Gwen: Demon, OK? The whole nine—cloven feet and horns and teeth. He wasn't wearing lamé though. Lorne: Yeah, the evil ones can't pull it off. It gets camp.

'Harm's Way'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Aims - Apr 22, 2009 11:42:12 am PDT #16423 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I should qualify and say mood stabilizer, not just bi-polar.

My dormer pharmapsychologist was telling me how drugs to treat those three are so often started as a drug to treat one of the others. I was on depakote for my supposed seizure disorder, but it treated my as yet undetected bi-polar.


Steph L. - Apr 22, 2009 11:45:17 am PDT #16424 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

drugs to treat those three are so often started as a drug to treat one of the others. I was on depakote for my supposed seizure disorder, but it treated my as yet undetected bi-polar.

A surprising number of drugs start out as treatment for one condition and end up being good for something else. Sometimes, the drug does better for a totally different condition than it did for the original one. Example: Rogaine was originally a cholesterol blood pressure-lowering drug (taken in pill form). Not great at lowering cholesterol blood pressure; had an interesting side effect of hair growth. Switch it around to a topical formulation, and boom: hair-growth treatment.


Toddson - Apr 22, 2009 11:47:30 am PDT #16425 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Something that will, quite literally, put hair on your chest?


Kathy A - Apr 22, 2009 11:49:16 am PDT #16426 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

When I took my cat in to get her teeth cleaned a few years ago, they gave me a liquid antibiotic to give to her to prevent any kind of infection spreading through the mouth into her system. Surprising to the vet, it also cleared up the low-grade eye problem she had had for the three years since I adopted her (she wouldn't let me give her the eye drops or ointment that the vet had prescribed, and it never seemed to bother her so I didn't push it like I should have).


Allyson - Apr 22, 2009 12:07:46 pm PDT #16427 of 30000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I had a dream that there were four tea kettles boiling over in my kitchen, and there were no knobs on the stove for me to turn them off.

My dreams are anvils.


Gudanov - Apr 22, 2009 12:09:10 pm PDT #16428 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping

Yep, it's clear your subconscious wants you to drink more tea. Possibly you are secretly British.


sumi - Apr 22, 2009 12:18:15 pm PDT #16429 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!

Get an idea of what it's like to ride Zenyatta.


Burrell - Apr 22, 2009 12:37:17 pm PDT #16430 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

My dreams are anvils too, Allyson. I suspect that's how the unconscious communicates.


§ ita § - Apr 22, 2009 12:37:51 pm PDT #16431 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I haven't been on an on-book migraine med in a while. The current med that's helping a little is for ALS. Medicine is whack.


Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 22, 2009 12:54:50 pm PDT #16432 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

It's a bitch of a drug, but at keeping people from developing fatal blood clots, it's the best thing going.

Yeah, it's kept my dad out of the hospital the last couple of years since his blood clot, so I don't care if the pill bottle has Stuart Little with Xed-out eyes on the label. The no green vegetables thing is a royal pain, though.

Something that will, quite literally, put hair on your chest?

Sadly, I believe the follicles already have to be there before Rogaine can work.