#sudafed

[alientitty]

dealer: man i got some straight gas, this new strain is so good they gotta lock it up. it's called "sudafed"

me: whatever. i don't feel shit

10 minutes later: bro this air is so fresh it hurts. i think i can feel my brain freezing

my buddy hypertension, pacing: the phenylephrine is lying to us

[brokenboy90213]

[risotto38]

so i had to get prescribed sudafeds for my sinus problems because ive been having issues, and i was hit with a burst of productive energy??? its as if i put glasses on my brain, i can think and focus clearly??? does anyone else know about this???

[clockworkprism]

I knew it, I fucking knew it! That stuff never worked, always went for the real pseudoephedrine

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

I know i included this in the long post of NNAMDÏ videos, but holy shit does his song Sudafed capture that feeling of being on the edge of a panic attack/not quite holding it together

To also capture that without relying on the audio becoming overwhelming as well is fucking skilled

[dichotomoustessellations]

i was drinking monster energy then i felt the sudafed kick in woaaaahhgh

[kamaradka]

I HAD ALL MY BAGS 🎒👜 ON THE CTA 🛬🚅 AND IT BROKE DOWN ⚠️⬇️ AND I BROKE DOWN 🤯😵 AND I CRIED OUT 😱😭 LIKE A NEW BABAYYY: 👶 "GREAT TIMING! ☠ GREAT TIMING! 😡" AN OLD MAN 👴 SAID, "SON, YOU'LL BE OKAY 🤗👍," AND I YELLED "FUCK YOU 👿🖕 GET OUT OF MY FACE! 🤦‍♂️✋" AND I APOLOGIZED 😳🙏 LIKE IMMEDIATELY AND I... BROKE DOWN AGAIN! ⬇️😭 I SPENT ALL MY RENT MONEY 🏡💵 ON A PLANE 🛫 TICKET 🎫. ʷᵃˢ BROKE THEN 🔙😟 AND IM BROKE NOW 🔜😟 AND I KNEW THAT SOMETHING 🤔 HAD TO CHANGE 😔; I COULDNT LET MYSELF DOWN 😤⬇️ AGAIN! MY FOLKS 👪 GET OLDER 👴👵 EVERY DAY AND MY FRIENDS 🙆‍♂️🙆‍♀️ GOT BILLS 📃💵 THEY CANNOT PAY 💸🚫 AND I HATE THAT I FEEL THIS WAY 😷🤒, WISH I WAS OUT ON TOUR 😎🕺 AGAIN! 😄🔜

[trixiesol-blog]

[sweaterkittensahoy]

The reason Pseudoephedrine was put behind the counters and requires signing your name or having a script was because "OMG THEY USE SUDAFED TO MAKE METH"

They also use a bunch of other shit--including ammonia and brake fluid --that has never been regulated the same way.

"BUT WE MUST STOP THEM USING THE SUDAFED IN THE METH SO WE MUST STOP MAKING THE PURCHASE OF SUDAFED SO EASY."

Guess what wasn't actually effected by putting Sudafed behind a counter or a prescription pad? Making meth.

Because, turns out, people who make meth will find ways to keep making meth even with any restrictions you wanna put on Sudafed.

By using other, more dangerous ingredients. Or robbing a place. Or stealing from loved ones.

"BUT IF WE KEEP IT FROM THEM THEY'LL STOP MAKING METH."

Bitch, no they won't. Because you know the other reason people make meth? Because job prospects are shit, and meth is a reliable income.

And you know what else happened when Sudafed went behind the counter? The international drug trade in meth went UP. Because those rules didn't apply in Mexico, so meth makers there had a boom in export meth.

And, one last time, guess what ELSE came into the scene since the efforts to "stop meth" by blocking access to Sudafed?

Opioids. Which were absolutely helped by doctors overprescribing because pharmaceuticals companies convinced them to with money or promises. In 2019, the median rate of opioid prescriptions in Arkansas was 80 out of every 100 people. There are places in other states where there are MORE than 100 scrips for 100 people. (source)

You know one of the reasons for such high addiction issues with opioids BESIDES the previously mentioned doctors and corporate assholes? Imported meth costs more than domestic meth, and opioids were way cheaper than imported meth.

Putting Sudafed behind the counter in the meth moral panic led to trickle-down disaster for all kinds of shit. Most and least of which, honestly, is the fact that people who needed Sudafed for sincere medical reasons couldn't fucking get it.

And, yes, I'd rather 100 meth labs have 100 boxes of Sudafed each than 1 person go without a useful medication. And, more importantly, not be forced into using one that EVERYONE KNEW DIDN'T WORK THE FIRST FUCKING TIME.

good news: the FDA finally agrees that phenylephrine is useless bullshit.

[exploring-sars-cov-2]

Do you really believe this? Is the FDA cancelling these products because they are "ineffective" or because they are generic?

[tallymali]

being a het-presenting bisexual is weird bc ive grown up on the queer internet and was exposed to the simple stuff like “enforced gender roles are bad actually” since i was rly young. but ive also been in a relationship with a man (then boy, we’re the same age) since i was rly young so i pretty must just register as Standard Straight Woman to people who dont know me that well. this has exposed me to so many weird parts of straight culture and honestly the most baffling one is when straight women ask how i got a good man. how have i been with this man for over 10 years since we were kids and he has never been awful to me? i dont know. i met him and he was a nice person and he just never stopped being a nice person? i dont take the credit for that? i didnt find some cheat code to force this guy to be nice and override his Terrible Male Nature? he wakes up and chooses to be nice to people regardless of my presence? if your boyfriend sucks its not bc you’re doing anything wrong, its not your job to force a grown adult to act right good lord

[hopeforchanges]

I’m just Cel, not at all enough, She met hot satan on a raft. So hey, check me out, yeah, I’m just Cel.

There’s three in our bed and it’s getting weird, Waiting for my turn, but she’s licking him. Sauron is her man, but I’m still here.

Yeah, I’m just Cel, no need to cheer! I’m just Cel, I’m no dark king, I’m still stuck with her while she does her thing! Baby, I’m just Cel ...

[halberdbooks]

I have probably shared this before, but I am particularly reminded of it this Daylight Savings Time.

"Some Coffees" by David M. Briggs from Halberd Books vol. 2

[marq-lynch]

I have a head cold and I just imagined Swerve standing the corner watching the fight at All In, and it's this huge moment because you don't know if Swerve is going to help Hangman or maybe interfere for Mox but things have been pretty good between them lately? But instead it's even more heartbreaking in this weird reversal where it becomes clear that Hangman has what he always wanted from the Young Bucks without having to ask: someone in his corner to support him, and for the first time ever it's like he doesn't even notice Swerve. The man he's been hyperfocused on to the detriment of all else and he won't even take his eyes off the match with Mox for a second to acknowledge that he's there for him.

And at the end of an absolutely brutal fight, the ref hands him the briefcase, and he opens it to pull out the shattered pieces of a broken men's world championship on a tattered leather belt. The crowd has erupted, and Hangman turns to look at an empty corner. Swerve has already started heading up the ramp, hood drawn, the crowd starting to scream to stop him, almost drowning him out as he stumbles to his feet, boots slipping in puddles of blood. He crawls out of the ring and stumbles up the ramp towards Swerve, falling as his legs give out, catching himself on a skinned palm and a single kneepad. Swerve stares silently as he offers up the battered golden belt on bended knee.

"Marry me?"

[walnutsupreme]

i shouldn’t be allowed to track medicine while i’m sick

[thebreakfastgenie]

Does ibuprofen require a prescription above a certain dose in the US? I'm asking because in Germany anything over 400 mg requires a prescription.

If you want tablets/capsules over a certain dose yes, I forget what exactly that dose is, but I know there are 800mg pills you can get with a prescription. But no one can stop you from just taking four of the 200mg tablets that you can buy in a big bottle at Costco. Before I was born my mom's doctor prescribed her the 800mg pills for something and she was like "can't i just take four of the 200mg over the counter ones?" and he was like I mean yeah. When I started seeing gynecologists for my period issues, one of the things we came up was managing the pain with ibuprofen, and when I said I already was the nurse-midwife asked how much and I was like "800mg" and she was like yeah okay because she would have told me to do that if I wasn't already.

I'm not sure about Germany but I know in some countries it's not as easy to get large quantities of over the counter meds? In the US it's super easy unless it has sudafed because people use that to make meth.