marichiko

Ummmm...? Too much ambien?

I can NOT take decongestents. They make my hEART race, I want to crawl out of my skin because I feel like I am all itchy INSIDE where you can't scratch, and, in general, I become filled with a sense of impending doom. This is NOT a good response if you are me - prone to sinus infections of the killer variety. Thank God for Nasonex (sp?) which is not an antihistamine but some sort of cortisoid or something.

As far as the tylenol 3 and 4's, vicodin type stuff, first I hallucinate, then I become deathly ill. Sometimes both at the same time. I remember being given tylenol 4 after I had my wisdom teeth taken out and laying on my couch which had a paisley design (it was the early 70's - what can I say?), and watching the designs melt into one another like a kalidescope. I must have entertained myself for half an hour or so staring at my couch before I had to make a run to the bathroom to blow grits. The Momster, on the other hand, adores opiates, and I could usually worm my way into her good graces by giving her any tylenol or vicodin scripts some doctor might have bestowed on me.

Pot makes me paranoid, so scratch that one.

The drug I could have easily run into trouble with was amphetamines. In college I had a friend from Lebanon where apparently you could buy excellent Swiss made "diet" pills over the counter - as much as you wanted. She had quite the stash which she shared with me during finals. Man, I loved that stuff! I don't think I slept for 3 nights and I wrote two papers and aced 3 exams all in 4 days. The crash was awful, though. Then we graduated and moved to different towns, so I was spared becoming like the gal in the sequence of pictures above.

These days, I stick to alcohol in moderation.