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I remember some time ago reading that was having trouble with drugs that were beginning to do the opposite of what they were supposed to do.

Following an overenthusiastic dose of my prescription sedatives, I've been full of energy, grinding my teeth and feeling massively enthusiastic about EVERYTHING. Wh'appen?

Has anyone got any knowledge about why this should be so? Being as it's quite late in the land of lard I'll accept a wildly-concocted yet amusing theory about what's going on.

Anyway, ta very much.

What you've done there, Gripper m'laddo, is make the mistake of thinking that "energised" and "sedated" are at opposite ends of a single sloped line. They're actually peaks and troughs on a series of waves - just the right amount of sedatives will take you to the bottom of the trough, but too many will push you through to the opposite peak.

The only solution is to consume even more sedatives to take to you the next trough along, although this may sometimes have somewhat permanent results so I don't recommend it. Really. I don't. Marilyn Monroe tried it, didn't end so well. You're just going to have to wait for the effects to wear off so you snap back to the bottom of the previous trough.

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Thankyou EB

I like an explanation which I can immediately turn into a picture. Yours did the job and it was in astonishing colours too.



Cheers.
G.

Maybe don't have other overenthusiastic doses in the future? Trying things once hasn't killed anyone, aside suicide bombing but that's different.

Gripper wrote:
Following an overenthusiastic dose of my prescription sedatives, I've been full of energy, grinding my teeth and feeling massively enthusiastic about EVERYTHING. Wh'appen?

Perhaps we should do a swapsie...my prescription stimulants (for want of a better word), are having the complete opposite reaction. It's as much as I can do to drag my sorry arse of the sofa and make a brew.

Check the side effects listed in the leaflet. They usually include the exact ooposite of what the drug does to most people. For instance, antidepressants "may cause depression". Anti-inflammatories "may cause burning or itching". Antidotes "may cause doting".

stufarq wrote:Antidotes "may cause doting".

In which case you should maybe think about getting some mares. Or possibly some does. But not little lambs.

EvilBastard wrote:

stufarq wrote:Antidotes "may cause doting".

In which case you should maybe think about getting some mares. Or possibly some does. But not little lambs.

a diddly divey, indeed

Debaser wrote: Perhaps we should do a swapsie...my prescription stimulants (for want of a better word), are having the complete opposite reaction. It's as much as I can do to drag my sorry arse of the sofa and make a brew.

Commiserations. As I was taught and, indeed, went on to teach, "All medicines are drugs but not all drugs are medicines."

It seems that, as with drugs, a lot of medicines have wildly varying effects depending on person, place and time. Which is, after all, what a lot of pharmaceutical companies are making a lot of money out of.

Anyway, whatever, after 24 hours the effects had (mostly) faded.

Debaser wrote:

EvilBastard wrote:

stufarq wrote:Antidotes "may cause doting".

In which case you should maybe think about getting some mares. Or possibly some does. But not little lambs.

a diddly divey, indeed

That would be a kiddley divey. Otherwise the song wouldn't make sense. Hang on, what am I saying?

stufarq wrote:

Debaser wrote: a diddly divey, indeed

That would be a kiddley divey. Otherwise the song wouldn't make sense. Hang on, what am I saying?

This is getting dangerously close to kiddley diddly, at which point I shall have to inform the authorities.

Apparently the song owes its origins to the composer's daughter singing "Cowzy tweet and sowzy tweet and liddle sharksy doisters." I firmly intend to call my first child Sharksy D'Oister.

EvilBastard wrote:I firmly intend to call my first child Sharksy D'Oister.

stufarq wrote:

Debaser wrote:

EvilBastard wrote: In which case you should maybe think about getting some mares. Or possibly some does. But not little lambs.

a diddly divey, indeed

That would be a kiddley divey. Otherwise the song wouldn't make sense. Hang on, what am I saying?

A kid'll eat ivy too - if we're being perfectionists.

Wouldn't you??

A few months ago I got hit in my head pretty hard... no concussion or anything, just unbelievable frickin' pain. After a few days, when the pain still didn't go away, I went to the doctor who gave me special pain killers. I was supposed to take a few of those a day.
After just one little pill, I felt like I was speeding :.D was so alert and couldn't sleep for like 2 days!
Needless to say I did not take any more of those, but kept them aside for special occasions ;.)

Salome wrote:A few months ago I got hit in my head pretty hard... no concussion or anything, just unbelievable frickin' pain. After a few days, when the pain still didn't go away, I went to the doctor who gave me special pain killers. I was supposed to take a few of those a day.
After just one little pill, I felt like I was speeding :.D was so alert and couldn't sleep for like 2 days!
Needless to say I did not take any more of those, but kept them aside for special occasions ;.)

Gimme.

Salome wrote:A few months ago I got hit in my head pretty hard... no concussion or anything, just unbelievable frickin' pain. After a few days, when the pain still didn't go away, I went to the doctor who gave me special pain killers. I was supposed to take a few of those a day.
After just one little pill, I felt like I was speeding :.D was so alert and couldn't sleep for like 2 days!
Needless to say I did not take any more of those, but kept them aside for special occasions ;.)

send me you doc's number

i have the same with one of popular pain killer (on prescription)- so strange. (not twa days without sleeping, but lot of energy for quite a few hours.) luckily/sadly for my i haven't got migraine for months.

Debaser wrote:

stufarq wrote:

Debaser wrote: a diddly divey, indeed

That would be a kiddley divey. Otherwise the song wouldn't make sense. Hang on, what am I saying?

A kid'll eat ivy too - if we're being perfectionists.

Wouldn't you??

http://youtu.be/B62P6Gm9jpE

If there would ever be a HL meet up in Vienna- pills are on me

A few years ago i had problems with sleep and lack of appetite.i got prescribed vitamins and Tranxene.The problem was nobody told me i wasn't supposed to drink alcohol while taking Tranxene.It was soo fuckin' bad after 4 beers.Other than that it was amazing

i used to hang around with an exceptionally naturally hyper-active geordie who had been given ritalin for ADHD (attention-defficiency hyper-active disorder) as a kid. strangely, although a common treatment for ADHD, ritalin is technically a stimulant which is also used to treat narcoleppsy. this left him with the physiological irony of amphetamines sending him to sleep! we regularly used to spike him with whizz to shut him up when his gobshte got too much.

as with all drugs, if the effects don't suit you, don't do 'em. your body knows best.