A Challenge

We're all on drugs of some sort it seems.

Here's the challenge.

Stop taking it all and see what happens.

List all the crap you take every day to keep you feeling 'normal'. Then, just stop it. Quit taking it all and write about what happens to you here.

It might get ugly but hey, that's the beauty of it. Let's see what happens.

 

Sixteen minutes ago, I took your advice.

At the present time, I have quit my job, lost all assets to an online pyramid scheme, fornicated with three neighbors (unwillingly), duct taped their relatives to the ceiling, shouted obsenities to the police that arrived, and am currently bunkered down in my bathtub (covered in kevlar and baby mattresses) while I listen to the crowd of people banging at my front door.

Any more bright ideas?

 

Oh yeah, I almost forgot...

I doused myself in Wesson cooking oil and set myself on fire. Y'kno, for shits and giggles.

 

Yeah no thanks I would rather not be doubled over in pain unable to eat within 2 days.

 

I'm already not taking any drugs. Any other suggestions, wise guy?

 

Maybe we should play "prescription round-robin". Everybody sends all their drugs to the person below them on the list, and then that person takes them, and we see what happens.

 

Yeah, here's one - why don't you go and push your tits up on camera again for us, eh?

I like your 'round robin' idea, though... Do we get to pick who's drugs we take? I pick Dwaine!

 

You must be thinking of Bear.

It will have to be done lottery-style, because EVERYONE will want to be downstream of Dwaine...

 

and Im the one who loses, but I do have some really strong laxatives that look just like vicodin, and Lomotil looks just like generic morphine. it could be fun

 

More fun than the high school party when I mixed a drink for someone with syrup of ipecac in it?

Wait, wait... what about the girl I gave 500 mg of immediate-release Niacin to, and 15 minites later she was running around yelling, "My tits are on fire!" ???

Good times, I tell ya!

 

Yea, Im not on anything so this would actually be less fun for me.

If I took anything stronger than a percoset(percocet?) I would probably grow my hair out, join a cult, and buy a 73 VW Bus.

 

I've been off mine already and its far worse. I end up being an asshole, like most regular people.

 

Funny, because I already started this last week. I wanted to see how I would fair and I wanted to prove to myself that it wasn't medicine that was causing the loss of my hair.

Klonopin (daily)
Xanax (occasionally)
Tenormin (occasionally)
Ativan (occasionally)
Ambien (daily, sometimes skip a day in between)

I quit taking Klonopin last week. I took an Ativan Saturday and felt pretty good all day. I even ate at a restaurant (which is almost impossible for me). So I decided that I loved Ativan because it didn't 'feel' like I had taken anything. I just felt decent. I didn't take anything Sunday, felt like shit, headaches, nausea, stomach pain... didn't take anything Monday, felt okay in the AM but was nauseated and had stomach pains all day. I didn't take anything Tuesday, felt nauseated and had stomach pains. I got some bad news and STILL didn't take anything to 'test' myself under pressure... I didn't sleep for shit and broke down and took a Xanax yesterday because I was shaking so badly that I couldn't walk right and I was at work and that's not cool. My stomach pains went away and I got back my appetite. I took a beta-blocker today because I got really out of breath looking for my shoes and my chest got tight and started hurting and my heart started pounding and I started getting jelly legs and I had to go to work. I can't be a spaz and go to work.

I know that I don't need them everyday and I will quit taking them everyday, but there is no way that I won't have something on my person at all times.

Oh, and I also had vertigo everyday which is nothing new because I get it with/without medicine.

So Massa Jefe, what about you?

 

Arent there like 'step-down' procedures for klonopin? Like you shouldnt quit it cold turkey. I read somewhere that some pills will really f' you up if you just stop taking them. It's probably built in by the pharmacuetical companies, but hey, the first hit is free.

 

That may be the dumbest idea that has ever been posted here.

 

I didn't have a seizure.

I did taper off by cutting the dose in half the last week and then trying to alternate days.

 

I have meds for OCD, ADD, TLE and anxiety that I don't take. Maybe I should but so far, so good.

 

I drink beer which gives me a FAT ASS and keeps me from getting SEX, but otherwise I don't medicate.

 

You drink beer and it goes to your ass? At least you dont have the beer gut.

 

No, I use fat-ass as a catch-all. I don't have the full-on, all-world gut, but I'm cuddly in the middle like the Pillsbury Dough Boy. My ass is good. I've got ghetto-booty.