When you get a headache...

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[–]hennaojichan 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (40 children)

Who is the green-haired gentleman in the center? He looks vaguely familiar.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (34 children)

Khan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan

IMHO: Khan ranks among the worst possible candidates for opposition to junk science, or vaccinations...

You don't want it.

Edit: /u/JasonCarswell

[–]hennaojichan 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (32 children)

Thanks Tom. I saw the movie but didn't recognize him. I like the meme—a Tylenol headache. But do be careful with Tylenol (acetaminophen) as it is one of the most dangerous of OTC meds but is usually not labelled as such. A typical dose is 500 mg and three times that is liver toxic. What? Where am I?

[–]Tom_Bombadil 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (31 children)

a Tylenol headache. But do be careful with Tylenol (acetaminophen) as it is one of the most dangerous of OTC meds but is usually not labelled as such.

This is true.

IIRC: The toxicity occurs in the liver when both acetaminophen and alcohol are being metabolized at the same time.

There's a byproduct that wrecks yer shit.

https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh23-1/40-54.pdf. (Page 7/15. Top left of the table.)

Tylenol is not a solution for a hangover.

The actual solution is to get up and make a fresh cocktail.

Like a boss.

[–]hennaojichan 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (25 children)

I will drink to that. As Hunter Thompson said, "I hate to recommend drugs, alcohol, and violence but they have always worked for me." For me alcohol is the operant word there unless you have 30 mg of pure codeine—with no acetaminophen— lying around. As I told my doc, codeine isn't addictive, I've been using it for years but he wasn't buying it.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (24 children)

There's always cold water extraction. And I don't recommend that as a way to get high, but I know personally acetaminophen just doesn't work on me for whatever reason and there's no reason to poison your liver for something that ain't helping.

I wish I lived in a country where codeine and muscle relaxers were otc, that would be so useful.

[–]hennaojichan 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (23 children)

Move to Cambodia but right now Rona is making it very hard to get in. You have a bad back too? For me it's the L6 and it makes walking over a mile torture.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (22 children)

I thought tylenol 3 was otc in Mexico and Canada. Pretty much everywhere except the US, GB bans everything ofc, and Aussies just banned it cause their politicians are a bunch of cunts.

I have a bad knee and either arthritis or fibro, docs don't agree. The pain is almost totally dependent on the weather, but unfortunately we've had several years now of some pretty fucked up weather.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

T3 requires prescriptions in Ontario Canada, likely the whole nation.

My recommendation: black market ketamine. It's also good for anti-depression unlike Big Pharma poisons. Black market is as good as prescription and faaaaaaaar cheaper.

cc /u/hennaojichan

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

My recommendation: black market ketamine.

Combine this with some free market E and you have a recipe for experiencing tiiiime slooooow doooown...

30 mins feels like 8 hours. Crazy.

If the ride is a bit too much for your mind, then don't let anyone pick you up off of the ground or from kneeling, or whatever).

A k-hole is a crazy thing to witness.
Lights out.

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-k-hole-21861

[–]hennaojichan 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (18 children)

Yes, I have bought Codeine without Tylenol in Mexico and have heard it is available in Canada but with Tylenol. In Mexico doctors run their own pharmacies often so in effect you're getting a prescription. A Canadian friend gave me a lot of the ones available in that country but the Codeine content was quite low and the acetaminophen so high it made the pills fairly useless. I didn't bother with the cold water extration because the yield on what he gave me would have been too small to bother with. For my back I went to a so-called pain clinic in this country and he gave me an injection directly into my spine that has made quite a difference. Maybe there is a similar shot where you are. It is not a narcotic. I asked the doc if he would give me a script for 30 mg a day of codeine but every other month so I wouldn't get habituated but he refused. Things are tougher all over now except the country I mentioned before. By the way, nothing I've mentioned is illegal but just the way it is.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (17 children)

I had just recently purchased benzocaine powder as a topical analgesic. Unfortunately that shit has some nasty side effects at high doses. Caused bruising up and down my leg. It does something to the red blood cells, makes em extra sludgy or something. Still, seems useful to have around.

And I was given curcumin recently. There's no good scientific evidence for it but some people swear by it and it was free after all.

The more effective things I use are kratom and alcohol. Weed helps keep me calm but I really don't want to be a chronic daily smoker ever again. I get dependent and it's either keep doing it or feel awful. All those things are like that really.

That's why ketamine interests me. You only dose every few months. Expensive treatments though.

Or just get the damned knee fixed but that's been a pain in the ass. For reason, the surgeries don't always make things better, and sometimes they make them worse.

I can't help but thing if I could get in there myself with an arthroscopic device I'd be able to pinpoint what's wrong more effectively. I can feel it after all, a surgeon wouldn't have any biofeedback. For that same reason I believe in cleaning out your own ear wax if necessary, you can feel if you're about to burst your ear drum.

Makes sense, just there are probably laws against that sort of thing.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Hangovers are often just dehydration.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

My hangovers are from getting WRECKED.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. The cure: as much water as you can drink, and a little more, and then wait an hour or few.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Hangovers go away if you drink enough. The body adapts. Although then you withdraw from alcohol if you stop drinking, and that's like a mega hangover with a chance of death.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Good times.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Best Star Trek by far. Yes, that was a seriously traumatizing movie when I was a kid. Corrupt science, not to be confused with scientism.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Oh my god, that's Ricardo Montalbán! He was most famously (besides Khan) in Fantasy Island.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Tattoo...

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Zee plane! zee plane! God, that was before my time but the reruns were still on when I was a kid. I think the guy was on Loveboat too.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

And The Ben Stiller Show was priceless.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think I ever saw that. I didn't have cable in the 90s.