"John McKenzie" <jmac_melbourne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Jesus Christ - I know there's some margin of safety engineered into max
> dosages (8 per day if anyone cares) - but at 20 - you seriously are
> risking death - and it could be severe enough to have rebound and
> complications (within hours of taking them) that mimic high blood
> pressure, and angina, and prevent sleep etc.
Yeah, I've got most of those, and liver counts 6 times higher than the
accepted norm.
> It's probably more the paracetemol imho. ****ing hell - can't you get
> them to prescribe oxycontin or percocent or whatever they are called
> here - they use oxycodone, which is far more effective (at lower doses,
> and as such with lower concomitant amounts of paracetemol) than codeine
> ever could be. The problem with codeine, aside from that mentioned, is
> it has to be converted (I think in the liver but can't recall) into
> something else - some other type of opiate. In typical subjects, there's
> only enough enzyme or whatever to convert around 400mg tops in one go,
> or possibly one day, so beyond that, you aren't going to gain much
> anyway, you'll just think you are.
Oh yeah, there's a placebo effect associated with it, which is why I'm now
back down to 8-10 a day rather than 20.
> In that situation, I'd definitely be looking at the oxycontin or
> whatever the equiv is. With your chronic injury, and ongoing
> complications from the ****ed up hip surgery (if I recall correctly)
> you'd surely qualify.
I'll talk to my quack about it.
Last time I spoke to him he mentioned herbal jazz cigarettes (medically
prescribed) might be worth a shot as I'm already a smoker, and while I
thought about it for a while I decided against it as I never liked
cannabis
and whenever I experimented with it socially all it did was gave me a
whacking great headache. I also didn't like the idea of walking around
ripped all day and then trying to do anything constructive as I have
enough
trouble now just getting zonked on the pain killers.
Still, I could always get a kilo a week and sell it :)
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Regards,
Noddy.
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