Re: Hide Anything Sharp

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These would be real Sudafeds, or the shitty non-metherrific kind?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 3:52 PM
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Neighbor, please. I only buy the real, behind the counter, metherrific kind.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 3:58 PM
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Good call. I've been taking the shitty kind (I got them at the school store, which is not teeming with variety) and they're basically worthless.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:09 PM
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The non-meth version of meth-based medications usually make me feel even worse.


Posted by: Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:12 PM
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That's called withdrawal, Adam. Try to wean yourself onto codeine.


Posted by: Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:19 PM
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I like the non-meth kind.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:26 PM
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Why?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:29 PM
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Allegra for everyone!*

*Yes, they paid me.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:32 PM
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7: Because it works and doesn't make me sleepy.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:33 PM
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I haven't found that it works. Maybe it does, but if so it works so much worse than the metherrific kind that I don't even notice.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:36 PM
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But if it works for you, of course, rock on.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:37 PM
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We should be able to buy Tylenol 3 over the counter.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:42 PM
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For what values of "we" and "should"?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:49 PM
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The reason they don't sell Tylenol 3 OTC is because people would try to take enough to get a codeine buzz and wreck their livers with the huge doses of Tylenol.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:49 PM
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You can buy it in Canada.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:54 PM
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But not in the States? I confess I was unaware.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:55 PM
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You can buy lots of drugs in Canada. I'm told.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 4:55 PM
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You can buy it in Canada.

You go to Mexico, you can buy way better. A single instance of taking 10 or 15 Tylenols at once can cause serious permanent liver damage. I personally think you should be able to buy whatever sort of drugs you want, but that's what I take to be the FDA's reasoning, anyhow.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:00 PM
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You can also buy over the counter muscle relaxants.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:01 PM
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I'm taking pseudoephedrine, claritin, methocarbamol, vicodin, and a big pink pill that says "MOVA." Those must cancel each other out, because they're not doing anything for me.


Posted by: Wade | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:06 PM
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Scotch?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:07 PM
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muscle relaxants

You know, a lot of people I run into say "muscle relaxers" and it just sounds wrong to me.

MOVA


Posted by: Counterfly | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:08 PM
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Which is to say, Tagamet.


Posted by: Counterfly | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:09 PM
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19: Fuck, I didn't know that while I was there, or I would have stocked up. I love those fucking things.

Maybe I'll try to smuggle a bunch back home when I go clean out my office this summer.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:10 PM
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OT: I've just discovered I'm homeless as of 1 July. Anyone have a home I can borrow? I'm very neat.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:13 PM
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One of my wives swears by Neurophen +, which she bought boxes of while we were in the UK. It's ibuprofen with codeine. Wonderful stuff. I believe it's available in Canada, as well.

21: Why yes, I'd love some. Single malt and old enough to marry in Mississippi, please.


Posted by: Dr Paisley | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:15 PM
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25: We have a nice guest room.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:17 PM
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25: Where should this home be located?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:21 PM
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27: Thanks. I'll consider it. Do I have to feed the fish? I can handle that.

28: Really, at this point, I'll take what I can get. Are you making an offer?


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:25 PM
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Not necessarily, but I'll see what I can do. Any preferences at all?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:27 PM
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Charlottesville. Or DC. Hawaii's nice this time of year, I hear.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:28 PM
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29: Nah, PK likes to feed the fish. You can help if you like, though.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:30 PM
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14: It's actually possible to separate the acetaminophen from the codeine and then mostly ingest the latter. Or so I hear.


Posted by: Toadmonster | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 5:43 PM
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Feed PK to the fish.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 6:14 PM
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Another open bedroom for Stanley!


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 6:18 PM
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Wait, I spelled "ben, don't be an asshole" incorrectly.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 6:20 PM
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34: !!!!!!

Anyway, Koi are vegetarian.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 6:39 PM
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I'm a vegetarian, too. Can I just live in the pond?


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 6:42 PM
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Allegra for everyone!*

No. Unless the pills I've been taking are actually pollen, WHICH I DOUBT, it's done nothing for me except possibly make my symptoms worse. Allegra for thee, but not for me. On the upside, "fexofenadine" alliterates with a common curse word.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 6:42 PM
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38: You can if you want, but it's a li'l slimy sometimes. Really, the tv/guest room is nice. It even has its own bathroom.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 6:43 PM
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37: not entirely, but as long as he kept moving, there'd be little danger

Antihistamines stun the bejeezus out of me. I nearly drove off a cliff (literally) the first time I took Actifed. It's non-drowsy or nothing for me (yay, Claritin!)


Posted by: cerebrocrat | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 6:48 PM
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39: Your great-great-great-great-great grandmother fexofenadined me last night, IYKWIM; AITYD.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 7:10 PM
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You can if you want, but it's a li'l slimy sometimes.

At the Mineshaft.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 05- 5-07 7:58 PM
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Be careful of taking too much pseudephedrine...not good for your heart.


Posted by: bemused | Link to this comment | 05- 6-07 12:26 AM
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Hey Becks, could #44 be related to the mini-possible-stroke?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 6-07 5:36 PM
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45: Possibly, as either cause or effect.


Posted by: Biohazard | Link to this comment | 05- 7-07 7:27 AM
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Post says she's been taking these for about a week, but the blurry vision was a few weeks ago.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 05- 7-07 7:28 AM
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47: Yeah, but was she ODing on the pseudoephedrine because she couldn't see she was taking the wrong pill?

I'm not going to play internet MD, this is all just speculation (which docs do all the time anyway). What I do know about mini-strokes after my crash course is that they can be quite subtle in what they affect, and I know damned well from personal experience that pseudoephedrine raises BP and can also cause arrhythmias, both of which are correlated with strokes.


Posted by: Biohazard | Link to this comment | 05- 7-07 8:38 AM
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