How religious are you with your tablets-regime (if you regularly take medication)?

[Redway]

Whether you take gabapentin, tramadol, anti-acne tablets, fluoxetine or insulin (and/or everything in-between), are you the sort of person (if you happen to take medication long-term) who takes your tablets exactly as you’re supposed to and without fail or do you skip doses?

[Dogeatdog]

I don’t take medication anymore but I did use to take Doxycycline when I was in my late teens because I used to get quite insecure about my spots :laugh:. It was only one tablet a day which I would have every morning without fail.

I had been through the usual facial cleansing products you can get out of most places etc and they never worked for me until I was prescribed doxycycline for a month and I noticed a huge difference straight away and I never had any side effects from the tablets either.

I was on this medication for about 2 years but it helped me massively and I think it was mostly down to being consistent and having a strict routine when it came to taking the medication.

[smudgie]

Day by day..all 23 of them.
I do very occasionally skip the evening antibiotics.

[Redway]

Day by day..all 23 of them.
I do very occasionally skip the evening antibiotics.

Do you experience a lot of side-effects, having to take that number of medicines every day?

[bots]

i take my pills each day and never miss a dose, there is quite an incentive when the alternative is death

[Crimson Dynamo]

thankfully i dont take any tablets save the odd ibuprofen once in a blue moon

[smudgie]

Do you experience a lot of side-effects, having to take that number of medicines every day?

Not really.
Very used to them all now.
If I didnt take them then I would be in big trouble.

[hijaxers]

My life would be hell without my meds 3 times a day another 4 times a day another once and a inhaler at nightime. I am also diabetic Type 2 but currently med free thankfully after years of meds.

[Redway]

I don’t take medication anymore but I did use to take Doxycycline when I was in my late teens because I used to get quite insecure about my spots :laugh:. It was only one tablet a day which I would have every morning without fail.

I had been through the usual facial cleansing products you can get out of most places etc and they never worked for me until I was prescribed doxycycline for a month and I noticed a huge difference straight away and I never had any side effects from the tablets either.

I was on this medication for about 2 years but it helped me massively and I think it was mostly down to being consistent and having a strict routine when it came to taking the medication.

Have you ever tried Lumin for facial skincare?

[Redway]

What’s all this fuss about statins/anti-cholesterol tablets?

[bots]

those with a 10% chance of heart attack/stroke are likely to avoid it if they take a statin. The pills are dirt cheap so that alone could relieve the strain on the NHS a lot

[Niamh.]

I take heart burn tablets and If I miss a day I'll regret it so i don't :laugh:

[bots]

I take heart burn tablets and If I miss a day I'll regret it so i don't :laugh:

i have to take a stomach pill every day to negate the damage all the other meds do to my stomach, the upside is that i haven't had indigestion in ages :laugh:

[Redway]

I take heart burn tablets and If I miss a day I'll regret it so i don't :laugh:

Are they over-the-counter heartburn med’s or actually prescribed?

[Redway]

those with a 10% chance of heart attack/stroke are likely to avoid it if they take a statin. The pills are dirt cheap so that alone could relieve the strain on the NHS a lot
I’ve got to be honest, I don’t know a great deal about Statin so I can only say so much but I’ve heard contradictory things about it. Anything that has a chance of substantially reducing heart-attacks/strokes in people vulnerable/predisposed to it has got to be worth looking into on the part of prescribers but at what cost do these apparent benefits come?

Edit: it does look like I’m asking a lot of questions (if I read another one of these posts of mine on here with a question mark I’m going to have head-loss) but I dunno. I guess it’s just interesting to read about people’s experiences with something important but that a lot of people aren’t too religious with.

[Niamh.]

Are they over-the-counter heartburn med’s or actually prescribed?

A bit of both, they were prescribed to me so they're cheaper than if I were to buy them over the counter but they're just a generic version of Nexium.

[Niamh.]

i have to take a stomach pill every day to negate the damage all the other meds do to my stomach, the upside is that i haven't had indigestion in ages :laugh:

Small mercies eh? :laugh:

[Redway]

A bit of both, they were prescribed to me so they're cheaper than if I were to buy them over the counter but they're just a generic version of Nexium.

Ah, I see.

[bots]

yeah, nexium is just a brand selling at a vastly inflated price.

[Livia]

Every day without fail, but not because 'I'm that kind of person'. My meds have to be taken in the morning before caffeine.

[user104658]

I’ve got to be honest, I don’t know a great deal about Statin so I can only say so much but I’ve heard contradictory things about it. Anything that has a chance of substantially reducing heart-attacks/strokes in people vulnerable/predisposed to it has got to be worth looking into on the part of prescribers but at what cost do these apparent benefits come?

Edit: it does look like I’m asking a lot of questions (if I read another one of these posts of mine on here with a question mark I’m going to have head-loss) but I dunno. I guess it’s just interesting to read about people’s experiences with something important but that a lot of people aren’t too religious with.

Cholesterol isn't just "bad stuff to have", cholesterol (including LDL cholesterol) has quite a few vital functions, we need it and the only issue is when LDL is too high. OR too low. It's just uncommon for it to be "naturally" too low.

Thus the only time it's appropriate to give statins is in people with cholesterol levels that are raised enough to be a significant concern, to bring it into normal range. The risk of giving it to people who are "borderline" - as is being suggested - is that it'll bring the level too low which yes will vastly reduce the risk of acute medical emergencies like heart attacks and strokes, but it increases cancer risk, and also affects things like hormone receptors including serotonin receptors.

This plan to hand them out to millions of people who are only at small risk of an acute medical event is specifically designed to take the pressure off emergency medical services by passing the buck onto potential long-term health conditions and depression.

Because the Tories don't care if the proles are long-term sick so long as they're not visibly clogging up A&E's and HDU's, and handing out pills is easier and cheaper than promoting healthy lifestyles and ensuring that people can afford to live them.

It's infuriating.

[Alf]

A cup of tea does me.

[Redway]

One thing I’ve learnt about medication is to not judge people’s weight without knowing the circumstances behind it. Topiramate and Orlisat (Xenical) are there to keep people leaner if the tablets they take cause weight gain but both of them have weird side-effects of their own that make people not even want to take them after reading the list, and topiramate wouldn’t normally be recommended just for the sake of losing weight anyway (as impressive a side-effect as it is but you have to need it for another reason, like migraines or bipolar disorder, to justify the horrible side-effects of it). You don’t know if the person who’s recently added 10 pounds is on a tablet that’s directly caused them to gain those extra pounds. It might not be anything to do with their diet/the way they eat or lack of exercise at all. I remember eating at a restaurant in central London about 9 years ago and wondering how one woman who pulled through got like that (she really was quite big) and I slyly (if discreetly) pointed it out to the people I was eating with but what I didn’t factor in is that she could’ve been on tablets that caused tremendous weight-gain and once I realised that (years later) I felt ashamed for judging her for being that big. When the alternative is death or being seriously ill, adding a few pounds is probably the least of someone’s concerns. They’re going to be more aware of their weight than anyone-else anyway but it’s a case of priority. Having a hefty six-pack/summer body is nice and one can worry about that closer to the time but it’s ultimately their bag and probably one that’s quite low on their list of priorities. It’s not for anyone else now to keep rehashing the same misplaced concerns about how someone’s getting fat. You’ve got to ask yourself who the person’s doing it for and it won’t be you. Your rightful own is just to shut up and mind your business.

I’m ambivalent on the whole ‘de-normalise this and that’ kind of ting but one thing people definitely need to stop doing is pointing out that someone’s gained weight like it’s some sort of conversation starter. It’s incredibly rude in the first place but especially when it’s genuinely a side-effect of a medication they take and nothing to actually do with them and unless you have an extensive file of all their confidential medical information you ain’t going to know. It’s none of your business.

[Crimson Dynamo]

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[Redway]

There’s a lot of stuff you just don’t know about people. Assumptions can be deadly.

[Redway]

A bit of both, they were prescribed to me so they're cheaper than if I were to buy them over the counter but they're just a generic version of Nexium.

Ah. Would you be in trouble if you didn’t take them every day?

[Zizu]

My life would be hell without my meds 3 times a day another 4 times a day another once and a inhaler at nightime. I am also diabetic Type 2 but currently med free thankfully after years of meds.


Maybe research 16:8 intermittent fasting as regards the Type 2 diabetes !!


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[Zizu]

Thankfully I just take supplements/ vitamins

Magnesium, Vit D3 , Vit K2 and a multivitamin


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[Redway]

Thankfully I just take supplements/ vitamins

Magnesium, Vit D3 , Vit K2 and a multivitamin


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I’d add B6 to that if I were you. Maybe try that and see how you feel in a month’s time.

[Redway]

Maybe research 16:8 intermittent fasting as regards the Type 2 diabetes !!


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There’s diabetes on both sides of my family but I’ve dodged the bullet to date, somehow. I wonder what intermittent fasting (beyond what I already vaguely do sometimes) would do for me if diabetes was to come for me and my pancreas now. What you saying?

[Zizu]

I’d add B6 to that if I were you. Maybe try that and see how you feel in a month’s time.


Thank you !


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[Zizu]

There’s diabetes on both sides of my family but I’ve dodged the bullet to date, somehow. I wonder what intermittent fasting (beyond what I already vaguely do sometimes) would do for me if diabetes was to come for me and my pancreas now. What you saying?


Just that research shows that intermittent fasting can reverse type 2 diabetes in some cases .. just needs researching properly beforehand


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[thesheriff443]

I take tablets for an enlarged prostate, me and two of my neighbours both older one has the same as me and one has cancer of the bladder, he was telling us how they look like mushrooms .

We had a good laugh about the doctors putting their fingers in the bum hole

It’s good to share experience’s with people that have been in the same situation.

[Redway]

Just that research shows that intermittent fasting can reverse type 2 diabetes in some cases .. just needs researching properly beforehand


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I’ve been known to do a bit of intermittent fasting here-and-there so maybe that’s why I haven’t developed diabetes by now. Looking at my family history (it’s strongly hereditary on both sides) you’d be shocked that I’ve dodged the bullet. My grandma was ill with severe osteoporosis for the last year and a half of her life but in the end it was a diabetic complication (something like that) that actually killed her so I am a little extra-wary of it but I do a lot of things which might happen to fly in the face of diabetes and take a lot of vitamins (although I only started doing that last year or something) so maybe this is all part of the indirect prevention.

[user104658]

I'm terrible at taking medications, I have to set alarms or it just won't happen. Same goes for the kid's meds if they have them. Eldest has taken over responsibility for her own medications when she has them now... much better at it than me.

At the moment I'm not on anything regular, just anti-inflammatories and the 30mg codeines for foot flare ups which have now been joined by other joint flare ups as well (opposite knee is ****ed now due to limp, AND the latest fun addition is that a shoulder injury from when I was in my teens has caught up with me). Falling apart at the seams!

[Redway]

I'm terrible at taking medications, I have to set alarms or it just won't happen. Same goes for the kid's meds if they have them. Eldest has taken over responsibility for her own medications when she has them now... much better at it than me.

At the moment I'm not on anything regular, just anti-inflammatories and the 30mg codeines for foot flare ups which have now been joined by other joint flare ups as well (opposite knee is ****ed now due to limp, AND the latest fun addition is that a shoulder injury from when I was in my teens has caught up with me). Falling apart at the seams!

Where did codeine come from, for ordinary foot-inflammation? Is it really that severe?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Thankfully I just take supplements/ vitamins

Magnesium, Vit D3 , Vit K2 and a multivitamin


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Did a qualified doctor tell you to take them or a Big Pharma marketing department?

[Redway]

Did a qualified doctor tell you to take them or a Big Pharma marketing department?

There’s nothing wrong with taking vitamin-supplements, LT. Come on, now. Stop this unwaveringly cynical bait.

[Zizu]

Did a qualified doctor tell you to take them or a Big Pharma marketing department?


A couple of friends of my brother in law .. one is a nutritionist the other a cancer specialist..

I know absolutely nothing about these matters so I figured they’d know at least more than I ..

Anyways since I’ve been intermittent fasting ( 7 years ) I simply don’t get poorly ( aside from Covid 19 ) and I’m on zero medication so these may just be the icing on the cake .. so to speak


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[Redway]

A couple of friends of my brother in law .. one is a nutritionist the other a cancer specialist..

I know absolutely nothing about these matters so I figured they’d know at least more than I ..

Anyways since I’ve been intermittent fasting ( 7 years ) I simply don’t get poorly ( aside from Covid 19 ) and I’m on zero medication so these may just be the icing on the cake .. so to speak


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Yeah, definitely add vitamin B6 to your regime. If there’s room for another vitamin.

[Crimson Dynamo]

There’s nothing wrong with taking vitamin-supplements, LT. Come on, now. Stop this unwaveringly cynical bait.

yes there is its marketing and fakery


stop being duped

[Redway]

yes there is its marketing and fakery


stop being duped

Half of modern pharmacology is all about marketing. On the list of capitalistic marketing sins taking vitamins (especially D, which it’s proven that we all need) is the least of them. If you personally don’t want to take them, fine, but I personally wouldn’t dissuade someone from a trip to Holland and Barrett or Boots on a Saturday afternoon to buy supplements. There’s a lot worse you can buy so come on. Let’s not be silly about this now.

[Crimson Dynamo]

id let a doctor tell me and not a company who's job it is to make soulless ghouls make more so they can buy unreliable Mercedes

[Redway]

id let a doctor tell me and not a company who's job it is to make soulless ghouls make more so they can buy unreliable Mercedes

You do you, then. Leave Zizu alone. You don’t impose your own medicinal preferences (or lack of) onto other people.

[Redway]

On what planet does vitamin D turn someone into a soulless ghoul anyway? Should people not take lithium, either, going by that logic? It dulls creative intelligence but it’s a gold-standard treatment for bipolar disorder (and even treatment-resistant major depression to an extent) for a reason.

[Zizu]

Yeah, definitely add vitamin B6 to your regime. If there’s room for another vitamin.


I do eat potatoes ( in one form) every day plus three eggs per day and at least one banana… and meat /chicken and a fair amount of milk plus other things

Do I still need B6 supplement do you think ?


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[bots]

Most people don't need vitamins if they eat a balanced diet and get proper exercise. The exception is vitamin D that older people cannot retain so well, so they can need a boost over the winter months

[Redway]

Most people don't need vitamins if they eat a balanced diet and get proper exercise. The exception is vitamin D that older people cannot retain so well, so they can need a boost over the winter months

People of colour (black people anyway) also tend to need more vitamin D in this part of the world. Black people not getting enough of it is actually a serious problem.

[Redway]

I do eat potatoes ( in one form) every day plus three eggs per day and at least one banana… and meat /chicken and a fair amount of milk plus other things

Do I still need B6 supplement do you think ?


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Yes. I say that because vitamin B6 has been suggested as an off-label aid for people with autism spectrum disorders. That’s why I’m recommending that suggestion specifically for you but by all means do your own research on the whole thing and speak to your doctor/pharmacist. Don’t just take my word for it.

[Zizu]

Yes. I say that because vitamin B6 has been suggested as an off-label aid for people with autism spectrum disorders. That’s why I’m recommending that suggestion specifically for you but by all means do your own research on the whole thing and speak to your doctor/pharmacist. Don’t just take my word for it.


I did a little research last night .. I’ll certainly consider it though ..

Thanks again !!


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[Redway]

I did a little research last night .. I’ll certainly consider it though ..

Thanks again !!


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Don’t sweat it, Zizu. Our bodies need all these vitamins to varying extents so the worst that can happen is that … y’know … it doesn’t work or it works but you happen not to really need it. None of it can do you any harm.

[Redway]

And how do you get on with your ASD day-by-day, Zizu (I’m not just talking about the positive quirks)? Do you feel like people misunderstand the essence of who you are and don’t treat you right if you tell them or do you just go with it, regardless of what us “normies” might think?

[Zizu]

And how do you get on with your ASD day-by-day, Zizu (I’m not just talking about the positive quirks)? Do you feel like people misunderstand the essence of who you are and don’t treat you right if you tell them or do you just go with it, regardless of what us “normies” might think?


I’ve got to the stage where I do my own thing at work ( and at home ) .. everyone knows I’m a bit quirky and need my routines to cope .

The Covid years really took a toll on my mental well-being though and I’m still struggling somewhat.

I was just so scared of dying after seeing all the tv footage of the over crowded hospitals in Italy ( I think ) then it swept through the UK ….


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[Redway]

I’ve got to the stage where I do my own thing at work ( and at home ) .. everyone knows I’m a bit quirky and need my routines to cope .

The Covid years really took a toll on my mental well-being though and I’m still struggling somewhat.

I was just so scared of dying after seeing all the tv footage of the over crowded hospitals in Italy ( I think ) then it swept through the UK ….


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Ah, I see. Do you feel like your natural personality would be (or is, even) more extraverted, maybe even a little ADHD-like, if it wasn't for your Asperger's?

[Zizu]

Ah, I see. Do you feel like your natural personality would be (or is, even) more extraverted, maybe even a little ADHD-like, if it wasn't for your Asperger's?


Yes for sure I’d be far more outgoing and optimistic I’m certain ..

… I have loads of ADHD traits and both our kids are ADHD .. thankfully neither have my autistic issues though .


As it is I’m trapped in an extremely anxious / introverted shell .. and can’t face going to live concerts or football matches , parties / gatherings etc

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[Redway]

Yes for sure I’d be far more outgoing and optimistic I’m certain ..

… I have loads of ADHD traits and both our kids are ADHD .. thankfully neither have my autistic issues though .


As it is I’m trapped in an extremely anxious / introverted shell .. and can’t face going to live concerts or football matches , parties / gatherings etc

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Gotcha. One thing that annoys me a lot is when people meme-ify introversion as social anxiety, shyness, lacking in basic social skills/being totally “antisocial” (which as a term often isn’t really used correctly in the first place) or (when there’s a bit more cue/body language-awkwardness to it) even autism and that doesn’t help people stand a good chance of understanding the fact that introversion and extraversion (even in a purely social-dimensional, so not even full Jungian/Myers-Briggs-y, sense) are just equally normal poles on a continuum that both have their pros and cons. No-one’s 100% either anyway but contemporary Western society is quicker to lump normal (social) introversion with social anxiety, autism and incipient depression more than extraversion and the pathological/neuro-atypical equivalents of that (A.D.H.D., grandiose narcissism, bipolar hypo/mania). We don’t tend to inherently value people who want to be alone as much or understand the fact that your typical ego-syntonic introvert is no more socially anxious or on the spectrum than an extrovert who can’t sit still unless they’re actively engaged in something social is ADHD or on the brink of hypomania. Treating introversion like a mental illness or at the least a negative personality trait/social deficit to be overcome doesn’t help anyone, whether they’re neurotypical or not. We all need some degree of socialisation as well as some degree of internal awareness/sense of identity and reflection and there’s nothing wrong with either, even if the latter doesn’t show up in the most socially lively or exuberant way. It doesn’t make being quiet a bad thing or badly matched to your personality, whether you’re on the spectrum, a neurotypical introvert, an extrovert with ADHD or (less typically) social anxiety or just a bog-standard self-identifying extravert/outgoing person. It’s all about the balance.

[Zizu]

Gotcha. One thing that annoys me a lot is when people meme-ify introversion as social anxiety, shyness, lacking in basic social skills or (when there’s a bit more cue-awkwardness to it) autism and that doesn’t help with people understanding the fact that introversion and extraversion (in a social-dimensional sense, not even the full Jungian/Myers-Briggs-y sense) are just equally normal poles on a continuum that both have their pros and cons. No-one’s 100% either anyway but contemporary Western society is quicker to lump normal (social) introversion with social anxiety, autism and incipient depression more than extraversion and the pathological/neuro-atypical equivalents of that (A.D.H.D., grandiose narcissism, mania). We don’t tend to inherently value people who want to be alone as much or understand the fact that your typical ego-syntonic introvert is no more socially anxious or on the spectrum than an extrovert who can’t sit still unless they’re actively engaged in something social is ADHD or on the brink of hypomania. Treating introversion as a mental illness doesn’t help anyone, whether they’re neurotypical or not.


It’s a complex issue for sure ..

On balance I guess I wouldn’t change too much about myself .. I do enjoy certain aspects

.. I love being obsessed with so many different things like music / football and various other sports , movies , snakes / animals and a few other things …the majority of autistic folk seem to only get to have one obsession

The only snag is I don’t really have enough hours in my days … luckily I only need 4 to 5 hours sleep each night .

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[user104658]

Where did codeine come from, for ordinary foot-inflammation? Is it really that severe?

They're prescribed, for occasional use if I've had to do a lot of walking/time on my feet. It hadn't (and won't) heal properly, I'll probably have to bite the bullet and get it fused/plated at some point but it's like 2 months off my feet entirely and then another 4 with boot/crutches if I do so not really ideal. Naproxen has more of an effect than the codeine tbf... but I double up if it's stopping me from sleeping.

[Redway]

It’s a complex issue for sure ..

On balance I guess I wouldn’t change too much about myself .. I do enjoy certain aspects

.. I love being obsessed with so many different things like music / football and various other sports , movies , snakes / animals and a few other things …the majority of autistic folk seem to only get to have one obsession

The only snag is I don’t really have enough hours in my days … luckily I only need 4 to 5 hours sleep each night .



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Your special interests are your special interests. I’m known for being a little bit skeptical over the whole autism thing though. I’ve been that way for a while and I don’t particularly like all those ASD labels but especially since the day it turned into a niche quirk for TikTok wannabes and started getting used to pathologise the most normal of personality traits (including a slight degree of social awkwardness that isn’t necessarily a direct result of shyness) but to be fair there probably is definitely something that happens to social cognition on a neurodevelopmental level that causes things to develop a bit differently but a lot of the symptoms of Asperger’s (I know that term’s not officially used anymore but in my head it still helps sometimes to use it in reference to the milder end of the spectrum) are just an attenuation of a conglomerate of ordinary personality traits (most of which the average male especially has a bit of going on anyway, including that big one about struggling to express empathy; ASD or no ASD that’s just a stereotypical blokey thing) and the very fact that Asperger’s isn’t used officially diagnostically anymore means that people on my side of the neuro-fence (so people who aren’t necessarily on the spectrum) have to refer to everyone on it as autistic now. It’s not really my battle to fight but to me it feels like doing that overrides a certain subtlety and confuses people’s understanding as to what the whole spectrum thing’s about in the first place. It doesn’t make much sense to just use it indiscriminately when you could either be talking about a hyper-genius who’s just a little more socially awkward/nerdy than the average person (which isn’t where I’d draw the line at non-Aspergic vs. Aspergic personally) or someone who genuinely can’t use any known type of communication at all or even to literally feed or bathe themselves now, or anything in the middle. It’s sort of become trendy to be neurodivergent and to self-diagnose yourself with it if you start to view yourself through a certain lens. And the more you internalise that label, the more you’ll become it at the end of the day (I’m not talking about you specifically at all) so I just wouldn’t bother labelling someone who’s only on the borderline of the spectrum at most. I’d just call them socially awkward and maybe quirkier than usual. But still neurotypical, even if at the extreme periphery of it. Add genuine social anxiety or a love of routine (two different things but you know) and it can start to look like what we freely call autism now even if it’s not. The person beneath that somewhat Aspergic demeanour is completely normal and that’s the real them, not the mis-projection that gets conveyed to people who don’t know them that well or understand their interests (if it’s a case of being a bit more nichely nerdy like that). And there’s an inherent difference between ‘neurodevelopmental autism’ and ‘schizoid autism’, IMO.

Hardcore video gamers can also go down the lane of becoming really socially awkward and can present as a bit odd like that for similar reasons but again the real person underneath is often neurotypical. You just have to know them to see them for anything like who they truly are unless you never deeped it that much in the first place and always thought they were normal in the first place, just a bit awkward (which is just as often the case). It’s a tricky one but generally I try and just take people as they are, not what they might seem on the outside at times. I don’t like to just call people autistic or neurodivergent or make too many concrete assumptions about them just for the sake of voicing an impression I might have of them that might not even be the right or most accurate one at all.

[Redway]

They're prescribed, for occasional use if I've had to do a lot of walking/time on my feet. It hadn't (and won't) heal properly, I'll probably have to bite the bullet and get it fused/plated at some point but it's like 2 months off my feet entirely and then another 4 with boot/crutches if I do so not really ideal. Naproxen has more of an effect than the codeine tbf... but I double up if it's stopping me from sleeping.

Oh, is it.
Fairs.

[Redway]

So it’s really that bad you’re going to need plating, then, SB?

[user104658]

So it’s really that bad you’re going to need plating, then, SB?

Just an awkward break that has generally poor outcomes, and it was missed for 2+ months until the xrays were seen by a proper foot ortho consultant. Outcome could have been better with early surgery but you need to have it ASAP, within days if possible but within a couple of weeks max. They thought it was just a soft tissue injury, by the time the fracture was identified it had already partially healed so the only surgical option is rebreak/bone graft/plate and fuse the joint.

For an explanation of why it was missed, one is simply that it was only seen by junior ortho doctors, I was on my third one before they noted an "maybe slight abnormality just here" on x-ray and had the foot specialist consultant look at it. Consultant identified the injury straight away on sight.

The longer answer is that the foot has a tonne of bones like a jigsaw puzzle - because my break was from pressure/twisting rather than impact the bone that fractured is one of the "internal" ones and the break was on inner child edge of it, totally hidden in a normal x-ray, only shows clearly on a weight-bearing xray.

Anyway the shirt of it is, the bones of the foot all sort of glide/slide over each other and I now have a misshapen one with a bone deformity, which would need to be shaved off and the bone fused to the neighbouring one. So in theory, reduced pain but also reduced flexibility in the foot (so permanent stiffness). And it'll probably be arthritic within a decade either way :idc:.

[user104658]

Also I've been jinxed by this thread - GP appt yesterday afternoon and I now do have regular meds :oh: 2x daily naproxen, morning and evening and omeprazole because apparently regular naproxen ain't very good for the tummy. I'm going to need one of those pill planners that old folks have.

[Redway]

Also I've been jinxed by this thread - GP appt yesterday afternoon and I now do have regular meds :oh: 2x daily naproxen, morning and evening and omeprazole because apparently regular naproxen ain't very good for the tummy. I'm going to need one of those pill planners that old folks have.

My threads tend to vaguely correlate with the reality of what’s happening in the here-and-now. What can I say. I hold a low-key crystal ball

Hope you get your tummy sorted anyway.

[Redway]

Had this weird, random nervous pain across my spine and stomach since last night. Gabapentin and paracetamol have done next to nothing. I had very little faith in gabapentin to begin with but at this point I just know it's not for me. Ginger and chamomile tea help more.

[Redway]

I don’t take medication anymore but I did use to take Doxycycline when I was in my late teens because I used to get quite insecure about my spots :laugh:. It was only one tablet a day which I would have every morning without fail.

I had been through the usual facial cleansing products you can get out of most places etc and they never worked for me until I was prescribed doxycycline for a month and I noticed a huge difference straight away and I never had any side effects from the tablets either.

I was on this medication for about 2 years but it helped me massively and I think it was mostly down to being consistent and having a strict routine when it came to taking the medication.

Apparently doxepin can help with stuff like that, too. It's technically a tricyclic antidepressant (one of the older, more potent classes of antidepressant - amitriptyline's a well-known one that's still prescribed a lot nowadays - that have a better chance of actually working) but what it does really is function as an extremely potent anti-histamine that can also help with hives and acne. That, Clearasil/CeraVee and Lumin could probably revitalise anyone's skin.

[Redrose]

Day by day.

[BBDodge]

My life depended on them so I took them as prescribed.