The Isolated Blurt BDSM Thread

[BiBunny]

You know it's interesting. It seems like everyone has a very strong preference for oxycodone (opioid in percocet) or hydrocodone (opioid in vicodin/loracet). Personally, percocet makes me feel a little dazy and out of it, whereas i get NO mental effects from vicodin (beyond being in a bit better mood from not hurting!!)

You know, I never thought about it, but you're right. Hmm. Interesting!

In case it wasn't totally obvious from my post, opioids hit me hard. I've never noticed any adverse effects from any of the ones I've been prescribed, aside from dry mouth. Actual codeine and hydrocodone work well. I have no complaints whatsoever.

Buuuuut...the first time I took oxycodone (the time my shoulder went 'splodey, actually), it was like the heavens opened up and the angels started singing the Hallelujah Chorus just for me with Jesus accompanying on the violin. It stopped hurting! I saw everything in Technicolor! The whole world loved me, and I loved it! The sun shone at night, and unicorns frolicked in fields of daisies! And rainbows!

I swear to God, I'm not the drug addict I sound like in this post.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Regarding pain killers;

http://www.letterstoawildboar.com/index.php?date=2007-02-11
http://www.letterstoawildboar.com/index.php?date=2007-02-12

Fuck I'd forgotten how good this strip was;
http://www.letterstoawildboar.com/index.php?date=2007-02-28

 

[Sir_Winston54]

You know it's interesting. It seems like everyone has a very strong preference for oxycodone (opioid in percocet) or hydrocodone (opioid in vicodin/loracet). Personally, percocet makes me feel a little dazy and out of it, whereas i get NO mental effects from vicodin (beyond being in a bit better mood from not hurting!!)

You know, I never thought about it, but you're right. Hmm. Interesting!

In case it wasn't totally obvious from my post, opioids hit me hard. I've never noticed any adverse effects from any of the ones I've been prescribed, aside from dry mouth. Actual codeine and hydrocodone work well. I have no complaints whatsoever.

Buuuuut...the first time I took oxycodone (the time my shoulder went 'splodey, actually), it was like the heavens opened up and the angels started singing the Hallelujah Chorus just for me with Jesus accompanying on the violin. It stopped hurting! I saw everything in Technicolor! The whole world loved me, and I loved it! The sun shone at night, and unicorns frolicked in fields of daisies! And rainbows!

I swear to God, I'm not the drug addict I sound like in this post.

Opioids are life for me, specifically hydrocodone. They tried me on oxycodone - n.g., it makes me stoopid. They tried me on morphine - n.g., it fucks up my sleep cycle like you wouldn't believe, and makes me dream really weird, long-after-I'm-awake fuck-my-brain dreams. Codeine in pill form is good only for knocking out coughs for me, but *liquid* codeine makes me want to puke, and that's really really not good for my blood pressure because for some reason my body does *not* like to puke, at all, and fights it until I am soaked in sweat, trembling, and actually have pulled muscles in my back and legs and arms.

Hydrocodone, on the other hand, specifically hydro/acetaminophen (vicodin), keeps my back at least marginally functional, at the rate of 30-40mg of hydro a day, up to 60 on really bad days. The only side effects I've ever noted have been (1) constipation when I'm on max dosage, and (2) setting off alarms any time I ever had to take a pee test for work. I learned to take one of my Rx bottles with me any time that was scheduled, or immediately afterward. (I've been taking them at relatively high dosages for >15 years.)

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Oh. I get to make my 200+ mile trek to the VA hospital this afternoon for blood work, head MRI and neuro consult tomorrow. Kind thoughts and a set of crossed fingers or three for positive results would be appreciated.

 

[Curious_in_Cali]

Oh. I get to make my 200+ mile trek to the VA hospital this afternoon for blood work, head MRI and neuro consult tomorrow. Kind thoughts and a set of crossed fingers or three for positive results would be appreciated.

I hope the journey is kind and I will definitely keep you nestled in my luckiest thoughts with hopes of some positive momentum for you with all of this.

*Big Hug!*

 

[gypsy*seer]

Oh. I get to make my 200+ mile trek to the VA hospital this afternoon

Antennae is up and streaming positive thoughts & tidings your way, SW!

 

[Sir_Winston54]

I hope the journey is kind and I will definitely keep you nestled in my luckiest thoughts with hopes of some positive momentum for you with all of this.

*Big Hug!*

Antennae is up and streaming positive thoughts & tidings your way, SW!

Thank you both. I'll be on the road in 30 minutes or so, fortunately only driving about 45 miles *directly* into the 15-25 mph north winds before turning west and heading into the *westerly* winds that prevail along that Interstate corridor Gas mileage on the way there is going to suck, bigtime; however, on the way home tomorrow afternoon/evening, it should improve greatly.

 

[graceanne]

Praying that not only will the tests come back positive, but that they won't cancel your appointments after you get there. Again.

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Oh. I get to make my 200+ mile trek to the VA hospital this afternoon for blood work, head MRI and neuro consult tomorrow. Kind thoughts and a set of crossed fingers or three for positive results would be appreciated.

All manner of good wishes, and Godspeed.

 

[Ropebunny]

Oh. I get to make my 200+ mile trek to the VA hospital this afternoon for blood work, head MRI and neuro consult tomorrow. Kind thoughts and a set of crossed fingers or three for positive results would be appreciated.

Please drive safely! I've got both big toes crossed and I reckon I can walk that way so they'll stay crossed for you all day.

 

[bhndblueyes88]

Good luck, S_W!!! I hope everything turns out well for you


Blurt: What does it say that some idiot that causes an accident that ends up totalling the front corner of my truck doesn't make me angry, but little bullshit like having to open 3 tabs to access 1 page does? (For those interested, I'm okay and my truck is still functioning...but isn't presently road-legal. People can say what they want about old steel beast-trucks, but my old man has saved my hide so many times...)

Also, stella, I had not heard of that comic before but what you linked amuses me...I shall now have to read it. Way to ruin my productivity!

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Want a SW update.

 

[the captians wench]

I seriously need a proper day off of work and school so that I can get more costumes done.

Not that there is a great demand for them yet, but I have so many ideas! I need time to work on them.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Want a SW update.

Not much updating to do <sigh>. While the bloodsucking went on, and the MRI resonated and thumped and took pretty (?) pictures of my brainbox, the neurologist was sick today and cancelled out. I did manage to talk her nurse/aide into scheduling a tele-appointment for me for next week rather than making *another* 400+ mile round trip just to see her.

And having that telephone discussion be next week rather than in person today means that everyone involved in my diagnosis and care - the "local" (200 miles) radiologist, my "local" neurologist, and the regional (500 miles away) radiologists and neurosurgical team will have *all* had an opportunity to review the films from November, December and today to make the most informed possible diagnosis, so there probably won't be one diagnosis and prognosis and suggested path of care offered next week and then another, diametrically opposed path offered ten days later. Probably.

I'm just trying to stay as Zen as possible about the whole thing, knowing that allowing - or causing - my BP to spike is not good for me in *any* case, though especially not in some of the not-best-case scenarios.

And thank you all for the well wishes and hopes for safe travel, which occurred. And now I'm getting sleepy, so I may take a nap before returning here in a few hours. Or then again, maybe not until morning, lol!

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Thanks for the update, SW. The challenges of distance. Damn. I hope you get a thorough, measured diagnosis, and a path.

I wish I hadn't sold my old teleporter on Craigslist.

 

[cfuhrer]

(Most) everyone knows it takes two people to make a baby.
(Most) everyone knows what those two people have to do to make a baby.
(Most) everyone knows what can allow those two people to do what they want to do and lower the likelihood of said resultant baby.
So why do my neighbors feel the need to rehash above common knowledge on the front lawn at the top of their lungs?

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Thanks for the update, SW. The challenges of distance. Damn. I hope you get a thorough, measured diagnosis, and a path.

I wish I hadn't sold my old teleporter on Craigslist.

Thank you. Distance, hell... the challenges of living *outside* of BFE!

And I wish you hadn't sold it, too. <sigh>

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

Thank you. Distance, hell... the challenges of living *outside* of BFE!

And I wish you hadn't sold it, too. <sigh>

Gateway to BFE! Visit us again soon!



Dig the sig addition.

 

[bhndblueyes88]

Conclusion: Alcohol is the ultimate gateway drug. People will say that pot is, or some other illicit use of a substance. Alcohol is legal, folks, most everyone without religious restrictions tries it at least once. It's here we first experience overdose, withdrawl and high. Here we start to think "how can I replicate this, but more/better/less-side-effects?" Sure, most people go on to just find that "happy place" with their intake and measure accordingly, and a few others go on to become alcoholics...but the right personality is wrong for the mix and I can't imagine that it doesn't contribute to drug addiction.

 

[BiBunny]

So tired. Just...get the idiots away from me and let me rest.

Yeah, right. Not in this lifetime.

 

[Stella_Omega]

1) Nothing like screwing the pooch twice in a row...

2) I really, really REALLY HATE having a television anywhere near me, and I hate not being able to do anything about the one that's near me right now.

3) Because the Simpsons? fuuuuck. me. Or no, fuck TV.

 

[Stella_Omega]

My wife started smoking again this week

I would too if I ever had.

I'm not real proud of my work since last week.

 

[Loverskitten]

What's going on with everyone here? Seems we're all in a rough patch. Hugs to all. I wish I could give y'all real life hugs. God knows I could use them myself.... might not let go

 

[DeepGreenEyes]

What's going on with everyone here? Seems we're all in a rough patch. Hugs to all. I wish I could give y'all real life hugs. God knows I could use them myself.... might not let go

It's true. What is it? Mid-winter? The impending end of Subway's FebruANY promotion? The unsettling awareness that "If Pets Had Thumbs Day" is still weeks away?

I have no idea.

But here's a clip from Duck Soup.

In a Johns Hopkins clinical study, 60 percent of participants found it "amusing" or "somewhat amusing."

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Dig the sig addition.

Thanks. It's for all of us, and for those we know who have been affected, and for those we don't know, too. FYC. FY.

What's going on with everyone here? Seems we're all in a rough patch. Hugs to all. I wish I could give y'all real life hugs. God knows I could use them myself.... might not let go

It often seems that this is a not-so-good time of year. I don't know if statistics would back that up or not, but the perception is there.

And I'll second you on the hugs - both giving and receiving. They're among the best things humans ever "invented."