medicines that have profoundly benefited your life

  On 1/25/2010 at 10:19 PM, Joyrex said:

  On 1/25/2010 at 9:31 PM, IRARI said:

  On 1/25/2010 at 9:29 PM, dr lopez said:

Penicillin -- for almost killing me with hives and throat swelling, and making me realize I was allergic to Penicillin.

 

i'm allergic to penicillin too

 

Likewise - in fact, I'm allergic to so many medications, that thankfully, I haven't had to take anything for anything.

Me, four! Is the entire WATMM board allergic to penicillin? I never knew it was such a common allergy.

Lithium, which I both profoundly hate and also recognise that I would probably not be alive without it. It was like being punched in the kidneys twice a day, and produced low-level auditory hallucinations like a constant hum just at the threshold of hearing (always wondered if that shaped my taste for drones in music) and thank fuck medical science has moved on slightly so I can now take less harsh medication.

piriton - hayfever tablets

i can actually say that i have never had to take any form of proper medicine in my entire life, i took a few paracetemol once or twice and it did absolutely nothing to me. i also once tried a cocodomol when i had quite a bad headache, again, didnt effect it.

actually im being hasty, i guess ive also had novacaine to numb my teeth in the dentist. not having anastethic would have been pretty shitty.

Zertec/Benadryl

I get really violent allergic reactions to pet dander but I love animals so the meds help me recover from/stave off symptoms whenever I want to pet a cat or something.

  On 1/25/2010 at 7:43 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

Whatever those genius Docs gave me when I had meningococcal septicaemia. Does xxx know?

probably vancomycin

Anusol suppositories for the Brilliant Gloss White turds that come out afterwards

Oramorph for the fun times

prozac\lexapro\celexa - so i can get out of my bathrobe and do the dishes (and sadly not cum stupid hard)

xanax\gabapentin - so i can be around people without flipping my shit

marijuana - restores my lust for life but gives me nasty mental fog. probably my favorite drug overall

oxycodone - i wouldn't have made it through a few injuries without it. i'll probably be on it for the rest of my life once i get my health insurance back

lsd\mushrooms - my heaven and hell. they've given me so much and taken so much away. i probably won't be able to experiment with these ever again, but they've already enriched my life more than any other drug

I try to never take any sort of prescription drug or over-the-counter medicines, I even stay away from Tylenol and such. I try to be healthy and I just don't like the idea for some reason.

I smoke marijuana almost daily. it really helps me with everything. I used to have very bad anxiety and could hardly stand to be around people. It soothes a lot of the pain in my back and neck. And instead of laying in bed at night for for 2+ hours like I do if I haven't smoked (hey, you take your medicines too) I just pack a bowl and fall immediately asleep.

and lsd.

1. Alprazolam - crippling panic attacks completely out of nowhere (officially they think it may have been a virus that started it) in the late 90s helped by this drug. I never took it regularly but I had it with me for a long time just in case. It gave me some peace of mind that if my brain ever did spaze out I didn't need to jump off a cliff.

2. Effexor - This drug worked amazingly well with me. Getting on and off required about a week off work, basically laying around feeling like shit, but I felt great while on it... actually felt like the world had colour and I felt joy. no robot feeling like mcgriff described. only problem was ejaculating.... majorly difficult/ sometimes not achievable.

3. Benadryl (or similar) - saved me from death by suffocation twice after severe allergic reactions.

4. Penicillin - I've had somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 ear infections in my life, most of which were treated by penicillin (actually amoxicillin). This winter has been the first that I let my body heal them rather than resort to drugs but it was fixed faster by drugs. Upshot of this drug was that there were times in my childhood/teenage years/20-something years that I could fucking hear properly and was not drowning in "head sounds" or underwater type sounds. Once this was cleared up I started enjoying music as a kid, eventually culminating in me learning how to play several musical instruments, becoming "cool" in the process, before getting overwhelmed by the shittiness of common tastes in music and giving the hobby up altogether a decade later, retaining the "cool" status because of the retarded extent of my rebellion.

5. Zopiclone - Last year I started a business and quickly learned that the manning of such an enterprise is fucking taxing... so 15 hours days eventually became 20 hour days as I sat open-eyed in bed thinking about all the shit I had to do the next day. I still use these on an "as needed" basis. hilarious pro to this drug is that it basically wipes my memory of everything that happens after the drug takes effect. My wife tells me shit and I don't remember, I've fallen asleep on top of my book with the light on numerous times-- I even recorded it last time and my wife and I get laughs from it as I fall asleep while reading in the vid, plopping down on the book. Also, it just allows me to auto-shut off my brain and get sleep when shit gets crazy busy.

Albuterol - can't remember a time when I wasn't on it....breathing rules!

Clonapin - as others have said here, I as well have suffered from debilitating panic attacks for a large part of my life, now I don't....

Zyrtec/Benadryl/Singulair - I am allergic to this world and these drugs help me to live a bit more of a comfortable life then I would without them........

IDM!

LSD

THC

Psilocybin

Ibuprofen/Asprin

Morphine

weed

rolaids

ibuprofen

sudafed

rennies/bicarb/gaviscon etc

i suffer with the worst heartburn since ever. anyone who gets this every day knows what im on about :angry: