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[Kiln]

I must be the only person on the forum who actually takes prescription pain killers when I'm injured. If they give me a prescription for a pain killer I take it. Hydrocodone stops the pain and makes me feel great...which is good and bad.

I get why people become addicted to narcotic pain killers and why it is important to take them in moderation and only when they're needed.

[Elisabeth Hollow]

I must be the only person on the forum who actually takes prescription pain killers when I'm injured. If they give me a prescription for a pain killer I take it. Hydrocodone stops the pain and makes me feel great...which is good and bad.

I get why people become addicted to narcotic pain killers and why it is important to take them in moderation and only when they're needed.

My dad took painkillers the finals years of his life. Towards the end, he was so addicted he couldn't function without them. They got him weaned, but during the process he was mean and hateful. I am scared of that happening to me. The only thing I'm addicted to is cigarettes.

[mALX]

You men and your metabolisms !!! GAAAAAAH !!!!!!

How about if they "diet" for a day and lose 5 pounds?? My husband is like that. If he started eating healthy, he'd drop all 360 lbs in 3 weeks, lol

I, however, have to nearly starve myself and exercise hardcore to lose anything. I quit being concerned about it, lol

Oh yeah, he drinks some chocolate powder shakes that are supposed to put on weight between his 6 meals plus trashy unhealthy snacks like chips (etc) daily - and never gains an ounce. He is wearing the same jeans he was when I met him, it's like he is frozen into ... hey wait, that is IT! He's an alien! I knew it!

My husband likes to announce that he's randomly lost ten pounds. I give him evil looks,lol

Time to bring out the old shock collar...

[King Of Beasts]

I will not share the addiction I had once, but I'm too terrified of ANY type of pill to take it.

Then again, I hate medicine in general. Especially cherry flavored cough medicine.

I remember I tasted a martini once, and it tasted EXACTLY like cherry flavored cough medicine.

Never again

[mALX]

I must be the only person on the forum who actually takes prescription pain killers when I'm injured. If they give me a prescription for a pain killer I take it. Hydrocodone stops the pain and makes me feel great...which is good and bad.

I get why people become addicted to narcotic pain killers and why it is important to take them in moderation and only when they're needed.

Your body makes its own natural pain killer (why children fall and get up and go back to playing) - when you take pain medicine it does the job for your brain so it stops producing its own natural pain killers. Later when you are in pain, you have to take the pills because your body has stopped producing its own.

Beta blockers are even worse, because they force out the brains natural production to alter and focus it on that one need. Your neurons and receptors get all screwed up and it takes years to get them "retrained" to their normal function.

Another thing is, medical schools are more and more often these days being funded by pharmaceutical companies. It is in their best interest to train the doctors how to medicate rather than treat. I'm just a little leary of a doctor who jumps too readily to the prescription pad, especially if they are doling out highly addictive drugs for anything less than a serious injury.

My husband is the opposite of me. He takes sleeping pills and sinus squirty things every single night, can't sleep without them. He takes nausea pills daily, gets ill feeling without them. If he even thinks he might have a pain he is loading up on aspirin/tylenol/hyrdocodone/etc. (whatever the strongest thing he can get his hands on) - he takes pills for anything you can think of. (maybe that is why he stays so skinny, lol).

[King Coin]

As Kiln said, moderation is the key. Not everyone reacts the same way to everything, so to each their own.

[Elisabeth Hollow]

sneerrrrp

I ask tell my doctors "How can I solve this without medicine?"

[mirocu]

~Snippy McSnipperson, at Snipperoo Village~

Today´s doctors are all about how much pills they can make us take. It´s like they don´t even need to know much about how the body works, only what pill can make what illness go away (for the moment).

I don´t even take fever-reducing pills because fever is the body´s natural way to combat germs with low heat tolerance. Of course, should I ever reach critical temperature I´ll take ´em. But not before that.

[McBadgere]

~Snippy McSnipperson, at Snipperoo Village~

Hey! I know him!!...

Oddly enough, I hate the way painkillers make me feel, and I get really snappy with people (yes, yes, I know... ...) if I take them for more than a couple of days...

I tend to think I'm a more pleasant person if I just deal with the pain on my own... ...

My name's Rob, and I'm an alchololic... ...There...That felt much better...

Well, I was...Many moons ago... ...That's the only addiction I had...

Oh, that and Gundam Wing and Dragonball Z...

Oh, and Marillion... ...

[treydog]

My problem with the pain meds was not so much that I am afraid of them (although I am. And I was GLAD Mrs. Treydog could take them after her knee replacement.

But for me, the first dose made me.... loopy (no comments needed from the peanut gallery, thanks) MORE loopy and sick to my stomach. If I want that, I will ride a roller coaster. At least then I will get the pleasure of watching all the stuff from my pockets raining down on the carnies.

Different subject... In my spare time (hahahahaha). Sorry... try again
In between sleeping, eating, and working- I sometimes help folks at my work with their home PCs.

So a lady asks if she can bring hers in for a look-see. "Sure. No problem. I just need the tower- no need for all the extras (keyboard, mouse, monitor."

Next day. "I am having real trouble getting the monitor loose. I pulled a piece of metal off of the back of the computer...."

"OK... (long pause as I work on 'diplomatic'). It should have a coupe of screws. If not, you should be able to squeeze the sides of the connector and get it to release. Tell you what. Take a pic of it and I will let you know how to proceed."

Next next day. "Here's the picture."

Standard SVGA connector with the usual thumb screws.

Me (pointing) "Just undo those and it should come right out."

Next next next day the computer arrives, along with the plate that goes over all the connectors on the back panel. (Which I foolishly ASSUME is the "piece that came loose.)

Get the PC home. Ignore it until Saturday afternoon. Dig out my KVM switch (handy device- lets me run 2 computers with one keyboard, video, and mouse). Dig out a spare power cord. Dig out a spare PS2 mouse- because the KVM switch is an older one.

Go to hook it all up. Bring the video part of the switch to the video port on the comp... and realize I am looking at pin-to-pin instead of pin-to-socket. Look further and realize the pins on the comp are bent to a fare-thee-well. The SVGA socket got wrenched off.

(Bang head)

Icing on the cake... her ex was a computer tech.

[King Of Beasts]

Leaving for Africa today! Woo! I'm leaving for the airport at about 1:00pm, and I'll be gone for ten days

Don't worry, if I have access to any source of Internet, I'll be able to lurk around the forums occasionally!

[Acadian]

Thanks for the reminder, KoB. Have a save trip!

[Grits]

Have a great trip, KoB!

[Colonel Mustard]

Ooh, Africa? Very nice!

Also I realise that over last four days I've managed write 5000 words. That is...that is insane. I've also disovered just how fun it is to write a story which has a cast primarily composed of godlike beings that only exist in a baryonic state when they want to. I had no idea how liberating and insanely fun it is to write a story with characters who border on the omnipotent...

[King Coin]

Be safe and have fun!

[mALX]

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@ Treydoggie - SPEW!

@ Kobby - GAAAAH! NOOOOOOO! You had BETTER come back safe and not half eaten by a lion !!!!!! URK !!!! You will be greatly missed !!!!

@ Mirocu - That is true on the fevers. My children's old pediatrician used to advocate not jumping into antibiotics at the drop of a hat for that very reason (as well as the resistance factor of antibiotics).

Drugs have been hitting the market after minimal testing and in a few years are pulled due to people dying (etc) - the advertising for drugs kills me. "If you have hay fever, ask your doctor about 'Killmequick', the newest breakthrough in hay fever treatment. Side effects include death, murderous outbursts, sleep-driving while dressed as a prostitute, an unusual odor emitting from your elbows, odd gambling excursions, etc, etc, etc."

Another thing is non-specific childhood seizures - doctors jump on pumping the child up with phenobarbital, which has long range side effects including bringing on seizure activity. My pediatrition put my youngest son on an extremely high carbohydrate diet and the seizures stopped very shortly thereafter.

I figure aspirin has been around as long as I have and other than brittle bones, liver damage, possible Reyes syndrome, and tinnitus - no side effects.

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[King Coin]

"If you have hay fever, ask your doctor about 'Killmequick', the newest breakthrough in hay fever treatment. Side effects include death, murderous outbursts, sleep-driving while dressed as a prostitute, an unusual odor emitting from your elbows, odd gambling excursions, etc, etc, etc."

I love it! You forgot the side effect where an alien jumps out of your chest.

[mALX]

"If you have hay fever, ask your doctor about 'Killmequick', the newest breakthrough in hay fever treatment. Side effects include death, murderous outbursts, sleep-driving while dressed as a prostitute, an unusual odor emitting from your elbows, odd gambling excursions, etc, etc, etc."

I love it! You forgot the side effect where an alien jumps out of your chest.

"If you have been taking 'Killmequick' and are in the middle of divorce proceedings for sleeping with your hot neighbor, call this 800 number to join the class action lawsuit against 'UhOh Pharmaceuticals'..."




This post has been edited by mALX: Mar 10 2013, 05:13 PM

[King Of Beasts]

Leaving for the airport now! I'll see you guys soon

[mALX]

Leaving for the airport now! I'll see you guys soon

GAAAAAH! *mALX looks for the "no getting eaten by lions" emoticon*