Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.

Jayne ,'Jaynestown'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

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


-t - Oct 22, 2018 2:37:22 pm PDT #1024 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

My coworkers are pooling their money for the megamillions jackpot. I declined to join in, but one of them says she'll hire me as a salaried financial consultant, so that'll do.


Jesse - Oct 22, 2018 2:47:52 pm PDT #1025 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Then another doctor told me that Advil was bad and I wasn't to take it ...

WTAF? Bad for you specifically, or bad as a blanket policy? Because obviously it's just fine for a lot of people. And if I recall that one This American Life (?) correctly, you're way less likely to overdose on Advil than Tylenol.

If there were warm fuzzy floaty feelings involved I might feel different, but for me it is extreme nausea and inability to function at any level.

Ah, so my experience both times I tried ecstasy.


sarameg - Oct 22, 2018 3:23:12 pm PDT #1026 of 30019

Opioids put me to sleep in 15 minutes flat, dead to the world for 6-8 hrs. Help with the pain? Dunno, wasn't conscious.

They have no effect on my brother until they get to an insane dosage where they start suppressing respiration. (He was a paid guinea pig a lot in grad school...so when it happened in a study, he got all sorts of tests done that pointed to a weird genetic abnormality.) We think my mom likely has same, which is why she hated them-they did nothing for her post surgical pain. What made her miserable was the pain, drugs were irrelevant.


Vortex - Oct 22, 2018 3:50:24 pm PDT #1027 of 30019
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

**(No, seriously, Tylenol might as well be M&Ms for all the good they do me. They do help with Tim's arthritis pain, though, so YTylenolMV.)

I feel the same way about advil. Anything less than 800mg is candy. Give me Tylenol


Sophia Brooks - Oct 22, 2018 4:21:38 pm PDT #1028 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

When I had my tooth abscess/root canal, the dentist gave me a schedule of 2 advil, then two hours later, 2 tylenol, and on and on. That worked really well. I believe it was to avoid opiates, as my previous root canal 10 or so years ago landed me with percocet.


Jesse - Oct 22, 2018 4:23:42 pm PDT #1029 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

My mother is classic her: she just came home from a meeting, came into my apartment to say, "should we put the yard waste barrel out?" I was like, I dunno, does it have stuff in it? Yes, it does. I'm in my pajamas! Why couldn't she just put it out on her way in when she noticed it wasn't?!? I said I'd do it in the morning.


Dana - Oct 22, 2018 4:26:46 pm PDT #1030 of 30019
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

If you have kidney issues, ibuprofen is bad. (This is probably a gross generalization.)


meara - Oct 22, 2018 4:35:31 pm PDT #1031 of 30019

Apparently NSAIDs (including ibuprofen) are a no for bone healing. None allowed for me.


Sue - Oct 22, 2018 4:44:23 pm PDT #1032 of 30019
hip deep in pie

WTAF? Bad for you specifically, or bad as a blanket policy? Because obviously it's just fine for a lot of people. And if I recall that one This American Life (?) correctly, you're way less likely to overdose on Advil than Tylenol.

I was told by my doctor when I was diagnosed with arthritis in my knee that Ibuprofen was far more toxic to the kidneys than Tylenol was on the liver, and that if I was going to take one for daily pain management, it should be tylenol.


Jesse - Oct 22, 2018 5:02:43 pm PDT #1033 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

So interesting! I've just been taking ibuprofen willy-nilly.