Does sildec pe-dm syrup have codeine

Over the last ~3 years our area has been having an issue with a known pill mill provider, we will call Mr. Frank. Mr. Frank is a Nurse Practitioner (with a degree from the online for-profit university) who has a felony conviction for 3rd degree assault that was plead down from child abuse charge in which he nearly killed his four month old daughter. Here's a lovely excerpt the judge wrote in his subsequent divorce proceedings:
See the [REDACTED] Complaint, which provides that the treating physician’s medical assessment concluded that the reported fall did not account for severity of the child’s injury, which resulted in a subdural hematoma and cerebral edema which required the child to undergo a craniotomy.
Since his conviction, no reasonable employer will hire him- as a result he was forced to start his own practice where he began charging $400 cash for oxycodone prescriptions, for which I still have a picture of from his website before he changed it. Mr. Frank began to try and bully us in Feb 2022 after my manager and I refused to fill a prescription of oxycodone 15mg for one of his "patients". He called back and asked to speak to another manager, and then faxed us some bogus liability workup that he clearly has sent to other pharmacies before us. I began to do research and learned all of the above, as well as his surescripts eprescribing had sent prescriptions for promethazine syrup (no codeine) and sildeanfil (viagra) for fictitious patients. About this same time, surescripts sent out an email stating they inactivated his SPI to investigate suspicious or fraudulent activity. (He would later state that he requested this himself as his account was hacked). I partially believe this, but it was probably done by his employee or a patient as I'm pretty sure all Electronically prescribed controlled substances (ECPS) software suites require 2 factor authentication. I talked to other pharmacists in the area and concluded that we all felt the same way that this operation was suspicious at the least, and most likely illegal. We found other reasons based on old opiate prescribing guidelines from 2018 to refuse to dispense (based on him giving everyone more than 50mMeq daily). Those guidelines were revamped shortly after I was sued in 2022 and that particular part is no longer relevant. Another nearby pharmacist also stated Mr. Frank was having a personal bodyguard pick up prescriptions for his 'patients'. I also discovered that a person who had a prior conviction for obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or deceit and attempted to pass a fake prescription for a different provider two years earlier at our pharmacy was getting oxycodone from him- (fun fact, he was confronted about this 'patient' and still is seeing them).
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In March 2022 he sent another prescription for oxycodone for a different patient that we refused to dispense for the same reasons as before. On about March 9 or 10, he called to bully us into filling it, and I confronted him that I didn't feel comfortable dispensing oxycodone for a cash only clinic. He started saying I was making false accusations about his practice. Getting upset about being repeatedly called a liar, I told him we knew that he was a pill mill, and that he is a felon, and asked if he informed the board of that as is required. He responded with "yes I've been through this with them; I've reported dozens of pharmacists like you to the board of pharmacy-" "...well I reported you to the DEA, the Board of Nursing, and the local police department, hopefully it goes better for you than it did for this other pill mill provider or your child abuse charges". He responded with "Don't you ever fucking talk about me or my kid[s] again". I said "Did you just threaten me? I think we're done here" and hung up. I immediately notified my pharmacy manager (who was on the same page as I was) and my pharmacy supervisor. I was as transparent as possible with the whole series of events. He filed corporate complaints against me with [FORMER EMPLOYER] and with the board of pharmacy. When he requested a call back from the supervisor, Chris (pharmacist supervisor) stated he was threatening to sue us for defamation, but to not worry about it and just let my manager handle him in the future. By this point my manager and I had to speak with a BOP investigator, who said they were more than familiar with Mr. Frank and other pharmacists were dealing with similar issues. I had communicated with an assistant general counsel for [FORMER EMPLOYER] about my statement for the board of pharmacy, and the events as I recalled them (late March/ early April). at 6pm on Thursday, April 14th, 2022 my wife was served a summons and complaint at our home that I was being sued by Mr. Frank for defamation and tortious interference. I notified my supervisor immediately, and faxed the summons and complaint to the company's assistant general counsel as I was subsequently instructed. I told them I had intended to use the company counsel to tender my defense and that they would reach out to me. In a text message exchange with my brother, who is a patent attorney, he suggested I not use the company's counsel because they would throw me under the bus if it was convenient for them. I did not listen. On Tuesday, after my shift had ended I was walked back to the store director's office, sat in front of an HR supervisor I've never met, the director, Chris. They asked what I said to Mr. Frank was accurate from the complaint i submitted to the board of nursing. I said it was, then I was told "we have to part ways, at least for now..." and terminated. TWO BUSINESS DAYS after I was served.
The summons and complaint were full of incredible inaccuracies, grammatical errors, spelling errors, and lies. Plaintiff stated he was not a felon, and that I was defaming him by telling other pharmacists that he was. IT IS CLEARLY EVIDENT FROM THE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE DATABASES HE PLEAD GUILTY TO A FELONY CHARGE. I found a private attorney who specializes in litigation who is well qualified and trust to the tune of $350/hr, which is actually a good rate for his level of experience and below average rate in this market. I applied for unemployment and went on a job hunting spree. I ended up 6 weeks later signing with [Big Chain Pharmacy] for a large signing bonus to fill my 'Warchest' after not being able to find any offers outside of retail pharmacy. My unemployment was contested by [FORMER EMPLOYER], and later declined by a judge when I appealed it. The store director argued he was the only one with the power to terminate me and he was uninformed of my conversation with Mr. Frank. Had I been better prepared, I believe I would have won as I believe his claim to be a flagrant lie: any time someone makes a corporate complaint it goes straight to the store director's email inbox.
Back at my new job, I spoke with other pharmacists in the company and relayed my experience and many were familiar with Mr. Frank. Apparently he went into a store to harass pharmacy staff for refusing to fill his prescriptions. After coordinating with a few others, we submitted a request to have a narcotic prescriber block against him within the company. After 2 weeks, we were notified that he would no longer be able to have controlled substance prescriptions dispensed by our company. A 60 day grace period would be given and mail would be sent to him and his 'patients' so they could make other arrangements. In the fall, I was interviewed over zoom with the state AG office with respect to my complaint, and after being in contact with a few local DEA Drug Diversion Task Force agents. The DEA agents stated their supervisor has a mantra of not taking action against providers/professionals until after their respective board hands down disciplinary action. A little later, I was notified the Board of Pharmacy complaint filed against me was dismissed.
I went through discovery and was deposed and after a little over a year, they withdrew their case with prejudice. The reason: plaintiff says I was defaming him by saying he was going over 50mMeq daily for all his patients. We said we would need patient information to confirm or deny that, and would need a protective order, to which his attorney agreed. Plaintiff refused to provide that information, citing HIPAA. We went to the judge and got an order to compel, which the judge agreed with. The deadline passed, and they did not provide the information (likely knowing it would immediately get handed over to the state AG's office). We went back to the judge who stated if they did not comply the court would look upon motions for sanctions and attorney's fees favorably. They continued to not comply, to which his attorney only said "i know, I'm sorry". They withdrew the case with prejudice before we were able to depose him. However, we were able to subpoena the county records in which he pleaded guilty to a felony and the board of pharmacy complaints he filed against other pharmacists and pharmacies (there were 15 in all by this time, some of which predated my involvement).
After this, I had to deal with getting my now $75,000 in legal fees back from [FORMER EMPLOYER]. Their attorneys were giddy that [FORMER EMPLOYER] was going to send their general counsel on a plane to be present for mediation. Because of this, my brother spent $2500 on a round trip flight to be present at mediation, because "this is what I'm good at". The Sunday before mediation we learned that general counsel wouldn't be there. In fact, nobody would other than their lawyers, and they had one of their attorneys who then had him available by phone. For some backstory, their VP of legal affairs and general counsel was THE FORMER CEO'S SON, who was given that position that usually requires a decade plus of experience at the age of like 32... My brother was pissed, he couldn't comp his ticket because he was co-counsel strictly to be in the fold and have privileged conversations. On top of that, they only offered 10k initially, and wouldn't agree to more than 15k after 5 hours. My brother said "this is insane, and I can't even go talk or yell at the guy because he isn't here". After 5 months of dealing with them and the mediator essentially telling them they were assured to lose, they agreed to settle for what was about 73% of my legal costs (about 25 days before our scheduled trial block would begin). There is no gag or confidentiality agreement in place, only mutual releases. Since then, nothing has happened to Frank with respect to the state AG's office, or the justice department. However, I did hear recently from a friend that [OTHER BIG CHAIN PHARMACY] is now refusing to dispense controlled substances for him. My former employer (sans my old store) continues to fill oxycodone for him, and I have been told the supervisor essentially tells pharmacists not to start trouble with him.
January 2024 update, Since then Frank's felony conviction has been reduced to a misdemeanor after completing a probationary period as a part of his initial plea deal. I recently learned that [FORMER EMPLOYER] now refuses to fill his oxycodone scripts after I settled with them.
I just wanted to let everyone know, never trust your employer. Public or Private, big or small, they won't hesitate to throw you under the bus if you become an inconvenience. Even if you have a decade of dedicated work, through the pandemic, on site covid testing, vaccine clinics that start at 3am, covering a last minute illness, personally delivering medications to notoriously unsafe neighborhoods in the dead of night, even being one of the few pharmacist trained to do nasopharyngeal swabs, and do so outside in -20F weather. They will discard you. And if you stand up for yourself, go public, or become a whistleblower, you'll become unhirable. This is why nobody does the right thing anymore.

Do I at least get some abs out of all this coughing?
And everything itches and I haven’t pooped in 3 days and I’m running out of Kleenex and my husband is snoring. How can he sleep? Is being completely irritated and hating everyone part of this, too? Why are the meds I’m taking all at different intervals? Why isn’t being put in a medically induced coma until it’s over part of the protocol? Why can’t someone invent a continuous Covid monitor like my continuous glucose monitor so I know when it’s getting close to over? Why is the tv so loud? Why is there a light on down the hall? Why are my lips so chapped? Why is your coat so big? How many times have I changed my pants today because I cough-peed? Why does the bedroom tv only have local stations? Why are they talking about using flooring for charcuterie boards on this show? How far did the contents of that sneeze just propel? Why does my big toe hurt? How long do I have to stay home? Why is he still snoring? Why are all my Facebook friends in exotic and wonderful places? What are these random muscle spasms? Why aren’t there any comfortable chairs in this house? Can I DoorDash a milkshake at 4 am? Why is my lip twitching? Does anyone have any leftover codeine cough syrup from the 90s when doctors were happy to prescribe it? Can’t somebody make me feel better already???

Does Indianapolis still have any non-chain pharmacies that will let you sign the logbook to get 4OZ of cough syrup with codeine? The cough syrup is technically schedule 5 exempt and OTC but the chains wont sell it. I have covid and asthma and am coughing until i almost throw up, but live in Mexico part of the year, so i had some cough syrup until yesterday. My doctor retired this fall from covid, so i dont have a relationship with my new one yet. Tried a virtual visit but they cant fill via virtual apparently.

Sorry for the long post, and thank you for reading and replying if you do!
I was diagnosed with croupy cough and a sinus infection after being sick with a cold for a week (I'm a preschool teacher for young 2's and 3's) and my doctor prescribed very low dose decadron for 3 days. (I've already taken the second dose)
Normally, any time I've been prescribed oral steroids my nervous system goes into overdrive- like smelling colors and feeling vibrations and shivering when not cold.
So, the doctor listened to my concerns, but also warned me that adults have more severe issues with croup, and that a very low dose steroid with be in my best interest, especiallysince he already saw ulcers forming in my nose and some possibly in my throat. He also gave me augmentin for the sinus infection and Tessalon pearls and guafenison with codeine for the cough.
I went with it, and the difference is very noticeable. (Nose stopped bleeding and I can actually breathe through my nose again after it was so swollen.) Cough meds are working, too, only taking the syrup at night since that's when cough is the worst- I get bronchitis regularly, so I know these work well for me normally and seem to be working now).
But, my goodness, I am in so much more pain than normal even when sick (i get bronchitis 2-4 times a year). And the shivering and bloating and all the fun shit that comes from steroids. And I'm super awake most of the time, barely sleeping at night.
My chronic issues are mostly fibromyalgia and psoriasis along with asthma (hence his concern for croup turning dangerous).
Does anyone else have issues with steroids like this? Or maybe it's the augmentin?

Hey guys! We have a 13 year old Chihuahua who rules the house with an iron paw. Unfortunately she has an enlarged heart and we are doing what we can for her. Currently she is on Enalapril 2.5mg, Furosemide 12.5mg, and Pimobendan 1.25mg. Because she is a spicy latina (lol), she does not enjoy taking pills so I pay for them to be ground into peanut butter at my local compounding pharmacy. We also have a codeine cough syrup we can spot use as needed.
The meds seem to make her thirsty, and she drinks alot of water and wakes my wife up often in the night to go out.
My question is: Could we be doing anything different/better? I wish comfort for our little Chihuahua Stella, and for my wife I wish a solid nights sleep. Any help or recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks all!

I got rinsed for asking about Rap Music but learnt a lot.
Q1: If people hear use The Gatweway Tapes and Binaural Beats to AP & meditate, why don't some believe that there's a possibility that the frequencies we listen to in music at can affect our abilities to AP and do spiritual stuff?
Q2: Why did one of the commmentors get downvoted for saying mainstream music has a lot of demonic symbolism when it blatantly does?
Q3: Does the sub believe the lyrics we hear whilst listening to music slowly enter our psyche?
From personal experience, being someone who listens to a lot of genres, when I listen to different music I quite literally change.
Like when I listen to rap, I feel more confident and energetic, but also more attached to material shit.
When I listen to Sinatra or Amy Whinehouse, I'm in a really good mood and enjoy the moment more.
When I listen to classical music (especially whilst doing any work) I feel slightly smarter.
Q4: I was told my post had racist connotations for asking if listening to mainstream rap could hinder my spirituality.
If I, a black man, have seen the symbolism put out by my favorite rappers and looked around to see my fellow black men and women talk about the lyrics all day hyping up other men and women for having lots of money, cars that they don't own, sleeping with multiple women, selling their souls for million dollar contracts and taking drugs, is it racist?
I can isolate an incident where a friend told me about hosting a party where their friends all brought codeine (a sort of cough syrup drug that rappers talked about) and all nearly OD'd. Codeine is ONLY advertized in rap music?
I'm a firm believer that you produce what you consume so can anyone give me some insight from a different persepctive?
I'm sorry for so many questions; I'm a curious guy.

After a hard day's work, be it as a humble ice miner in the Jovian colonies of the Sol system, an overworked system administrator in an megacorp in Alpha Centauri, or the tyrannical President-For-Life of a interstellar colony, there's nothing like going to the local watering hole and knocking back a few drinks.
What's your poison, my friend?
(We finally have a Sci-Fi flair. Thank you, mods.)
1) Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster - No one knows the true origins, or even the original recipe of this infamous cocktail, save for the fact that it's a human invention. Every bar that serves it has its own recipe, often including several of the most potent alcoholic drinks in the sector. Ordering this is guaranteed to make everyone in the bar look at you like you're either crazy, stupid, suicidal, or a combination of the three.
2) Nestar Tea - A tea made from a type of seaweed discovered under the frozen seas of Europa. Sweet with undertones of bitterness, it's often drank at the start and end of pub crawls to reduce the harshness of the hangover the next day.
3) Gruglok - A greenish-brown spirit favored by the warriors of the Martak system. Has the smell of boiled cabbage and the flavor of burnt toast and gourmet coffee.
4) Corrollian Swamp Water - Named for its greenish coloration. Despite its off-putting name and appearance, its described as having a pleasantly bitter flavor.
5) Starlight Stout - A dark beer from the Blue Comet Brewery, the Sol system's first orbital brewery.
6) Flesheater's Flask - Made from a fungus that grows on the carcasses of certain large predators - pureed, fermented, then distilled - the drink is believed by many to deliver an hourlong burst of physical strength at the expense of a sharp headache later. Scientists describe the effect as psychosomatic, but its fans are not convinced. [u/gnurdette]
7) Heavy Water - Just like it says. Pure water enriched in deuterium, served ice-cold. Some believe it tastes better and/or has health benefits. Fusion engineers are appalled at the waste. [u/gnurdette]
8) Comet Tears - a dilute colloid of comet dust in slightly sweetened grain alcohol. Has a metallic tang. [u/gnurdette]
9) Vat Beer - A dirt-cheap beverage produced by tanks full of genetically engineered microbes. Its manufacturers allege that it perfectly duplicates the chemical content of traditional beer. [u/gnurdette]
10) Cabernet ZG - A red wine produced from a grape cultivar bred for growth in microgravity. [u/gnurdette]
11) Cuidado Piso Mojado - It wasn't invented by humans, but the mandatory "wet floor" warnings give this drink its name and the drink's numbing sourness is sure to leave your salivary organs pumping for at least three days straight. [u/MaxSizeIs]
12) The Blue Milkshake - It's Blue flavored! It shakes! It's milk, sort of! Don't think too hard about the fact that it is motile when left in the glass too long. [u/MaxSizeIs]
13) Shin's Kiss - Whisky, soda, coconut milk and shin - which is made by soaking a cucumber in human urine for a week, then blending it to a nice, frothy texture. (Source: "The Man Who Never Missed", by Steve Perry). [u/RedwoodRhiadra]
14) Null - The first beer brand brewed entirely in zero gravity. Cans/bottles of the first few batches are numbered collectors items, but known to be absolutely terrible. It's been over a century since they started so they've had plenty of time to get right and it is now considered one of the better tasting low price beers since it can be made anywhere in space and you don't need to pay for artificial gravity. [u/43morethings]
15) Visker's Ale - Sure, you COULD let yeast turn sugar into alcohol but a small trilobite-like creature can do the same, faster. The only side effect is a not-so-vaguely crustacean flavor. Visker's Ale tastes like someone tried to make crab-cake flavored beer. You get used to it surprisingly fast and as a bonus is moderately nutritious. [u/Forsaken_Cucumber_27]
16) DROCST Sampler ######### - DROCST is the Distant Rapid Object Collection & Sampling Team, a government funded team that collects hundreds of thousands of samples from small comet bodies around the system. most of these samples contain water and the lunatics at DROCST Research decided to make Whiskey samplers from these various samples. These drinks have been likened to a Bernie Botz Anyflavor Bean as the taste and qualities of these samples varies to a truly disturbing degree. Each one is labelled with a 9 digit sample #, in case you find one to try again, or one to avoid at all costs. [u/Forsaken_Cucumber_27]
17) Visker's Bloat-tail Whiskey - Not only can those little exo-planetary Trilobites be used to make beer but their unique respiratory system can be sent into overdrive by removing their shell. Since they breathe through their skin, having more skin basically sends them into a state of hyperventilation and when fed sugary foods causes them to sweat profusely. This sweat? Makes a damn tolerable whiskey. Still with a crustacean overtone though. [u/Forsaken_Cucumber_27]
18) Clambread's Pirate Radio Brandy - Clambread is a famous Pirate Radio operator, who hides his illegal broadcast from the Rings of a "Secret Gas Giant". He has found a way of growing a type of heavily genetically modified Plum in the dust of the rings and it seems to thrive. The original juice from these plums is a class 6 toxin but suitably refined it becomes a Brandy like no other. Some people suspect this to be the real reason the radio station has not been seized, he has threatened to destroy the plants and end the Brandy supply. [u/Forsaken_Cucumber_27]
19) Hakushu Rockcherry Sake - A reclusive Japanese billionaire dies, leaving all his money to his only child, a autistic savant in the field of botanical genetics. Sounds like a holo-novel? Maybe, but this very real son spent all his inheritance to build a ship and claim a large asteroid, then spent decades creating a plant that can grow in the void of space. It's a brutally ugly "plant" covered in a protective mucous and the "cherries" it grows look like the devil's testicles but to his credit, the Sake it produces has been likened to mouth kissing an angel in free fall. [u/Forsaken_Cucumber_27]
20) Mawarannahr Nostoc Vodka - A Nostoc is a cyanobacterial... lump. An Uzbeki belter was supposed to be maintaining the water supply for an asteroid habitat but it was so severely underfunded that he had to shut down entire reclamation tanks because of Nostocs growing in the undertreated water. A normal person would have cleaned it but our bored Ukbeki had a better idea: Turn. It. Into. Booze. And. DRINK. IT. And God save us all, but he some how did it. It's terrible. I really mean it, you've had bowel movements that probably taste better but it DOES have a really high alcohol content and so... you can find it everywhere. He gave away his special breed of Nostoc to other drunkards and now there are a thousand varies of this appalling vodka home-produced by those desperate enough to drink it. This is where the famous drinking song "(Bless) The Uzbek In The Stars" comes from. [u/Forsaken_Cucumber_27]
21) Coldgrave Braintide - Spacers who die are left to the void. Their bodies tumbling slowing in the great void until the siren song of gravity drags them into a planet, or sun's final embrace. Except that some sick SOB discovered that there is a fungus that grows on corpses left in space. That you can distill said fungus. That this distillate contains a crazy cocktail of psychoactive chemicals and causes hallucinations. Really... oddly similar hallucinations, about space having "tides" and "channels" and "gravitic rivers". It's wildly immoral to have this drink found in your possession but here is a little known secret for ya': EVERY, and I do mean every, truly great starship pilot or navigator, has a shot of this at least once a month. They don't think it's a hallucination at all. They think it's the fungi teaching them how space works. Easy to disbelieve, and all official accounts do, but... they all drink it. [u/Forsaken_Cucumber_27]
22) Absynth - A fascinating new drink made possible by recent innovations in matter condensing and nuclear pasta, Absynth is 112% alcohol by volume! Noticeably heavier than any other spirit, just one shot of the pure stuff is enough to make a moonshiner go blind. Best enjoyed in mixers and cocktails. [u/Lawlkitties]
23) Rotgut - A frothy beverage made from hard liquor and a special alien microbe. The microbe works to convert alcohol back into sugar in the drink, resulting in a sickeningly sweet taste often compared to rotten apples. Although typically boiled before serving, avid Rotgut fans insist it is best served live. [u/Lawlkitties]
24) The Afterburner - A mouthwatering cocktail made from smokey whiskey and cinnamon syrup. Typically served hot and garnished with a wedge of lemon, an Afterburner is sure to put some hair on your chest, or maybe singe a few off. [u/Lawlkitties]
25) Voda Zhizni - A renowned vodka distilled aboard Sol’s own Gamayun, an Old Earth generation ship launched before the advent of modern FTL travel. Between federal restrictions on contact with “primitive” civilization, as well as their own aversion to outsiders, the drink is near unobtainable. The methods and ingredients are virtually unchanged from the vodka of Old Earth, and as such, each bottle is a rare taste of human heritage. A treasured drink of connoisseurs and historians alike. [u/Lawlkitties]
26) Dragon's Breath - Always served Flaming and drank while flaming. it is made from a Plant on Chi Draconis 12. Due to radiation storms, no 2 batches are the same as the plant keeps mutating. It is a swirling mass of some color that is impossible to quantify. It has hallucinogenic properties and it is highly recommended if you have psionic abilities you NEVER EVER drink this! It is banned on most Civilized worlds. [u/Adventux]
27) Oortshine - A powerful spirit originally invented by humans in the latter days of their early colonization efforts, before the invention of practical FTL drives. Created by engineers and miners in the asteroid bases and ices mines in the Oort cloud, it's traditionally made with distilled rocket fuel and engine coolant. Seeing as dead customers aren't repeat customers, most bars opt to serve the safer (though still quite potent) commercially made varieties.
28) "Chunky"-style "Holiday" Dinner from a Can, in a Cup, TO GO!(tm) - Brought to you by the innovative folks down at CorporationCo; Every bit as disgusting as it sounds; then add a scoop of "cranberry" dessert mix, a splash of pure Ethanol, a shot of Espresso, flash-chill in liquid nitrogen to just above freezing, and serve with a straw and an umbrella. Only madmen would enjoy the taste, but somehow it's a best-seller... [u/MaxSizeIs]
29) Reactor Lining - Popular among synthetics and radiation resistant species, it's mostly a mix of reactor coolant with a spritzer of hydrofluoric acid, and a few drops of fluorescent tracer solution to make it glow all pretty. [u/MaxSizeIs]
30) Slyders Dlite - One of the few hyper-dimensional liquids, 4D-ethanol stretches out your buzz in both time, space, and probability. You have to be careful though, you might make yourself so drunk you have a hangover yesterday from what your drink today, and your local wavefunction might get mixed up enough you phase through the deck plating a bit, or jump entirely to an alternate reality where everyone but you has a goatee and wears and eyepatch. [u/MaxSizeIs]
31) Event Horizon - A dark, almost black, rum made in a distillery in the research colony Michell-Laplace (named after John Michell and Pierre-Simon Laplace, the two men who first considered the idea of objects with strong enough gravitation fields to prevent light from escaping), the first and only space colony in a stable orbit around a black hole. Despite all the rumors surrounding the spirit (contains the spirits of the dead, allows you to see a realm of pain and madness, etc.), it's actually just a normal, if very high quality, dark rum.
32) Gene Slammer - A cocktail of pepper vodka, chili-infused tequila, spiced rum, and the ichor of a generically altered lifeform known as a drebbin. The ichor by itself is unpalatable, being described by one human as tasting like "somethin' that died, was left to rot fer a few days, ate an' puked up by a hog, an' ate an' s**t out by a buzzard". Mixed with the three drinks not only dulls the intense heat to a mild burn, but makes a cocktail that's considered far greater than the sum of its parts.
33) Slartibartfast - A drink that may or may not exist. No details seem to exist except for the name and the fact that it seems to cause short-term memory loss. [u/coffeeman235]
34) Gaussian Blur - The entire list of ingredients are a mystery to all but the Orthodox Techno Monks of Trappist Asteroid Pied-Roch-Newton-17; rich in nano-scale black holes, the Hawking radiation gives it a delightful fizzing; and the magnetic monopoles, chilled to 4 Kelvin and splash of superfluid Helium give it a smoothness that is sure to wipe your quantum memory cells. Don't let your meat-bag organic buddies try this one though, order them the more tame anasthetic with the same name, even though it tastes like shit they won't remember enough of the night to care. [u/MaxSizeIs]
35) Hyperspace Jump - a cocktail of wormhole herb liqueur, military-grade energy drinks, and rum, everyone who's had it tells the same story: they finish the drink, next thing they know they wake up in a bed they don't recognize, somewhere in the universe. [u/dolfijntje]
36) Black Hole - for when all you want to do is forget everything that happened today. Rumor says heavy users brains turn into swiss cheese, but the distillery that produces it adamantly denies it. [u/WeirdEidolon]
37) Alaskan Polar Bear Heater - An obscure variant of Long Island iced tea from a mid-20th century Earth movie. [u/YanniRotten]
38) Bucket - It is just a dirt-cheap bucket of grogged up cleaning alcohol mixed with varying amounts of care with "water". Is it good? No, not usually. Is it cheap? Yeah. Will you wake up half-naked in a storage-hold or with a new STD and tattoo? Maybe. It is like Soju on Earth. [u/Th3R3493r]
39) Liquid Lunch Nugget - It is a edible shotglass that you can keep in your pocket. It is like a flavorless gel pod that can hold any drink you may want. Just pop it in your mouth, let your spit and body warmth pop the pod, drink your drink and eat the pod. [u/Th3R3493r]
40) Apollo Swallow - A cocktail mix of Jägermeister (spiked with a bit of Pervetin and a microdose of DMT (if traditional)), Bourbon (American), Vodka (Russian), and a can of Coca-Cola Clear. It is a bit of a history buff joke drink that harkens back to the space race of the 1960s and the first Cold War. [u/Th3R3493r]
41) Buzzcut - A delicious mixture of generically engineered giant killer-wasp venom, hair spray serum, and isopropyl alcohol. Gets you real buzzed, holds style all day long. [u/MaxSizeIs]
42) Monkey Wizz - Vodka, Sea monkeys, Simple syrup, Ammonia based cleanser, a splash of Benzene, and Bitters. [u/MaxSizeIs]
43) Lighter Fluid - Lighter fluid, in a shot glass rimmed with salt. [u/MaxSizeIs]
44) Hair of the Dog - Vargr-fur, denatured with ultra concentrated sodium hydroxide, a float of fuming nitric acid, and a spritzer of Jagermeister. [u/MaxSizeIs]
45) Aqua-net - Hairspray, and Lemon Pledge(tm), vaporized ethanol. Served via breath-mask. [u/MaxSizeIs]
46) Diffused gemstone - A glistening opaque drink that comes from various melted gems having it’s temperature locked to a chill refreshing degree. High in minerals. [u/LotusTurtles]
47) Dry Red Giant - Surviving liquor preserved in presence of an orbitally solar locked planet, the uv radiation gives the clear liquid an astronomic dryness. [u/LotusTurtles]
48) The Nasty Canasta - Named after a villain from a 20th-century Earth cartoon, this cocktail is often described as "a multicolored, bubbling witch's brew made of some of the most potent spirits in the Sol system". Traditionally served in a highball glass, and meant to be drank in one go. Being able to drink it all at once is consider to some a sign of toughness, and to others a sign of questionable sanity. Be careful not to spill it, it's been known to strip paint off of starship hulls.
49) The Powers of Naughtiness - A reference to a 21st-century Earth cartoon. Served in a shot glass, this drink is equal parts whiskey, tequila, and a hot sauce with no less than a 1,000,000 Scoville rating. This particular drink is really, really hot!
50) Beta Centaurian Fenjiu - A form of spirit created by Chinese colonists in the Beta Centauri system using a grain unique to the one terrestrial planet in the system. The flavor has been described as "Like drinking a triple shot of corn whiskey, swallowing a lit match, and then having someone bash your head in with a propane tank".
51) Carbon Black - A thermally treated cellulose aerogel saturated with medical grade ethanol, floated on simple syrup spiced with extract of Euphorbia resinifera, served in a double-lined ewer flask of liquid nitrogen. [u/MaxSizeIs]
52) Spicy Boi - Military grade capsaicin spray served with vodka and tomato juice. Garnish with celery. [u/MaxSizeIs]
53) Flitter - Biolumenescent extracts mixed with Beechwood Aged Deuterated ethanol and pint of Lager. [u/MaxSizeIs]
54) Double Dark Nebula - Food-grade botanical extracts that modulate mammalian γ-aminobutyric acid receptors, mixed with espresso, and chocolate flavored dairy substitute beverage. [u/MaxSizeIs]
55) Starshine - A whiskey made from a combination of maizes and grains specifically found on stellar farms (space stations designed specifically for agriculture). The original recipe was invented by a stellar farmer who lost it in a game of gin rummy to the owner of a commercial distillery, who then improved, patented, and marketed the recipe. A cheap drink, but beloved for its mild burn and sweet flavor.
56) The HMV Beowulf - Every port of call served by the Spacer's Guild has one, a drink named after the most recent large ship to transit thru this port of call, lost to space. This one is named after "Hyperspace Merchant Vessel Beowulf" lost 7 standards ago, a long-haul Giga-Trader plying the space lanes with 377 crew lost. Like most drinks named after lost vessels, the ingredients are simple, this one: Denatured Ethanol, mixed with crushed botanical "breath freshening" candies from the chief engineer's home port, and colored with a drop of iodine. The taste of the candies is faintly black licorice, underarm deodorant, and violets. [u/MaxSizeIs]
57) The Love Bug - This one comes in the form of an inhaler and is served with a chaser. Vaporized MDMA, Synthetic Mammalian Oxytocin, and aerosolized Ethyl methylphenylglycidate. Artificial strawberry-flavored syrup is added to a chaser of cold, full-fat dairy substitute and a single tiny drop of Red #40. [u/MaxSizeIs]
58) The Rob Roy to Pay Paul - Never ask a Quilgnonian to sing Ancient Classical Human Ballads; as the creators of this drink discovered, after attempting to coax Quilgnonian Replicators to synthesize an imitation Rob Roy while at a Quilgnonian Kareoke Bar and accidentally pulling up "Silly Love Songs" by ancient human composer and musician Paul McCartney. Quilgnonian psycho-acoustics will give you a mean hangover, but apparently, it's the only way to get it to taste right... [u/MaxSizeIs]
59) Cyan Cynar Smoothie - Occasionally some obscure liquors will sneak into the local bar scene and birth some truly strange, but somehow passable drinks. A pureed artichoke smoothie, with added Cynar bitters, an artichoke and herbal digestif. Add a bit of Blue 1 Lake to the mix and the result is vegetal, earthy, with notes of caramel, toffee and cinnamon, and an bitter herbal finish. [u/MaxSizeIs]
62) Renarian Foxfire Wine - A spicy wine made from the pepper-like foxfire berries. Comes in a variety of spice levels, usually indicated by the color of the berry and the resulting wine. Red and yellow are the most mild, blue being very spice, and milky-white having a spice level comparable to the hottest cultivars of capsicum chinense.
63) Trawntaki Battlebrew - An herbal whiskey invented by the warrior clans of Trawntak. It's Trawntaki tradition to drink a shot before combat, and a large bowlful after a major victory.
64) John Jones Monroevian Moonshine - Fine sipping whiskey and high explosive. The preferred beverage of the suicidal, the idiotic, the insane, the masochistic, and the pyromaniacal. Ingredients include muskrat squeezings, nitroglycerin, and other additives both natural and unnatural. For most drinks "If you drink this, you will die" is considered a warning. For the JJMM, it's a statement of quality. (From the webcomic Freefall).
65) Sal Miagi - An artisanal blend of medicinal Martian-grown Acorus gramineus and Glycyrrhiza glabra extracts, 80 proof Vodka, pureed Yuzu syrup, and a rim of sugar and Ammonium Chloride, garnished with authentic chocolate covered dessert biscuit sticks, premium, life-like holographically projected Musca domestica, space-ship wax, and "historically plausible" headband. [u/MaxSizeIs]
66) Peach Swamp Fizz - A vegetal liqueur made in only the finest of engineering departments using military-grade evaporation coils; pure ethanol, a maceration of fermented premium grade Phasmidian (a race of giant stickbug insectoids) grown "Carnelian Burley" Pipe Tobacco, glycerine, and a few drops of synthesized γ-Decalactone; to get the proper effect, the imbiber must both vaporize the first few milliliters of their drink, inhale and then eject it using their breathing spiracles into a vortex torus, and then drain the glass. [u/MaxSizeIs]
67) Wall Smasher - A name that strikes fear into the heart of any bar-hopper. A thick inky-black abomination formed from three shots of Salmiakki Liqueur, mixed with an eye-dropper full of 25 ppm concentrated Methyl anthranilate in Propylene glycol alginate, 15 mg of Codeine Phosphate Syrup, chill and carbonate the mix with liquid nitrogen, and then float with a layer of Crème de Menthe. A proper glass is distinctly shaped like a rotund humanoid pitcher with arms and legs, and features a low-powered UV LED ring to showcase the fluorescence and a built-in acoustic device blasting the distinctive: "OH YEAH!" each time the drink glass is tilted to imbibe. [u/MaxSizeIs]
68) Paradoxal Shot - A drink you'll never be able to finish. After attempting to drink it, you'll find you still need to drink it. Luckily, the buzz remains. Bartenders typically just throw it back into the bottle at the end of a night. It tastes of bitter dreams, forgotten asperations, and a hint of vanilla. [u/snakebite262]
69) Xeno-Bananas Beer - Not really made of bananas. Not really beer. Quite tasty though. A sweet, ale-like substance which causes a mild euphoria. [u/snakebite262]
70) Rat Poison - It's a drink that's poisonous to most humans, but certain species find it a pleasant drink. It's extremely sweet. [u/snakebite262]
71) Ko-ro-tak Killer - A drink that causes the sentient Ko-ro-tak to explode in a gorey mess. Luckily, it's ineffective on humans. Moreso, it tastes wonderfully of gunpowder, citrus, and meat. [u/snakebite262]
72) Space French 75 - For some reason, France exists in many spaces throughout the universe. A similar history, similar language, similar name, a strange form of convergent evolution. Regardless, the Space French 75 is made of Spacer's Gin, a small yellow citrus' juice, French Champaign, a dash of simple syrup, and a strange red ball that could be a Maraschino cherry. [u/snakebite262]
73) The Unmaker - While the other ingredients vary from station to station, and are added primarily as a buffer, the main ingredient of this drink is it's namesake. Unmaker is a viscous, singularity-black liquor that induces headaches in all sapients who look directly at it. An unmaker is usually described as "sharp, tasting like smoke, ice, and the yawning abyss of time between now and the last time you were truly happy". [u/AlephBaker]
74) Supernova Whisky - Distilled aboard a satellite close to an exploding star. Gamma rays are supposed to age the whisky with a particular citric taste that connoisseurs say its nigh-impossible to replicate. Usually served alone or with a mostly decorative piece of dry ice. [u/Phoenix_667]
75) Cacti Coctel - While it certainly contains fine Martian cacti alcohol, its main component its actually the secretion of a starfish-like creature, now extinct on its home planet but widely available synthetically. The name was designed to quash rumours about the secretions actually being excrement. [u/Phoenix_667]
76) Jovian Storm - A thin slice of lemon, tonic water, Jovian Crusher (a >90° spirit aged in the high pressures of Jupiter's atmosphere) and a dash of cherry and gin. So-called "True" Jovian Storm, an overpriced variant, is said to also include ice from a Jovian moon, but more often than not these are regular ice, maybe with salts to simulate a distinct flavor. [u/Phoenix_667]
77) Naked Singularity - Extremely high alcohol content, many variations exist, but all contain 80° Void (made of octopi ink and SRS728 Grapefruit) and a dash of "Aurora dust" (the spores of a genetically modified relative of psylocybin mushrooms). Not quite psychoactive aside from the alcohol, but long rumored to cause madness in most species not used to the contents. [u/Phoenix_667]
78) Tuna Salad Float on Rye - The Catians love it. 2 scoops Vanilla ice cream mixed with 3 oz. Canned tuna, floated over 1 cup of nitro-carbonated catnip-extract tea, and four shots of Rye. [u/MaxSizeIs]
79) Whey-st-not Want-not - "Six hundred Standard years ago, the Aetherian Agricultural concerns of the floating celestial islands of 'Fair-Isle-above-Highland' … (What? That is literally the system's name. No, I don't think it was a good name either, but I'm just the bartender telling you about the drink. Complain to them, instead. Where was I? Oh yeah..) ... It's made of whey. Okay? Fermented whey. I could go all in on the historical provenance of the liquor here, but really what do you care? It's Barrel-aged from finest Fair-Isle Bog wood and peat infused barrels from the cloudy lowlands of F.I.A.H.? No, it doesn't taste like cheese. Yes, whey. Yes from cattle. Yes, Mammalian ruminant secretions. Yes. Seriously." [u/MaxSizeIs]
80) Surely, a Temple - Small-batch made Artisanal Ginger Beer, sweetened with ritually blessed rhododendron honey, Grenadine syrup made specifically from pomegranates grown and tended by Vestal and Persephonean Virgin Priestesses, topped with a maraschino cherry, and just a microgram of (6aR,9R)- N,N- diethyl- 7-methyl- 4,6,6a,7,8,9- hexahydroindolo- [4,3-fg] quinoline- 9-carboxamide.
81) Frostfire Liqueur - A traditional drink of the satyr-like Fawruni. Similar in some ways to Terran absinthe, it's served one of two ways traditionally: Mixed with hot spring water and served warm, or mixed with glacial melt and served cold.

Hi all I'm about 3 weeks pregnant. Today I was able to get the MA pills directly from my pharmacist.
Does anyone have any advice on what time would be best that I should take them or anything else?
I'm guessing I can't take naproxen sodium for pain?
I have Maltifer iron syrup, heating pads, codeine + panadol, ibuprofen, heavy night pads, maternity pads, light pads
Any advice for anything else I should get? Is it best to take the first pills at night or morning? Any other side affects I should know about or watch out for?
Thanks

I have a problem with one of our patients. It's Bob AKA Aircraftman. He's still attempting to heal up, but he is still falling.
At the pinnacle, he was given 70mcg Fentanyl patch and I believe 8 mg of Dilaudid twice per day. His Oncologist is 75 and doesn't speak much, the nurse did most of the work. His radiation has been over for a couple of weeks, but he continues to get up and walk and fall because he feels zero pain.
He is down to 50mcg of Fetanyl and still taking Dilaudid. Bob is 77 years old. He's very thin, so I don't think he would need a higher dose due to his weight.
Has anyone heard of giving this high of dosage of pain meds to a H&N throat patient? He was receiving this before going into the hospital after breaking his hip. He blacked out, fell, and was on the floor.
Then, once in the hospital was stripped of his pain meds for a bit. I recall complaining about that.
However since then, he has hurt his hand, and recently just fractured a couple of vertebrae in his back that will need surgery. He just has not had a chance of getting his MRI lined up yet.
Does this sound a bit like over-medicating to anyone?
I was only given Oxycodone at the worse portions of my treatment, and codeine cough syrup after it was over to control my cough. They then started to take me off until I whined at the end that I was going along with it because I didn't want to be assumed an addict, but I was in pain in my mouth and had cancer again.
But I have never had anything stronger than Oxycodone. Let alone anything in addition.
I'd just like some people's opinions on this.

I've been coughing so much I feel like I've done a thousand sit-ups. Doctor treated me with a rather painful shot to the backside and some cough remedy called "Tessalon Perles", which does not ease the cough. I returned to ask for stronger cough remedy, and he said that the DEA no longer allows codeine cough syrups.
So as I lay awake in desperate exhaustion I thought "why not make some cough remedy like mama used to make?" It always worked. Honey, white sugar, lemon, and whisky. After all, it's for medicinal purposes, and I am exhausted from coughing. I won't even enjoy it. I'll just buy a tiny bottle and make it by the spoonful to stop this cough. If the doctor can't help me I'll have to help myself. I have to get some sleep. My flanks hurt from all this coughing...and on and on.
This is a new tactic from the Moderation Monster. Trying to slip is as "medicinal". In the light of day I see this for what it is. That MM bastard trying to worm its way back into my life with sympathy..."you need a break from the coughing, you poor baby".
You won't fool me. Shut up. Go away. And don't come back again into my nights no matter how much I cough or long for relief. The only relief I need is sobriety.
Death to the Moderation Monster, you sneaky lying shyster. You won't fool me. IWNDWYT, not even a teaspoonful.

So I’m sick, again, whoop-dee-do! (sarcasm)
I have a nagging bad cough again. The kind that keeps you up all night long and everyone in the house up as well. I took normal cough syrup and the prescribed cough syrup with some codeine in it that was left over from the last time I had this bad of a cough and needed to go to urgent care. My parents were against it as it was inconvenient for them and when my father spoke with the receptionist he said the big issue was that I was keeping everyone else awake with my coughing.
Love having emotionally neglectful and emotionally abusive parents (sarcasm again). And by that I mean the kind of parents who boast about being in the top 1% of middle class families financially in the USA but then when my birthday rolls around or Christmas rolls around I am told that by my parents that times are hard and they can’t afford many gifts so I need to be frugal. To my mom picking fights with my dad because he spends an insane amount of money on Amazon shit and then won’t replace the rotted siding on the house with actual decent quality siding.
Living with my parents is exhausting mentally. It makes me wish I was never born or dead most days. I get told I need to learn to cope better when I have meltdowns for their sakes. I get told I need to go to therapy to fix me because I wasn’t like this when I was a teen (not true at all I just was so depressed that meltdowns didn’t happen as often) and therefore I can go back to how I was when I was easier to deal with. I get told by my mother that she gets tired of being my caretaker. I get told I’m a problem for having depression and anxiety and for trying to find ways to make life easier for me and getting fed up with my parents for their lack of empathy. I get told that my passive suicidal thoughts aren’t serious and that I’m just manipulating others.
Now it’s all coming to a head as I lie in my bed trying to fall asleep only to end up in another terrible coughing fit and then needing to get up to use the restroom cause I have weak ass bladder. Fun stuff. Also happy birthday month to me! I also have to work on my birthday and my youngest sister might be getting serious (planned) surgery on my birthday weekend. Don’t get me wrong. I feel horrible for my sister and if she has to have the surgery then then so be it. I will be there for her and get her the ice-packs she needs, fill up her water bottle for her, bring her snacks, and be her cry buddy. It just sucks cause it will give my parents the perfect excuse to ignore me on my birthday weekend and will end up being another shit birthday.
My birthday isn’t something I really care about at this point anyways. All the presents I want (all reasonably priced) have been shot down by my parents. So no gifts for me! Perfect for them though since they are so fucking frugal.
Sorry if this offends anyone. I needed to vent. This is a safe space for me and it’s hard being the eldest sister and being stuck living with your parents when your youngest siblings have all moved out and found peace. They don’t know about how when we were young kids our parents would tell me that we were suddenly in debt and I needed to be the grownup and ask for lots less in regards to presents. Then get in trouble on Christmas Day for being upset that I got almost nothing cause its all that I asked for.
They don’t know about how mom uses me as her marriage counselor complaining to me about my dad all the time and how she would blow up at me if I didn’t agree or defended my father. They don’t know about the countless boundaries I put in place with our parents only for them to disrespect those boundaries and blow up at me for trying to enforce them. They don’t know about how I now sit in silence as our mother berates dad other some stupid shit because when she does the same to me he doesn’t stand up for me so why should I get myself in trouble with mom by defending him when he won’t defend me against mom?
I’m not actually suicidal. I actually feel tired now (cough syrup must’ve started working thankfully) and will try to get some sleep. I have work on Sunday and it’s Saturday morning (1am). It’s just passive suicidal thoughts that I get frequently from putting up with my parents shit. Tomorrow is a new day and hopefully I will feel better when I wake up and this cough is just due to my being very allergic to every pollen known to mankind.

I'm 45F, white American, overweight, dx'd last week with a sinus infection and have been on antibiotics. All other symptoms have cleared up but I have the most godawful dry cough I've ever experienced.
I have asthma and it's typical for me to have a lingering cough for several weeks after any kind of cold/flu/sinus issue. So I am not very concerned about this being a sign of something more serious (and I'm not having any other symptoms).
BUT. I've taken prescription benzonatate, max dose dextromethorphan, guaifenesin, and cough drops. I've used my inhaler. I'm lying down because even sitting up makes me breathe a little harder and that starts another coughing fit, and then I end up throwing up again and peeing myself (I've had babies so yk, coughing does that). This has been constant since last night and I can't function like this, and I'm really needed at work this week.
My question: Is there anything else doctors can do for me? Is it worth going in? Or are they just going to tell me to hydrate and keep doing what I'm doing? They don't prescribe the codeine cough syrup anymore, which is fine, but I worry if I ask for "something more" they'll think I'm a drug seeker, and that's not my goal - I am just so miserable right now. Are there any possible treatments a doctor could do at this point?
ETA my current meds list is as long as my arm & is mostly psychiatric stuff. I don't want to type it all out but I can if anyone thinks it's relevant. Nothing has changed lately except the addition of low dose trazodone for insomnia.

From the FBI's website concerning prescription drugs/legally obtainable substances -- "Candidates cannot have sold, distributed, manufactured, or transported any prescription drug without legal authorization."
5-6 years ago, I was sick in college and went back home for a weekend. When I returned to school, my mom said she included some medicine for me in box of other supplies. When I checked after returning, it was cough syrup (codeine) that had been prescribed to her and I used it even though I shouldn't have. To the best of my recollection, I either threw it away or returned it to my mom, but I did not use it again.
(my mom doesn't speak English that well so she probably didn't realize that codeine is a scheduled narcotic, but it's definitely my fault for not being more careful)
Apologies for this perhaps dumb or straightforward question--Does having driven back to school with a bottle of prescribed (not to me) codeine count as having transported without legal authorization? To my mind, I'm guessing it does and I'm slightly bummed that this automatically disqualifies me so I'm wondering what others here may think. Thank you for any feedback.

Dunno where to even begin with this absolute mess in my mind. Just woke up from a horrible nightmare, and my brain isn't exactly functional at the momemt. I'm a novelist, meaning I'm usually too wordy for my own good. Oh well! I make no apologies for my chosen profession, considering I became this as a direct result of my PTSD.
I "died" in USAF Basic training at Lackland, AFB, Texas, when I was 18 years old. Obviously I didn't DIE-die, or I couldn't be typing this on a phone in the darkness of a strange back patio. I'm fairly certain this vacation triggered the nightmare, as I'm in an unfamiliar location, far from my house.
But yes, I did flatline as a result of some terrible people, and it's pretty much ruined my ability to trust other human beings. I trust my cats more than any human being, because people've been so deceptive towards me, to the point I should have died at their merciless hands. I'm not really 100% sure how I survived, either. So let me just get into the meat of this dish--you don't win friends with salad!
I joined the US Air Force straight outta 12th grade, barely 18 years old. Went to the MEPS for my initial testing, physical etc. (Apparently I have abnormal feet. Neat!) After HOURS of testing, it's finally time to pick preferred jobs in the service. I was shocked and horrified to learn I had to pick 3, and whatever one became available first, that's what I was going to do for the next four years. I wanted to do ATC, and put that as my first choice. As it turns out, if you want to be an ATC, there's EVEN MORE tests unique to that job!
To be sure I could even choose that as one of my options, I had to go take another hearing test which was much quieter and much harder to hear than the standard radio frequency test they gave us already. Despite always listening to heavy metal at volumes which would melt concrete, my hearing was the absolute best it could be, and I nailed that test, too. You have to press a button depending on which headphone a sound is coming from, and man, I think it's easier to hear dust settling on a pillow. Then I had another test with this dude who looked like an evil scientist from a Saturday Morning cartoon. He was explaining to me how I needed to have a certain cranial cavity volume and it had to be in the correct places, due to the altitude I would essentially be living at my whole career.
I get sworn in as official government property, and they tell me I'll likely get a call in around 9 months. I got a call four DAYS later telling me ATC was opening up and it was time to decide whether I wanted to accept or not. I asked "can I think this over?" I was told "yes, you've got 30 seconds."
I think that right there was a major crux in all of this. I was not physically nor mentally ready to go from civilian student working in construction yards, to soldier, in a single week. I don't know how many people can actually do that. I only know I'm not one of them.
Two weeks into Basic, I got sick. REALLY sick, in fact. The CO Doctor at the infirmary of the 320th ("The Rock") was as absolute punkweed. Told me I had a cold and gave me cough syrup and Tylenol. I made the mistake of telling him "Sir with no undue respect, I believe this is more serious than a cold." Oops, I'm an NCO telling a CO how to do his job! Even better, a fresh E-4 was standing outside the door, and comes stomping in with his boot clickers screaming at me "You think you know more than a doctor? Think you can run your pisshole wherever you want around here?" Had to give two of those dumb paper slips out, one to each of them. I forgot the name of them... 347s? Maybe? I forget... it was so long ago. They're little squares of paper each trainiee has to make with your name, which squadron and dorm your outfit is with, and your TI's name. You have to make these yourself, to hand out when you get in trouble. I had to hand out 2, for daring to care about my health, and get cussed and screamed at by two people, while sitting in silence.
Then, in his arrogant fury, this Doctor gets out a form and starts filling it out, telling me "you think you're so educated on this? You think I REALLY don't know what I'm talking about? Fine. Here." Hands me the form. "Go get chest X-rays at Wilford Medical Hall. Return the x-rays to me tomorrow." So, I talked to my TI and got a buddy to join me on the trip down to Wilford. Get x-rays, waited hours to get physical x-rays in a folder. Took them back to jerk doc, went back to the dorm and went to bed. The next morning after PT, I'm instructed to head to the 320th infirmary.
I go into the doc's room, and he does the dejected glasses drama removal. Puts my x-rays up on the lightboard, pointing at these white marks all over my lungs and says "okay... you were right. You have acute bronchitis." He actually apologized to me, which was the only time a superior ever apologized to me. Gave me much stronger cough syrup with codeine, multiple days of bed rest, and sitting details only for 10 days following that bed rest. These are orders from a CO, and supercede any orders my direct TI could give me, as TIs are also NCOs.
This was when it all went down.
I'm laying in bed around 6:45pm, feeling pretty dead. All the noise of the dorm sounds like a rave party to me. I was only in bed for five minutes when an element leader comes up to my bed with an absolute attitude, decrying me as lazy and unmotivated. I tell him I have doctors orders for bed rest, and he actually fingers his way through my night display uniform and is not only looking at them, but reading them aloud to the entire dorm. Even my TI was not LEGALLY allowed to look at my doctor's orders, much less a mere element leader.
He hangs onto that "sitting details only" bit while ignoring the bed rest which has to come first. He moves away and I'm just done with his crap, try to close my eyes again. Next thing I know I'm being dragged by my right arm and leg out of my top bunk, smashing bones into the steel bedframe as I fall out. Then all four of my limbs are being used to carry me down the A-Bay, down the aisle between beds, straight into the latrine. Having been in bed, I was wearing only a brown t-shirt, tightie whities, and ankle socks. Please remember that I had BRONCHITIS at this point, because the four element leaders didn't care, as they forced me to clean the urinals with my bare hands. At one point I asked for rubber gloves, and they just laughed at me and told me to toughen up. Their sadism didn't stop there, either. Because then they made me clean all the pipes under the sinks with chrome cleaner, which contains ether... which I was now inhaling directly, on a filthy tile floor of a bathroom used by SIXTY MEN.
You may be wondering why I say "made me" or that they "forced" me. Like, I had a choice, didn't I? Well, objectively yes, I did. But when an entire dorm pretends to not see what's happening? When absolutely nobody so much as raised a single word in my support? It takes a lot of your guts away, especially at a mere age of 18.
It still didn't end there. That first element leader STILL wasn't satisfied yet, and tells me "since you like to run your mouth so much, read the entire BMTSG, front to back. Every word. Out loud, loud enough for the entire dorm to hear you."
The Basic Military Training Study Guide is a 300~ page long TOME we all carried a copy of at all times. You're expected to have memorized the entire thing by week 4. Not simply have read it, but memorized it ad verbatim. Every single word. I managed to yell out up around the 80th page by the time 8PM hit, and it was lights out. I went to bed feeling worse than I'd ever felt.
And then, the next morning? Time for the 2.5 mile run, in the 20 degree freezing morning. Every part of me told me to refuse to run, to just make a big deal about it, take the punishment and make up for it in remedial PT later. But I was so mad... I was absolutely furious unto madness. I didn't just want to run, I wanted to smoke my entire flight and make them look weak; that a sick child could outrun them. And you know what? I did. I will never get over that absolute joyous thrill of watching one of the element leaders who had just tortured me last night PUKING his guts out on the pitch. A TI came up alongside him and screamed out a volcanic array of "RUN WHILE YOU PUKE. DID YOU JUST GET YOUR VOMIT ON MY GRASS? MOVE YOUR ASS. MOVE. RUN. NOW." He started crying like a pathetic baby while sluggishly shuffling his feet and flailing his arms like a t-rex.
But that moment was short-lived. As I then had a very interesting thought come into my head. "Where did I leave my legs? I know I had them when that guy was throwing up. Weird. I didn't... wait. What?" Those were the last lucid thoughts I can recall. Apparently I passed out on the pitch right before the goal line. I had a dream while I was "out." I was back home trying to hook up a Nintendo 64 and PlayStation to our big entertainment center, and fumbling with wires. When I became lucid again, I realized those wires were all plugged into ME. I had a single thought at that very moment.
"I want my mom."
I was broken and battered more than words can express. Then I get asked by a doctor "what were you running for? Why weren't you excused from PT?" I told him bronchitis isn't a valid PT excuse and he looks at me quixotically, and says "you have viral lung pneumonia. You shouldn't even have been walking. You're lucky to be alive." He was also NOT happy with the infirmary doc at the 320th. But I didn't tell him what happened in the dorms that one night.
I ended up being transferred to the 319th, "Crutchland," where injured or incredibly ill trainees go temporarily. Once recovered you get put into another flight that was on the same training week as when you left off. However, in my case, I wasn't just sent to the 319th, but to "the B dorms." Dorms B-9 and B-10 were the "You're being sent home" dorms of the 319th. Most people there had major stress fractures in their shins, and needed months of recovery off-base before being sent back.
I, however, was not going home temporarily. I was being kicked out. I'd just spent a week in Wilford with a vapor tube being lodged down my throat every 3, 6, 9 and 12 AM & PM, for seven days in a row. Guess how much rest I got in that time? That's right... none. For a WEEK. And then I'm being kicked out? After being FREAKING TORTURED? AND KILLED?! Great. Okay. Cool. There's no justice in this world; learned that at 18 right then and there, lemme tell ya what.
Somehow things stayed about as bad. Colonel Dunbar (yeah lady, I still remember your name... I will never forget your name) who was in charge of Lackland, AFB, decided to wait to sign my discharge papers. Waiting and waiting and waiting... until I was in Basic training for longer than it even takes to finish Basic. When did I finally get discharged? Two days before it would have changed from Erroneous Enlistment to Honorable Discharge.
TWO. DAYS. SHE WAITED ON PURPOSE! She threw me off to the side until they would've had to be decent human beings to me. As in the end, I was discharged under the pretenses of "inability to maintain military composure," that my enlistment was a mistake, and blacklisted from ever joining ANY military branch in the country for the rest of my life.
Now I get PTSD nightmares, where I'm rejoining the Air Force and getting tortured again. I can never speak up, or do anything to defend myself. The worst ones are where the latrine is a serpentine network of catacombs, and there's a river of filthy water flowing through it that I'm supposed to clean, while completely naked. It's always full of urine, feces, and skeletal rotting corpses. People are all standing up on rafters above me, fully clothed, looking down on, and mocking me. It always looks a little different in the dorms, and one time the dorm was in a Final Fantasy-style airship for some reason.
But I always ask myself the same question, for nearly 20 years now, "why do I keep rejoining? I don't want to be here. How did I end up here again? I don't even remember going to the MEPS."
Then I wake up, reminded that I'm an ardent and horrific failure at everything I've ever wanted or cared about doing. I've battled with suicidal thoughts on a daily basis all these years because of how severe it gets, even just in my dreams.
There's only one thing I can do well in any capacity; one single, little thing... I am a damn good writer. I had to become one, because I'm still incapable of expressing these things verbally. Instead, I decided to not just escape, but create a world for others to escape into, too. I know I'm not the only person who's had to endure such things, and so it became tantamount, in some way, for me to help others.
I have written ten novels in the last 20~ years, the majority of which was written while I was my dad's caretaker, during his last decade of life.
It's all so bittersweet for me, as I never would have explored this talent unless my life was destroyed out from under my feet. And so, this is the only sword I have to combat the endless throngs of personal demons.
And no matter what anybody does to me, or says to me; this skill is MINE. It belongs to ME. It's MY weapon, and I will fight so long as even a single molecule of blood exists in my body; for not even Death himself could take me down.
So what can mere men do to me? I say; nothing.
Only I can make myself hurt. Only I can make myself bleed. My dreams, nightmares, all of my pain--mental, and physical.
It's MINE. It belongs TO ME.
AND YOU CAN'T TAKE IT FROM ME THIS TIME.

Been together 8 months. Currently living together.
He let himself open up last weekend and shared some information of past relationships with me. There’s so much to go through I can’t even be bothered to type it all out.
We met on tinder and talking on the phone every night, barely texted. He still does the same thing and calls me on his way home from work. His birthday was last week so I asked if I could see his license. LOW AND BEHOLD today was his last day to renew his licence without being penalized and he also changed his address to our address. That we share. While he waited an hour in line I went and bought lunches and grabbed a couple things we needed around the house.
Now yesterday we went to his parents and his sister (30) said don’t make his lunch ! Make him do it! But it’s actually one of those things I love to do. The thank yous and the different compliments about things I did differently. I just love cooking! It’s therapeutic.
But he told me during that heart to heart that he still has some walls up when it comes to me. He’s scared I’m going to leave him and I can’t figure out why? He knows I’ve never cheated. He admitted he did in high school so whatever.
But he called me an alcoholic tonight because I got a bottle of wine (I don’t work tomorrow) and I snapped. Alcohol is the reason I have zero relationship with my mother because she’s a psycho narcissistic alcoholic. I mean, I don’t even drink every week or even month!
I felt incredibly disrespected by this comment having an alcoholic mother (I was probably born with fetal alcohol syndrome, that’s not a joke) so I said how about I go grab 3 bottles of NyQuil and drink that instead? Would that make you happy? His ex was an alcoholic and when she she couldn’t get alcohol she downed listerine and NyQuil. Cool girl. Not sure why he’s standing up for her. He makes fun of my exes constantly, but I just laugh. You can’t go back in time.
He flew off the fucking handle. Saying how he didn’t want to hear that shit. I said but it’s true, no? He said yes it’s true. I said ok so codeine or wine. What would you prefer I drink?
He slammed the bedroom door. I gave it a 30 Minute cooling period I went and leaned over the bed and said hey can we talk and he whipped those covers off him so quick and hard I thought he was about to back hand my face (ex did it all the time, new guy knows I’d rather be alone forever than do that again). Fight or flight. I went full flight and ran to the bathroom and locked the door in shock and disbelief. He said I was being crazy so I sad if you don’t stop with the gaslighting this won’t end well for you.
There’s a lot more back story about his exes if you want more context just ask.
He’s always telling me what to do and what not to do, which is also childhood trauma I’m working through. What Narc mom says goes.
We’ve been together 8 months.
I guess my question is, can this behaviour be unlearned? Corrected?
Why stand up for the ex who drank cough syrup? I know the answer already, I’m a trash pile. But why does this guy absolutely worship me the next day?
I have access to free couples therapy. Try it out or let him go?
Obviously I still love him but he’s being borderline abusive.
He told me he doesn’t care for marriage tonight and I’m the same but I said I would like to have a big party one day when the time is right and just exchange rings as a symbol of our commitment. He said that’s what I want.
But like I’ve had so many past partners say they didn’t want marriage or kids. I’m not stupid. Let’s be real. Of course they want those things I’m just never the woman they want it with.

Hello! I have a 15 yo chihuahua (7 lbs) who has arthritis. He has a script for codeine PRN 3.75 mg - 7.5 mg q8 hrs. He absolutely hates the taste, but it really helps him. We go through this elaborate dance of trying to get him to take it in different foods (cheese, prosciutto, chicken liver, sous vide prime rib…) but lately he chews everything we give him and if he tastes it he spits it out. I tried crushing it and squirting it in his mouth but he didn’t swallow and shook his head while looking at me like it was the ultimate betrayal. I worried he’d aspirate it so didn’t try it again. He chews his other meds too but still takes them.
Anyway, I know they make syrups of codeine but I don’t know if they contain anything harmful to dogs. My vet didn’t know for sure either when I called but we have an appt next week to talk about it. Does anyone have experience with this or have a good alternative? It’s weird to me that he chews his other pills and still swallows them but not the codeine. Could it be that it’s causing him a “silent” symptom like nausea or something he associates with the taste?
His other meds are Zyrtec 5 mg daily, carprofen 7.5 mg daily, Adequan weekly, fish oil and Cosequin.
Any ideas or thoughts are appreciated.

My mother had a horrible cough and was prescribed cough syrup with codeine. No pharmacy in town seems to have it in stock. It’s the only thing that really helps. The doctor is waiting to hear from her to know which pharmacy to send the rx to, but I can’t find one anywhere that actually Carries this stuff. Does anyone know anywhere? Thanks!

Idk what to do here. I’m still just heartbroken. My husband and I are 25. We have been married 3 years, and we have a 4 and 2 year old.
A few months ago I found out my husband had been withdrawing $80 every week. I asked him about it and he said it was for the wifi bill because we get a discount for paying in cash.
The last few nights I’d notice he’d get really angry, at anything. I thought he was stressed from work but he wouldn’t sleep at night,and he would start throwing up out of nowhere.
Sure enough, he admitted to me he had a problem. He’s been buying cough syrup every week. I asked how it started and he said it started a few months ago when he was prescribed codeine for a bad cough he had, then when he ran out he bought it off a co worker. He said he’s been off of it for a few days and it’s driving him crazy. I asked why he does this and he said it’s “just the most chill feeling ever” he said it’s like “right after you have sex and you’re just chilling and falling asleep” I got kind of mad and said “ITS CALLED BEING HIGH”
Idk what to do now. We’re financially stable so it’s not like he’s blowing all our money, but it is a lot. I’m hurt he lied but that doesn’t matter anymore. What matters is him being well again. I know this isn’t a big deal to some, but in our house, we don’t smoke, drink, anything. We have a sober home- or at least we used to.
I was thinking about sending him to rehab but then I’ll have to go a whole month without him. I feel like I’m stuck here

25F, 5'4", 110lb, white
My primary issue is a persistent cough, but there are other details.
On Jan 2nd I started feeling bad in a "I know i'm about to come down with something way" but brushed it off as some type of long term NYE hangover. By Jan 4th I was holed up in the bathroom with issues on both ends + a 102 fever for a miserable 3 days. Bowl issues remained for another 3 days (during this time I used Tylenol, Advil, Pepto, and some other antidiarrhetic meant to clog u up) and then I figured I was in the clear but I suddenly developed a very sore throat and slight cough. On Jan 11th I had completely lost my voice. It is now Jan 18th and I've had a miserable, horrible day-and-night cough since.
Jan 10, 11, 12 I used Dayquil, Sudafed, Advil, but it didn't ease the cough. Jan 13, 14 I added in some Benzonatate (left over from a covid bout last year), still didn't ease the cough. On the 15th I got fed up and went to the Urgent Care (because it was MLK weekend and all the doctors offices were closed near me but I figured it might be time for antibiotics to step in [since u can't really get a virus after you've had one virus bc they interfere with each other I figured this cough was due to bacteria]) so for 15, 16, 17 I usedDXM/Guaifenesin (changed from the Dayquil for my liver and bc I wanted to up the dose of cough med), Promethazine, Benzonatate, Sudafed, Advil, and Azithromycin. So as you can see, I'm using basically every cough suppressant you can buy but I'm still coughing thru the day and night and at this point I've coughed so much my throat is raw, my chest aches, I'm experiencing fatigue, and I get a headache pulse with every cough. So I went to the doctor again today and she gave me a different antibiotic.
What else can I do? I cried to the pharmacist and he suggested tomorrow I call my doc (to avoid the copay fee since I'm already at about 250 dollars sunk into doctors fees and meds for this sickness) and get a Lidocaine prescription to calm my throat down. I'm afraid to ask for cough syrup bc I don't want my docs to think I'm a looking for a opiate fix (and doctors in los angeles don't really prescribe those anymore even though they work bc of the opioid epidemic).
Does anyone have a solution or have I pretty much maxed out my medicinal resources short of spending hundreds on copays to find a doc in LA that will prescribe codeine (though based on the Benzonatate not working I don't really have high hopes that even if I could get my hands on real cough syrup it will solve the issue)?

My brother-in-law just landed his first professional job offer. He graduated with a Masters in counseling at the height of the pandemic, is on the spectrum, is not willing to relocate, so this was a HUGE and hard fought win for him.
He got sick just prior to his pre-employment drug screen, and both he and my MIL went to their family GP due to having the same symptoms. She's insured. He is not.
He got prescribed a different but still codeine-based cough suppressant, which was out of stock everywhere in town. I wouldn't say either of them are superstars in the common sense department, but it is what it is - MIL advised him to use her cough syrup until stock of his was available.
His pre-employment drug screen came back pretty hot for codeine and facepalm he explained the ENTIRE situation to his screening technician as opposed to just saying "I have an active prescription for codeine based cough syrup and I'm happy to provide a copy."
Does he have a prayer of navigating this process to a successful conclusion? He was informed by the pre-employment screening people that his offer would be rescinded and he would be ineligible to reapply for 6 months.
He was subsequently contacted by his contact in recruiting/interview logistics inquiring as to why his pre-employment physical rendered him ineligible. I helped him draft a professional explanation of the situation including dates and copies of his prescriptions and notes from his GP visit.
Waiting to hear back now.
The job is at an inpatient mental health facility.

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my case is complicated and long, starting november 20th 2020
but realistically begins before then, i had started to develop shaking and would fall over, va physical therapy sent me to the primary care but they kinda shrugged it off, and indeed we still dont know why i was shaking/convulsing
anyways on november 20th 2020 i was coming back from the bathroom and had a psuedoseizure and a fall into a table, breaking my left hip
i was taken to melbourne regional medical facility on the way the ambulance gave me fentanyl which caused a drug interaction with hydrocodone already in my system (leftover from my arteriel bypass the year before) i was delerious which is noted in the records and completely out of it and stated i took a bottle of wellbutrin, which was not true, they also said at some point durring my stay i said i took a bottle of cough syrup with codeine? and i guess the police? told them i was smoking marijuana laced with pcp
i dont remember the police being involved at all, and i have no idea where they got the cough syrup idea, i just remember screaming in pain as the convulsions would hit, but immediately after the fentanyl i was out for the next week, anyways
none of these are true and they even noted i wasnt there (infact, i also thought my exwife was working for the yakuza, and was presently at the hospital trying to kill me) (i also believed my father was a cowboy outlaw, and that there was aliens in the ceiling lights that would come out when the heater cycled on)
why they took anything i said as fact i dont know but these records have plauged me ever since as i will explain as stated earlier i broke my hip, however pain was manifesting into my knee, i was also experiencing severe convulsions/psuedoseizures causing my legs to go every which way causing intense pain
by the time i made it to the hospital i was out cold, but still convulsing the hospital treated me for an overdose, for serotinin syndrome, and xrayed my knee they blaimed the convulsions/psuedoseizures on the pcp (that ive never in my life tried before)
they then discharged me without looking any further into my pain (reason we called 911 for ambulance in the first place) my first follow up visit to the va they did a physical exam, and stopped when i yelped in pain precscribing steroids saying ''this will help you''
on my second visit to the va (now day 30 since my fall and hip break)for pain while in a wheelchair the doctor was trying to convince me it was psychological meanwhile im begging for a hip xray, the doctor after 10 minutes of argueing gives in and orders the xray
next thing i know im being rushed to the hospital for surgery, which never happens because its been 30 days and is now infected... a pic line and 6 weeks of antibiotics the infection is clear, however surgery is again delayed due to psuedoseizures and HO growth
im admitted to the hospital a couple times for the psuedoseizures/convulsions (at the time i was calling them spasms for lack of a better word and noone ever looked into them to find out what was going on, it was written off as one thing or another) holmes regional does prescribe clonazepam for them after many muscle relaxers and other medications failed, while i was in inpatient, i end up trading my pain medicine to stop the convulsions,
the doctor after i voice concerns about recieving my medication, said ''dont worry, with your condition it will be no problem to get this medication'' well, it was, va said ''well we dont want to just throw medication at the problem'' and ordered a back mri, eventually ordering an eeg around month 15
private care doctor said ''we cant prescribe controlled substances'' (a lie, the receptionist assured me they could prescribe what was needed and indeed i got this medicine from this facility just recently for my anxiety, but they wouldnt help my seizures at the time)
so i go back to the er at the hospital where i got the medication, who in turn told me ''it would be unethical to give you that medication'' however in the notes they wrote down '' dr griffin felt the patient needed to follow up with the doctor following him for this injury and that at this time he did not want to refill the clonazepam for the patient, i explained that to him the patient was frustrated but i told him he is going to have to call the doctors who is following him for that issue ''
this is blatently untrue and false records, i was there in order to follow up as that was the hospital who prescribed the needed medication
due to these false records in the very beginning of my ordeal, my treatment suffered, i finally got my surgery at month 15, the psuedoseizures/convulsions went away for the most part around month 9, however still popping up from time to time
oh, and the va also tried to block my hip replacement surgery stating my medical marijuana for my anxiety could have intoxicating effects and lead to a fall and further injury, i feel this block was punitive as just a few days prior i was questioning her hypocratic oath in regards to my lack of treatment and lack of medical care and continued suffering
to describe what it was like, everytime i would relax my body would convulse, sending my leg (with the broken hip) out harder then i could kick it myself, one time the leg impacted my wheelchair and took my toenail off, i did not feel this due to the intense pain caused by the convulsion on a broken hip
this would happen every time my body would relax, as ide try to sleep, i went days with no sleep at a time until my body would just crash at which point i would just convulse, scream out in pain, fall back asleep, to scream out in pain again, and again, this was at its worst
i still have nightmares where i scream out in my sleep to this day. noone should have to suffer like i did,
and at every step of the way i was denied treatment based on false impressions gleamed from these false notes and negligence
i spoke to several lawyers who said at the very least they showed negligence in my treatment but had no specialists to take my case
at the very least the origonal hospitals failure to spot a broken hip caused a massive chain of events of suffering, and the VA's lack of treatment caused alot of suffering
so here i am trying to find some advice on how to proceed, do i just give up? they never say why they wont take my case and when i try to talk about it on the phone i get jacked up from my anxiety and bringing up the experience of the event and tend to mess up what i say
i have x-rays and medical records

I'm on day 4 of a 21-day water-fast. Last night, without thinking, I took some codeine cough syrup. I looked up that some over-the-counter cough syrups have 10-15 calories. I couldn't find any info on codeine cough syrup, though. Does anyone know if it has calories? If it does, did the 10-15 calories break my fast? Does that mean that I'm starting over, today?