible. Not that I'd have wanted to. And two shots..christ, for that to fell an alcoholic, thats more than I'm chancing. Not to mention that same combination is what killed
keith moon, from The Who. Why by all accounts liked to get pretty messed up from what I hear, but still, another reason, as if I needed one, to have waited.
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Self-medicating as I write this.
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I've just read that Prilosec and other meds in the "proton pump inhibitor" category are being
linked to increased risks of kidney problems, osteoporosis and dementia. Fucking great. :thumbdn:
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I've just read that Prilosec and other meds in the "proton pump inhibitor" category are being
linked to ncreased risks of kidney problems, osteoporosis and dementia. Fucking great. :thumbdn:
yup.
Will changing your eating pattern help you?
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I've just read that Prilosec and other meds in the "proton pump inhibitor" category are being
linked to ncreased risks of kidney problems, osteoporosis and dementia. Fucking great. :thumbdn:
yup.
Will changing your eating pattern help you?
Absolutely, especially as I lose weight. All three of us siblings need to lose some weight and take these
risk factors more seriously, since we are all at higher risk of dementia, so I am going to lead by example! :arrr:
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Bloody hell, they are? You just can't win, can you?
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But I can.
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:2thumbsup:
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Bloody hell, they are? You just can't win, can you?
Yeah, it sucks. I took a Prilosec this afternoon anyway, just to laugh in the face of death. :death: :lol2:
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Just took 'em all, didn't even gag on the horse-pill-sized L-Lysine and multivitamin. :thumbup:
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I think so, but I'm going to recount them just to be sure. :-[
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I think so, but I'm going to recount them just to be sure. :-[
i wish that worked for me.
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I did. And I ordered a refill. Can pick it up, either Friday or Monday afternoon. So I was just in time. My pills will last me till Monday morning.
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I did. I need a refill on the hyper meds.
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Done. Applied good layer of sunscreen too.
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Yes I did. Refill appointment is next Wednesday. :thumbup:
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I did, yes.
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:2thumbsup:
What I need to remember is to make The PR's neurologist appointment.
ETA - made the appointment.
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Yes I did. Almost choked again on the damned L-Lysine horse pills! :sick:
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I did. That is, the spazz meds and the pain meds.
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:2thumbsup:
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Yes I did, still choking on those frickin horse pills! :zombiefuck:
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:2thumbsup:
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I'm in the process. Time to choke down the L-Lysine. :trollskull:
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Not yet.
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Time for the pretty lilac-colored multivitamin. :autism:
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No, I've run out of most of my scripts. Just waiting a couple of hours till the doc's opens to pick up my fresh rx. All i've taken are a few buscopan for my grumbling giblets, some tizanidine, a powerful muscle relaxer, working by blocking (nor)adrenaline release, swilling down the former fridge-full of beer, lager and stout/porter and listening to music. About to take some gabapentin too though. and if I've any left a pramipexole pill wouldn't go unappreciated right now (dopamine agonist, D3/D1 preferring, mainly D3 iirc but not too sure on the subtype selectivity other than a preference for D3 and lesser affinity for any of the dopamine D2 receptor isoforms (D2 is the primary DA receptor antagonized by the antipsychotic type drugs in addition to a fair few antinauseants, such as domperidone, and gastroprokinetic agents like metaclopramide, IIRC it functions as a dopaminergic autoreceptor, although that has never made much sense to me, since the antipsychotics are antagonists at D2, antagonizing an autoreceptor should result in the release of that system's neurotransmitter. Yohimbine for example, an antagonist at the alpha2 adrenergic autoreceptor induces noradrenaline release. So why the heck are drugs designed to lower DA transmission targeting the autoreceptor. Odd. I really don't get that. Thats like putting one's house key in one's door, only for it to demand not to have thatpointy metal thing stuck up its front hole in terms of wyrdness.
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Not yet, but I will.
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Taking them now. Medication appointment is on Wednesday. 8)
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I did. I should head out and get my refill. Pharmacy closes in 45 minutes.
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Not yet, but I will.
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Soon to take night meds. Will have to go to the chemist for haloperidol in the next few days.
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Soon to take night meds. Will have to go to the chemist for haloperidol in the next few days.
Walter White was a great chemist. An arrogant prick, but a great chemist. :heisenberg:
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Yes I did. Medication appointment is later today. So many years of meds. :orly:
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:2thumbsup:
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did not, on purpose. they were interacting with other stuff and making me sick. so having a little med vacation - just two days. taking adrenals and b-complex instead.
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* scratches Wolfie's neck *
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* scratches Wolfie's neck *
*growls softly actually in a non-hyper way*
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* scratches Wolfie's neck *
*growls softly actually in a non-hyper way*
* relaxes more, Hearing the best kind of growls *
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Yes I did. Picking up my refill this morning! :2thumbsup:
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Some, not others.
Skipped the cyclizine, buscopan, haven't applied a fresh transdermal scopolamine (hyoscine, its the same drug, also the same as in the oral drug buscopan, used for people with IBS mainly, but also for other sources of stomach cramps, both are hyoscine/scopolamine, the main difference being a much higher dose in the oral tablets, but its in the form of a butylbromide quaternary ammonium salt, so the molecule bears a permanent positive charge, and is unable to cross from the periphery into the CNS, never makes it through the blood-brain barrier, which allows higher doses to be used than if it wasn't a quat; Because its thusly, incapable, or the very very least, has a massively reduced potential to cause central antimuscarinic toxicity. Delirium, psychotic reactions, nightmare-trip nightshade poisoning type hallucinations, seizures etc.
Didn't take any ondansetron, macrogol (an inert polymer bulk-forming laxative I take on an as-felt-like-it basis because of the need to take regular and sizeable doses of opioids, they constipate given half a chance, so I drink a lot of fluid (beer, ideally, nice, cold, frosty, tasty ale is just the thing:D) and get the macrogol sachets added to my prescription, although I actually throw out far more than I ever use them, but if I've had to take heavy levels of analgesics, or alternatively, either chosen to take more than usual of my morphine/oxy, have been working on anything a bit more unusual, or when the season is right to make harvest of the annual poppy pods-and-straw crop and have some propionylated, de-codeine-ified* pantopon** (codeine can cause possibly fatal pulmonary oedema if its given by the intravenous route, so it MUST be stripped from any, all, and every injectable product that has as its origin, the opium poppy plant)
**Basically, this is opium, after having been subjected to the extractions and crystallizations requisite to remove all plant matter, gums, waxes, chlorophyll and what have you, and refined to a white, crystalline powder. It is usually simply the natural ratio of alkaloids present within the plant, only purified and refined. The codeine removal however, thats not standard, but it is necessary to render the preparation suitable for intravenous dosing. There isn't a very high demand at all these days though, and pantopon is very seldom used in medicine now. Although some military morphine syrettes contain something similar, omnopon, a stripped-down version of pantopon (morphine mostly, around a quarter codeine, and some papaverine, for the most part, probably the trace stuff too, but I don't know for sure)
So once the codeine is stripped out, and then the product is reacted with a combination of either propionyl chloride and an organic amine base to suck up the hydrogen chloride that is emitted upon reaction of the acyl halide, doesn't particularly matter what base, it needs removing afterwards. Or, much easier, especially for anybody unskilled in o-chem, is the acylation reaction performed using propionic anhydride, that just needs cooking up, and any excess distilling off. Its the exact same procedure as for making heroin, the only difference being that acetic anhydride or acetyl chloride/base is used. Preferable to employ the anhydrides IMHO, because its a lot simpler, easier, the rxn rate is not quite so fast as using an acyl halide but theres no need to mop up HCl fumes, or clean out the amine base used as an acid-scrubber. As well as requiring fewer steps and less work to work up the final product into something sterile and suitable for actually taking a belt.
Dipropionylmorphine on its own I've tasted too, and I like it. Very pleasant, smooth and quite a lot longer acting than heroin, as well as being several times as potent, and its MUCH more potent than
morphine sulfate. Faster acting too due to the increased lipophilicity of the propionyl diester compared to (di)acetyl.
Pod tea, just a simple infusion made with hot water, and chopped poppy pods, stewed on the stove for a bit, perhaps with a squirt of lemon juice, a pinch of citric acid or any other suitable, biologically safe mild acid, vitamin C works well too (ascorbic acid, although some supplements are as ascorbate salts, and a few as ascorbate esters, these are no use for encouraging the plant tissue to solubilize and liberate the alkaloids into the tea.) lasts a lot longer too, oddly, than morphine/codeine or mixtures of the two, by mouth. Quite different too, being stimulatory, in a lovely perky kind of way, without actually overloading the CNS with adrenergic type stimulant effects, because the compound responsible, thebaine, is an antagonist at strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors, in large doses its a convulsant poison, just like strychnine. But smaller, nontoxic doses (there isn't a huge amount in Papaver somniferum, so pod tea doesn't just poison its drinkers, but it does very significantly change the character of the experience, and for the better IMO)
The main downside to the tea, is the smell. And the taste. Both are WAY beyond godawful. Truly, truly disgusting. Bitter, but that can be overcome, but the taste goes way beyond bitterness thanks to the hideous STENCH that it gives off. Jesus, it really is terrible. I prefer to wear my gas mask while brewing pod tea, not because its harmful, but just so the organic vapor filter cartridge currently in the mask can eliminate perception of that unholy putrescent reek. Smells like a..well theres nothing quite like it, but if someone were to visit the river Styx, go fishing, and pull up a sunken shopping trolley full of rotting hades-spawned fish corpses and the anoxic, rotten organic muck of a few thousand centuries........no, it wouldn't smell like that. The former could be used as air freshener, if suspended in a big cup of cold cat sick and stale, fermented piss.
So to say the least, its adviseable to dump in enough sugar while its still steaming and too hot to drink to create a supersaturated sugar solution, then tip it back from a bowl or other wide shallow vessel in one go, hold your nose, and have a sweet-sour tangy type drink ready, sitting right next to you, to grab when putting down the empty bowl of tea, and down, saving some to swill round the mouth, and gob back out again BEFORE you release the death-grip on your schnozzle :P
Vile, but the effects are worth it. And last almost all day. Not a day and night from morning to morning, thats expecting a bit much from one single dose of pod brew. But certainly from morning to maybe 10-11pm.
MUCH easier to take, however once prepared and turned into my little broad-spectrum isolate innovation, and given a spicing up with the same propionic anhydride, or the acyl halide/base procedure.
The result is a complex mixture, never analyzed it to determine precisely what the exact products are, but dipropionylmorphine is the main active, I have no idea how the individual minor alkaloids, papaverine, thebaine, noscapine, oripavine etc. would be/are changed by esterification/amide formation when the acylating agent reacts with the amino groups present throughout the alkaloid profile. If taken in isolation, that is, individually. No point my trying really. The codeineless but otherwise full-spectrum isolate, after one has finished with it works perfectly well as it is, without any further fucking-with.
Meds..otherwise. Not taken my gabapentin, gaviscon, most of the GI meds, only taken cimetidine out of the meds for my gizzards, which I take anyhow, even if I don't have the GI issues playing up then and there, both to stop it coming out to haunt me, and also because cimetidine blocks CYP-P450-3A4 and CYP-P450-2D6 (I LOVE springing that one on doctors, because I actually haven't met one yet, who knew about that little trick, to extend the half-life and boost the efficiency of a given dose of morphine without a corresponding increase of dose for the latter, helping people limit side effects and also gain greater stability of plasma levels, so they aren't up and down too much in the gaps between doses of morph. The most profound effect is exhibited with non-XR formulations, but it still does the same thing, just not quite to the same extent, IMO. Personal opinion there though, from bioassay. Not established gospel truth.)
It does seem that way though.
Lol, my own GP didn't know that trick, until I came into the surgery for an appointment with him whilst still taking the related anti-ulcer/anti-reflux/guts-ache drug ranitidine, which was developed from cimetidine with the intent of eliminating such enzyme inhibition. But I went in and requested that the med be changed, from ranitidine to cimeditine. They are usually thought of as functionally identical, bar some specialist non-GI uses of cimetidine, as its got some kind of immunomodulatory properties, although my oxford handbook of clinical immunology mentions this, and a few individual diseases have it as a possible adjunct treatment listed, it annoyingly doesn't clarify HOW these effects are manifested, either what they are or how they are made to happen.
So he kind of did a bit of a doubletake, asked me basically why on earth I'd even WANT to change from one to the other, because they are more or less the same. Then I told him what I intended to achieve
and explained the mode of action. Surprised him a fair bit, in a 'how the hell did you know that!?' sort of way (although he does know of my...hobbies, and knows that unless I actually request an explanation of how something is meant to work, I don't usually need one, by now. Knows the sorts of interests I have in chem, physics, botany/mycology and biotech, as well as pharmacology/creating interesting/unusual/novel psychoactives). Seemed pleased/grateful enough to be taught the cimetidine/morphine combination trick, and that it can potentially inactivate codeine, as its a pro-drug and inactive itself until metabolized, or nearly completely so if there technically is any MOR agonism at all, and if it doesn't, it will definitely impair the metabolism and slash the efficacy of the drug)
I did walk out with my repeat prescription for the cimetidine though, and have been using it ever since for my GI issues, reaping the additional benefit as a bonus.
Did take a couple of clonidine, and tizanidine (overload-prevention/amelioration and muscle relaxant respectively, although clonidine is most typically a blood pressure lowering drug, used for some heart conditions iirc, as well as sedation, counteracting side effects from stimulants amongst a couple of other uses. Presumably my choosing it to stop myself overloading sensory/adrenal-wise, the former of those uses is somewhat......niche. But it does work wonderfully for me, an absolute godsend its been, it really, really has, same with the similar tizanidine, these days, there are days I'd quite possibly find it very difficult to walk in a way not just due to hip/knee pain, but physically difficult to move the lower leg or stand on it due to my nerve injury, left behind by some unsuccessful surgery. Its functionally speaking, somewhat similar to how cerebral palsy sufferers experience muscle spasms, stiffness etc. Only the damage is at the level of the leg itself not spinal or supra-spinal in origin for me, so I have
not the full-body impairment that cerebral palsy results in.)
Doesn't stop it being difficult, though, a royal pain in the arse, and if unmedicated, agonizing.
I still need to take a dose of erythromycin for a mild, localized skin infection, nothing serious, just a bit of a red welt about a centimeter across, thats mildly sore if pressed and poked or knocked against something, as well as I have not, thus far, taken my morning capsule of chlormethiazole. So I am going to go and do that now, plus grind and start soaking some more of my XR morphine in sterile saline so I can come upstairs and have that later, nice and extracted and ready to rock and roll when I next need it. I don't now. I'm happily medicated, not nodding off or anything, but free of pain anywhere.
Haven't taken my proton pump inhibitor, and this reminds me actually I need to go to the docs surgery some time, because I wasn't given my dopamine agonist (pramipexole) when I filled my script for this week. (for RLS). It was ON the rx chits, but the pharmacy failed to give it to me. I'll give them a ring first, or pop round to the pharmacy and see if I can sort it there, but if not, then I'll go to the surgery itself and try to get a new one. Because I have searched all over, high and fucking low, and it just isn't there.
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Had to get a 5 minute appointment with my doctor to get a moclobemide script. I have never done that before, usually I keep track of my meds quite well. So, that and Breo (my asthma med).
Yet to take my night meds.
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Going to have to visit the surgery and try and get some emergency chlormethiazole doled out, only would need enough for today, tomorrow, sunday and possibly monday morning.
I have it. BUT, I have looked high and low, searched and searched and searched.
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Wow damn! THAT did not take long. With my docs surgery they open at 8am, although thats very new, formerly it was half 8. But the phone lines are ALWAYS jammed, within seconds of their opening and the ONLY way to get an appointment via phone is to ring, and if its not immediate in going through to the que, rather than just getting an engaged tone, is to hang up andbe 8 press redial, every time, hang up, dial hang up dial hang up dial...........
The only way to RELIABLY, be certain to get, an appointment there is to drag one's arse out of bed qnd get there by at THE LATEST, maybe ten minutes before the older opening time, which gives a good chance, or for certainty, get there 15-20 minutes beforehand and wait until the doors open to be in the very first couple of people through it. That way I can ensure an appointment with my favoured GP, the senior partner of the practice, there used to be one other guy who was just as well-educated, learned and shared in having, like my current favoured main GP, an absolutely excellent bedside manner
Might not necessarily comply with a given request if he thinks it wrong to do so, and upon being presented with literature detailing whatever, he won't ignore it just because he already came to a decision. Willing to examine such, and to change a decision like that when, or if there is indeed sufficient justification for doing so. Not arrogant like some doctors either (as in '*I*, not YOU! am the doctor here! I know better than you do, and I'm always right' is an attitude SOME, crappy doctors do have, but this guy, he talks WITH you, not AT you/TO you. And he isn't full of himself in a way that means he just won't alter a decision based on initial impressions, if then presented with good, solid logical medico-scientific evidence and justification. If its what is best for the patient, and he CAN do it, he DOES it.
Decent guy too, kindly. And he actually cares a lot for his patients. So did the other guy,but he left years ago, sadly suffering from severe depression. Real good man he was, I liked him as one of the two GPs there, including the other guy I always (try to) see now. But he IS difficult to get an appointment with him, as he is such a damn good doctor that EVERYBODY wants an appointment with him, thats one of the reasons appointments are taken so fast, within seconds to a minute of the lines opening and one must walk up there and make an appt in the flesh. A painful, pretty miserable prospect for me unless I have some pain relief to take, at least just a single dose, enough to cover the walk there and walk back (about ten minutes for most people, about a half hour or so for me) unless I can get on the bike and race it up there. But even then, still, its far more pleasant an undertaking to get there on the bike, and under the influence of sufficient analgesia to dull, at least, if not to eliminate it altogether (I would not ride a bike on a dose sufficient to yield that level of pain-freedom. It would be too dangerous. Well, I'd ride one off the roads and streets, out in the woods whilst out to scrag a few nice tasty wild fungal delicacies, but theres no traffic there, and few, few people. And if I did gouch out and take some free low-altitude flying lessons, the worst thats likely to happen is not injury, but falling off and taking a (literal) dirt nap. I.e, a nap, in dirt, not the terminal kind. Or at the absolute most serious outcome potentially possible, being stung by nettles or torn up a bit by bramble cane thorns.
Could be a lot worse. (Like the time as a kid, I wasn't so tall as the huge stands of bracken and male-fern; and taking a walk with a childhood friend, plenty of high-spirited highjinks
and fucking around. Took a running dive, like my friend did, and leapt into the bracken, manytimes until, not realizing, the target area we were going for, actually concealed a ditch full of stagnant water and nettles. Probably a lot of deer-shit too:P
And ended up right in over the top of my head, AFTER standing up, having made a headfirst leaping dive into those dense ferns haha.
Or the time bike riding in the same woods with my ex fiancee, both of us on y-butyrolactone, and as such, very drunken and incoordinated and wobbly. Drunk-driving a pushbike through the empty woods at night. Lol, fuck only knows how many times we went over, until getting off and walking home with the bikes, as our G-tarded state wasn't in the slightest inclined to permit us to get away with anything else and remain upright :P
But I won't take a full on dose of pain meds, either prescription, over the counter, or fresh from the skunk-works; and then continue on to ride the bike anywhere BUT those kinds of un-inhabited, trafficless, mostly people-less, or at least they are thinly enough spread that no matter how pasted one may be, one may still avoid them without effort at all. on a half to 1g of morphine, IV, that would be simply enough, suicidal.
(not that I actually sleep, maybe 7 to 8 nights out of any ten consecutive nights. I'm usually up and awake all night, for the vast majority of most days and nights.)
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The PR took her morning meds about 1 p.m. I just blew mine off.
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Wine is definitely a med! :wine: 8)
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Well I'll grant you that rockhound, sort-of. Although I am not a wine drinker, I cannot BEAR wine, neither the taste of it, nor the terrible stygian reek.
Beer on the other hand, or a nice dark rum, like captn. morgan's, or better still, midshipman's. Or failing that, if I just want to get drunk on the cheap, then vodka. Although I don't really drink heavily (actually given the massive potentiating effect of one of my meds on alcohol (think 2&2=not 4, but 22.) or something like that anyway, so drinking a relatively small quantity is much the equivalent of for instance drinking a pint of spirit; when in fact all thats been consumed was one of the smallest size bottles (excluding single shot miniatures), or the medium/half bottles.
(if it were not for taking chlormethiazole or if I've delayed taking it so as to be safe to have a few drinks, on the rare times I do so and its stronger than beer (which ends up being poured out of my lower half as fast as it can be poured into the upper one. The sheer volume of liquid precludes my being in danger due to interactions)
But definitely not wine. I've made the unfortunate mistake of trying red, white and champagne. Never tried rose, but I truly, truly do not ever plan to allow it to contaminate my nostrils with its likely stink
But beer, or some kinds of spirit and of liqueur, those I actually, do enjoy drinking. But my favorites are definitely beer/ale and for spirits, absinthe, as long as its not just nasty cheap inferior shit.
Best of all though is DEFINITELY
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No, not yet. I will.
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Yes, I did. Washed it down with lots of water, followed by some tea. Then made sure I did stay in an upright position for half an hour.
:P
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Antibiotics? one of the tetracyclines I'm guessing maybem or a macrolide. Guessing a tetracycline though. or possibly metro' ?
Trying to remember which one I've had that specified that. One definitely did..
I should be able to find the drug though by mentally listing the antibiotics I've ever taken within the past three years, and cross-referencing that list with the entries for each drug in my copy of the BNF (lol lifted that from hospital.
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Low dosage doxycycline. Why it works is still not completely clear, but it helps me with non bacterial inflammations. Could be that the non-bacterial inflammations are connected with bacterial population of the intestines. That's one of the explanations.
Only know that it works. Hope the effect will be there for a few years again, just like when I had them in 2013. Then I had them for four months. Think I'll have them for the full 6 months this time.
So the day starts with antibiotics and sunblock. And I hope not to forget supplements later in the day. I have a routine that I do not forget in the morning. But am not allowed to take them together.
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Heh, right on the mark. Bingo!
Doxy was my first thought actually, or failing that, a different tetracycline.
My body doesn't like the stuff much, I'm obviously not allergic, in the sense of an IgE response as I'd experience from penicillin, but my GI tract doesn't much care for tetracyclines, and both tetracycline itself
and doxy make me itch all over. Allergy, no, not like the IgE-mediated response and potential-to-likely anaphylaxis caused by my severe allergy to penicillins but certainly I'm intolerant of it and if I HAVE
to take it, have no choice to do otherwise, then I really do get made to feel utterly fucking miserable, and generally dope myself up heavily enough to knock me out cold, waking up to eat, piss, shit and take meds so I am not awake for more than a few minutes a day if I've GOT to take tetracyclines.
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I've had various reactions on different types of antibiotics. From big hives to upset intestines and getting covered with some candida patches. Doxycycline is one of the most easy antibiotics for my system to deal with.
Did not want it, but three years ago the agony was too big, and there was no other option. This time I was not even near the state of agony, but my eyes were getting in danger, so back to the doxycycline and hoping it will keep me relatively clean for another three years.
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Yes I did. Good thing I picked up my new batch, the old batch is gone now. :orly:
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I did. And I will add medicinal whisky.
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:2thumbsup: and I'm still tasting the turmeric
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:2thumbsup: and I'm still tasting the turmeric
Do you take that in a capsule, or by the spoonful? :orly:
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:2thumbsup: and I'm still tasting the turmeric
Do you take that in a capsule, or by the spoonful? :orly:
Capsule. In the morning with a meal and before I go to bed when I have my bedtime snack (usually a cup of cereal and milk) It's not so annoying if I take it before I start eating. If I take it afterwards I usually know I've taken it.
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:2thumbsup: and I'm still tasting the turmeric
Do you take that in a capsule, or by the spoonful? :orly:
Capsule. In the morning with a meal and before I go to bed when I have my bedtime snack (usually a cup of cereal and milk) It's not so annoying if I take it before I start eating. If I take it afterwards I usually know I've taken it.
Why do you take it? Maybe I should be taking it too. :nerd!:
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:2thumbsup: and I'm still tasting the turmeric
Do you take that in a capsule, or by the spoonful? :orly:
Capsule. In the morning with a meal and before I go to bed when I have my bedtime snack (usually a cup of cereal and milk) It's not so annoying if I take it before I start eating. If I take it afterwards I usually know I've taken it.
Why do you take it? Maybe I should be taking it too. :nerd!:
It's an anti-coagulant and an anti-inflammatory.
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:2thumbsup: and I'm still tasting the turmeric
Do you take that in a capsule, or by the spoonful? :orly:
Capsule. In the morning with a meal and before I go to bed when I have my bedtime snack (usually a cup of cereal and milk) It's not so annoying if I take it before I start eating. If I take it afterwards I usually know I've taken it.
Why do you take it? Maybe I should be taking it too. :nerd!:
It's an anti-coagulant and an anti-inflammatory.
I'll ask my doctor. I have a slightly high platelet count, maybe I could use an anti-coagulant. :orly:
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Well theres unlikely to be a great potential for curry-induced sudden death. Well I've had curries that made that somewhat dubious, but not quite what I mean :P
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Yes I did. Started the new batch of Strattera today. :thumbup:
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I did, yes. But I also need to pick up my new meds.
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Yes I did, with no choking incidents either. :autism:
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Yep!
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:2thumbsup:
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Yes ... ibuprofen, Prilosec, Strattera, L-Lysine, and a multivitamin. :autism:
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In about an hour I will take my afternoon dose of dexamphetamine.
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yes. Should apply sunblock now.
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Just did! Hoping my :coffee: will cure the headache I have.
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Yeah, I did.
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About to. Getting the evening pain meds ready while I cook my supper, just had the chlormethiazole, going to tahe my muscle relaxer as I actually eat to make sure it doesn't gang up w/ the other two meds and knock me out. Don't wantto burn my pizza.'
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Rebelled and missed mine. :thumbdn:
The PR had hers. :thumbup:
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What will happen to a people when her Queen starts a mutiny?
Took my antibiotics.
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All set for the day, unless I need an ibuprofen later. :P
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Yes, took mine.
Self-medicating now. :P
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Just self-medicated with a hot fudge sundae.
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^Mmm yum.
It was dexamphetamine, benztropine, lithium and moclobemide for me this morning.
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So far, so good.
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Your more than welcome to section me QV, if your going to forcibly medicate me with some of that^;)
Although I did just scarf down two family sized packs of frozen cadbury's icecream filled minirolls, got three left now, plus a few crumbs of chocolate....oops:P
They weren't for the family mind you, I did buy them for myself, with my own money, I just hadn't quite planned on eating two full packs at once almost.
Why the cogentin if your not taking that haldol shite? or is that just to have it kick in first *shudders involuntarily, making somewhat of a mental comparison to his experience on mirtazepine...just..ew:P*
Although in fairness I don't even take domperidone, which isn't meant to cross the BBB, I still get nasty reactions from even the weaker D2 antagonists like that, or promethazine (although it is a phenothiazine, and related as such to the first-generation APs) and with my GI issues, if it hospitalizes me I need to be fairly careful and check every time I get given anything I don't already know by sight to make damn sure I don't ever get given anything like prochlorperazine or trifluoroperazine etc for the vomiting. the medics don't like it, but one of the few REALLY effective antisickness meds I can take AND which work well are the 5HT3 antagonists, which typically means ondansetron. Lol the last script I got for that I worked out from the BNF list prices to have cost the NHS £70-something and that was for just 20 pills. They don't like giving me it because I'm not on chemo, but there ISN'T much else that can stop things getting way out of hand when I get the flares of my stomach troubles. Partly because I can't tolerate D2 antagonists at all, and I'm already ON pretty much every other available option so it and its relatives, pricey or not, are whats left, since diphenhydramine (and dimenhydrinate, by extension because thats just a prodrug of diphenhydramine and some xanthine stimulant, caffeine or theophylline iirc can't remember which so if you don't tolerate one you won't like the other, unless the intolerance is specifically the caffeine/xanthines rather than the antihistamine) it impairs my memory and cognition so severely it almost resembles the effects of a neuroleptic in other people and I absolutely LOATHE the stuff. Nytol doesn't help me sleep, it makes me feel like utter complete hammered shit. In a microwave.
Ive kinda been getting out of the habit of being all that great of taking many of mine, but I only sometimes need the 8-9 different stomach meds, and only use the corticosteroid gel or NSAID gel intermittently when the problems flare up anyway All I've taken today is the chlormethiazole, just enough morphine to let me rest and make my hips stop hurting, although could do with a bit more as my knee is still hurting, clonidine and tizanidine, more or less the bare minimum apart from a temp. antibiotic and of the stomach meds only cimetidine, for its alternate use. Unless you count hitting the odd bowl, this smoke be making lestat sleepy. back to fallout II methinks.
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Lestat - I take benztropine in the morning and haloperidol at night, 5mgs, not sure if that's a high dose or not. Helps get rid of the worst tics anyway.
Have also tried mirtazepine. All I did was sleep and eat, it did nothing for my depression. Probably made it worse if anything. I was only on it for a couple of months.
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5 of the haldol is fairly low, not so familiar with benztropine, I'd have to look it up. If you want to know, I'll look it up in the BNF.
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Good, I can haz all the hot fudge sundaes to myself.
:2thumbsup:
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I swished with warm salt water this evening to treat a minor infection. :2thumbsup:
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5 of the haldol is fairly low, not so familiar with benztropine, I'd have to look it up. If you want to know, I'll look it up in the BNF.
Ok, that would be interesting, thanks. When I started it the second time I had awful constipation and blurry vision. It lasted two weeks then I was fine. I take 2mgs every morning.
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Set for the day. Let the ass-kicking commence! :pirate:
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Me :thumbdn:
The PR :thumbup:
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I did. I am being very productive today.
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have a virus and a new/temp protocol so yes, did that.
no supplements until i figure out interactions with the virus stuff.
all else is good.
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The constipations due to the antisecretory effects of antimuscarinics The blurred vision is because they fuck with visual accomodation courtesy of mydriasis etc.
AND NO, I haven't. Got royally fucked because of the bank holiday and my dumb fuck doc surgery forgetting to sign the damnable things. Gonna have to go to the hospital to get a dr there to sign them after picking up ,goinng to set off so methinks. Because I've pretty much toasted that foil and chased that dragon so hard that dragons are going to end up on CITES endangered species lists.
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In the process. Also having my first cup of :coffee: in two days!
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Would if I HAD any, if I hadn't been shafted by stupidity and absentminded drs. Instead just feeling damn sorry for myself, or would have been. Instead, reduced to going out to fucking score on the street. Ugh. But damn it to tartarus if I am going to suffer for somebody else's failing. If it'd been my own fault, then fair enough, but I don't feel like I should have to endure ANYTHING whatsoever, because someone else forgets to sign my damn rx, and its a bank holiday making it impossible to do so.
Had to get a few emergency dose units of my antiseizure med last night, a pharm tech actually just fucked the rules off to make sure I had enough to safely carry out a synth of something close to it without seizing and breaking my equipment/exposing myself to toxic chemicals.
Much much later on,evening.....yes, yes I did. Not exactly but yes, I had two things to fulfill the role of analgesia. Met a person who arranged an appointment for me to be seen within moments by an.....analgesia specialist........who....did exactly that, provided what was required with neither fuss nor delay.:) I feel much better now, and the steds are bringing my inflamed face and feet down. Lol some random cunt in thee city center made sarky arsed remarks about my not needing the crutch I was using to provide some extra support, because I had gone from my impromptu...appointment with the good sir, with a spring in my step and twirled the crutch in one hand, spinning in between my fingers with a grin on my face. Crisis averted.
Felt better already then and I hadn't even HAD any of the proffered cure for what ails me then, only a bit of tincture of opium and chilli pepper oleoresin (beats the shite out of me, too why its made with OC in it. Can't be to denature it like methylated spirit is made w/ MeOH and pyridine to poison drinkers but render it way too abominably foul smelling for even a suicidal, blind alcoholic to put within their mouth, so it can be sold without tax, because the tincture of opium is MADE for human oral administration, its specifically intended for that route. But for something usually used for stomach upsets, putting chilli pepper extract in it makes sod all sense to me. Not that it bothers me because I'll quite happily slug back tabasco habanero sauce from the bottle and go back for another swig, could see some people, especially with stomach upsets being bothered by it though, although it isn't what I'd call fiery.)
That said, for all that my innards hate me, I seem to have an asbestos lining to my insides when it comes to fire sauce and my idea of good spices, taken from the wild, chillies, black pepper, szcechuan [sp???] pepper, piper longum, piper cubeba, peppery boletus and polygonum hydropiper [bistort relative that grows on riverbanks and in bogs/swamps, a herbaceous plant with fiery hot leaves and shoots], pink pepper, I like every one of those, I've got rather a 'thing' for adventurousness when it comes to spices and seasonings when I find time to cook, I like to explore. Like my use of fly agaric mushrooms, use as a traditional siberian intoxicant is well enough known and us warmer westerners occasionally venture into that, but I've never, ever even heard of anyone else trying that out, the only other person I've known to eat that mushroom in anything, is my dad, and thats only because I'm the one cooking the pot of chilli con carne and it goes in every one I make, I love it, he complained I'd 'ruin it all' doing that and adding the peppery boletus, but no, he's eaten it enough times and not seen my adding it and never bitched about the taste one iota. And never complained after he did know I always use them, assuming I have enough to add to a dish TO use, I can never find enough peppery boletes for the whole of the following year and next until the next fruiting season.
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Just had the antiseizure med. Not put any steroid on yet, but I've not long been home and I'm having a chase first (I'm out of rigs and anyhow I cannot vouch for its pedigree from poppy to central nervous system. Yes, I am a fussy, cosseted bastard in that respect. But why ever should I lower my admittedly overly particular standards? its my body, I decide what goes in to it, and what does not; and I decide that I do not shoot up what I cannot personally vouch for in terms of purity
Not as good as the free gift from the dude that looked out for me the other day, but much more of it :) Not that I mean that in an ungrateful way to the guy i met the other day. He gave me what was left of his own foil out of pure kindness and would take nothing in return. This was paid for, from someone else I just met who introduced me to his guy. Who, I must say was pretty decent, assuming he meant to give what he gave. I ASKED for three wraps. He dropped four into my waiting palm, two of them tightly twisted together. Didn't see so myself until I popped into a public loo for a quick smoke. Not complaining either, and to boot, the unasked for and unpaid for skag wrap no.4 had TWO rocks of the stuff in it, not just one!
For all yesterday was lousy, today, my cup runneth over. Popped one up my nose straight away, got home and then thought hey why the fuck have I still got three here, I KNOW I paid for three and I know I insufflated the entire thing to the last little grain, bar what stuck to the inside of my lil wee glass chasing/tooting tube. Sure as shit didn't get brought back one used by the goddamn tooth fairy and her magic cunting well wand!
Not that I'm going to file a complaint.What I'm GOING to do is lie down, stick on an album by obscure sphinx, crank it up, load fallout 2 on the laptop and make sure that naughty dragon doesn't get away no matter how hard he tries to run off;):D
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Took my morning 7 pills all at once.
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Erythromycin, some gabapentin, clonidine, and the last of the 4 wraps of smack from yesterday. There's enough condensed in my tooting pipe from the foil that I've been getting run after run, enough to blow a fairly satisfying vapor cloud back through the tube, other end pressed back against my foil to condense the leftover leftovers like using a cold-finger trap to say, condense sublimed elemental iodine.
Selfmedicating with hunks of chewy roast beef, heroin and bubblegum fizzy pop (delighted to find that, as it previously was marked 'limited edition' dissappeared from the shops for ages then reappeared without said markings). I think I'd like some hot sauce on that beef though. (wonders where CBC is....:D)
The meats a few days out of date but its been in the packets untouched in the fridge, and its only dated 21st. So its getting eaten, I'm fookin' ravenous.
Y'see, couldbe...I need hot sauce on my roast beef. And the roast beef, for the most part is inside me....so...hellothere...*raises the spock eyebrow*
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Erythromycin, some gabapentin, clonidine, and the last of the 4 wraps of smack from yesterday. There's enough condensed in my tooting pipe from the foil that I've been getting run after run, enough to blow a fairly satisfying vapor cloud back through the tube, other end pressed back against my foil to condense the leftover leftovers like using a cold-finger trap to say, condense sublimed elemental iodine.
Selfmedicating with hunks of chewy roast beef, heroin and bubblegum fizzy pop (delighted to find that, as it previously was marked 'limited edition' dissappeared from the shops for ages then reappeared without said markings). I think I'd like some hot sauce on that beef though. (wonders where CBC is....:D)
The meats a few days out of date but its been in the packets untouched in the fridge, and its only dated 21st. So its getting eaten, I'm fookin' ravenous.
Y'see, couldbe...I need hot sauce on my roast beef. And the roast beef, for the most part is inside me....so...hellothere...*raises the spock eyebrow*
Live long and prosper! :vulcan:
Did you find sauce? A guy I work with puts sriracha sauce on lots of things! :pirate:
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I meant you.
I had to make do with tabasco.
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I have taken all my meds for the day. :M :angel:
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I took mine.
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I may need to add a Prilosec to the mix. :orly:
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PR :thumbup:
QV :thumbdn:
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PR :thumbup:
QV :thumbdn:
*wobbles in :cbc: (http://img1.etsystatic.com/125/0/8414797/il_214x170.999519409_18bj.jpg) with the Royal Pillbox!*
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PR :thumbup:
QV :thumbdn:
*wobbles in :cbc: (http://img1.etsystatic.com/125/0/8414797/il_214x170.999519409_18bj.jpg) with the Royal Pillbox!*
What did you do with the Pillbox Jewels?
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PR :thumbup:
QV :thumbdn:
*wobbles in :cbc: (http://img1.etsystatic.com/125/0/8414797/il_214x170.999519409_18bj.jpg) with the Royal Pillbox!*
What did you do with the Pillbox Jewels?
I gave them their very own box for safekeeping! (http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/object/treasure-chest-smiley-emoticon-emoji.gif) :angel:
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Just did, a little late but not as late as yesterday! :thumbup:
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A little bit late for me too.
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Nice and early today. Back to work, I have to be on top of my game! :pirate:
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Yes. Self-medicating now.
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Me :thumbup:
The PR :thumbdn:
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Yes I did. Thanks for the reminder. :)
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Sort of. Some of them.
My chlormethiazole dropped off my bed and the caps went on the run for it. Found two of them, had none today though. If things get rough I'll clean up some of the deschloro analog that I prepared a while ago from vitamin B1 and use that. Its active, although not so potent. And it stinks something nasty, pretty awful sulfurous stench to it, but if I cannot find the meds that got away, that will do until tomorrow morning. tastes pretty shitty too, same as it smells, nasty and sulfurous.
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always. well almost always
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I added an ibuprofen for my left thumb, which feels sprained or something. :thumbdn:
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Yeah, I did.
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Just have night meds to go.
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All pilled up and ready for the day. :asthing:
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My everyday meds plus two lots of Neurofen to try and get rid of a headache.
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About to take the multivitamin, then I'll be done. Must pick up more Strattera today. 8)
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Started another asthma inhaler today. They only last 30 days which is a bugger.
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Started another asthma inhaler today. They only last 30 days which is a bugger.
Likewise my batches of Strattera. I'll be opening the new one on Tuesday. :orly:
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All set for the day, unless I need an ibuprofen or Prilosec later. :tard:
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:2thumbsup:
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Most of them. A couple of my chlormethiazole , because I dropped them, plus my oxy for today. So I relied on the deschloro-chlormethiazole that I made a while back from thiamine to prevent any trouble of a rebound or lowering seizure threshold nature, and picked up a bit of H in town. Was gonna go for a few drinks with my contact, but he was hungry instead, so I bought him some eats plus a wrap for himself for hooking me up, which I think fair enough. Brought him a few spare cyclizine tabs as well as a bit of a gift. I have enough to spare so he may as well benefit from them. Did go for a drink but he was more interested in food. Grabbed a quick double vodka in the pub that I was waiting near while he scored and brought it back for me. Decent enough guy, more or less insists I keep hold of his smartphone and other possessions as a gesture of mutual trust, while the business end of things is transacted. Picked up four fat 20s, although buying that much meant I only needed to pay for three which was nice.
Everything else, yes as normal. Had to walk quite a distance today, sore knees and hips, nearly went flying on my ass several times in town too, due to some stupidly slippery paving stones, covered in algae, council for the area needs to do something about that, in wet weather like todays, those fucking things are a death-trap.
I do feel nice and restored though now I've gotten home, stuck some music on and indulged in the goodies brought from town. Had a quick nip of vodka in the pub on the way home, just to keep the cold out of my bones, as the weather is kinda 'meh' today. Prefer it to being roasted in the shell like the past few days though, have had to have most of the house windows and the back and lounge rear doors open, I even opened the window to the laboratory yesterday, because I went in there to grab a bottle of 31% HCl solution, so as to prepare a very, very diluted solution in order to render some gear soluble for I.V
Most street H in the UK is freebase so its not soluble in water, and is distributed in smokable form, users that shoot have to make it up w/ dilute acid, usually citric or vitamin C (ascorbic acid), but on checking I found none of either on the shelves, so I needed to make it up with very diluted hydrochloric and back-titrate to almost neutral with sodium bicarbonate. Nothing wrong with that as long as the acid is pure and good grade, and as long as its not left acidic enough to damage veins. Fucking unnerving to watch the ml or so poured into the bottle cap fume like crazy while your doing it though (only a drop or two is needed, diluted heavily then a few drops added, one at a time to the water your cooking the brown in.
Hey QV, hows it going? and hows the PR?
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yes i did, and if you drank your daily coffee, so did you.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777290/
the dsm5 includes it as a condition for further study but stops short of calling caffeine an addiction (duh). 90% of adults in the U.S. use some form caffeine. the part i didn't know is that 85% of children in the U.S. consume as much caffeine (via soda) as adults.
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yes i did, and if you drank your daily coffee, so did you.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777290/
the dsm5 includes it as a condition for further study but stops short of calling caffeine an addiction (duh). 90% of adults in the U.S. use some form caffeine. the part i didn't know is that 85% of children in the U.S. consume as much caffeine (via soda) as adults.
I consider caffeine to be a partner to Strattera in my ADD management program! :coffee:
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No coffee for me today. Prefer opioids for my executive tendencies towards squirrellyness, not the best idea longterm just for that at least not with consecutive use, but since i'm on them eroinanyhow i'm content to take it as a side benefit.
Totally unlike me to use any stimulants, but had a bit of..*shudder* crack, earlier given me by a mate, who was with me while scoring some heroin, gave my mate some off one of my £50 bags and got given a piece of his crack rock in exchange. Not done it more than a handful of times, but wasn't going to look a free gift down after all, so crushed it up, and melted it down to a composite resiny kinda material in my glass pipe and vaporized it up with a bag of my H score, shot another two bags when I got in home, now just having a blast every now and then on the pipe/off foil or from a metal cigar tin lid. Going to finish off my glass of delicious mango vodka, and fire up the hotplates and see what needs doing in terms of...breaking worse, after i finish the mission i'm currently on in my video game, leading a rapid-response assault team, drawn from the world's special forces, to search the area in and around a hostile alien submarine that my interceptor craft just torpedoed, badly damaged, then called in another interceptor armed with short-range torpedoes and a heavy autocannon. Got an assault diver team deep down, using liquid breathing gear, and armed to the teeth, with everything from harpoon rifles to gas-powered high explosive/incendiary bolt throwers, heavy micro-torpedo-firing HE/IC autocannon, and even an aquanaut carrying a shoulder-launched portable torpedo launcher, backed up by a drone tank mounting a heavy armor-piercing bolt cannon and a guy carrying more rounds for the launcher, a stunner using thermal shock rather than electricity for sub-aqua use. Already captured an alien medic for interrogation and subsequent autopsy. Sneaky fucker made a run for it twice after waking up again, and legged it out the troop transport,but a lightly armed guard on duty to watch the fucker, packing only a stunner and a dart pistol plus two frag grenades gave chase, caught the bugger, who was defenseless of course being stripped of all weapons and kit and zapped the ornery lil shit back unconscious again, and again dragged the stunned alien medic back across the seabed to the troop transport. Going to finish clearing and sanitizing the area and then see what I can find to do.
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After Lestat, this boring post.
Fucked off the a.m. meds until about 2 p.m. No night meds tonight since the a.m. were taken so late.
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Have to pick mine up tomorrow AM. Would be nice if there's any smack left tomorrow. I definitely need to blow a replacement large sized pipe, this time from borosilicate glass, the bog standard glass vial i'd been using is slowly giving up the ghost, shard by shard, from all the repeated thermal shock it can take.. Still got my small , short, but very efficient one though and plenty melted-on residue on the dying one that can be salvaged. When I get up tomorrow, I'll need to get in the shed and use the brazing torch to blow a new pipe; one can make top notch oiler pipes using a borosilicate test tube, a guitar sting (thicker the better) and a good torch that gets hot enough to soften the glass, plus something to seal a bit of copper tubing on th end temporarily, for a blowpipe. Heat the closed end to softened state, wrap guitar string round about 1 1/2'' from the end and use it like a noose to narrow the end, blow steadily, slow and gentle down the tube using the blowpipe tubing, until a bubble forms in the semi-molten glass, then a little harder, or use a small heated nail in some pliers to puncture a small hole for air to pass when using the finished piece, the string is to put a bit of a stricture behind the chamber part, if using a nail to push inwards it works better than blowing a hole facing out because theres less of a sharp edge. Bigger holes of course are easier to load the pipe through but smaller ones make for a higher partial vacuum when pulling on it which lowers the boiling point of whatevers being vaporized and allows a lower heat to be used/fumes build up faster and with greater ease, making for less burning of material and far less waste.
*takes a long, lazy drag on his smaller boro glass pipe*
fucking christ.....damn the homeless mate of mine who hooked me up wasn't fucking joking when he warned me about the strength of this stuff compared to what I picked up yesterday.
We had to trek far for it but fucking worth the walk.
But what I PROBABLY needed was some fucking lithium...for my mood is..whats the word....ah yes...'squEEEEeeeE' fits rather well:autism:
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I did, yes.
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Me :thumbup:
The PR :thumbdn:
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I did take morning meds. Forgot lunch meds. About to take afternoon meds.
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So far so good.
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Yes, had painkiller too.
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Only night meds to go.
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Yes, had painkiller too.
Poor cow, what hurts you? :hug:
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Taking my supplements now, thanks to this thread. :thumbup:
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I did, yes. Feeling better now.
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:2thumbsup:
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Almost took more dex than I should have today.
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Yes I did. Trying to get myself together now for my dental appointment. :tard:
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Done.
Almost forgot.
Should apply sunscreen soon.
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Tonight, meds as normal.
Tomorrow morning, no lithium until after my blood test.
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assembling the protocol now.
meds are taken.
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Yes I did. This thread helps me to remember. 8)
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:2thumbsup:
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I did not. And it was on purpose. I was too nauseous in the morning. Intestines were behaving the way they should not.
Thought taking the medication was too risky. Saw no need to put my esophagus at risk.
Tomorrow I'll go back to the routine. Body seems to be back to normal.
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^That's good you are feeling better.
Have to go to the psychiatrist tomorrow to pick up a script for dex.
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neither I or The PR have taken our meds.
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I did.
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Went to the psych today. Apparently lithium is probably stopping me from losing weight. Not going to take another mood stabiliser though because I have tried them all. So I just have to live with it and try to stay fit and healthy.
Oh yeah, I took my meds.
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Yes I did. May need a Prilosec later after my breakfast of spaghetti and orange juice. :autism:
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I did, yes.
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:2thumbsup:
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APs might be causing weight gain ren, they are known for inducing hyperphagia, presumably because the magnitude of the otherwise rewarding cue is lesser, seeing as how DA is strongly implicated in drive. Although its more of an incentive salience thing, so it could be compensatory for frustrated reward. They are certainly well known appetite stimulants, or some of them are, particularly those with stronger anticholinergic side effects and the more sedating of the family, the typicals, quetiapine, olanzapine and the butyrophenones like haldol have somewhat of a reputation
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Yep, take haloperidol and lithium.
Did take Seroquel, quit it though when I realised I didn't need it for sleep. Didn't need it at all.
I ate a lot today because I was bored. That doesn't help. Only took my morning meds too. Well, it is Sunday, a rest day.
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All pilled up. I restocked the ibuprofen at work on Friday because I care. 8)
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I know ren. BTW, I did try to look up the doses etc for benztropine in 'my' copy of the BNF (well more precisely, the NHS's, but decided to liberate it from its captivity and rehome it, to a loving owner, after I was in hospital once and had been treated THOROUGHLY like utter shit. They deserved to compensate me for the suffering THEY forced upon me, that was not a product of the reason I went in to the hospital. But was directly and utterly due to their denying me my prescribed and most certainly requisite medication. They just told me 'we don't give more than 10mg morphine, 20 at most', for example, and didn't bother with any haste whatsoever, but took DAYS to give me even THAT. And to me, who has been taking pain meds, and the anticonvulsant chlormethiazole, which they do, definitely have available for dispensation when required to do so, because I know it for a fact they do, for several times I've been in and they have done this, not being in the least bothered by the needs of the patient, only by the absolute number of miligrams. Yet when LEAVING the place, after days to a week of solid unbearable agonising misery and suffering, leaving me, pretty much, to stew in my own juices and to rot, without the giving of so much as a fuck.
Yet leaving? given two STOCK bottles, not just a few days of the meds as I had requested, until I could contact my own doctor to obtain my meds as I SHOULD have had them, of the chlormethiazole. Not script sized portions for a patient, but the kind of big pharmacy dispensary supply bottles they dip into to dole out pills/capsules in the case of the chlormethiazole, to patients when they do decide to bother giving a shit. Hell the bastards didn't even bother feeding me for two-three sodding days, not so much as a single, miserable, miserly pissing bite, for days,when they already knew I had had nothing, because at the time I simply had not any money to buy anything, because my money had not yet been paid into my bank since the last lot. So I'd already gone hungry for two days, maybe a third, possibly even a fourth.
I mean..jesus thats just not on. They couldn't even call it drug seeking, or anything else, not that they did in the case of my known to be legitimately prescribed medications, they just couldn't be arsed to give me any food. Walked on right by me with trays of chow for people, and kept telling me some was on its way. Was it? no. It was not. Hours and hours of begging got me nothing. They all but tied a meal to a stick and waved it in front of my nose only to pull it away when I would reach. Not quite that, in the physical sense, but in every other sense they teased and tormented me with the promise of food and relief. But nothing came. And to someone with a tolerance equal to a minimum of 200-300mg of IV morphine and a maximum of about a gram and a half (thats about as much, the upper limit I would feel safe with as a single IV bolus dose, of morphine sulfate alone, not counting my other meds mind you, but with or without them, about 1.25-1.5 grams of MS is what I would consider the maximum I could safely accept without fear of coming to physiological harm, itching or histamine release causing wheals if extravasated to any degree not counted as harm, merely annoyance)
Ren, WHY the very devil do you use a butyrophenone, and haldol the most beastly toxic, in a physical sense (the metabolite HPP and HPP+ are mitochondrial toxins which ARE thoroughly KNOWN to cause irreversible neuronal death and destruction of dopaminergic neurons, and long term to result in frank cerebral atrophy, in lieu of ALL/ANY of the other APs?
It truly does utterly make me sick and if I am honest, ANGRY. Not, not at all with, at you ren, thats not where the anger is directed, but at the medical establishments, who continue to use this poisonous and dangerous old AP, or its close relatives. There are many of them, both typical and atypicals, even, for truly recalcitrant, treatment resistant, frank and full blown severest of schizophrenia, clozapine (highly effective in many of even these cases, but in the UK, patients must be mandatorily enrolled upon a named-patient basis to receive this last-resort AP drug, due to the danger, which must be explained to each patient, and they must also be made aware of the signs to look for, before it can be prescribed to them, due to clozapines capability to cause agranulocytosis, a blood disorder which can be fatal if it occurs)
It just does not make sense that this most dangerous of drugs is acceptable whatsoever. It isn't as if it is even anything special in the world of neuroleptics. Its got that tox issue, the severest of modes of toxic action, actual, irreversible cell death, which is not recoverable naturally, although brain tissue transplants have been done in cases of poisoning of certain people due to a botched synthesis of a batch of a pethidine analog, MPPP, resulting in the much more immediately, instantly and horrifyingly awful chemically induced parkinson's, after they shortcutted the synth, causing the MPPP intermediate in one stage of the reaction to overheat, ending up causing the expulsion of a molecule of propionic anhydride, and a dehydration to 1-methyl-2,3,4-tetrahydropyridine, that itself, is then once it gets into the brain, is uptaken via DAT (dopamine transporter) into dopaminergic neurons, particularly within the substantia nigra, of the nigro-striatal tract, this little bit of the brain contains most of the dopaminergic neurons of the type
that are responsible for inhibiting uncontrolled, unrequired motor activity, so the result, once this population of DAergic nerve cells uptakes this tetrahydropyridine, MAO-b then oxidizes it to the corresponding methylphenyltetrahydropyridinium cation, which is therefore charged, as an ionic species and cannot leave the cells it has been taken into, so they cannot expel the poison, which goes on to quite literally cook the substantia nigra. Fries the nerves, literally fries them. Cooked in their own brain-juice. Poor rotten fucking bastards, they didn't deserve THAT to happen to them, no matter WHAT anybody's opinion of recreational drug use is. They were not even, to my knowledge of this heartrending case, dealing it to others. There were two of them, a couple, guy and his girlfriend who liked opioids, searched the lit, and decided on this pethidine analog, and created a reverse ester variant, they just didn't KNOW about the byproduct, that was created when the temperature was permitted to rise above that which was needed. IIRC the reaction must be done at very cold temperatures, and kept cold during the esterification step with propionic anhydride. They had no idea about this dehydration, or what MPTP would do if it did get ingested.
Bang, instant parkinsons of such dreadful severity that they could barely twitch a muscle, paralysed and if they had not been seen, they would both have starved to death slowly, at least if dehydration did not supervene and kill them a little more quickly. But still, jesus fucking christ on a cunting paedophile's HIV-ridden kitten-microwaving bicycle! A slow, drawn out end of the most terrible and most shocking cruelty would have been theirs.
As it was, they were initially treated with the usual parkinsons type regimens, L-DOPA plus carbidopa (a peripheral dopamine decarboxylase inhibitor is needed to allow L-DOPA to pass into the brain where it may then exert its effect, if this isn't done then DA-decarboxylase will just turn L-DOPA into dopamine in the periphery before it can cross into the brain, and DA itself is just chewed up and gozzed out again by monoamineoxidases LONG before it could be of use, other than via injection in hospital settings as an emergency pressor drug in cases of hypotension severe enough to warrant pressors, as its very short acting, and has certain differences in clinical practice, with adrenaline.)
But as is wont to happen in parkinsonian patients, L-DOPA loses its efficacy with time. Other drugs were tried, I forget which now, but all to some eventual failure or other, and in the end, I don't know by memory what happened to the girlfriend but the guy was treated with brain surgery and a tissue graft. I seem to remember this did help him some, mercifully.
But to me, any drug which bears a similarity even if the acute toxicity is of a less potent nature, not milder, less potent. The mode of action is exactly the same, with the toxic haloperidol metabolite, it should be abandoned and thrown away to languish with the likes of many of the treatments in my old antique medical books, such as arsenic (with the exception of tryparsamide, an old, POSSIBLY still used, anti-trypanosomiasis agent, although superior drugs like pentamidine are now available and have been for quite some time, these were used to treat sleeping sickness, african trypanosomiasis, the deadly disease spread by the bite of the african tsetse fly. It was, or if still ever used, is, considered acceptable despite its nasty side effects, its toxicity, its being an arsenical compound, and the lengthy and painful mode of treatment, IIRC it was given by intraperitoneal injection, deep through the wall of the abdomen, in a series of shots, deposited into the abdominal cavity between the stomach and the outside of the body. Very painful and the drug required a lengthy and multiple shot regimen. I have, once, had to have an I.P injection, and it was most unpleasant. It was not anything to do however with either arsenic based drugs or to do with trypanosomiasis, it simply doesn't occur here, nor thankfully does the noxious tsetse. In my case IIRC it was something to do with blood clotting),
wolfsbane, treating teething children with mercury and chalk paste (known by the name grey mass), similar to the blue mass, and blue pill, both again mercurials, again,common as dog muck in those days.
Although I do not blame them in case of sleeping sickness, for if it is untreated, there is only one outcome. And it is a most final one, after a long, slow decline once the neurological phase begins, it may even be protracted over years, when the subject lapses into a coma, having first become insomniac, intractably insomniac via night and unrousably, sleeps during the rest of the time, becomes demented, and eventually wastes away and finally, the Reaper takes that which is his due. Most unpleasant. The similar disease called in africa 'nagana' which afflicts cattle, and in the duly named Tsetse-belt, that portion of africa where the Tsetse flies occur and carry oftimes the trypanosome responsible for the disease in both cattle, people, and africans.
is due to the same protozoan parasite. Or rather, parasites, Trypanosoma gambiense, and T.brucei, I forget which way round but one of the two takes a much more rapid course than the other. But both of them
Thought you worked in a fast food joint couldbe hun? or have you finally changed works, and got shot of that bell end boss? (or preferably got your bell end boss shot of course:P)
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yes.
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*waves to Lestat* :santa:
I used to have an evening job washing dishes in a burger restaurant.
I've had a day job for 28 years in a retirement home kitchen. :)
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hey baby *waves*
Been thinking about you actually today:) hoping to see you online and posting. I always look forward to your posts:)
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Ren, WHY the very devil do you use a butyrophenone, and haldol the most beastly toxic, in a physical sense (the metabolite HPP and HPP+ are mitochondrial toxins which ARE thoroughly KNOWN to cause irreversible neuronal death and destruction of dopaminergic neurons, and long term to result in frank cerebral atrophy, in lieu of ALL/ANY of the other APs?
Haloperidol is for tics. I have had tics since I was five but they weren't severe enough to be noticeable, that and I would go somewhere to be alone and tic to my heart's content and try and get it out of my system. I know I have never been able to sit still. The most recent one was a breathing tic where I would let my breath out bit by bit. That really got on my nerves and would sometimes make me feel dizzy for lack of air. So the haloperidol got raised to 5mgs daily and problem was solved.
When I first started haloperidol I did get a few Parkinson symptoms, mostly the shakes. I was offered propranolol but since I have asthma I can't take it. So benztropine it was. Apart from some horrible side effects at first, benztropine has been doing its job.
I did have a break from haloperidol - 2011ish to 2013 where I took ziprasidone instead. It worked well for me.
But it was found during a stay in hospital that my heartbeat was abnormal so the doctors took me off that and gave me haloperidol and benztropine again.
Speaking of hospital, what the hell kind of hospital did you go to, Lestat? I have never heard of patients being deprived of food before. Fair enough if you were fasting but even so. That's really rotten treatment. Try not to go there again!
Oh yeah, I took my meds today except for afternoon dex.
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Morning ones so far plus 2 Neurofen for a headache.
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Yes I have. All ready for work, just finising my coffee now. :coffee:
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There ye'are!
Fent is all over the place in europe so I am told. People dropping like flies when they shoot up expecting H and get fentanyl-laced H instead. Lucky for me, I'm a lot more careful on the occasions I do use H, than
most users, and pretty much 95-99% of street users and the homeless have the knowledge to be.
But couldn't stop myself flyin ying into my cheek with a right fuckin thump, landed right on me after first picking up some speed. Not me, I mean, I wasn't out to pick up no billy, I meant the bike.
was alright. Hurts, but nothing fractured that I know of, and nothing dislocated; as I've still the same range of movement that I had when I went out.
orphine anyway,but made the stuff IR and did about 360-410mgl and not by mouth. That did the trick alright, and I had a crafty pull or two on my H pipes, The ones with that
super-strong stuff leftover from my b/day.It was nor my fault either, but that fucking accursed bike, Not the first time that its done that to me either, fucking rat-bastard thing has almost gotten me killed before, when the brakes wouldn't work at all; neither front nor back and the chain slipped leaving me unable to respond and the stupid twuntmonger of a syphilitic whoreson's diseased, mushroom-riddled oozing vulva pitched me off into the rd where some cretinous inbred fuckmuppet of a driver
came way too close, rounding the corner at an absolutely INSANE speed, didn't signal or anything. the brainless fuckin cryptorchid cuntmongrel, came within nanoseconds of leaving me as meatpaste and that AFTER I'd thrown myself to the side .
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Just took 'em. Gearing up for the holiday weekend, which I will spend working! :pirate:
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Was hoping Lestat would respond to my post? Oh well.
Just have night meds to go.
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Was hoping Lestat would respond to my post? Oh well.
Just have night meds to go.
He may yet. Sometimes he replies to something of mine and I have to scroll back a page or two
to remind myself of what I said to him in the first place. That's why message boards > chatrooms. 8)
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He's perfectly capable of quoting, he just doesn't do it. :P
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My apologies. I've been almost totally offline until today. You require my services, Ren, m'ilady
Link me and I'll see what I can do. I've not been ignoring you/it, I simply have yet to be aware of what post is being referred
to.
*passes Ren the sheet of foil, lighter, plus a new section of glass tube. Whatever's the matter my dear? take a nice big toke on this and hold it in until you feel like your eyes are going to pop out of their sockets;
works even better if you exhale the gear through nose rather than mouth as that way theres more mucous membranes to absorb more vitamin H :autism:.
As for my meds, I took my chlormethiazole for the morning once I picked up my meds, same with my lynlor, had those and snorted the contents of a couple of those to have it absorb faster, as I always start feeling a bit shite the very early morning before I have to pick up prescription repeats and the last fumes in the tanks so to speak, have worn off. So a couple of ther oxy IR down the hatch, and three up the schnozz. That way I feel better in a minute or two and can use a lesser dose rather than have to wait 25 minutes to a half hour.
Took cimetidine, and am about to take a large dose of chocolate choc-chip muffins:autism:
smoked a bit of brown r
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Ren, WHY the very devil do you use a butyrophenone, and haldol the most beastly toxic, in a physical sense (the metabolite HPP and HPP+ are mitochondrial toxins which ARE thoroughly KNOWN to cause irreversible neuronal death and destruction of dopaminergic neurons, and long term to result in frank cerebral atrophy, in lieu of ALL/ANY of the other APs?
Haloperidol is for tics. I have had tics since I was five but they weren't severe enough to be noticeable, that and I would go somewhere to be alone and tic to my heart's content and try and get it out of my system. I know I have never been able to sit still. The most recent one was a breathing tic where I would let my breath out bit by bit. That really got on my nerves and would sometimes make me feel dizzy for lack of air. So the haloperidol got raised to 5mgs daily and problem was solved.
When I first started haloperidol I did get a few Parkinson symptoms, mostly the shakes. I was offered propranolol but since I have asthma I can't take it. So benztropine it was. Apart from some horrible side effects at first, benztropine has been doing its job.
I did have a break from haloperidol - 2011ish to 2013 where I took ziprasidone instead. It worked well for me.
But it was found during a stay in hospital that my heartbeat was abnormal so the doctors took me off that and gave me haloperidol and benztropine again.
Speaking of hospital, what the hell kind of hospital did you go to, Lestat? I have never heard of patients being deprived of food before. Fair enough if you were fasting but even so. That's really rotten treatment. Try not to go there again!
Oh yeah, I took my meds today except for afternoon dex.
Here it is, Lestat. Was just further up the page, heh.
Appreciate the virtual offer. H isn't something I have tried before.
Missed lunch dex because I forgot to take some with me when I went out. But just took afternoon dose.
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Hell no, it's not even 5 a.m. yet! Why am I even out of bed this early? :autism:
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Hell no, it's not even 5 a.m.m yet! Why am I even out of bed this early? :autism:
To do your laundry of course, without a neighbour being in your way. :autism:
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Taken all daytime doses as I should.
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Yes.
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Taken morning ones at midday - just after I got up.
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Hell no, it's not even 5 a.m.m yet! Why am I even out of bed this early? :autism:
To do your laundry of course, without a neighbour being in your way. :autism:
We are requested to wait till 8 a.m. to start laundry, and to finish it before 10 p.m. :thumbdn:
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I did take mine today.
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I took mine, yesterday morning. Will try not to forget taking them again, when I wake up later this day.
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idk
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I did.
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Just took afternoon dose and am hoping it will inspire me to do the dishes.
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yep
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All pilled up and I haven't done a fucking thing since. :P
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Yes, I did.
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All pilled up and I haven't fucked a damn thing since. :P
Fixed
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All pilled up and I haven't fucked a damn thing since. :P
Fixed
Well of course I haven't. I would have to be :wedding: first! :M :angel:
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ahhh, a good morning because stimulants at night mean good sleep and a clear head in the morning.
morning meds are started - mine include vit D by prescription, and some other things to keep the machine and its software running well.
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I did. I'm self-medicating now.
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Nope
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Due almost for afternoon meds.
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I took everything earlier. Now having an evening coffee. Bracing for restless legs tonight! :lemur:
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I'm on a roll. Two nopes in a row.
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I'm on a roll. Two nopes in a row.
*frantically wobbles in :cbc: with the Royal Pillbox and a cuppa*
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I'm on a roll. Two nopes in a row.
*frantically wobbles in :cbc: with the Royal Pillbox and a cuppa*
too late. Three days in a row. My doctor visit next week will be an awful lot of fun (not).
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Not yet. Thanks for the reminder, though.
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Damn it. I took them today. And The PR got hers.
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Damn it. I took them today. And The PR got hers.
A medicated Queen :respect: is a mighty Queen!
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Yes I did. Ready for my leisurely Saturday! :nicegear:
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The day is too young to take medication.
Will in about 8 hours.
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The day is too young to take medication.
Will in about 8 hours.
^This.
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Having to load up on cyclizine and ondansetron, buscopan today, since I've been busy chucking my insides, outside. Puking off a thundercunt of a hangover (absinthe packs one hell of a punch at 72% v/v but oh christ does it ever do a number on my insides, at least this trendy 'cocktail' version did, never had a problem with normal common or garden absinthe but this stuff was red, tasted terrible too. Puked so hard its made my throat close up, can't swallow)
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Having to load up on cyclizine and ondansetron, buscopan today, since I've been busy chucking my insides, outside. Puking off a thundercunt of a hangover (absinthe packs one hell of a punch at 72% v/v but oh christ does it ever do a number on my insides, at least this trendy 'cocktail' version did, never had a problem with normal common or garden absinthe but this stuff was red, tasted terrible too. Puked so hard its made my throat close up, can't swallow)
Better sleep sitting up, given the swelling. :-\
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Can't sleep. Pulling all nighter and going to tranq myself in the morning. Right now I look...sedately rabid if thats possible. Having to keep spitting in a bin because I just can't sleep and I can't swallow properly either. Can breathe just fine its just swallowing, and pain/swelling.
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Could you try sleeping with a thick towel under your face to absorb the saliva drooling from your mouth?
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I did take my doxycycline. Should apply sunscreen. Can't be bothered yet, because there is no sun in sight.
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Went without my afternoon meds. Too late to take them when I got home. Start a new benztropine bottle tomorrow.
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Yes, I took mine.
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yes
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I took all that I should so far. Night meds to go.
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Took mine. Need to give The PR hers
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Done.
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Yes and The PR also
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Yeah, I did.
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I did, yes. :)
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:2thumbsup:
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Most of them. Haven't needed to take the GI meds other than cimetidine, which I take not just for my guts and acid reflux but also for its cytochrome P450-3A4 inhibitor properties so as to allow my prescription morphine and oxy to act for longer and be more bioavailable.
Found a pharmacy today that carries both a tincture of opium cough mixture over the counter, although I bought none, because they also stock codeine syrup (600mg per bottle, I think the bottle capacity is 200 or 250ml, can't remember which.), so I bought a bottle of that instead. There are two kinds, both the same strength, but one is sugar free flavoured with vile synthetic orange, its disgusting tasting, whilst the other one tastes lovely, full of sugar though, and flavoured with a little chloroform. That I find most surprising as its somewhat hepatotoxic, indeed I was shocked to discover it in this day and age being in a medical product meant for ingestion.
Just drank the equivalent of half a gram of codeine about half an hour to 45 minutes ago, and am just beginning to start feel a lovely warm glow and getting all itchy. Took it with a shot of 60-70mg oxy. Mmmm....thats certainly done wonders for my cough. Its been driving me nuts, caused partly by acid reflux and my throat has been absolute murder all week, had to leave part of my sausages with last night's sausage, fried eggs chips and beans supper because it hurt too much to swallow.
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I took mine this morning, straight after breakfast. This is unlike yesterday morning when I completely forgot them. Went to college and couldn't work out why I was daydreaming so much when the teacher was talking. Then I realised. Had brought meds with me so took them in the break.
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Self-medicating in the hotel bar.
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Yes, I did. I picked up a new prescription refill monday morning, first thing early.
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yes
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Self-medicating in the hotel bar.
Lloyd will serve you as much as you like ... on the house. :fiveshots:
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Most of them, no haven't bothered yet. Most are either not time-critical or quite simply not assigned a set time at all and taken as and when the condition/response of my bodily status calls for them to be so.
However I have taken 12mg tizanidine-I think..could have been 8, but I think I've had three pills (4mg each)
Other than that, just a few gabapentin and two doses of morphine. Had one shot very early in the morning, just before to just around first light, followed by a second around 10-15 minutes ago. The first one made me fall asleep sat on the sofa for several hours, waking up a little before 12, with the laptop still on my lap and my e-cig in my hand still.
Took a couple of pramipexole tablets earlier (0.18mg, purpose-its a dopamine agonist, mainly selective for D3 and the D2Sh and DLh isoforms of the D2 dopamine receptor.
Plus another smaller dose of morphine before I just left to go and deposit some money in my bank.
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Self-medicating in the hotel bar.
Lloyd will serve you as much as you like ... on the house. :fiveshots:
(http://horror-romania.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/jack_torrance.jpg)
Here's to Lloyd.
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Yes, well sort of. Converted the last of my morphine to dipropionylmorphine. It works a ton better, increase in strength notwithstanding, and it doesn't wear off for an age, first dose (I've tried it before but not on a full scale) and at about 1am the night before yesterday, it was still going strong at 6pm yesterday!
From morphine itself I'd have gotten about 6 maybe 7 hours pain relief, if I was lucky.
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Shit. I forgot.
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I'm in the process. :M
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I did, yes.
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3 out of 4 doses so far. Only night meds left.
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I just did. Here I go, last day of the 13-day stretch of work! 8)
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Just took my oxy, gabapentin, clonidine, tizanidine, chlormethiazole and..errr...whats the other one....ah....tizanidine thats it. Didn't bother with GI meds, didn't need them today, and didn't bother taking any morphine either. Saving it for better things.
Edit-oh, forgot, had my pramipexole as well.
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Strattera is down the hatch! Now for my supplements! :arrr:
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Wondering if tics would come back with a vengeance if I stopped haloperidol. They probably would, so I'll keep taking it for now.
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I did, yes. :)
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yes
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Feel kind of bummed that I am probably taking dex with no effect. If I had my way about this, I would make an appointment with my psychiatrist straight away. But it costs over $300 to see him. I can't afford it.
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I did.
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I'd be inclined to try stopping the haldol. You may or may not wish to taper it, half the dose first maybe. But you are on such a small dose it really isn't worth it, and in any case if you got any problems you could just re-add a half dose, stay at it for a few days then cut it off totally, and see if after a little while off it you still get any tics.
Your shrink prescribe the haloperidol, the moclobemide and the phet? personally I have huge doubts about him and his level of competence.
And no, I haven't, yet. I am just taking my chlormethiazole then got to prepare some dipropionylmorphine and whip out the lab glass for a couple of projects I've got to attend to :heisenberg:
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You could always try Ren. Avoid doing it abruptly
Also, I just checked the BNF (British National Formulary, this is the comprehensive guide used in british medical practice, that covers prescribing laws and guidelines, entries for individual drugs, what they are for, excipients of importance, NHS trade price, interactions, formulations available etc.
I checked the entry for haloperidol and other butyrophenones and it mentions an interaction with Li. Possible risk of neurotoxicity plus increased risk of extrapyramidal symptoms.
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All pilled up for my ass-kicking Saturday! :arrr:
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Same, sort of.
I just got done with the chlorination of morphine to alpha-chloromorphide (where the 6-position -OH group is replaced by chlorine) using thionyl chloride.
Wikipedia cites it as 10x the potency of morphine itself. It does indeed seem quite strong. BUT it is VERY very very different from morphine or indeed any other opioid I have ever tried, including those that do their job via the classical morphine-like binding configuration and a few of the fentanyls (fentanyl itself, remifentanil, sufentanil, alfentanil and lofentanil) and whilst I waited for my pain meds to wear off so I could assess capability to reverse withdrawal and thus opioidergic activity at MOR1 (it does) it is more a stimulant, indeed feels almost amphetamine-like, tendency towards hyperfocus, appetite suppression, and concentration-wise, the same kind of tunnel-vision that speed does. I strongly suspect that it is a delta-opioid receptor agonist.
Very strange, and I am not at all convinced I'd like to take it at a higher dosage than I did.
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I'd be inclined to try stopping the haldol. You may or may not wish to taper it, half the dose first maybe. But you are on such a small dose it really isn't worth it, and in any case if you got any problems you could just re-add a half dose, stay at it for a few days then cut it off totally, and see if after a little while off it you still get any tics.
Your shrink prescribe the haloperidol, the moclobemide and the phet? personally I have huge doubts about him and his level of competence.
And no, I haven't, yet. I am just taking my chlormethiazole then got to prepare some dipropionylmorphine and whip out the lab glass for a couple of projects I've got to attend to :heisenberg:
When I spent 3 weeks in hospital in 2013 for depression, the doctors there prescribed what I am taking now. They collaborated with my psychiatrist I think though, because they even gave me dexamphetamine which is a very rare thing to happen in a public psych ward.
Since then I gave up the quetiapine that I was taking every night, it was to help me sleep I guess. I gained 30 kilos from taking it. Never will I take that stuff again.
I'm not sure about giving up the haloperidol. My tics got pretty bad when I gave it up before (this was years ago). The breathing tic was almost unbearable.
I see my GP next month so I will let him know of my predicament. Maybe he will get in contact with my psych and they can decide what I will try next.
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I'm surprised that they combined haloperidol and phet. A dopamine antagonist and a releaser/reuptake inhibitor...even with moclobemide (again a dangerous combination, as is lithium and haldol and other antipsychotics,
Haloperidol is NASTY shit ren, it causes some serious and most profound brain atrophy over time, as seen by MRI, The difference is shocking,
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I'm surprised that they combined haloperidol and phet. A dopamine antagonist and a releaser/reuptake inhibitor...even with moclobemide (again a dangerous combination, as is lithium and haldol and other antipsychotics,
Haloperidol is NASTY shit ren, it causes some serious and most profound brain atrophy over time, as seen by MRI, The difference is shocking,
Yep, I have become aware of that, seen some pics. I will come off it, but with doctors' advice.
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If I am quite honest I am most surprised, nay, shocked, and appalled that it is still in use. All the APs are somewhat iffy, but haldol is specifically toxic in a malignant kind of way, not merely nasty but actual poison IMO. It has a toxic metabolite, HPP that gets metabolised by MAO-b (sorry but the MAOI you take is specific to the type A isoform) to a charged metabolite, HPP+ once uptaken by DAT into dopaminergic neurones, and thence goes about killing them. Can't leave the cell because its charged, so it gets stuck there frying the neurones. Nasty shit. Loperamide, the antidiarrhea drug does something similar, only the nasty metabolite, LPP/LPP+ is restricted to the periphery because p-glycoprotein, a multi-drug efflux pump localized to the blood-brain barrier craps it out again as fast as it can enter. In infants or baby swine whos BBB has not developed yet, loperamide is pretty toxic.
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Not yet. I will.
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Not yet. Well, sort of.
Took a dose of what USED to be morphine, but that was turned into alpha-chloromorphide. Run out of chlormethiazole as I had to take an extra one the other day after having a seizure, and the myoclonus wouldn't stop, nor would the atonic 'drop attack' thing. Lucky I was on the sofa at the time, but I could barely move a muscle. EVENTUALLY managed to grab my bottle of chlormethiazole caps and take one, that brought me out of it pretty quick.
Lucky for me, I have some vitamin B1 pills, and I am currently working on turning those into more chlormethiazole to replace the one I used.,
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If I am quite honest I am most surprised, nay, shocked, and appalled that it is still in use. All the APs are somewhat iffy, but haldol is specifically toxic in a malignant kind of way, not merely nasty but actual poison IMO. It has a toxic metabolite, HPP that gets metabolised by MAO-b (sorry but the MAOI you take is specific to the type A isoform) to a charged metabolite, HPP+ once uptaken by DAT into dopaminergic neurones, and thence goes about killing them. Can't leave the cell because its charged, so it gets stuck there frying the neurones. Nasty shit. Loperamide, the antidiarrhea drug does something similar, only the nasty metabolite, LPP/LPP+ is restricted to the periphery because p-glycoprotein, a multi-drug efflux pump localized to the blood-brain barrier craps it out again as fast as it can enter. In infants or baby swine whos BBB has not developed yet, loperamide is pretty toxic.
Would you happen to know of a substitute for haloperidol?
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Well what kind of an neuroleptic effects profile are you wishing to achieve? there are many, many alternatives.
Sedating? activating? describe what your after and what your on (all of it, so I can check interactions) via PM if you wish privacy. I'll then check the BNF and crossreference interactions.
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Well, haloperidol is to ease tics. I'd like something else to do the same. Which means it will probably be seating. Are there activating antipsychotics? I take haloperidol, moclobemide and lithium at night and moclobemide, lithium (yeah they are split doses) dexamphetamine and benztropine in the morning.
Olanzapine, quetiapine and risperidone are a no-go. I don't want to get any fatter. I also can't have ziprasidone as I have heart trouble on that.
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Yes I was aware of the issues with geodon. Stuff has a black-box warning about long QT.
A good activating AP would be amisulpiride, its quite unique amongst the APs in that it has proglutamatergic effects via its GHB receptor agonism (yes, the same GHB as in, the stuff that is produced via base-mediated saponification and decyclization of gamma-butyrolactone) and is used under the name xyrem for narcolepsy. God, that was fucked up shit....used to do WAY too much of it back in the day, in my teens. Thinkng about that really brings back memories, of my very first synthesis in organic chem. It was GHB, for a very first o-chem project, thats what I chose, ring-opening of y-butyrolactone using caustic soda, to give GHB, its a simple mix in equimolar proportions, heat if needs be, and then evaporate on foil-lined baking trays (so as not to get the trays crusted with GHB and so as not to have to clean them much) and get product. Went like a charm first time, which helped boost my confidence that I could indeed get something done, and something I knew I could, even with at the time, minimal skills, teaching myself as I went on, succeed in doing. A positive result for a very, very first foray into organic work, well lets just say some encouragement and a success for the first time helps a lot in teaching someone they can succeed if effort is put in:)
Currently I'm busy working on making a batch of chlormethiazole, the anti-seizure drug I take (although its an off-label use, it bloody well works better than anything else I've ever tried), also a sedative-hypnotic, a barbiturate-site ligand and pretty effective in that too. Got the vitamin B1 filtering at the moment, then comes a chlorination with SOCl2, and subsequent cleavage to chlormethiazole using bisulfite or metabisulfite.
Thats the opposite way round to how its usually done, its usually cleavage first then chlorination with thionyl chloride, but this SHOULD I hope, simplify workup.
I'll look up APs in the BNF ren and see what comes up.
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Many thanks, Lestat, for your suggestion so far. :)
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I did.
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Damn it, no.
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Ren...also, btw, question? must it be an AP or would you try alternatives? none of those drugs are great for the brain and its tissue.
And do you know if there is any specific and definable biological, physiological cause of the tics? The more I know the better any chance of my being capable of assistance:)
What I'd be inclined most to do, is to try and drop the AP, without actually not collecting the scripts for it, that way everything is, and remains, at your discretion entirely, and not your doctor's choosing, that way he may not choose an outcome or method of reaching a given outcome that you are not prepared to tolerate.
If it doesn't work out, then re-add the stuff at whatever dose you originally started on, as long as it is not greater than what you are on now. Since you only take 5 mil, a very small dose compared to what might be used to turn schizophrenics from psychotics into vegetables or to incapacitate an acutely violent fruitbin in a psych ward when the crowd of burly men and/or skinhead women with voices that sound like a loud-hailer chewing powdered bullets and glass shards who make the butch-est bulldyke lesbians look like willowy, uber-feminine supermodel girls with an anorexia problem so severe they eat only once every other decade (:(:(:(:()***and (the straitjacket-bearers) who's one and only contribution to femininity is the lack of possession of a Y-chromosome and not being in fact not biological life at all but in fact, a disguised android controlled by algorithms in lieu of personality sensu stricto.
Then I am of the inclination to think that you could easily drop the haldol entirely at once, or if you don't feel comfortable, then half it for a few days first, and then do so, or even do it by knocking quarters off, taking a few days in between each time if you are extremely sensitive and feel through personal familiarity with how the noxious muc...errr...drug, sorry, ahem:P affects you personally. Likely as not though you should be able to do it with absolutely minimal side effects.
You may or may not wish to lower (in the short term only) the moclobemide, but it shouldn't be needed, but only in the case of dopaminergic rebound effects from the removal of the haloperidol that are perceived as unpleasant by you. BUT, only if it A-happens and is B-not pleasant. That said, it shouldn't make a difference much, because moclobemide is an inhibitor of the type A isoform of monoamine oxidase, and MAO-a metabolises primarily serotonin and noradrenaline, paying much less attention so to speak, to chewing up dopamine and spitting out the pieces whilst with MAO-b its mostly DA this isoform is interested in munching on.
As for my meds, just took some pantoprazole, a proton-pump inhibitor (decreases stomach acid secretion), along with pramipexole, a dopamine agonist, gabapentin-for neuropathic pain, which does not respond well to opioid painkillers, cimetidine-again for my guts, for acid reflux and I take it for a dual reason: I originally was scripted its close relative, ranitidine but had my doc change the rx to cimetidine, for unlike ranitidine, cimetidine is a reasonably strong substrate&inhibitor of hepatic cytochrome P450-3A4 and CYP-P450-2D6, enzymes that metabolize and destroy morphine and oxycodone, so the cimetidine enables a given dose of either painkiller to both hang around in the body longer, in greater quantities and in essence, work harder, more bang for the same buck. My GP was most surprised to hear me making that suggestion, because he had no idea about the existence of that little trick, he gave me a look of total surprise, and asked me why I was telling him to change from ranitidine to cimetidine, because generally speaking the two drugs are regarded as being functionally identical, and surprise turned to astonishment as I explained to him my reasoning for the change. That was kinda hilarious, but it was good that I was able to educate him and pass on some of my knowledge in a way that could be used to help other patients of his in the future.
He was like 'how on EARTH did you know THAT; *I* had no idea you could even DO that!!!; and then went on to first fill the prescription asked for, and then change my regular repeats so cimetidine would be on them in the future from then on and ranitidine would be replaced. It works nicely, actually, makes my morphine (and to a lesser extent, oxy) both last a fair bit longer and take considerably greater effect, cracking the whip and yelling 'get the fuck back to work, bitches, who said you could rest you pair of lazy maggots! *THWACK!*:D
Quite a funny appointment, and from then on, its definitely done the job, not only for my stomach, for which ranitidine worked, but to drive my painkillers like a pair of slaves in the poppy-plantation like an overseer with his whip.:autism:
And should I indulge in drinking and eating those perennial favourite treats of mine, tinned grapefruit segments in grapefruit juice, and cartons of grapefruit juice with the pulp and the bits left in the juice, those contain flavonoids, terpenoids and such that serve as not just an overseer and his whip, but an entire squad of particularly foul-tempered, brutally sadistic overseers with not just whips but electrified cattle-zapper shock prods, whipping zapping, shocking, jolting and tanning the backsides of the poppy-plantation slave-workers and giving mr.morphia and mr.oxy not a minute of rest, so that the plantation owner (me, in other words) can sit up on the porch of his cabin with his feet up on his soft, comfy leather sofa with a cold glass of ale and a smoke, and rest all day, aside from when he needs either drop a log, piss, put food in his mouth, hike through the woods, or of course, and this is when rest is as scarce a commodity as its ever going to get, head on into his pride-and-joy, namely, his lab in order to work upon whatsoever of his personal projects as the mood may take him in any given moment:autism:
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Thankfully, yes.
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Ren...also, btw, question? must it be an AP or would you try alternatives? none of those drugs are great for the brain and its tissue.
And do you know if there is any specific and definable biological, physiological cause of the tics? The more I know the better any chance of my being capable of assistance:)
What I'd be inclined most to do, is to try and drop the AP, without actually not collecting the scripts for it, that way everything is, and remains, at your discretion entirely, and not your doctor's choosing, that way he may not choose an outcome or method of reaching a given outcome that you are not prepared to tolerate.
Since I'm mainly looking for something to help tics, I am not that fussed about it being an antipsychotic. Though they are what is prescribed for tics. I have seen a few people on tv with pretty bad tics and wonder what they take - if anything - for them. They all have Tourettes though, I don't have that.
I don't know the cause of my tics. My first one was when I was 5. Squinting my eyes shut all the time. Since I had just had eye surgery, it was blamed on that. I was simply told off for others I had and I learnt to hide them.
I have had one where I tense all my neck, back and side muscles all the time. For years. That's what I first told my psychiatrist about because it kept me awake at night, really annoying. So I went on a low dose of haloperidol and it worked well. 3mg I think. Then in 2014 I got a breathing tic which stopped me from breathing out properly so the haloperidol was raised to 5mg. It worked. I haven't had that problem since then. This is the second time I've been on haloperidol. The first time I came off it was to try ziprasidone, which also worked. I ended up having a manic episode when I first went on that. It lasted 3 weeks. I had an awesome time. It was around Christmas and for the first time I enjoyed being around my family and going Christmas shopping. Then, mid-January I was back to being flat me again. Oh well.
I think I was on ziprasidone for 2 years. I was on quite a high dose of it. My psych didn't say anything about getting an ECG to check how my heart was doing on it. That happened in hospital and they were quite alarmed about it.
When I first came of haloperidol to go on ziprasidone, I felt sick for a week. Very unpleasant.
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About to.
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Yes I did. It's going to be a pleasant day at home. 8)
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I did, yes. I need to get a new prescription on the hyper meds.
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At the moment I am taking an antidepressant, by ear. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iteRKvRKFA
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I am not sure. I have so many days of pills missing from the pill box that I am just skating along, hoping things will stay good.
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Just took a cap of chlormethiazole, had a muscle relaxer earlier (zanaflex/tizanidine)
Plus some gabapentin, some pramipexole and a solid hit of 3,6-dipropionylmorphine.
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Slept in until it was too late to take meds except for dexamphetamine.
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Not yet. I will, tho.
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Thanks to :hyke: for reminding me!
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Too many damn seizures even today to deal with them effectively. And not in the best shape to DO anything about it by running a synthesis if its likely to happen in the meantime. Resorted to (ew ew ew ew ew even it if IS good vodka) alcohol (ew) to prevent it whilst producing an antiseizure agent.
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Yes most of them; a long and very refreshing nap took place and supervened my finishing swallowing the pills in my hand. Having taken my instant release oxycodone instantly additionally, chlormethiazole freebase acts very, very rapidly and is most efficacious its effects.
Just a quick dose of the IR oxycodone before leaving to buy grapefruit juice with the bitty pulp fragments left in it, so I'd not be left limping as much as the option of going without. Got back and not terribly long after, having loaded up on chow of various kinds, drinks, mainly my favourite, cartons of fresh, bitty-pulpy grapefruit juice, unsweetened, as I love its bitterness-tangy-ness with its mere afterthought of sweet, as a leftover of my childhood when times were spent at my grandma's up in the yorkshire moors, as one of her kindly set out table loaded with breakfast options to choose as freely as I wish from, so long as I didn't waste, the grapefruit segments and fresh grapefruits were always my favourites with just a pinch of sugar on the fruit halves as I gouged the segments out with a spoon/knife.
Got home with my shopping and drained a few cartons of the grapefruit juice to the last drop, a milkshake or two, took a muscle relaxer and slept perfectly, catching up on lots of sleep I'd kinda forgone, throwing myself into my ars, artes et in tempora longa consumptus laboratorium:P
Slept like a baby. And now just waking up, feeding the body, first with a quick bit of energy to wake me up, have a ciggy, and then prepare to go a-shopping for the good things that make a laboratory into a temple to the arts scientific:)
After, of course, labelling a vial with the formula for the product of last night's work, recrystallizing it from a little boiling methanol whilst watching family guy, american dad and bordertown, quickly dessicating it. Although a glass vial will have to be used, for the product is both fairly volatile, and like the end compound planned for this particular one, an intermediate, although not as much as the end product it cannot be stored in most plastics I should think. For it is iffy with some certainly, and the end compound is brutal on plastics, and dissolves them like say. benzene, tolly or xylene.
After however, a mug of chocolate fudge brownie milkshake I topped off with a big great spiralling blob of squirty cream from a can. Scrummy:D
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Yes I did, on time today, unlike yesterday. 8)
We're on page 420 of this thread. :stoned:
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Lol 4:20.
Know what that signifies, folks!:D
Not got any bud around here, but certainly I have some morphine, some heavyduty tranqs, muscle relaxers and could easily get myself some 2C-D (2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylphenethylamine, not to be confused with 2C-B, or 2C-C, which have either bromine or chlorine at the para-position in place of CH3 in the case of 2C-D)
Oh and a few decent sized shots of some decent vodka (russian standard)
Oh and I almost forgot-either dihydrodesoxymorphine-D or tetrahydrodesoxymorphine-D are available if I want to pursue aquisition of either. The desomorphine (option one) would be the easier, considering choice between palladium based catalysts like Pd/C, colloidal Pd and plat cat/platinum dust, the platinum catalysts being the more active and prone to more thorough and extensive dearomatization of the phenyl rings in the immediate precursor. (which is active in and of itself but in an extremely peculiar manner)
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Haven't yet, as it's very early. I will take them soon. :thumbup:
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Yes. But I didn't take enough water and I had a wave of curry (turmeric) coming the wrong way.
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Are you taking it as a supplement? if you are, make sure to take piperine with it, as otherwise, curcumin is of extremely poor bioavailability. Unlike in spicy indian curries, stews etc. where there is almost certain to be pepper in there, although whether enough to aid absorption thats another matter, I don't know. But presumably some. Curcumin on its own is pretty pointless, likewise turmeric on its own.You'd have to consume massive, sickening quantities of the stuff. And not just rank to the consumer. PA and PR would go running for cover.
And is there any RIGHT way for that kind of thing to come out?
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Are you taking it as a supplement? if you are, make sure to take piperine with it, as otherwise, curcumin is of extremely poor bioavailability. Unlike in spicy indian curries, stews etc. where there is almost certain to be pepper in there, although whether enough to aid absorption thats another matter, I don't know. But presumably some. Curcumin on its own is pretty pointless, likewise turmeric on its own.You'd have to consume massive, sickening quantities of the stuff. And not just rank to the consumer. PA and PR would go running for cover.
And is there any RIGHT way for that kind of thing to come out?
I'll re-read this when I wake up from my nap. Sorry, foggy minded.
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In a manner of speaking.
Most things, at least the ones I needed, as per usual.
However morphine was substituted for dipropionylmorphine, save for the very first dose of morphine, in the morning to restore me to my usual self, pain free and not in discomfort. That way I could function, and as such, do what was needed in the lab.
Dipropionylmorphine is SUCH a HUGE improvement over morphine or diamorphine; the latter being 3-4x the potency of morphine, roughly similar duration of action, but faster acting an.d somewhat different subjectively speaking. Dipropionylmorphine is as manyfold as potent as diamorphine, as that is to morphine, and both much much faster acting, a ton more euphoric, longer lasting (I'd get 6 hours, 7 at most from morphine sulfate or diamorphine but 15 hours, even 20 from dipropionylmorphine, from a single dose, compared to the 6-7 hours from morphine or the diacetyl diester) and if used IV, then there is less histamine release than morphine, still, more so than H. Which is just about right, because I like there to be some, just not too much, and IV, there is one HELL of a rush, and a delightfully warm fuzzy 'wrapped up in cotton wool' feeling afterwards. Plus faster onset, and the effects once the rush declines is still quite long lived.
Has to be, at least thus far, my favourite of all the Mu-opioid receptor agonists I have ever tried. Bar maybe oral methadone, although I've ever had that a couple of times. Intend to explore that one a little more soon. Still, dipropionylmorphine is one top-notch MOR agonist:)
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Yes. But I didn't take enough water and I had a wave of curry (turmeric) coming the wrong way.
I think the gelatin coating on my Strattera upsets my stomach at times. I have to stay vertical
and take it easy for awhile, or just be sure not to take it on a completely empty stomach. :sick:
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No, I literally JUST opened my eyes and woke up.
Got to prepare more of one med, and a second, later on.
Right now I am tired, sleepy and once I've checked a few forums for new posts I'm going back to sleep.
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Might as well take 'em. I've been awake since around 1:30 a.m., it's now a little before 6. :zombie:
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Finished cooking up the dipropionylmorphine.
Had a lovely LOOOONG nap on the sofa after tasting of the results:) Just below 700mg or so done, which should last me the rest of the week:).
Just woke up and deliciously sleepy, in that somewhat bleary-eyed but relaxed and the better for a long rest kind of way. I think I might have overexerted myself last week as I've really needed to catch up on sleep.
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Xanax
Vicodin
Protonix
Sadly, my anxiety is pretty much daily now so they are exploring a daily anxiety medication rather than the as-needed Xanax, which I am taking pretty much 1-2/day.
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^I am glad they are doing something about it for you, Trigger. Good to see you again.
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^I am glad they are doing something about it for you, Trigger. Good to see you again.
I need to make a decision, but am out so much money on my car this month and just paid off my last two surgieries last month, that I am waiting to go back until my CC clears on the 10th.
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I know the pain of being broke all too well, so I sympathise.
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Medicated and ready to rock! Day one of my vacation! :nicegear:
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Me too. :arrr:
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If its available trigger, you might want to try chlormethiazole (aka chlomethiazole, they changed the name here) its strong as all hell, but it oddly, doesn't seem to cause too much tolerance, i didn't get any dependency taking 2x/D (its intermediate duration acting), its an old, old drug, barbiturate binding site agonist at GABAa but without the AMPA blockade of barbs, very clear headed, and hangover free. I take it still, for seizure prophylaxis although not indicated for that, and i would prefer it to any barbiturate, benzo, chloral hydrate, or indeed anything else at all, save MAYBE the brominated equivalent of chlormethiazole, although its not as stable in storage as chlormethiazole and needs making. If needs be this one can be made in two steps from vitamin B1 too, which is handy in emergencies such as more seizures than usual.
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Having major chest pains, so took a Xanax.
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Having major chest pains, so took a Xanax.
We excite you that much?
Seriously, does that need attention or is it something that happens regularly?
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If it is KNOWN to be anxiety and ONLY anxiety, panic attacks feel remarkably similar to a heart attack or dying completely before being resuscitated. Panic attacks are foul, had one or two before, the worst after a seizure and post ictal shitty (thanks kassi) getting on the meth and synth 'noids. And after falling and getting the shit scared out of me, when the trip and fall resulted in an arterial bleed, scared the shit out of me, I couldn't tell the difference between dying and the panic attack. its hell while it happens, especially, I'd imagine if you can neither tough it out, or wait it out whilst cooking something, if without lab glass (i'd sooner die anyway in THAT case)
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Having major chest pains, so took a Xanax.
We excite you that much?
Seriously, does that need attention or is it something that happens regularly?
I used to go to the emergency room and have heart work-ups. It's anxiety. But yeah...I will likely not know when I AM having a heart attack as I will assume it is anxiety.
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Shitty situation, hard to tell the difference.
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Sometimes the heart can beat abnormally and you won't feel it at all. Such was the case when I was on ziprasidone and had to come off it after three abnormal ECGs. And then you get the abnormal heart beats you can feel and then be told they are harmless by a cardiologist. Such is the case when I get ectopic beats. They are very obvious when they occur.
About to take lunchtime meds.
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Sometimes the heart can beat abnormally and you won't feel it at all. Such was the case when I was on ziprasidone and had to come off it after three abnormal ECGs. And then you get the abnormal heart beats you can feel and then be told they are harmless by a cardiologist. Such is the case when I get ectopic beats. They are very obvious when they occur.
About to take lunchtime meds.
I have a benign arrhythmia (RV conduction delay) and I can't feel it at all. 8)
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Not yet...
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I certainly did! It's been a great day! Better living through pharmaceuticals! :2thumbsup:
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yes
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I took my GRD medicine in the AM like always. Held off on pain meds until late afternoon, which was probably a good call given how all that activity set off my back and knee. I just took anxiety meds. Should've just doped up on sleep meds, but I need to calm my chest and sometimes the anxiety meds can help me sleep. Not supposed to mix, so I am committed now.
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Yep.
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Not yet, but this thread just reminded me! Thank you, Hyke! :hyke:
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Took the proton pump inhibitor. Recently my GP changed that from omeprazole to pantoprazole which he said is more effective. Seems alright so far. Some xylometazoline to prevent the annoying side effect I get from taking my clonidine and the muscle relaxer I use, tizanidine (both are in the same family of drugs, working to block noradrenaline release, which is kind of the opposite effect of that which pseudoephedrine or ephedrine would produce, an inverse nasal decongestant. A nasal congestant, really, lol. They make me stuffy, so I use xylometazoline to constrict the blood vessels in my nose and reverse the side effect. Works fine and as its locally acting, as drops for my nose I don't get nasty sympathetic activation as a side effect, which I would get from ephedrine or pseudo tablets. They make me feel absolutely miserable, very uncomfortable, twitchy and overloaded as hell. Not to mention that i really think TAKING eph or PSE to be a revolting waste of usable feedstock!
wouldn't want to be responsible for such a disgusting waste of perfectly usable feedstock, actually swallowing ephedrine/pseudo? what a shocking waste. of precursors!! It needs either reducing, or oxidizing to methcathinone, using dilute, cold solution of KMnO4 (potassium permanganate) overnight in the fridge.
But so far I took my dipropionylmorphine, two chlormethiazole capsules (a tad under 400mg of chlormethiazole freebase), need to take my zanaflex still (muscle relaxer, to ease the spasm and tension in my bad leg that has the post-surgical nerve damage. Soon as they are ready, dibenzoylmorphine next, then reduction of alpha-chloromorphide which is being readied for same. And then one gets to try CLEAN krokodil (desomorphine-D) as it truly SHOULD be made, when done not by a russki peasant in the slums with a terrible addiction to a horrifically poisonous product the way its produced, but clean, as befitting the synthesis if performed by a loving chemist with a light touch and a caring hand, who adores his work, and has high standards for the end result of all his workings, of art and science.
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+ and +
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Yes, but it's not working very well.
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Some., antiseizure meds yes, although fat lot of good its done me. Had to take three within about an hour or two, because I'd taken my morning dose as per usual, had a damn nasty, and long duration seizure, myoclonic-atonic type then after ages managed to regain some clumsy, awkward motor control enough to grab the bottle and tip a capsule in my mouth, swallow, which brought me out mostly. Kept twitching and shit, so ended up having to take another. Which means now I am left with nothing, no coverage at all for tomorrow or later today, so I wlll have no choice but to make some myself. Had to take the third and last one I had, in order to get me fully out of the seizure.
For pain meds, had a decent morning dose. No morphine, but a mixture of something average (but with a massive IV rush), dibenzoylmorphine, mixed with dipropionylmorphine, diamorphine's bigger, stronger, longer-lasting, better big sister. Got just enough dibenzoylmorphine left for one dose, just enough to get me through preparation of the palladium catalyst needed to turn the alpha-chloromorphide into desomorphine (aka, in its impure and badly made incarnation, krokodil)
Gabapentin, clonidine and tizanidine, yes, stomach meds haven't needed any.
Otherwise cleaning up some crystal, because I need waking up properly, keep my mind on track whilst I do this catalyst..
And something a bit off the usual, had some of a nootropic (cognitive and memory enhancer), pramiracetam. Thats helped wake me up some too, and assist my shite memory. Right now going to do that dibenzoylmorphine, and go back to my videogame for a little while first, because i am pretty much needing a break after a long spell of work in the ol' skunkworks:P
And ohh nice...just found a bit of....well I'm not quite sure but it can ONLY be one of three things. Morphine, dipropionylmorphine or, much less likely, dibenzoylmorphine. That will do nicely to give the little dibenzoylmorphine some extra welly.
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All pilled up and ready to rock! Bring on the day! :fatchef:
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what meds? Seems like I've managed to finally become allergic to the lot. If not the drug itself, it's the padding, eg cornstarch (or maize as you Americans call it).
I was all-too-glad to dump the anti-seizure meds , but this has gone beyond a joke. It'd be kinda nice to take a painkiller every now and then .
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^No fun.
Are there any meds you can take?
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yes
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^No fun.
Are there any meds you can take?
almost said no, but then i recalled i can still use my asthma inhaler. and i can still take antuiistamines, so long as they're in syrup, not tablets. and , you never know, i might find a few new things to try, if i look around a bit harder.
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Yes, took most everything but the stomach meds. Well only took a very little bit of morphine, as most of it was converted to dipropionylmorphine, which is for me at least a better painkiller, as well as far more euphoric and longer lasting, plus better rush when shot:)
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I did. :)
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Evening antiseizure med dose, clonidine (overload protection, a circuit-breaker/residual current device for the wetware so to speak:D), gabapentin, tizanidine (zanaflex, muscle relaxer) and some more prope , plus a couple of oxy that I had lying about and last but not least, cimetidine, for my stomach'
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Just took my supplements now, and it's after 7 p.m., it's been a slow day! :tard:
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Just got to go pick up some more antiseizure meds, didn't (again!, surely they would know by fucking now and get it right on time) get them all this monday. Can't remember if I had mine for this morning, haven't this afternoon so I'm going to take one just to be on the safe side. Got enough, and in an emergency can make some more.
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And then some. Plus antibiotics. And the extra week to cover a day and a bit to two days of pain meds. Have had a LOT of oxy in me, and a damned generous and goodly amount of morphine. But saving most of the morphine, at least as much as will allow me not to suffer tonight, to see if I can persuade my old man to bring me the propionyl chloride from the lab or if he can't find it I'd improvize with benzoyl chloride to turn the morphine script into either dibenzoylmorphine or far preferably, dipropionylmorphine:D
Just about to have some oxy and chlormethiazole (antiseizure med, doubles as a pretty strong tranq. Just the combination for an all nighter playing videogames:)
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I did, later than usual, slept very late today! :snooze:
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Had to really think about it, but yes, I did.
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I did. Late but never mind.
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I did. Late but never mind.
Late here too. In fact, it's almost noon and I still haven't taken my L-Lysine! :tard:
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yes
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Well, the lunch meds shall be late today.
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Yes, much later than usual, but yes.
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Yes I did! Finally getting back in my workday rhythm! :pirate:
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Afternoon meds, taken.
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Working on it. One more day of work, then a day off! :thumbup:
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I did, yes. Also got new prescriptions.
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I did.
Even took L-Lysine. Can't take that in the mornings anymore, because of the prescribed meds. So, most of the time I forget.
Threatening cold sore reminded me. :P
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the only reason I remembered that I did was because the coffee was very hot.
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Yes I did. Except for the dreaded "Vitamin L." :laundry: :laundry: :laundry: :GA:
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'Vitamin L' is already taken, my dear. Thats the colloquial term for LSD:P
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Not yet. I should.
Eyes are acting up. :thumbdn:
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'Vitamin L' is already taken, my dear. Thats the colloquial term for LSD:P
In my world, it refers to the damned laundry. :M :P
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Not sure I did. I'll have to count them now. :facepalm2:
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Just took the supplements. Big frickin' horse pills! :zombiefuck:
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Not sure I did. I'll have to count them now. :facepalm2:
How did the counting go?
My medication comes in fortnight strips, two rows of seven. I know a row has to start at a Monday. It makes counting easy.
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Medicinal Friday night bourbon
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Not sure I did. I'll have to count them now. :facepalm2:
How did the counting go?
My medication comes in fortnight strips, two rows of seven. I know a row has to start at a Monday. It makes counting easy.
The counting revealed that I had not yet taken that day's dose, and so I took it. :thumbup:
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I'll take them with my second cup of coffee.
I gathered PA's pills up to send away for destruction (except for the 2 meds I also take). They filled 3 large (not the humongous ones) pill bottles.
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Yes I did, though I was late with the supplements. No harm done. 8)
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QV, please know that I aim specifically not to be insensitive about your bereavement. May I ask, without fear of offense, if there is anything I may find useful and recycle to good end, rather than simply having them burnt (or whatever else happens to returned medications)
Opioids, psychostimulants, muscle relaxers (I have a very painful, unceasing spasm that never abates without my taking a muscle relaxer of some kind, in my leg due to nerve damage, I take gabapentin but it is of, well, not a great deal of use, as well as tizanidine (zanaflex, which is better)
Memory enhancing compounds such as cholinesterase inhibitors (such as galantamine, tacrine, huperzine-A, rivastigmine etc), as well 'racetams (names all end up in ''-racetam''. Clonidine (a type of BP med), betahistine,
Sedative-hypnotics. As well as some, but not all anticonvulsants.
Oh, and memantine.
Anything else, feel free to PM me and I'd let you know if I could make use of it)
BTW I read your last PM, and I am still ruminating on, and formulating a response that does justice.
And, last but DEFiNITELY, definitely absofuckinglutely certainly not one single iota not 'list', how is the PR doing? I hope she is well *as I hope for you also QV*
Especially in these tough times. I keep finding myself wishing that I could in some manner separate that thick outer leathery hide surrounding my psyche, and graft it in equal portions to the PR, and some for you also. because I hate seeing you hurting, or thinking the PR may be feeling down.
Please do pass my well wishes and empathy to the PR when next you see her. *hugs QV tight* *hugs QV tighter*
And yes I indeed took my regular meds, had to phone the clinic I get my rx's from, because my morphine script was not scripted to the correct tune I need my dr to dance to.
Phoned them, had to wait all day until they fixed the problem until near closing time after belling them up early in the morning, then got the additional quantities for both formulations I take, only my GP accidentally wrote up a moderate quantity extra of both.
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Oh! Lestat, perhaps you can advise me? if you would?
As you noticed , I suffer TN, plus I have various other occasional pains, like you would. Problem is, I can't take pain medication any more, at least none that NHS would provide, due to reactions to the inactive ingredients (eg constarch in the tablets , gelatine in the capsules, and god knows what else. I have a lengthening list of food/drug sensitivities)
When I was on antiseizure meds, it was suggested that I emptythe capsules into a drink, but that didn't work out well when I tried it, partly due to ataxia (I made an extemely inelegant job of it) partly due to being allergic to the contents of the capsule, as luck woukd have it. I've refused further anti-sezure meds, because they've all been worse than the seizures. But I could still do with an analgesic.
I was using the soluble OTC paracetemol and codeine for pain. Not overindulging, just every now and then, when I nedeed a break from the pain. But last time, it set off a bit of a chain reaction. I mean I had a painful reaction , took more P&C for that, went on like that for two days before I twigged what was causing the painful reaction.
Any ideas as to what else I might legally try? I'm really stumped.
-Walkie
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Lestat - None of the drugs you mentioned rings a bell with me. The meds for an "elderly" man don't seem to dovetail with the meds for a "young whippersnapper." Joke. Seriously, none of the meds sounded familiar, either generic or brand name. Sorry, wish I could help.
We're doing well. My sister is here (has been over 20 hours and we're both still alive) and The PR is over the moon. The PR went back to the Center on Monday and has had 3 lovely days there. I've decided to quit being the rock and let/listen someone else give advice/thoughts. It's just adjusting to a new normal which will take a bit of time and doing. Thanks for being you.
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Well if I knew what he'd been on in PM I could give you more of an idea.
*hugs tight* and sends hugs for PR. My thoughts are, and have been with you of late, very much so.
Bothers me far more than my own mother finally kicking the bucket actually.
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I did. ;D
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I did! And my new multivitamins are smaller and easier to swallow! :2thumbsup:
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I did! And my new multivitamins are smaller and easier to swallow! :2thumbsup:
What colour are they?
Pray, do give us the details. The bigger ones were in a classy lavender coating, if my memory is not deceiving me.
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It was a grey day. Autumn seems to have really started. I did not take my meds.
I got the prescription for antibiotics for six months. Somehow I got the meds for a bit longer. While the sun was still at full force, I kept taking it, pretending I was :blonde: and could not count to six. But this morning I thought, what the heck, I've been taking them since a long time (looked back in this thread, started somewhere in January). I should be OK without for some time.
If the face and eyes get inflamed really soon, I'll just take them for another 7 weeks. :P
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walkie, PM me and explain your history, sensitivities, particular needs, what you have tried, any allergies, intolerances (e.g gluten, egg, lactose etc).
I should be able to help. Plus tell me both meds your on, and any you specifically can't take (and the reason why), plus any medical complaints current.
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I did! And my new multivitamins are smaller and easier to swallow! :2thumbsup:
What colour are they?
Pray, do give us the details. The bigger ones were in a classy lavender coating, if my memory is not deceiving me.
The new ones are lavender too, just smaller. :2thumbsup:
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I don't remember taking the Strattera, but I counted them and it appears I did. :dunce:
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I honestly don't remember.
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I honestly don't remember.
I hate it when that happens. I'm wide awake this morning, so I will remember. :thumbup:
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Self-medicating at the moment.
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Finally had my antiseizure meds, I didn't yesterday. Dropped and rolled under the sofa. I saw the caps but they look just like the liquorice comfits both in size, shape, and sometimes color that I'd dropped everywhere too so they were ignored until I went to toss them and felt the consistency/texture was pliable rather than hard.
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Aren't they meant to be kept in a bottle?
I missed my lunchtime and afternoon dexamphetamine because I'm just sitting at home doing nothing so there is no need for it. Back to college and regular dosage tomorrow.
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Yes I have. Still have heartburn despite the omeprazole (generic name for Prilosec)
and still have a pounding headache despite the ibuprofen. Hope the :coffee: will fix the latter!
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Try pantoprazole instead of omeprazole CBC, its a lot more effective of a PPI. I did and it works a lot better for my GORD.
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Try pantoprazole instead of omeprazole CBC, its a lot more effective of a PPI. I did and it works a lot better for my GORD.
Thanks, I will look around for some. 8)
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All pilled up. Ready for the day's work! :pirate:
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Took mine. Ready for today's homework!
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Hey next time your getting pilled up CBC give me about 3-4 days notice maybe? because I'd love to whip up a batch of MDA and join you:D
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Damned if I know
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I know THAT feeling. With all the stomach pills and potions its hard to keep track of everything, the other non-guts meds included.
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Morning and lunchtime meds done. I won't bother with the afternoon ones as I am at home not doing much.
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Yes I did! Off to the kitchen! :fatchef: :multitask:
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About to.
And about to maybe after the horror movie,
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Not yet.
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Yes I have. I like the new multivitamins, they are smaller and easier to take. 8)
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About to.
And about to maybe after the horror movie,
If you have time to watch a horror movie, you have time to watch two episodes of great TV. :heisenberg:
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Not and do it justice, not then anyway, I wasn't paying a huge amount of attention.
Know what though, I think there is a bowl of something calling for a bit of purification, something that will get my currently too bored shitless and unfocused to even have ADD executive the fuck function plugged in to the mains. And some appropriate viewing material. Thanks for the idea.
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Gabapentin, further morphine (I take two formulations of it, and a breakthrough painkiller as well when needed. The breakthroughs also help for the very first few minutes after picking up a script refill after my internal tank has been reduce to the plasma level equivalent of kicking a car down a hill to move it, so dry its advertising to sub-let for scorpions and puff adder tennants and ISIS have been contemplating taking the tank as its next door to their home football ground (obviously with the severed head of a western devil, of course, since no selfrespecting selfrighteous beardy-wierdy koransturbating penis-peddlar and dirtkisser would be seen dead playing with a football that didn't have the face of a white devil:P. But really it's the climate conditions they like. Dry as cherie bliar's tampons after a years straight insertion, only with less than a thirtieth of the euphoria they must feel at being stuck up that rasping, cracked desert in the wastes of the lower reaches of Tartarus, tickling the eyelids of Kronos with their dessicated lie-whispering flaps.)
Since the breakthrough med absorbs rapidly and once a week, the first dose taken after a new script, is taken as a couple of lines up the nose. Means I need not wait for oral release from breaking down delivery systems, and instead of about an hour of feeling miserable more than I would have to otherwise, its doing its work in minutes. The only time I tolerate being miserable and have the ability to prevent it, is if it is in the service of science. For I will not submit animals to experiments in any way. Cell lines, sure, thats fine with me single-celled organisms, fair enough. But I would not experiment upon so much as a slug or snail (actually I'll scoop them up and relocate them out of the path of feet and pedestrians in the street if needs be) It goes absolutely against my personal beliefs as to what is, and is not acceptable. I realize it is needed in some instances, but aiso full of failings and holes methodologically, scientifically, observationally and of course there are many effects that cannot BE modelled in a rat, or a dog. Can a mouse experience trancendental psychedelic manifestations? no, these, require a human animal. Or pain testing, if it is to be done to assay efficacy of a future painkiller for the service for either man or beast, then it should be man that undergoes the experiment, consensually. Where physiologically possible and without killing the person (E.g one would not test ultrapotent opioid or anaesthetizing agents upon a human frame, although one could of course recruit specifically opioid users to test superpotent opioids who specifically, already used opioids massively above the potency of fentanyl (E.g carfentanyl, as is used for african megafauna in dart guns, would kill the average heavy opioid users with the least trace, but there are indeed people who knowingly, and ideally extremely carefully, use that selfsame drug, and thus could volunteer, and be given significant payoffs for their service in enduring the pain that otherwise would be inflicted on a monkey, cat, dog et cetera, and of course, the few hundred millions of mice and rats used annually. It is this model I believe should be the case. Hell, tell them they get free medical care for life, and assistance if needed to detox for free, from compassionate sources who will do what is clinically necessary to ensure they may get clean without undergoing a traumatic, enforced, judgemental and potentially abusive detox. In addition to care for the families and children and pets of same.
At least thats how I would wish to see it done.
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Yes I did. Nearly gagged on the damn L-Lysine horse pills! :mad:
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Not yet.
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Yes, along with some paracetamol and ibuprofen to get rid of a nasty headache.
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Yes I did. All set to go to work and kick ass! :pirate:
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The PR, yes
Me, no
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Lots of Xanax the last two days.
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Yes. :arrr:
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most of mine
why din't you take yours qv.
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most of mine
why din't you take yours qv.
Defiant, lazy, malaise, DGAF.
But I'm off to take mine now. And give The PR hers.
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i have taken part of the morning round which includes an expectorant, caffeine, stimulant, and allergy meds. the rest - supplements and vitamins - will come after pancakes.
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Yup.
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Both I and The PR
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Took my morning meds right after breakfast.
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I'm ready to go. Monday can't defeat me! :arrr:
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Took oxycodone, cimetidine, a LITTLE bit of morphia, just enough to avoid any withdrawals, and had me a 5mg moggy.
Fuckin lurvely stuff, I wuvs my moggies, don't care for benzodiazepines generally but for moggies (nitrazepam) I make an exception, loprazolam, flubromazepam, nifoxipam and flubromazolam I like too, alhough benzo binding site GABAa ligands aren't my thing really, I prefer agonists for the barbiturate binding site, or things like valerian that target the loreclezole site.
Always wanted to try loreclezole itself, as well as the benzo flunitrazepam, aka rohypnol, roofies. I'd LOVE to get roofied then used by ye rettdevil whilst I'm out cold, get tied up by her and used as a meat toy, and have kassi video it to show me whilst I'm tied up, once I come round from the roofies to see what she'd done to me:P
I've been wanting to try flunitrazolam too. Triazolobenzodiazepines are usually highly potent, very hypnotic having strong affinity for benzodiazepine-sensitive GABAa receptors having alpha1 subunits, also I really want to try at least one GABAa agonist neurosteroid, and some other orthosteric GABAa agonists (I.e those that like muscimol, the active in fly agaric mushrooms, that bind to the GABA binding site itself, plus some GABA-transaminase inhibitors other than the one I've had, lemon balm)
But generally speaking, benzos aren't so much my thing GABAa wise other than the nitrobenzodiazepines, some triazolobenzos such as flubromazolam, and fluorinated benzos are meant to kick ass. Also, always wanted to try nimetazepam, a methylated version of nitrazepam, only used in japan and a couple of other countries, under the band name erimin, meant to be a very, very special benzo.
Barbiturates and other barb-site agonists such as chlormethiazole and the brominated homolog of chlormethiazole, bromethiazole as I call it, lol, those are what I like, plus orthosteric GABAa agonists like muscimol, I love me some fly agaric.
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Damn, I forgot.
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I did, though I was really late with the supplements and am just now having my first :coffee: after 3 p.m.
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Yay and yay!
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Not this morning so far, will take them now, thankful for this thread.
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Yeah, I did.
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2 days in a row for both of us.
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Did the supplements.
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Some. Didn't take any oxy, skipped the morphine 10mg caps, couldn'ae be fooked with those, since I've got a beaker full of something good that will more than make up for not taking either of the oxy or morphine 10s. Did have a few morphine 30mgs, some cimetidine to block CYP-P450-3A4 and IIRC also cytochrome P450-2D6, liver enzymes that chew morphine up and spit it out in pieces. Thus allowing less to be used and what is used to stick around longer and hit harder.
Smoked several bowls of dipropionylmorphine freebase/morphine freebase mixture. Gonna go fetch some more now and load the ol' tooter up and have a smoke.
Had the morning dose of chlormethiazole (seizure med), need to take my midday one now actually. Had a morning dose of nitrazepam, think I may take another half tablet, or quarter now and quarter later, maybe half now half at night.
Had an IV shot of mixed dipropionylmorphine and morphine sulfate this morning, and the prope dope is really long acting, so whenever I take prope rather than regular, vanilla edition, un-esterified sulfate of morphia, it lasts roughly between 5 and 7 hours, dose dependent. Prope dope on the other hand, lasts maybe 15 hours give or take a couple of hours either way, dose dependent. Seems to need a higher temperature to smoke (well, to vaporize) the freebase compared to tooting kit, but perhaps, and I suspect strongly it is so, that the recipe for the excipients is not yet down to a perfected product.
Got to experiment with the 'recipe'. Don't get me wrong, I am NOT an advocate of stepping on, cutting drugs for people to profit from effectively, selling their clientele inert crap. cutting the product that dealers sell to clients is making them pay for rubbish rather than the thing they are paying for and expecting, wanting and have the right to be served with.
This is NOT a commercial entity, this is a private, personal treat, never to see the light of day so to speak, in the sense that nobody is buying any of this stuff. Now, on the one hand, making a clean, perfectly good injectable, water soluble product of the morphine diesters is easy pickings, but, and I haven't DONE it to get the experience in such matters, making a product for smoking is quite a different matter. The one and only reason that anything other than dipropionylmorphine is added to said DPM, is to assist in two main things-vaporisation without damaging the DPM, and also making it run. When smoker's heroin, as would be found on the street, just bog standard smoker's brown, average kit, like any H dealer would sell, as found in britain, is intended to be smokable. One cannot afaik smoke H salts, like diamorphine hydrochloride, you need freebase, and there should also be an additive mixed in with it, to provide a protective atmosphere whilst the heat decomposes it, in order to prevent the kit from being burnt, charred rather than vaporized. And something to make it run, as a lot of people, most street users, the homeless etc do not use a glass pipe but rather a piece of tinfoil and a straw, heating the kit from below. Then it melts, turns into a wee brownish treacle toffee coloured beetle, and runs in the opposite direction from the lighter flame, so one must chase after it. Thats where the term 'chasing the dragon' comes from I believe.
Frustratingly, I HAD it down last night, some that turned pale amber-golden runny honey coloured and flowed perfectly.
I need a new milligram scale to accurately weigh components of the blend. Because the next batch wasn't nearly so good, and when tooted from foil it vaped but would'nae run properly. This'll take some experimentation. Current atmospheric agent is caffeine, trying both the hydrochloride salt and the freebase. The current blend, it vapes alright, but prone to burning as it doesn't run well. And I want that fine, fine fine product I had last night, the stuff that turned just slightly amber, liquified nigh on instantly and ran like usain bolt with a firecracker jammed up his bumhole:P
This stuff burns too easily, needs smoking really carefully off foil. Although I really do not like to use foil, I like a borosilicate glass pipe, custom made of course. On foil it burns too easy, but it IS fucking potent as all hades let loose. I've a pain in the arse tolerance but ONE long-held big toot of one blob of prope, current recipe using caffeine HCl, DPM I can't remember, think its the base but not impossible the propionate.This is some mental strong shit, mental mental mental fucking nutty as a truckload of fruitcakes hit by a cruise missile whilst parking in a peanut butter factory. That one toke has me ptotic, face tingling, and wow I can barely, barely open my eyes once they closeqq2wawq2
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Took morning ones as usual. Only the time I take them differs.
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Took 1x25 microgram clonidine tablet, as well as some 60-70mg of oxycodone intranasally (the oxy, the clonidine are just swallowed)
Didn't take any of this week's script for morphine, as I already had a shot cooked up of dipropionylmorphine/morphine mixture so no need. Also had 3x180ug pramipexole (mirapex, its a dopamine agonist, most often used for parkinson's disease but also for restless legs, I find in combination with clonidine and the muscle relaxer tizanidine (not taken any zanaflex today yet together) that I need for the spasticity in my left lower leg it works rather well. And since I take a barb-binding site agonist at GABAa, the chlormethiazole, which I have had, and indeed none of this week's heminevrin script (chlormethiazole capsules, love 'em, because for my seizures, I want the seizure STOPPED and not now, last fucking week and I've had the chlormethiazole start acting before, once I yet again become capable of movement, and thus also of taking and swallowing a heminevrin or two, I've had the seizing, which had at the time been going on for maybe half an hour, stopped with extreme prejudice within ten to fifteen minutes. Less if I bite the semi-softgel (they are softgel-like rather than brittle, flexible but extremely thick, although they still need keeping in the smallest bottles possible, since the contents are liquid freebase chlormethiazole, and quite volatile. Also need keeping in glass bottles since the stuff melts most plastics. I rather wait though for them to burst open once swallowed, since the taste of chlormethiazole and its brominated relative are both quite repulsive. It is not a very difficult compound to make, and have done so within less than a day's work from start to finish, but the taste of the raw base is so nasty that the way I ended up using it since it also eats many types of gelcap, was to rapidly use a measuring syringe to squirt it up the tradesman's entrance haha, Not too fun but it got the job done, and better than having a seizure. THAT route, works in five minutes or less, very rapid absorption. Syringe then thrown away (a measuring one, or if it has a needle, it needs taking off obviously) because the plunger will end up welded within minutes most probably, to the barrel and it cannot be reused even if washed because of how damned aggressive chlormethiazole is to plastics.
Also had 1x5mg nitrazepam, which I am taking temporarily, due to anxiety triggering off my PTSD after the recent pig raid.They have not kicked me to the ground though. Kick me, and I shall stand twice as tall, and tenfold as determined to give back a great big 'fuck you, bitch' to those who would try to force me to bend my knee and bow. Never.
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Yes. And the PR is definitely getting hers.
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Late again, but I still took them.
Tomorrow I'll take them at around 6am because I have to be in the city by 7:30am. Big Walk coming up.
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Yes I did! Strattera pretty much on the usual schedule, supplements a bit late. 8)
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Might have to up my Sam-e dosage due to feeling depressed and such with the change of time and season.
"Oh I so, love the time change so that it gets dark at 4-5 pm...." Said no one EVER! ::)
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Might have to up my Sam-e dosage due to feeling depressed and such with the change of time and season.
"Oh I so, love the time change so that it gets dark at 4-5 pm...." Said no one EVER! ::)
I used to enjoy the early darkness, probably because it used to signal the end of warm humid weather.
Now that we have such warm late falls and early winters, I realize I don't like what the early darkness
does to my sleep "cycle." Early evening feels like the middle of the night and I get so sleepy! :yawn:
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I did, yes. :)
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Nope. The PR has had hers increased significantly, so I'll have to be alert for side effects when she gets home.
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Hope your PR is ok, no side effects.
Yep, taken mine straight after breakfast as I should when I am not going to college.
Will have to go to the chemist today and buy moclobemide and dexamphetamine.
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All set over here! Bring on the day! :pirate:
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Yeah I did. Ended up taking somewhat less of the eye drops accidentally than I should, but not so much I can't make up for it. Thats because of a pig encounter, when I heard they were here from my old man. Although this time they were here to, so to speak, cop an earful.
But didn't know what it was about at first, and courtesy of PTSD fixing to rear its ugly face again, I took a solid dose of a couple of different strong anti-anxiety meds I have a few of around, and after I was finished berating them on behalf of the rest of the pigs, sending them back with fleas to stick in the ears of the other pigs, the stuff fully kicked in, and I've only just woken up about 3/4 hour ago or thereabouts. Took an extra dose of pain meds due to the eye, plus my antiseizure med, the chlormethiazole (probably the last of the real good honest old-school tranqs around here these days that weren't taken off the market for abuse potential and or being too effective. And hopefully it won't be either, although it isn't a difficult synthesis itself, along with 10mg nitrazepam and some of an adrenal blocker-in a manner of speaking it is anyway, blocks noradrenaline release and I use it as a muscle relaxer usually but this time it was to effectively short-circuit any fight-flight response before it crawled out of the womb. Chemical coathanger. Worked a treat. Someone's going to find something pink and ugly in their wheelie bin with a coathanger stuck up the .....less said the better:autism:
That lot plus the additional pain meds pretty much floored my ass, all day. Might not even have been up for 3/4 hour even, guessing really, I've had about enough time to stick eye drops in my eye (well where else would you stick eye drops:P), eat a can of rice pudding I'd been keeping cold in the fridge, have a piss and roll a smoke. Plus more stinkin' eye fucking drops. God damn though I AM grateful for at least one of them, well two, the dexamethasone is helping with the irritation, and the local anaesthetic is letting me take off my welding goggles for short periods if I really need to see something in the pitch dark with my good eye.
Lol...hope that shit the pigs up too, my having to answer the door wearing a pair of welding goggles like shades
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Yes I did, including Prilosec and ibuprofen for my middle-aged woes. :P
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Just about due for afternoon dexamphetamine.
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Ready to begin my busy day! :pirate:
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I stopped taking the Ritalin. It's great for getting things done, but absolutely killed my creativity. It's like it switched my brain over to the left brain and shut down the right side. My productivity increased markedly, but I just didn't enjoy things like I used to. Everything was broken down into quantifiable attributes, and I lost appreciation for aesthetics and the small details that make life worthwhile.
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I stopped taking the Ritalin. It's great for getting things done, but absolutely killed my creativity. It's like it switched my brain over to the left brain and shut down the right side. My productivity increased markedly, but I just didn't enjoy things like I used to. Everything was broken down into quantifiable attributes, and I lost appreciation for aesthetics and the small details that make life worthwhile.
Is that what brings you back? (or was it Jack, as usual?)
In any case, welcome back :)
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I stopped taking the Ritalin. It's great for getting things done, but absolutely killed my creativity. It's like it switched my brain over to the left brain and shut down the right side. My productivity increased markedly, but I just didn't enjoy things like I used to. Everything was broken down into quantifiable attributes, and I lost appreciation for aesthetics and the small details that make life worthwhile.
Is that what brings you back? (or was it Jack, as usual?)
In any case, welcome back :)
Thanks, just randomly checking in. Life's kept me pretty bust the past few years.
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OMG EBM IS BACK!! :GA:
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Neither The PR nor I have taken our meds today. Nor will we this evening. If she's still sick tomorrow, I'll call the dr. for advice on how to handle them.
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Took mine late but still took them.
Have a psychiatrist appointment on the 16th of December, going to ask about alternative meds to haloperidol.
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Not yet, I just got up. :yawn:
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just did
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We're both much, much better, so yes.
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I did, yes.
Making sure I will again tomorrow.
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I haven't yet. This thread just reminded me.
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Morning AND evening have been taken
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^Awesome.
Breakfast and lunch meds have been taken.
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We're both much, much better, so yes.
I'm glad. God save the Queen. :hug:
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I am fully medicated, including caffeine. Bring on the day! :pirate:
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yes and yes
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Yes.
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Yes, a bit late. Finally getting caffeinated at 1:30ish p.m., hope to salvage the day! :arrr:
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Yep, took night meds earlier than usual as I'm going to bed before my usual time. Have to get up early as we are having guests at lunchtime and there is a bit of cleaning to do.
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I am in the process. Don't want to take everything at once. :tard:
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Hey btw ren, what was that AP you wanted me to look up, w/ a view to providing info for you vs haldol/other butyrophenones?
I've not forgotten, just can't remember which drug specifically you named hun.
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It was aripiprazole (Abilify, though I don't know if it has that name in Oz).
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oops
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oops
*wobbles in, fully medicated :cbc: :tea: with the Royal Pills and some tea!*
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Not yet, prep day for tomorrow's colonoscopy begins at 10 am! Oh joy, clear liquid diet, here I come! :poo:
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yes and yes
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Not yet, prep day for tomorrow's colonoscopy begins at 10 am! Oh joy, clear liquid diet, here I come! :poo:
Golightly
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Not yet, prep day for tomorrow's colonoscopy begins at 10 am! Oh joy, clear liquid diet, here I come! :poo:
Golightly
Nope, Miralax mixed with gatorade! Part 1, Part 2 comes at midnight! OY
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Not yet, prep day for tomorrow's colonoscopy begins at 10 am! Oh joy, clear liquid diet, here I come! :poo:
Golightly
Nope, Miralax mixed with gatorade! Part 1, Part 2 comes at midnight! OY
Will you still shit water?
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Not yet, prep day for tomorrow's colonoscopy begins at 10 am! Oh joy, clear liquid diet, here I come! :poo:
Golightly
Nope, Miralax mixed with gatorade! Part 1, Part 2 comes at midnight! OY
Will you still shit water?
More like gatorade.
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Not yet, prep day for tomorrow's colonoscopy begins at 10 am! Oh joy, clear liquid diet, here I come! :poo:
I sympathize. I'm supposed to schedule one myself, now that I'm 50. :-\
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I've taken the Strattera. The supplements can wait till after my (fasting) bloodwork.
I don't like to take too much on an empty stomach. The pill coatings make me queasy sometimes. :sick:
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Hope your bloods are fine. I have a test for lithium twice a year. I have to remember not to take it on the morning of the test and also remember what time I took it the night before (I take it twice a day) because the nurse writes that down. Then I have to remember to take it when I get home. I sometimes forget that bit.
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Not yet, prep day for tomorrow's colonoscopy begins at 10 am! Oh joy, clear liquid diet, here I come! :poo:
I sympathize. I'm supposed to schedule one myself, now that I'm 50. :-\
The recommendation is one every five years. Carla had her first a couple of years ago.
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Not yet, prep day for tomorrow's colonoscopy begins at 10 am! Oh joy, clear liquid diet, here I come! :poo:
I sympathize. I'm supposed to schedule one myself, now that I'm 50. :-\
The recommendation is one every five years. Carla had her first a couple of years ago.
My yearly physical is next week. I will schedule one at that time! :viking:
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Not yet, prep day for tomorrow's colonoscopy begins at 10 am! Oh joy, clear liquid diet, here I come! :poo:
I sympathize. I'm supposed to schedule one myself, now that I'm 50. :-\
The recommendation is one every five years. Carla had her first a couple of years ago.
My yearly physical is next week. I will schedule one at that time! :viking:
:viking: :viking:
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Time for the supplements! Easier to take stuff on a fuller stomach. :thumbup:
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Just took the morning meds after 10 pm
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^That's late!
Lunchtime meds are taken.
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Eating some nice buttery crackers first. I don't like to take them on an empty stomach. 8)
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Took my morning ones. Seeing the psych on Friday.
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Should feed myself some painkillers.
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I'm in the process. The doctor's appointment is in about 90 minutes. :orly:
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I did, yes. I'm cured now.
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Took lunchtime dexamphetamine with a Coke Zero and marmalade sandwich.
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Yes I did. Off to work for another day of kicking ass! :arrr:
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Yes I did. Off to work for another day of kicking ass! :arrr:
Kick some ass for me too, and tell them the gopher sent it. :arrr:
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Me - no
The PR - yes
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Gotta think of yourself too, QV.
Went to my psych today and asked to change to something else from haloperidol. He said that other meds to treat tics would be antipsychotics and they would interfere with dex too. But he told me to leave it with him and we will figure something out on my next visit. Pity that it is six months away!
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Yes I did. Off to work for another day of kicking ass! :arrr:
Kick some ass for me too, and tell them the gopher sent it. :arrr:
Lucky for you the exterminator has already stopped by work this month. :P
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All pilled up and ready to rock! :arrr:
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Me - yes
The PR - yes
She's starting a new medication for a possible side effect of the risperidol. She has something like an anxiety attack and says she can't breathe. Obviously, she is breathing. I've forgotten the name of the med, but it starts out ben.... and is used for dystonia.
The PR says "Hi" to everyone.
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The PR says "Hi" to everyone.
Hi, Princess!! :santa:
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The night time meds, yes! :yawn:
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Me - yes
The PR - yes
She's starting a new medication for a possible side effect of the risperidol. She has something like an anxiety attack and says she can't breathe. Obviously, she is breathing. I've forgotten the name of the med, but it starts out ben.... and is used for dystonia.
The PR says "Hi" to everyone.
Hi to the PR. She is in my thoughts.
Is it benztropine? I take it for side effects of haloperidol - the stiffening up, the parkinsonism. It works really well. At first I had side effects, blurry vision and constipation which were absolutely horrible but over after 2 to 3 weeks. Now I'm fine.
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Me - yes
The PR - yes
She's starting a new medication for a possible side effect of the risperidol. She has something like an anxiety attack and says she can't breathe. Obviously, she is breathing. I've forgotten the name of the med, but it starts out ben.... and is used for dystonia.
The PR says "Hi" to everyone.
Hi to the PR. She is in my thoughts.
Is it benztropine? I take it for side effects of haloperidol - the stiffening up, the parkinsonism. It works really well. At first I had side effects, blurry vision and constipation which were absolutely horrible but over after 2 to 3 weeks. Now I'm fine.
That's it. The side effects I'm concerned about/looking for are the loss of cognitive function and the affect on time perception.
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Say hi to the PR from me. :)
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Thanks for the night reminders glad I read and posted
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It's 9:20 p.m. lucky for me 10p.m. is the latest I can take mine
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I guess that me having a uniquely designed group of disorders and all that together helps a bit
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Epilepsy OCD and ADHD together with asperger's syndrome is a good thing
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Epilepsy OCD and ADHD together with asperger's syndrome is a good thing
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Can think of why OCD, ADHD and ASD could be a combination with benefits (and/or serious fuck-ups). But have a hard time seeing a possible positive effect of epilepsy.
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Say hi to the PR from me. :)
The PR says "Hello" back at you in a high pitched voice. Then, "What are we going to have for breakfast?" That girl has her priorities straight.
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Enjoy your breakfast, Princess.
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Say hi to the PR from me. :)
The PR says "Hello" back at you in a high pitched voice. Then, "What are we going to have for breakfast?" That girl has her priorities straight.
Hello, young Princess. :)
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Yes I did. Almost on time, too! :zoinks:
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Nope. With all the computer hoop-la I just forgot.
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Nope. With all the computer hoop-la I just forgot.
*wobbles in :cbc: :tea: with the Royal pills and some tea!*
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I'm having cookies now. They bring relief.
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I'm having cookies now. They bring relief.
Sometimes a good cookie is the best medicine. :thumbup:
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Yes I did. Early start to the day, I have to be at work by 8:30! :GA:
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I've taken some. Not needed the GI meds, COULD have used the antihistamine (cyclizine) but decided not to. Didn't need it, as I haven't taken any morphine today bar a wee scrap that I had lying about in solution. Used almost entirely oxycodone instead, at 120mg, and compared to morphia, oxy has, at least for me, very very little histamine releasing property so doesn't make me itch much unless the dose were to be really high for my tolerance. Not a huge oxy fan, but using it instead to save the morph for better uses :P.
Antiseizure meds, yes. Took a nitrazepam and about to take another before my eye appt. Probably goingto fall asleep in the waiting room :P
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Late, but still took them.
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Medicated kid, fed young cat some L-Lysine. But forgot to take it myself. :hahaha:
Did take some vit D. Not hard not to forget. Found a brand that tastes delicious.
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Ready to rock! But damn, why do the L-Lysines have to be so big? :zombiefuck:
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Ready to rock! But damn, why do the L-Lysines have to be so big? :zombiefuck:
I was out of L-Lysine a few days ago. Usually buy a cheap brand, but can't get that here in the village. So bought a more expensive brand. Those pills are lots smaller. Still big, but not massively big. They are softer too. (Grinding them for little furry critter) So, the big ones probably have a lot of extra "filling" stuff to make them sturdy.
Maybe you can check on other brands, to see if there are smaller ones. For animals it does exist in powderform. Just ordered a box of that. Way cheaper than grinding pills for the furry one. The pills are mine, the powder is his.
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^You are so caring to your new cat. :heart:
I take Caltrate and they are fairly big. But I can wash them down pretty easily. I think your L-Lysines are bigger.
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They really are big. Usually I'm OK taking them, I just have to remember not to turn my head. :laugh:
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I took mine.
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I haven't taken my morning meds. By the time I woke up and helped Kayleigh get her stuff together for a stay at a friend's house for Christmas then gave her a lift to the train station, it was 1pm.
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Yes I did. Gearing up for a hectic half-day at work! Yaarrrrrrr! :pirate:
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Yesterday I felt awful physically for not taking my meds. Hot and sweaty but shivering. Dizzy. That will teach me to take my meds. Feel better today. I took them.
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Not all of it, yet. I'm waiting for the omeprazole to settle first. :P
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Yes. Although not much of my morphine and haven't had the morning (last morning just gone) dose of nitrazepam or evening one of chlormethiazole. I was meant to be having a gastroscopy, but they couldn't find a vein for conscious sedation. So had to rebook for a general via inhalational anaesthesia.
Should have listened to me, because the morphine dose I DID take, was IV, when I got home. And I got it in there well enough
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Can't take the L-Lysine horse pills because I've run out. :tard:
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For some reason my doctor rang me last evening after surgery closed whilst he worked late, and told me 'you must be needing some more oxycodone and nitrazepam, right?'
No idea WHY I should have been needing more, but I just agreed with him on principle, better to accept an offer than need to ask and have the possibility of refusal in existence. Managed to get some more chlormethiazole out of him too, plus a lot of cimetidine, an anti-acid reflux antacid type drug, that also is handy due to its blocking metabolism of morphine and oxy, like grapefruit juice does, does the same to benzodiazepines such as the nitrazepam too.
He'd already given me 20 5mg tabs of the nitrazepam, and I'd used just a very few, still had most of them, but he just gave me 14 extra, offered on that phonecall. I'm not complaining, he offered, so I simply confirmed the need he said I apparently had. I like to keep at least a few benzos in stockpile, just for the those occasional hell-on-earth days when everything goes to dogshit on a bicycle and stress levels through the roof. That way I can respond right then and there, after said canine ordure meets the fan, rather than both need to wait until the morning after (or worse, entire weekend if it be a friday) and even then have no guarantee. So if he offers, I'm taking the script. He did, I did, and just collected them earlier. Already had just under 25 of the moggies, another 14 aren't going to be spat on if offered. In fact, I think I'll pop a couple of them now, not out of need, but since there is such a large surplus, two can go to the cause of drastically improving the potency of the one bottle of beer I have left open in front of me and make for a nice relaxing day playing the videogame I've been at lately. Doubtless not what he intended. But oh well. That would be a week worth too, although I'll get another 14 or 20 when the surgery opens next week, and build up a nice big stockpile, for those days when they are really needed so I do not need to ask someone and depend on their good will, and for those occasional nights where I not only CAN'T sleep, but CBF doing anything in the lab to pass the time, if I'm too tired to be on form, and just want to sleep.
Just split 60mg oxy powder into two lines, one up each nostril earlier. And just about to have another wee bit up the snout for the medically critical reason of making the rollup I am about to roll more enjoyable :autism:
Had about 7-8 chlormethiazole caps on top of my morning dose as well, since I more or less just got a pretty decent freebie for no apparent reason that I can discern.
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Can't take the L-Lysine horse pills because I've run out. :tard:
Did I already write that different brands come with different sizes of pills? Weird but true. The cheap ones I most of the time have are way bigger than the expensive ones I have at the moment.
For the cat I have it as a powder. He should get half the dosage of a human. And by the looks of it that is less than half of a pill in amount.
Maybe it will be worth looking for a powder form for humans.
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^How is your new cat going with that?
I have noticed that on my lithium packet it says "DO NOT BREAK THE TABLETS", yet there is a score line on each tablet so they can be broken in half. WTF?
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I did. Much happier now. :zoinks:
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Did medicate kid. Forgot myself and cat. We'll be fine without the L-Lysine for a day.
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Can't take the L-Lysine horse pills because I've run out. :tard:
Did I already write that different brands come with different sizes of pills? Weird but true. The cheap ones I most of the time have are way bigger than the expensive ones I have at the moment.
For the cat I have it as a powder. He should get half the dosage of a human. And by the looks of it that is less than half of a pill in amount.
Maybe it will be worth looking for a powder form for humans.
Just bought two more bottles of horse pills, I got a good deal! :autism:
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All medicated. This thread has reminded me on a few occasions when I'd forgotten. :)
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Better take my meds now...
Meds taken.
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I've taken everything, and the heartburn is under control this morning. 8)
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Strikes me as pretty stupid (the score line)
The bit about not breaking them, are they some sort of extended release formulation? if not, then my guess as to the reason for said exhortation, would be that since Li requires close monitoring of plasma levels, if the pills are IR, and broken, then there is more surface area available. From experience with various other kinds of pills, if they are added to water, or some other solvent, even if not actually crushed, they do break down faster, if added as chunks of tablet rather than finely powdered. This of course, will lead to higher peak concentrations of Li+, once one has been taking whatever drug (ignoring of course, lipophilicity of some drugs resulting in their being stored in fatty tissue, but in this case, not much of an issue. But once steady state has been reached, peaks and troughs are undesirable almost always. And particularly with a drug such as lithium.
Personally I'd sooner be at it salts with a pair of electrodes, a blowtorch, hotplate and a tank of argon :D
(electrolysis of alkali metal compounds is quite a fun process. Li is rather more gentle than the others, more forgiving, but when its at a few hundred degrees 'C, and you are performing electrolysis of molten caustics, or other salts, oh DAMN can things get a little..err...mmmhhmm...hairy...to say the least. Sodium metal is lively enough at room temperature, but at the melting point of its hydroxide (lye, caustic soda, NaOH) once one starts shoving that current through the melt, if inert gas coverage is insufficient then it will make quite a violent crack, and if the electrodes short then it is...not pretty. Second thoughts I take that last bit back, its fun as hell, but best be wearing a full face shield and gloves resistant to strong alkali and brief high temperatures. Concentrated caustic soda on unbroken skin as long as it is washed off right away isn't too problematic, but when molten, as fused, anhydrous NaOH the stuff is brutal. Never got it on me, but it chews through graphite electrodes like a famine victim allowed to run wild in a macdonalds. Or to run wild somewhere that either produces, stores or supplies food for that matter.
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Yes I did. Soon I'll be off to work, all pilled up. :autism:
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Strikes me as pretty stupid (the score line)
The bit about not breaking them, are they some sort of extended release formulation? if not, then my guess as to the reason for said exhortation, would be that since Li requires close monitoring of plasma levels, if the pills are IR, and broken, then there is more surface area available. From experience with various other kinds of pills, if they are added to water, or some other solvent, even if not actually crushed, they do break down faster, if added as chunks of tablet rather than finely powdered. This of course, will lead to higher peak concentrations of Li+, once one has been taking whatever drug (ignoring of course, lipophilicity of some drugs resulting in their being stored in fatty tissue, but in this case, not much of an issue. But once steady state has been reached, peaks and troughs are undesirable almost always. And particularly with a drug such as lithium.
I don't know if they are extended release but I take 450mgs twice a day. Once a tablet broke when I was pressing it out of the foil. I still took it anyway, no harm was done. I don't have a blood test very often, psych says once a year is enough since I have been taking it for nearly 4 years now.
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About to take my supplements, thanks to this thread for reminding me. :thumbup:
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I did, yes.
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Took my meds as I should.
Thinking when I go back to the doctor, to ask to go back on Seretide (asthma med). I'm taking a newish med called Breo for my asthma, the advantage of it being that I only have to take it once a day. But it's not doing its job. I have an annoying cough and I'm always wheezing just a little bit. Thankfully, I'm ok with exercise but I carry Ventolin just in case.
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Took my meds as I should.
Thinking when I go back to the doctor, to ask to go back on Seretide (asthma med). I'm taking a newish med called Breo for my asthma, the advantage of it being that I only have to take it once a day. But it's not doing its job. I have an annoying cough and I'm always wheezing just a little bit. Thankfully, I'm ok with exercise but I carry Ventolin just in case.
We have Breo in the States too. Sorry it isn't doing its job for you. >:(
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Thanks cbc.
It is also annoying that I only get 30 puffs from each canister (not sure if that's the right word). With Seretide, it had 100 puffs and so lasted a lot longer.
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Whilst I am not asthmatic, I have a few inhalers, ventolin type stuff although I've never once used it. I keep them because the bitch from hell for some reason hada huge load of scripts for penicillin group antibiotics although I am badly allergic to the stuff, so to me, they need to be handled with a whole bunch of protective clothing before I can make use of them, and handle like some of the nastier hazards in the lab if they are to be used for making plates.
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Took meds really late because I slept in.
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Pain meds, yes, gabapenturd..errm gabapentin, ahem...yes, lowering dose to get off it as I don't like it at all, need to take some clonidine so as to have a steady hand, and my antiseizure meds. Because I'm about to fire up the torch and do a bit of metalworking. Just went up to the lab and managed to root out some additional silver bullion I KNEW I had knocking around somewhere in case there's not enough Ag to fill my mold.
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Yes I did, including the omeprazole that's potentially making me shorter. :yoda: :P
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Doesn't seem to have done me any harm. Used to take omeprazole, now am taking pantoprazole instead which is meant to be more effective according to my GP.
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Just an evening top up of morphine, and a muscle relaxant plus clonidine.
Unless nicotine and a carrier bag full of bag fulls of haribo bubblegum jelly bottle candies count:P
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Lollies for meds would be awesome.
Didn't take afternoon dose of dexamphetamine, not needed. Night time meds I'll take in about an hour and a half.
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They actually do that Ren, actiq, its called, a delivery system for fentanyl, the Mu-opioidergic agonist, never had one in that form, but they are exactly what they sound like. Fentanyl-impregnaged lollies. Smack candy. Never actually had one myself, but I wouldn't bother more than once, for the novelty factor, probably having had it transdermally and via IV. I've not liked any of the fentanyl family much, bar maybe alfentanil and lofentanil. They tried putting me on the regular vanilla edition (as in bog standard fent rather than flavour, afaik they only come in one flavour)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl#Lozenges
I'd probably taste it once and any spares or the remainder I'd keep as a collectors piece type item, or reserve it for emergency. Because despite being around 100x the potency of morphine on a weight basis, fentanyl blows ass. And thats not just my opinion, plenty of people seem to think the same. Oral, up the arse, IV, IM/SC (that is to say, a missed shot, not quite sure which route, probably some of both), transdermally, it really sucked. Same went for sufentanil and remifentanil (especially the last, as its meant for IV infusion, and to wear off minutes after administration, primarily for surgical anaesthesia, its the ultimate prick-tease unless (and never tried, in exogenously sourced form) beta-endorphin or other opioidergic peptides which last seconds to minutes also generally before being cleaved a new arse via enkephalinases and similar enzymes. But think about the duration of a male orgasm then gone)
Fentanyl doesn't have much going for it other than surgical anaesthesia or refractory non-neuropathic pain. In the recreational sense, its THE shittiest opioid I've ever tasted bar remifentanil, the entire family suck really, at least, out of fentanyl,remifentanil, sufentanil, alfentanil and lofentanil. The last two were the only ones I'd really enjoy repeating, and the last I probably wouldn't, as its extremely potent, and too likely to end me, or more likely, kill those handling my dead body or entering the area it was dosed in if it were indoors.
Short acting family of opioids with an atypical binding mode compared to most MOR agonist opioids, and functionally selective compounds such as herkinorin and IBNTXA (iodobenzyl or iodobenzoylnaltrexamide, forget if its benzyl or benzoyl, but its a biased agonist that results in very little recruitment of beta-arrestin, like herkinorin, a semisynthetic derivative of one of the salvinorins, salvinorin-B IIRC, derived from the diviner's sage, Salvia divinorum, a potent and outright weird fucker of a hallucinogen, acting rather than most such compounds do on serotonin 5HT2a or NMDA type glutamate antagonism, on the kappa-type opioid receptor as a potent and selective agonist, most unusual in that its a terpenoid and utterly devoid of nitrogen, unlike almost the entirety of the rest of opioidergics for either MOR, KOR or DOR, and presumably zeta and epsilon. and whatever the hell the lambda binding site is (this is...difficult to find out, it seems due to the receptor protein converting from a high-affinity to a low affinity state upon processing of brain material, but given the nature of opioid receptors, endogenous ligand is probably a peptide, and zeta is...just odd. A growth factor type receptor that has some sequence homology to other opioid receptors, and otherwise jack shit in common with anything either a layman or a neuroscientist would think of as opioid-like, mu- delta- kappa- or ORL1/nociceptin etc.
As for fentanyl itself, its short acting, highly potent and induces a whopper of a tolerance very quickly, plus extremely provocative of tachyphylaxis (short-duration high intensity transient tolerance upon relatively little exposure to the drug or its relatives, in addition to its classic opioid tolerance) and its cold, euphoria-devoid, and but for extremely refractory pain, morphine beats the shit out of it any day. Yet too many clandestine chemists are aiming to synth the stuff, despite its danger. And its ending up in street H as well, one more reason why bar a few times, I don't touch the stuff from the street. Got what I'm pretty sure was either fentanyl or its relatives of some kind-doped H a couple of times. And whilst I could generally speaking use several street-serving wraps intravenously, if I cared to do so, this particular stuff, SMOKED, a single bag, dosed a few specks at a time, lasted over a week. In fact, that was before even refilling my pipe more than a couple of times. Scared the piss out of me to be quite honest, and if I didn't have a tolerance to opioids of the MOR agonist type as a chronic pain patient, IMO I'd have been killed, at least, if it wasn't for my awareness of fentanyl and similar ultra-potent opioids. Its telling, that since it arrived on the local area, every contact, user and dealer, within two weeks, disappeared utterly. Uncontactable forever more. Dead, I think. If I'm not mistaken, then that stuff wiped out the lot of them within two weeks. Of those I know to have handled it, I'm the only one left alive for certain. The stuff had H in it, I could taste it in the vapour, and I'd know the taste of H and opium anytime. But in quantities so small that even pharm-grade or analytical standard-grade pure diamorphine, or home-cooked diamorphine starting with pharm grade morphine and acetic anhydride or acetyl halides, wouldn't have been feelable whatsoever, this stuff knocked me out cold several times. And to do that it takes around a half to one gram of IV morphine sulfate. Whereas this...shit...strong shit, but shit still, despite it being so shockingly potent, a dose sufficient to provoke a total KO was, by eye, around the size of the pyrotechnic composition on the end of a single match stick, if scraped off, and whilst I don't go in much for H, dipropionylmorphine, in pure form, uncut, and to the latter can be vouched for with utter, complete certainty, having witnessed every moment from morphine sulfate, synthesis and administration without it ever having left my sight, and which is around 7-8x to 10x the potency of pure diamorphine, wouldn't do much in the doses taken to such dramatic effect. Stuff is a plague for street users IMO. Better plague than The Plague, (as in the Black Death) granted, but still a plague.
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I'm working on it. It's a day off and I'm being really lazy today. :P
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8mg tizanidine down the hatch. Can't remember if I took evening dose of chlormethiazole, so if I feel like I need it, I'll take one and make sure. Steep dose-response curve, and unforgiving in OD, extremely so. But that would be below a recreational dose, even, so no harm done if it equates to one extra 192mg cap.
30-40mg oxycodone as a top-up. Can't remember if I took my evening morphine dose, I don't think I did. If I didn't, it will let me know of the fact anyw..err...oh, no I didn't. Just spotted it prepared and ready.
4x0.18mg pramipexole tablets (a dopamine agonist, primarily an antiparkinsonian med, but I use it for RLS. RLS sucks dog schlong)
Will take clonidine once I've finished with the above. And had a good long slurp of cold guava juice, because Lestat is thirsty indeed at the moment..CBF with taking any cyclizine right now (its a sedating antihistamine and antiemetic/antinauseant, of particularly high caliber in the last purpose, and also, unusually good combined with morphine in a soluble form for IV use, the combination known as cyclimorph, or rather, something pretty close to it, since mine is as the HCl form and the hydrochloride has piss poor water solubility, so the lactate is a good alternative. I'd bet that the citrate and ascorbate (vitamin C salt) would prove water soluble although I haven't yet tested them. So a little work is needed before that can be used thusly, just formation of the freebase, recrystallization and dissolution of the base in a solvent then addition of a polar solvent containing the stoichiometric quantity of the acid of choice to the non-polar with the cyclizine base in it. Then mixing, evaporation of solvent, as well as filtration of it in solution before crystallizing since it would have to be extracted from cyclizine HCl tablets, in order to remove tablet binder residues. Or of course, distillation of the freebase would do it, not sure if its fair dos without resorting to vac distillation.
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Took my morning meds and went back to bed for an hour. Not looking forward to next week and beyond, four days a week of getting up early.
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Morphine, clonidine, tizanidine, oxy and chlormethiazole done, as well as a squirt of nasal decongestant spray up the...well where did you think:P
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So far, just the omeprazole. It's still very early. :yarly:
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Yes.
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All pilled up for a great day of ... doing nothing. :P
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Just got back from an appointment in the eye hospital a while ago, who increased the dose of steroid (prednisolone) from twice to three times a day plus picked up more eyeball-lubricant drops, called hylo-forte, thats hyluronate sodium in solution and is meant to help stop the areas of what from the gist of the conversation between a dr and a nurse who'd both looked at my eye sounds like cataract, along with some innapropriate areas of vascularization, or revascularization not as it should be. But the good news is the physical burn to my cornea has apparently more or less healed now. Question is, what to do about it and I have another appointment for follow up.
So, will...err....see...how it goes. So to speak. My vision is crap, though, not sure if it was 5/20 and 6/20 respectively, in left and right, but my right eye is crap anyway, after an accident I had in my early teens. The lucky thing is though that the areas of, as far as I could gather, they didn't bother to take the time to explain enough, iffy vascularization aren't over the cornea. Still doesn't help my vision not be shite though.
And the slit-lamp examinations are, quite honestly, loathesome. Not quite so bad, especially with both local anaesthesia and my having had three back to back shots of morphine before leaving the house for the eye hospital of about 300mg per, as they originally were shortly and for quite some time after having the injury that put me in the hospital in the first place. That was absolutely excruciating, since at the time I couldn't even open my eyes, and had them fucking pried open with a dr's fingers and a searing bright white light blasted into my eyes from a few inches away. , from having previous to the examinations at first response, had to cover my face with a coat to prevent light getting in. Oh gods in hell did that ever hurt.
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I'm not on any.
No wine yet either.
Pure, undiluted ass pie, until my allergies kick in at least.
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The PR - :thumbup:
Me - :thumbdn:
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All pilled up for a great day of ... doing nothing. :P
Same here. Took my meds straight after breakfast so I'm not waiting until I feel like crap before I take them.
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Heaven forbid you become a diluted aspie.
Isn't that called PDD-NOS these days:autism: (no offense intended towards those with a PDD-NOS Dx, that just had a funny ring to my mind)
I did indeed as of a few minutes ago. I was MEANT to pick up both some nitrazepam (a long-acting hypnotic benzo) and some additional oxycodone this week on monday but the repeat wasn't altered as it should have been. So I managed to get an appointment with my GP, the good one that knows me well and isn't a dick, and get those added so its done automatically and I don't have to go without for days.
And something, or at least the beginnings off, something I have been fighting for for years and needing greatly (a memantine script, so I can pick it up from the docs surgeryy on rx with the rest of my meds rather than have to spend time hunting round chemical supply houses, indian pharmacies, suppliers in eastern europe etc. who I don't like and don't trust any further than I can piss after tying a knot in my cock and stapling it to the nearest tree trunk. And not to mention I can ill afford it either.
And I've finally managed to secure, albeit a somewhat illogical definite medical status of which to achieve before starting it. A definite answer, which I have been nipping at their heels with the persistence of hell's own hounds for years. I think my doc realizes this is one thing I am absolutely not prepared to compromise on in a manner equating to my dropping the subject. That, is quite simply, not on offer, not on the table, not happening or up for discussion. I do not usually be quite so forceful and direct with drs, I have respect for the guy and like him, he's a genuinely kindly man who looks out for his patients. He just, well he trained in an era that did not leave him with the knowledge level I have in terms of neuropsychopharmacology and pharmacology in general. But I've managed, finally to come to another compromise with him, drop something else, which I already wanted off anyway, before starting it.
Hopefully he will be content to sit back and allow me to run the likes of finding optimum dose titration in terms of total dose, speed/schedule of increasing from start point to end point, and generally speaking, leave this one in my hands for direction, reporting back to him as to any negatives, positives or other effects of neutral value but demonstrably due to the drug.
In any case, its one I am very familiar with, and which I already know the above pretty much, know what I am doing with it and how best to do it. To him, my GP, its just an alzheimer's disease drug for moderate to severe alzheimer's which has not demonstrated significant benefit in mild disease.
To me, the mode of action is quite well understood (an uncompetitive NMDA type ionoropic glutamate receptor antagonist of very long half life indeed, but with rapid on-off receptor binding kinetics that binds similarly to magnesium. Of a modest affinity, and which selectively binds to NMDA receptors when the levels of glutamate binding (the main excitatory neurotransmitter of the CNS) are excessive, it binds only to the open state of the NMDAr ion channel, so can only shut down its action when the receptor is activated, and not, unlike other, more highly dissociative NMDA blockers such as PCP and ketamine, as a noncompetitive antagonist, and whilst it can produce dissociative effects it takes a really quite large dose to do so, and the resulting effects are subtle.
And it also preferentially blocks extrasynaptic NMDARs rather than the postsynaptic type involved in LTP, and thus learning and memory acquisition and encoding. Also excellent for neuropathic pain, far, far better than the drug I dropped, gabapentin. As well as possessing effects facilitating attention span as a dopamine reuptake inhibitor although not a highly potent one, thats more of a bonus with the stuff really and it has a fantastic effect upon tolerance to opioids. It squashes existing tolerance, resulting in quite an effective reduction in tolerance and more efficiency for a given dose of painkiller, it helps a great deal also in preventing tolerance climbing, or if a patient isn't there already, helping greatly slow and attenuate development of a tolerance or dependency. Both physical and psychological. Quite honestly I think clinics that offer the likes of methadone maint. or buprenorphine, etc. and detox facilities should have this drug as a part of their arsenal as a first resort, since it also helps kill cravings, presumably through a combination of both the NMDA antagonism, which exerts a modulatory effect upon Mu-opioid receptors and its dopaminergic effects. Kills physical withdrawal and cravings very effectively. as well as having antidepressive effects.
And as another bonus, the stuff works absolute wonders on overloading/overstimulation of the spazzy kind. Although doesn't in the least do anything horrid like reduce or stop me stimming like a stimmy, spazzy spazz enjoying a good spazzfest.
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Heaven forbid you become a diluted aspie.
Isn't that called PDD-NOS these days:autism: (no offense intended towards those with a PDD-NOS Dx, that just had a funny ring to my mind)
PDD-Nos has vanished as a DX. It's all Autism Spectrum Disorder now. With then a clarification on what parts of life it effects you in what gradation.
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Seems like I've ended up with quite a lot of extra chlormethiazole off my doc. I had to ask him for, since he forgot to put something else on repeat, and I needed to treat a couple of seizures and had to use that for both for a couple of days, quite a lot more than I needed, despite bringing the bottle along with me and counting them to make sure I remember how many I needed, in his office.
Oh well, not going to complain, since they work great for times I can't sleep, and now I have enough spares to treat any seizures as well as use as planned to prevent them in the first place. Its just they don't always have the same ideas I do or my dr does about what is convenient and what isn't.
Something else rather neat happened too, I wasn't planning on it as such, but I left with a script for potassium permanganate, a useful oxidizing agent, for treating feet apparently, as well as the steroids. Surprised it comes in tabletted format though, since its meant for external use only and would be a pretty nasty chemical to swallow. And to someone who doesn't know I could easily see that happening. At any rate, those are going to the lab, and I'll be trying to get them added to my repeats too. Definitely useful :D And all a chance result of asking my doc how he was finding a book I lent him, on medicine, as practiced in the 1700s and remarking about their use of, of all the things I'd sooner have the illness, treating piles by washing them with HNO3 (nitric acid) bet that was a lot of fun...not.
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The PR was dxed PDD-NOS at 2 years old. Been moved around on the board, latest is Aspergers.
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All pilled up, counting down to the weekend! :pirate:
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My social worker is going to book an appointment with a pharmacist to talk to me about medication. I admit, I am afraid of them. I hate the idea of mind altering drugs, except cannabis every now and then. I'd never use it constantly for fear of developing schizophrenia or depression.
I knew two people who said it was fine and used it long term, and both ended up in mental hospital for "cannabis induced..." something. Was told that term was just made up, but why on Earth would they make something like that up?
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My social worker is going to book an appointment with a pharmacist to talk to me about medication. I admit, I am afraid of them. I hate the idea of mind altering drugs, except cannabis every now and then. I'd never use it constantly for fear of developing schizophrenia or depression.
I knew two people who said it was fine and used it long term, and both ended up in mental hospital for "cannabis induced..." something. Was told that term was just made up, but why on Earth would they make something like that up?
All I can say with confidence about medication is that 1.) every brain is unique, and
2.) any medication may be a godsend for one person and a disaster for another, so do research! :yarly:
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My social worker is going to book an appointment with a pharmacist to talk to me about medication. I admit, I am afraid of them. I hate the idea of mind altering drugs, except cannabis every now and then. I'd never use it constantly for fear of developing schizophrenia or depression.
I knew two people who said it was fine and used it long term, and both ended up in mental hospital for "cannabis induced..." something. Was told that term was just made up, but why on Earth would they make something like that up?
All I can say with confidence about medication is that 1.) every brain is unique, and
2.) any medication may be a godsend for one person and a disaster for another, so do research! :yarly:
Man, that sounds like SUCH FUN!
Maybe I can get a script off him when I do see him, and ask you lovelies about it? :green:
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My social worker is going to book an appointment with a pharmacist to talk to me about medication. I admit, I am afraid of them. I hate the idea of mind altering drugs, except cannabis every now and then. I'd never use it constantly for fear of developing schizophrenia or depression.
I knew two people who said it was fine and used it long term, and both ended up in mental hospital for "cannabis induced..." something. Was told that term was just made up, but why on Earth would they make something like that up?
All I can say with confidence about medication is that 1.) every brain is unique, and
2.) any medication may be a godsend for one person and a disaster for another, so do research! :yarly:
Man, that sounds like SUCH FUN!
Maybe I can get a script off him when I do see him, and ask you lovelies about it? :green:
I'll contribute my 2 cents' worth if it's a medication I've heard of. Google searches can help too. 8)
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Thought the PR was HFA. OR is she one of those who constantly gets changed from one to another?
And weed doesn't CAUSE schizophrenia. If someone already has a latent tendency, if its already in there waiting to come out then it should be avoided. But in a healthy person, its not a CAUSE of it.
I'm not schizo for instance, and neither are me, us and we certain't aren't, neither am I for that matter :P
Seriously though, I'm not. And I first started blazing at about 9-11 give or take a year.
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Thought the PR was HFA. OR is she one of those who constantly gets changed from one to another?
And weed doesn't CAUSE schizophrenia. If someone already has a latent tendency, if its already in there waiting to come out then it should be avoided. But in a healthy person, its not a CAUSE of it.
I'm not schizo for instance, and neither are me, us and we certain't aren't, neither am I for that matter :P
Seriously though, I'm not. And I first started blazing at about 9-11 give or take a year.
Heavens knows what she is. I just think of her being somewhere on the spectrum.
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Thought the PR was HFA. OR is she one of those who constantly gets changed from one to another?
And weed doesn't CAUSE schizophrenia. If someone already has a latent tendency, if its already in there waiting to come out then it should be avoided. But in a healthy person, its not a CAUSE of it.
I'm not schizo for instance, and neither are me, us and we certain't aren't, neither am I for that matter :P
Seriously though, I'm not. And I first started blazing at about 9-11 give or take a year.
:P
A healthy person may as well have a latent tendency, how would one know whether the person has that tendency or not?
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I definitely have that tendency with marijuana so I'm never smoking it again.
That's what I worry about if it's legalised. More people will smoke it and more people will end up in hospital with psychosis.
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I'm all medicated for the work day! Horse pills and all! :pirate:
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Me too! :arrr:
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I don't think legality has much of an influence on it to be honest.
And IMO if it were regulated, and your average source was a smoke shop, or (and presumably not so well grown, etc) a corner shop, or even pharmacy, chances are you could do a better job of keeping it out of the hands of small children, I do think its probably not such a great idea for still-developing kids to be blazing up. That said, never seemed to do me any harm.)
But at least if there is some sort of structure in place by which to legally buy it, we cut down on the availability to the very young, as if its legal, the large grow ops can always undercut the street dealers. Although I'd certainly legalize (not decriminalize, legalize, so its SEEN to be as respectable as opening a 6 pack of cold beer)
It isn't a war that can be won by simply arresting people. People have been trying with all manner of substances since the original racist campaign against it by one harry anslinger, of the US, a scumbag of pretty unpleasant proportions, who characterized it as the favourite of dirty, slovenly, rapist, thieving workshy mexicans and demonized it, claiming it made people violent, prone to sexual misconduct of various stripes at the nastiest end of the spectrum. Which as we now know is utter horse shit. Its certainly a lot less harmful than alcohol and tobacco I think it can be fairly said. Just think how many hospital trips would be saved by people who didn't have a broken bottle or a pint glass smashed in their faces on a friday night by some drunken thug. Anyone been in hospital on a late friday night and seen the waiting room in the ER? its not pretty. I'd sooner have a bit of red-eye than half a broken bottle of stella sticking out of them:P
Not to mention if its fully legalized, as it should be, distributed properly, there is money from (and hopefully not excessive) taxation, badly needed to fund things like hospitals, psych counselling for people of any kind, no matter the cause, those services as I understand it here are badly under-funded, money taken away from the filth that would otherwise be used to persecute growers and consumers could be better spent on catching violent thugs, sexual attackers, paedophiles and as for the argument that a lot of the money stream associated with drugs (of any kind) is going into the hands of terrorist organizations, why NOT yank that particular carpet from under their feet? by keeping other substances than alcohol, tobacco and caffeine illegal we are admitting that we would sooner fund terrorist organizations, and put non-violent 'offenders' in prison, and destroy families in the process, and the govt. is happy to ignore its own specialist advisors on psychoactives, whenever their scientifically thought out advice conflicts with the official agenda. Meaning we essentially have them there as a token, and smoke and mirrors to take attention away from the fact that we are still officially fighting a 'war on drugs', pushed by the US that simply isn't something that CAN be won in that way. There is only one way it can be won, and that is by the pro-legalization side. Because there will always be a demand.
That alone, means it isn't going away. Where there is demand, there is supply. The only question is, how do we manage that in the way that results in the least harm to both society, families, and individuals.
Take, for an example of recent and outright nasty harm done by govt. legislation banning supply of, for example synthetic cannabinoids.
'spice' type products. I've kept track since they first came out and could be bought either online or through head shops. And at first, the synthetics were relatively benign, the likes of CP-55,940, JWH-series compounds, and where in the indole type compounds the indole nitrogen was fluorinated to provide an extra potency, it was invariably a 5-fluoropentyl group. It so happens that is relatively safe. But eventually, after banning, compounds were dug out to replace them that got progressively nastier and nastier, to the point where changes were made such as from indole to indazole, which seemed to massively reduce the duration of action, making them more reinforcing, super-potent compounds were brought out that were outright scary. One of them lasting about 15 minutes, maybe 20, capable of causing seizures, a highly potent, full agonist (THC is a moderately efficacious partial CB1 agonist, CB1 being the primary psychoactive cannabinoid receptor, CB2 being primarily concerned as I understand it with immunoregulation and regulation of inflammatory processes) and using a 1mg/1ml solution, I estimated that an active and potent dose of this particular synthetic cannabinoid, which was widespread at the time, after a wave of bannings, not only induced a very rapid tolerance, far more than weed ever COULD even if you tried, and within maybe the second day of use in a row tachyphylaxis would also kick in. And estimated as best I could by dilution and carefully measuring, that an active dose of the drug itself must have been within the region of <25ug. That is SIGNIFICANTLY more potent than fentanyl, the synthetic opioid (which for comparison is around 90-100x as potent as morphine on a weight basis)
And trying the 1mg/1ml solution made up with glycerine and propylene glycol to be usable in an e-cig, maybe 4-5 tokes was enough to hit like a tank. Now I could see this stuff being useful in an inhaled form as an ultra-rapid acting (seconds in onset, inhalational route) antinauseant and anti-vomiting agent for those with cancer chemo-associated nausea so they could last long enough to get their oral medication down and working. But for that stuff to turn up sprayed on carrier material of uncertain accuracy as to stated concentration, intended for smoking in a bong, was to be honest, scary.
And to work directly with the stuff, not in solution or on a substrate you had to be as careful with it as you would with raw fentanyl HCl. One slip and unlike fent, you'd not as likely end up dead, but certainly out cold. Cross-contamination of someone making a diluted product with someone else through a nick in gloves, or an invisible speck of powder getting on the skin, chances are the recipient would hit the deck in short order.
Then when they were really really forced, by govt legislation to scrape the bottom of the barrel, 1-(5-fluoropentyl) substutition changed to 1-(4-fluorobutyl) in many cases. Which is a damned dangerous product, because it turns out that aliphatic hydrocarbon chains of an even number of carbons with a terminal alkyl fluoride get metabolized via beta-oxidation to (mono)fluoroacetic acid (di- and trifluoroacetate are not similar toxicologically speaking) but this is a deadly and cumulatively toxic metabolic poison, it works by being metabolized, like acetate does to citrate, fluoroacetate does to fluorocitrate, in the Kreb's cycle, vital for mitochondria to produce ATP. And whilst the mechanics are different, the result is something like cyanide and azide (although these block cytochrome C oxidase) but both interfere with mitochondrial energy production and starve the tissues of energy on the cellular level. Thus targeting the most, those tissues with the highest energy requirements that need the most ATP to function (ATP, adenosine triphosphate is the cellular 'currency' unit of energy), this means the brain, the heart, and reproductive organs especially hard hit by toxins like this, as well as the nervous system.
And fluoroacetate poisoning is almost untreatable, and its extremely poisonous stuff, grazing of a couple of plants that produce it, some in australia and some in south africa, are well known as being able to kill lifestock, and the carcasses that get scavenged by such creatures as feed that way kill them too. Toxicity wise, its easily on a par with some of the middling-level organophosphate nerve agents. I got a head shop to take certain products off the shelves after I found those particular changes had been made, warned them and told them exactly what the problem and the poison was. At least one place got rid of them because of that, thankfully)
Plus a couple more synthetics appeared, cannabinoids, that whilst it wasn't their cannabinoid activity, that was the problem, but something unknown at least to me currently, but IIRC, something with a dimethylated valine (one of the basic aminoacids that is used in protein synthesis, perhaps that had something to do with it, or maybe pyruvate kinase inhibition, if I were to guess at possible suspects) caused waves and waves of deaths over in eastern europe and some on the continent too.
All because of progressive thoughtless legislation. And it hasn't stopped much being available, things can still be bought on the dark web.
Forcing such a trade as the psychoactive trade underground isn't going to help, its going to create danger where there was little, more danger where there was a modest amount, and then things will go progressively downhill from there.
Or for a more classic example, take making sassafras oil hard to obtain, which is used for the recovery of safrole, a methylenedioxypropenylbenzene that makes for an excellent precursor to (via bromosafrole/iodosafrole etc) MDMA via a number of routes that are generic for taking a propenylbenzene to the corresponding amphetamine. When this oil became highly watched, all it served to do was drive prices for genuine oil through the roof, and lead to substitutions being made that would provide not the methylenedioxypropenylbenzene but the likes of para-methoxy, resulting in the extremely dangerous PMA, or PMMA (para-methoxyamphetamine, and the corresponding 4-methoxy-methamphetamine respectively) via unwatched and much cheaper oils such as apiol from parsley seed oil (the essential oils of a large number of spices yield interesting propenylbenzenes or allylbenzenes that can be isomerized to the propenylbenzene and produce what Alexander Shulgin, rest his soul, termed 'the essential amphetamines', those coming from widely available kitchen spices and the plants that provide them, isolated via distillation and then treated with the same kinds of reaction system that would turn safrole into MDMA. It just happens that 4-monosubstituted amphetamines are for the vast part, iffy as fuck. PMA and PMMA are MAO(a) inhibitors as well as serotonin/noradrenaline/dopamine releaser/reuptake inhibitors which is a potentially and in these cases likely lethal combination, PMA is like MDMA in many respects regarding its effects, but with a TINY region between effects and fatality. I've never had it, and the only reason I'd have anything to do with it is as a cheaper substrate to practice a reaction scheme on to be used for something else, I'd not take the product, I'd not sell it, in fact I'd destroy it immediately after identification and confirmation of success. But most people aren't LIKE me in that respect, most of them want an easily available, cheap substrate to knock out a 'bargain' basement entactogen, and hell take the consequences and the people who use it.
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And took morning ones, plus a couple of extra chlormethiazole caps, after I'd had a seizure, one of those horrible atonic ones, got me before I could respond, just as I was waking up, and I couldn't move to take anything for it, moment I could, stuck a couple of those down my neck, as I, possibly by accident, ended up with more than I should have. Which is a good thing, because it means now I have backup for when I do need to take extra due to having to actually respond to a seizure beginning, or insure against it happening again the moment I drift off to sleep, which seems to be when they are most likely. Then went straight back to sleep until about 5pm.
About to take a dose of nitrazepam, just a little, since my nerves are feeling pretty frayed for some reason, and some more pain meds. Then go play fallout 2 :D
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Just took my supplements, and I'm on my second cuppa. :coffee:
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Not yet. I will.
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Why, yes. Yes I did. :thumbup:
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Wondering whether or not to take my afternoon meds. I don't really have to.
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Most of them yes. Haven't needed the tizanidine or the GI meds.
At least, I have done now I finally GOT everything I should have been given straight away on monday. I think.
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Yup. Some of them.
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Most.
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Too late to take my afternoon dose of dex.
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You could grind it up and snort it, or use a measuring syringe, add H2O and after letting it soak for a while, plug the solution ('plug' in that context, means to apply intra-rectally. Of course, the measuring syringe is best off with no needle attached. For obvious reasons. Same bioavailability and speed of onset roughly for a great many drugs as delivery via intramuscular injection, only without the risk of infection if sterility is not practiced. And of course, given what one's arse is usually used for, the presence of bacterial traces is not, exactly, an issue. If you see what I mean. Sticking it up the tradesman's entrance as with injection, with a drug shortens the duration of action but intensifies the effect. Extraction from XR formulations generally means doing a second soak and leaving it so as not to waste any. And go drop one before plugging anything, otherwise...ahem..mechanical absorption in excrement present in the rectum and lowest regions of the bowel can take place and significant wastage (pun intended) can occur. So it should be done with an empty arse. Just take a shit, if you need one. If you can't, then there's generally nothing to worry about. It works just fine with amphetamines. More experience using the mode of application for opioids personally, mainly when my stomach issues have been playing up badly enough it was impossible to swallow anything and with substances with piss-poor bioavailability orally, whence in the former instance had i taken say, my oxy by mouth, and having too large a dose to put up the nose, in terms of a large pile of powder it would have been vomited.)
Takes between 5 and 15 minutes, more like somewhere in the middle of that to begin taking proper effect. Peak effect is higher, duration is shortened. The same goes, whilst I've never done it with amphetamine itself, it works just fine with methamphetamine and is well known to work for plain vanilla amphetamine and a great many other meds and recreationals. Diazepam for instance is made as an emergency anticonvulsant in rectal dosage units containing an emulsion of the benzo, the idea being for the responder to an unconscious patient having a seizure, where it would be difficult or dangerous to try and get a needle in them to administer the anticonvulsant and have it take a similarly rapid effect.)
What form is the dex in? IR or XR? and if its XR, the microbead formulations work the best, and leaching from the substrate once finely ground to powder is more rapid than with tablet forms. Best way to do it, is to suck it through an un-used rollup type cigarette filter, to retain the majority of the ground up matrix. This is not due to any danger from particulates with rectal use, but so that the filter can be returned to the container with the sludge from the XR matrix, more H2O added, 5ml, or 10ml would do just fine, does do just fine in fact, and is not sufficient to cause discomfort. Just keep it in there and let it absorb. The filter on the other hand, after adding more water to it and the remaining matrix in whatever container you did the extraction in, still contains a portion of the XR drug, and that can be left soaking, after squashing it around in say, a mortar and pestle, or if you have not one, then a cup and the handle of a knife, a screwdriver handle, or anything of that nature. Its hardly a technical challenge, if it can squish something about in water, then it'll do, a finger will serve if nothing else is available (into the cup, that is, not up your arse, as cute as I bet it is:))
If your squeamish about a couple of milliliters of water and amphetamine solution being squirted up your chocolate starfish, then just powder, rack up into a couple of lines with a credit card on a smooth surface, mirror, CD case or whatever and rail it with a straw (bank notes, at least the old kind don't have as smooth a surface, and you probably don't want to lick one to get the last traces, considering how many hands they will have passed through, and most likely, how many other noses they have been up before going up that cute little protrusion below your aspie death stare:autism:)
And the shorter the piece of drinking straw, the less powder gets to cover the surface and the more up your nose.
Either way, shorter duration, higher peak effect.
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And, again, last bits of morning meds taken, 180mg IM morphine sulfate with 20mg oxycodone added, cimetidine to block CYP-P450-2D6 and CYP-P450-3A4, and as such keep it around longer and give a slightly higher peak.
Kicking in nicely now, and once fortified with the near enough mandatory post-shot rollup then I think, after calling my lawyer to arrange a meeting, or possibly change, if they do not perform to order, that I shall get to finishing the casting of that silver jewellery for that cute semi-former social worker lass its being made for, as a thank you gift for all she's done for me, and a keepsake I hope, to remind her of me, or rather, as a token of my appreciation both of her services, and because, I must confess, I rather like her, if you see what I mean. She's hawt. A mixture of all the above, anyhow, she deserves it, having gone out of her way to be helpful for me.
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I take 5mg tablets, 3 first thing in the morning, 2 at lunch and then 2 at about 4pm.
Not about to snort things, I'm stuck with hayfever pretty much all the time. I do take a nasal spray though, Rhinocort, which helps me breathe through my nose.
As for up the bum, no thanks! That's non-return. Nothing goes in.
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*wobbles in :cbc: :tea: with meds and liquids for Her Majesty!* :queenie:
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Well the decongestant and nasal steroid would avoid any irritation. There is usually an initial sting/nasal burning sensation with the simple, unsubstituted amphetamines such as amphetamine itself or meth (by unsubstituted, I mean on the phenyl ring rather than the amine) but that isn't too bad with amphetamine or its methylated counterpart.
And why not stick it up there? and technically it isn't a return, its a deposit. Only deposited in the region usually used to make ....other....kinds of deposit. And think about it this way. What generally comes OUT of there, is an awful lot worse than what would be going IN. Go for it, you'll probably like the result better by far than taking it by mouth. The amphetamine that is. I really wouldn't suggest the more usual, biologically sourced contents of said region be taken orally. That would be...well I'd rather not do it put it that way:LOL1:
It only takes a few ml of water, there is no discomfort with that kind of quantity, you won't even feel the solution once its in there. Actually, I'm about to do the same thing, only with oxy instead of amphetamine. Trust me, there is absolutely no discomfort. I didn't like the idea the first time plugging anything either, but it was something that stank to high heaven and tasted utterly foul (gamma-butyrolactone, a GHB prodrug) so it went up the arse instead. Squeamishness will be overcome after the first time almost certainly. Just bite the bullet, it really isn't that bad. If its bothersome the thought of using a 5ml barrel (they are wider, not longer) just use a 2.5 (in practise, for plugging, this equates to 3ml since they are not being used to shoot up IV, and they are narrower)
But a 5ml measuring syringe is not uncomfortable either. the bigger, fatter 10-20ml (forget which, 20ml I think) is about the size it takes for any discomfort. If it makes it easier, a bit of vaseline, or even cooking oil, lip-balm, butter, applied to the tip of the syringe and you probably won't even feel it go in. Doesn't have to go right up there, just past the sphincter, depress plunger, withdraw rig and throw it away.
Just don't use a huge syringe, and of course, don't use a needle (goes without saying really) and you will be fine. And with amphetamines, the effects are far better that way. There isn't the immediate 'rush' that comes with IV use, but certainly a nice fast warm glow (bodily, mentally, that is, I do not mean a local sensation up there)
More comfortable with room-temperature or slightly warm water rather than straight from the cold tap. But even that, isn't particularly uncomfortable.
Edit-compared the sizes with a larger syringe I use for dispensing chemicals (into containers of various kinds, not into my behind) and 20ml would be uncomfortable due to the width, 10ml isn't hugely bothersome, slight discomfort perhaps. Just used a 5ml (typical measuring syringe size) for the oxy and it really wasn't noticeable.
Only needs go in about 1cm-1.5-2cm or so, depth wise, you need not stick the entire length of the syringe up your asshole, just enough to create a seal 'twixt sphincter and rig, then a bit, and its enough. And about 5 minutes later, the phet should kick in, for a shorter time, as its more or less being used as an IR, since only the part that comes straight out of the powdered pills will be in the solution. If its adderall, there would be a slightly extended duration compared to say, amphetamine sulfate or hydrochloride, because adderall is a mixture of salts that have different absorption rates. This though, isn't anything like as dramatic as a true XR formulation. Works best with capsules containing microbeads, but in any case, it'll do the trick. Failing both (and of snorting and plugging, the latter is faster and more effective with a higher peak) you could powder them to bugger the time release up and then just take it sublingually or between cheek and gum for buccal absorption. Not so fast and its a bit of a nuisance since it has to sit there and absorb. All the same, up one end or the other is the best way for it.
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Renewed both my hyper and my spazz meds.
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Just took the last dose of Strattera from the old vial. Getting my refill today. 8)
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As spazzy as ever, so yes.
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The ones I needed to take. Bar the steroid eyedrops, I forgot. Will take one or two drops before I go to bed so as not completely to miss out.
The ones I didn't were the GI meds which I haven't needed.
Some morphine just taken for an evening dose, the rest is otherwise occupied. Thankfully, due to the increased dose of oxycodone for the pain in my burnt eyeball, I've bar a couple of shots using a 1ml syringe, or a 5ml one containing the same quantity, used only one larger shot this WEEK, maybe two, but only one solid 300mg shot. Saving that for higher purposes.
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Yes. And something else, apparently, because I'm calmly detached despite a stressful day.
Probably a steaming cup of don't-give-a-fuck. You get old enough, you just don't care anymore. 8)
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Yes, I have taken everything, well, no omeprazole just yet. Maybe later. 8)
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Just to fit in, I took a vitamin tablet today. I felt very healthy.
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Yeah, I did.
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Sort of. I had to improvise anticonvulsant prophylaxis., meaning resorting to ethanol. Ugh, I hate drinking spirits as a rule, and since I have just enough chlormethiazole on my rx for prophylaxis, which means if I have to respond to a seizure actually beginning it leaves me more prone to one than I'd be in the first place. So, a liter of dark rum had to suffice. Knock me out for most of the day. Eww.
It does the job, the med I take, but its short acting, and with a rather low level between active and lethal do has a tendency to wear off during sleep. So coverage isn't perfect and neither is seizure prophylaxis, shit happens, and to quote kassi, post ictal shitty, happens.
And whilst pissed as a fart, had to improvise pain coverage from a (formerly) OTC de-wormer (1-butyryl-4-cinnamylpiperazine from piperazine) I really need to work on the rxk conditions. Seems like they are extremely variable from a 99% yield to 30%-40%, seems like trivalent cerium can catalyze the rxn or copper (II)/Cu(I) can serve. But i've only a few grams left and as such have to buy the damn piperazine since the medication for treating worms is now mebendazole, formerly one could buy 8g piperazine as 2x4g per pack of piperazine hydrogen phosphate.
Long, tedious rxn to AP-237, but at least, no shit, no fan, so to speak.
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Yes, along with some AP-237. Wondering if AP-237 could better be made in a batch process, acid-base extracting the amino-amide product, and then decarboxylating 1,4-bispropionylpiperazine by prolonged boiling in strong lye solution to recover the piperazine that didn't end up as the desired product, since the 1,4-bis-amides won't follow through in an acid-base extraction because amides are not very basic, and unlike amines, won't form freebases soluble in nonpolar solvents if there are no other functional groups that themselves will follow in an a/b.
That, and I've been looking at the potential of trivalent cerium as a catalyst. I've heard reports of 99% 1-acylation of piperazine hexahydrate with negligible formation of 1,4-bisacylated byproducts which is damn impressive. Also heard tell of excellent results using divalent copper, CuCl2 in particular, as well as Cu (I) salts [Cu(II) are the cupric salts whereas Cu(I) are the corresponding cuprous salts. No cerium compound on the lab shelves but can easily obtain them, and copper (II) chloride I definitely have, got a big flask of the solution, and all I'd need do is evaporate it, and possibly treat it with Cl2 gas and heat or with thionyl chloride if the anhydrous salt is needed.
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I did take the meds that I needed. Just picked up a repeat/refill rx today actually.
There is something I am REALLY not amused about. For a long time, my antiseizure med, chlormethiazole came in two forms. As capsules, which contained the freebase dissolved in an oily suspension, and the ethanedisulfonate salt in a syrup form, which I've never had.
I noticed today that brand name heminevrin at least, the capsules, now contain the fucking edisylate salt. NOT pleased. One of the things I like/d so much about it was its being damn lipophilic and absorbed within minutes of the capsules opening after swallowing one. Which means that it could stop a seizure in its tracks in damn short order due to the extremely rapid onset of action. The salt is going to be more polar in nature and less well absorbed.
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Just took the Strattera. Hopefully won't have any nausea this morning. :P
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Chlormethiazole down the hatch, along with 60mg oxycodone. Fucked with chlormethiazole. The edisylate salt. Hmph. It doesn't seem to be as fast acting as the caps which until recently contained the freebase. Those worked in minutes. I'm going to have to see if a generic is available.
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I was in such a rush to go out this morning that I completely forgot my meds. I was ok, really. When I got home I realised it was too late to take my morning meds but I took lunchtime dexamphetamine. I'll resume regular dosage tonight.
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All pilled up for my busy day! :pirate:
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The PR :thumbup:
QV about to.
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Just finished taking them. Now supplementing with :coffee: !
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Almost left the house without taking my morning meds again. If this happens on a college day, I'm stuffed. Better start refining my routine again.
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Almost left the house without taking my morning meds again. If this happens on a college day, I'm stuffed. Better start refining my routine again.
I'm lucky, my Strattera is just one dose in the morning. :orly:
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Apparently dexamphetamine can be compounded so it is only one dose a day but I can't afford it. So it's 3 doses a day.
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Most. Skipped the GI meds, since my guts aren't playing up, so there isn't any point. Time to go see if the last one I do need is ready yet.
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I did.
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Took them as I should. I didn't go anywhere today so I didn't forget them.
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All set here, now supplementing with :coffee: for the long day of cleaning that awaits!
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Yes most of them, holding off on tizanidine though, since I've already taken several of my meds that have strongly sedating natures, and I want to be awake, so I can resume my game of fallout II; without flopping down out cold onto my keyboard :autism:
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Not yet. I'm going to start with omeprazole. :apondering:
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Yes I have, just night meds to go.
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Just took the Strattera along with half a sandwich to settle my stomach! :thumbup:
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Most.
Buscopan, cyclizine, unusually, in the morning as I had a stomach cramp. And the cyclizine helped me fall asleep (its one of the sedating antihistamines), morning dose of 5mg nitrazepam. As I'm deciding to taper that down, although without my doc knowing so I can build up a reserve for those odd awful days everyone has sometimes and I NEED something to help stop the steam squirting out of my ears in frustration, fury, overloading or all of the aforementioned. So will just take 3/4 tonight. Chlormethiazole-yes, oxy-yes, am about to take a top-up dose. Morphine-yes in the morning, sort of now, not a full dose, but did take a small shot, about 1/4 of the usual, maybe between 1/4 and 1/3. Clonidine and tizanidine-in the morning. For once my leg hasn't been playing up too badly today. Pramipexole-yes, morning.
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Not yet. Well, I'm about to have a second cup of coffee.
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Back on the L-Lysine routine, face and eyes need it.
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Just took the Strattera, a few hours late. :tard:
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Cimetidine, now I finally found it, along with a couple of zanaflex (muscle relaxer) and about to take some oxycodone. I think I am anyway, debating whether to go with it or morphine. Possibly chlormethiazole, haven't decided yet.
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I did, yes.
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In fact I was so intent on taking meds that I accidentally took The PRs meds by mistake. I realized it pronto and promptly spit them out and gave them to her. (But I didn't tell her.) Hey, we're related, share germs, clothes, etc.
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Been very busy today, but I need to take mine now. Going.
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Not yet, no. I will when I get there.
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you best have given them at least a rinse under the tap. Better thing would be to have given her next days dose and gone to get another day worth from the drs.
We are not amused :(
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I took an extra dexamphetamine tablet this afternoon. I had a networking class and wanted to concentrate on that.
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Just took the Strattera. Gearing up for another day's drudgery. :autism:
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In fact I was so intent on taking meds that I accidentally took The PRs meds by mistake. I realized it pronto and promptly spit them out and gave them to her. (But I didn't tell her.) Hey, we're related, share germs, clothes, etc.
Dare I say it? I looked up herpes recently. Apparently 80% of people who have it don't realise they do, and to top that off, there's asymptomatic shedding, which means herpes can pass on and the person receiving it will likely never know where they got it. And in America, 50% of people have herpes. I think oral herpes is the most common, and a lot of people get it as kids.
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To me though, it sounds closer to home to say that 1 in 5 people experience symptoms, and 1 in 2 have herpes.
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you best have given them at least a rinse under the tap. Better thing would be to have given her next days dose and gone to get another day worth from the drs.
We are not amused :(
If I rinsed them under the tap they would have dissolved. We've always been pretty comfy sharing things, so I knew it was no biggie for her.
(And you owe me 5000 pounds for copping my trademarked line.)
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In fact I was so intent on taking meds that I accidentally took The PRs meds by mistake. I realized it pronto and promptly spit them out and gave them to her. (But I didn't tell her.) Hey, we're related, share germs, clothes, etc.
Dare I say it? I looked up herpes recently. Apparently 80% of people who have it don't realise they do, and to top that off, there's asymptomatic shedding, which means herpes can pass on and the person receiving it will likely never know where they got it. And in America, 50% of people have herpes. I think oral herpes is the most common, and a lot of people get it as kids.
Yes I know quite a few people with "kissing" herpes.
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Could have used other days worth and got a replacement from the doc.
So no I don't :P
Added bitch-didn't see the doc I was meant to, had to get a replacement at the very last minute after turning up and finding the doctor in question (thankfully not my regular doc, the really decent one,) had been in a car crash, snapped his arm
And its taken me, that brief rousing for the dr appt aside, at 4pm from morning until just now, at 9:20 in the evening
to even wake up from the heavy, heavy doses of antiseizure/heavy-duty tranquilizer type meds in combination with my painkillers and muscle relaxers etc. Stuff hits like a sledgehammer even at smaller doses, this time I had to push it, stagewise, all the way up to 'survivable doses'
Thankfully my old man has now just gone out to go to a bar with some of his friends, so he's going to take his time and I'll have some additional time online before he gets back since hopefully he'll get good and soused and not pay attention to the time much.
Another bitch is that one of the receptionists has a blood clot on her lung, a really quite sweet young lass, very likeable, nice girl, funny to talk with. But shes been treated in an outpatient setting, still able to do her job so hopefully it isn't a truly serious one. Not that there are any GOOD kinds of course. And I swear, she keeps flirting with me. Giving me looks even a spazz like me can't fail to pick up on, and in the way she talks with me (sometimes making people wait until shes finished the conversation to book in even:P)
Could be worse people to have that from though by far, even if she is NT, since she IS cute, and seems a genuinely nice girl, early 20s, I doubt very much over 25, maybe 26 or so, and admittedly, very pretty. Although pretty sure she isn't autistic.
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In fact I was so intent on taking meds that I accidentally took The PRs meds by mistake. I realized it pronto and promptly spit them out and gave them to her. (But I didn't tell her.) Hey, we're related, share germs, clothes, etc.
Dare I say it? I looked up herpes recently. Apparently 80% of people who have it don't realise they do, and to top that off, there's asymptomatic shedding, which means herpes can pass on and the person receiving it will likely never know where they got it. And in America, 50% of people have herpes. I think oral herpes is the most common, and a lot of people get it as kids.
Around 80% of all cats are infected with feline herpes. It can cause one of the types of sneezing disease. But as long as the general health is OK it will not show, just like in humans.
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Could have used other days worth and got a replacement from the doc.
So no I don't :P
Added bitch-didn't see the doc I was meant to, had to get a replacement at the very last minute after turning up and finding the doctor in question (thankfully not my regular doc, the really decent one,) had been in a car crash, snapped his arm
And its taken me, that brief rousing for the dr appt aside, at 4pm from morning until just now, at 9:20 in the evening
to even wake up from the heavy, heavy doses of antiseizure/heavy-duty tranquilizer type meds in combination with my painkillers and muscle relaxers etc. Stuff hits like a sledgehammer even at smaller doses, this time I had to push it, stagewise, all the way up to 'survivable doses'
Thankfully my old man has now just gone out to go to a bar with some of his friends, so he's going to take his time and I'll have some additional time online before he gets back since hopefully he'll get good and soused and not pay attention to the time much.
Another bitch is that one of the receptionists has a blood clot on her lung, a really quite sweet young lass, very likeable, nice girl, funny to talk with. But shes been treated in an outpatient setting, still able to do her job so hopefully it isn't a truly serious one. Not that there are any GOOD kinds of course. And I swear, she keeps flirting with me. Giving me looks even a spazz like me can't fail to pick up on, and in the way she talks with me (sometimes making people wait until shes finished the conversation to book in even:P)
Could be worse people to have that from though by far, even if she is NT, since she IS cute, and seems a genuinely nice girl, early 20s, I doubt very much over 25, maybe 26 or so, and admittedly, very pretty. Although pretty sure she isn't autistic.
I'm sorry to be such an angry bitch, but....... We have a back up supply of all meds simply because of meds not taken (forgot to) or not given (stomach sickness - no sense wasting them if they'll be thrown up.) It's hard enough that I have to keep all meds (prescription and over the counter) locked up and all sharp objects (knives, can openers, scissors, sewing needles, nail files, etc) locked up also. It is a ROYAL PAIN IN THE ASS when you want an aspirin or a knife to spread butter on your toast and you have to lift a tool box and unlock the DAMN thing. Then relock it and place the tool box back where it belongs. I wasn't about to do that again yesterday to get her fresh meds.
BTW, I also have to keep all money under similar protective measures because she's been taking money from my wallet. Every time I leave the house I have to unlock a third damn tool chest and get my wallet out. I am FUCKING TIRED of living under lock and key. But I do it because it's necessary.
That means I have 3 different combinations I have to remember and again, I'm sorry to be a sorry, angry bitch, but, sometimes I just am.
So, think ill of me if you want, but I don't give a rat's ass.
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Dare I say it? I looked up herpes recently. Apparently 80% of people who have it don't realise they do, and to top that off, there's asymptomatic shedding, which means herpes can pass on and the person receiving it will likely never know where they got it. And in America, 50% of people have herpes. I think oral herpes is the most common, and a lot of people get it as kids.
How do they diagnose the undiagnosed herpes to quantify these percentages?
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If I rinsed them under the tap they would have dissolved. We've always been pretty comfy sharing things, so I knew it was no biggie for her.
Would assume the two of you kiss and share food/drink so she has no reason to fear your spit. :laugh:
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I wasn't having a go at you QV, only saying what I myself would have done personally. So no offense meant.
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I wasn't having a go at you QV, only saying what I myself would have done personally. So no offense meant.
It's my turn to back down. I was having a bad day including The PR having a melt down at therapy and them asking her if she needed to go to the hospital, which made it even worse. I managed to distract her by taking her to a thrift store, but stood in line for 10 minutes to get checked out because it was a sale day. Ate like a pig all day, soothed my nerves at last with a spectacular ice cream sundae. So, I'm feeling quite steady again. Sorry for going off on you. Apologies to the rest of the community for being a bitch.
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^You're going through a hell of a lot. And you've been awesome. I don't see you as being a bitch at all. Just explaining what you're going through, which is pretty tough imo.
Haven't taken meds yet today. Just woke up and will be having toast first.
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Just took a couple of ibuprofen. Left leg is aching, it's hard to get comfortable enough to sleep. :-\
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Both of us :2thumbsup:
And I even managed to give The PR hers without my playing a Mama bird and regurgitating the pills.
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Its alright QV, took me by surprise a little, but it was NEVER intended as a dig at you, for all I was saying, is what I, myself, PERSONALLY, would have done. And only because I care about the PR (and admittedly really have a 'thing' for her, since shes such a cutie)
But was describing my OWN way of going about it had I been there, not having a go at you QV. And surely, my motive, caring for somebody that, ahem, I'm very taken with indeed, well, it was intended in a way as caring about her, is all.
No offense taken QV. How is she? is she feeling any better now? and are you?
Took my meds, and given that I had quite a large extra supply compared to my usual unmodified script, of chlormethiazole, the antiseizure drug, I'd waited without sleep last night, so there would be someone watching whilst I slept, and took a real heavy dose of the stuff, woke up badly needing my painkillers, indeed I've only been up for a half hour or so. So quickly put a couple of caps worth of IR oxy up my nose, to steady my hands for what was to come next, then, although I haven't in a while, done an IV shot, and a large one of morphine. Managed to find a vein with the second attempt too which was good, and had a goodly sized shot of morphine, about 350mg, plus 20-30 of oxy up the nose first so my hands wouldn't shake whilst I had a needle in my vein, which wouldn't be good, particularly since I was using very, very fine paediatric needles, 31g IIRC which are very, very thin and easily bendable. Takes a while to get everything in, especially considering I'd used a 5ml syringe barrel, but meant that it started up a considerable whopper of a rush just partway down the barrel being emptied, due to the slow speed of the solution being able to pass through the needle tip. Which meant for a considerably extended rush,with my still having to shoot up the other full half of the syringe-full. Meaning a rush added to my already rushing hard. That itself made my hands a little shaky, but no extravasation. I needed to shoot that time, since I had only taken 10, maybe 20mg oxy to allow me to sleep during the day lying on the sofa with a coat on my head to block light out, took 10mg nitrazepam (I had spare since I'd used until today only half of one day of a full week's script, since I'm now more or less accumulating a reserve until my doc won't give me any more, but its on repeat and the taper is on my own steam, unofficial, so at least I'll get more when if ever they do decide to stop it, that way whenever I really need stress relief, I have it then, right there and have only to reach for it and pop the pill out of the blister pack rather than make an appointment and beg, quite likely unsuccessfully if the doc isn't compliant. So I woke up initially withdrawing from the pain meds, got the oxy up my nose so it would act fast, to steady my hands and take my shot of morphine. Feel rather warm and fuzzy and relaxed now..just....mmmmmmmmmmm.
Would have been even nicer curled up in the PR's arms/lap/both like a pair of morphine-ated kittens (figuratively speaking re-kittens, since IIRC morphine and similar opiates are excitatory in the feline family and alternatives need to be used for pain relief in cats since the effect is quite different in a cat, with morphine than it is in a human)
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I did. After dealing with (TeH FINAL) doctor appointment associated with my hip replacement this morning, I remembered a lot of things I had not done.
As of today I do not need to see the surgeon again until five years from now, unless I have troubles.
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I did. After dealing with (TeH FINAL) doctor appointment associated with my hip replacement this morning, I remembered a lot of things I had not done.
As of today I do not need to see the surgeon again until five years from now, unless I have troubles.
:asthing: :2thumbsup: :fiveshots: :party: :shark: :crowd: :hadron: :headbang: :Rock: :dancers: :happydance: :dance: :oneliner: :meditate: boobs2 : :fun dance: :coolyo:
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No offense taken QV. How is she? is she feeling any better now? and are you?
She's napping now. She had another meltdown at therapy today, but I talked her through it rather than pick her up. I feel it's critical that she learn to deal with as much as possible on her own. Obviously not negotiating buying a house, but dealing with her emotions, managing her allowance, etc. So far no gigantic success in this, but it's early days yet.
I'm definitely going to drink some alcoholic libation tonight, probably blackberry cordial.
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Dare I say it? I looked up herpes recently. Apparently 80% of people who have it don't realise they do, and to top that off, there's asymptomatic shedding, which means herpes can pass on and the person receiving it will likely never know where they got it. And in America, 50% of people have herpes. I think oral herpes is the most common, and a lot of people get it as kids.
How do they diagnose the undiagnosed herpes to quantify these percentages?
You're right! Apparently the testing for herpes is unreliable too. There was some study though on how often asymptomatic shedding occured. I dunno how they could reliably tell.
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In fact I was so intent on taking meds that I accidentally took The PRs meds by mistake. I realized it pronto and promptly spit them out and gave them to her. (But I didn't tell her.) Hey, we're related, share germs, clothes, etc.
Dare I say it? I looked up herpes recently. Apparently 80% of people who have it don't realise they do, and to top that off, there's asymptomatic shedding, which means herpes can pass on and the person receiving it will likely never know where they got it. And in America, 50% of people have herpes. I think oral herpes is the most common, and a lot of people get it as kids.
Around 80% of all cats are infected with feline herpes. It can cause one of the types of sneezing disease. But as long as the general health is OK it will not show, just like in humans.
Aww, poor kitties. But yeh, it doesn't sound that bad for them.
I wonder if herpes would show up in someone like me, who has eczema. What do those supposed 80% of people have that the 20% doesn't? I mean, it's still high.
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Dare I say it? I looked up herpes recently. Apparently 80% of people who have it don't realise they do, and to top that off, there's asymptomatic shedding, which means herpes can pass on and the person receiving it will likely never know where they got it. And in America, 50% of people have herpes. I think oral herpes is the most common, and a lot of people get it as kids.
How do they diagnose the undiagnosed herpes to quantify these percentages?
You're right! Apparently the testing for herpes is unreliable too. There was some study though on how often asymptomatic shedding occured. I dunno how they could reliably tell.
It comes across as creepy. 80% of people who have herpes don't realize it, as if someone knows but isn't telling them. :laugh:
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Dare I say it? I looked up herpes recently. Apparently 80% of people who have it don't realise they do, and to top that off, there's asymptomatic shedding, which means herpes can pass on and the person receiving it will likely never know where they got it. And in America, 50% of people have herpes. I think oral herpes is the most common, and a lot of people get it as kids.
How do they diagnose the undiagnosed herpes to quantify these percentages?
You're right! Apparently the testing for herpes is unreliable too. There was some study though on how often asymptomatic shedding occured. I dunno how they could reliably tell.
It comes across as creepy. 80% of people who have herpes don't realize it, as if someone knows but isn't telling them. :laugh:
It must be a conspiracy!
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Well since you can't send me one to drink to her health and good fortune, drink one for her and give her one on my behalf (a glass of the blackberry stuff). Just make sure one of them is in her honour on my behalf, since I'm too far to pick up a glass a and join you.
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Well since you can't send me one to drink to her health and good fortune, drink one for her and give her one on my behalf (a glass of the blackberry stuff). Just make sure one of them is in her honour on my behalf, since I'm too far to pick up a glass a and join you.
Will do
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For what its worth, just had a big shot of morphine whilst thinking of her wellbeing and picturing a big smile on her face. Wish I could actually have shared, though. Fucking distance. I know things are rough sometimes for you QV, but before, I genuinely meant no offense. Only expression of my feelings for her, and I can't help having those, I don't think anybody CAN help it if they fall in love and fancy the fucking-well blue furry flying christicles out with and of someone respectively.
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I did, yes. I am now a well-behaved, medicated citizen. :M
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I did, yes. I am now a well-behaved, medicated citizen. :M
:LMAO:
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I did, yes. I am now a well-behaved, medicated citizen. :M
That's just what we want! :police:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh3Kk5tZSmo
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The important ones.
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I'm working on it. :P
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Currently enjoying an early evening cup of coffee! :thumbup:
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Just took lunchtime meds.
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I'm working on it. I have to go to work pretty soon. :thumbdn:
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Just have night meds to go.
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Some, most of the more important ones.
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All but the omeprazole. I may take that later at work. 8)
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Most important ones.
Including anti-seizure ones, and this plus my, as a result of a long, although very enjoyable, rather lively night's electrolysis being tired and sleeping not a moment until perhaps 9-10am, took a benzo (nitrazepam in this case, 5mg, went to pet the ol' moggies so to speak) the two strong sedative-hypnotics (the other being the antiseizure med I take)
Plus after last night, I was still on an endorphin high and near tapdancing rather than walking with glee, after waking up, to the sight of the shiny nuggets of sodium metal (actually a sodium-calcium alloy since CaCl2 was used in a eutectic mixture to lower the melting point of the sodium hydroxide I was using for my melt. Well mostly, also a little NaCl in there, and from an attempt to get it to melt in my metal bath, borax, used in an attempt to serve as flux. Failed and resulted in the melt rapidly turning brown, presumably owing to deposition of amorphous boron.
And again, on waking up for the first time, to see them thar' nuggets gleaming back at me under their protective covering of a mixture of mixed petroleum fractions (a mix of light-medium naphtha and heavy, high-boiling degreasing solvent composed of aliphatic hydrocarbons, shitty as a solvent but good for preserving alkali metals, nicely packaged in an old, possibly antique jar, covered in petroleum spirit to prevent the metal alloy oxidizing or catching fire and with a little topping off of argon to fill the headspace just to be thorough.)
All that glitters is not gold...in this case its silvery but would make for really shitty coinage, but for a happy Lestat, especially given that the metals were not bought, but made, wrested from their stable compounds within which they were determined to stay and sleep. Only to be woken up by a generous application of electric current and heat. Very nice, lively reaction too, I think I shall have to do a video of it, without any inert gas protection, to show it, although it'll have to go in elder's. The heavens opened, and it was raining sodium-calcium alloy and molten caustic:) God am I ever glad I bought that face shield. Because without it, that would have taken my face off easily. Got a crater in my arm thats the result of a blob of molten NaCa/coated in molten mixed NaOH/CaCl2/NaCl. Plus a few little wee tiny micrometeorite craters from NaCa/electrolysis bath melt where it hit my fingers.
Kinda funny when molten Na blobs decide to go 'CRACK! !wheeeeeeeee!' only to land in the sink and land in water. Na is soft, but in such a way, it found its own way to richochet. Just what the doctor ordered. He never said anything about a low sodium diet either. He should have. A little splatter of NaOH melt managed to whing its way onto a jelly-baby. That was an unwanted surprise. Only a tiny bit, no harm done. It tastes bitter, if you ever wondered what, and had the urge to find out what caustic soda tastes like. Now you don't have to. Still ate the jelly-baby though.
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About to redose morphine, oxy, debating chlormethiazole, but probably not, at least not right now. I CBF, and I don't want to fall asleep in the food I am about to eat. Being found face-first in a tiramisu would be rather embarrassing. A couple of muscle relaxers will do for now. Should get round to scrubbing lead oxide and caustic-splatter too for that matter. Its rather inconvenient that sodium has to make such a mess when it cracks and pops in small bits repeatedly. The result is a sort of caustic rain.
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I forgot my midday dose and Kayleigh could tell because I kind of got lost in the new car park at the shops. Had to do a 180 in a very small area which flustered me even more. I shouldn't even be driving without taking my meds.
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I'm in the process. Thrown off a bit by the time change, as it gets light later now. :tard:
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Yes, I did.
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Can't wait until doc appointment on Monday. Going back to taking Seretide rather than Breo. No more wheezing and coughing.
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I forgot my midday dose and Kayleigh could tell because I kind of got lost in the new car park at the shops. Had to do a 180 in a very small area which flustered me even more. I shouldn't even be driving without taking my meds.
Why is that?
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I forgot my midday dose and Kayleigh could tell because I kind of got lost in the new car park at the shops. Had to do a 180 in a very small area which flustered me even more. I shouldn't even be driving without taking my meds.
Why is that?
Because I'm ADHD and need to take stimulants (dexamphetamine). I'm predominantly inattentive so I tend to dream and space out when not on my meds.
ADHD and autism = great combo!
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I remembered mine when I awoke after a rough night.
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Most of them, the ones I need anyway. Feeling like I might just add a dose of cyclizine, an antihistamine (and one that potentiates opiates particularly well, and indeed in soluble form is often mixed by IV users with morphine in the same shot, as well as being marketed as such, as 'cyclimorph'.
Although in this case, the reason I'm about to is because I'm itching all over because of a solid dose of oxy and morphine.
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Yes, but very late. I got absorbed in household chores and I forgot. :tard:
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Not yet.
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Today I did. Tomorrow I am getting my previous asthma meds again. My doctor told me that I am the first patient to go back to Seretide from Breo. I told him that Breo just isn't strong enough and I'm tired of wheezing and coughing. He prescribed me the stronger version of Seretide. Looking forward to breathing clearly again.
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Good, glad to hear your feeling better Ren. *removes self from immediate area, removes protective goggles, gas mask and elbow length gloves and takes off coat then hugs*
I took morphine, oxy, took chlormethiazole in the middle of the night. Other on demand meds-took a couple of zanaflex this morning after being up all night tinkering and my back was sore and achy. Feeling much better now.
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I'm in the process. Just have the multivitamin left. Off to work! :pirate:
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Still a bit wheezy since I took Seretide but much improved. :)
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Forgot my morning meds as I got up late. Took dex before I drove Kayleigh to her appointment though.
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Just have to take the L-Lysine horse pills now. :thumbup:
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Have had meds properly tonight (didn't forget any).
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The PR :thumbup:
Me :thumbdn:
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The PR :thumbup:
Me :thumbdn:
*wobbles in with the Royal Dosage Cup*
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The PR :thumbup:
Me :thumbdn:
*wobbles in with the Royal Dosage Cup*
I did take the a.m. pills, although not with b'fast. Thanks for the wobble.
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Still wheezing. My asthma has really gone downhill this past year.
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Still wheezing. My asthma has really gone downhill this past year.
Do you know why? Is it something environmental/weather related/possible mold problem in the house? :-\
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Self-medicating now.
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Still wheezing. My asthma has really gone downhill this past year.
Do you know why? Is it something environmental/weather related/possible mold problem in the house? :-\
Could be. I am allergic to dust and cats and we have both. A good thing is we don't have carpet except in the lounge room. I really should sweep more.
Didn't take my lithium this morning as I had a blood test. Must go and take it now.
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Meds in stomach. Ready for the day. :thumbup:
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Yes.
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Nice and early, before I drive to college.
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Pain meds, clonidine, anti-seizure meds, a nasal decongestant, pramipexole (a non-ergoloid dopamine receptor agonist) and muscle relaxer, will probably take more of the latter and likely as not some oxycodone IR after I am all done and finished up building the electrolytic tools and gadgetry I'm fabricating currently.
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Yes I did. Back to work after three days off, here I come! :pirate:
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Some of them. I still need to take my morphine for this morning. Feel fine though without, but thats only going to be short-lived, as I've already had my oxycodone. I could really do with an antihistamine, I have some but only cyclizine, a sedating antihistamine with antimuscarinic effects and currently I need my brain working at full steam, so I don't really want to take any. But fucking hell, the pain meds are really making me itch like fury atm. And I'm about to add more pain meds. And considering its only the oxy I've had, which usually doesn't even make me itch, it usually seems to cause me minimal histamine release, this is going to be annoying. Can't afford the antihistamine though because it would dull my intellect temporarily and I need it, for the isolation of boron I'm working away at.
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Some of them. I still need to take my morphine for this morning. Feel fine though without, but thats only going to be short-lived, as I've already had my oxycodone. I could really do with an antihistamine, I have some but only cyclizine, a sedating antihistamine with antimuscarinic effects and currently I need my brain working at full steam, so I don't really want to take any. But fucking hell, the pain meds are really making me itch like fury atm. And I'm about to add more pain meds. And considering its only the oxy I've had, which usually doesn't even make me itch, it usually seems to cause me minimal histamine release, this is going to be annoying. Can't afford the antihistamine though because it would dull my intellect temporarily and I need it, for the isolation of boron I'm working away at.
It's odd that you speak of this, after driving my friend around today. She took Endone and something else opioid this morning and complained that all the scratching she's been doing has caused welts. I said it was probably her meds. And just as well she's going to the doctor today - he can prescribe a cream and advise her on antihistamines she can take. Apparently there are non-drowsy ones.
So that's what happened.
Because I was driving, I made sure to take my meds as I should.
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Nothing yet but the omeprazole. The Strattera can make me queasy*, and I have to get my trash
bagged and brought outside, which involves bending over and possible reflux. Gotta wait. :P
* Not the Strattera itself so much as the gelatin coating on the capsules. 8)
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I took the Strattera a little while ago, still need to take the supplements. 8)
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Yes, as well as a sleeping pill earlier on in the day, because I'd been up all night busy beavering away with the lab work.
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I did. Have to take something against the headache I'm developing now, though.
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Letting the omeprazole settle first. It's early. :yawn:
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Stretched back and took painkiller to calm down aching head in the morning. It worked.
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:thumbup: The PR
:thumbdn: Me
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:thumbup: The PR
:thumbdn: Me
*wobbles in :cbc: :tea: with the Royal pillbox and a cuppa*
Your Majesty must remember: Put on your own oxygen mask first, then you can safely help others. :hug:
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This thread reminded me.
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Not yet, but I will.
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This thread reminded me.
This thread often reminds me on my days off, when I would otherwise forget. :thumbup:
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I'm on the point of needing the what are you drinking thread. Keep forgetting to properly hydrate myself past weeks.
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Two of them, only just picked them up, chlormethiazole and ended up snorting a solid dose of oxycodone, mainly so I can look at the computer screen with a blindfold and eyepatch covering one eye, after UV flash left me waking up in agony this morning.
Its arc-eye, only produced in the process of thermiting manganese dioxide, when sensitized with a little sulfur its extremely fast burning, more like flashpowder than traditional iron oxide thermites.
Thats a little better, the oxy has taken the edge off it, could do with a few more however since my eye still feels like it just took a bath in boiling battery acid and dried itself off with a sandpaper towel.
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I need to stop by or call the pharmacy. They gave The PR a 3 mg dosage instead of a 5 mg dosage. Don't know if they made the mistake or the doctor did.
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I need to stop by or call the pharmacy. They gave The PR a 3 mg dosage instead of a 5 mg dosage. Don't know if they made the mistake or the doctor did.
I get pissed at my pharmacy because they text me every ten minutes to let me know that my prescriptions are ready. I am at work usually when they text me, but if I do not respond immediately they will continue to text me every TEN MINUTES FFS until I DO respond.
I must assume that someone got their meds late at some point and now they go off the deep end trying to avoid a lawsuit.
Still annoying. I can not always just drop everything and just text shit.
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I need to stop by or call the pharmacy. They gave The PR a 3 mg dosage instead of a 5 mg dosage. Don't know if they made the mistake or the doctor did.
I called. This is the dosage she got last month. I was probably confusing it with some other medication, since that particular script doesn't even come in 5 mg.
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Just took an evening dose of omeprazole, washed down with :coffee:
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In the process now. Just have the multivitamin left to go. :thumbup:
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I had my meds straight after breakfast.
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Only the omeprazole so far. It's too early for this shit! :zombiefuck:
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Just the spazz meds.
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Yep, just took them.
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Ready for a busy day at work, let's git r done! :pirate:
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Morning meds, down the hatch.
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Just the omeprazole so far. I have to ease into it. :P
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Not yet. I must!
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I'm working on it. It's still early. :yawn:
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I did, eventually.
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Almost due for lunch meds.
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Yes I did. Having a big cup of whoop-ass right now! :coffee:
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The PR :thumbup:
Me :thumbdn:
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Not yet.
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The PR :thumbup:
Me :thumbdn:
*wobbles in :cbc: :tea: with the Royal meds and a cuppa*
You must take care of yourself above all, Ma'am. Your subjects need you. :heart:
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OK, all done. On with another working day. :autism:
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oxy/morphine-yes
chlormethiazole...no, not sure where in the hell-fire its fucked off to.
Substituted 5mg nitrazepam for the above for seizure prophylaxis, it'll do the job, I just really cannot be bothered searching everywhere until I find it.
Amphetamine-yes, an addition for today, just occasional, but useful at times.
tizanidine-yes
Pretty much it, aside from a couple of pantoprazole and cimetidine to keep my insides...well...inside.
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I am in the process. At least I'm awake at a normal hour today. :tard:
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I did, yes. As a result, I was productive all day. :M
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I did, yes. As a result, I was productive all day. :M
I have been distinctly useless for the past two days. Trying to decide whether to just go ahead and
piss away the last few hours of the afternoon. Maybe I'll look at some more Mid-Century Modern houses. :P
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Me :thumbdn:
The PR :thumbup:
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Took morning meds. They will wear off by lunch time.
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I'm about to. Just wanted the omeprazole to settle first. :thumbup:
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Going to take an extra dose of dexamphetamine tonight as I'm going to the movies late. That means I'm driving.
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Yes I did. May need ibuprofen later, for the headache, or the eye-ache, or something else. :P
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Getting tweaked, ren? :D
I might just join you
It isn't really today, today, yet. So just nitrazepam, about to follow with morphine, and some amphetamine myself, since I need to be awake and alert right now for the work I'm doing, although mine is racemic rather than just dexamphetamine. Been contemplating chiral resolution though, would be a fun challenge. Since D and L amino acids are available easily enough and could likely be used like D- or L-tartaric acid, to selectively salt out the corresponding isomer of a chiral mixture of optical isomers.
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Haha, Lestat. I am glad I took them as I find it difficult enough to sit through a movie without daydreaming and fidgeting. Plus when I drove home it was midnight. Way past my bedtime!
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Kept me nice and focused too. Whilst I doubt very much my doc would script me anything of the kind, (not sure if racemic amphetamine is actually available here, dex is, and I think possibly meth. Personally I'd prefer either dex, or ethamphetamine (no not meth, I do mean N-ethylamphetamine, would be easily made via reductive amination methods using ethylamine instead of methylamine, either of which whilst watched for sale in countries (and sellers of course) who cooperate with american porcine and DEA scum, either are easy to make. Dissolving metal reductions of the acidic variety, like Fe/HCl, Zn/HCl or iron powder/concentrated acetic acid can reduce nitromethane for methylamine, or it can be made from hexamine camping solid fuel, whilst ethylamine can be made from the harder to obtain (for most) nitroethane by the same reduction, its not dissimilar to the type of chemistry many bees use to make psychedelic phenethylamines like mescaline, 2C-B, 2C-I, 2C-D, or the likes of the TMA series (these are mescaline analogs with an alpha-methyl, amphetamine counterparts of the psychedelic phenethylamines. Nitroethane is difficult for a lot of folk to obtain, much more so than nitromethane, as the latter is used in mixtures of methanol and sometimes castor oil as fuel for model drag racing cars and can be distilled out, nitroethane is used in a few nail polish removers. Although personally I have access to a good grade of either if I want them. (although Fe/acid and Zn/acid don't work to reduce the intermediate nitropropenes to the aminoalkane directly, which would give N-unsubstituted, primary amine amphetamines, whilst the likes of meth, ethamphetamine, N-propyl/isopropylamphetamine are more suited to making secondary amines via first reduction of the nitromethane/ethane etc. and then reductive amination of the product of such acid reductions, 1-phenyl-2-propanones, aka P2Ps, BMK (benzyl methyl ketone), amalgam reductions or LiAlH4 reduction, or else a two-step reduction using sodium borohydride first to reduce the nitro group and the double bond of the phenylnitroalkenes afforded from substituted benzaldehydes and knoevanagel-type nitroaldol condensations and then a dissolving metal reduction to reduce the double bond to give the product can allow use of such acidic dissolving non-amalgam based reductions directly to amphetamines in two steps. For some reason the presence of the double bond allows the lewis acidi transition metal salts like ferric chloride to coordinate to the nitro group, leading to production of P2Ps instead of direct reduction to the aminoalkane. Fe/HCl etc. does work for phenethylamines, but not for alpha-substituted (amphetamines, the term comes from Alpha Methyl PHEnEThylAMINE) products, but for synthesis of N-alkylated amphetamines rather than plain amphetamines of the primary amine type, its actually better, because its a lot easier in practice, in terms of reactivity and avoiding over-alkylation to tertiary amines (such as dimethylamphetamine which whilst I've never tasted it is reportedly a really weak stimulant)
Also trying to mono-alkylate a primary amine to a secondary is difficult and usually a lot of dialkylamine occurs as a byproduct, or even quaternization to inactive compounds, reductive amination of the intermediate ketone is much more selective and efficient, Although N-alkyl amphetamines with ring substitution seem to lose a LOT of their activity and take on more of an antidepressant profile of activity, things like ARIADNE, BEATRICE, and the active members of the Classic Ladies series of ring-substituted amphetamines (all of them are N-alkyl derivatives of previously known psychedelic amphetamines, only with N-R groups where R is a small alkyl group, but it seems psychedelic activity drops off sharply with N-methylation of active psychedelic amphetamines. The primary and perhaps only exception to this is in the methylenedioxy ring substituted compound series and alkylenedioxy ring-expanded versions retaining activity (which sharply drops past ethylenedioxy, although the benzofuranyl (like MDA, MDMA etc. but with one or the other of the two oxygens in the benzodioxole system replaced by carbon, these too are active empathogen/entactogens and indeed, whilst I've never tried any of the benzofuran-6-yl derivatives I've found the benzofuran-5-yl isomers (ring numbering for the benzofuran rings is shifted up a position on the phenyl ring with respect to MDxx, 3,4-methylenedioxy becoming benzodifuran-5,6-yl) they are IMO more pleasant, and easier on the body, at least the benzofuran-5-yl homologs of MDMA, MDE, etc. being quite a lot smoother and less peripheral unwanted stimulation. The MDE analog is especially pleasant, and quite suitable for being out in public, in a crowded shopping center for example. Really easy going material, nice smooth stuff, quite likeable and without intense trippiness, or confusion etc. such as with high doses of MDMA.
Past your bedtime? aww aint that just cute :D
Thats not even close to my getting tired, I'm definitely a night owl rather than a morning person, unless I've been busy all night and have to continue into the morning.
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Took more ibuprofen for the leg pains. Hope the lace-up shoes solve the problem. :apondering:
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Just took afternoon dose of dex, along with two paracetamol pills for the beginnings of a headache.
Yep Lestat, I have a bedtime. It's part of my nightly routine which I need so I don't wander about in circles essentially doing nothing. I have to get up early for college, too, so that's another reason for it.
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Just took afternoon dose of dex, along with two paracetamol pills for the beginnings of a headache.
Yep Lestat, I have a bedtime. It's part of my nightly routine which I need so I don't wander about in circles essentially doing nothing. I have to get up early for college, too, so that's another reason for it.
Wandering around doing nothing is a regular part of my exciting life. :tard:
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Not yet, I just got up. Don't stress me.
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Not yet, I just got up. Don't stress me.
Come on, those meds aren't going to take themselves. :stick:
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:2thumbsup:
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Not yet, I just got up. Don't stress me.
Come on, those meds aren't going to take themselves. :stick:
:GA:
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Just the omeprazole so far, and, of course, the Cup of Life. :coffee:
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lol ren, thats kinda cute for some reason. I don't know quite why, but it is. Possibly just because its you, but I think theres another reason as well, although I haven't the faintest what it actually IS. I've been known to do much the same, end up pacing around when I can't sleep, and am doing something in the lab to fill the time, sometimes I end up with a lot of time on my hands, spent babysitting, of a sort, when there isn't really anything else to DO as such, only watch and make sure whatever it is doesn't burn, overheat, catch fire, vent nasty fumes etc. so can't sleep whether able to or not, and end up taking no-go pills but not going to sleep, and staying on my feet all night so I don't feel all sketched out and tired in the morning (when I finally GET the chance to go and sleep, hopefully, at least, if its not one of those 3-4 day long procedures that need babysitting for a long, long time.
You're welcome to come and join me (in, or out of...well I'd say bed, but I sleep on the sofa, still I think I could find room for a sweetie such as yourself :)
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Sofas are small!
Getting frustrated with my asthma. I'm taking two puffs of Seretide every morning and night - more than I ever used to. Still wheezing and coughing.
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Sofas are small!
Getting frustrated with my asthma. I'm taking two puffs of Seretide every morning and night - more than I ever used to. Still wheezing and coughing.
Could you have gotten a defective inhaler this time around? Is Seretide something that has worked for you
before, or is it something new? Could it be interacting with other meds? Could the pollen or other
pollutants/irritants be overpowering the effects of the Seretide? How soon can you see your doctor? :orly:
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:2thumbsup:
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Sofas are small!
Getting frustrated with my asthma. I'm taking two puffs of Seretide every morning and night - more than I ever used to. Still wheezing and coughing.
Could you have gotten a defective inhaler this time around? Is Seretide something that has worked for you before, or is it something new? Could it be interacting with other meds? Could the pollen or other
pollutants/irritants be overpowering the effects of the Seretide? How soon can you see your doctor? :orly:
My inhaler is definitely spraying as it should - my doctor got me to demonstrate and gave me 10/10. :checkout:
Seretide is what I used to take before Breo. But I never used to have to take this much for it to work, that's the thing.
It's not known to interact with anything else, well anything I take anyway.
Our dusty house may have an effect, not sure. My allergies usually show themselves in the form of a blocked nose and itchy, teary eyes.
I next see my doctor next month. I don't want to go before then as it's coming up to cold and flu season and I don't want to catch anything!
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I did. I'm just so much happier now.
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The PR :thumbup:
Me? I've missed 2 days in a row.
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Painkiller. Bloody cramps.
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Painkiller. Bloody cramps.
:hug:
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Painkiller. Bloody cramps.
:hug:
Thanks. Hasn't been this bad in 20 years. Maybe I should get myself pregnant again. :P
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I did. I'm just so much happier now.
Your joy just radiates through the screen. :autism:
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I am in the process. I skipped my L-Lysine and multivitamin yesterday because the Strattera
made me queasy and I didn't want to push my luck with any more pills right before work. :happypuke:
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I did. I'm just so much happier now.
Your joy just radiates through the screen. :autism:
8)
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I did. I'm just so much happier now.
Your joy just radiates through the screen. :autism:
Wear shades.
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I did. I'm just so much happier now.
Your joy just radiates through the screen. :autism:
8)
OMG, I just told CBC to wear shades. :o
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Painkiller. Bloody cramps.
:hug:
Thanks. Hasn't been this bad in 20 years. Maybe I should get myself pregnant again. :P
now you remind me of the old lady who swallowed a fly :LOL:
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Painkiller. Bloody cramps.
:hug:
Thanks. Hasn't been this bad in 20 years. Maybe I should get myself pregnant again. :P
now you remind me of the old lady who swallowed a fly :LOL:
:lol1:
Had I live in the UK I might have volunteered to carry a fertilised egg of a wombless woman. Would not mind another pregnancy. But raising a third child?
No way!
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:2thumbsup:
And just took some acetomiphine. Spent the day clearing out The PR's bedroom. Not finished yet, but back, arms and hands hurt like the dickens.
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I did. I'm just so much happier now.
Your joy just radiates through the screen. :autism:
8)
OMG, I just told CBC to wear shades. :o
Your meds are changing the future before it even happens! :o
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Just took the Strattera, going to let those settle for awhile. 8)
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I did. I'm just so much happier now.
Your joy just radiates through the screen. :autism:
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OMG, I just told CBC to wear shades. :o
Your meds are changing the future before it even happens! :o
and yours are inducing tautology :green:
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I did. I'm just so much happier now.
Your joy just radiates through the screen. :autism:
8)
OMG, I just told CBC to wear shades. :o
Your meds are changing the future before it even happens! :o
It would be cooler to change the future after it happened. :M
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:2thumbsup:
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I did.
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Pain meds-yes, antiseizure stuff, yes, thats about it, other than some cimetidine (a stomach med, that also as a secondary bonus, helps make my morphine/oxy last longer by inhibiting its metabolism, my doc originally had me on ranitidine, and was totally puzzled why on earth I'd ask for cimetidine over ranitidine, as to change from one to the other that is, until I told him he had no idea that little trick even existed)
About to take clonidine, and a couple of muscle relaxers, since my shoulders are aching, I didn't sleep much last night, eventually taking a couple of knock-out pills (nitrazepam, that, plus the chlormethiazole antiseizure stuff (although the latter isn't actually listed in the BNF for seizures in this country, for some reason I managed to get on it, and I far, far prefer it to any other GABAergic option, because of a few reasons-it acts within minutes of the caps opening once swallowed, and whilst its possible for it to be so, I've been on it years, and have built up NO physical dependency to it whatsoever. No withdrawals at all, and on any benzo, barbiturate etc. I KNOW that I would have, to the extent of severe withdrawals if I skipped a dose or even causing seizures (as opposed to just lacking protection from them) of the nastiest, grand-mal variety. I'm surprised at just how little tolerance of any kind I've built to it, the only tolerance I can observe, is that when I was first taking it, it used to cause a short-lived stinging sensation in the back of my nose due to histamine release. Now it doesn't. That, is about the sum total of any and all tolerance type effects whatsoever that it has caused. Over YEARS. Benzos would probably, if taken daily at all, let alone 3xdaily have me hook, line and sinker.
Does bubblegum candy and cigarettes count as medication?...if so then yes, I did, I am and I'm about to further.
Got some dark chocolate covered version of a bounty bar too (chocolate covered coconut filling in a bar. Usually milk chocolate, but these are dark. Much prefer dark chocolate, when it comes to candy. With a few spare oxy I found in my dressing gown pocket to wash it down with.
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Sweets, or sweeties. Not candy.
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Yeah, I know. I just read 'candy' so often that filthy americanism is retrobastardizing my proper english. Its sweets, I know it, and I'm about to eat more of them. God I just can't resist these 'haribo' fizzy bubblegum bottles. They are so moreish, I've eaten nearly a tenners worth in one go before and still wanted more. And don't even get me started on Snickers bar milkshake (fairly newish, but they now do a snickers milkshake. Wish they sold that in 2 or at least 1 liter bottles. Have had something like 7 in a row today one after the other, a little break then a few more :P Odd...I've got a bag of med refills with me here and never mind the nitrazepam, other downers, opiates, easy availability of amphetamine/methamphetamine/N-ethylamphetamine, aephetamine (alpha-ethylamphetamine...I wonder...never tried N-ethylaephetamine though, or alpha-phenylmeth/ethamphetamine, those I'd love to have a go with. N-ethylamphetamine is far superior IMO to meth, much much smoother, and generally more pleasant) but those bubblegum sweets....*makes 'gllaarrgghhkkkhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmhhhmmm' kind of noise and tries to avoid drooling*, put all those combined to shame. Once you start, with these there just isn't any stopping.
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I've tried those bubblegum bottles...they're OK. I used to love the bubblegum flavoured cup drinks, the ones you stuck a thin red straw in. They were bright blue coloured and they tasted gorgeous. I loved them so much years ago I bought a whole box of them. They were a very reasonable price too.
I love Haribo Tangfastics.
I would drink those milkshakes if they didn't give me eczema. :-\
I've noticed Powerade Cherry tastes just like Haribo. That's why I love it. It's got aspartame in it though so I hardly drink it anymore.
Thinking of bright coloured drinks...I've always loved Slush Puppies. Blue raspberry was my favourite.
And thinking of blue raspberry and America, I remember on a Jamie Oliver programme they were filming school cafeterias there, and they gave the children blue raspberry milk. Pretty awful. Though, I didn't think much of the UK's school meals when I was in school.
Either saccharine or acesulfame K gives me migraines. Aspartame doesn't affect me AFAIK.
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That doesn't fit...you say aspartame doesn't affect you negatively yet you avoid it?
Blue raspberry milk sounds vile. Although I agree with you on the slushpuppies, those are lovely, blue raspberry is my favourite.
Not sure if its the same stuff, but you can still get the fizzy bubblegum pop, bought 4 liters of it just earlier today actually.
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Candy, sweets aaaaand lollies! We say lollies over here in Australia.
I took mine not long ago - benztropine, dexamphetamine, moclobemide, lithium and Caltrate.
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Candy, sweets aaaaand lollies! We say lollies over here in Australia.
I took mine not long ago - benztropine, dexamphetamine, moclobemide, lithium and Caltrate.
"Sweets," to me at least, includes any dessert food. "Candy" is more specific. :P
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All of it except the ibuprofen that I'll definitely need at some point in the day. :tard:
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Candy, sweets aaaaand lollies! We say lollies over here in Australia.
I took mine not long ago - benztropine, dexamphetamine, moclobemide, lithium and Caltrate.
"Sweets," to me at least, includes any dessert food. "Candy" is more specific. :P
We don't really call dessert, "sweets". We just call it dessert. So there. :P
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No...that is 'pudding'. so there and then some:P
Just eaten almost two full bags of those haribo bubblegum bottles. I've got 4 left. Sweets, that is, not bags. The rest got eaten. In about the time it took me to dive through one bag, start the next, fall asleep due to my pain meds and then eat all but those 4 when I woke up again.
On the one hand, got to take some whizz later, although I don't want to really much at all. But it must be verified. I'd far sooner just have a lazy day, not get up off my arse and move.
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Pfft. Pudding is a type of dessert. :M
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That doesn't fit...you say aspartame doesn't affect you negatively yet you avoid it?
Blue raspberry milk sounds vile. Although I agree with you on the slushpuppies, those are lovely, blue raspberry is my favourite.
Not sure if its the same stuff, but you can still get the fizzy bubblegum pop, bought 4 liters of it just earlier today actually.
It's more because I'd heard saccharine, acesulfame K, aspartame and MSG were bad for you, and now I'm reacting to MSG and either saccharine or acesulfame K. So, I think from my experience, they definitely do something to your brain like they say. I mean visual migraines caused by MSG (for me) is a bad thing.
The bubblegum drinks I was referring to are these:
(http://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s480x480/e35/12479338_812237458921469_1509201723_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTE3Mzg2NzIyODgzNTIxMjAwMw%3D%3D.2)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Grocery/Time-Bubble-Flavour-Soft-Drink-Sweeteners-200ml/B015Y1OPCS/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_325_lp_t_4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3909N317PJXG83VGF4M4
My goodness, they're even cheaper than before. But they have the sweetener(s) that give me migraines. :(
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But yeh, I love the bubblegum flavour. I guess it's all artificial. Would be awesome to recreate it.
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Aspartame is a simple peptide-like molecule, an amide formed from phenylalanine and aspartic acid, the resultant peptide present as its methyl ester, if MSG is giving you grief then it isn't altogether hugely surprising, although only small quantities of aspartame are actually used afaik. Glutamate is the main excitatory neurotransmitter (GABA, gamma-aminobutyric acid fulfilling the role of the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain) and along with the various metabotropic glutamate receptors (a metabotropic receptor exerts its effects on a neuron when activated via a cascade of intracellular second messengers, leading to upregulation, downregulation of whatever genes it ultimately controls, whilst the initial event from the other main type, ionotropic receptors is docking of the ligand [active compound doing the binding] with its receptor binding site, leading to a conformational change in the shape of the receptor protein, and generally doing something like causing a ligand-gated ion channel [some ion channels are gated to a specific voltage threshold, these are the voltage-gated ion channels, typical examples being most types of sodium and calcium channels whilst some are what is called a ligand-gated ion channel, which, unsurprisingly, opens in such a direct manner in response to binding of a neuroactive substance] to open,
This allows ions to exchange between the cells interior, the cytoplasm, and the extracellular environment, causing minute chemical currents to be generated by the exchange. In the case of the ionotropic glutamate receptors, named for the ligands which were first discovered to bind although not always endogenous, there are three types, NMDA, AMPA and kainate, these are the three ionotropic glutamate receptor types, NMDA actually stands for N-methyl-d-aspartate, an analog of the amino acid aspartic acid, NMDA receptors are a bit peculiar in that they are gated both by voltage and by the presence of drugs/neurotransmitters. It also requires the amino acid glycine to bind, in addition and within the same time frame as glutamate, the primary ligand for these receptors as a co-agonist before the channel will open and the neuron depolarize and transmit its action potential in response to presynaptic stimulation from neurons responding to events going on upstream (I.e preceding the firing of the glutamatergic neuron). In the case of NMDA receptors however, normally its channel, a voltage/ligand gated calcium channel has, at resting potential (when not stimulated by a neurotransmitter or exogenous drug) its central pore, the part that does the actual conduction of the ion flux when activated, blocked by a magnesium cation (a cation is a positively charged ion, an anion is an ion with a negative electrical charge)
When glutamate (and in the case of the NMDAr, aspartate, although the response to aspartate is weaker than that of glutamate in terms of the amplitude of the response) binds, along with glycine to its regulatory site, ensuring against 'accidental' activation of the channel, the channel boots out the Mg ion and a calcium current is generated after a specific voltage threshold induced by prior neurons signalling to the NMDAergic neuron. In excess, this isn't a good thing (here we are talking rather, about potent agonists rather than natural release as it should be) because the resultant calcium flux can in excess cause what is known as excitotoxicity, essentially overloading the cell due to a surfeit of the excitatory neurotransmitter, glutamate (or aspartate) and killing it.
Especially in the case of glutamate, this can cause seizures, and is implicated very heavily in epileptiform disorders of various kinds, as well as in schizophrenia, where there is thought to be a hypofunction of NMDA receptors.
Can go into this more if you want, but there is a fair amount of controversy over aspartame. In essence however, aspartate can mimic glutamate (and is an endogenous neurotransmitter in its own right, filling a similar general profile in comparison with glutamate) at the NMDA receptor.
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Lestat, that is such an informative post, only that I can't understand the science of it, sorry. :(
So glutamate can cause seizures in people who already have epilepsy? Or cause it in people who originally don't as well? Does the amount of aspartate in aspartame do the same?
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I don't think I could ever eat something that's blue. It kind of reminds me of mouthwash.
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No...that is 'pudding'. so there and then some:P
I remember the first time I heard the dessert course referred to as "pudding." I thought some restaurants
offered only actual pudding for dessert, and I wondered why British diners put up with that foolery. :P
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I don't think I could ever eat something that's blue. It kind of reminds me of mouthwash.
That particular colour, brilliant blue (an apt name), can induce allergic reactions in those with asthma.
But look what I found about a different version of it in Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Blue_FCF#Biomedical_research
Scientists who were conducting in-vivo studies of compounds to lessen the severity of inflammation following experimental spinal cord injury had previously tested a compound called OxATP to block a key ATP receptor in spinal neurons. However, OxATP has toxic side effects and must be injected directly into the spinal cord; in searching for alternatives they noted that Brilliant Blue FCF has a similar structure. This led them to test a related dye, Brilliant Blue G (also known as Coomassie Brilliant Blue) in rats, which improved recovery from spinal cord injury while temporarily turning them blue.
Brilliant Blue G is also used as a stain to assist surgeons in retinal surgery. Isn't that cool?
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I don't think I could ever eat something that's blue. It kind of reminds me of mouthwash.
That particular colour, brilliant blue (an apt name), can induce allergic reactions in those with asthma.
But look what I found about a different version of it in Wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Blue_FCF#Biomedical_research
Scientists who were conducting in-vivo studies of compounds to lessen the severity of inflammation following experimental spinal cord injury had previously tested a compound called OxATP to block a key ATP receptor in spinal neurons. However, OxATP has toxic side effects and must be injected directly into the spinal cord; in searching for alternatives they noted that Brilliant Blue FCF has a similar structure. This led them to test a related dye, Brilliant Blue G (also known as Coomassie Brilliant Blue) in rats, which improved recovery from spinal cord injury while temporarily turning them blue.
Brilliant Blue G is also used as a stain to assist surgeons in retinal surgery. Isn't that cool?
All that from just a color! I wonder how I'd look blue. :apondering:
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I guess it would depend on your skin tone, and whether blue would mix well with it. I'm not sure how these things work to be honest. :orly:
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Really interesting stuff. :)
I already have blue eyes but think blue skin may clash with my red hair, heh.
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What time is it? It's ibuprofen time! :tard: :autism:
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Missed the lunchtime and afternoon meds because I didn't really do much but laze about at home.
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You've gone redhead?
*tries to suppress a 'phwoarrr!'*
*fails miserably*
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You've gone redhead?
*tries to suppress a 'phwoarrr!'*
*fails miserably*
I have always been a redhead, it's hereditary from my mum. And it will continue as my sister has a redheaded son.
In recent years my hair has gotten darker, I have no idea why. Someone in my family said I looked better when I wasn't dyeing my hair brown. But I never have. Last time it got dyed, I had blue streaks put in (there's a couple of pics in the Elder photo thread of that) and that was ages ago.
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I've seen that browning happen with more redheads. Some you can barely see hints of red anymore.
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I love blue hair, its got to be one of my favourite looks. Doing it myself actually, as soon as I have the money for some stronger hydrogen peroxide than is sold at pharmacies here over the counter (its limited to one 200ml bottle per sale of shitty 9% H2O2 and not only do I have really long hair, its naturally quite dark and 9% peroxide just doesn't bleach it well enough for the dye to take very well)
So going to buy some high-test stuff, and dilute it as needed, that way when/if I want strong H2O2 for the lab its available and I can simply add some to water to get the desired strength for bleaching my hair properly. Got some ultramarine blue dye. Will be just my sort of thing, I've had it blue before (so far, at different times, aside from my natural blackish-dark dark brown, I've had it yellow, red, pink, iridescent purple-black, various blues, platinum blonde, green, khaki and metallic silver colored)
That I can remember at least.
The thought of you with blue hair ren..god that really, really makes me wish it were wrapped around me because theres no two ways about it, you'd be fucking gorgeous. You are already, but even more so you'd be an absolute stunner (even more of one, that is to say:))
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I did, yes. I need to pick up a prescription, too.
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:2thumbsup:
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Just about to take afternoon dex. About to start homework.
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Letting the omeprazole settle for awhile before attempting the rest. :P
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I did, yes.
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Me, too.
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The PR :thumbup:
Me: :Dickhead: :hair: :rofl: :LMAO: times 2,000
My post in One Quick Bitch for an explanation
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Had morning pain meds somewhat early since I was digging around in the guts of a dismembered hotplate/mag stirrer restoring it to better order again and didn't want to be swallowing anything that would have gone near my hands, even with gloves on, after the vile shit that was found lurking in its bowels. That and a sleeping pill after going to bed very late. Well, I say going to bed. Going to asleep sat up in my chair, still wearing a protective face shield, and a modest top-ip of th
^that was meant to read 'pain meds' but at the time, I had a seizure, barely managed to make it into the house, and I've just spent hours and hours asleep after a solid dose of a couple of meds to bring me out of the damn thing. Fucking feet kept collapsing under me.
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Strattera now comes in a generic form. Just took my first dose from that batch.
It damn well better work as well as the name brand stuff. If it doesn't somebody's gonna get sued! :mad:
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Strattera now comes in a generic form. Just took my first dose from that batch. It damn well better work as well as the name brand stuff. If it doesn't somebody's gonna get sued! :mad:
You still have the choice of buying the brand name version don't you? Or is the generic cheaper?
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Strattera now comes in a generic form. Just took my first dose from that batch. It damn well better work as well as the name brand stuff. If it doesn't somebody's gonna get sued! :mad:
You still have the choice of buying the brand name version don't you? Or is the generic cheaper?
I believe the name brand is still available, and I can afford it. The generic is cheaper.
If it works as well, I'll stick wityh it. The pharmacist assures me it's exactly the same formula. :tinfoil:
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There are only a very few exceptions to generic vs brand or other specific formulations not being equal, granted the drug within is the same quantity and salt form if a salt etc. Mainly for things such as epilepsy meds, then it can be important that the patient once stabilized on one form be maintained on the same kind. Or with immunoglobulins for certain immunotherapies, (these are pooled blood products from donor blood), in many cases batch numbers are meant to be recorded and patients maintained on exactly the same product from the same manufacturer. But for something like straterra, just go for the cheapest option.
Sounds like fucking nasty shit though to me personally. Like all the bad side of speed and none of the good, enjoyable traits.
And yes, sort of anyway, took the morphine for this morning, just railed a few oxy caps, skipped the nitrazepam (heavy duty sedative/hypnotic, don't want to be asleep right now, at least not all day) that I've been using temporarily for anxiety due to the shit (that hopefully is now over, although I'll build up a nice big stash so they are there when I really need something to calm my nerves, for those days where its one big heap of shit and I end up feeling completely fried, or can't sleep at all, for quite some time before I actually tell my doc I don't need the rx any more. I might even wait for him to stop it rather than me, and although not needing to, insist on a taper (which he would, for safety's sake since withdrawal from the stuff is dangerous and can cause seizures. I'm not dependent on it though. I just can't rely on being able to get anything for sleep or anxiety/panic/having my nerves run ragged etc. when I do need it, because too many docs are biased against giving sedatives out for even a damn day, so I'll milk it for what its worth whilst the tap is flowing, so not only can I be certain of having what I'd need, but I can thus avoid having to wait it out feeling crappy for however long it takes to get an appointment, staying up until 8 am, with only a slim chance of getting any help at the end of it instead of being fucked off and left to feel even worse through sleep deprivation)
Will take a dose of the chlormethiazole though, and a couple of tizanidine and clonidine (both the latter work the same way, by blocking noradrenaline release, think straterra in reverse, almost, or not far off. Muscle relaxers, lower blood pressure, stop jitteryness (I'm not taking it for BP myself), work wonders on RLS and stop me overloading too. Got to be one of the best meds I've ever tried for overload prevention. And it does, doesn't just stop one thats started but actually does stop them happening in the first place.
And whilst I only use stimulants of any sort, caffeine included (although thats almost the last on the list of preference) occasionally, both of them help with avoiding crashing. And the tizanidine is useful too for the now permanent stiffness and difficulty moving, plus otherwise permanent severe muscle spasm in one of my legs after an operation on it got botched.
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Went to the doctor about asthma and a few other things. Regarding asthma, my peak flow reading was only 70% of what it should be, despite having 4 puffs of Seretide a day. The new med is Symbicort (which I forgot to get) and I have to take prednisolone (which I remembered to buy) for 5 days to clear the airways.
This is the most treatment I have ever had for my asthma, usually it's well under control and it's like I don't even have it as long as I take my preventer. Current situation is bugging me.
So, took prednisolone when I got home and have already had my head meds.
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Wow, prednisolone works well. I haven't had clear airways like this for a long time. I didn't realise how bad it was.
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Wow, that is very strong stuff.
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Wow, that is very strong stuff.
It is, but I am only on it for five days thankfully.
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Wow, that is very strong stuff.
It is, but I am only on it for five days thankfully.
I wish you luck. :)
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Wow, that is very strong stuff.
It is, but I am only on it for five days thankfully.
I wish you luck. :)
Thank you. :) I go back to the doctor tomorrow, and hopefully my peak flow is much better. It should be, my breathing is so much clearer.
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Went to the doctor, peak flow was a bit better. An improvement anyway.
Last day of prednisolone today.
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Bloody bugger luv', that blows anal sphincter that its bad enough to need a strong (oral?) steroid like pred for it. *delicately squeezifies the renster* glad your feeling better though, your one of my favourite people here :)
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This thread just reminded me to take some of mine that needed taking. (2x4mg tizanidine, a muscle relaxer with a name my doctor for some reason pronounces the name of back to front, as 'tinazidine', to prevent my messed up leg from going into muscle spasm due to the neuropathy affecting the calf area. It isn't doing now, I just want it to stay not doing it. Also just had both morphine sulfate and oxycodone IR, about to take a couple of cimetidine (a stomach med similar to tagamet, although it has the added bonus feature unlike ranitidine, of prolonging and intensifying the activity of morphine and/or oxy via blockade of a pair of liver enzymes of the cytochrome P450 superfamily.
Plus a squirt or two of otrivine up each side of my hooter, to counteract the vasodilatory effects of adrenergic alpha2 receptor agonists like tizanidine and another med I'm about to take, clonidine (not quite overload-proofing, but as a daily or on an as needed basis it h elps prevent me being as subject to it as I would otherwise be. Debating or not whether now is the right time or not to take my mid-day-mid afternoon dose of chlormethiazole or not. Leaning towards it since I feel fairly stressed out in an aggravated kind of way what with the way my vacuum pump is acting up . Had to turn it off and sponge it down using a shirt soaked in cold water on the sides closest to the exhaust motor and really frequently top up the oil, yet still pull a relatively inferior vacuum thats been causing me no end of grief.
Does sitting back, stretching out and slouching in my chair clutching a frosty bottle of lager and a cigar count? in this accursed searing weather I think it just might well do.
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Bloody bugger luv', that blows anal sphincter that its bad enough to need a strong (oral?) steroid like pred for it. *delicately squeezifies the renster* glad your feeling better though, your one of my favourite people here :)
Yep, oral it is. Doctor said if I should need it again, to take it and make an appointment to see him. Because he doesn't want me constantly on steroids like that. Symbicort is ok, reliever and preventer in one and only two puffs a day which means it should last 60 days. Still have my Ventolin just in case. Looking forward to walking to college tomorrow morning with clear lungs.
Thanks for caring, Lestat. :)
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Yes, I am fully medicated for today. :2thumbsup:
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Of course I care about ya ren :) your a kick arse lass and all round good sort. I'd hate you being miserable.
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I'm drinking the prep drink for my colonoscopy. There's a lot of it. :zoinks:
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I'm drinking the prep drink for my colonoscopy. There's a lot of it. :zoinks:
It certainly seemed that way to me! :zombiefuck:
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I'm drinking the prep drink for my colonoscopy. There's a lot of it. :zoinks:
It certainly seemed that way to me! :zombiefuck:
I just looked on the side of the jug. Fucking four liters. I'm up at 2:49 still drinking it! :zombiefuck:
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I'm drinking the prep drink for my colonoscopy. There's a lot of it. :zoinks:
It certainly seemed that way to me! :zombiefuck:
I just looked on the side of the jug. Fucking four liters. I'm up at 2:49 still drinking it! :zombiefuck:
bottoms up.
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I'm drinking the prep drink for my colonoscopy. There's a lot of it. :zoinks:
It certainly seemed that way to me! :zombiefuck:
I just looked on the side of the jug. Fucking four liters. I'm up at 2:49 still drinking it! :zombiefuck:
bottoms up.
It's 5:30 a.m. and I'm still slogging through. Can't wait to be done and sleeping at home! :snooze:
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I'm drinking the prep drink for my colonoscopy. There's a lot of it. :zoinks:
It certainly seemed that way to me! :zombiefuck:
I just looked on the side of the jug. Fucking four liters. I'm up at 2:49 still drinking it! :zombiefuck:
bottoms up.
It's 5:30 a.m. and I'm still slogging through. Can't wait to be done and sleeping at home! :snooze:
What time do you have to show up at the hospital?
Good luck!
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I'm drinking the prep drink for my colonoscopy. There's a lot of it. :zoinks:
It certainly seemed that way to me! :zombiefuck:
I just looked on the side of the jug. Fucking four liters. I'm up at 2:49 still drinking it! :zombiefuck:
bottoms up.
It's 5:30 a.m. and I'm still slogging through. Can't wait to be done and sleeping at home! :snooze:
What time do you have to show up at the hospital?
Good luck!
Thank you! My sister is picking me up at 10:30, I have to arrive at 11 for whatever preparations,
and the actual procedure is due to start at noon. I'll be sedated. I should be home by 3 or so. :)
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Wow, I never had to drink that much.
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Wow, I never had to drink that much.
Have you had a colonoscopy too? I can't remember. I'm a little forgetful today. :tard:
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They made me use a powdered mixture mixed with a half gallon of yellow gatorade. Half before 5pm and the other half before midnight. My scope was set for 7am. I came home later and slept two hours. Obviously I didn't sleep very much that night, I'd lie down and, whoops gotta go and release the kraken, like every 10 minutes. :zombie:
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They made me use a powdered mixture mixed with a half gallon of yellow gatorade. Half before 5pm and the other half before midnight. My scope was set for 7am. I came home later and slept two hours. Obviously I didn't sleep very much that night, I'd lie down and, whoops gotta go and release the kraken, like every 10 minutes. :zombie:
Release the kraken :laugh:
I got the four-liter jug, powder in the bottom, lemon flavoring packet included, and mixed it with water.
As the early morning hours dragged on and the colon cleared out, I was basically shitting lemonade. :P
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Wow, I never had to drink that much.
You had a colonoscopy at your young age?
Tonight is my last night on haloperidol. As much as I wanted aripiprazole (Abilify), it's not available on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme unless I have schizophrenia, hence, it is too expensive. So I get to try risperidone (Risperdal) instead. 2mgs at night.
Have any of you taken or know someone who has taken risperidone? On Wikipedia it says it is used for irritability in autistic children.
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Kid of mine did great on risperidon at first. Though side effects were not funny. After a few months she got more and more tired, sleeping most of the day. So they tried other meds. She also was on aripiprazol for a very short time. That was utter hell. It increased her irritability massively. She seemed to be in aggressive meltdown 24/7 and ended up totally exhausted. There are several clues kid has a different type of metabolism, it is in her status that no psychopharmaca can be prescribed, unless she gets a biogenetic test first.
A friend of hers made a change from risperidon to aripiprazol too, in the hope it would help with weight. For her there was hardly a difference in the effects of both medications. They did the job they were supposed to do. There was no difference in effect on weight and wanting to eat either.
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Thanks Hyke. :)
Your poor daughter did indeed have a tough time. Will she have that biogenetic test?
I think I will still take benztropine, only I will halve it.
Risperidone is for tics. They bother me most at night when getting to sleep. So 2mgs before bed should work well and wear off during the day when I am taking dexamphetamine. At least I hope so.
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yes already done
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Hi sky blue! :)
It feels like the morning after. Slept in until 9, and still tired.
Taken morning meds.
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I did, yes.
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I forgot to halve the benztropine this morning. Tomorrow then.
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Asthma made a big comeback at 2 in the morning. Four puffs of Symbicort later I wasn't hearing myself breathe.
Got a horrible cough now.
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The antimuscarinic (benztropine) may actually assist with your breathing by relaxing the walls of the bronchi and rest of the respiratory tract. Other muscarinic-selective (as opposed to nicotinic) acetylcholine receptor antagonists are used in asthma therapy. So it may well be providing an added bonus on top of its intended effects.
I hope you feel better soon ren *squeezes*
Just had mine refilled today, and good job too, had the pharmacist prepare and give me my oxycodone IRs before she did anything else of mine so I could take some straight away. Whilst its not a burn or anything serious, I acccidentally must have wiped my face with my hand after (finally) finishing the distillation of something I'd been beavering away at, and got either some vacuum grease, vac pump oil or a trace of the ketone being distilled in my eye. Not the eye that I usually wear the eyepatch over either, my 'good' (or at least, un-burnt by corrosives within a couple of decades give or take a year or two either way) eye and its irritated and stinging, making my eye water, mostly stinging when I blink. Did wash the eye out several times and wipe off my eyeball with a paper towel soaked in cold water, use some hyaluronate sodium eyedrops (an eyeball lubricant that comes in liquid form that I've had a lot of prescribed me after that incident due to the fucking pigs tampering with things that resulted in me getting hit in the face by a jet of boiling, highly corrosive alkalis and badly bured and temporarily blinded, lucky not to have been so permanently. So I got plenty of those eyedrops around, found them much nicer to use than the two ointments tried first which proved intolerable in a sensory way and hypromellose drops which I found too viscous and still uncomfortable)
Its calming down now. Difficult to wash away because the ketone in question has very low to near absent solubility in water. But its calming down now after several hours. And a good solid dose of morphine and oxycodone of course are doing their job nicely in rendering the discomfort much diminished. Not in acute pain, just irritated a fair whack mostly when blinking although being in direct sunlight isn't made any more pleasurable either.
The eye drops and painkillers are helpng though and I'm staying out of the bright sunlight anyway and turned the lights off in the windowless room I'm in both for additional comfort and because I'm about to fire up one of my videogames and get back to clearing a very large, nasty-critter-infested, hostile psyker-filled alien submarine that my interceptor craft shot dogpiled, armed with the heaviest of conventional weapons retroengineered from alien tech and some with the latest in advanced weaponry, something like an antimatter-fuelled sonic pulse-based armor-piercing micronuke, plus a handful of conventional nuclear-tipped torpedoes up the backside, eventually brought it down, although not without several craft being almost wiped by a single hit from the massive heavy weapon batteries aboard what appears to be one of the, if not the heaviest of their heavy dreadnought-class battlecruisers. A lot of work to do, a lot of tough fighting too, especially since for some bloody bug in the game, causing my troops to be left starting without any ammunition for their firearms whatsoever, and carrying only close-combat weapons, some explosives and the ammunition carried in the sonic cannon-mounted grav-tank luckily on board the troop transport sent in, and quite a few very, very well trained psyker troops of my own that are more than capable of taking temporary control of the enemies faces and forcing them to throw over their weapons, or arm grenades and drop them at their own feet to blow them to hell, enabling recovery of some ammunition so as not to have to rely solely on a few grenades, hand-to-hand close combat weaponry and the tank, which is excellent for cleaning the map of both hostiles and any terrain that gets in the way with its heavy weapon mount, it is insufficient to cut through the external walls of the alien sub however, and due to the bug, the two heavy weapons/demolitions specialist troops found themselves without any ammunition for the hugely destructive sonic pulse-wave torpedo launchers carried for just such a purpose, and have only grenades, no demo charges left. So its been a matter of going in there, room to room, tossing grenades and listening for screams, and sneaking up to backstab the enemy in order to recover weapons and ammunition.
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Lestat - thanks for that. Not halving the benztropine just yet. Back on the prednisolone. For another five days.
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Sure thing Renster. Be aware that if the steds are continued long enough (consult doctor for scheduling) with something like pred, its strong, and they may need to be tapered steadily and potentially slowly, depending on how long use continues for, and counting concurrent inhaled glucocorticoid use. This is because, as you likely know, exogenous steroid supplementation of body levels decrease endogenous production by the adrenals. And if abruptly discontinued after sufficient dosing/time can result in acute adrenal insufficiency, which is not only dangerous, but taking it from two women I care very deeply for indeed, one of them my ex gf, and the other an autie activist girl who I love to bits, although she doesn't know it, who have trouble with producing ACTH (adrenocorticotropic releasing hormone, released in the brain, along with CRF from the pituitary, corticotropin-releasing factor, these signal the endocrine system to cause the adrenal glands to begin producing glucocorticosteroids and mineralocorticoids from the cortex of the adrenal glands, the glucocorticoids, cortisol mainly, being the steroids taken for allergies and inflammation and other immunomodulatory activity. Whilst the mineralocorticoids like aldosterone serve to regulate blood pressure and plasma sodium/potassium levels via interaction with the renin system of the kidneys and regulation of the conversion of plasma angiotensin type I to angiotensin II.) And when there is in effect a tolerance due to taking steroids, the adrenals correspondingly adjust to produce less, and the sudden changeover from extra to severely under is what is dangerous in either case.
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Yep, my doctor told me that, but not in as much detail. I appreciate what you've written.
Three more days and if my asthma continues to give me shit, it's back to the doctor for me.
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And yes, just took part of my evening pain meds and the antiseizure med, thinking about a muscle relaxer, help stop me being as tense, because I'm busily studying up for something.
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Well, risperidone is a dud. Tics are back with a vengeance. For the last two nights, getting to sleep has been difficult because of all the uncontrollable ticcing.
Still took my meds though. Will call the doctor at the end of next week. Just to give the risperidone enough time to work (if it's going to).
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Well, risperidone is a dud. Tics are back with a vengeance. For the last two nights, getting to sleep has been difficult because of all the uncontrollable ticcing.
Still took my meds though. Will call the doctor at the end of next week. Just to give the risperidone enough time to work (if it's going to).
The PR sometimes gets dystonia with risperidone. She takes benztropine twice a day with benadryl 3 times a day and as needed. Thankfully the as needed is just at the bowling alley where the noise, activity and general confusion can set her eyes cattywampus.
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Well, risperidone is a dud. Tics are back with a vengeance. For the last two nights, getting to sleep has been difficult because of all the uncontrollable ticcing.
Still took my meds though. Will call the doctor at the end of next week. Just to give the risperidone enough time to work (if it's going to).
The PR sometimes gets dystonia with risperidone. She takes benztropine twice a day with benadryl 3 times a day and as needed. Thankfully the as needed is just at the bowling alley where the noise, activity and general confusion can set her eyes cattywampus.
Oh no, I would not want dystonia. That would be horrible.
I still haven't come off the benztropine. I'm kind of scared to. The risperidone makes me feel weak and shaky, I don't want parkinsonism symptoms too.
Have yet to take my night meds.
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Dystonia is nasty, and probably a good sign to find a better more suitable med. It can be permanent. And eye symptoms, such as oculogyric crises, if that happens (learn about this and know the signs off by heart since its a medical emergency, along with malignant hyperthermia) then its a hospital job and no two ways about it. And I'd hate that for her ladyship.
Ren-you tried something like clonidine? might help you feel less shaky (decreases noradrenaline release by simulating the negative feedback mechanism, alpha2 adrenergic autoreceptor activation, for controlling excess levels of noradrenaline. I've had success with it, works great for overloads helps with sleep and restlessness, sensory crap, helps focus attention (dose respective in particular with the latter although if you want an explanation for that just tell me and I'll fire away m'dear :))
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The PR had some dystonia with Abilify, Reglan and Zoloft. So I pretty much know what to look for. At least the eye contortions with Risperidone only happen occasionally at the bowling alley. One of the fathers is a doctor and he usually accompanies his daughter. He keeps a pretty good eye on all three ladies.
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Lestat - I have been thinking about trying clonidine. I mean to ask my psychiatrist about it on Friday when I ring him.
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I respond REALLY well to clonidine, I'm on no APs, but it still works great, I think of it kinda like an earth wire for my CNS. Helps it not get shell-shocked. Human circuit breakers. Another good one is tizanidine, shorter acting, but more powerfully relaxing. And it works against tic-like clonus type stuff of non-epileptiform origins too. Its stronger a myorelaxer than clonidine, although when first getting used to it it can put you out like a light at high doses. I need it as a myorelaxer due to the spasticity in my iffy leg's calf muscle due to some neuropathy there. And whilst it isn't available here, guanfacine is used for AD(H)D and its another one of these alpha-2 agonists/imidazoline receptor ligand combinations like clonidine with a long half life. Probably makes anything like that (pretty feckin iffy) combination of amphetamines and moclobemide less prone to being quite such an insane combination too due to the way it stamps on the noradrenergic brakes.
It (guanfacine) seemingly is more subtype selective in a nootropic way.
As for the biphasic effects on concentration/attention facilitation in ADxD conditions, as I understand it, its a matter of reaching a point where the initial effect, feedback to presynaptic autoreceptors (autoreceptors affect the cellular synaptic pairing the autoreceptor is located on, whilst a heteroreceptor can affect other cells, and USUALLY although not always [an exception being the short isoform of D2, the dopaminergic autoreceptor, which is coupled to TAAR1, trace amine-associated receptor type 1, which is coupled to DAT in a negatively regulatory manner. Activation of D2Sh (there are two isoforms, D2Sh and D2-long, D2short is the autoreceptor, and reading recently allowed me to understand why D2 antagonists didn't increase dopaminergic release, and antipsychotics were antidopaminergic instead of pro-dopaminergic. The D2Sh being coupled to TAAR1, leads to on activation by an agonist, activation of TAAR1 which controls opening and closing of dopamine transporters, when activated, resulted in DAT being deactivated and thus increasing synaptic dopamine concentrations)
Theres a balance, in the case of alpha2 noradrenergic autoreceptor agonists between depression of adrenergic firing, and a sedative effect, and after a little further effect of this kind, a compensatory increase in noradrenaline is initiated IIRC, theres an overall calming and attention focusing effect, but takes kind of a hill-shaped profile, with a sweet-spot, if that makes sense between depression of noradrenergic signalling, and arousal (by this I don't mean emotional depression, but reduction in neurotransmission due to decreased noradrenaline release, and this having a damping effect on hyperarousal which itself can throw one off track, without at the same time having the dose TOO large, which causes quite a strong sedative effect. Also, for those with very low blood pressure (enough to be a clinically significant problem that is) would want to avoid it, since both the alpha2 adrenergic autoreceptor agonism, and, with these clonidine and related drugs, they interact with imidazoline receptors which also produces a hypotensive effect. Ren-since your asthmatic, do check with your doctor and make sure he knows about the asthma and its degree, since adrenaline is a bronchodilator, and so are reliever inhalers, although clonidine decreases noradrenaline/adrenaline release it does not produce a direct blockade of the beta-type adrenoreceptors, and relievers such as salbutamol (aka albuterol) and the like are directly stimulatory of beta type adrenoreceptors and themselves bronchodilatory without having to be in the presence of prior adrenergic stimulation of bronchodilatory adrenoreceptors in order to exert their effect.
Primary side effects with clonidine are in getting used to it, one rapidly becomes able to tolerate it if there are side effects, same with tizanidine (a similar drug, I take both, so am in a fairly good position to answer any 'what is it like' kind of questions. I have never taken guanfacine however, or lofexidine two similar drugs. Tizanidine is more short acting, than clonidine, but much more 'in your face' with higher doses getting used to it. First time I ever took the higher dose pills I found myself nodding in and out of sleep, with my head falling to my chest as if on opiates nodding out. Non-addictive, but if taken longterm and abruptly discontinued in high enough doses then they can cause a rebound physical effect of jitteriness, anxiety, shaky hands and increased blood pressure due to increased noradrenaline release. I have experienced that, after my psycho bitch former housemate stole and hid my meds (borderline fucking freak psychobitch from hell she was, a control-hungry power-game-playing poster child for postnatal abortion via dr.martens clinic (I.e a boot to stamp on her head as a newborn would have been a good thing for the world :P) and the rebound, since I was taking a high dose of tizanidine, along with moderate clonidine dose, (near the most prescribable here for the tizanidine according to GP guidelines) it was fucking nasty the rebound. Completely lacking psychological addictive nature of any kind. And lacking psychotic hell-born whorefiends to cause such trouble, there should be no reason for such to happen in the first place.
All in all, my experience with both/either has been very positive. And damn good at overload-proofing, or at least serving as some pharmacological body-armor against autie/aspie type overloading. The only other, psycho borderline toxic hellbitch-independent side effect I myself ever get is with really high doses, which can cause orthostatic hypotension, low blood pressure upon suddenly rising too quickly from a recumbent position to an upright stance. This causes blood pressure to drop due to vasodilatation induced by the alpha2 agonist drug/s that takes a moment for the body to sense this and for a compensatory response. The way to react to this, which is easily recognizable in that it produces dizziness, in strongly pronounced cases, clouding of vision, and a ringing sound in the ears, is to hold on to something or lean against something, and to bend at the waist, so the heart has to work less hard to send blood round the body, and to rise from this position when the side effect eases off at a slower rate so the body can compensate more smoothly for it.
With a really large dose, or overdose, its quite capable of putting you flat on your back due to profound hypotension.
Do check, ren, about asthma with this drug. I would hope for it not to be much of an issue, but talk with your doctor about this, and ideally if you start, start low and work up as suits you and as needed if needed. Its always possible to put more of a drug IN to the body, far more difficult to take it out once it is in there or have to counteract it. Ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, if you really need to, induce noradrenaline release systemically in the periphery (I.e outside the blood-brain barrier) if you must counteract the effects of the drug then and there.
Also nasal congestion can be a side effect. Xylometazoline or oxymetazoline nasal drops or ephedrine nasal drops work best, I prefer the former two, and get it on a script since I take high doses of the tizanidine alongside clonidine the congestion can be really annoying with being on a lot of the two, so I get an otrivine nasal spray/drops a week, and if it gets bothersome a drop or two up the nose clears it right up, counteracting this localized effect with a localized, nonsystemic response that is completely effective in remedying any such congestion. One or two squirts up each nostril and it clears up in a minute or two at most.
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Yeah, I have been wondering about the clonidine/asthma combination. I'm calling my psych on Friday about it.
Also, I take Rhinocort every night for a blocked nose due to general dust and cat allergies. Works pretty well.
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I rang my psychiatrist this afternoon and let him know that the risperidone has been making me feel unwell and that my tics are back.
I asked about clonidine and he said it can be used for ADHD but it's risky because if you forget a dose or can't keep a dose down (from vomiting), for example, then the blood pressure can shoot up to a dangerous level.
So we're going to talk about it at my next appointment in a month's time (I can't afford one sooner). In the meantime, he said to bin the risperidone and go back to taking haloperidol. I'm fine with that. I have been feeling so awful on risperidone.
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I'm feeling a lot better now.
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The risk of a massive BP spike I think he is overstating. You'd need to be on a large dose before that happens. And if your vomiting etc. then you don't actually have to swallow it. The pills I've had, I've had two different brands, one with a sugar coat and more commonly one without, are tiny, since by weight clonidine is very potent. The pills I take contain 25 micrograms a piece, nominally I'm meant to take, I forget but either two 3x a day or 1 3x daily, but I vary it as and how I feel I need to, to the extent that I've used up to a few mg at a time as a response to some particularly nasty ass stressful event/s (don't do that without a hefty tolerance to the drug or your BP will bottom out and put you flat on your cute lil ass:P seriously, you won't be able to do much more than twitch a finger, if you remain conscious.
And the tablets, don't really need swallowing. If you need it to act fast they can go under the tongue or between cheek and gum, with or without crunching them up to help break them to bits if they have a sugar coating. A patch form is also available, catapress, although I've never used it myself, I just know its available, as a time-released trnsdermal patch which delivers the drug through the skin, like nicotine patches, or fentanyl ones. Although going from my experience with the brief time I was at one point, given a fentanyl patch script for my joint pain, that was utter bollocks, took ages to do what little it did, and did more or less bollocks all without my rendering it down to a shootable form. They come off and won't go back on, stick poorly and generally are a total complete and utter pain in the arsehole.
Put it this way. I got given an opiod 100x the potency of morphine, and I was back the very next day begging for the oxycodone script I had back instead because it was so utterly crap I was actually in withdrawal because they worked so poorly, until I made it shootable. Ended up using what was meant to be a weeks worth in half a day. Inefficient and a twatting great nuisance.
(no, as you can guess I do not much like transdermal patches. I've had nicotine ones, scopolamine/hyoscine patches for nausea and fentanyl patches and they all sucked dick like a giant vacuum attached to a bell-end factory.
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About patches, I have had oestrogen ones once and boy, did they ever stick. And when I finally peeled them off, they left residue. Sticky residue. I had to scrub at it.
They were horrible. Made me feel premenstrual ALL the time. I puffed up with fluid, boobs always sore, headaches and period pain without the period. Plus my mental health nosedived which sucked. Went to my regular GP and begged to come off the bloody patches. She said it was fine and so I peeled the last one off right there and then which amused the doc.
Never, ever again.
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I know what you mean Ren. Well not about the being premenstrual, being on the rag without being on the rag, sore boobs or period pain. But about patches sucking arab dick. They really are the pits aren't they.
Damn doc that gave me the fent neglected to do as she should and give me a dose or two of a long lasting strong oral opiate to cover the (long) time between the patch being first applied to the skin and the actual beginning of action of the drug. And put me on patches that supplied way too low a dose. Even if an opiate is 100x the potency, milligram for milligram, you still have to give a patient enough of it to be sufficient for their tolerance level and actually WORK. It isn't magic, its science, an active dose is an active dose, regardless of how strong the drug in question is, and if not given then the patient A-won't benefit, and B-if already a chronic pain patient is going to go into withdrawal.
The only plus side was that I'd gotten the oxycontin 80 script I usually had at the time the day before. Day after, got the fent, allegedly a week worth. Went back the next day to be put back on the oxy 80s, and the doc actually gave me another week's worth of those, so two week's worth of OC80s in one week plus the fent patches, no questions were asked about those, so I just used them as a one-off treat, although I'm not a big fan of fentanyl, if its thrown into my lap so to speak I'm not going to flush it down the loo. So basically I was free to just use those to extract, shoot and get wasted.
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Morning meds taken - at 6:45am.
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Oops. Forgot again. It's been a really bad week, med-wise.
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Yes. Did take an extra capsule of chlormethiazole, after waking up after just a couple of hours sleep (thats being a night owl, an autie and a chemist all rolled into one for you:P) because I felt the 'aura' of a seizure threatening. It didn't happen though, the extra chlormethiazole dose squashed it like a bug under tank tracks :)
Just took the ACTUAL morning dose of it a moment ago along with a few caps of oxy opened up and sent up the ol' hooter :P
Wakes me up far better and friendlier to my body and its individual quirks etc. than does coffee. Won't say no to a nice honeyed cup of tea, preferably a good quality white tea though, especially with some fresh lemon balm infusion used to steep the tea bag *teabags QV :P:P:P:P*. That combination (the balm and honey with it) make for a really good brew, especially with white teas and their delicate flavour. I've been wondering about, for when balm isn't growing in season, how lemon-grass might perform with a stick or two added to a cup of tea. Anyone thought of it before me and tried it?
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Took all the regular ones plus quite a lot of ibuprofen for the shoulder pain. :P
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The PR :thumbup:
Me I don't remember, probably not :thumbdn:
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Still no meds taking by me. Vitamine Bs (complex) as a supplement I do take on a daily basis and sometimes when I get fed up by the pain in my legs (knees mostly) I take 100 mg of ibuprofen but that's about it.
Ibuprofen has some side-effects afterwards in my opinion though, taking it..
Aspirin is utterly shite.. makes me feel worse in general..
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I get some relief from topical administration modes with the NSAIDs, absolutely none whatsoever from paracetamol in any form (I've had it given me via IV in hospital, which I thought ridiculous. They insisted, whilst I was suffering some of the most intense pain I'd ever had in my life, that before they'd give me a (shitty, near enough inactive, knowing full well I was a chronic pain patient) dose of morphine, that I had to have IV paracetamol first, after I told them I've tried it enough times orally to know it doesn't. bloody. well. work. It does reduce fever in me but does absolutely nothing for pain, of even the most insignificant nature.
I use ibuprofen gel/cream on my buggered up knee joint and sometimes hips (which are the worse of the two sources of discomfort for me) although especially on my hips its both a nuisance to use, messy and I generally just don't like the feel of it. And its great at making for dirty skin when it goes all tacky and ew. Reminded me actually since I have a dr appt later, to ask about transdermal patch forms (at least to give them a test) for the antiinflammatories. And its probably time I booked more steroid shots done into my knee and hip joints, those actually really do seem to help loosen me up and get me moving less like an old man, instead of limping slower than a queue in line for a stale dog fart-sniffing contest.
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Needed to start an antibiotic course earlier today, plus get some additional antiseizure med. Happy to say that both requests were successful, and in the latter, considerably more than I asked for, so I have spare coverage now if needs be.
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Now that I am back on haloperidol, everything is as normal as it has been for the last 4 years.
See the psych August 4.
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Not yet. I will, though. I tend to remember my meds when at home.
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I took mine. I am again a productive member of the society. :M
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I took mine. I am again a productive member of the society. :M
We approve of your productivity. :M :M :M :M :M :M :M
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Just downed 800 mg of ibuprofen and applied Aspercreme with lidocaine.
Going to let that settle for awhile before taking any more.
I think the Aspercreme is actually helping. :orly:
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How fitting that an Aspie use Aspercreme!
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How fitting that an Aspie use Aspercreme!
Hey yeah! No wonder it works! :2thumbsup:
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Took extra Symbicort because I've been coughing all day.
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I did, yes.
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Regular meds plus a lot of ibuprofen. I'm eager to hear how my X-rays turned out. :nerdy:
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Late, but :2thumbsup:
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Regular meds plus a lot of ibuprofen. I'm eager to hear how my X-rays turned out. :nerdy:
They may need to do an ultrasound to figure out if it's something that doesn't come up on x-rays like ligament damage, etc.
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"tis a bit strange that this thread is regularly being locked and unlocked.... :apondering: Ah well, I shall sit upon my throne and dispense wisdom and justice.....and maybe I'll throw a rock or two..... :brick:
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That's me, on my phone, accidentally hitting the lock button.
It's not that I want Intensians to abstain from their meds.
If you want to throw rocks, please throw pretty ones. :eyelash:
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That's me, on my phone, accidentally hitting the lock button.
It's not that I want Intensians to abstain from their meds.
If you want to throw rocks, please throw pretty ones. :eyelash:
Of course, I have collected many a pretty pebble!
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Regular meds plus a lot of ibuprofen. I'm eager to hear how my X-rays turned out. :nerdy:
They may need to do an ultrasound to figure out if it's something that doesn't come up on x-rays like ligament damage, etc.
Yeah, I suspect that will be the next option. I love imaging tests. :green:
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That's me, on my phone, accidentally hitting the lock button.
It's not that I want Intensians to abstain from their meds.
If you want to throw rocks, please throw pretty ones. :eyelash:
Quit fat fingering the meds thread, Hyke. :zoinks:
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That's me, on my phone, accidentally hitting the lock button.
It's not that I want Intensians to abstain from their meds.
If you want to throw rocks, please throw pretty ones. :eyelash:
You should have said it is a conspiracah.
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That's me, on my phone, accidentally hitting the lock button.
It's not that I want Intensians to abstain from their meds.
If you want to throw rocks, please throw pretty ones. :eyelash:
You should have said it is a conspiracah.
Yeah, I have accidentally locked a few threads using my Kindle. Whoops.
I have been to the psychiatrist and he recommended that I stay on the haloperidol. He would rather that I take a lower dose but I told him that it doesn't work then. So 5mgs every night it is.
The change I make will be to the dexamphetamine. Not to take it at 6:45am as I'm doing to get ready for college. That's too early and the dex wears off by 10:30am. So what I'm meant to do is take my first morning dose when I get off the train before I start my walk to college. Easy. And if I'm driving, take my dose right before I leave. I drive there once a week.
I may end up having to take more than my prescribed 30mgs for which my psych will send me a private script.
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Yeah, I have accidentally locked a few threads using my Kindle. Whoops.
I have been to the psychiatrist and he recommended that I stay on the haloperidol.
Somehow this sequence of sentences was funny to me.
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For my mental health so I stop locking threads. :D
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Yeah, I have accidentally locked a few threads using my Kindle. Whoops.
I have been to the psychiatrist and he recommended that I stay on the haloperidol.
Somehow this sequence of sentences was funny to me.
Me too. :rofl:
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never on sunday for some reason
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Took dex later than usual - on purpose. It felt like it was a good thing.
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never on sunday for some reason
Hello Melina Mercouri
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Can't remember. Might have. :-\
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Only my pain meds, cimetidine and chlormethiazole. The stuff I can't manage without. I should take some clonidine I think, probably. Even though right now I feel too fuckin numb to be overloaded.
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Last dose of dex for the day.
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Just about. Well the stuff I really have to anyway.
Just took a solid dose of clonidine and tizanidine (overload-proofing) and a nitrazepam pill. Really, really stressed atm.
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Not yet. I'm a bit late today.
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Called the psych and came to the decision of taking my dex 3+3 instead of 2+2+2. He said I was taking my last dose too late at 4pm. I have always done that in case I had to drive somewhere or do some socialising after 4pm.
So tomorrow it will be 3 at 8:30am and 3 at 12:30pm.
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Some. Just the chlormethiazole, the oxycodone and a TINY shot of morphine (the rest is being saved for a higher purpose, so I'm just using the oxy for now instead. Did allow myself one very small shot of morphine sulfate but only 1ml of the solution rather than 5 or 10ml)
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Afternoon dose of dex (taken at 3pm) didn't seem to do a thing, I just wanted to sleep all afternoon.
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I'm not surprised, being on that nasty ass haldol. Your psych is the mental case, he's right where he needs to be if hes in a nut ward, but only if he's in a room with rubber walls, combining haldol, amphetamine and a fucking MAOI, even a RIMA-type. I'm quite sure I know more than a few pharmacologists and bees both that would want to drop him out of a plane without a parachute into an area notorious for its high population of fire ant nests for that.
Amphetamines work by, in a simplified way of putting it, causing the vesicles that contain monoamine neurotransmitters (noradrenaline, dopamine, most importantly the latter) (and in the case of methamphetamine it also has effects on serotonin to a degree although dex doesn't afaik or if it does not until you'd reach millimolar plasma levels (which would be saturation bombing more or less, and take some surviving most likely, if dex does at all then it's the sort of thing you'd observe by patch-clamp or cell-clamp studies (where microelectrodes are poked into a cell or a patch of cell wall is excised, an amplifier to boost the signal hooked up and various drugs applied to the nutrient bath the cell is in to evoke electrophysiological responses, such as to a nerve, in a petri dish, but not in a human)
And taking a dopamine antagonist and a releaser like amphetamine (the monoaminergic stimulants fall into two major categories where dopamine is concerned, likewise noradrenaline and serotonin) the releasers, which do exactly what they sound like they do, forcing the dumping of neurotransmitter stores, these can cause a much higher peak level of synaptic neurotransmitter 'content' as stores are effectively turned inside out and whats in there dumped into the synapse from the neurotransmitter vesicles in the presynaptic terminals (usually) and then there are the reuptake inhibitors, which are thought to block DAT (dopamine transporter) the cellular entity responsible for sucking back up the dopamine which is not metabolized and repackaging it into vesicles for reuse, although it does seem like it may be more complex with certain DAT inhibitors, some are euphorigenic stimulants, like cocaine, methyl/ethylphenidates and other ritalinic acid esters (no joke, awful name or what, for the acid parent:P) whilst some tropane-based DAT inhibitors, like IIRC, troparil are apparently not euphoric, despite similarity chemically to cocaine. So there appears to be at least two different binding modes, perhaps an open channel block and preventing the channel opening, although I'm conjecturing there.
Along with two atypical compounds, really atypical in their mode of action in that they do not directly cause monoamine release, but when the body NATURALLY does so, I.e it was going to do it anyway, there is a phasic increase rather than the tonic increase in monoamine levels, with, per action potential received by the neuron, more monoamine is released per stimulatory event to that neuron.
Could be compared to, rather than increasing rate of fire of an old blackpowder cannon, packing a larger charge in before firing, but continuing to fire at the same rate it would do anyway, in the case of those two weird ones, BPAP and PPAP. Been meaning to make those a priority to have a look at myself when I can find the time, since they really are quite unique in their mode of action, and AFAIK it is just these two compounds thus far known that do this. Just the kind of oddball activity that screams 'project, lestat, project dammit and hurry up about it' :autism:
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Taking a neuroleptic and a stimulant are just going to cancel each other out big time. The neuroleptic will squash the stimulant big time. Nasty one too, haldol, in a 'progressive, slow brain damage and neurotoxicity' way/ Stuff actually SHRINKS brains. And is likely to predispose to parkinsons disease. Especially taking it longterm.
As for me, yes, again, some pain meds, since I've hurt my leg (30-40mg IR oxycodone, some morphine earlier, I'd take more of the latter now but it means I'd have to climb the stairs to get it and it hurts bad enough doing anything but lying flat on the sofa.) And more antiseizure meds, another of those damned atonic seizures tried to happen, although thankfully since my old man had helped me before (literally had to open them and stick them in my mouth, since I could just about signal to him to do it, was conscious, could swallow, breathe, but otherwise couldn't move more than to point, and look, make noise and get his attention, and stick two fingers up (to indicate how many to give me, not to tell him to fuck off, I mean:P) there was enough in me for me, since he'd gone to bed, for me to reach for it and just about open the bottle and tip a couple of capsules out)
Going to take a dose of nitrazepam (mogadon, a LONG acting, strongly sedative-hypnotic type benzo) before I do go to sleep tonight, because chlormethiazole, the stuff I use for prevention and as an emergency cut-out switch when the shit starts to hit the fan only lasts maybe 6-7 hours at most, and these atonic seizures tend to happen either going to sleep or coming out of it, where I'd be at my least able to do anything about it) So when I know they are very likely to happen, I'll use those, scripted them for anxiety, but don't take the full 10mg a day I'm scripted and don't use it daily at all in fact, only a few days out of a week, but sometimes heavier doses, that way I know I have long-lasting protection and can safely go to sleep.
Just had my cimetidine (for stomach issues, and it helps my pain meds work harder for longer, also about to take a muscle relaxer, and some erythromycin (antibiotic). Well, I say about to, I just have, 8mg tizanidine and 500mg erythro (which conveniently does the same enzyme inhibiting trick the cimetidine does so temporarily I'm really cracking the whip to make my pain meds work overtime and kicking them awake if they try to get any sleep, so to speak:P)
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Most of them. Plus an extra dose of morphine, wasn't sure if I'd need it or not, but with my leg really hurting in a way it usually doesn't, along with some muscle weakness, I prefilled a 5ml syringe with a strong morphine solution, sterilized the cap with isopropanol, let it dry, capped it and took it along with me on my mushroom-gathering hike, in case I did need it. Turns out the place was a veritable minefield of mires, steep climbs and steeper drops, mud and stinking bogs. And after realizing quite how hard going it was, it took about 10 minutes, before I ended up realizing it was use the prefilled 'just in case' IM, and top off with a couple of oxycodone IR caps, if I was to keep going at all.
Could've well used some dex myself, ren, although I didn't have enough advance planning done in order to...become in ownership..of some. That said it was pretty damnable hot of a day and wearing a heavy, but shortish and thick leather biker-style/bomber jacket I'm not entirely sure I'd have ended up wanting to take it once I got out there, and started to feel the heat, at least, I'd have wanted to bring some noradrenaline release inhibitor agents with me to drop my body temperature to something more comfortable.
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Didn't take my second dose of dex. Still managed to get shopping done though.
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Just took some ibuprofen for a little shoulder ache. Will take the rest soon. 8)
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^Wishing your shoulder gets better. :)
Just night meds left for me.
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Not yet, but I will, soonish.
Need to do refills, too.
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About to and to take my bath.
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I have just realised that my benztropine has a "may make you drowsy" sticker on the bottle. And I have been taking it in the morning. Going to switch it to night time and see what happens.
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^Wishing your shoulder gets better. :)
Just night meds left for me.
Thank you, it's way better than it was when this first started happening. :)
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About to and to take my bath.
*wobbles in :cbc: :bath: to guard the Royal Bathchamber!*
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* The bovine lady in waiting whispers in CBC's ears that her Majesty is in for a long soak today. She might need a refill of the cooled down water. Because the royal towels are not dry yet. *
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* The bovine lady in waiting whispers in CBC's ears that her Majesty is in for a long soak today. She might need a refill of the cooled down water. Because the royal towels are not dry yet. *
*wobbles in :cbc: to refresh the hot water!*
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All the meds I know of your on Ren, are known sedatives, bar amphetamine. MAOIs can go either way, and its quite dependent upon the MAOI. Never taken an irreversible one, only a RIMA (a mixture of harmine and harmaline, from the seeds of a plant called syrian rue, Peganum harmala, used to render N,N-dimethyltryptamine [DMT] orally active, nasally etc. active as opposed to only when smoked (injection also works although I've never done so, and without a sitter to safely administer a drip, I wouldn't, because of the extreme rapid onset, a few seconds at most, may easily leave one unable to remove a needle before it'd blast the person doing it into hyperspace head-first, or at least what first might be in the context of weird as fuck non-euclidian geometrically orientated, non-minkowski-space environmental conditions:P)
But (and it can change over time) with MAOIs they can act sedatingly in some contexts. Particularly when taken for some time, since monoamine depletion can occur with noradrenaline, where its replaced in synaptic vesicles that would normally carry noradrenaline, by the less stimulatory and less susceptible (AFAIK) to metabolism via MAO-a, related neurotransmitter octopamine, in humans mainly a trace-amine-associated-receptor agonist (TAAR complex, AFAIK a TAAR1 agonist or allosteric modulator) but in arthropods, such as insects, spiders, as well as crustaceans and cephalopoda, octopamine replaces noradrenaline's functions in humans, and functions as a fight/flight response mediator amongst other things. but being less efficient as a stimulant than noradrenaline (in humans) MAO-a inhibitors can become sedating. And some have more sedating character than others. One of the irreversible MAO-a inhibitors, tranylcypromine is an amphetamine analog, with a cyclopropyl (could be cyclopropylmethyl, forget which off the top of me head) group in place of methyl at the alpha carbon of amphetamines. (cyclopropane, and groups derived from it are much more reactive than typical alkanes, and cyclopropyl groups too are more reactive than n-propyl or isopropyl because the cyclopropane/cyclopropyl group is under significant ring strain)
And it has significant stimulant effects, especially to begin with, according to my reading. Never taken it though, primarily because of the long duration of time in which very carefully, quite severe dietary restrictions must be adhered to, and potentially lethal interactions with some meds, particularly stimulants (combining irreversible MAO-a inhibitor type MAOIs is an absolute no-no NEVER mix type combination, that has some really ugly ways of killing the poor unfortunate bastard that experiences such an interaction. Slow, painful and nasty, amongst the nicer qualities in such cases.
So after synaptic vesicles are depleted of NA, and become carriers of octopamine instead, it being less strongly stimulating than noradrenaline, MAOIs can become sedating.
RIMAs are more forgiving, like the harmala alkaloids (harmine, harmaline, tetrahydroharmine etc) or the pharmaceutical commoner RIMA, moclobemide, although any of these still have to adhere to the drug interaction restrictions, particularly with serotonergic drugs, and also with stimulants, although microdosing a stimulant and moclobemide has been done its still IMO pretty dangerous, same goes for harmala alkaloids (naturally occuring RIMA type MAO(a)Is found in several plants, particularly syrian rue (Peganum harmala, not related to common rue, Ruta graveolens, which is toxic) and also, along with the harmine and harmaline found in syrian rue, tetrahydroharmine as well as the other two is found in a certain vine, known to some as the vine of souls, Banisteriopsis caapi, which is used by several native amerindian cultures in mixtures known as ayahuasca, or hoasca;
a mixture of the vine of souls, and, at bare minimum a second plant containing DMT (dimethyltryptamine) which is normally active only when smoked, or if intraduced into the body via injected routes or into the brain in animal studies (ugh) which is normally metabolized instantly before ever getting to the brain if swallowed, snorted etc. but the MAOI-bearing plant allows it to act orally, in the ayahuasca and hoasca brews (there are probably as many recipes as there are shamen, some including everything from nightshade alkaloids (Datura plants etc.), nicotine containing plants, and all manner of other local adjuvant plants, many of completely unknown or little studied natures.
Tried an hoasca type brew myself a couple of times in the past, and as a psychedelic IMO it didn't live up to expectations, smoked DMT thats been extracted from the plants, and cleaned up, recrystallized etc. I found it very similar to psilocybin mushrooms (psilocin is 4-OH-DMT which is of course, orally active) but a lot more similar to psilocin/psilocybin (the latter being the phosphate ester of psilocin) and couldn't hold a candle to smoked DMT freebase, isolated with solvent extraction and purification from Mimosa hostilis, a relative of the Acacia tree family, from the rootbark (many Acacia tree species also contain DMT, n-methyltryptamine and 5-methoxy-DMT in some cases IIRC in some species, although not Mimosa hostilis, of M.hostilis, the jurema tree.) plus syrian rue seed as the MAOI source. Jurema has the advantage especially for beginners or non-chemists who are up for some 'kitchen chemistry' in that the rootbark, unlike extracting from plants which contain their DMT in the leaves, the plants with the DMT and/or 5-MeO-DMT in either the root-bark or the tree bark in some cases (Virola species in particular, aka epena, yakee, or parika, depending on the region its used in, the indigenous names vary widely from tribe to tribe and country to country) are easier to extract and clean since they don't contain anywhere near the quantities of plant fats that the leaves do. so don't need a defatting step performed on the plant material powder after first acidifying (such as treating with chloroform or dichloromethane) to strip the plant fats out, which otherwise can result in a yellower, and far harsher to vaporize in a pipe product.
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Just taken my chlormethiazole, about to do the same for some pain meds, since its early in the morning (half 5 in the morning ish) and the last lot has worn off enough not that it'd make me withdraw, but certainly enough to make me cranky and be able to feel my joints getting sore again.
That ought teh do the trick. A little oxycodone left from the last shot done, assuming the most likely scenario of imperfect absorption from the IR matrix to some degree, although probably not large. And to that added the actual intended dose, 7-9x30mg morphine (don't ask me to do the math, I really CBF, especially since its not kicked in yet beyond just about awareness, on a peripheral kind of level that its in there and about to begin. And the nasty twinge that was starting to work its way up and dig itself out of the hell it is usually kept consigned to (well hell for pain at any rate, given its an analgesic being spoken of, I suppose that doesn't really make quite the easy metaphor, without a little twisting of words. A soothing balm being used to keep something in hell. If you see what I mean. No...that didn't work too well did it? Lets just put that down to idiosyncratic, idiomatic spesh verbal traits along with a HEAVY dose of weapons-grade overanalytical thinking afterwards shall we:P :autism:
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Yep, I'm taking the pharmaceutical commoner, moclobemide. I don't think it's sedating, I take it morning and night. Same with lithium.
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Just took a nighttime-early evening shot of morphine, a couple of chlormethiazole caps (antiseizure med) and 3x5mg nitrazepam (benzo sedative, fairly damn strong one, long acting) 1 earlier and 2 just now.
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Since I have had the Symbicort puffer, I have had a weird problem - the spray hits the back of my throat and I gag. Over and over until I nearly throw up and my eyes are streaming. Not pleasant. So my doctor recommended a spacer, which I bought today. I have used it once and it works without a problem!
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Since I have had the Symbicort puffer, I have had a weird problem - the spray hits the back of my throat and I gag. Over and over until I nearly throw up and my eyes are streaming. Not pleasant. So my doctor recommended a spacer, which I bought today. I have used it once and it works without a problem!
That's excellent. I wonder how many other inhaler users have that problem! :orly:
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Is that the dry powder combined steroid/long acting bronchodilator type, the round disk like things that open sections, like a round magazine of bullets almost, containing a small quantity of powder? or the ones that squirt a rapidly vaporising propellant?
Never used the former type since I am not asthmatic, but the latter, ordinary 'reliever' types I've used and they use (in my experience, both one scripted from this country and when I couldn't remember where I put that, used one containing the same active drug, but from the US) absolute ethanol (pure alcohol) as the solvent remaining when whatever is in there to generate the pressure evaporates, and its nasty, you can taste the alcohol. Had to use one for a while after a gas mask temporary failure whilst working with something rather nasty, one of the interhalogen compounds, got a tiny whiff of it in escaping, and even the least reactive of them does NOT play nice. Hated using the inhaler, although did need it for 3-4 days after or so.
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It's the propellant sort that sprays, Symbicort. Budesonide and eformoterol fumerate dihydrate. I used to have the round disk-like inhaler, Seretide. But it wasn't enough recently. I needed something stronger. Symbicort is both a preventer and reliever. I am a bit peeved that I still have to take about 8 puffs a day, maybe it will get better once the weather warms up and people stop using their wood fires. ;)
Maybe you used Ventolin? I don't know what that's called in the UK.
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I keep forgetting this morning! After I listen to this song, I will take them. :thumbup:
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The song must be over by now. Did you take your meds?
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The song must be over by now. Did you take your meds?
Yes I did, meds and supplements. :thumbup:
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The song must be over by now. Did you take your meds?
Yes I did, meds and supplements. :thumbup:
Good!
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Just took the Strattera. Gearing up mentally for a busy work day! :viking:
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I think I forgot to take mine. :-\
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I think I forgot to take mine. :-\
I have done that, forgotten and then took them twice. This was dexamphetamine and so it was no fun taking twice the dose. Felt awful.
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It seems to happen when I'm travelling. I need my routines.
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I think I forgot to take mine. :-\
I have done that, forgotten and then took them twice. This was dexamphetamine and so it was no fun taking twice the dose. Felt awful.
Do you have to take twice the dose of dex, when you forget?
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Should feed myself some painkillers.
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Just picked up my refill rx, thus far, attended to the most rapid acting and quickly needed requirements.
Namely pain meds (oxy IR, haven't yet prepared the morphine, I don't like needles and I enjoy intramuscular shots even less, damn things often make me ache for days after, masked only by the medication itself being so delivered being a strong painkiller)
About to take my antiseizure med (chlormethiazole) and antibiotic (cephalexin, tastes bad smells vile and I'm surprised the dr scripted it me, considering that cephalosporins contain the beta-lactam structural motif, and in penicillin-allergic patients there is a 1 in 10 chance of cross-reaction. She did inform me that there is a low-frequency cross reaction but she was unaware of the rate of reaction, understating it considerably. She didn't know, so I left her a message via reception as I picked up my rx, not a complaint about her, just to pass on the actual rate of cross-reactivity. Thankfully in my case the allergy does not appear to cross-react. Or I'd likely as not, not be typing this post:P)
Dan ren, that sounds shitty. Hope you aren't taking a dose sufficient to cause a crash/come-down. How much dex are you on? must be a fair bit for a doubling of the dose to make you feel like shite. That said, thats not taking the RIMA (moclobemide) into account. You need to be more careful ren, with a combination such as that. Your walking a tightrope to start with hun, mixing a monoamine releaser like amphetamine with an MAO(a)I, even a RIMA. Had a doc suggested that to me, I'd probably have left him pretty shaken up, after leaving, at the very mildest.
As for myself, starting to feel more human again now my pain meds are working, seizure prophylaxis in place and adrenal blockade (of monoamines that is, not corticosteroids) sorted out.
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Me :thumbup:
The PR :thumbdn: (I left it for her and it's still not been taken after 2 p.m.)
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Everything except lithium because I had a blood test which means I have to remember what time I took lithium last night and not to take it in the morning. Going to take it now.
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Not only did I take my meds, I also went to the pharmacy, picked up my refill, and got a flu shot! 8)
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My old man had a flu shot today or yesterday, forgot which, one or the other. Will have to check if I am eligible for free ones myself.
Took antibiotics (cephalexin), morphine, oxy and chlormethiazole, about to take another 10-20mg oxycodone, just a small line or two, after I first flip up my blast shield, want to get that done before I start donning the gloves and such, because of course, nobody wants corrosives on their mucous membranes, and the glacial acetic acid is about to flow, with something in it itself that has somewhat irritant properties. That is, if I want to work on vacuum distillation off of the methanol interfering with my latest batch of this particular chemical crystallizing in the freezer, I think I might just recrystallize the already crystalline stuff I have and purify it (its been exposed to air for a bit and isn't pure as a result, nowt a rextyl'n can't fix though.
Got a horror movie in the background, some zombie flick from the looks of it, a bunch of forensic scientist aspirants training for the job, and something going majorly wrong, corpses getting back up and gutting people, a member of the tea dissappearing etc. Typical zombie movie stuff really. Personally I'd rather get into some chemistry of my own instead, and give this stuff a good re-ex before whipping out the borohydride and then an iron/acid reduction to follow. I can't sleep for some reason, and I'm in a very chemistry-ey mood and just feel like breaking out the lab glass, cleaning bits that need it, and making with the fun :heisenberg:
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Yeah some of them. morphine, oxy, chlormethiazole, clonidine, cimetidine, antibiotic and a squirt of xylometazoline occasionally (locally acting nasal decongestant)
Questioning whether also to take a couple of zanaflex (tizanidine, a muscle relaxer).
Done.
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Almost forgot on Monday but have managed to take them for the past few days.
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Pain meds, one of the seizure meds, clonidine and pramipexole, as well as cimetidine and cephalexin (antibiotic).
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All except a sinus med. I'm waiting until 8 tonight so I can keep on a regular schedule, 2 times a day. Sinus headache now
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Grrr...not sure whats causing it but something is causing repeated, although intermittent strong twitching of my legs. Doesn't feel seizure-like. Have taken evening dose of antiseizure meds though and will probably take a dose of tizanidine [strong muscle relaxer, works by blocking noradrenaline release] and before bed a sleeping pill, 10mg nitrazepam, a pretty solid dose that'll also help moderate/stop any of this damn muscle jerking and have anticonvulsant effects of its own, Feel a bit overloaded for some reason so I think I'll have some clonidine as well.
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Almost forgot today again. I was reminded of this joke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-9rx2RXx1I
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A couple of them. My old man went out fishing and the damnation-born dr's clinic hadn't done my scripts so I had to wait an hour and a half, and take the bike. I really CBF going all the way up to the one pharmacy round here that stocks my antiseizure med, its cold and its a fair way and my joints were hurting. I could afford to wait though, because I still have a prescription for nitrazepam, a strong benzodiazepine sedative-hypnotic/anxiolytic, thats for some reason on repeat, I only asked my doc for it temporarily during a time of extreme and unavoidable stress but for some reason they added it to my repeats and I've had access to it ever since. Its in the same family as valium/diazepam, the go-to emergency anticonvulsant, and is both long acting and very potent indeed. I only use it a couple of days a week, in higher doses than the 2xdaily prescribed, when really needed. That way no dependence develops, which it certainly would do if I were to take it daily. That way it serves as an emergency knockout, or to deal with the fall-out should for some reason, the shit hit the fan. And in this case, took a couple of tablets of the nitrazepam since like its relatives diazepam/valium and lorazepam, it too shares in the same anticonvulsant properties as they do.
Other than that just took my oxy. About to go and take my morning morphine shot. Then, finally, hopefully at least, the throbbing ache in my right knee will sod off. Both knees come to think of it. And my right knee is meant to be the good one. Damn cold weather seems to make them act up.
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Morphine done (half or so of it), time to go finish up and take the other half.
With any luck it might dim my perception of the revolting acidic-metallic sort of sweaty nasty ass stink emanating from an erlenmeyer flask in the kitchen. Not looking forward to having to work THAT up too much. Blleech! It does seem a little bit less bothersome though since I had my morning morphine shot. Still stinks though and I don't want to go in there, much less spend the time to cook something for breakfast. I think I'll go to the shop and buy something to eat and drink that are ready to consume without any cooking, because that iron-acid reduction post-reaction fluid is nasty and the black, thick glorp left behind in the filter funnel stinks even worse.
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The PR :thumbup:
Me :thumbdn:
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Picked up the rest of my meds, the antiseizure and stomach meds, plus muscle relaxers and adrenal blockers (not beta blockers, those make me feel like shite on a turd filled anus-bun with a squirt of pre-eaten mustard diarrhea on top. And I fucking hate mustard. I had surplus muscle relaxers and the noradrenergic release inhibitor left from last script refill so that could wait. Old man gof home from fishing just in time to wake me up to catch part of an episode of trek-TOS that I'd seen before and then watch voyager after that finished. And then decided it was time to eat, and got me a burger, that I didn't have to pay for. Which, seeing as I'm going to need almost £900 to pay for the rotavap I so badly want, is most welcome indeed.
Mmmmm...the thought of having that brand new rotavap on my lab bench, vacuum pump hooked up (if it hasn't an integral one)...its a 1-liter flask capacity one, not huge, although I could afford, just, I think, maybe a 2 liter one instead..will have to do some consulting and see how adaptable they are with some fellow chemists of certain specialities and proclivities, to see how adaptable they are, and see if its a simple part swap that would let me use different flask sizes, or a heating bath size or what, because if its, as I figure most likely, the size of the heating bath, I could mod that myself and have several, swappable ones on something like a rotating tray with movable electrical contacts, if the attachment point just takes as standard, any 24/40 joint taper and length flask neck and seals to that then modifying shouldn't be difficult. I'd love to make a microwave modification for it too, so I could rotavap things under microwave irradiation whilst simultaneously subjecting the flask contents to vacuum distillation. Oh boy, I'd be the slavering, drooling envy of chemist hobbyists everywhere, clandestine and otherwise. for a DIY mod like that.
I've seen some nifty arse MW oven hacks before, including one that had been altered to stand on its side, so its longest axis pointed up-down rather than sideways, and had a hole bored in the top, so a flask could be placed within the MW cavity, a condenser and other accoutrements attached to the condenser, running outside the MW, with dual coolant feed lines running in past the shielding and even a MW modified to be a dual-purpose MW-photoreactor hybrid. *que lestat just getting another idea for potential doings with that rotavap's still pot section......a microwavable, photoreactor-whilst-microwavable and ideally if possible, automatic temperature control feedback with facilities for either standard condensers to fit the flask neck joint size designed for (24/40, which is what the vast majority of my glassware is in, and my preferred size generally aside from the likes of 5ml, 10ml etc. micro- and ultramicroscale glassware of course where such a joint size would mean the joints themselves are of much larger capacity than the actual flasks) or, same fitting size and attachment for a dry-ice condenser circulating dry ice-acetone-dimethyl ether type mixtures or even liquid nitrogen perhaps. That, would be, to use the vernacular 'kick bloody well arse and then some' (and, not that it'd be my aim, but probably drive my fellow bees green with envy)
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About to take second dose of dex for the day. Thanks for reminding me.
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Might join you in that later, ren, although It'll have to be racemic amphetamine rather than dex, since I cannot for the life of me be bothered on this scale to attempt resolution of the optical isomers and separate out the D-amphetamine from the laevo-isomer. For a bigger batch, sure but not on a small scale (although that said, given that the resources for this particular quantity were of unknown concentration and discovered by chance, and as such, excess iron and acid had to be used for the nitroalkane reduction and that it is still dissolved in solvent being dried before extraction into acidified, anhydrous alcohol there is no telling really how much there actually is dissolved in said solvent, so asking the person who made it... would be of no use, only seeing it myself and weighing it would tell me how much there is, once..the maker of it..extracts it and crystallizes it, cleans it, recrystallizes it etc. and the final test of quality would be one's nasal passages after in-vitro analyses that they would of course have done once it is extracted, crystallized and cleaned. And besides AFAIK they don't have the chiral acids needed to perform an enantiomeric resolution and separate out the worthless L-amphetamine, unless they were to try and use a chiral amino-acid, although they've never done that before to the best of my knowledge...
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I'm sure glad I don't have to make mine! Just $5.60 for 200 pills.
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Thats pretty cheap. Bet those could be sold on the black market for that much each here. Typically its about £10/g as powder in this country, at least, so I'm told..
But the purity is very variable and the quality can be as poor as 10% by weight, which is pretty shitty IMO. And definitely NOT good enough.
Although if I could get it on rx then it actually wouldn't cost me anything directly, because I'm entitled to free prescriptions, which is just as well or almost all my income, after rent, would have to go on those, and its over £8 an item, in fact I don't think I could afford both the meds and the rent otherwise, and thats ignoring food entirely, let alone anything for myself.
And this thread just reminded me, I need to take some of my meds (cimetidine, a small top up of oxy and chlormethiazole.)
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I did, yes. :)
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Took mine. Mustn't forget afternoon meds.
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Just remembered to take mine. Had to wait a while, because I had a gas mask and goggles on my face, over my mouth, blast shield down over the top and elbow-length gloves, and had been working with concentrated acid (H2SO4, 98-99%), as well as been busy preparing a solution of anhydrous isopropanolic HCl to crystallize something. Hopefully now all I need do is dry some acetone over sodium carbonate that has been freshly baked anhydrous over the oven flame for a while and then after filtering off the drying agent and re-drying for reuse, dilute the ~20ml isopropanol with a larger quantity of dry acetone to crash out my project as snow-white crystals:)
So I could only take my pain meds, since my mouth and nose were blocked, and I didn't want to have to strip off all my protective gear just to swallow a few pills and then have to put it all back on again, its annoying having to do that. And if you happen to get an itch on your nose or face, it is REALLY annoying!
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I used to wear a mask when watering mushroom beds with chlorine and sneezing with it on was kind of icky.
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I hate the smell of chlorine, and of 'chlorine' bleach (sodium hypochlorite solution).
And lol, I know what you mean there ren. Been there done that, not fun.
I have to wonder, how that job interacted with your asthma, mask not withstanding, because the huge volumes of spores given off when the basidia of the the mushrooms discharge their payloads, and the aerosolized bleach.
Have grown them before, although only Agaricus spp. once, I'm not a fan of most of them, nothing special flavour wise. Have had some success growing Psilocybe cubensis, and P.tampanensis, an unusual kind of psilocybin mushroom in that it isn't so much the fruitbodies themselves the species is overall grown for, but they form solid sclerotia, pale, cream-off-yellowy brown color irregularly shaped subterranean nuggets of consolidated hyphal tissue that serve as a resting and regenerative structure in P.tampanensis [and at least one other in the genus, P.mexicana, although I've never grown that species] from which mushrooms eventually pop up, although I didn't keep them growing that long, since the 'truffles' they produce are potent enough in themselves and quicker to form than the afaik quite small actual mushrooms. They are a little unusual in not being grown for the above-ground reproductive structures, I.e mushrooms. Quite admirable potency too by any accounts I can give of them, not THE strongest, but they seem in relatively low in water content compared to typical mushrooms; the less water the less diluted the psiloc(yb)in content presumably is, typical mushrooms tend to have a dry weight around 1/10th that of fresh examples of the same species of the same size.
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Yes I did. I also have a prescription for the next three months' worth. 8)
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I took mine as I had barely awakened, still half asleep.
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I hate the smell of chlorine, and of 'chlorine' bleach (sodium hypochlorite solution).
And lol, I know what you mean there ren. Been there done that, not fun.
I have to wonder, how that job interacted with your asthma, mask not withstanding, because the huge volumes of spores given off when the basidia of the the mushrooms discharge their payloads, and the aerosolized bleach.
My asthma was fine back then as long as I took my preventer every morning. It was Pulmicort (budenoside) back then.
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The spazz and the hyper meds, both. ;D
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Went in to pick up another seizure 'rescue pack' today at the Dr's, and additionally brought up my wonderings about blood sugar having a potential influence on the seizures, so going to get a serial fasting blood sugar assay done, where measurements are taken over a period of time to build up a picture of what is going on.
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Went in to pick up another seizure 'rescue pack' today at the Dr's, and additionally brought up my wonderings about blood sugar having a potential influence on the seizures, so going to get a serial fasting blood sugar assay done, where measurements are taken over a period of time to build up a picture of what is going on.
I'm going into "Mommy mode" here. Healty meals eaten regularly solve a hell of a lot of problems.
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Not yet. I'm still drinking coffee and getting ready for the day.
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Better late than not at all.
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ATM it is a theory, and that is all. They seem to happen always when its furthest from having eaten (waking up from sleep
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:zombiefuck: OH DEAR
*swallows pills*
much better ^__^
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Yeah they blow ass.
Just woke up. Although without problem. *more pill-swallowing*
One ironic-annoying thing is the antiseizure med I use for prevention and that I get an extra additional script now (after some pressing and having to see more than one doctor to get it, stupidly, on their part I mean, the ones that would not comply and expected me to have to use my preventative med to relieve, leaving me low every time I had to respond. The docs before expected me simply to go without or do nothing and suffer the fucking seizures) is a pretty potent sedative too. And its of intermediate duration of action, about 5-6 hours or so.
Although not actually licensed here for seizure control, I find its what works, and it does, pretty well and whats more it works really well for responding to them in particular because it works REALLY quickly. If you've ever drunk strong alcoholic spirit, you'll notice how it comes on minutes after swallowing it, and is absorbed fast as hell? this stuff is the same in that respect, soon as it gets inside one, it starts acting, and its very, very lipophilic and rapidly absorbed, takes about as long as is needed for the gelcaps to break open for it to work, which if I have a seizure is just what I want, to give it the equivalent of a double-barreled shotgun, both barrels to the face at point blank range with solid slug round, and this med, chlormethiazole is pretty much just that, a 10-bore shotgun, both barrels in the face and a big mess left of whatever its fired at, in not very much time whatsoever.
And whilst other sedative-hypnotic type meds are used (like valium/diazepam, its pretty much world standard, as according to WHO-essential medications list for any country as part of the fundamental set needed for a functioning health system for that reason) this one isn't licensed for seizure control here, but unlike benzos, although with a physical dependency either would produce the withdrawals from hell, and dangerous ones at that, fatal in severe cases, chlormethiazole, I've found is oddly un-prone to producing a physical dependency.
I've used it for years, daily, several times a day, day in-day out and there are no withdrawals at all, no physical habituation has resulted from its use for seizure control (and even taking more on top of that when counting what I now have as a response-pack of extras) and I can go several days, more than long enough to flush any hanging about in body fat (and I've got next to nothing in that department, I'm built like a length of wire with the insulation stripped off it and if anything just a spray-coat of epoxy on the outside for insulation) and still no problems directly resulting from the drug itself.
From lacking it, potentially in that I'd not have the seizure coverage its there to provide, but no actual withdrawals stemming from abruptly stopping it. Any benzo like diazepam/valium and I'd end up in hospital if I did that long enough to flush much of it out of me. And it'd be a living hell at that. Really quite surprised me, considering they both work as GABAa receptor positive allosteric modulators, but in the case of chlormethiazole the binding site is different (GABAa has many, many many subtypes sensitive to different things at different areas, with binding sites for various different benzodiazepines, the Z-drugs like zolpidem/ambien and its weird ass relatives, the GABA binding site itself, targeted by the ph-so-weird stuff muscimol, from those famous red capped Amanita muscaria with the white warts on the cap and the little gnomes with their fishing rods sat on top, and weird dissociative-trance inducing-hallucinogenic effects in larger amounts after being cured to render it safe to consume and remove a neurotoxin, and in lesser amounts both a restorative herbal medicine with many uses and also in sub-clinical/psychotropic effects, again after being cured, a rather special little seasoning/spice that works wonders with red meat dishes,
and the receptor complex, consisting of 5 sections, as a heteropentameric protein that forms a central ion channel (conducting chloride) out of a selection of an alpha subunit, a beta subunit (this being the minimum in the throw-together of subunits that make up a human GABAa receptor sensitive to GABA [the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid, inhibitory in nature], GABA itself binding at the interface between alpha and beta, and the typical, most common type containing two alphas, two betas and a gamma, benzodiazepines binding at the interface between the beta2 and an alpha subunit, with their being alpha-types 1 through 6; beta having three subtypes 1-3, three types of gamma subunit, a delta, an epsilon, a pi and a rho-subtype (Rho-subunits are odd, in that they form a distinctly different type of GABAa receptor not always termed such, are found mainly in the retina of the eye and they assemble into functional GABAa-rho homomeric channels that are insensitive to many classic ligands used to define GABAa receptors, so are sometimes known as GABAc receptors (GABAb is different from either GABAa types of any isoform, or GABAa-RHO/GABAc, whatever you call the bugger, in that GABAb is a metabotropic, GABA-sensitive inhibitory receptor [typical agonists are baclofen, phenibut and the drug GHB, used both recreationally and for treating narcolepsy], metabotropic receptors relying on the activation of intracellular messenger cascades to produce their effects, and thus are slower to respond than the other primary receptor type, the ionotropic receptor, which form ion channels and as such directly couple to the modulation of ion-flux and produce faster, shorter responses whilst metabotropic types produce slower to initiate but longer responses), the GABAa receptor and GABAa-Rho (aka GABAc) are both ionotropic receptors)
And two of the most well known GABAa positive allosteric modulators (an allosteric modulator, from the greek 'allos' (other) and I don't know the root word in greek but 'steric' means 'space', so 'other/alternate space' essentially, is a site other than that which the main neurotransmitter binds in a receptor complex, that when a modulator is present, which can be either negative or positive, the former lessening the effect of the binding of the neurotransmitter or exogenous drug, and the latter increasing it, the term for sites binding the neurotransmitter associated with the receptor type, I.e GABA in GABA receptors, glutamate for glutamate receptors, acetylcholine in muscarinic and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, or butyrylcholine, is an orthosteric receptor) are benzodiazepines, like valium/diazepam, temazepam, lorazepam/ativan, clonazepam/klonopin, alprazolam/xanax and many, many others, like the nitrazepam (mogadon, or moggies for short) that I have a script for and use occasionally, mostly for those days I seem seizure-prone and that that day is one I have to continually be on my guard against and have to fight off seizures, originally given it for anxiety, but whilst they REALLY should never have let a med like that just be forgotten about and put on repeat scripts indefinitely save only for epilepsy treatment in certain cases, never for sleep or anxiety as I was, I haven't said anything because its also an anticonvulsant and also has a very long duration of action, but I never use it more than a small handful of days in a row, before dropping the dose for one day then stopping and leaving it as long as practical before its used again. And because some people find benzos very abusable, many also finding them addictive psychologically and that physical addiction to them is hideous, at its most pleasant, people who have experienced both say universally they'd take heavy-duty cold-turkey heroin withdrawal over even moderate benzo WD many times over, its that bad. I've experienced it mildly when treated with a short duration one once, and ended up having a seizure in a GPs office because of it, and christ was the taper even, fucking awful to go through and that was only from low dose ativan/lorazepam) they are typically, with the exclusion of people who either won't be intended to stop the drug because of epilepsy and its being used for maintainance, or on long, slow tapers, are intended only to have the benzo they get for either occasional use, when they can't cope with panic attacks etc. or for short-term (a couple of weeks tops) treatment of insomnia when it gets crippling in severity.
I got given the nitrazepam for anxiety after a wrongful arrest, and illegal search warrant and raid executed on my home, with a lot of some really fucked up abuse by the filth, as well as outright thefts (such as for example, whilst claiming to be looking for chemicals of a couple of specific types, neither of which being a crime to have in the first place, such things as precious gemstones were stolen from me, not listed as seized, just taken, made to 'disappear', after being tortured by them (I am not joking, I mean it literally and I am deadly fucking serious, that is exactly what they did whilst they had me in custody in their pig shop)
Got given it whilst they tried to break me with the threat of action (I was never even charged, they just held it over me for months, whilst having precisely no evidence of anything whatsoever) and worse, by my GP for anxiety, and whilst I planned to just go in as and when I needed it, shortly before not having any left, so I'd always have some for when I really did need one, instead I got, to stop me going in so regularly for an appointment, just given a twice-daily script on repeat.
The cause for my needing some is long gone, but the script remains regardless. But I'm saying nothing, because to get any on request, because people can abuse them etc. is very difficult and many if not most doctors will tell a patient to piss off without even thinking about why they need them or for how long, many just say 'I don't prescribe those drugs to patients', because of a personal dislike for their use at all, which IMO is negligent too, but so was leaving me on the repeat, with instructions to take them twice a day. If I HAD taken them as prescribed, I'd be physically dependent without a shadow of a doubt, and within a few weeks at the longest.
Yet the chlormethiazole I take, it too binds the GABAa receptor as an allosteric modulator, like the much more powerful, and more dangerous in overdose by FAR, barbiturates, most of those now having been discontinued, save for surgical anaesthesia induction and the very long acting indeed one phenobarbital, aka phenobarbitone, or for short, just phenobarb or 'pheno' which is used for epilepsy. Those are monsters for withdrawals, and deadly in overdose whilst the benzos, alone without other sedatives or depressants, in even large overdoses tend just to make the person who does so fall asleep for a long, long time, knocked out cold, but once they get it out of their system they come round.
Barbs? (and chlormethiazole, which binds to the barbiturate recognition allosteric site at GABAa too), one OD, even a not very large one, and your likely to end up dead, and lucky if you don't. But they ARE effective, very effective. And yet chlormethiazole has proved both effective, and used, albeit off-license, for my seizure control, to allow me the continual use of it at this dose without any physical habituation or dependency. And as such, for the combination of its being A-extremely effective and reliable, a real heavyweight slugger of a med of its action-type, the kind that can go a full set of rounds in the ring with the medical problem equivalent of mike tyson on steroids and just flick the problem away like an irritating mosquito, and B-extremely fast acting, which I need for this use of course, as well as C-the most welcome complete absence of my having any habituation to it, which actually really shocked me when I found out, after having to go without after having stomach troubles and vomiting some of the capsules up, leaving me short for a few days without any, and yet, as well as when testing it later, voluntarily holding back on it to see if there wasn't a problem and that was a pattern or a one-off for some reason, taking nothing else that would interfere either positively or negatively, it did indeed prove to be without issue.
The degree of safety and stability that gives me in the case of an emergency loss such as through stomach issues and doctors telling me thats not a good enough reason for not having any, because I vomited them up and into the toilet (what am I meant to do? try and fish them out of the puke filled bog? pour chloroform into the toilet, and vacuum-distill out the few hundred mg of chlormethiazole from a bowl full of stomach contents, piss, shit and bogwater? sometimes I think that some doctors need to really not just reexamine their priorities and expectations but to take them and shove them so far up their asshole they choke to death on them. I've not actually had them say so, but they in many cases have behaved like they expect me to go make my own. I could do, and indeed I've done that synthesis. Its easy, thiamine/vitamin B1 is cleaved into a water soluble pyrimidine compound and a poorly or insoluble 4-methylthiazolyl-2-ethan-1-ol using sodium metabisulfite [can be had from a beer or winemakers hobby shop] in water, the solution cooled and filtered, before washing free of residual bisulfite with ice-cold water, the thiazol-2-ethanol derivative is then dried, and in whatever suitable solvent one chooses, methylene chloride works nicely, chlorinated using thionyl chloride, ideally, which is perfect for this synthesis as its breakdown products are gaseous, and then the dichloromethane, chloroform or whatever you used stripped, using a water aspirator vacuum to vacuum-distill the freebase chlormethiazole. The SOCl2 is difficult for many to buy but it can sometimes be had on ebay for those without connections, or in the form of lithium-thionyl chloride batteries, a specialist type of battery, also available on ebay, although the SOCl2 needs distilling, in a very carefully dried environment because its violently water-reactive and decomposes to SO2 and HCl gases, and fumes in air doing the same, although without violence, due to atmospheric water vapor.
So it COULD be done with beer-making preservative, vitamin B1 pills and batteries, with some basic glassware, as well as some dichloromethane and some calcium chloride or other dessicant to put in the drying tubes, gloves, a gas mask with acid gas filter or doing it carefully outside to avoid the SOCl2 fumes and the HCl and SO2 given off when it hydrolyses. But should a fucking medical patient be expected to both fund the entire thing themself, AND go buy the batteries or preferably, lab grade thionyl chloride, a load of vitamin B1, the winemakers-preservative (metabisulfite), the solvent, the glassware if they don't have it already and teach themselves from scratch how to do a vacuum distillation if they don't already know how?
I think that is asking quite a lot too much of any patient, just because they have stomach problems and need 6 to 9 capsules of an essential medication to prevent them having a seizure to cover them from a friday afternoon to the coming monday morning, no? and some doctors wonder why I get snarky with them??
Ironically the main doctor, my personal one at that clinic, is the one who knows most about my abilities as a chemist, and he is the one who will not fail to help me in such a situation! the other one who knows I'm a chemist, she has helped me at times and others not, without much if any difference between situations, seemingly depends wholly on how she feels that particular moment, maybe so little as if she had her morning cup of coffee hot enough or enough milk on her fucking breakfast cereal.
And others, who've outright screwed me, and whilst not knowing I actually did indeed have the skills and chemicals and equipment to do exactly that, doubtless thinking I was just being snarky when I ASKED them 'what?!? do you actually expect me to go home, take out laboratory equipment and dangerous, corrosive, acid-fuming, violently water reactive and above all EXPENSIVE chemicals, at a time I am particularly seizure-liable, and instead of your printing off a prescription for just enough of what keeps me safe and healthy to last until this coming monday [asked on a friday, late, so literally two and 1/3rd of a days essential pills for that one single medication], and produce it myself?'
They just looked at me funny like I was taking the piss. Until I said something like 'so I'm to go home, seizure prone, take out my expensive and delicate glassware, extract vitamin B1 from pills I barely have the money to buy, crack it into pyrimidine crap and 4-methylthiazole-2-ethanol, then chlorinate this, whilst, I'll remind you, I am trying to fight off having a fucking seizure, and vacuum-distill the product, find some sort of herbal rubbish from a health food store that comes in gelcaps, pack my own gelcaps of the finished medicine and swallow them???'
Responded to by 'I can't answer that/won't answer that', when they realized that it wasn't snark, but I was actually asking a question of them. Albeit a serious question in snark's clothing. With a hefty serving of snark-tar sauce to go along with it. But they did realize after I actually snarked out the outline of the procedure itself that I actually WAS going to that dr appointment in the hope I could instead, go a few minutes out of my way to a pharmacy and hand over a fucking prescription form to stay whole and healthy, not have to spend the rest of the day and into the night working on making my own just for the 'privilege' of not having a twatting well seizure....
I'll admit one thing though, the look on the face of the incompetent and tightfisted, miserable prick of a doctor that did that to me, when they realized that I wasn't ONLY taking the piss, but if they refused me, thats exactly what they were forcing me into doing, that was priceless. One of said doctors was a black, and christ, they might as well have been an eskimo at the end of that appointment, they'd practically turned pale enough to see it. Any paler and I'd have drowned them in bleach to make them a paler shade of 'your saying your going to WHAT?....'
'does it SOUND like I am joking?, and thanks a mother fucking bunch for wasting my time and forcing me to waste valuable chemicals and putting my health at risk, god damned fuckin' bitch'
*and black doctor transitions to one so ghostly 'just-swallowed-a-dog-turd' pale, that adolf hitler would have put them in a breeding program and started putting his 'aryans' in death camps for not being white enough*
Times like that, as far as I'm concerned, any on the job stress and grief a doctor gets from me, if they do that to me, they are bringing it down on their own heads, I'm merely the shelf with the big heavy priceless ming china vase full of red hot bricks on it that they tip over and make drop on their own head, metaphorically speaking. I might clothe the bollocking from hell in verbal form and choose the languages some of the more offensive things are said in whilst walking out, but in reality, the rightful fury and anger was already there loaded into the shell casings, it just needed a doctor to be a suitable asshole to load them into the right caliber of patient-cannon, and them to put the barrel in their mouth and shit on the trigger.
When somebody ACTS like a bastard, and shits on somebody from on high, chances are that somebody is going to acknowledge the fact and TREAT them as a bastard, and shit on them in return.
(metaphorically, I mean. I've never actually pulled my Y-fronts down, stood on a GP's desk and crapped on their knees)
Not yet, anyway.
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I did take my meds, yes.
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Pain meds, yes, can't remember the status of the others, not all of them at least. About to take the overload-proofing (well resistance-aid, even if it isn't 100% immunity to the bastards) now (clonidine)
Got to wait a little to take the muscle relaxers IMO since they make me very sleepy a lot of the time, and I've to clean up a lot of lab stuff after I've finished eating, drinking, taking meds and viewing a few posts on forums, replying to somebody's PM elsewhere, etc. As well as later, going vacuum pump shopping.
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Since I forget to take my pills in the morning I've started taking them at night. We'll see how that works with controlling what they're prescribed for.
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Just woke up with the pain med tank dry as an islamic nun's twat, so just had a dose of oxy.
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I did indeed.
Just had antiseizure and pain meds, cimetidine, and a few sips from a bottle of robitussin dry cough mixture (I decided recently to trial it for the purpose of working on lessening my tolerance to my pain meds, as the active metabolite of the cough remedy, dextromethorphan, something called dextrorphan is an NMDA receptor antagonist, and many other such compounds possessing like activity, have strongly suppressive effects on development of opioid (and amphetamine too, although I am in no likelihood of developing any tolerance to that, I don't use it nearly so frequently as for that to be possible; a useful and not unpleasant tool now and again but thats all it is, a means of things getting done, although I'd like to give low dose (something like between 5 and 15mg rac-amphetamine, 20 at most) 3xdaily, or less if at the upper extent of that dose range.)
Considering it, in low-end therapeutic dose range for my awful attentional span, which is really making it difficult to concentrate, always have been that way to some extent but its been making itself felt more, the older I get. Although it'll take a bit of calculating to get things right, in that I both arrive at a dosage which is sufficient to provide benefit, but that doesn't interfere, or prove too in-your-face, or give me any uncomfortable peripheral adrenergic side effects, jitteriness etc., the calculating would be because I've sod all chance of even SEEING anybody about it, or being taken seriously, much less getting a script for dexamphetamine, although I'd prefer that, whats available to me is racemic (D/L-amphetamine, both isomers in a nominally equal mixture) and its the dextrorotatory isomer which possesses pretty much all the focus-enhancing properties with the peripheral effects on noradrenaline largely due to the laevo-rotatory isomer ; although separation of the two is possible, by virtue of the fact that D- and L-isomers of amines like that selectively crystallize with the corresponding stereoisomers of chiral acids, such as the one usually used for such enantiomeric resolution, D-tartaric acid, dexamphetamine would form a salt with D-tartaric acid, and L-amphetamine with L-tartaric acid, and the naturally sourced, most easily available tartaric acid is chirally pure, as are many natural products, so in this case baking supplies (for the tartaric acid) would actually be the superior option, surprisingly enough; I've heard quite a few reports of large chemical supply houses supplying tartaric acid STATED to be either dextro- or laevorotatory, and in fact sometimes it not even been optically active at all, I.e the advertised D-tartaric acid, which scientists and chemists of all stripes would be wanting to, often as not, use for such chiral resolution, which depends on the optical properties, and which enantiomer of tartaric acid one has, either one would work, D- or L-tartaric acid, by either removing the D-tartrate from the D/L racemic mixture and leaving behind the laevo-amine, or doing it the opposite way around, but supplying a racemic mixture of BOTH isomers makes it utterly and completely useless unless somebody wanted to go over it grain by grain with a polariscope, fine tweezers and a microscope (or a microscope with a polarizing filter built into the lens. Wouldn't mind something like that as an option for my microscope, not that I plan on tweezering out crystal by tiny crystal, D- from L-tartaric acid from an unsuccessful crap-shoot at a commercial product from a chemicals supply house using a crossed pair of polarizing filters from a calculator liquid crystal display)
As for the laevo crap, that can just go, or be recycled somehow. Made up into a dilute solution and used as nasal decongestant/to dry out running noses as drops since it is good for little other.
In the meantime....time for my steak prescription, as written by Dr Lestat, and handed over by his secretary, a Mr.Emptystomach, who, for some reason, seemed most insistent that I collect my prescription quickly and start taking my medicine as soon as possible.
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I taking my meds right now.
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The PR :thumbup:
Me - I found out I feel a little better when I take them before bed. So, not until tonight.
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Picked up refill earlier this morning, ended up taking them slightly late, since the dr surgery I pick the rx slips up from opens at 8am and I woke up at about half 8 (didn't sleep much at all last night, despite taking a strong sleeping pill, after tossing and turning and generally feeling like shite. In the end I added some clonidine, gabapentin, some strong muscle relaxants and extracted the dihydrocodeine from several packs of OTC dihydrocodeine/paracetamol tabs. They are only low dose, the non-rx ones, but its easily separable from the APAP so as to make it safe to use in a dose sufficient to actually have any effect greater than more or less placebo.)
took antiseizure med first thing, as well as some oxy (a bit extra of the latter this morning, as my bursitis had been making me thoroughly miserable yesterday and last night, couldn't find any comfortable position at all, and with it being the last day before my meds were due for refilling, meant I'd nothing but those crappy paramol OTC pills that I keep in reserve to do an extraction on in emergencies like that. So finally getting some pain relief...manna from heaven, actually being able to sit/lie down/stand without feeling like somebody was hammering red hot nails into my hips, whilst my iffy knee screamed along in sympathy with the cursed little fuckers.
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Yeah, I took my meds.
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A small dose of oxycodone just a moment ago, morphine shot a little bit longer ago, should probably take my antiseizure med now, which I've just done, don't want anything going tits up when I'm working in the lab.
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Random note I found from WolFish scrawled in the margin of some writing: "You know you have ADHD when you drink the water and realize you should have taken the pill first."
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Raxy, I read that and couldn't help but think 'Awww, thats really sweet as a reminder of him for raxy' :)
I hope thats how it came across when you found it, rather than calling forth pain to your heart, at least.
Reminds me, still need to take some cimetidine and a couple of zanaflex (tizanidine, a muscle relaxer that blocks noradrenaline release. To help with the contraction problem caused by the nerve damage to my fucked up leg, and as a bonus it helps a LOT with overstimulation)
And whilst I'm at it, just remembered I forgot my pramipexole today. Might as well take a couple of those now (a dopamine receptor agonist, D2/D3 preferring IIRC with some D4 receptor partial agonism), helps stop my getting RLS. Because RLS just sucks dog scrotum and shits it out in theresa may-shaped turds :P
Although I don't tend to bother with water etc. to wash down the pills. I seem, according to nurses and hospital DRs at times I've had a whole load of pills to swallow, to be able to swallow enough dry for them to comment on it and give me funny looks after, especially if I've been thirsty at the time and drank the water first. Doesn't bother me swallowing them without a drink, even if its a whole great handful of different daily meds.
And two in particular I actively prefer not to, one being nitrazepam (mogadon, a benzodiazepine sleeping pill, on the odd times I use it) because those have a nice sweetish minty taste to them, and the other, my antiseizure med, the chlormethiazole, that comes in gelcaps of the freebase, and they cause a funky but rather pleasant heating/burn sensation in the throat when they burst open after swallowing them, but they don't do it if the gelcaps are chased down with water. Maybe that is weird, but, well, I couldn't give a tinker's twatflap if that does make me weird; I already KNEW that much :P
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Random note I found from WolFish scrawled in the margin of some writing: "You know you have ADHD when you drink the water and realize you should have taken the pill first."
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just quickly had my seizure med and a morphine shot; about to follow up with cimetidine and tizanidine, now I've finished drying a little wee project of mine under vacuum. Although there is still the small matter of a vac distillation to do also. But first...american dad needs to be finished with my watching it.
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Pain meds (well, two out of three, CBF with one one), seizure meds, adrenal suppressant and cimetidine (a stomach med) plus some gaviscon and a squirt of nasal decongestant (the adrenal suppressant causes nasal congestion sometimes). About to take evening seizure med and some of the as-needed additional oxy I was scripted a while back for the whole nearly getting my cornea melted off with a high-pressure jet of boiling alkali thing.
Although I need to FIND the seizure meds first. Got a backup if I can't, but its rather more of a heavy duty sleeping pill, and I'd rather not use that stuff, since it can be highly dependence-forming, and for some, psychologically addicted. I'm not prone to the latter, with sleeping pills, but it'll get anybody physically and drag them to hell by the balls given a chance. So that only gets regularly used a couple of days in any one week consecutively, barring emergency situations, since the backup is a benzo.
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Found the buggers, eventually.
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No benztropine tonight. Took the last one last night. Absolutely cannot be bothered to go to the chemist for more even though I planned to today. I'll go tomorrow afternoon after Kayleigh's psych appointment which I am also going to.
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I did.
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Got the benztropine yesterday.
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Been up until 8:15am playing fallout-tactics, now its time I went to bed for the day. Just took 2x5mg nitrazepam (a long acting damn strong hypnotic-type benzo, aka mogadon/moggies, good for making sure a sleeping pill slaps you silly, as well as being one of my absolute favourite (prescribable, rather than research-chemical or grey market) benzos, if I'm going to use one. Might make it three. Plus a cap of chlormethiazole, also strongly sedative-hypnotic, and railed a 10mg line of oxy which for me isn't much at all but it will help me get to sleep, by helping stop the awful heel pain. Going to go slither under the quilt, stick a cushion between my knees, another just above my ankles and then stick a pair of clean trouser tracksuit bottoms over the top of my head to block out sunlight, since my blindfold is currently being washed, after I spilled, IIRC beer over it and didn't realize and it got moldy in the wet sugary environment. So thats being washed to cleanse out the shite from it.
MMhhff...I can feel the chlormethiazole kicking in already. Time I stuck a pair of pants over my head and stuck the rest of me under the covers of the sofa.
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Nearly time for lunchtime dexamphetamine.
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Morning morphine, check, morning oxy...quarter-check. chlormethiazole...check. Cimetidine...can't remember, but its harmless stuff so I'll make sure.
Rest of em I CBF. Although hopefully today is the day my GP officially covers his ass regarding a call to a specialist about the memantine, and i might even get to start taking the first dose today. HE is on board and said he is strongly inclined to accede to my plans. Working out/compromising on dose might be a bit of work (whenever I've done a cycle, I find what would be considered HUGE doses for an alzheimer's patient-several hundred mg/day rather than maybe several 5s, 10s or even 20mg a day...but, I'll remind him that thats for alzheimer's and not the use the BNF indicates it for. And of course, I have a LOT more experience with the stuff than he does. By a long fucking way (although I'll not put it that way, I don't wish to humiliate him in front of me, or at all for that matter, he is a good man), so not being used for alzheimers, but for other purposes and effects entirely, yeah, the dose is going to be different, and I've already started at those levels straight off many times before...so I really kinda know by now what I am doing with the stuff.
The principle being is like....say one drug has two uses. And for two separate conditions but works for both used in different ways. The dose for condition A might need a microdose, whilst that for B might need a buggering load of the stuff. You might, if you were a nice doctor, give a patient with a cold several modest doses of oxy a day to help them feel less shite, help them sleep etc., but you visit another patient who's just been hit by a drunk driver of a twenty ton truck and turned into something pink and squelchy with bones sticking out of what used to be a skin, then they are going to need an awful lot more pain relief than somebody with a cold. Or you'd give codeine cough syrup to someone with a cough, but fentanyl for a highly opioid tolerant patient who had terminal cancer refractory to all but the heaviest punches that a doctor can throw at pain. You don't give the cancer patient the cough syrup, or the guy with the cold a fuckton of fentanyl shots.
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^So will you be taking memantine for anxiety? It's been studied for ADHD but I don't recall you saying you have that.
It's almost night meds time.
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No, we are going to try and use the pain control angle, the nerve damage. The doc knows full well that there are about 5-6 different things I want it for, that it can do at the same time (excellent for neuropathic pain, nonaddictive, can suppress development of tolerance to opiates as well as stamp down HARD on tolerance that exists (and incidentally if added to a shot of an IV opiate...although this bit I've left out to him, then it'll turn 'mhhmph, I suppose it'll do' into 'bloody christ' and turn 'bloody christ' into 'fuck ME diagonally with a rabid mink paint me purple and call me mary...and for the love of fuck somebody come and CATCH me because I'm going to drop like a stone..*heavybreathingheavybreathingheavybreathing* as the user rushes their tits off for about half an hour to 3/4 hour, instead of just a few minutes at most otherwise.
That particular bit of information has, however been omitted from the presentation of promotional material I explained to him the other day, mind you.
Also fixes a LOT of my executive and memory-encoding problems.
Its been studied for AD*D? oh me oh my I didn't know THAT. Score one for the Renster with that little snippet. Thanks.
As for anxiety, well, when I've been on it before anxiety just didn't exist. Wasn't even something one would think about, let alone worry about. I'd have had to look the word 'fear' up in a dictionary before I realized what it meant.
I do actually seem to have a lot of ADD (not ADHD) traits. Attentional in particular. So if it knocks that on the head then I'm not going to complain in the slightest bit. But on my previous memantine cycles, the russian pharmacy etc. kind, then anxiety has just been a total nonentity, and it did help me both concentrate and retain what I read/heard etc. Fucking brilliant stuff.
I just hope the doc manages to formally cover his own arse, so to speak. Which he said is all he's really doing by running it by a specialist, as here at least, it is indicated only for moderate to severe alzheimer's disease. Which I do not hais it time to feed the goldfish now? So it would be an unlicensed indication completely, but based on a patient with a LOT of experience with the stuff, knows how it works, WHAT it does and how it does it and finds the stuff quite honestly, life-changing.
So really its a case of when there is a known single fix to a handful of problems, screw killing two birds with one stone, get out the tank and load it with beehive shells and start blasting away at the flock with the flak-cannons then saturate the skies with nerve gas.
Its rather effective stuff, at everything it does for me, and what it does, there is a lot of doing for it to engage in. Its unconventional, highly so, but I KNOW it works. And the magnitude of the good it does in my specific case fully justifies a bit of unconventional. Hell it wouldn't be the first time, chlormethiazole is only indicated here in the BNF for either acute, usually inpatient alcohol detox in physical addicts, or for a sedative-hypnotic type drug, like benzos are used for, for short term use; but it isn't licensed for either antiseizure prophylaxis or for treating one that happens. I get it for both.
So why the fuck not? if it works, and there aren't any disadvantages, which with memantine, I think I'd have realized they were there, by now. All the more so given some of the dose regimens I told the GP of when he asked how much I was using, he thought at first i was off by a decimal place, followed by looking not unlike somebody about to say some very profane words, rude enough so that they rarely ever appear or are allowed to appear even on late-night TV (I.e about 3-4am) and which even 'family guy' bleeps out or implies only. Kinda got this look on his face that appeared to be pleading for somebody to reinsert that drainpipe and wave a piece of gerbil-food at the more open end.
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I did take them, yes.
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They don't call it ADD any more. Its ADHD inattentive type (there is also hyperactive type and combined type). I have the inattentive type and have been taking meds for it since 2004.
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They don't call it ADD any more. Its ADHD inattentive type (there is also hyperactive type and combined type). I have the inattentive type and have been taking meds for it since 2004.
Yeah, I have the inattentive type, too. Subclinical, according to the doctor who dx's me, but thankfully, another doc prescribed meds anyway. They help a lot.
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I've always looked on ADD/ADHD as the second being a type of the former, including hyperactivity (of course there are likely to be things like proteomic/mRNA transcription, epigenetic differences as not, different mutations in dopamine transporters and what have you) but the end result is the same. Both kinds have shitty attentional span, and one kind also runs around into your room at 4 in the morning screaming until eventually you grab him by the neck, walk to his room at the school you both attend and THROW him onto his bed, telling him if he comes back that night, he won't have a neck anymore to grab.
If there is a pure inattentive type, a hyperactive-inattentive type....what is the combined type?
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ADHD - inattentive type.
ADHD - hyperactive type.
ADHD - combined type, both inattentive and hyperactive.
Inattentive type sucks balls because it is really hard to get motivated and get things done. Sometimes I wish for a little bit of hyperactivity in myself.
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IMO the 'combined type' ought to be shitcanned. there is the 'AD' in both the hyperactive and nonhyperactive types. The only difference is the hyperactivity in one lacking in the other, at least phenotypically. If you have ADD then you aren't hyper, but just inattentive, if its ADHD then you are hyperactive and have, by the very wording of the term itself, attentional deficit. The third 'type' is redundant.
I know how you feel about the inattentive type. Real nuisance too when you got to go make your own meds for it and its a nightmare effort if you run out to go do it :P
Although once I get IN the lab...then damn...I can be as hyper as a squirrel on crack. And then some.
Beginning to take my meds. Just got refill, haven't had time to take each and every one needed out of the ones given. One of them I'm thinking of ditching next time I contact my doc, and I'm trying to get through on the phone atm to get consult with him about the memantine, so I'll mention it as soon as I remember
Taken pain meds first thing of course, then antiseizure business, now its time to go play fallout-tactics :D
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I may not be hyper physically, but in my head I sure am, that's the H in my ADHD.
Going to take night meds soon.
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LOL Renster, if you only could but guess at the way ideas shoot round my head...the cranial 'chemistry-to-do-list' is less of a printout and more like a pinball machine connected to a .50 caliber browning autocannon thats had a sorta canted slope machined into the feed bit of the breech, like one can do with a mac.10 or uzi to make it fire faster. even going to sleep I get too many ideas too fast to ever try and write down, its like a big long line of miniguns firing at maximum speed; half-inch shell casings bouncing off the ground.
And people wonder why auties have fucked up sleep cycles this thing in my head just will NOT shut the fuck up, short of chemically being forced into submission, the equivalent of a shotgun held against its face and somebody behind their kneeling figure bearing a drain-pipe, a hungry ferret and wearing the sort of sickly, nasty kind of smile only smole by somebody who makes a career out of knifing little old ladies at night in back alleys with broken glasss shards wrapped partially in string and duct tape, and said smile, when smole, missing multiple, yellowing teeth each one as evil looking as their owner, and each saying 'I see that nose that you've got there...for so long as you do exactly as you are told to do and keep your mouth firmly shut, you may nod, quietly, if you understand. Once and once only.....the kind of smile that the bastard-child of tony blair and a rattlesnake might smile just before it is about to strike out at and subsequently devour a sewer rat; a nice, juicy sewer rat.
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I guess I'm one of the few autistics to not have a fucked up sleep cycle. I go to bed at a very abnormal 9pm and get up when I need to.
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Lol. Our Renster's a fuckedup freakazoid :D You NOT having a fucked up sleep cycle makes you a fucked up autie/aspie :autism:
We still wuv ya though :)
My sleep cycle is...well...no, on second thought it just, quite simply, isn't. I have about as much of a sleep cycle as I have a sodding menstrual cycle.
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I don't have a sleep cycle either, really, just enforced wakeups. :P
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LOL that is exactly how I'd put it, in reference to my 'sleep cycle' (said single-quotes intended to indicate kassi S-level ubersnark :LOL1:) enforced wakeup. That is it to a capital (for anybody who wakes me up it isn't altogether unthinkable for it to be capital at least)''fuck off I wanna go back to bed''. With up-yours-bells on it.
Meds-only a tiny fraction, a small dose of oxycodone. Since its 6:01 AM right now. At the time of writing this sentence.
Have had early antiseizure med (chlormethiazole)
About to have early morning morphine shot and one of the two adrenergic release blockers (neither beta- nor alpha-blockers, alpha2 agonists in either case), plus a squirt of xylometazoline (locally acting nasal decongestant liquid applied as a topical spray or drops up the nose) up each nostril, because of the cold I'm pretty sure I have. Albeit one I can thankfully only feel the respiratory tract-located nasty effects thereof.
Does endogenous opioidergic neuropeptides and dopamine released as a consequence of great anticipation/desire and assuming fulfillment, of delight, owing to awaiting some lab glassware coming in my mail, just like a little kid waiting for xmas morning to come and to go and dive into the pile of gifts Santa left him/her, wearing their little kiddy-size hazmat suit and SCBA facial protection/skin protection and breathing gear, count as 'meds' ?
Because Santa has already left some of Lestat's gifts the other day, (not counting his rotavap which already came a while back), along with some of his xmas reagents...but he's still waiting for more glassware, and he'll be high as a kite in that special way only us spazzes ever get to feel just from seeing that he has one of the packages of glassware items arrive, knowing there are goodies inside, but due to many, many orders of lab glass, not knowing what, so even knowing what is in there generally, it'll still be a lovely surprise :D
(lol, spazzy or what...I know...I know...but yesterday when such a package came, a big blue, heavy crate chock full of lovely brand new borosilicate glass items of various kinds and some freebie bits and pieces from the seller, plus another, paper-wrapped parcel delivered by courier far later in the day, evening in fact, than I had even thought a possibility, in both cases I must confess, I actually actively avoided letting myself see what the customs label said on the import form, just so I'd have that kind of spazzy special surprise when I hurriedly whipped out the short blade on my swiss army knife (an xmas gift itself actually, a good quality (victorianox) one too) and carefully, without looking at the label on the top to make sure I never read it, sliced through the packing tape and opened my crate of glassware. And did the same, carefully, to the paper-wrapped parcel of reagents which were delivered to me; again, just to make sure that opening up the packages inside, unwrapping protective styrofoam, bubblewrap, packing tape etc. let me have that big fat juicy 'eeeeeeeeeeeee' (think of that as the sound percieved mentally on first setting eyes on each item within said crate and packages) factor-spawned big warm fluffy blanket-all-over rush. Like a crack-head who just discovered a gigantic meteorite fallen from space, only composed entirely of 100% pure freebase cocaine encased in a reentry heat-proof shell designed to deposite the contents unharmed and at room temperature with the push of a button. In their case, several times their bodyweight in the world's best cocaine freebase.
Only better, and designed for an autie rather than a crack-head :tard:
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Most of them. Didn't take the 10mg morphine capsules, bar one, of my morphine script, so just adapted by taking less of the higher doses, since the 10s are meant to be on repeat but for some reason an antibiotic appeared (erythromycin) that shouldn't have been on repeat, for obvious reasons. And whilst I'm having the docs fix it, I decided to keep this last course of erythro and not take it, because I already KNOW my immune system is squirrely. And I'm prone to bacterial infection, so I'm just going to keep it, for whenever there is another threat by an organism responsive to it. I'm not about to just start taking it on a repeat basis just because the docs put it on a script and handed it out, don't want to go and breed some nasty-ass resistant bacterial strain. After the course has ended, and the one I had been taking to kill an infection only has a couple of tablets to go I've got myself some probiotic yoghurt culture drinks to kickstart my gut flora in a beneficial way, give the otherwise beneficial bugs down there in my insides a reboot if that makes sense after exposure to something that'll likely nuke them too.
Now...to stick on a horror movie, take my top-up pain meds (IR oxy), and a capsule of the antiseizure med, and stick fallout-tactics on the laptop and after pickpocketing the good bits that aren't essential from the surgeon/medic, whilst I scoff donuts and premium jellybeans with lots of different exotic flavours, sup on a pear/lychee and apple juice mixture in a big carton of fresh juice and go blow some heads off, with the nice new mil-spec automatic combat shotgun carried by two of my troops, and the lead, the personal character you create for yourself in the fallout games, who unlike hirelings/companions cannot be allowed to die without losing the game completely, is locked and loaded to the eyeteeth with man-shredder flechette shells loaded with a razor-sharp swarm of darts instead of ordinary buckshot, that whilst they aren't so good against heavily armored enemies, against those with no armor, or with lightweight protection, they have something like a 60-70% enhanced lethality vs buckshot. And not at all infrequently, especially with an aimed shot, which these tactical assault riot-shotguns can do in all but one of the types, to something sensitive will leave the enemy not as a dead body, but a pile of pink squelchy mulch to sift through to bag the property they had on them, like healing items to loot, weapons, ammunition, currency, combat drugs, radiation protection drugs and radiation-sickness prevention drugs, plus unneeded excess weapons to sell back at the bases for better gear, more grenades, better armor as it becomes available and eventually the nice juicy stuff like solid slug shotgun shells, light squad machineguns, to plasma grenades, laser and plasma rifles, gauss weapons (hehe tactics apparently even has a gauss MINIGUN available, albeit a weapon that uses a lot of rare ammo in a single burst, has one of the longest ranges of weapons in the game and even a single gauss PISTOL shot is good for long-range one-shot instant kill hits that punch through armor like a hellfire missile through bog roll, with the bigger, beefier gauss rifle being a single-shot per trigger pull type weapon with a massive range, and is more or less considerable as a big bugger of an upgrade for service in the capacity as a sniper rifle, and the gauss minigun...thats what you want when your facing down with a huge squad of heavily armored hard-case enemies all packing heavy and extremely dangerous weaponry, and you want an entire enemy squad reduced to the consistency of milkshake with one spray of bullets.
Along with goodies like flamethrowers (short range, very high damage, propensity for setting enemies on fire doing damage continuously, or with a critical hit just immolating them and reducing them to a pile of ashes on the ground) and grenade launchers in both hand-cannon and even a large pistol style grenade launcher weapon. The uses of which should be obvious. Whoomp-SPLAT!-enough said. And even now, the squad has a couple of antitank mines stashed just in case something very nasty needs doing by way of a booby-trap being set for a pursuer to set off while they open a door to chase you (in game description 'will blow a medium-sized vehicle several meters into the air') or planted in corridors, firing a bullet somewhere to make sure they hear your shooter and give chase, after they have first stealthily sneaked up, planted the landmine, and just popped off a couple of rounds of some cheap ass ammunition to attract attention and bring the bugger you want to get rid of chasing after you and have them step on the landmine and end up as a torso-half surrounded by gooey stuff and a satisfyingly terminal rain of limbs. Or for really tough creatures, maybe enemies wearing powered armor that manage to survive the blast, to bring their health down low enough to finish them off with something like a .44 magnum slug to the head or two, hail of shotgun blasts, machinegun or laser pistol fire, or even close in with somebody hiding in a side alleyway to get out behind them and slam them in the eyesockets with a chainblade or something like the souped-up cattle prod modified to be a deadly and quiet melee weapon that does horrendous amounts of damage, or just outright bursts an enemy like a stepped-on overripe tomato :P
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Saw a dr, because i needed another seizure 'rescue pack' and the doc also gave me 21 (I had told I needed NINE), plus a 10-capsule rescue pack of chlormethiazole. So, some of those extras, I've been able to use just to get me to sleep (they are mainly meant in lower doses as an anxiolytic, for alcohol tapers due to its unique features on alcohol metabolism, and for a sleeping pill) and keep me there.) About to go stick my blindfold on and then get some rest for the day) :)
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Was not going to take any dexamphetamine (I'm rationing them because I don't have a doctor's appointment until the 19th) until I realised I'm driving today.
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If you need assistance ren, PM me. We could come to an arrangement (I'd be happy to, for you, work on that at only the cost incurred to me in the actual getting from point A to point B, since you are someone I count as a most valued friened), it'd be racemic amphetamine, or if you preferred, racemic either meth- or N-ethylamphetamine. I'm quite partial, out of the three, to N-ethylamphetamie in particular if I had to pick a favourite, although I'm not huge on speed to begin with, for me its a means to an end, I.e the occasionally employed means of giving myself a bit of an extra kick up the bum'ole, for the kinds of times where I've slept little, am shattered, and yet have to shove through that barrier with everything I have to achieve a goal of some nature, and it isn't negotiable. Or testing product after chemical purity testing, to give it the final 'lestat's seal of PERSONAL approval' quality-wise. 'if it ain't lestat, it can kiss hell's own twat', so to speak.
A sort of good faith gesture, in that I'd not have someone else, anyone else, use something I was myself not willing to put enough trust and good faith in the provenance thereof to taste it myself in a fully active dose.
Anyhow, if you need...information..on the stuff, your friendly neighborhood witchdoctor is in the house. For you, he'll even get out his scrying bowl and consult the isomer-fairy and see if problems cannot be resolved and 'dat shaman fella tell 'em lazy laevo-fairies to piss orf' :) Indeed a one-step reduction is possible, of something, to directly give the primary amine; the 'something' could bee had easily and the reductant gotten. Need more of that particular reducing agent anyhow. Or, without it, could still get to that end, by means of a two or three step process, ending with first, formation of an intermediate ketoxime, isolation and dessication of the purified oxime after preparing phenylacetone, then employing the Beauveault-Blanc reduction, vis a vis sodium metal, added slowly to a solution of the ketoxime in anhydrous ethanol under an inert gas blanket, with little chips added until sufficient molar quantity of sodium has been added.
Oxime is a little glorpy and difficult to crystallize, but thats no matter. Even oximes that are pure can be bastardly difficult to crystallize, even after vacuum distillation. So it can bee far more facile to purify as best can be (oximes as a rule are very, very, very poorly soluble to absolutely insoluble in cold water and phenylacetone oxime is no exception) as the oxime, vac distill etc. and then submit it to the Beauveault-Blanc reduction and perform more cleansing and vac distillations on the final desired item rather than trying to crystallize oxime that has been cleaned but is still obstinately refusing to crystallize.
So, if you need any..know how...let me know via PM what you need to know and your friendly witchdoctor shall consult the spirits of his medicine bag and see what they say. He has a feeling they are in a friendly mood, of late, the way the bone through his nose is wiggling from side to side rather than up and down :autism:
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As for little old me, yes, I did. Not all of them, I had some of last week's clonidine left over for example, and some of last week's pramipexole. Used those. Otherwise, taken my oxycodone, taken 1 lot of cimetidine and am about to take another (an anti-stomach acid drug, for GI issues, but that I asked specifically for my doc to take me off one of its close, close relatives, ranitidine, and put me on the cimetidine so I could benefit from some CYP-P450 liver enzyme blocking capacity cimetidine has but not ranitidine, and as a result, prolong the duration of effect of the oxycodone and especially morphine, that I need to take by effectively shunting them past a blocked metabolic degradation 'checkpoint' in the liver, and smuggling them across the border like a little epoxyphenanthrene illegal alien mexican, right under the nose of that mean old first-pass metabolism :green:
Also, before I took any cimetidine, had a modest (for me. A few hundred mg; of dihydrocodeine because I was hours from picking up a script refill, and taken my very last doses of anything else, the tank was running on less than fumes, so that was just a little top-up to stop my joints screaming, and my nervous system feeling like it was joining in towards the very end, sleepless as it was.
Taken chlormethiazole and am about to take another pair of those greyish-brown sort-of flexible, plastic-corrosive 'eggs'. Also just taken 20mg more oxycodone (IR)
So right about soon I'm going to be feeling really quite toasty
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Yeah, took the spazz meds.
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Yeah, or most of 'em at any rate. The most important ones. Plus a dose of clonidine, an adrenolytic, to help, as usual, with warding off overloading. About to take a couple of IR oxy, my top-up pain meds, and then kick back and play some fallout-tactics, go blow the eyes and heads off of some giant mutant scorpions the size of cars with a good ol' colt .45, and a hail of shotgun and sniper fire. With a few nasty little surprises for any that get close up, with a tendency to chop limbs off and explode heads.
Never met a giant killer scorpion-monster the size of a car that I liked :autism:
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Yeah, took the spazz meds.
That explains a lot. :M
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Booster pain meds, after falling asleep for a good long while. Just woke up in time for star trek-TOS to have started. So took a quick booster dose of oxy and went for a cigar in the ad-break.
(thats one thing I've noticed, for whatever reason, I really don't want to smoke or take nicotine vape if I've not had my pain meds, but the opioid pain meds make me want to smoke cigars like a fucking chimney)
Stretching out on the sofa watching TOS, TNG is on after, And lol the pain meds have given me a helluva case of the munchies. And I've got a (well now half a) big pack of apple turnover pastries, nice and chewy and sweet with a tangy apple filling in the middle. Lots of crispy sugar on top.
And so good that I just can't stop once I start one. And once I have one, then I want more, and more, and more. That pack, is going to be gone within minutes at the longest.
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Yeah, took the spazz meds.
That explains a lot. :M
I know, right? You're so easy to ignore now.
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Yep. Still need to take the couple of adrenolytic meds I'm meant to be on..have to FIND the fuckers first.
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Antiseizure meds, yes, just had them, and my morphine, just took a dose of oxycodone 'breakthrough' pain relief. Antibiotics, dextromethorphan, cimetidine and about to take the tizanidine..err.or I would have taken the tizanidine if I knew where it was. Decided to take a few doses of clonidine instead, since they work the same way, although tizanidine is a stronger myorelaxant.
Does a cigar count?:tard:
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Might help to keep all (or if impossible, most) of your meds in one place.
I had my meds, a bit late, but within normal time parameters.
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I do, well most of them, and there was just a lot of crap on the table, was looking for a couple of pills in a blister strip amid a load of other coffee table junk, plus several cans of coke in various stages of being finished, and a sack of hexamine, and a fair few other meds, since they give me somewhat more than needed of a couple of them and they build up. The muscle relaxers were a couple left over from last weeks script so I decided to finish them off as there were only a few left.
And been having to use a lot of NSAID (diclofenac rx max strength gel since I can't safely
take them by mouth with having stomach issues) and steroid cream, because the plantar fasciitis has been making today hell, causing me no end of pain in my feet, plus take a fair bit of breakthrough pain meds. Although for that anything they can do is somewhat limited; I think I'm going to need the doctor to inject my feet with steroids.
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I did, yes.
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Some of them.
Didn't take either the pramipexole, hyoscine butylbromide quat salt, the tizanidine (well I did a very small amount of tizanidine), didn't use the diclofenac gel or steroid cream, haven't yet taken the vitamin
supplement, didn't take any ondansetron, or the low-dose version of the XR morphine caps, the 10mg ones.
Mostly used oxy for pain management today, along with the stomach trouble med cimetidine to
extend the half life. One shot of 200mg intramuscular morphine has lasted me the day with a few oxy snorted when I woke up so they acted quickly and make sure I didn't go into withdrawal on waking up and first taking pain meds.
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Shit, I almost forgot.
Edit: taken.
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Doughnuts count as medication and I'm sticking to that :P
Toasted shite on a burger bun...I'm pretty sure I just overdosed several times over. *eyes roll back in his head and starts to foam nutella and vanilla cream filling at the mouth whilst blaspheming in aramaic*
*belches out a prayer to Moloch from both ends at once*
Ah, and my prayers are answered...an antidote...mmm nice fresh giant mangoes, juicy and squishy and gooey and very, very ripe.
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I haven't taken them since January. Then again, in a sense I felt like I didn't need to take them.
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^So you're getting along fine without them?
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Haven't taken mine yet.
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^So you're getting along fine without them?
Yes. :M
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Yeah, taken mine. Had a phonecall with my doctor, my actual assigned GP, the one who owns the practice and he overruled that control freak bitch with the sand up her ass, and gave me some more pain meds this week, and wasn't stingy as hell either. Didn't overdo it, and I could still use more to get complete relief, but he actually gave me enough morphine sulfate as well as IR oxycodone capsules to really take the edge off the infection of my foot, to the point I can lie down comfortably on the sofa stretched out with my foot held in place by pillows without feeling like my foot was being torched and burnt alive slowly. Plus some dressings and additional antiseizure med coverage because of the increased stress of this shit, and a strong broad-spectrum antibiotic.
Draining the wound helped a lot too, he didn't do that and seemed pretty shocked for some reason that I managed it with a penknife blade (I didn't mention the corkscrew bit though, coated in benzocaine, he would have fucking freaked a shitfit if I had :autism:). Let a lot of pressure off, where there is very little space to accommodate inflammation, and that helped dramatically too.
About to change dressings, and put a proper one on, rather than the wrapping of clean bog roll I had been using for an improvised dressing whilst I neither had any and couldn't go out to get any either.
(unused bog roll obviously. :autism:)
Hey...I wonder...maybe that little nancy boy pussy failtroll (you know the one I mean :P) could finally get It's wish and end/clean the earth of It's miserable existence. Since he's so used to wallowing around in his own faecal matter already, he should just cut himself all over and strap on bandages that he's first wrapped round his shitspeak hole-in-the-face and used for a diaper, so It can die the death natural for something of that caliber, at home, covered in It's own shit and piss dying of septic shock.
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Check.
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I've yet to. Better do that now.
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Sort of. Part way through it.
Morphine-check for the higher of the two dose units, haven't bothered with the lower and I CBF with those either, they are only really good for if I run a little low, then I can use a lot of the really small ones to make up a days dose or so, if something goes wrong, like my puking after taking them, best suited for when morphine is needed for some sort of experiment really such as my really interesting encounter with alpha-chloromorphide (its said, in the tiny amount of data relating to in living creatures assays, to be an analgesic, but it turns out to be nothing you'd think of as opioid-like, and is actually, it seems, a weird psychostimulant, and at excess doses I think, a convulsant, so I stopped the trials after a certain dose. Interesting though, like no conventional stimulant I've ever tried, nothing like say, methylphenidate, cocaine, amphetamine, different from strychnine-like compounds in low doses also, quite strange stuff), seizure med, check, oxy-half done, the rest I've not got to and some of them I don't need atm.
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I did, yes.
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I can't remember the last time I took my morning meds. I definitely need to get better at taking them.
The PR has been taking hers, but not at the right time.
C'est la vie.
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On days I sleep in, I end up taking my meds late. This morning is one such morning but I took them as soon as I got up. If it gets past 12 noon I'll mark that as a missed dose.
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Some of them. Morphine, oxy(codone), antibiotics, chlormethiazole. Probably should take some clonidine and tizanidine. Might take the pramipexole. Haven't decided yet. And I definitely need to take my cimetidine (stomach med, or one of them, at least)
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Not without my knowledge and I don't take them without being coerced. I don't do this voluntarily.
(https://i.imgur.com/9YnmONk.jpg)
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I'm just waiting for an prescription to be faxed through to a local pharmacy, after getting off the phone in a conversation with my doctor. He's writing me up some additional morphine 30mg capsules and oxy 10mg caps, because of my foot still being a total bastard. Should be ready at about 5-6pm. Will send my old man out to pick them up (I still can't put any weight on my leg)
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I'm just waiting for an prescription to be faxed through to a local pharmacy, after getting off the phone in a conversation with my doctor. He's writing me up some additional morphine 30mg capsules and oxy 10mg caps, because of my foot still being a total bastard. Should be ready at about 5-6pm. Will send my old man out to pick them up (I still can't put any weight on my leg)
What happened to the memantine script you were going to get?
Totally forgot my meds last night but I still slept fine.
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The GP, guy that runs the practice, who is assigned as my personal GP, he is fully supporting it. Although its an off-license indication, and the only licensed indication for memantine is moderate to severe alzheimer's disease.
The reason I'd be using it is multi-fold. I find it both levels me out in a way very hard to explain or put into words, I can't really say how, but it does. The main aim is that it improves my executive functioning, it also nearly negates the issues I have with memory, and as additional benefits, as an NMDA antagonist with its unusual particular profile (although many other NMDA receptor antagonists also work for this purpose) its excellent for neuropathic pain in a way that opioids just aren't suited for, opiates being pretty poor for nerve pain.
Also it STAMPS on opiate tolerance with an iron-shod boot. Both tolerance that already exists, is driven down, and hard, fast, and it also helps a great deal in both dramatically lessening the development of tolerance yet to be, in degree, as well as in speed of that development.
I'd like to try pairing it with ultra-low-dose naltrexone too. Typically naltrexone, like the emergency opioid OD antidote naloxone (main differences are, naloxone lasts for maybe 10-15 minutes so I read, whilst naltrexone lasts for a day at least, maybe longer), acts to kick opiates off their receptors, and taken by anyone who is taking opioids longterm would immediately throw them into an incredibly extreme, severe and brutal precipitated withdrawal.
But when taken in, rather than doses around between the 25 and 50-100mg doses often used for opioid addicts who have physically detoxed and want to essentially opioid-proof themselves so that a relapse would result in the drug taken having no effect, it can also be used in doses of between maybe, when first starting, 500 nanograms to 1 microgram, building up to a few micrograms over time, and slowly, very, very slowly in tiny incremental stages, sometimes even higher than a few micrograms, it has a quite different effect profile. Rather than blocking opioid activity it enhances it, the mechanisms of action are thought to be preventing recruitment of beta-arrestin 2 to opioid receptors when they are stimulated by an opioid agonist (beta-arrestin 2 is a molecule recruited to receptors typically when activated by agonists to tag the receptor for internalization and recycling), also when activated, Mu-opioid receptors can it seems undergo a switch from being coupled to Gi/o type G-proteins that they couple to in their native state, which when activated, produce the inhibitory type responses that take place upon administration of a typical opioid (there also exists some biased agonists which are splice-variant selective, etc. or which don't induce, or else induce much less beta-arrestin 2 recruitment than most and less tolerance as a result, an example being herkinorin, a semisynthetic derivative of the compound salvinorin A, found in the mexican diviner's sage, Salvia divinorum, which is an extremely potent and highly selective kappa-opioid receptor agonist, which possesses very rapid onset, pretty short duration but intense hallucinogenic-dissociative effects as well as a propensity to do really weird things to sensory propioception, such as feeling for example that one's arms were swapped over, left to right and vice versa, and being turned elbow inwards [just imagine trying to light a pipe containing Salvia divinorum extract with THAT happening whilst the entire universe begins to be perceived in a multi-dimensional way completely alien to normal baseline perception, in five or six dimensions at least, potentially more in ways that would require complex math way beyond my ability even to draw, when all the while the room, or rather, the environment perceived that replaces the room whilst salvinorin acts, is sprouting vines, all over and through the walls while a little old lady stands outside, with no walls in a Mazatec shaman lady's herb garden, whilst living a thousand lifetimes as a plant which is grown exclusively from clones, as Salvia divinorum is, and has been for a long, long long time by the indigenous people who grow it, pushing up through her garden's soil and growing leaves, sprouting and growing leaves and vigorously thirsting for the sun, and the water sprinkled on one by your little old lady shamaness taking care of you)
Herkinorin is a Mu-opioid agonist as well, and a biased one that doesn't much induce recruitment that doesn't produce as much beta-arrestin 2 recruitment induced tolerance.
MOR agonists (typical opioids) apparently undergo the aforementioned switch between Gi/o type inhibitory G-protein coupling to GalphaS and other excitatory second messanger intracellular signalling cascades which results, with continual opioid use, it seems, in a subpopulation of MORs with an excitatory profile, which produces the opposite effects upon activation than one would expect, and ultra-low-dose naltrexone can suppress this, as well as an additional and powerful interaction with a regulatory region of the protein filamin-A, which, although I haven't read up on the deep molecular mechanics of the regulation process blocked, causes a very, very strong antitolerance effect on opioids.
I've even read of someone using ULD-naltrexone alone to reduce their tolerance from injecting 60-something milligrams of hydromorphone (dilaudid) every couple of hours to tapering off using CODEINE to take the worst of the edge off in just weeks. Thats fucking impressive. And together the combination of ULD naltrexone and memantine ought to be nearly unstoppable.
Memantine alone, I've tried, and it both nearly nullifies psychologically addictive properties of opioids when administered simultaneously, making a psychological addict who isn't physically dependent simply indifferent to cravings. It even enhances the euphoria-inducing properties of opiates whilst squashing compulsivity towards use.
Being that there are a great many benefits here for me, and even more if I can get my doc to pair it with ULD-naltrexone (he's aware of the concept too, and probably won't be averse to it), but all these things are atypical, extremely unusual uses of memantine, that I brought to the table and explained to my GP myself, along with bringing him both some printouts of supplementary journal research articles, as well as anecdotes about for example that hydromorphone IV addict and the way he killed his tolerance so fast and so powerfully, which normally, would have been at his dose a MASSIVE habit, a typical starting dose being just 4mg, and that being bloody powerful, although short-lived, it took years of trying but now he realizes that I've a lot of experience with the drug (memantine), that I know exactly what I'm doing with it, and how much suits me best how often, he is fully backing me.
But he needs formal approval from a specialist consultant, which he is pushing through as best he can, he thinks we might be close, and that it will be a matter of getting forms signed etc., dotting I's, crossing T's, but that it will be done, and he's prepared to fight for it on my behalf.
And once approval is gained from a specialist, etc. then I should think that he (my doc) will more or less defer to my knowledge of how my body interacts with memantine, and experience with dosages, cycling, and other such things. He's a decent guy, and as well, he isn't one of those high-and-mighty prick types, who take a patient with a superior knowledge of medicine in any area as apersonally offensive shit on their competence and reputation. Indeed he's told me before that when it comes to pharmacology/psychopharmacology and biochemistry that he knows full well that I am far, far, far ahead of his level of knowledge and competence, that much he just volunteered during several appointments. Wasn't mocking him or anything, but he realizes that in this case, I know best, safety-wise, with respect to my own reactions to it, what it can do, what I'm doing with the stuff etc. Should trust me once he can get the authority to write the prescriptions.
And besides, he doubtless realizes that I'll either find a suitable russian online pharmacy, or if I really, really must, I'll go all out and construct the entire 5,7-diethyladamantane skeleton itself, as a derivative with suitable leaving group at the 1-position and convert that to the final amino derivative myself, even if it means weeks or even months of preparation and work, and churn out a few kg at a time, so as to last me ages, after say, working on several individual 10s then 100s of gram batches to work out the details, fine tune everything, scale it all up and then make it amenable to large scale synthesis, to let me just do the job infequently, and make it in big batches to give me a large supply that'll last years.
He isn't daft, and I know he wants what is best for my health, so the logical conclusion from his point of view is to abandon any initial resistance, given I've been trying to get the ball rolling for years and only now is it beginning to move, albeit painfully slowly. And he'd probably rather I pick it up from a pharmacy rather than pop up to the lab and fire up the stills and vacuum line etc. then get to work making my own, on some sort of general doctor-principle.
And hey, a patient in need shouldn't HAVE to resort to making their own medication. I shouldn't have the need to do so, although if it doesn't get done soon enough then I'll get myself a small supply from an online pharmacy to help facilitate my working on making myself a good sized batch.
No, not for selling to people or anything, but just to last me a good long time without having to repeat the process regularly, larger batches should allow for higher yields, less wastage of precursors and reagents etc. And I'd sooner have enough to last me, that way I can always start the next batch before I even get low, and thus never run out, or get short.
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Just remembered to take lithium, didn't take it earlier this morning because I had a blood test for its level.
I'm supposed to take note of the time I took lithium and how much I took last night (and then tell the phlebotomist this when they fill in a form) and then not take any lithium in the morning before they take blood. That's how they test the level.
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Not yet.
I just remembered, I need to renew a prescription. It's good we have this thread sometimes.
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Skipped my multivitamin and L-Lysine this morning because I had so many other things to take. :P
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I got up earlier and took mine and then went back to bed. Aaah, sleep ins.
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Have to take dexamphetamine, first dose for the day and then do some studying.
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Take them every day, mostly.
I might be having trouble with my meds. Taking theme? Of course I remember, but I have lost a lot of weight and I have been careful with my cholesterol and I have been getting more exercise and I ... well riding my bike and working in the garden, digging for the spring to come (if it ever does - but that is another bitch complaint).
I keep finding that my BP is a bit low.
I am the guy who freaks out doctors by showing up with the 256/149 BP if I do not take my meds, but these days it is often - even after wiping myself out doing a bunch of garden spading outside and feeling a little dizzy - in the 110/70 range.
I just do not think that sounds right. I am wondering if they need to reduce to potency of my BP meds.
Can not get an appointment until late May, So I will take it all a little easier.
Would like to know why my BP drops when I do manual labor.
:dunno:
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Would like to know why my BP drops when I do manual labor.
:dunno:
The medical definition of cool? 8)
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Losing lots of weight and bodily exercise can do things like that. It's what people with high bp get advised to do here (with medication)
Might be a good idea to get the meds adjusted. Low bp can sometimes be more dangerous than high bp.
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And yes, it is cool.
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L-Lysine, in the hope to keep my skin calm.
And high amount of vitamine D.
Both done.
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My blood pressure was 110/70 when I last went to the doctor. So I don't suffer from white coat hypertension. Was low despite taking stimulants, drinking caffeine often and being a kind of easily stressed person.
My doctor said, though, that as I age, it will be normal to have higher blood pressure.
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Do not forget that stimulants can be dangerous with MAOIs, even RIMAs. So be careful with your caffeine use hun. Hypertension would be a sign to cut down.
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:2thumbsup:
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I've been taking meds all day. :autism:
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Took mine.
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Good here.
BP = 115/82 at rest for five minutes. My doc would think that is fine, but I probably need a stress test to help him diagnose what I have experienced lately.
I hate those.
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:2thumbsup:
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Some, although running excessively low on the pain control. So going to improvise, with an extraction of over the counter 7.45mg dihydrocodeine/500mg paracetamol tablets, and after the vac filtration off of the paracetamol (almost totally insoluble in cold water), basify with ammonia, take up into dichloromethane, distill off the dichlor to be left with the dihydrocodeine content of several hundred of the shitty OTC pills, then reflux it with 30% anhydrous hydrogen bromide in glacial acetic acid, which simultaneously demethylates dihydrocodeine to dihydromorphine (several times as potent) and the residual HBr is exploited twice, once to catalyze a Fischer esterification between the acetic acid solvent and dihydromorphine, and once again, to strip off the otherwise high-boiling glacial acetic acid by using the HBr traces to catalyze a second fischer esterification with added methanol, forming methyl acetate which is distilled off, and a little methyl bromide, which is vented somewhere safe.
I've never done this reaction before, but I have tried the result from someone who has, who gifted me a little, and who followed the reaction via GC-MS, found to produce an almost selective demethylation at the 6-position, with a little demethylation of the other, 3 position methyl ether, and the result is mostly 6-monoacetyldihydromorphine and a lesser amount of dihydroheroin which forms as a byproduct. Although given the object is to produce something very close to it, for use as an analgesic, having a highly potent and euphorigenic opioid analgesic form as a lesser byproduct is quite acceptable, as far as side products go.
After that, its just a matter of filtering and washing for workup, 94-95 yield. Nifty or what. I've only ever had it once, from the same individual as got the process down to an art, including the neat methyl acetate conversion of residual GAA, 2ml 30% hydrogen bromide in GAA, 90-100 'C for 2 hours and you're golden. Job done. And fuck me, I've never had anything like it, even surpasses any of my own creations so far. Absolutely blew my head off, quite literally had me staggering, holding onto things to keep upright from a single 300mg IV dose. For the best part of 3/4 hour. Usually the IV flash lasts minutes at most, that lasted nearly an hour, before the main show even started, so to speak.
Hopefully this will turn out to be a repeat of the good work.
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I did.
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A couple of muscle relaxers, my lower back aches and my neck is killing me from wearing a gas mask that needs tightening the neck strap for bloody hours.
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Going now to do so. :hahaha:
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Just decided to use a fraction cut from the DHC I'm working with, possibly do so several times today if needs be, I can easily pick up more tomorrow, I don't know if I can keep working today, bloody pain right on the top of my head kept nagging me and waking me up, my gas mask had been chafing at me, I think I'm going to order another one because the one I have (actually I have two but one of them has been relegated to kitchen use for spicy food cooking (things like toasting nuke-grade peppers, the fumes that come off those when dried and seared on a dry pan are nasty, and even some of my stews and especially cooking steak, you don't want to be in the kitchen without breathing gear whilst they cook, the model of that mask has been discontinued and there is only the filter cartridge in there, possibly another pair of organic filters left, so I figure use it to keep down essentially non-dangerous but all the same nasty and vicious fumes, I'd rather sear my steaks, not my respiratory tract, as I do rather have a liking for the sort of spicy that makes for great eating but leaves you shaking a bit afterwards and running for more cold beer like a firefighter trying to put out a burning building by pissing through the letterbox :autism:)
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Took mine on time today.
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Aye took most of mine. Just took 3 glepark 0.18mg tablets (pramipexole, a dopamine receptor agonist) and a couple of lines of oxycodone.
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Forgot the sunscreen. Barely was outside, only had my lunch in the shade and hung my bedding out to air. But still.
Did take the vitamine D. Energy levels are still rising. So, still not the way they should be.
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Our "outside" is about half winter-like. Mostly cloudy, mid thirties for temperatures, some snow most of the day. No chance of needing sunscreen any time soon.
It is mid April! We should be done with snow and the weather guys talking about wind chill factors!
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30mg methadone.
Does a cigar, another glass of cherry wine and vegetating in front of the TV to watch family guy count as medication? it seems rather therapeutic to me :autism:
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Morning ones soon, along with Caltrate.
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Just had another 30mg methadone, a glass of cherry wine and a cigar, again.
My plantar fasciitis is playing up, and sodding screaming at me, so I figured more pain meds were in order.
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Readying 40mg methadone, along with some adrenal blocking agents (alpha2 agonists, not beta-blockers, fucking can't stand beta blockers, they make me feel like shite on a burger bun) and a muscle relaxer. I think, I'll have that last bottle of cherry wine (came as a 4-pack, of small 1 large glass sized bottles) and a cigar at the ready.
Just relaxing, watching a horror movie, waiting for the movie to finish, had 150mg oral cyclizine, to dampen down the itchiness caused by the methadone, and also, because cyclizine and methadone are said by folk who have been lucky enough to experience it, to closely resemble another opioid, an analog of methadone called dipipanone, which has near enough legendary status, hardly ever prescribed anymore because its meant to be euphoric as hell and with massive recreational potential. If I ever want to try dipipanone itself (and I do), I'd have to make it. But I can at least, get a close feel for it, with an intravenous combination of methadone, isolated from the tablets and cleaned up suitably, along with cyclizine, again, isolated, which I'll have to, to prepare the water-soluble lactate salt from the hydrochloride salt, which has pretty shitty solubility. Not a problem though, pretty damn trivial, I've got loads of cyclizine, more than I use by a long shot, so no need to fuck around with microscale chemistry to freebase it and re-salt it, I can work on a gram, half gram scale, or much more if I wanted to.
Its doing the job nicely, although the cyclizine hasn't yet kicked in.
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Yeah. Took mine
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Not much of anything. Did just make a small (10mg) morning dose of methadone that way I can let it slowly get to a steady-state plasma level and start tapering down. Won't take more now though, barring too much physical pain to cope with from my joints, until I start to feel the beginnings of withdrawal, then I'll take another 20mg or so after a while into WD, not horrendous WD, just enough to make sure my body is ready for the dose calibration phase for the methadone taper.
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15mg methadone, a few clonidine tabs.
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Just did. Quite late in the day, though. :asthing:
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Took my morning meds earlier. I'm making the effort to get up earlier than I used to to take them otherwise I sleep in and it becomes too late to take them.
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I only just woke up. Did take some oxy IR, about to take morning methadone dose, or part of it, along with seizure meds and cimetidine.
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Just did, quite late again. WTF is wrong with me!?!
:junkie:
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Lowering my methdone dose to 15mg twice a day, just had evening dose 10-29min ago.
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Just did, quite late again. WTF is wrong with me!?!
:junkie:
I end up doing that quite often too. Not this morning though, I took them at a reasonable time.
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yeah, took the important ones at least.
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Time for lunchtime meds.
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Time for afternoon meds.
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I've taken some, not taken others, some I don't need atm, others I either have had or just hadn't got round to it yet.
Figure I'll take those right after I skin up a sneaky spliff, although I'm already pretty blazed today from spending the last two days smoking through a generous proportion of a half oz of skunk (got an over-weight bag too, by another 3g or so, so I'm not complaining. And I've been hearing talk of some potential charlie for 30 the gram. At that price of course I'll have to recrystallize it and make sure its pure and the cuts have been removed.
Smoked up more than 3/4 of the bag, and it STILL looks like there are more than 3 street 8ths in this half oz, the connect I used is well regarded by his dealer, so I got another 3g chucked in free. Sorted my guy out a good few smokes worth though, since he went out of his way to help me out, when I wasn't feeling very well and had trouble walking, still, came out on top in terms of the merchandise and pricing. And I should be able to get ounces for £100 soon too when my connect's crop buds. (an 8th generally goes for £20 on the street here so thats damn good pricing.
That counts as medicine too, right now, since yesterday I've had a really sore, aching back, a lot of muscle tension in my lower back, and theres nothing like a healthy dose of vitamin THC to send that nasty aching back to hell from whence it came :autism:
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I did. My meds are in a chest of drawers and whenever I open the drawer with my meds in, Kira the kitten gets curious. He hasn't jumped right in, just put his front paws up on the edge while his back feet are on the end of my bed. He's so adorable.
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I did, yes. Plus, I finally remembered to renew some prescriptions.
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By the time I remembered to take my morning meds, it was too late to take them.
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Yes. For today at least I'm a productive member of society.
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Yes! Can’t function without that Vicodin each day.
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Yes, both my regular rx meds, plus managed to fill a script from the hospital for some pain meds twice over, after being left with an extra copy of the script by accident on their part.
Just taken 30mg IR oxycodone (intranasally), and I think I'm about to prescribe myself a large tub of ice cream all to myself, to be taken as a single dose, as an antidote to this infernal heat. And quite likely also going to write myself a prescription for a 24-pack crate of cold beer too, directions 'take three to four bottles by mouth, every ten minutes until the irritability and the heat subside. Take by mouth only'
Right now, I've an appointment to see one Dr.Lestat Rett, and that will be just what the good Dr. ordered today=D.
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I woke up at 11am after staying up late and so there was no point in taking my morning meds.
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Bordering on too late but I took them anyway.
Will soon run out of moclobemide so a trip to the chemist is warranted.
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Might I ask, ren, what does moclobemide feel like, subjectively? on its own, I mean, does it possess the sort of stimulatory effects the irreversible, hydrazine style MAOIs are somewhat known for, I've experienced an MAOI before, although it was in the context of a yage' brew, where an MAOI allows for oral activity of DMT, using a plant admixture to supply both MAOI (in this case, Peganum harmala seed, for the harmaline and harmine as MAOIs, and the root-bark, extracted, of Mimosa hostilis for DMT)
It seems intriguing on its own, certainly the famous yage' vine of souls, Banisteriopsis caapi is well known as 'the light' IIRC amongst curanderos who use ayahuasca, about to go pick my med refill up again in a minute after I throw some clothes over me..
And..back, meds collected, just awaiting their taking effect, thankfully, the overheating I was suffering last night has been quelled by a combination of adrenolytic agents and opioidergics. Bugger me though, my temperature and heart rate had soared, and I was dripping wet sweating bullets, as the noradrenaline release inhibitors wore off and the pain meds wore down to intolerable levels for a while, as is wont to happen if I don't make some...alternative plans, for the wee small hours on the night before I pick up my refill, as by then, I've used everything up, and all meds are at their lowest plasma level possible, generally means I save at least some clonidine, and buy a couple of packs of co-codamol, and perform an extraction to rid them of the paracetamol, or better yet, their dihydrocodeine counterpart, the solubility of either being perfect in water, whilst APAP is nearly insoluble and forms a suspension, which either can be left to settle over time, or when I don't want to bugger about waiting, just grind 'em up, add ice cold water and subject it to vacuum filtration at the aspirator pump, sucks it through in a trice. Although it does mean having to give my nice clean fritted buchners a bath in nitric acid or something similar after to dispose of the residues that cling obstinately, ordinarily I'd use chromic acid, or possibly piranha acid (hydrogen peroxide and sulfuric acid, aka piranha bath, for the vicious tendencies it has and its insane hunger for anything vaguely organic, as well as potential to blow sky high with certain things, such as if idiots try using it to get rid of anything where acetone is present (acetone peroxide formation, in a bath of crazy vicious corrosive etch solution...not pretty, theres just no way a touchy as fuck shock-sensitive primary high explosive with a foul temper and an acid bath can get along, when the two are mixed together.
Its just...even the blind chemist would think 'bugger that for a lark' if they had any sense at all. But it has happened, and when realized, caused faculties to bail out on the area lest it go kablooey after some scmuck goes and ends up dumping liter quantities of acetone into piranha etch, and making enough TATP to blow the building to smithereens and more than enough to potentially detonate at any random time for such trivial reasons as internal stresses in a crystal, or a crystal growing large enough to detonate under its own weight, taking kilogram quantities of TATP with it, and blasting the piranha acid everywhere.
(I read a blog sometimes, and its hilarious the shitups undergrads get into like that. The sort of thing you just start reading and think 'oh this IS gonna end in tears', its like watching it unfold almost.
I especially like the peroxidized ether can in a fridge one, a salutatory lesson in keeping opened cans of ether regularly tested for peroxidation, this thing apparently had been forgotten in some fridge, peroxidized to high hell and back, and literally turned the fridge into a fragmentation bomb, blasting shrapnel made from fridge-bits through the ceiling, with half a fridge stuck in the roof, along with laying waste to the windows, all shattered by the overpressure of the shockwave when, thankfully when nobody was present, the ethylidene peroxide detonated spontaneously and nuked the fridge and lab. Ether peroxides are scary mothers, they form over time, and as little as a few milligrams is enough to shatter a flask and turn it into a storm of razor-edged shrapnel and tear a man to shreds if he be near it when it goes off (which it will, ethers form these peroxides and intermediate hydroperoxides, the latter aren't so bad, relatively speaking, as they deflagrate rather than detonate, but the alkylidene peroxides are INCREDIBLY sensitive, so much so that old cans of ether that get crusty, you NEVER open one, you don't even touch it, you just have to call the bomb squad, because its that shock and motion/friction sensitive, the slightest stress and it'll detonate with extreme violence, whilst solvated in a highly flammable solvent. Peroxides seem to cause a lot of those 'undergrad...issues'. That and tellurium, for its infamous tellurium breath. Something so foul, that people so afflicted, I read, have even taken their own lives after being rendered a complete pariah to anyone other than their fellow tellurium chemists.
Its akin to sweating, pissing, exhaling, shitting etc. and any other excretion methods included, of noxious sulfurous species if these be formed in vivo as a metabolite from something, only with tellurium, the stench is way worse than anything sulfur or even selenium is capable of, and people have, actually ended their own lives because it was that dreadful.
The sulfur version, the mildest possible incarnation, happened to me once, after my seizure med, I'd needed a lot of rescue doses, over several days and its based on a methylated thiazole ring, so something happened to it metabolically speaking, and for about a week to a week and a half, I couldn't walk down the street without people literally turning and running, when they came into about a 100 meter range upwind of me. Sweating it out, pissing it out, even TEAR fluid stank so terribly that even when I went to see a doctor about it, I was obliged to hide in the toilets rather than enter a waiting room, so heinous was the mercaptanesque stench that nobody could tolerate it.
Not much fun to have your nasal fluid impregnated with a hideous reek either haha.
And the chalcogens get worse. Where an oxygenated compound smells fine, the sulfur one often smells bad, sometimes really quite foul, the next chalcogen down, selenium gives rise to worse stenches still, and tellurium is the sort of chemistry you get somebody else to do, because you don't want to absorb the merest few micrograms to milligrams, as if you touch and absorb such a thing, it gets released as volatile alkyl and hydrogen tellurides in small quantities, and these smell so abysmally foul, and are so friggin potent, that a dead man would vomit if brought near them. And its well known for Te chemists to 'leave little presents' in books they take out at unis, the paper they touch reeks to hell's foulest depths, just from skin contact with minute traces of the organotellurium species. Chemist snark-off might include the term 'tellurium breath' as an insult, so legendary is the abominable reek Te absorption produces. A shame, since it is such a beautiful element, to look at, perhaps the most pretty of them all, bar radioactive glowing, its a metalloid, like silicon, germanium or arsenic, semi-metallic, and brittle rather than bendable, as sulfur is, but natural crystals have a real gorgeous look to them, especially growing off other natural crystal formations, as this intensely silvery white, faceted gem-like material.
Just look at this and tell me you wouldn't, if it had no foul properties, see it as a viable gemstone, albeit one of great delicacy, but surpassing beauty.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Tellurium-89043.jpg/220px-Tellurium-89043.jpg)
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It is pretty.
As for moclobemide, I haven't taken it on its own so I don't know how it affects me. I know it's a RIMA and I haven't had any side effects from it which is always a good thing. I have a chronically dry mouth but I put that down to lithium or maybe benztropine. After years of shit mental health I'm doing a lot better these past 5 years. Sometimes I feel like I'm on a knife edge but that feeling passes.
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Benztropine would be a classic culprit for drymouth. Antimuscarinics do that. Li, I'm not so sure of, I've never taken it or had anything to do with lithium bar its chemistry of the metal itself and its compounds,
I've experienced no drymouth from a competitive MAOI (aka RIMA) when used for ayahuasca/yage' brews, a traditional ethnobotanical hallucinogenic 'tea' of a sort, although more like a boiled down sludge that tastes fucking awful, but has effects which I found quite similar to psilocybin mushrooms, rather than DMT-like. I have to say it was a bit of a letdown, I'd rather have smoked the DMT that went into it, without the MAOI (beta-carboline harmala alkaloids, present in certain plant species were my source) I've heard of moclobemide being used as an alternative, to avert some of the whole consuming nasty tasting bitter sludge bit that has to be endured, and believe you me some aya brews taste AWFUL, especially ones using syrian rue seed as the MAOI without first extracting the beta-carbolines (essentially think of the beta-carboline ring system as akin to a cyclized tryptamine, and indeed they can be made by cyclizing tryptamine parent compounds, such as with the Pictet-Spengler reaction, the bane of DMT chemists everywhere.
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yes I did
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Some of them. First and foremorst, my antiseizure med, painkillers and adrenolytics.
I feel so much more human now, after taking the needed morning meds. Although I've not taken everything, theres still a few pills and capsules to neck or in one case, insufflate (oxycodone IR, I find it better to take the powder within intranasally rather than orally, due to the more rapid onset of effect making it easier to gauge the response and whether more or in future, less is required.
Plus a shot of 420mg morphine sulfate, intramuscularly, which immediately had the welcome additional effect of soothing my frayed nerves from lack of sleep within moments, replacing roasting alive overheating and feeling really twitchy and grumpy and generally miserable with relaxation, dissappearance of the searing fire that is, usually, my hip joints and knee, and an overall psychic 'ahhhhh thats better' feeling. I'll be able to sleep now, after being battered by an adrenal storm for several days and nights on end, which I daresay is MOST uncomfortable, feels like being boiled alive in your own skin, after being filled with fire ants, plus all the foul natured portions of a methamphetamine use, the comedown alone, magnified manyfold, only without the high preceeding it. Just the shitty crash and with 'phet that had been made by a bumbling incompetent twit who wouldn't know his Nagai reduction from his Birch-Benckeser from his reductive aminations and oxime reduction techniques if they clubbed together to buy a bat to wallop him round the nads with in the hope of knocking some sense into his head, so nasty, edgy strung out muck churned out by some GUPchucker halfwitted compulsive masturbator who's idea of best product is something that looks like earwax made by fuckin' well GUPchucking in a Birch with gakked feedstock to boot.
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Yes, took the spazz meds, the hyper meds, and the pain meds. Yay me.
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I took my vitamins.
I also did morning stretches today. Ive been half fasting- eating mainly fruits, yoghurt and tea. gonna make some eggs with serrano peppers, cumin, and spinach this evening.
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Yup, and feel so much better for the all day long sleep, from shortly after picking up all my refills and then taking the meds, rousing briefly to watch star trek and guzzle cold beer and grape soda, and stuff my face with craft cheese slices.
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Took morning meds at a sensible time for once.
sg, morning stretches sound....healthy.
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yes, I did
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Of my pain meds, I only took the morning morphine and oxy.
Now, the diacetyl ester is serving nicely as a pain reliever. Not even had any of the methadone my tasty little friend was sent with as an escort :P
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Healthy indeed! gets the blood flowing, and keeps me limber lol. never know what adventures will greet me when i leave the house. :]
today, took vitamins.
Took morning meds at a sensible time for once.
sg, morning stretches sound....healthy.
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Took a vitamin supplement myself, I get one to, along with (the latter bought at my own expense) a protein supplement that makes a chocolate milkshake, to help make it easier to maintain a balanced diet, its a liquid vitamin supplement, tastes weird, but not unpleasant. I think its SUPPOSED to taste like orange, but whilst it might look orange in color it tastes like...well...it tastes like vitamin supplement, a weird taste all of its own.
Along with a little vitamin H :LOL:
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Took afternoon meds. Actually remembered to take them.
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Back got real bad and broke down and took a Vicodin. Always take my reflux meds. At night I take this made in a low dose for gut pain, that at higher doses is for mind-altering stuff. I think it is why I am having hot and cold flashes. Usually those kinds of drugs do. Probably won’t renew.
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Do you mean the vicodin Trig? if you take them regularly enough, daily etc. then if its in a dose low enough that can cause the beginnings of, but not full-blown opioid withdrawal, then overheating can be one of the first symptoms, along with lachrymation (tearing, watering of the eyes), running nose, generally feeling achey and icky and overloaded, overstimulated. But if your only using them when you really can't bear it otherwise, which from your posts, sounds like its the case, then this is less likely.
If you are willing to tell me the dosage (of the hydrocodone portion of it), and the approximate frequency of use, I should be able to tell you, especially if I know how often, how much and how long the use is for consecutively, doses per day for multiple consecutive days etc. if you are at risk of physical dependence.
I'd suggest you, if you are in as bad a lot of pain as it sounds, renew it, at least the once, so you have them there as a tool available for use, without having to make a doctor appt. suffer in the time it takes between making it, getting the prescription, collecting the prescription, taking a dose and it taking effect, and can go straight to taking and waiting for its onset. If you decide not to use them, fair enough, they won't 'go bad', they'll just sit there, opioids like hydrocodone are pretty stable to storage, the esters are the least stable kind, as ester linkages are easily hydrolyzed, but even then, I've read of people who've found bottles of brand name heroin tablets (the diacetyl ester of morphine's 3- and 6- position phenolic -OH groups), and that were so old they harked back from the days it was marketed as a nonaddictive substitute for morphine by Bayer, and one could just walk into a pharmacy, ask for some, and walk out without so much as an eyelid raised, just so long as one actually paid for the merchandise in question rather than burglarizing the pharmacy, the individual who found this bottle, with its dark glass and yellowing, flaking label reported that when he opened the bottle there was a slight odor of acetic acid from some ester hydrolysis, but that when placed in a spoon, a little water added and drawn through a filter, prepared for intravenous injection, that even the labile ester types can survive an awful, awful long time, and that when administered they were every bit as active as one would expect pharmaceutical grade diamorphine to be.
I'm guess I'm trying to say, Trig, that I'm of the school of thought that it is better to possess a tool capable of dealing with a task that is highly likely to require to be performed, and not need or choose to use it, than require the tool for the task and not have it available.
Better to have, and never need, than to need and never have.
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I wish I was an American being legally killed by my own kind. That alone would make me happy and high before even taking anything. But alas, I'm enslaved instead to working for a living that someone else gets to live.
I love my antianxiety and antipsychotic meds, makes me want to farm babies with my giant welly. Honestly, ether go fuck yourselves or each other. I don't care, make a choice and go dump it into the ocean of you.
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Whats the fuss about legally killing? Suicide is techically illegal, but the thing is, after you've gone and done the world a favour by autodarwinating yourself, its somewhat beside the point, and rather futile to attemot prosecution.
And farm babies? only way thats going to happen is if you give birth to something half mangy mongrel gutter cur and half bog roll.
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Love your rage. Always have. Help me help myself and I will reward you with what you want. Hypoxia
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You of course, don't want it. You were got your hypoxia in utero :LOL:
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But alas, I'm enslaved instead to working for a living
What sort of work do you do?
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He's a professional failure at being a fucktard.
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At least I amounted to something than being addicted to yourself. People get high off other people being hurt and you Americans voted for a narcissist to lead your people off a cliff. So keep walking, dumb arse.
Whilst in the real world, I'm a technician that repairs telemetry equipment that monitors water/waste for the utilities industry. Even if I managed to earn my way to a freedom from you, still stuck being drugged just to remain alive at all.
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Whilst in the real world, I'm a technician that repairs telemetry equipment that monitors water/waste for the utilities industry.
That's awesome.
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He must get a lot of false positives, if he's watching sewage on a monitor. Well pseudo-false positives, when the system flags him up as escaped sewage :autism: lol.
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You clearly didn't read what he says he does.
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No, it's not. I've been exploited in equivalent roles and only attracted abuse for not helping myself first. If I was normal, I would be earning double what I'm on now, drug free and able to enjoy myself on what ever activity I choose.
But instead, I'm stuck here wondering why you won't help me hurt myself. What would be amazing is being cured from pretending everything is fine.
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Normal means average, so no, normal people can't or don't.
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Just ignore him or mock him and he'll fuck off or actually maybe work up the balls to kill himself jack. The little fuckup is just a halfarsed, idiotic little troll.
And of course we'd help you kill yourself you dumb fuck,but really, grow a dick, cut it off and ram it down your throat, you'll bleed out and choke to death at the same time. Silly little NTard.
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Jack doesn't want him to leave.
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Yes.
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You'd be breaking the law if someone did off themselves because of you. Bit like your parents. Carry on
I'm done dancing around this one, they clearly enjoy being on fire. Look after yourself, because if I ever saw you in need of help on the floor, I'd just boot you in the head for being in the way. Good luck
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I haven't taken my morning meds is sooooooooo long, they're probably expired. Really should get better at it.
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This is is getting beyond a joke. I wonder if its from the stress of being in hospital. Repeated seizures today and several yesterday. I've been able to terminate them, with chlormethiazole. But the moment I go back to sleep, when I wake again its happened again. I even had to have my old man treat one of them by physically picking up the bottle and sticking the capsule in my mouth, because I was paralyzed by the atonic attack.
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Took everything, including sleep cocktail. Hoping to sleep soon. Have early morning appointment with pain management doctor. Only a few Vicodin left.
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I had to sign a pain management contract this morning to get a refill on my Vicodin. They will take urine samples going forward and check for other drugs and alcohol. I don’t drink alcohol and don’t do any illegal drugs, plus I share all of my other prescriptions. Some crap about Federal Law/Guidelines.
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Took mine.
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Took mine too. A bit later than normal because I slept in.
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Yes, I took them again today. Now drinking a beer. Medicinal purposes only, of course.
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Fuck...it was a three Vicodin day, and I could really use another one, but hoping to fall asleep first.
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Slept in too much so have not taken the morning meds.
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Knowing you Trig, that sounds like a real bastard of a day!. *sends over a bit of the 1/4 of H*
Never had vicodin, we don't use hydrocodone in england for some reason, here there isn't really an intermediate level opioid painkiller, the scale goes straight for codeine/dihydrocodeine or tramadol to morphine, oxycodone or whatever other pulls-no-punches grade of pain meds, if one gets anything at all and isn't stuck with a doc who's a bastard of course, which happens to too many people, thankfully not me, mine is a good man, but, he doesn't really know what he is doing when it comes to managing pain.
I wouldn't be using H on the weekends, or methadone, other than perhaps, once in a while if I felt like a change and to get the chemistry set out. As it is, I get enough, barely, to cover my pain levels assuming there is no sudden flareup of anything that can flare up, and that there is nothing unforseen by ways of an accident, from picking up a script until the friday. Leaving two days and nights which I either must take into my own hands or suffer through, both the pain and withdrawal. Which, needless to say, is not how things are supposed to work.
And I only manage that long, because I got blasted in the eye with corrosives. Vision is still off some, and I don't like bright lights (well I never did, but I like them even less now), but they doubled my oxy script, after I got out of hospital, because as it sounds like, getting hit in the eye with boiling hot corrosive alkalis is...less than enjoyable, to say the very least. They just either forgot, or couldn't be bothered to spend the time tapering me back down to the original level I was taking it at. And given that I was really struggling to get around or do much at the time, I kept my mouth shut. And its staying shut.
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As for today...sort of, see above. Muscle relaxant (zanaflex/tizanidine) plus overload 'circuit breaker' of a sort, in clonidine, a relative of tizanidine, and they both work to serve as that metaphorical circuit breaker, shorting out those times where one's mental fuse would otherwise lead to a melted head, so to speak.
Can't sleep, do have a sleeping pill around, but I am holding off on using it. Because I most certainly do not want to become dependent physically on them. I MIGHT end up using it tomorrow, or else half tonight, half tomorrow night, because my antiseizure med is also a sedative, and its not like I can just fuck those off, and a single tablet either way is not going to push anyone over the edge of a cliff. Might well stay up all night and then take it midday or something like that, because it isn't like there is much point in being awake at that time, since star trek isn't on on weekends (sue me, I'm autistic, like it or lump it :spazz:
Pain meds..well thanks a lot, doc. Not the prescription ones. All thats available are topical NSAID antiinflammatories, some paracetamol that is currently, and is going to stay, sitting at the bottom of an extraction of something else from it. it isn't any use for so much pain as being bitten by a geriatric, toothless gnat. But, well, being a chemist I don't see any reason a pair of acetyl groups in place of a pair of phenolic hydroxyl groups should change morphine, the respected and widely used (and prescribed to me) pain reliever, into something that deserves stigma, or to be shunned, where its close relative is not, the only differences being structural, a greater rapidity of entry into the brain, compared with morphine given by an identical route, greater weight potency and some differences in the binding profile to Mu-opioid receptors having alternately-spliced isoforms, after some post-translational modification once the protein exits the ribosome within the cell producing it.
As long as it is what it claims to be, rather than say, contaminated with fentanyl or one of its nasty ass relatives, then its just another pain med to me, it does FEEL a bit different to pharmaceutical morphine, but I put that down to the fact that the buggers making H clandestinely, don't run it through chromatographic columns, or other preparative scale analytical equipment (although I figure they probably don't run columns purifying morphine in factories which do make it for the medical market), with the clandestine manufacture of H, it still has all the other alkaloids, at least, the phenolic ones, although codeine has to be removed, or it could cause a fatal histamine release if injected IV. I find H more physically stimulating than an otherwise equally potent/effective dose of pharmaceutically derived morphine, likewise poppy pod tea, which is even more so, presumably due to the thebaine and possibly oripavine, which in large doses, are toxic, acting as convulsants in the same way strychnine does, as an antagonist of spinal strychnine-sensitive glycine receptors. But in smaller doses, its stimulating, as, apparently, is strychnine, which in some rather old medical tomes I have, dating back a couple of centuries, when they were relying on herbs on a large basis, raw opium with just the plant matter boiled and skimmed off the top, a few, but not many, more complex organic molecules doing this, that and the other, and the rest of it was arsenic, lead, mercury, antimony, white phosphorus, even dilute hydrocyanic acid (prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide in aqueous solution). Hell, back then, know what they'd give you for piles?
They'd tell you to bathe them regularly in nitric acid. Quite a hilarious image, I admit. And the doctors probably never saw very many returning patients with the same complaint ;) but not a treatment I'd want to bathe my sore, pulsating swollen anal veins in, if I had same. I'm not quite sure whether to laugh, spit my tongue out of my nose, or wince. Quite possibly all three simultaneously.
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My old man is going out now to pick them up. Asked him if he'd do it since I just had another minor seizure, brief, about the time the experiment with a few tokes of H to squash the one I had earlier, had had the gear wear off, since I only used a little for it, again, managed, since it was a minor one, to get to it and use a pre-prepared foil, and again, like magic, it stopped the attack in its tracks while it was no more than akin to a bit of burning grass from a discarded match, rather than an inferno. Soon as I'd had a couple of inhalations, it just withered and died like a patch of weeds baked to dust with a flamethrower. Thankfully I'll have my antiseizure meds in a bit, as soon as my old man gets back. And regular pain meds. So the H can stay in it's little spare container for housing lenses for my microscope until there is again a reason to make use of it.
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Yes. Back is still really bad. I think I overdid it the previous few weeks and haven't been able to settle it back down. Too many days of long meetings and sitting in chairs for long periods of time, which exacerbates my issues. Tomorrow I have to go to Baltimore, so that is like 6-7 hours on trains and waitng for them between here to DC and then DC to Baltimore. Have to switch trains in DC.
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I hope it doesn't make things worse, and that you recover as much as possible soon mate. I know all too well what its like to be tormented with old injuries, fucking blows ten tons of dead, gangrenous, putrescence-bloated suppurating goat cock.
Leg has been playing up somewhat today, or rather my meant to be good leg has been. Been hurting to get up off the sofa, although thankfully I picked up my pain meds along with all the other med refills today, and just having the occasional toke of brown whenever it gets a bit much, just a few pulls is all thats needed to get rid of the worst excesses of pain.
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Lunchtime meds - done.
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Not yet. Doing the basics (coffee) now.
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Most of them. Although I had no pain medication left. Although this morning, postie brought me, courtesy of special next day delivery, a box of 80 methadone tablets. Which are not only making sure I don't withdraw what with the stinginess of doctors not permitting me to get through a week, without going through between two and three days of hellish physical withdrawal.
So I got myself a box of physeptone tablets, that the guy who sold them to me, stuffed the box with just less than double what the boxes are meant to contain, if somebody is prescribed a full box (50 count boxes)
And I'm feeling just fine, and I will be throughout the weekend, instead of, as the doctors would have me do, suffering in agony and misery, every minute feeling as though it were a thousand.
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Talk about a fluster cuck.
I take The PRs morning and evening meds and my sleep aids out each evening. Her evening meds are put in her hand and she takes them then. I bring her morning meds to the bathroom and put them in an old prescription bottle that's on the sink. I take my pills at the same time.
I had scary, horrible night. Couldn't sleep, unbelievble dry mough, restless legs, no strength to turn over, staggering down the hall, etc. You know where this is going, right?
Yep, I took her morning meds: 2 seizure meds, 2 psychiatric meds, 3 pills for psych med side effect, an amino acid. How that girl is able to function with that stuff in her I'll never know. And I know I'll be more alert and aware in the future.
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:( sorry you had to go through that. Some of those psych meds are awful, I am SERIOUSLY intolerant of dopamine D2 antagonists, they make me really ill. That and (was given this for sleep once)...arrgh what the fuck is that tetracyclic antidepressant, the most potent sedating antihistamine on the market/alpha2 adrenergic autoreceptor antagonist (alpha2 antagonists make me just as ill as neuroleptics), never needed the latter for psych reasons, but they are used as antivomiting agents, got given IIRC trifluoroperazine once after a bout of awful food poisoning and if it wasn't awful enough to start with I just wanted to DIE after taking that shit. The rest of it went down the toilet. Even domperidone, which is a much less potent D2 antagonist, not meant to cross the blood-brain barrier, still manages to make me want to go find a high place with lots of rocks underneath to jump off whilst wearing a backpack full of ball bearings and nitroglycerin.
I hope so much the PR doesn't get affected by those awful meds that way, I'd hate for her to suffer like that. Well I hate the idea of her being even slightly unhappy, but you know what I mean.
*hugs for both of you QV and PR*
What seizure meds does she take (IF of course, she agrees to say, please, ask her before telling me, in case she prefers for that to be personal and private), because some of them aren't at all bad. Quite a lot of them, although depending on the type, some of the major families are calming agents too, like valium, phenobarb, and all the other benzos and similar used for seizure control. The one I take, chlormethiazole is actually quite pleasant, could be used recreationally (indeed, have tried it that way and its really quite a good recreational, a homespun lot of course so as not to waste the stuff I need for seizure control. Had to take an additional dose of that earlier, after..well not an aura exactly, it went straight from business as normal to beginning of a myoclonic seizure, but thanks to the chlormethiazole extra capsule, that did a wonderful job of shorting it out before it ever got to be more than a few twitches, a little difficulty grabbing the pill bottle off the coffee table due to the seizure trying to start. Chlormethiazole is kinda like a barbiturate in the way it acts on GABAa receptors, rather than like a benzo or Z-drug, in terms of binding site and the way it modulates the gating of the ion channel, and with a similarly hefty kick to the barbs (albeit I've only tried two of those, they aren't common now at all, I'd have to make them if I wanted to try others, but phenobarb, which is pretty shitty, more of a knock on the head with a lead pipe, minus the headache and broken face :P, and the first of the barbs to be discovered, barbital itself, which despite the long acting nature is actually pretty fun stuff. Got hold of a bit over an ounce of the stuff, as lab grade powder, from a genetics/biotech lab from an old contact who worked there, and used it for making PH buffer systems for cell cultures.
But chlormethiazole works great for the seizures. REALLY fucking fast too, once the capsules let their contents out, absorption seems to be within minutes, at least as fast as one begins to feel alcoholic spirits after drinking say, a coffee mug full of dark rum in one shot. So its kinda just down the hatch, and moments later, seizure aborted. Love the stuff in that respect. Pretty good at making sure I get a good night's sleep too, as its also used as a sleeping pill and alcohol detox drug for its sedative-hypnotic effect.
And unusually, quite astonishingly in fact for a GABAergic agonist, I've had NO physical dependency from even years of use several times a day, and I know of NO other drug, other than perhaps chlormethiazole analogs, like its brominated derivative, 'bromethiazole' as I call it, for want of a better name, since it isn't used in medicine at all, that one is..well, a house specialty so to speak :heisenberg:, as there is a nice easy route to it, or chlormethiazole starting from vitamin B1, although the first step needs rigorous purification of the intermediate, as it starts with a bisulfite or metabisulfite cleavage of thiamine (vitamin B1) into two halves, one fragment, the 4-methylthiazole-2-ethanol portion then undergoes chlorination with SOCl2, and probably would work easily enough with something like disulfur dichloride, phosphorus trichloride or phosphorus pentachloride too, although SOCl2 works nice as the decomposition products, HCl and sulfur dioxide are both gaseous and can be removed super-easily from the reaction mixture. Its just the cleavage step has to be done with extreme caution in the purification, as the pyrimidine fragment of the B1 lysis reaction, its known as 'toxopyrimidine', and its a vitamin B6 antagonist, prevents GABA biosynthesis, making it a potent convulsant poison. Nasty shit, but removable with repeated ice-water washing, as its soluble in H2O whilst the methylthiazole-2-ethanol which serves as the intermediate to chlormethiazole or the brominated version, is poorly soluble in H2O, so the poisonous byproduct can be cleaned out, followed by, just for caution's sake, on my part, my performing a vacuum distillation on the intermediate alcohol.
I hope your dear lil royal cutie didn't suffer from the lack of meds either.
*warm well wishes for both of you*
Just took a sleeping pill tonight as well as the general night time meds, as again I feel sleepless. Going to munch down a can of cold rice pudding that I've been cooling down in the fridge, smoke my e-cig while I read some more of Vogels' fifth ed. practical organic chemistry book on the laptop, before it kicks in, munch a few candies, before it kicks in and I shove my blindfold on to go to sleep.
(I wear a blindfold to sleep, to keep the morning daylight away. Yuck. I don't like sunlight, and I like mornings even less. And morning AWAKENING by sunlight is just a filthy evil abortion which ought not to exist. Like that clapped out former hooker bitch in charge of giving head to...ahem...I mean, 'heading' autism squeaks. Whasserface, forgot her name, oh well, not important. She can always just be 'that nasty old slag from AutSqueaks' to me :autism:
Damn devil spawned NT whorebitch. Gross. How ANY male human being could ever have wanted HER disgusting NT arse naked in some tacky porno mag I will never know. Eww.
Now, time to sleep soon, while I stick some heavy music on nice and loud so I can sleep and get back to my chapter in Vogels', along with a small top up of my IR pain meds to avoid my hips hurting too much to lie down.
Did kinda want to get into some papers on asymmetric chiral iridium based hydrogenation catalysts for enantioselective hydrogenation of imines to amines at atmospheric pressure of hydrogen, but that'll have to wait for tomorrow.
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Thanks Lestat. It's odd how chemical compounds (AKA medicines) can affect people differently, even if the two people are genetically related. I'm feeling more myself. Just have to overcome sinus stuffiness, a little wobbliness and some back ache. Before you know it I'll be fit as a bagpipe.
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You mean you are going to start heaving and wheezing alternately, whilst making atonal, high pitched squealing noise that sounds like an asthmatic cat having a seizure in a microwave whilst fireworks inserted up it's backside explode at random intervals, whining and screeching all the time like a fundamental xtian mother-in-law with severe borderline PD who's just been told she can take her church and go fuck the devil at the altar in it because hell will have frozen over before you can be arsed to take her there?
And that someone is going to inflate you via a tube stuck either down your nose, or up your arse, whilst alternately squeezing your ribcage and poking various tender bits in order to elicit a horrid droning noise whilst they keep you pinned in their sweaty unwashed armpit?
If I was to be fit as anything, I'd certainly not pick bagpipes. I've sometimes wondered if they have their origin either as a weapon for battling armies in the days when warfare was fought with cavalry, maces and pike formations and people got crossbow bolts shot at various places nobody wants to find an arrow sticking out of; or else as a particularly sadistic tool employed by witchfinders and inquisitors.
They sound like an autism squeaks conference on a crack bender.
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"They sound like an autism squeaks conference" hey come on, lets not go to far, thats a scottish traditional instrument don't be THAT cruel to it
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Took 2 puffs extra of Symbicort as my asthma was pissing me off.
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Tried Vyvance today. Kayleigh offered it to me, it's basically long acting dexamphetamine. Not much of an effect as I had a nap in the mid afternoon.
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I've heard of lisdexamphetamine, but to me it sounds like one of those excuses big pharma used to jack people off for more money for some fancy ass financial excuse. Shit, costs me pennies on the gram to make racemic 'phet to make, but would 'justify' the cause or long-acting XR 'special' 'phet. Fucking big pharma really piss me off sometimes. They charge thousands of currency units for say, something that would keep a person alive, not abusive, just alive, but thousands per fucking vial of say, synaththen, and if they can't afford it, then fuck the bastards and let them rot for all they care. Fucking cunts.
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It's only 30mg capsules in a cute pink and white. I think I need the next higher dose because by mid afternoon I'm yawning and daydreaming.
These are Kayleigh's pills - they didn't work for her either. But she can get them for the low script price because she was dxed with ADHD before she was 12. I have to pay full price because I was diagnosed as an adult. Not fair really.
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Lestat, stop posting things like the above here. Soliciting drugs is very much against the TOS of our host.
Also, please delete the above and any other such posts, or I will have to do it.
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Pappy, stop being such a wanker. It's against the terms of service.
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Pappy, stop being such a wanker. It's against the terms of service.
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Al, stop being such a butthurt stalker. I'm pretty sure that's also against the terms of service.
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They just miss their master.
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Pappy, stop being such a wanker. It's against the terms of service.
Only if you take his walls of text seriously. :wanker:
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I altered my post, so odeon, please also remote the quotation.
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Thank you.
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Oh, BTW, 'remote' was meant to read 'remove'
You can't blame a guy for trying to put a few pizzas and cold beers on his table, can you? a man has to eat. One has to be enterprising, although for ren, I'd gladly help her off my own back, she is, well, extended family, just a long way off.
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Just took early evening dose of chlormethiazole, about to take a low dose of oxy as my hip is aching both whilst I lay down on the sofa watching star trek and waiting for my 'cheese feast' pizza to cook, and because I will have to be busy soon. A lot of walking up and down stairs. Great. Just what I wanted. Although rather handily, my old man found a half full strip of morphine capsules hanging off one of my trenchcoats which had been hung up.
That'll do a world of good. I'm going to be a very busy bee.
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Oh, BTW, 'remote' was meant to read 'remove'
Yeah, I got that. :P
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This thread reminded me that it's time to take meds.
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I haven't taken mine yet.
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Just took early evening dose of chlormethiazole, about to take a low dose of oxy as my hip is aching both whilst I lay down on the sofa watching star trek and waiting for my 'cheese feast' pizza to cook, and because I will have to be busy soon. A lot of walking up and down stairs. Great. Just what I wanted. Although rather handily, my old man found a half full strip of morphine capsules hanging off one of my trenchcoats which had been hung up.
That'll do a world of good. I'm going to be a very busy bee.
Make your own pizza. One of them pizza ovens to get the pizza hot enough. Make your own dough, your own ingredients. Only really works if you have family though. Takes 20 minutes to heat up, then a pizza takes 90 seconds. Done. The ovens are £200, the fuels environmentally friendly and cheap.
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Have taken some of mine, about to take others.
I have done before, although never a stuffed crust kind.
No special oven for it, just threw the requisite things in the requisite places, drowned it in cheese, olives, pepperoni, cooked what turned out to be the mariana trench of deep pan pizzas, a big fluffy fuzzball of a thing, that looked like somebody dropped a tactical nuke on a pizza dough factory but went down a very deep pizza shaped hole in a very short space of time, and wasn't sorry that it had either.
The ready made ones here, normal oven is up to temperature within a few minutes or so give or take, pizza cooked in ten minutes and scarfed down in two or three. You just caught me eating one now actually. Or would have if you'd have been here within the time it takes to fold something flexible a couple of times and munch it down in a handful of bites. (I didn't do two this time, because I only had two left, and I want to have something either for later tonight other than a tub of cream cheese or possibly some dehydrated just add boiling water and the contents of a packet of dehydrated flavouring BBQ beef noodles (although I like to throw in a bit of dark soy sauce too, and plenty worcestershire sauce, plus a couple of pinches of the ready-to-use dried fly agaric mushrooms that I harvest every year from as many of the spots for picking them I have close to hand or a good hike around as I can, as many times as I can. They are a pretty common mushroom in terms of general occurence, and not at all threatened. Most people wouldn't even eat them, as all the mushroom guidebooks list them as toxic. A few, idiotic and overcautious ones even as deadly or potentially so.)
But I know of only two cases in something like the past century, maybe two, that anyone has actually DIED from eating them, one being an italian diplomat quite a long time ago, who mistook them for the choice edible Amanita caesarea, which he must have been somewhat of an idiot to do, because fly agaric has a red cap, the Caesar's mushroom orange, fly agaric with white warts of the velum totale remnant flecking all over the cap, forgiveable mistake, sure if you are inexperienced. But to confuse bright orange stem and gills with pure white? thats a bit much. And besides, Caesar's mushroom doesn't even GROW in this country, sadly, although I'd love to try eating it.
The others being campers, who were using it recreationally. In the trance like state laden with extraordinarily vivid dreaming it induces in such doses, during winter, they froze to death. They were not poisoned by it, they died of hypothermia, same as they would if they had gotten comatose drunk.
It is slightly toxic, to somewhat poisonous, but if you know how to prepare it, its damn tasty, fresh, it'll poison you, although not fatally, barring sheer gluttony in mistake for an edible you don't need to prepare specially (there are some, that raw or undercooked are bad news, a couple of them shouldn't be eaten at all, and at least one genus, the false morels, Gyromitra spp. contain monomethylhydrazine, highly toxic, to the liver, neurotoxic, a convulsant, generally really, really bad news, contains it in the form of a metabolically-labile precursor, gyromitrin, breaks down in the body to MMH. The later being used as high velocity hypergolic fuel for space rockets and missiles, and its downright unpleasant in terms of toxicity. Sensitivity being highly variable too, some people at a meal, from the same mushrooms (the level of gyromitrin also varies, mushroom to mushroom, season to to season, country wise, habitat wise, just about everything that can go wrong, probably will with false morels), will fall ill, some will not, all may or all may not. In some cases, people have eaten them, when thoroughly boiled twice, changing the leaching water twice at a minimum before cooking the way they are to be served, and instead of getting the diners, the volatile (it is rocket fuel after all, volatile in the case of false morel, MEANS it) methylhydrazine that offgasses as the crap is boiled out of them repeatedly, has gassed and killed the cook, even though they have eaten not a bite.
Fly agaric isn't bad news like that. I don't believe in gods or other deities, but among fungi, it is IMO one of the most sacred, treated wrongly it'll poison you and teach you a lesson why not to fuck with it without respect, but respectfully used, it can be made medicine, in particular conferring resistance to the discomfort (but not to hypothermia) induced by bitter cold, enabling one to withstand what physiologically they can take without bodily harm, without coming to discomfort,
I've walked miles in a blizzard, topless, wearing just a trenchcoat above the waist to go to a shop, whilst using the tonic tea I make from the slowly, gently heat-cured at minimum oven heat overnight until cracker-dry and they snap rather than bend, but retain the golden coloration, the caps only, being the part taken, the rest is not somehow worse for one than the caps, its just they are the creme de la creme of the mushroom, best bits to be had, so the gills I scrape off and return to, if I can, under silver birch trees, so the spores can hopefully come to fruition for further harvests, they can help boost endurance, give pains and aches the heave-ho, return the vigour sapped by colds and similar winter ailments, banish fatigue, in larger quantities, can be a very unusual psychedelic-dissociative, operating as a GABAa agonist at the orthosteric GABA binding site, peculiar dream-inducing action, puts one under a deep, deep trance state,
during which one experiences vivid and sometimes very profound, ineffable visions and emotional states, very, very different to psilocybin mushrooms,
And if given a twice-boiling cook, replacing the water to leach the actives or toxins depending on whether you are writing a mushroom guidebook for inexperienced foragers, or have been one of the latter for a good long time and have picked up various little tricks, insider knowhow in the ways of affairs fungoid etc., and come to know the mushroom 'personally' if that makes sense, cultivating a fruitful and beneficial relationship with the species (Amanita muscaria/fly agaric), not just to know what is done with them, but to get a feel for doing the things to be done with them; then they can be thence cooked after the leaching, to divest them of psychotropic properties or toxic ones (actually, the toxin in fresh specimens BECOMES the psychotropic principle, ibotenic acid, a neurotoxin decarboxylates, losing CO2 under heat treatment and also to an extent drying, not sure how much dessication alone would suffice in a percentage wise manner however, ibotenic acid isn't stable stuff, which is good, because the principle it turns to, an isoxazole called muscimol upon decarboxylation is much less a toxin, much more a beneficial useful substance.
And if eating larger quantities of pre-cooked then cooked leached ones doesn't appeal, smaller amounts make a WONDERFUL meat spice, especially red meat and beef in particular. Its like nature's own MSG, coaxes and teases out the flavour and savoriness to be found lurking as yet un-lured from the meat, enhancing it with a honeyed-sweet yet meaty taste of it's own. Its one of my absolute favourite of spices and seasonings of all, for things based on dead animal flesh, to the extent that I wouldn't even contemplate making chili con carne without any.
It just wouldn't be right at all to my tastes, and one of the really good things about it, is there is a parasitic poroid, bolete-type mushroom that also grows under silver birch, as a parasite on fly agaric mycelium, Chalciporus piperatus, the peppery bolete, so where you find fly agaric, you have a nice chance, as long as the host of the fly agaric is silver birch rather than pine, of also finding peppery boletes, no special preparation needed for those, just dry them and divest them of bits of soil, grass, leaf matter etc. before the drying. Stuff into spice tubs, jars or whatever space you can fill, because the two mushrooms grow together and go together, both go into my special steak spice powder, a recipe of my own, a bit of a witch's brew of seeds, seed-pods, leaves, roots and mushrooms and together, blended into fine powder in a spice grinder, as some of the bits and pieces in there are a real shit to grind in a mortar and pestle, leathery peppery boletes especially, but a high speed whizzing blade makes short work of the resistance, and a fine dust results. Sprinkled on steak, a spoonful or two in a pot of chili con carne, in curries, delicious nutritious, and the fly agaric has use as an intoxicant, many uses in the kitchen, more still to be found in the medicinal and healing properties.
hell you can even call reindeer to you, if you live in a country with reindeer, to draw in your herd, because they go apeshit for them, if just sprinkled in the snow apparently, although that I haven't tried, given there being a rather distinct lack of reindeer in england, and me no reason to have a herd of them either. Or inclination to throw the harvest I'll have spent foraging for, taking home in bin liner bags, carrier bags, backpacks, anything and everything to hold a big enough harvest for a coming year, then going out and doing it again, and again, alternating spots so plenty have time to grow, thrive, disperse spores, and me to toss my wastes from the spore-bearing gills, of no value to me as I treasure the caps most of all, but they are of the most value to the fungus, I see it as a trade, its fruiting structure is of value to me, its reproduction is of value to it, so why don't I take what I can use, and return the bits from one population I won't use to sites with other populations, to facilitate genetic diversity, help try to spawn new fruiting grounds, it gets free travel tickets from me, I get what aside from reproduction, once that has done would be a load of flesh, a stick to throw spores higher and have them travel further from the parent mycelium; we both gain that way, and nobody loses. I won't risk depopulating my picking spots, very few others would touch them at all, very, very few, and it gets to maintain as high a genetic diversity as I can assist in; just by throwing out my trash.
I wonder how some would go sprinkled on the pepperoni slices on a pizza. That might work. If I had another pepperoni pizza I'd do it right now in fact but all I have is a cheese feast. I want to try it with pepperoni and stuffed crust, maybe a little sprinkled over pickled black sliced olives tossed on top, followed by a layer of more cheese to sandwich the spices in the middle so it diffuses throughout the cheese.
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Finished the Vyvanse. It was a bit of a let down as it wasn't strong enough. So back to regular dex today and I noticed the difference. I do hope that Vyvanse will eventually be available for adults who were dxed as adults on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme so we don't have to continually remember to take our medication at multiple times during the day.
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Never tried vyvanse myself. I have thought it seems like it might be useful at times though. Although on the other hand there is something I don't much like about the idea of extended-release amphetamines to begin with. I tend to find that I get impatient for it to wear off towards the end and take to little convenient metabolism-hacks such as acidifying the urinary PH in order to make the exit of speed from the body..well..speedier, so to speak, and I could definitely see myself after dosing amphetamine-XR of some sort thinking 'well fuck, lestat, now you've gone and done it, you cant UN-do it and hey, why don't you try the version which sticks around for another six hours or so while your at it!'. (yeah, I know, that might come across as surprising from me, but its actually the chemistry that I enjoy a lot more than I do the end product itself, with my generally only getting much benefit from stimulants for practical purposes, for when I HAVE to work, etc. and need to push myself that extra further few miles when I'm fit to drop and just need something to kick me up the backside in order for me to move in a forward direction, since coffee isn't really my thing, or caffeine isn't, at least.)
I definitely prefer being on the grease-monkey end of the cogs and gears that go towards putting amphetamines together, rather than on the consumer end. Quality control is probably the main reason I'd be on the receiving end, to ensure that any given quantity is up to scratch, and meets my standards, as I have a personal rule for that kind of thing, namely that if I find that I wouldn't be willing to take something, then it is unfit for the market too. At least, if the reason I wouldn't consume a product is a reason related to it's being sub-par produce, rather than say, something that just doesn't agree with my body chemistry because I'm just not wired up correctly for it to be going into me, thats different, but generally, that is my test metric. Asking myself 'would I feed this to myself and if 'yes' then it can go ahead, if however I find I'm unwilling to take a product because it isn't of sufficient quality, I'd not sink to serving it up to anyone else either. Because I would hate to have my good name blackened as a consequence of dishing up poor quality or cut up crap (thats another personal rule, I just won't stand for cutting produce, it goes against what I stand for, its unethical, and clientele would far rather have pure product and pay an according increased price compared to some street garbage that might well be as low as 5% amphetamine sulfate, and the rest bloody glucose or some such dross thrown in to pad it out and add weight. Using a plant based carrier for a synthetic of some sort to be administered via smoking where the compound itself is of such potench that a diluent is needed is different mind you, I'm alright with that (E.g same principle as the reasons you don't see a doctor doing his rounds in the ward handing out pure, un-diluted, fentanyl hydrochloride or citrate salts, as microscopic specks of dust whilst wearing a hazmat suit and gas mask to his pain patients, or asking that his patients weigh out their own medications down to the milligram, capsule them or tablet them, blister-pack them, before opening their day's dose. Nothing wrong with simply making sure that a compound of high weight potency is compounded in an acceptable pharmaceutical form prior to it's being dispensed is there? nobody goes round selling single hits of LSD as lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate etc., they mix it in to gelatin squares, press microdots or lay blotter, that is mandatory for it to be practical to be able to contain the high weight to activity ratio of acid and LSD analogs, no? its not unethical, as such, to do the same for other stronger offerings, as long as the clientele isn't being duped into thinking they are buying a gram, say, of *insert string of letters and numbers appropriate to oddball synthetic cannabinoid compound here*, but a gram of a plant matter carrier of nontoxic, non-active nature, layed with said compound at a dose of for example 1mg per gram of plant carrier, to facilitate people not having to weigh out their produce with a milligram-sensitive scale each and every time they wished to partake, and instead be presented with an offering such that they could use the familiar Cannabis sativa/indica skunk as a visual metric, the end research chemical type compound being presented such that alike physical quantities are calibrated such that a bowl of product is approximately equal, inasmuch as the synthetic cannabinoid offering is equal in nature to begin with, to a bowl of the kind that grows out of the ground, whilst of course not being presented as something it isn't)
But otherwise, I prefer to let quality speak for itself. High quality, pristine offerings on the market, they can advertise and speak for their own good character, better in my book, to charge the appropriate, but fair, increased price and give a product which is 100%, along with the caution that it is, and as such should be dosed in appropriately smaller quantities than the cut stuff people would be used to, and 'if you don't believe my word for it, try before you buy, take a dose out of the very same bag that you would be purchasing, and let the potency speak for itself, DON'T take my word for it, take the word of the merchandise. (I actively encourage people not to take my word for it, at least at first, so that they can instead, behave as if the sample dosage were to be of the nature I claim for it to be, act appropriately for safety's sake, and then find out that my claims are in fact, the truth of the matter, so people can see for themselves what is or is not truth vs falsehood, let my good name build itself as a result, whilst promoting my work in as ethical a manner as possible.
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Took my meds today, at 10am. A bit late, but not so late that I shouldn't take them.
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I just had a shot of morphine sulfate, IM, (150mg), plus as I had to walk half way to the nearest local pharmacy, to pick up something they'd had to order in specially for me (I could have gone into the village itself and there is a pharmacy there where the pharmacists know who I am, as I pick up my med refills there every week, they know who I am, and what they will need to have in stock specifically for me, and how much of it, and when)
But I already HAD some of the antiseizure med, chlormethiazole, I'd accidentally been given an extra prescription for it (and it can be fun when used in a larger quantity than a capsule or two, as long as one is very, very careful), so I decided to go to the local pharmacy I'd not just cashed a script for the same stuff in at, and have them order it in for me to be here the next day. Just got a lift up there, although had to walk back, as my uncle had paid a visit to my old man and I, to do a few things like grab him (my old man) some maggots (to go fishing with, not to eat :autism:) so when my uncle was getting ready to go, I hitched a lift up to the pharmacy as it was right on his way off anyway and got the accidental double script.
I'm not complaining. The pharmacy I use regularly already had everything bagged up, but for some reason the chlormethiazole was left off my repeats, I saw the pharmacist pick the bottle up out of the bag, assumed he had put it aside for when the script was filed in at the surgery after I called them on their error. But unknown to me, that meant the surgery wrote another script, but the pharmacist hadn't taken the first one out, he'd only written a label on it and put it back in, I left thinking it wasn't in there, and had the surgery do another script. Which they did, that left me with twice the normal. Useful, so I can now actually TREAT seizures, saves me going for a rescue pack.
Took a heavy dose to sleep, from the extras, as I was tired, wanted rest, so I did, and woke JUST as 'star trek-enterprise' is coming on:)
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I did except for Symbicort. I'll go and take that now since I am wheezing after my walk.
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I did, yes.
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I haven't taken my meds in months. The PR has been :thumbup:
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Do you feel better for not taking your meds, QV?
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Sort of. Damn doctors give me a pain med script that isn't enough to control my pain, and I have to rely on hacking OTC opioid preparations using the skills that I was bound to end up with given I was born autie and with the speshul interests (couldn't possibly NOT have ended up with the skillset I have in that respect given having the sciences as my speshul interest now, could I? it was inevitable IMO)
Or/and using a contact of mine, or else starting from scratch and preparing things from basic precursors, rather than tweaking existing opioids.
Ran out friday, had a contact ship me some methadone, 80 5mg physeptone tablets which will keep me good until monday for certain. Might even have some left over to use as a fallback the next time I'm in so much pain I can't tolerate it at the level of my script (which the doctors all criticize and have a go at me for having at all!) but knew the methadone would be coming, so I used all the 10mg morphine caps bar 1x10mg to prepare a shot for the morning, and then for the evening, had 4x30mg and 1x10mg to make a shot to cover me then. Already knew I'd be safe doing so, because I knew the methadone was already in the post, shipped for priority next day delivery, from within england, so it'd be here before 1pm.
And in my experience priority before 1pm post is usually here before that time too, and it was this time as well, IIRC somewhere around 11am. Had 150mg methadone in the morning and am barely in any pain, no neuropathic pain either. I'd really like to switch to using methadone as my workhorse pain med, with morphine IR for my breakthrough med (currently I'm on oxy for breakthrough, but I don't much like it)
But I am 99.99999% sure the doctors would tell me to fuck off. And I'm not willing to enter a methadone rehab clinic, where I'd be expected to turn up daily, and take the dose whilst watched by a fucking pharmacist, I'm not being stigmatized by some uppity piece of shit because I'm in pain. Fucking hell, I already AM, but I'm certainly not lining up with the rest of the clientele for the methadone maintainance clinic every motherfucking morning. It hurts me to walk, badly, I have to more or less drag one leg, so why should I do that and be viewed as a 'dirty smack rat'? fuck that right off.
And at most, after eventually, they 'trust' you, they will let you have three days take-home supplies. AFAIK they still drug test people though for other drugs and will cut someone off abruptly without ANY taper, even from a huge methadone dosage, for failing a test. And I'm not pissing in a cup for anybody. Anyone demands I give them my piss, and they will get it. Just not in the way they wanted it.........it's happened before, and if anyone demands I give them a sample of piss, I'll do it again....
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Picked up my refills this morning. Last couple of days have been shitty, a lot of pain lying down trying to sleep, couldn't turn onto either side without it hurting my hips.
Shite weather, freezing bloody cold, making it hard to breathe and making my hands and face numb and painful, and to top it all off, I was forced to exert myself much harder than otherwise, as the bike got a punctured tyre, went completely flat on me while going to the clinic to pick up the scripts and then to the pharmacy.
But feel a lot better for it now I've got adequate levels of my meds floating around in me doing their thing.
Just taken my antiseizure meds and a top-up of a few 10mg IR oxycodone caps, for a total of 140mg oxy, (so far today) and around 300-400mg IM morphine. Hips no longer bothering me.
Wish I knew where the hell I left that serving-size sticky golden syrup cake though, because the pain meds are kinda giving me the munchies.
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Nope. Had a rotten night's sleep so made up for it this morning and slept through the time when I should have taken my meds. So I didn't take them. Can still take a dose of dexamphetamine though.
Will take the others tonight.
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Forgot to take most of my meds yesterday. :(
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Took mine. Late though.
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Thanks for reminding me.
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I did, although was extremely stingy with the morphine. Took the bare minimum to keep me from physical withdrawal, the absolute least I could get away with, if I used a sleeping pill in the morning, after checking my online updates on forums, slept in until star trek came on, watched TOS and enterprise, and then went back to sleep, waiting for family guy to come on in about 20 minutes, in the mean time making a sausage sandwich, once I've watched it, american dad, the cleveland show, if it too is on, then i'm taking another sleeping pill and I'm going to sleep until the postman arrives with a most important package for me.
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HMPH! found I had to, as the morphine dose I restricted myself to, being stingy as fuck, had begun to wear off just enough to stop me sleeping if I didn't dose. So I just had an IV shot of 1ml (just a few units of an insulin syringe less than 1ml actually to give me enough room to pull back so as to register and make sure I was in the vein) of the extraction of all the morphine I had left, ground up the XR microbeads and added water. Morphine sulfate has a maximum solubility at room temperature of 60mg/1ml, so I knew I wouldn't be taking a huge amount out of what I need for my experiment I have planned. Just 60mg, into an easily accessible vein on my right elbow inner side. It's a bit painful to access it, because I have a patch of scar tissue, thankfully not too thick, right over the vein, from a burn, but registered and got the entire 60mg into the vein no problem.
Will make sure to massage some steroid cream into the area, and a non-steroidal antiinflammatory diclofenac gel in now, to make sure the vein stays healthy. I'll be wanting to use it soon, when I pick up my gear. I almost always smoke mine, but once in a while, especially for a first taste, after getting an idea of potency from a quick smoke, I'll have a couple of shots if I've bought an 8th.
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Actually took my lunchtime meds while having my lunch (Macca's).
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I did. Almost forgot, though.
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I did. I had to pick up replenishment from the pharmacy, today, so I was kind of reminded all day to do so.
I also got a flu shot, today.
According to the CDC this strain of vaccines is more closely related/effective than in recent years.
Of course, to fully believe that, one must accept that Some members of the CDC have a certain flu strain clairvoyance or some shit.
I just have come to believe that if I get a flu shot, I do not get really sick. I still get infected, but not colonized and shit goes away fast and I do not get sick.
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Although i have some, went completely without any morphine today, as my H and physeptone arrived. First shot of H I ended up nodding out HARD from a bit before 11am right until 6pm, when star trek came on. Perfect timing. Still high as a motherfucker, just having the odd pipe now and then. That way I can build up a nice big stash of extra morphine for my desomorphine project.
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Can't remember. I think I took them.
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Thanks for reminding me.
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Just looked at the start of this thread and saw that except for two years (2011 to 2013 when I was taking ziprasidone) I've been taking haloperidol since 2010. Risky.
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What are the long-term risks?
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The PR is given her meds daily. Except for the Benztropine which I've mislaid after getting it from the pharmacy. She's been having dystonia again, so I really should find it.
I haven't taken my prescribed meds in months. Still kicking. I usually take acetaminophin and generic Benadryl at night. Trying to kick that habit. Finally went to bed at 4:30 this morning. Seeing the doctor in November. The PR was like a mother hen:
It's x o'clock, shouldn't you be sleeping?
Turn your light out.
Do you know what time it is?
Mother........... foot stamp, crossed arms.
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What are the long-term risks?
Mainly tardive dyskinesia that doesn't go away even after stopping the meds.
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What are the long-term risks?
Mainly tardive dyskinesia that doesn't go away even after stopping the meds.
The PR gets that from some of her meds. She takes Benztropine to control them. She's on 6 meds.
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What are the long-term risks?
Mainly tardive dyskinesia that doesn't go away even after stopping the meds.
What options do you have, then? Other meds? Accepting the risks? :-\
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One of the things that sucks about getting old is how sore one gets after a weekend of smashing stuff and then lugging big rocks and lumps of cement and bricks around.
I've got some NSAIDs (non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs) around somewhere, I've got to get a few of those into me.
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QV, I also take benztropine. Best thing ever to get rid of the haloperidol shakes. I take 2mg every night.
What are the long-term risks?
Mainly tardive dyskinesia that doesn't go away even after stopping the meds.
What options do you have, then? Other meds? Accepting the risks? :-\
Well I tried ziprasidone for two years and that was excellent but then I had a load of ECGs in hospital and they found that it affected my heart. So I couldn't take it any more. Been back on the haloperidol ever since. I'm wondering how much the benztropine is covering up. I would like to try Abilify (aripiprazole) but it's very expensive here and I can't afford it. So for now I'm just accepting the risks.
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One of the things that sucks about getting old is how sore one gets after a weekend of smashing stuff and then lugging big rocks and lumps of cement and bricks around.
I've got some NSAIDs (non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs) around somewhere, I've got to get a few of those into me.
NSAIDs aren't good for you either.
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One of the things that sucks about getting old is how sore one gets after a weekend of smashing stuff and then lugging big rocks and lumps of cement and bricks around.
I've got some NSAIDs (non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs) around somewhere, I've got to get a few of those into me.
NSAIDs aren't good for you either.
I haven't noticed any adverse effects, but I just read about them and I'm glad that I only take them very rarely. I'd average less than 5 tabs per year.
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One of the things that sucks about getting old is how sore one gets after a weekend of smashing stuff and then lugging big rocks and lumps of cement and bricks around.
I've got some NSAIDs (non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs) around somewhere, I've got to get a few of those into me.
NSAIDs aren't good for you either.
I haven't noticed any adverse effects, but I just read about them and I'm glad that I only take them very rarely. I'd average less than 5 tabs per year.
Good for you. I can no longer eat them at all, they completely fuck up my stomach. Luckily they've prescribed COX-2 inhibitors for me instead.
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I don't have any issues that require taking medication like NSAIDS.
Other than being old, out of shape, and carrying heavy things around that most 25-year-old guys would struggle to lift at all. And then wondering why everything is stiff and cramping up the next day.
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One of the things that sucks about getting old is how sore one gets after a weekend of smashing stuff and then lugging big rocks and lumps of cement and bricks around.
I've got some NSAIDs (non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs) around somewhere, I've got to get a few of those into me.
NSAIDs aren't good for you either.
I haven't noticed any adverse effects, but I just read about them and I'm glad that I only take them very rarely. I'd average less than 5 tabs per year.
Good for you. I can no longer eat them at all, they completely fuck up my stomach. Luckily they've prescribed COX-2 inhibitors for me instead.
I take a "baby aspirin" (83mg) every day as a part of my hypertension treatment, but my doctor has also prescribed Meloxicam for when my arthritis becomes less manageable with typical stretching and heat/cold therapy. He allows Ibuprofen AND aspirin, but warns me that Tylenol can destroy my liver, due to a drug interaction with other things I need to take.
Prednisone is another (cortical steroid, though) that when my back is inflamed seems to help some.
My stomach is not my problem. It is my set of joints going arthritic that causes me to go short of breath sometimes just trying to get my body to move to the car.
No bad days, lately though, but not kidding. Sometimes it takes all the strength I can muster just to go to the bathroom, then I am almost out of breath just from pain and the difficulty of movement.
I understand that movement helps and I do all I can, but just moving with this level of arthritic confliction of the joints can be a challenge.
I am too young for this!
Ten years ago, none of this was even in my imagination.
Oh, yeah, I took my meds.
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When we see the doctor in the next week or so I'll ask him about our sleep problems. Both The PR and I are "night owls" while the rest of the world isn't. Why can't they have "day"care for folks like us? I'm sure there's more than one doctor who would love to have strictly night hours.
But I know one problem is that we don't get enough physical activity so we're not tired. Bitch, bitch, bitch.
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Speaking of meds, I need to pick up a prescription.
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Late, but better late...
Have 5 days left of moclobemide. That will be the next med I pick up.
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Sort of. Due to my recent operation after a nasty injury and infection, I've been in a shitton of pain. And will the doctors help out? no will they fuck, too tight fisted with anything that could be used for fun, even if someone does have a three inch fucking hole in their leg and can barely walk far enough to get to the shitter. Not exactly something someone can fake, and besides, the community nurses have seen it and helped dress it themselves, so there are eyewitnesses.
So getting no additional help in that direction, causing me to run out of my chronic pain meds faster, which would leave me without for several days, which would be intolerable, both due to withdrawal and to the pain of both the injury that was operated on and the knee and (both of them) hip pain I already have.
So got 50x5mg methadone tablets, and an 8th of some fairly good H, which is both making sure I don't suffer any withdrawals, and working wonders to take the pain away. In fact, I feel pretty sleepy as a result of those, took 9 of the methadone pills soon as they arrived, and have smoked a few pipes of the gear. Going to force myself to stay awake until star trek and enterprise have been on the TV, and then, I'm going the fuck to sleep already :autism:
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Ran out of haloperidol last night, bought some more today.
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Need to pick up some new meds, too.
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I popped a moclobemide tablet out of its packet this morning and it fell into my meds drawer and disappeared. Emptied my meds drawer and still couldn't find it. Looked on the floor then but there's nowhere for it to hide there. It's just gone. I'll probably find it tonight.
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There's a black hole in your drawer. :M
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I popped a moclobemide tablet out of its packet this morning and it fell into my meds drawer and disappeared. Emptied my meds drawer and still couldn't find it. Looked on the floor then but there's nowhere for it to hide there. It's just gone. I'll probably find it tonight.
Did you pull out the drawer? :orly: Pills are jumpy little buggers, and if the drawer space is enclosed then it could be somewhere in the space around the drawer, or it maybe bounced and fell into the cabinet space under the drawer, or into another drawer underneath it. :dunno:
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I did end up finding it, Gary. :)
It was as you said, in the drawer underneath. My pj drawer. It was just there, sitting on top of a shirt. How that happened, I don't know!
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That's good. We usually freak out whenever a pill gets dropped because of the dog. It's never where we thought it fell. :GA:
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Oh yeah, you can never be sure what a dog will eat and what it won't.
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Had one recalled due to a carcinogen mistakenly contaminating certain brands.
I had to identify all my medications and fortunately, I had not ever had any of the bad drugs, according to my pharmacist who has records supposedly going back twenty years.
But, yeah, I took my meds.
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LOL Ren, I had something similar happen, not quite the same, but welcome and just at the right time, on friday.
I was completely unable to sleep, and as it happened I ended up looking for something, can't remember if it was my E-cig or a bottle of lime cordial, diluted to be ready to drink when I get thirsty in the night.
Went looking under the sofa with a compact little LED torch, tiny but bright as hell. What did I find? that I was sat on what I was looking for but that under there, just sitting there waiting, was a 'heminevrin' capsule (chlormethiazole), the stuff I use for seizure control and response, but also a potent sedative-hypnotic. Must have dropped it at some other time and not realized. Managed to fish it out, dust it off and pop that.
Was out like a light in no time.
As for today, taken some of them, thanks for reminding me about others.
But not the easiest or best fucking task getting them; because some empty-headed stuck-up cretinous twat of a receptionist at the clinic was being a real snooty little bitch. I needed to get the scripts sent to a pharmacy via the clinic faxing them. Which they did several times just the other week and more just very recently. This stupid little whore kept refusing because the scripts include CDs (controlled drugs, morphine, oxycodone, and had the GALL to tell me 'you had to get a cab last week because of this, you know we can't do that. You've been on these meds a long time and you know this...blah blah etc. etc.. Fucking presuming to tell me what I know, what I have heard, what I have said, and acting as if she knew better and was better than me.
No, I got a cab, because I had to use crutches and couldn't fucking walk, you stupid inbred fuckmuppet, and horseshit I 'know they can't do that', hell my old man told me that he himself had gone to pick up meds for me from the pharmacy they had faxed over!!
I remember getting it bloody done, the dumb motherfuckers, so don't presume to put words in my mouth. And christ, for a clinic to fax the scripts direct to a pharmacy, there is even LESS chance and room for any form of fraud than if some representative of mine were to be sent to the clinic to pick them up in person, which is what I ended up having to do, which means I now owe the money for a fucking cab, because of their shitspeak and dissembling.
The pharmacy could have sent someone of theirs to get them also, but whilst they were alright about things there, all the same the earliest would have been 5pm tonight. I cannot afford to wait that long until I'm able to take my meds, especially ones like painkillers and the seizure meds, or either clonidine or the med I take to relax the muscle spasm in the calf of my long-term bad leg because of the nerve damage they left behind after I had surgery on it.
Either of those last two could result, severe anxiety, shakyness, tachycardia aside, in a massive spike in blood pressure, as they suppress the release of noradrenaline, and could cause a really nasty rebound, and a potentially dangerous one at that.
But got everything now. Still fucking pissed with that little shit at the clinic.
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I took mine on time today.
:tard:
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Yes.
Although, I had a literal fly in the ointment earlier. So to speak. My morphine shot, I had to discard any thought of administering it that way. Had to use a needle-less rig, and stuff it up the..., after first picking a fly out of it. A small one, no great huge blowfly, but who knows where that has been and feeding on what, introducing it into my shot?
Nothing I wish to introduce into my body in a dose of morphine. Along with bits of fly leftovers possibly.
It was either very dead, or very, very fucked up, after landing in 5ml of saturated aqueous morphine sulfate.
One could say, that fly must have been buzzing :P
Immediately cleaned the entire vessel of preparation out thoroughly with isopropanol, sterilizing every surface. (it's not a disposable container, but a heavy stone mortar. Made of, I think, onyx. So not something that one just gets a bit mucky courtesy of a fly with a smack habit and a set of sticky....??fingers?? and throws out in the bin :tard:
Still...little bloody arthropod wedlock-born faecal coagulopathy made ambulant. Spoiling it. Little fucker is lucky to have gone to it's grave in a saturated morphine solution, because had I much tinier fingers, and a really, really tiny vice, I'd have done nasty things with tiny thumbscrews and a miniature brazen bull to the wee sod.
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I took mine. Need to pick up a prescription, though.
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You are still taking that noxious, antiquated dinosaur faecal matter excuse for a neuroleptic, ren? of them all, haldol is probably the worst for the body, not counting clozapine in refractory schizophrenics who are susceptible to it's specific although uncommon, ability to produce agranulocytosis.
Haloperidol is really unhealthy shit hun. It gets metabolized into something called HPP, which is uptaken into dopaminergic neurons in a part of the brain called the substantia nigra, located in the nigro-striatal tract, and then metabolized via MAO (can't remember which isoform) inside the cells to a charged quaternary derivative known as HPP+
With this permanent electric charge, the neurotoxin, and it is, a nasty one too, cannot leave the cell, as DAT (dopamine transporter) cannot spit it back out again. It is cytotoxic, destroying dopaminergic neurons here in the substantia nigra; this part of the brain, being highly specifically involved in motor control, damage to it causes parkinsonian toxicity. Chemically induced parkinson's disease. It isn't a short term effect, it's a long term, structural damage.
There was a related toxin, that is better known, MPTP, a methylated phenyltetrahydropyridine, that ended up being formed in a case where a guy and his missis were making a synthetic opiate related to pethidine, and to shortcut the synthesis they overheated it in a critical step, not realizing this horrible, awful MPTP was being formed. Basically tore his motor control circuitry to shreds and left him locked in, immobilized due to a massively severe chemically induced parkinson's disease. The meds stopped working, the DOPA/carbidopa type regimes, and he, and his other half, were SCREWED.
The haloperidol metabolite is not formed in as large a quantity from a given dose of haloperidol as that shit ended up going in to those poor bastards, and it is not AS toxic, as I understand it, as MPTP. But nevertheless, haloperidol is an old, and out of the good, the bad and the ugly of neuroleptics, it's not so much 'ugly' as it has all the attractive, pleasant features, and good nature, health-wise, as a sadomasochistic child rapist in a paediatric oncology ward.
And less of the sex appeal to add to haldol's already charismatic nature. Really, you could do better by finding another D2 antagonist, if you really do need a neuroleptic. None of 'em are NICE, but haloperidol has a very different, additional means of being fucking evil shit, long term. I am surprised it is even still prescribable, hell, I'm pretty well appalled that it ever entered, let alone passed stage III testing by big pharma. Stuff shouldn't be out there being put into people, it isn't fit for the purpose.
Really, it is the worst. Not fit for use in people. And certainly not in one I care about as much as I do you Ren.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPTP
THIS, is the stuff from the botched pethidine analog now so infamous for consigning somebody to a wasted, locked in, palsied shell of a human being, that the metabolite of haldol has for a neighbor and brother in dopaminergic neurotoxic evildoing.
And despite the MAO-dependent metabolism into the cytotoxin, it looks like moclobemide is the wrong MAOI to provide any protection. Moclobemide is a MAO-A inhibitor. Dopamine is primarily metabolized by MAO-B, and same goes for MPTP>MPPP+ transition in what is known as 'the case of the frozen addicts'.
I'll leave it to you if you want to read about it, I'll link to it in more detail, but it's horrific reading, and I don't want to shit you up. Only for you to know what haloperidol is producing when taken in people, and what it too, is like; in the hope you would seek to find an alternative med. Stuff is bad news over the long term.
https://scienceblogs.com/speakeasyscience/2010/06/26/the-frozen-addicts
I really don't recommend it as reading for just before bedtime either. *shudders*
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Thanks for reminding me to take my meds. I have to pick up a prescription as well. My cholesterol pill is getting low.
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I just took my morphine, a little oxycodone IR, cimetidine (stomach med, an anti-acid pill, that I had my doc switch me to, when I was originally taking ranitidine, a very close relative, and more or less the same for stomachs that hate their owners. But, in this case, I was taking advantage of some properties of cimetidine not shared by ranitidine, namely inhibition of certain liver enzymes that break down morphine, so I could use the side effect as a way of boosting duration of effect an probably peak plasma levels at the same time from any given dosage of the pain meds, and, for want of a better term to describe it, pretty much just squeeze it until it starts to squeal to wring every last drop of mileage out of every milligram with various tricks. That, being one of them. Another, working the same way, being to both eat a lot of canned grapefruit in it's own juices, and drink lots of grapefruit juice. Same CYP-P450 pathway isoenzyme inhibition caused by substances in the grapefruit and it's juice. Enough to be a quite well known prolific offender with certain meds, doctors often caution people on some types of medications not to consume grapefruit or it's juice with them, as the enzyme inhibitors prevent them being broken up and as a result, the levels of some meds can go too high.
In this case though, it is quite intentional, in fact I'm counting on it.
I do need to phone my docs surgery and get a fresh seizure rescue pack though.,
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^What happened there?
I still take haloperidol, 5mg at night. I've been on it for the last 5 and a half years. I have no parkinsonism but then I don't know how much the benztropine is hiding or even if it is.
When I first started lithium, I got the shakes pretty badly and dry mouth, wow, I couldn't even talk at times without getting a drink of water. I was in hospital when this happened, it was a tough time. I found out that some of the other patients felt sorry for me later, when I went to IDTU (Intensive Day Therapy Unit).
I took my meds late this morning but better late.
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I did. Still need to pick up a prescription.
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What happened where, Ren?
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What happened where, Ren?
That big space under your previous post. Looks like it wasn't finished. But I'm on my Kindle so the space may seem bigger than it would on my PC.
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Oh, nothing happened hun, just an accidental blank space.
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I had to force myself. This med thing is becoming a tedious chore
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It is a chore for me, too. But it helps keep me stable and out of hospital.
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Not all of them.
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tonight yeah. took mine last night.
yeah im back on meds now i guessssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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Just did. And I finally remembered to pick up a prescription, too, so I'm covered for a while longer.
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Just waiting for them atm, my old man has gone in a cab (I'm having to pay for it of course)
Damn..speak of the devil, he just got home right as I finished typing the words 'of course'.
Had to send him not go myself, not this time because of my leg, which has pretty much healed, a little scab, some pain on long walking, but far, far better. But because of the muscle relaxer, tizanidine, that I take for the nerve damage in my other leg, after surgery on it leaving nerve damage which makes the calf muscle permanently cramp, really, really badly, as the 'relax' countermanding signal it seems, is not sent as it ought to be.
Works like clonidine, blocking noradrenaline release, its both a powerful muscle relaxer and also, a hypotensive agent, dropping blood pressure quite profoundly. If I mis-estimate dosing intervals or single doses it can easily render my BP so low that if I stand, even slowly rising to compensate, the orthostatic hypotension is strong enough to hammer me to the ground, cutting my legs from under me, so I couldn't go myself.
Got two unexpected scripts though, one for cephalexin, an antibiotic of the cephalosporin type. Which despite being allergic to penicillins, I can take (they both have the beta-lactam ring in their structure but cephalosporins I'm alright with, penicillins could kill me), didn't ask for it, don't need it. But at least it's there now in case I ever have an infection again, so I can treat it without the hassle of making and going to a doc appt.
And a 12-count bottle of chlormethiazole, my antiseizure drug. I typically have to BEG for rescue packs, it's like pulling teeth, despite that, although I confess, this is so weird as for me not to comprehend how it could be possible, and others on a neuropharmacology forum, said 'impossible, unless you are some extremely rare mutant in terms of your GABAa receptors', and only believed it because I said this is personal experience, and I have refrained from taking it for as long as a week before without other GABAa agonists/positive allosteric modulators of any sort whatsoever (it lasts about 5-6 hours after a dose), I've not become physically dependent on chlormethiazole despite at least 192mg (odd number I know, but thats the dose, calculated as freebase, contained in a single capsule) three times daily, more sometimes if I have one of those days where breakthrough seizures just seem determined to happen.
But it just hasn't happened. And I don't think it will either, as long as I do stay at 3xdaily, not including rescue packs and the doses taken several times over 3x on single days when needed occasionally, or over a couple of days, and rarely, recreational doses of home-brew material, which only happen once in a great while so don't impact tolerance, it's like someone who might drink a glass of wine or a beer a day one time, getting really drunk, but not doing that again for many months on end, just with a different, and to me vastly superior drug to alcohol)
If it was going to, several years would be more than enough time to make it happen, given it's recommended for no more than two weeks in the BNF) I've been on it at LEAST three years, maybe four or five, I've not kept strict track of total time between first ever dose and the dose I took just this morning about 10 min ago)
Got the cephalexin, which I've no use for right now, but also, a bottle of chlormethiazole caps aside from the main lot I get weekly. Rescue pack without asking. If that gets on my repeats by their accident, good. So much the more convenient for me. Although it was for some reason put in a separate bottle, I saw '12 capsules' on the label and was about to ring the surgery to say 'what the fuck now?' but then found it was just in a second bottle, the other lot. Although the pharmacy had put it in a PLASTIC bottle. They put the main rx of it in a glass one, as it has to be, since the drug is volatile, the capsules contain the freebase, and it DISSOLVES plastic, and slowly volatilizes through the capsule walls, if not kept cool. It MUST be kept in glass, although a teflon container wouldn't be affected either, as I've used fluoroinert-capped glass bottles to store the freebase before after making it from vitamin B1, and the caps were not attacked.)
Taken my oxycodone as well, 60mg, IR, not yet my morphine because I'd need to walk to get to a water source to prepare the injection, and if I get up right now, I'd go right back down again. Waiting for my BP to return to, if not normal, then to sufficiently high to permit me to rise and stay on my feet. The oxy I've just taken in a larger dose than otherwise, to compensate for no morphine shot right now, one strong opioid is as good as another when it comes to preventing me going into withdrawal and stopping my poor, tortured knee and hip joints from bellowing their protestations at me.
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yup
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Yep, even the afternoon dose.
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Just railed 20mg oxycodone IR, going to rail another 20mg, 10 up each nostril.
Then go take a nap, hoping it'll mostly wear off and I start going into REM sleep rebound. Not withdrawal, but I LOVE it when it partially wears off, my pain meds, when I am already asleep, I begin going into this weird super-dream state, intense as hell and incredibly vivid.
For some reason, during this state, I often go to several of the same places, places I've been to before in dreams.
There's a spazz school, part of 'the hesley group' that I've never been to, but that's the same group that manages a cluster of speshul ed places for auties/aspies down south, I went to one of them. But I often find myself in one I know belongs to them, but that I've never seen IRL. It's weird.
Or some sort of hostel or something like a hotel but not a hotel. Very very odd, I've been to both many times when that happens. So when I go to sleep, I wait for my morphine to wear thin, but not put me in withdrawal, take a sleeping pill (well, time my dose of antiseizure medication, which also is, and indeed is mainly used AS one, indeed it isn't licensed for seizure treatment here at all, I get it off label from a doctor who is A-a bit of an old fart, like the drug itself, which is a dino-med I'm surprised, but glad, is still used at all, and B-he knows that I know a lot more about pharmacology than he does, told me as much, so if I've got something to say and have printed off research journal articles, it is for an actual reason, and he knows he'll get an explanation as to exactly what I've got in mind)
REM sleep rebound, here I come.
LOL I'm probably gonna end up dreaming of the postie bringing me a big jug of methylene chloride haha :autism:
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Took my side effect med.
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Had the weirdest fucking dream.....that was crazy weird.
A whole horde of demons, your typical 'I want to rip your face off and use it as toilet paper' demons, all fangs and eyes and bodyparts where bodyparts are not ever naturally intended to be.
Then this one demon, walking, for want of a better word, all in and among them, this demon, telling crude jokes which inevitably involved profanity of the worst kind, originally amusing the rest, but, even they got tired of this one demon.
So it goes looking to make friends, people friends. Thing was, it's digestive system was on the outside. So it kept running up to people, trying to give them a hug, only for bile and stomach acid and hell-spewings of whatever else nasty you find inside your average demonic entity, and as it does, the flesh melts comically off the bones of the poor buggers it kept trying to hug, one after another, with this one demon having a look on it's face that said 'awwWWWWWW!!!!', shrugging..well not quite shoulders. Shoulders have joints on them, not bile ducts and tentacles with teeth in their eyes, but things in the general area of just below and to either side of what might be called a neck, if you were C'thulhu after a really, really rotten hangover.
Then some bugger woke me up, my old man coming home with two friends of his, a bit annoying really.
It should have been a scene of absolute nightmarish horror, but this demon, it was so fucking funny. Getting really frustrated with itself because it's fellow flesh-ripping perdition-spawn all got fucked off with it's assclowning, then all the people it tries to befriend with a big, well-meant hug, ended up being covered in pus, bile and acid, left skinless, and falling to the floor screaming in a pile of person-goo with bones in it, steaming on the floor, then 'awWWWW not AGAIN...WHY!!! WHY ME!?!'
Really, really fucked up, but funny as shit.
I think I might just NEED medicating, with dreams like that. Heavily.
I think I'm going to have to self-medicate with some glassware and chemical shopping on ebay.
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Poor demon! Even it's "friendlier" nature is lethal. A really nice fable quality to that dream.
Had the weirdest fucking dream.....that was crazy weird.
A whole horde of demons, your typical 'I want to rip your face off and use it as toilet paper' demons, all fangs and eyes and bodyparts where bodyparts are not ever naturally intended to be.
Then this one demon, walking, for want of a better word, all in and among them, this demon, telling crude jokes which inevitably involved profanity of the worst kind, originally amusing the rest, but, even they got tired of this one demon.
So it goes looking to make friends, people friends. Thing was, it's digestive system was on the outside. So it kept running up to people, trying to give them a hug, only for bile and stomach acid and hell-spewings of whatever else nasty you find inside your average demonic entity, and as it does, the flesh melts comically off the bones of the poor buggers it kept trying to hug, one after another, with this one demon having a look on it's face that said 'awwWWWWWW!!!!', shrugging..well not quite shoulders. Shoulders have joints on them, not bile ducts and tentacles with teeth in their eyes, but things in the general area of just below and to either side of what might be called a neck, if you were C'thulhu after a really, really rotten hangover.
Then some bugger woke me up, my old man coming home with two friends of his, a bit annoying really.
It should have been a scene of absolute nightmarish horror, but this demon, it was so fucking funny. Getting really frustrated with itself because it's fellow flesh-ripping perdition-spawn all got fucked off with it's assclowning, then all the people it tries to befriend with a big, well-meant hug, ended up being covered in pus, bile and acid, left skinless, and falling to the floor screaming in a pile of person-goo with bones in it, steaming on the floor, then 'awWWWW not AGAIN...WHY!!! WHY ME!?!'
Really, really fucked up, but funny as shit.
I think I might just NEED medicating, with dreams like that. Heavily.
I think I'm going to have to self-medicate with some glassware and chemical shopping on ebay.
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Not yet as it's only 20 to 6 in the morning. For some reason I woke up at 4:30am.
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Antibiotics, then a shot of morphine, plus 90mg IR oxy.
Needed the pain meds, as I have a bad wound on my shoulder. Local infection, although I'm dealing with that, both systemic antibiotics, and on the wound itself, iodine. Now I've got a thumb and forefinger on the opposite side deep brown in colour, and a kinda spray-like pattern on the arm itself, from where I opened the tub, and some of the really small crystals inside flicked out when I took the lid off. Looks like I got hit by a shotgun shell, only full of little bits of iodine instead of lead slugs.
Got peppered with it, including a piece that landed right in the hole in my shoulder. It's shallowish, but a bit short of a 3/4 cm wide hole. Left it there though, it'll disperse throughout any infected tissue and help kill off anything nasty, while the oral antibiotics do their work.
Not exactly the most comfortable experience I've ever had. I have had worse, of course, but it isn't what I'd call 'enjoyable' :P
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:2thumbsup:
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yup.
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Buggering hell, I really can't sleep right now. I just don't feel at all tired or sleepy.
Just took two sleeping tablets, in the hope of getting some shut-eye; two 5mg nitrazepam tablets, quite a strong, long acting and very hypnotic type benzo, taste nice too, minty for some reason. Just took one to begin with about 15 minutes ago, and a second still dissolving in my mouth.
Going to smoke a cigar lying on the sofa, while I wait and see if they do the trick, if not, then two more. I'm prescribed enough that I'm told by my doc to take them every day, twice a day. Not a chance of that happening, since they can be horrendously physically addictive. And to some, psychologically habit forming. Everyone would be affected in the physical sense, I myself have no compulsive tendencies with them psychologically thankfully. I keep a damn close eye on how often I take any at all, and certainly not daily. Rather, I'll use higher doses, enough to actually put me to sleep, once or twice a week, three times maybe, and space them out, just more per dose.
If I really can't get any rest, I'll take a dose of chlormethiazole as well as the nitrazepam, together, although VERY carefully, as the chlormethiazole is notorious for knocking people off if mishandled; the two together, using a single capsule of chlormethiazole and a couple of nitrazepam tabs, that I KNOW will reliably and certainly put me out like a light, usually in 10 minutes or slightly more.
Just enough time to smoke a cigar, suck on a blackcurrant and liquorice, got quite a few bags full of those cheaply a while back, a favourite of mine. Hard blackcurrant candy outer shell, and in the center, a stick of hardish, toughly chewy liquorice extract running right down the middle. Delish.
While I curl up on the sofa, eyeshade down ready to pull over my eyes, whilst I wait for the meds to kick in enough so I know I'm about to be knocked out, and get in to a rather long treatise I printed off the net about inorganic sulfur and phosphorus chemistry. Got some interesting info from the real oldschool of inorganic chemistry, those who paved the way and had to do all the work themselves, inventing as many routes as possible. Looking into a synthesis based on phosphorus pentachloride, which I can make, from red phosphorus and chlorine gas, as a suspension of powdered red phosphorus in an inert chlorinated hydrocarbon solvent, along with distillation in a dry atmosphere, that if I can pull it off successfully, will provide a mixture of SOCl2 (thionyl chloride, a very valuable, versatile chlorinating reagent, and a real favourite of mine, as the byproducts are all gaseous, and their leaving the reaction and the HCl and sulfur dioxide fumes being driven off help drive the reaction equilibrium forwards, and the being gaseous, rather than as with phosphorus halides, leave no solid byproducts behind to have to clean up after me. Very fast to get to work too, SOCl2. Love it) and POCl3, phosphorus oxychloride, as a mixture that will need fractional distillation in a very dry atmosphere, as well as keeping the toxic fumes from both at bay, on a tight leash. POCl3 certainly has plenty uses too, as does the PCl5, and PCl3 they are talking of synthesis of in the paper I'm reading.
So if the pills knock me out soon, good, if they don't, then a dose of chlormethiazole along with them will certainly do the job. Probably before I can finish reading my paper and planning my synthesis experiments :D
Either way, lazing on the sofa with a good bedtime read, eyeshade mask and a cigar, then a blackcurrant and liquorice. Can of cold coke on the lounge table by my side for if I get thirsty at night. And another if I finish it. Diet coke, but better diet coke than no coke,
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I did. Had to go to the chemist to get 4 of my meds, including my asthma meds. So glad I get two puffers for the price of one. I think it's because my dosage is high. It's taken me almost a year to get used to it (Symbicort), to take it without gagging. A couple of times I almost threw up, which is not like me.
Also got my Depo Provera vial, ready for injection into my butt. :moon:
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Lestat,
I hope you got to sleep. also, I hope you finished your cigar before falling asleep.
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Ah!
I forgot...I came here to check whether or not I had remembered lol.
Taking now
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done. I was wondering why I was feeling weird, lol. I thought it was nerves because I have a musical presentation today .... :violin:
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Blood pressure med, check. Heartburn med. Check
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:2thumbsup:
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I think I did. I *hope* I did.
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So far, yes. My bedtime meds are yet to be taken.
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Not yet. In a minute or two
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Oops for me
The PR just got up (1:30 p.m.) so no also
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I did. Eventually.
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I did at a reasonable time, 9am.
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Yes! I did. I complained so much about side effects my doc is lowering my dose back to what it was, and I have an appointment in the near future to followup. I'm pleased about it. It was scaring me a bit.
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I did.
I think I need to add painkillers, though. My back is killing me.
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I need the omeprazole (heartburn medication) right about now. :sick:
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Not exactly and sortof.
I'm having, temporarily (end of today, tomorrow only) to substitute a benzo as my anticonvulsant, as I needed to use both said benzo and the last chlormethiazole I had, to knock myself senseless, or try to, at about 7am, when I was woken up by the last scraps of pain medication wearing off, and I had to improvize, having gotten a lay off a friend of mine.
So no morphine, oxy, chlormethiazole, but had bought 7 10-strips of 5mg methadone, extracted it and prepared it for IM use, Had 200mg today, feel alright, no WD, no physical pain from my joints, although my arse is a bit sore from sitting down on a crappy chair.
Methadone is long acting, very long, and after that nasty 7am wakeup, I managed to KO myself by using an agent which dropped my blood pressure massively, and use the hypotension to render myself unconscious within a few minutes, after the 20mg nitrazepam and a dose of chlormethiazole failed to permit sleep. That kept me down and out until 10am, at which point, I had to wait maybe 10-15 minutes until postie arrived with the overnighted care package (yes, I'll have to pay him, but he doesn't overcharge, and it is a private rx, not sure he makes much off the 'done, he just prefers H, so if I buy his methadone, he can use the money to buy H, whilst I like methadone more than I do H, works out for both of us. But he did do me a lay, I.e on credit, no extra charge for it, just wanted to make sure I'd not suffer until 8-9am monday morning. A friend first, source of various things psychoactive second)
So it's been a bit different than usual, thanks to my miscalculating how many capsules of pain meds I had left, fucking up bigtime, and having to rely on the methadone. But I feel fine, I think I'll take a small top-up dose, just so I'm 'perky and raring to go' rather than 'fine', I've enough, it only has to last me the rest of today and tomorrow. Which it will, its enough to keep me nice and comfy for that time.
And as a bonus, methadone has properties most painkillers of the opioid type do not, which make it specifically suited for neuropathic pain, which most opioids don't do shit for, not well at all. So the nerve damage in my leg isn't giving me grief either.
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This thread reminded me earlier to take the atomoxetime, and now it's reminding me
to take my multivitamin and my L-Lysine. It's a very good thread, so helpful. :tard:
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This thread reminded me earlier to take the atomoxetime, and now it's reminding me
to take my multivitamin and my L-Lysine. It's a very good thread, so helpful. :tard:
'Tis indeed. I come here to remember things too :apondering:
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Another 50mg methadone. Half a nitrazepam tablet (5mg tabs, so 2.5mg, give or take as the break isn't perfect, score line or no score line)
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It's weird - on my packet of lithium it says "Tablets should be swallowed whole and not chewed. Do not break the tablets."
But all the tablets have a score line down the middle. When popping them out of their foil, it's really easy to break them, though I haven't done it for a long time now. I try to pop them out on one end.
When I went to the doctor yesterday, we talked about my weight problem. No matter what I eat or don't, I can't seem to lose weight. My blood pressure was 110/70 - pretty good for someone who's fat and on stimulants, I said. The doc said I could try metformin but I'd need a blood test first to see if I needed it. So I'm having that tomorrow. We'll see.
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You ain't fat yeh silly muffin. Curvaceous, is what I'd say your build is. In a nice way. A very nice way indeed :)
I'm not a 'chubby chaser', in the slightest. I can't help but find you very fanciable indeed however. Not that you'd be interested in me of course, but doesn't mean I can help but think you look gorgeous.
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Thanks Lestat. *warm fuzzies*
I am clinically overweight though. In the last four years after I stopped Seroquel, however, my weight has barely fluctuated. So I'm not gaining or losing. I have a whole pile of clothes that I'd like to wear but I'm too big for. I'd like to lose at least ten kilos.
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*purrs at the Renster having teh warm fuzzlies*
I'm the opposite, build wise, if anything too much of a lanky cunt. Whats there, is all meat, bone and connective cables. Not much on me you could keep a fire going with or make a candle out of.
9 stone 9, to 9/10 and it doesn't really change, hasn't for ages. I eat what I like and get away with it.
But even if medically there are a few pounds you want rid of, I can't see any 'too plump', all I can see is some cute curves, hell I'd have 'em curved round me any day. You are snugglesome, my dear Ren :)
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I just took the atomoxetine, with food. Previously I took the omeprazole. :tard:
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Yes, cimetidine, oxy, morphine, chlormethiazole, antibiotic, haven't swapped to a new plaster covering the wound left by the relatively mild infection in my shoulder, or changed the...well, put in a new, iodine crystal. Will do that later. Had been, still am taking oral cephalexin, but it's improved remarkably quick, after just a few days of sticking a small (couple of mm) crystal of solid elemental I2 in the wound and shoving it down in there. The antibiotic was one thing, but slow as fuck. The bacteria really, really, don't seem to much like having to suck on a chunk of iodine.
Kind of the difference, between getting rid of someone you don't like by poisoning them slowly with lead, or mercury salts, vs nailing them to a tree, dousing them in petrol and burning them alive. Nasty, brutal and short, but undoubtedly efficient. In the case of the infectious bacteria, that is what they are getting, Poisoned, then nailed to a tree, doused in gas, lit up like a christmas tree and left to roast like an arab on a bonfire :D
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Yup. :)
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:2thumbsup:
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Still need to take the supplements! I should do that now. :apondering:
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Yep! Yesterday I couldn't take lithium in the morning because I had a blood test for its level. I had to make note of what time I took it the night before and tell the phlebotomist just before I had blood taken.
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I have taken the atomoxetine. Still haven't taken the supplements. I will. :2thumbsup:
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I took mine nice and early.
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I forgot my afternoon dex which I shouldn't have done because I was out driving. I knew it and so took extra care. I've been in two car crashes and both of them were my fault. This was before I had the diagnosis of ADHD. "Driving without due care and attention" were the charges. I got fined but those would off the record by now. I don't even think I got demerit points.
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The important ones, plus some methadone, courtesy of a friend of mine/contact for this, that and 'tother. Because I've not been able to lie down without one hip, the other hip, or both of them screaming at me.
And my plantar fasciitis (probable dx, certainly makes sense) has been flaring up something rotten. Lying on the sofa with my feet up, or on my side, hurts like a bugger.
Ren, shit, you've been in a recent car crash too?
That reminds me, I ought to finish up on some amphetamine myself. Not sure if I'll decide to go for chiral resolution yet (the process in question produces racemic amphetamine, but enantiopure tartaric acid can be used to selectively crystallize the product, forming salts with the corresponding same isomer of the product)
Been giving the nitroalkene a good thorough clean. Started out as yellow fluffy powder and clumps, opaque and 20 'C below the melting point. Now lovely bright cadmium-yellow-with a touch of lemon peel coloured clear needle-like crystals. Currently under inert atmosphere in a sealed flask, until I've the time to attend them.
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Lestat, no, not recent. They happened in 2000 and 2003. No one was hurt in either one but my car was pretty badly damaged in the second one and I didn't get it back for a long time while it was being fixed. I had comprehensive car insurance then and didn't have to pay any excess which was good.
I've been on stimulants since 2004 and have not even been close to having a car crash since then.
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Thank fucking hell for that hun.
And glad you are on the tweak then!
I find I've got a lot in common with ADD, no 'H', and I find amphetamine works well for the executive business, attention span, focus, at low doses, never really been hugely into it as a recreational too. It can be, but takes a fair bit to work that way for me, and when I have any around, I have lots, you know my interests Ren, and how they might assist in such a thing ;) so obviously, it makes sense there are never tiny amounts around.
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Forgot to take my side effect med. I may need an alarm... I did take it just now, but its way late. Should've taken it in the morning.
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Just have night meds to go in about half an hour.
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Check.
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The holidaze are definitely putting me in a daze. I forgot side effect med this AM. It's because my routine is altered to accomodate guests in the house.... *grumbles*
But I'm not terribly annoyed because my 3 yr old nephew is here ^_^. I just have to find a way to remember the meds....
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Sort of. There were some I left out due to their sedating character, I was expecting a telephone appointment with my doctor, at 12 (morning, obviously, not midnight, so I skipped morning seizure meds and another couple of meds that could knock me out. Turns out that I JUST talked to her, nearly 5pm! not been able to find the oxycodone part of my pain meds since xmas morning, when we had to clear a load of stuff out of the way, I've been going insane trying to find them, searching everywhere, and I MEAN...EVERYWHERE. Even in the bins, hell, even in the hazardous materials fridge, EVERYFUCKINGWHERE, coat pockets, coat linings, the works, no luck. Almost had no luck when I did get through, she wasn't going to do it at first, although relented enough to give me the 3 days coverage, possibly felt it'd be a shitty thing to do to someone on xmas, I know I'd find it a bit of a cuntish thing to do. Just as well, since I gave a mate of mine a text , to see if they could arrange anything, and I've not heard back from him. So chances are, he'd not have been able to get anything arranged for saturday since I'd have heard from him by now otherwise.
I'll have JUST enough meds to essentially, hibernate through the weekend, thanks to being given a few days worth, reluctantly, by the doc. Enough to make sure I don't end up with any horrid withdrawal effects, and make it so I can space the doses out much further than otherwise, by using sleeping pills for the next two days.
Did have (rough calculation as it involves a half-used shot made from filtered XR morphine capsule microspheres, that amounted to 110-120mg to begin with, not all comes out if that has to be done, so more water was added and they were left to extract into it all day. Then another 120mg morphine sulfate added, and the extraction water from the previous lot used this morning used for preparing the one I just had, now I know that I'm not going to have to use that bit of leftovers to allow getting through today/night and the 120 added tomorrow and then just be fucking miserable end of sat+sunday+sunday night.)
FINALLY took antiseizure meds, since now I don't need to wait for the doctor on the phone.
I'll still get some more insurance if my guy does ring me mind you, since I'll be shaving things mighty damn fine.
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yes indeed.
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Nope. Better take them now. Thanks for reminding me.
Edit: taken.
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Got to pick up a refill in about half an hour.
Still have't found those missing pain meds, even chucked the contents of the outside trash can on a tent groundsheet to no avail. That's been a mighty damn close 24 hours, relying on taking a moderate dose of oxy yesterday morning, enough to allow a sleeping pill to knock me out as long as possible, then taking small incremental doses to just about remain within tolerable limits, along with another sleeping pill plus a glass of rum my old man decided to offer me from the bottle that formed part of his xmas gift, which got me a few hours of decent napping at least.
And a bit of improvized pharmacological tinkering, in order to cause my blood pressure to bottom out enough to knock me out, plus a case of beer to deal with the rebound from the adrenolytic medications used, which can be unpleasant at least, and I've managed to cut what would have been 24 hours of misery down to a bit of overheating (dealt with easily enough), and spending the day in essentially a shallow hibernation state, for a half hour or so.
Nothing a few more beers won't see off by way of discomfort, or if needs must, a short-duration induced coma by way of short-acting noradrenergic release inhibitors, I can time that effect down to a couple of hours if needs be. But might just take a couple of them by mouth, for the muscle relaxer effect. Just feeling tense and overloaded, but nothing I can't handle, just means I'll be glad for the first dose of my antiseizure med of the day more than usual, as it's got a tranquilizer punch that'd fell a horse to it too.
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And does really heavy, stimmy-suited music blasted out as loud as possible count as medication?
Right now, I think it very well might.
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Just got my meds a few minutes ago.
Had 40mg oxycodone IR up the nose (for rapidity of action, as the tanks were running SO dry that they barely even were running on fumes, and I was beginning to feel rather uncomfortable and overloaded)
And 2x192mg chlormethiazole capsules, of the meds I've picked up, those two are the ones that have kicked in, especially the chlormethiazole, the antiseizure-med I take (off label, it isn't licensed for seizures here, but its just one of those things, of all GABAergic depressants, it's one I find shockingly little prone to tolerance and dependence, even after using it for 4 years or much three times daily, no physical dependence, that, and the dual facts that it works both very, very effectively, and also that after first swallowing a capsule, it is FAST in onset of effect, as fast as one would feel a shot of neat spirit alcohol it takes effect, moments after the capsules themselves actually burst open once swallowed, a matter of minutes is all it takes to bring me out of a full blown seizure, if my old man can realize whats gone on and pop two caps in my mouth, I'll be back to normal in minutes at most) So licensed or not, its just a med that particularly agrees with me.
Time for my first morphine shot of the day too now methinks, plus one of my stomach meds.
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Yes, yes I did, and I'm feeling much better for it too.
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Got to pick up a refill in about half an hour.
Still have't found those missing pain meds, even chucked the contents of the outside trash can on a tent groundsheet to no avail. That's been a mighty damn close 24 hours, relying on taking a moderate dose of oxy yesterday morning, enough to allow a sleeping pill to knock me out as long as possible, then taking small incremental doses to just about remain within tolerable limits, along with another sleeping pill plus a glass of rum my old man decided to offer me from the bottle that formed part of his xmas gift, which got me a few hours of decent napping at least.
And a bit of improvized pharmacological tinkering, in order to cause my blood pressure to bottom out enough to knock me out, plus a case of beer to deal with the rebound from the adrenolytic medications used, which can be unpleasant at least, and I've managed to cut what would have been 24 hours of misery down to a bit of overheating (dealt with easily enough), and spending the day in essentially a shallow hibernation state, for a half hour or so.
Nothing a few more beers won't see off by way of discomfort, or if needs must, a short-duration induced coma by way of short-acting noradrenergic release inhibitors, I can time that effect down to a couple of hours if needs be. But might just take a couple of them by mouth, for the muscle relaxer effect. Just feeling tense and overloaded, but nothing I can't handle, just means I'll be glad for the first dose of my antiseizure med of the day more than usual, as it's got a tranquilizer punch that'd fell a horse to it too.
I have the rare talent of sitting on my bed filling our prescription containers for the week. After I lift the tool box back onto the chest of drawers I usually find ONE PILL on the bed. The PR and I have some teeny, tiny pills that are almost identical. Process:
Open both containers to see that the proper number of pills are in each compartment. Sometimes there is an additional pill in one compartment. Find out which pill is duplicated. Take it out. Still look for the missing pill. Nope, all are accounted for. So, search through the pill bottles to see who the pill belongs to. Wheeeeee, that's settled. Close and lock tool box. Find one bottle out the box. Re-open box, lock and put away. Realize that a take as needed OTC was not taken out. Say "screw it."
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I just keep my meds in a paper bag (well sometimes plastic, the important thing is it's a bag, you put things in it and it sits there. If it does that, fine :tard:) as I receive them from the pharmacy.
With the one exception of if i am picking up a chlormethiazole seizure rescue pack, and for some reason rather than put all the chlormethiazole capsules into one bottle, they put the rescue pack quantity into a separate one, and use a plastic bottle. Those MUST be taken out, and quickly, because the capsules, unlike the syrup version, use the freebase form of the drug, rather than the edisylate [ethanedisulfonic acid salt, AFAIK one has to get a bit specialist like that because chlormethiazole doesn't like to form solid, stable, well characterized and uniform salts. It's quite a bugger to salt it actually, if I make it myself using vitamin B1 as precursor [hehe, one man's OTC trash is another man's autie chemhacker precursor goldmine of treasure] I just don't bother, it IS a pain, so I simply form the freebase, extract into chloroform or dichloromethane, preferably dichlor, and vacuum-distill the base]. And it's a somewhat volatile liquid, and also, has the nasty habit of melting many types of plastic, indeed it's specifically specified as a drug one that pharmacies have to dispense in glass bottles. I left two capsules out on a computer keyboard once, and within hours, they had welded themselves to the keyboard and burnt a pair of capsule-shaped holes into the plastic. I had to use a razorblade or scalpel blade, forget which now, to surgically carve them out, shaving minutely thin layers off the thick walls of the capsules to avoid A-losing the contents and having to make some in replacement, using up precious thionyl chloride to do it [the waste, the pyrimidine fragment that is cleaved off as a byproduct during the initial step, bisulfite cleavage of thiamine/vitamin B1 also, must be dealt with very carefully and the intermediate alcohol from the cleavage purified with great care, as the pyrimidine portion is a deadly poison, known as 'toxopyrimidine', acting by throwning a metabolic spanner in the works of anything using vitamin B6 [pyridoxal] as a cofactor, processes which include biosynthesis of the vital primary inhibitory neurotransmitter, GABA, the same one that benzos, barbiturates and chlormethiazole, valerian root, among many others, potentiate the activity of at GABAa receptors, without it, one would die and die horribly and die screaming and begging to die faster], so it acts as a powerful convulsant poison and panicogen/terror-inducing agent. a truly hideous way to be poisoned, if one ever were to suffer such a fate. One of the nastiest ways to go possible for a human body. The sort of thing which could flay a man's soul alive, whilst his body convulses until he breaks his own back and suffocates, screaming and frothing blood at the mouth, every muscle in their body going into spasm, and the exact opposite of an anti-anxiety/anti-panic attack drug. Like a fatal degree of untreated benzo withdrawal magnified a billion-fold, until one finally dies in the most abysmal way possible, slowly and nastily. needless to say, the intermediate methylthiazole-2-ethanol must be cleaned with the utmost care, and the waste treated as if it were radioactive slop from ground zero after a nuclear strike. Actually, I'd sooner deal with the latter. But pure, it must certainly be, and without the least shadow of a hint of doubt before the second and final reaction, where it is chlorinated using thionyl chloride]
But if those capsules had spilled, I'd not only have lost the doses and had to make more, and use an expensive reagent which is devilishly hard and doubly devilishly dangerous to make, but difficult as hell to buy as well, given it can also be used in a modified Despretz or Meyer-Clarke synthesis of mustard gas [the sulfur mustard type, military codename 'HD' or 'pyro' for the distilled, purified blister agent] among other things, like nerve agents, but had it gotten into my keyboard it'd have ruined it.
So those get transferred into a glass bottle that the drug came in from an old script straight away.
I can ID most of my meds on sight, and if there's any doubt and the markings on the pill have worn off too, then by taste and sometimes smell. There are two that look similar, but the imprints are different, and I can tell them apart by that and the slightly larger size of the sleeping pill vs the muscle relaxant, as well as the sleeping pill tasting mint-like and sweet if a flake is chipped off and nibbled, whilst the myorelaxant tastes bitter and not minty.
I don't really need to sort through anything though otherwise, I can just identify them on sight, or by taste, smell or whatever else I need to, if I need to.
Only thing I'd not be able to tell apart would be a pre-prepared shot ready to be loaded into a syringe, if it were morphine alone, or morphine with oxycodone added. But it isn't a difference of consequence.
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Wondering if I should take afternoon meds as I feel like having a nap.
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Managed to get finasteride prescribed on the NHS a few weeks ago, which is apparently an uncommon occurrence. I'm considering getting a pill splitter to make the 5mg per 2 day dose into a 2.5mg per day dose.
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Actually googled it just now and it looks like there's no point lol
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You are having problems with hair loss? there might be less risk of side effects with minoxidil (which is available over the counter), since it's available over the counter in shampoo form, for topical application, rather than being absorbed systemically.
As for me, yes, took mine, or most of them at least; haven't needed to take either clonidine or tizanidine today as of so far. still need to take another dose of cimetidine (GI med for lowering stomach acidity and helping lessen reflux) after I've eaten the cheeseburger my old man brought back for me, got us both burgers and chips on his way back from his fishing trip.
Might need a new shot of morphine later, but feel fine so far.
And trying out something a little different. Something arrived for me earlier, 100g of chloral hydrate, an old fashioned sedative-hypnotic. Not actually the reason I got it for though; bought it for making up a preparation called Melzer's reagent, used for identification testing of fungi, and critical for successful identification of certain species. But I figured I'll at least explore it a bit in it's capacity as a sedative-hypnotic and sleep aid, and for nights where nothing will get me to sleep no matter how hard I try, since I've 100g of the stuff, of analytical reagent grade, at least the option is there if ever it's really needed.
Tried 1g at first, packed into a gelatine capsule, washed down with a few gulps of 'frijj' thick cookie dough milkshake, acted fairly quickly, made me feel nicely relaxed, ever so slight dissociation, followed by a further 1g a half to 3/4 hour later, and feeling nice and mellowed out.
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I've been taking it nearly a month and I haven't experienced any side effects so far other than that I now feel tired at night instead of having a chaotic sleep cycle.
The thing that put me off minoxidil is that it causes oiliness. That's probably fine with short hair, but mine is way past shoulder length and I have no intention of cutting it. Also there's no point in paying for over the counter treatment when I'm getting a more convenient treatment for free, and none of the most commonly reported side effects of finasteride are things I care about anyway.
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I did, yes. Still OK.
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Good to see you, Grey Area. :)
I took my morning meds. I'm seeing my doctor today and I might be prescribed metformin.
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I've been taking it nearly a month and I haven't experienced any side effects so far other than that I now feel tired at night instead of having a chaotic sleep cycle.
The thing that put me off minoxidil is that it causes oiliness. That's probably fine with short hair, but mine is way past shoulder length and I have no intention of cutting it. Also there's no point in paying for over the counter treatment when I'm getting a more convenient treatment for free, and none of the most commonly reported side effects of finasteride are things I care about anyway.
Ah, finasteride is more commonly known as Propecia. I've heard of Propecia.
I'm gonna live with my thinning hair. I'd probably just get a buzzcut already and embrace the look, but my 10-year-old daughter is strongly opposed to that. She got a taste of what I'd look like bald when my wife gave me a very bad haircut one day, and she didn't like it one bit.
I understand that thinning hair isn't an option for everyone. I hope it works good for you.
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My mum "fell on an uneven pavement" and had stitches. Several hours later, the stitches came out and she's missing a part of her mouth.
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My mum "fell on an uneven pavement" and had stitches. Several hours later, the stitches came out and she's missing a part of her mouth.
Yikes. Hope she gets better soon.
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My mum "fell on an uneven pavement" and had stitches. Several hours later, the stitches came out and she's missing a part of her mouth.
Yikes. Hope she gets better soon.
Seconded.
Had my meds this morning.
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My mum "fell on an uneven pavement" and had stitches. Several hours later, the stitches came out and she's missing a part of her mouth.
Did they stitch her again?
My mum did that two years ago. SIL sent me an impressive picture of her face. Weekend of course, so not GP but weekend location. They did not have the extra fine stichthread there. But, her mouth and cheek have healed nicely, even with the courser and stronger thread.
Hope your mum will heal nicely too.
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Took mine, late.
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She's fine. Hurts though.
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I was prescribed metformin by my doctor. But I keep forgetting that I should take it when I have my dinner. So I have been eating an oat bar before bed and I take it then. But I shouldn't really be doing that.
I have run out of my own supply of dexamphetamine. I'm taking the rest of Kayleigh's because she is back on Vyvanse. I need to come up with $220 to see my psychiatrist and get a new prescription. They will most likely ask me why I didn't have an appointment two months ago. I'll say, "Money." Because that's the truth and they should know that they charge a fortune.
My car comes first because the brakes need replacing and it needs a service. I'm using my birthday money for that. I will feel better once it's done.
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Tried the sleeping pills. They didn't help me sleep but they did make me drowsy the day after.
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Tried the sleeping pills. They didn't help me sleep but they did make me drowsy the day after.
And that's not what you want.
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Tried the sleeping pills. They didn't help me sleep but they did make me drowsy the day after.
And that's not what you want.
No, not really. Oh well.
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Some days I'm not taking dexamphetamine. But I'm taking all my other meds as I should.
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So far so good for me. Took my AM med.
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Finally booked an appointment to see my psychiatrist this Friday. I'll be able to have clarity when taking my meds again. It sucks being in a brain fog.
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Finally booked an appointment to see my psychiatrist this Friday. I'll be able to have clarity when taking my meds again. It sucks being in a brain fog.
Mmm, I've been wondering what brain fog is, because I suspect I experience it from time to time, but I can't be sure.
Hope its a good appointment! Hang in there :]
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I did. I am functional again.
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Finally booked an appointment to see my psychiatrist this Friday. I'll be able to have clarity when taking my meds again. It sucks being in a brain fog.
Mmm, I've been wondering what brain fog is, because I suspect I experience it from time to time, but I can't be sure.
Hope its a good appointment! Hang in there :]
It's common to inattentive ADHD. Sort of like a daydream state. I forget things that I should remember, leave jobs around the house half done, feel tired all the time.
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Finally booked an appointment to see my psychiatrist this Friday. I'll be able to have clarity when taking my meds again. It sucks being in a brain fog.
Mmm, I've been wondering what brain fog is, because I suspect I experience it from time to time, but I can't be sure.
Hope its a good appointment! Hang in there :]
It's common to inattentive ADHD. Sort of like a daydream state. I forget things that I should remember, leave jobs around the house half done, feel tired all the time.
Interesting. I've been in some kind of state lately, of apathy and disconnectedness, and was wondering if it was like brain fog, but it sounds different. I do feel tired and slow a lot, which is a sucky place to be. Glad you have a doc, meds can make all the difference for these things :]
I see my own doc next week, and will likely adjust meds....
Speaking of meds, I have taken my AM med.
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The meds make a lot of difference but I'd like my psychiatrist to prescribe a higher dosage. Three, three times a day would be ideal. So far it's been three twice a day. That leaves me short if it's a long day, such as going out to dinner or driving at night. The afternoon dose wears off at about 4pm. I'd prefer it to last until 8pm.
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yes, AM meds.
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I went to the psychiatrist and now I'm on 3, 2 and 2. An increase of one pill in the morning. Wow. Guess I'll just have to deal with it.
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Ren- hows the new med regimen working out?
I took my med this morning.
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It's going to be a very long day today, so I'll be taking my last dose of two at about 6:30pm.
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Woke up too late to take my meds this morning. Good thing is it doesn't happen very often.
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Took my AM meds. :]
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Just took afternoon dose of dex.
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Just took my AM meds about 20 minutes ago. A bit late, but I slept in.
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Just took my AM meds about 20 minutes ago. A bit late, but I slept in.
Often I used to wake up too late to take my meds. But I always got up early to feed the cats and then go back to bed. So I started taking my morning meds (with the exception of dexamphetamine) after I fed the cats, usually at 7:30 - 8am. And then go back to bed and have some more sleep if I could. Mondays and Fridays I have to get up at 8am anyway.
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The PR and I have gotten into the bad habit of sleeping in. She wakes naturally about 1 p.m. This of course plays havoc with medications. She'll take them sometime within an hour or so of waking up and expect to take the evening meds around 9 p.m. Recently she's been having some schizophrenia symptoms again, but I'm not sure if it's medication related or just social situations.
I wake up between 9 and 10 a.m. Usually forgot to take my meds until much later in the day. So I just take them about 6 to 7 p.m. Works better for the sleeping pills since they take about 4 hours to kick in.
Ah the joys of retirement and unemployment (definitely NOT on the horizon for the PR).
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When I get up to pee, sometimes I'll take my meds then, depending on what time it is. But it so happens that the cats are as good as an alarm clock so I can depend on them. This morning Kira and Liam were play fighting on my bed, all over my legs. Couldn't stay asleep with that going on.
Today I've had a few Quick-Eze, really bad reflux. I'm going for the Nexium at the chemist tomorrow, can't handle this.
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Took mine.
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When I get up to pee, sometimes I'll take my meds then, depending on what time it is. But it so happens that the cats are as good as an alarm clock so I can depend on them. This morning Kira and Liam were play fighting on my bed, all over my legs. Couldn't stay asleep with that going on.
Today I've had a few Quick-Eze, really bad reflux. I'm going for the Nexium at the chemist tomorrow, can't handle this.
Sorry to hear that about reflux ren.
The cats sound really cute though. ^_^
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Just took evening meds.
Recently we changed my dosages around and swapped out a new drug, and I've been having a hellish few days. Just terrible, and today I left work early. Had a night mare of incredibly realistic proportions this afternoon. Well, we swapped my side effect meds back and are going to see if this works. So far I feel mildly better. Not sure if its a placebo effect at this point, but anything is better than what I was feeling before.
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It can take a while to get medication types and dosages just right for you. Here's hoping that it's very soon for you. Having that can set you right for years.
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Here's hoping that it's very soon for you. Having that can set you right for years.
I am hopeful! :] I had not thought about it like that.
So far today has been much better (albeit some residual nausea). In another week the levels should be up in my blood with the new dose and I will know if its good.
Took my PM meds.
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It can take a while to get medication types and dosages just right for you. Here's hoping that it's very soon for you. Having that can set you right for years.
When I'm out, I won't need meds.
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I haven't taken meds for my tummy troubles for months now.
I either need to be **VERY** strict about what I eat, or take Colofac to calm things down.
And lately I haven't been all that strict about what I eat.
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Took my PM meds.
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Yup McYupperson's.
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I almost forgot to take mine.
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Took AM meds.
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I almost forgot to take mine.
So did I. I realised it after I brushed my teeth. Normally I take my meds beforehand.
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AM meds got took.
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Took PM meds and just realised I forgot my AM meds (because they are still sitting in their tiny little med cubby). ooooppsss
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Completely forgot about my lunchtime meds. No wonder I was daydreaming all afternoon!
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I have gotten into the habit of taking my meds (except dex) in the early morning when the cats want to be fed. This includes my asthma puffer. I then go back to bed for a while.
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I haven't taken meds for my tummy troubles for months now.
I either need to be **VERY** strict about what I eat, or take Colofac to calm things down.
And lately I haven't been all that strict about what I eat.
So are you naturally getting more tolerant of food? :orly:
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Instead of taking Nexium (for reflux) every night, my doctor recommended that I take it every second night if I can last that long without symptoms bothering me. And I can. I didn't take it last night and I'm fine tonight, even after dinner. I will take a dose in a little while.
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Not yet.
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Yes! Having a new, increased sharp pain in the left side of my mid-spine, like a knife diging in. Struggling to find anything to help. Made an appointment with pain management tomorrow.
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I did.
BUT!!!
I have about a year supply of one, almost as much of another and months of one other, but ONE of them I am almost out of and yet no further notices from the pharmacy to pick up a new prescription and no further prescriptions available.
Fuck it! it is only my thyroid medication, after all.
For some reason they have massively fucked up three of them in quantity and forgot to keep the other one going.
Last time I called the doctor's office and spoke with his "assistant" I was told that there was no problem with my prescriptions.
I asked if I brought all my pills over maybe they would take a look and help. Nope. I was given the number of a state sponsored disposal facility, if I have left over pills.
Stupid fucking people. I know that doctors AND most especially bastard pharmacists are only out to maximize my insurance claims so that they get rich more quickly.
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Yup. I took mine.
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Just about to take night meds. It's the last of the haloperidol so I'd better make a trip to the chemist tomorrow.
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What happens if you don't? And how fast does it happen?
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I've come off haloperidol once before and it was unpleasant. Felt like I was going to be sick all the time. That effect lasted for a week.
I have my scripts in my bag now so I won't forget.
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I didn't forget, took new haloperidol last night along with the other meds. No trouble at all. Nexium is the next one to run out, will get that on Sunday.
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I took mine. A bit late, but all good, now.
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Yes, I took mine.
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Nearly forgot my lunchtime meds. I was at the Salvos so I wasn't thinking about medication!
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I almost forgot mine, too.
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A little late in the day, but yep, I took mine.
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This was yesterday, but I completely forgot my morning meds. Also forgot about packing my lunchtime meds. It was a very ADHD day.
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Yup.
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NO, but thanks for reminding me.
I have not yet gotten to the point where my tachycardia reminds me on its own yet, so again, thanks.
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Yup, I have.
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I did, a bit late, but done.
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I've run out of Caltrate. Knew I forgot something while I was at the chemist today.
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Yes, I remembered. I've been forgetful lately, though.
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I didn't forget but that didn't stop me from having a nap when I got home today.
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Almost forgot but still took them. Hours late.
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I think so. Forgot them yesterday but...
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Completely forgot my morning meds. I realised it only when I was already on the train. I had some dex in my bag though, so I took those.
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The PR (Princess Royal) has added two new medications - Depakote and Risperidol. Her medications are paid for through Medicare and Medicaid and were $43,345 for 2019. Thank you everyone for paying the taxes that make this possible for her and so many others across the world.
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Is she ok on the risperidone? I found it made me feel awful - weak and shaky. I had to come off it and go back to haloperidol.
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Glad I saw this thread, I need to take my L-Lysine and my multivitamin. :thumbup:
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Agreed. Who ever thought to start this thread was brilliant at that moment.
Bumping it serves the greater good as well. Thanks.
Remembered mine just now.
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Agreed. Who ever thought to start this thread was brilliant at that moment.
Bumping it serves the greater good as well. Thanks.
Remembered mine just now.
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'Twas Hyke. She's very thoughtful. :hyke:
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I got up at 7am to take mine. Then I went back to bed.
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Not yet, but yeah, this is a good reminder.
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I did. And this is actually a useful thread. :indeed:
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All in. Now, back to it.
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I did. Need to take painkillers for the &%"% foot.
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I did. Need to take painkillers for the &%"% foot.
How is your foot now?
I took a late dose of dex. But I'm not worried, it will be out of my system by bedtime.
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I did. Need to take painkillers for the &%"% foot.
How is your foot now?
It's a bit better but walking more than short distances still hurts.
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Taken all that I should. Even remembered the metformin, that's the morning one I usually forget.
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Not yet. I will.
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Same. Yesterday I had to feel a reminder from inside to remember my meds. Scary.
Goes to show I should come here and post every day.
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Took mine late but at least I took them.
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I did.
Reminds me that I'll have to pick up a prescription. This really is a useful thread.
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I picked up enough prescriptions so I don't have to go to the chemist for a month.
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We are such spazzes. :lol1:
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Got some really good news from someone I know on Facebook who's an ADHD coach. Vyvanse (long-acting dexamphetamine) has finally been approved to go on the PBS (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) for adults with ADHD. This means instead of costing hundreds of dollars for a script, it will be around $5.80. Before this was only available to children and adults who had been diagnosed as children.
It will take about six months to happen but I can wait.
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That is really good news.
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That is really good news.
Yep! :)
It has always irked me that Kayleigh takes Vyvanse. She was diagnosed when she was 5. I was diagnosed when I was 26. So no Vyvanse for me as I could never afford it.
This is going to be excellent, just one dose in the morning then no worries about having to time the next dose. So easy.
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Oh shit!!!! Brb.
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Yup.
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Woke up too late to take my morning meds. The cats woke me early enough to take them but I was forgetful and went back to bed after feeding them.
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I have.
Including the new ones.
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I have.
Including the new ones.
New? Are they head meds, if you don't mind me asking?
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I have.
Including the new ones.
New? Are they head meds, if you don't mind me asking?
No. They're for controlling the bad cholesterol in my blood and for fixing my D-vitamin deficiency.
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I take vitamin D. Sometimes high cholesterol can run in the family.
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I take vitamin D. Sometimes high cholesterol can run in the family.
I'm assuming this is me not taking care of myself.
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*checks pots*
Yes. Yes I did.
Is that a statin Odeon?
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I take vitamin D. Sometimes high cholesterol can run in the family.
I'm assuming this is me not taking care of myself.
Don't assume.
Once you are on those, docs usually want to work up blood tests every six months to keep up to date with your needs and the effectiveness of the dosage.
Alter your diet a bit and watch for your next bloodwork.
I took all mine a little early, but I felt a need after becoming quite hot outside.
I get the same results these days. Lots of cholesterol, but just a little too much of the bad kind. Doc says to eat more greens, certain grains and get more exercise.
:yikes:
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*checks pots*
Yes. Yes I did.
Is that a statin Odeon?
Yes. Sucks getting older.
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I take vitamin D. Sometimes high cholesterol can run in the family.
I'm assuming this is me not taking care of myself.
Don't assume.
Once you are on those, docs usually want to work up blood tests every six months to keep up to date with your needs and the effectiveness of the dosage.
Alter your diet a bit and watch for your next bloodwork.
I took all mine a little early, but I felt a need after becoming quite hot outside.
I get the same results these days. Lots of cholesterol, but just a little too much of the bad kind. Doc says to eat more greens, certain grains and get more exercise.
:yikes:
I suck at diets.
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I take vitamin D. Sometimes high cholesterol can run in the family.
I'm assuming this is me not taking care of myself.
Don't assume.
Once you are on those, docs usually want to work up blood tests every six months to keep up to date with your needs and the effectiveness of the dosage.
Alter your diet a bit and watch for your next bloodwork.
I took all mine a little early, but I felt a need after becoming quite hot outside.
I get the same results these days. Lots of cholesterol, but just a little too much of the bad kind. Doc says to eat more greens, certain grains and get more exercise.
:yikes:
I suck at diets.
Yeah, me too!
But I am not talking about trying to stick to some published diet, other than what your life experience and reading have taught you. More of this, less of that, try not to eat as much of "bad" as before.
Try to eat better and things either get better or no worse. Don't skip your bloodwork. I would add, "FIGHT!!" but most of that has left me in recent years. Maybe try anyway.
Even simple things can work, like I almost doubled the quantity of nuts I eat and my cholesterol went down. Nuts are often salted so you have to watch that, but you already know all this.
Small changes toward balance anyone can do.
Oh, and try to do enough of what the doctor says to make him want to pat himself on the back.
:GA:
Kidding!
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*checks pots*
Yes. Yes I did.
Is that a statin Odeon?
Yes. Sucks getting older.
:agreed: Does a bit.
Statins are a mixed blessing - you might need to try a couple out. I was on simvastatin for some years and it gave me muscle pains, so I took myself off it - I agreed to let them put me on atorvastatin last year as they wanted to knock my cholesterol down a notch further as I'm diabetic, it was ok but they wanted it below 5. This has been better.
It takes me about 15 mins to fill my pill pots up for the week. :zombiefuck:
There's an SSRI, three different diabetes meds, blood pressure, the statin, antihistamine, vitamin D. I don't always remember the asthma inhaler. :tard:
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I'm on atorvastatin, too. It's giving me muscle pain, though, I think.
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That is the one I take and they started me on too high of a dose. I had nausea every time I took it.
I have so much nearly constant muscle pain, I am not sure I would have noticed a difference in that way.
Got it all sorted now and I do not even notice taking it.
The med my heart calls for when I am late taking it is to manage tachycardia.
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Yeah, I've got some pain, too, so it's not easy to know what is what. My usual pain is in my joints, though.
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Yeah, I've got some pain, too, so it's not easy to know what is what. My usual pain is in my joints, though.
Joints? Mine are intermittently unusable.
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Yeah, I've got some pain, too, so it's not easy to know what is what. My usual pain is in my joints, though.
Joints? Mine are intermittently unusable.
Mine too. The joys of having psoriatic arthritis.
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Yes
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Mostly. I'm running out of metformin so I was one short for today (should be ready for me at the chemist tomorrow though :crossed: )
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Mostly. I'm running out of metformin so I was one short for today (should be ready for me at the chemist tomorrow though :crossed: )
I take metformin as well, twice a day. It's supposed to help me lose weight but I don't know if it has.
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Not yet. I'm taking the most important one now - coffee.
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What meds?
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Mostly. I'm running out of metformin so I was one short for today (should be ready for me at the chemist tomorrow though :crossed: )
I take metformin as well, twice a day. It's supposed to help me lose weight but I don't know if it has.
If I don't take my metformin with a meal and end up taking it on an empty stomach it makes me explode. Anyone else get this?
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zTiwt042wrk&list=RDzTiwt042wrk&start_radio=1
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I might get new meds for the arthritis. They drew some blood today to make sure that the meds won't make me sick.
The last ones I had caused headaches and photophobia, and the ones before that headaches and tinnitus. It'll be interesting to see what happens this time. Not.
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Yes, but no dexamphetamine for the past two days. So I'm hungry and sleepy. I'll take them tomorrow morning before I go out to buy cat food.
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I did. Need a refill, though.
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I did today, unlike yesterday when I completely forgot them. I remembered my night meds though. I need a refill of moclobemide.
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I did today, unlike yesterday when I completely forgot them. I remembered my night meds though. I need a refill of moclobemide.
Husband and I were both struggling with forgetting, so have set alarms as reminders. It's working well.
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I think I did. :-\
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I forgot to take Nexium yesterday morning (I take it once every two days) and boy did I know about it by dinner time. Ended up only eating half of it because it felt like my oesophagus was constricting.
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Yup.
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I did today, unlike yesterday. I took my morning meds but forgot to take dex at a later time (to make my second dose at a certain time) so I spent the day and part of the evening tired and hungry. I ate too many of the biscuits at work plus my lunch and it still didn't feel like enough.
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Yup. I am fully medicated. :zoinks:
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About to take my night meds.
I need a refill of haloperidol and my Depo Provera injection.
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Some self-medication this evening.
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Some self-medication this evening.
Beer?
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Some self-medication this evening.
Beer?
Yup. It worked well. :zoinks:
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Yes
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I just have to take dex. I even remembered to take esomeprazole.
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Almost. I forgot the spazz meds.
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Yes and yes for The PR
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Thinking of taking dex at 3:30 today instead of 4pm because my last dose was so early.
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I did, yes. Also picked up a prescription today.
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Yes. Have had to go back on the sertraline - I've spent the last coule of months tapering off it then stopped completely a couple of weeks ago. Turns out I'm not as well as I thought I was. :bangbang:
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Going off sertraline is a bitch. I've accepted that I'm probably never going to do without them.
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I'm scared to come off my meds. I fear it would be really hard and then chances are I'd have to go back on them.
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Depends on the meds, though. Some cause more problems than others.
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I can now take 50mg of Vyvanse instead of 30mg. I just have to get the prescription filled.
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Yup. Including the new anti-inflammatory one I was prescribed last week.
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Yup. Including the new anti-inflammatory one I was prescribed last week.
How is that going for you now?
Only difference I can tell about the higher dose of Vyvanse is that I'm less inclined to have a nap during the day.
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Yup. Including the new anti-inflammatory one I was prescribed last week.
How is that going for you now?
Only difference I can tell about the higher dose of Vyvanse is that I'm less inclined to have a nap during the day.
The anti-inflammatory one is shit, to put it bluntly. My stomach is upset all the time now, and it doesn't really help much. I want the biologics but supposedly they wouldn't help me. Damned if I know.
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^Are you still taking the anti-inflammatory?
I've just started on a new asthma medication called Montelukast. Before I was taking six puffs of Symbicort a day and still wheezing at work. Plus my throat always felt a bit sore.
It's weird to me to take a tablet for asthma instead of a puffer.
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Yes!
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OMG TRIGGER IS BACK!! :GA:
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^Are you still taking the anti-inflammatory?
When I have to. It's a question of what's worse.
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And I took all my meds today, including the anti-inflammatory.
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Yes!
Hi Trigger, welcome back!
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I did. And I picked up a prescription, too.
Yes!
Welcome back!
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Montelukast doesn't do it for me. I'm constantly wheezing even when I take Ventolin. Three more weeks of this (I got told to give it a month) and I'm going back to the doctor.
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I did. At least I think I did.
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BP med. Check
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I did. Skipped the hyper meds, tho.
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I did. Feels like I take heaps now because of the asthma meds.
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Yup, I did.
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I have a psychiatrist appointment on Tuesday. Hopefully I can start 70mgs of Vyvanse.
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Yes! Up to 70mg of Vyvanse. Just have to go to the chemist which I might do today.
The psych told me something interesting. If you have bipolar, taking antidepressants may send you into a manic episode. If you take too many stimulants, paranoid psychosis is what may happen.
He asked me to describe the manic episode I had in 2011. So I did and so he says my bipolar dx still stands. Bummer.
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I think I did.
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After a very rocky road with The PR and my medicines (scheduling the daily taking of) we're back on track.
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After a very rocky road with The PR and my medicines (scheduling the daily taking of) we're back on track.
Finally resorted to using an alarm as a reminder. Has been working out well.
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I did.
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I did as well, except for the Montelukast. I've run out of that. Time to go to the chemist.
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Check.
Need to get my shit together and make a doctor's appointment soon, though, or I won't have any meds to take.
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When I go to the doctor tomorrow, I must remember to get a script for benztropine.
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Check.
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When I go to the doctor tomorrow, I must remember to get a script for benztropine.
I did remember to do this. And my doctor printed scripts for everything else. I could make a little booklet.
Also took this morning's meds.
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Took morning meds early because we had to go out early. I have to remember to take esomeprazole every second day. If I forget, I get awful reflux during the day.
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Yup.
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I've stopped taking Montelukast. It hasn't done anything for me. My colleague at the cleaning job noticed me wheezing and that's when I was taking the tablets and my puffer. So it looks like a visit to the specialist for me. Just have to organise it when I go to my GP next.
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Yup, I did.
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I didn't take Vyvanse. Wanted to see what it was like without after a long time on it. Well I slept all morning. And I have no motivation to do anything. That's ok, the dishes and clothes washing are done.
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Thinking I did.
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I don't have a script for lithium, forgot to get it at the last doctor appointment. I'm thinking of waiting until I see my psychiatrist next month so he can give me a prescription then. I have enough to last me until then.
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I did.
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I forgot to last Monday. Only good thing was my mouth wasn't dry all morning. But I kept losing track of what I was meant to be doing. And work was a real drag.
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My psychiatrist gave me a prescription for lithium as well as my ADHD meds. He is a cool dude.
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I did.
Having problems renewing prescriptions. The new head doctors were a pain so I said thanks but no thanks and left.
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That kind of suxxors!
Me, on the other hand, I have a years worth at the ready and more to pick up. With the current system here, every entity with access to our insurance tops up to the max every possible, pointless sliver of pay, every chance they get.
WE are not always the beneficiary, but the corporate tickers keep flying upward like your kite string just broke. This is not right either.
Remembering now to get my meds in me.
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Our health care system today is a bureaucratic mess where the various organisations and institutions seem to enjoy their power over people. You need to submit or you won't get your meds.
It wasn't always like this.
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Isn't everything about submitting these days?
(Have I now become the 'old person' who says 'these days'???...shit :hahaha:)
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Forgot to take them so I'm calling it a missed dose. But I'll take esomeprazole before lunch for my reflux.
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Isn't everything about submitting these days?
(Have I now become the 'old person' who says 'these days'???...shit :hahaha:)
Welcome to the club. We meet on Thursdays. :P
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Took my meds. Need a refill on some of them.
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I took mine but Kayleigh didn't take hers. So she's still asleep.
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I did.
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Yup. And brought home for 60 days more of antibiotic fun.
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Yup. And brought home for 60 days more of antibiotic fun.
That seems like a long time to be on antibiotics. :hug:
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That seems like a long time to be on antibiotics. :hug:
It is. GP said another 12 weeks. I suggested doing 8 weeks extra first. So i got for sixty days after the initial two weeks.
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That's really long. Hope you're OK. :-\
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Took my morning meds except for Vyvanse, which I'll take just before I leave for the gym. Otherwise it will wear off in the middle of the afternoon.
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Yup.
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I just need to take my asthma meds.
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Took mine about 5AM.
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I took mine.
Also, a nice Fullers Winter ale. Medicinal purposes only, of ocurse.
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I took mine about an hour and a half later than usual this morning. I wanted to sleep in and so I did.
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Check.
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NEED to go to the chemist today to pick up Vyvanse and moclobemide. I just took the last of the moclobemide.
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I did.
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I did and I'm also taking Prednisone for an asthma flare. Five days only.
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^Prednisone is strong stuff.
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I sure did.
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^Prednisone is strong stuff.
It is and I'm glad for it. I don't know how bad my asthma would have gotten without it.
I took my meds early this morning.
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Did do my meds today.
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I took mine an hour later than usual.
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Yup.
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Not yet. I have to make sure I take the esomeprazole before I eat anything.
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Check.
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I did, almost forgot.
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Did.
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I did
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Couldn't remember if today was an esomeprazole day or not so I just didn't take it. I was fine, no reflux. Tomorrow must be the day.
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I did.
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I need to take a dose of dexamphetamine at about 4pm. Just so when I'm working I don't lose myself in a daydream.
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Check.
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Just took mine minus esomeprazole. I will take that tomorrow.
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I did.
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I'm actually trying very hard to resist right now, since I used my last two patches as a bridge for buying needles. It's only been two days, but I think technically if I take them off tomorrow it won't be a waste exactly. But it's still a lower dose than I'm prescribed which is why my doctor wanted to switch me to injections.
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Ate breakfast before I realised I should have taken my meds first. It's an esomeprazole day. I'll have to take it before lunch instead.
I've also started taking Montelukast again for asthma. Hopefully, in combination with my other asthma meds, it will help. I'm sick of wheezing 24/7.
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I did. Thankfully. I did something weird with my back this morning while taking a shower and the anti-inflammatory seems to have helped to avoid the worst consequences.
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I'm actually trying very hard to resist right now, since I used my last two patches as a bridge for buying needles. It's only been two days, but I think technically if I take them off tomorrow it won't be a waste exactly. But it's still a lower dose than I'm prescribed which is why my doctor wanted to switch me to injections.
been a minute since I posted here. I suppose an update is warranted:
I have my needles and have been taking injections regularly. And I have an extra vial for when my current one runs out. idk when to get my next refill though. We'll have to see
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Are you taking oestrogen? My housemate is, but she takes tablets.
About to take night meds. Easier now to do so since I have a medication organiser thingy.
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No, and this thread reminded me! Good thing I decided to show up here today
Are you taking oestrogen? My housemate is, but she takes tablets.
About to take night meds. Easier now to do so since I have a medication organiser thingy.
Yes, but we take the o off because of budget cuts. I have discussed with different doctors and we decided against tablets/pills because there is a risk of clotting that in my case might be higher (we don't know that for sure, but other people in my family have had problems). The risk might be lower than I thought it was before, but it's become my understanding that injections is the most cost-effective way to get me the dose I need
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Check.
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No, and this thread reminded me! Good thing I decided to show up here today
Are you taking oestrogen? My housemate is, but she takes tablets.
About to take night meds. Easier now to do so since I have a medication organiser thingy.
Yes, but we take the o off because of budget cuts. I have discussed with different doctors and we decided against tablets/pills because there is a risk of clotting that in my case might be higher (we don't know that for sure, but other people in my family have had problems). The risk might be lower than I thought it was before, but it's become my understanding that injections is the most cost-effective way to get me the dose I need
Thank you for answering, I know it was a personal question. :hug:
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No, and this thread reminded me! Good thing I decided to show up here today
Are you taking oestrogen? My housemate is, but she takes tablets.
About to take night meds. Easier now to do so since I have a medication organiser thingy.
Yes, but we take the o off because of budget cuts. I have discussed with different doctors and we decided against tablets/pills because there is a risk of clotting that in my case might be higher (we don't know that for sure, but other people in my family have had problems). The risk might be lower than I thought it was before, but it's become my understanding that injections is the most cost-effective way to get me the dose I need
Thank you for answering, I know it was a personal question. :hug:
It's okay. Norms are slightly different here, I feel. What with the anonymity available from forum names and such.
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I took a bunch of gummy vitamins and my prescription meds.
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I took my pills. I have not done my injection yet. I will do that after I wake up
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I did.
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So did I. A bit late though.
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I think I did.
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I did this morning. Injection is not due until after midnight tonight. I can take a shower and I think I'll scoop the litterbox in the bathroom downstairs just so my roommate's cat doesn't shit on the floor again. Might even clean some stuff.