Just waiting for them atm, my old man has gone in a cab (I'm having to pay for it of course)
Damn..speak of the devil, he just got home right as I finished typing the words 'of course'.
Had to send him not go myself, not this time because of my leg, which has pretty much healed, a little scab, some pain on long walking, but far, far better. But because of the muscle relaxer, tizanidine, that I take for the nerve damage in my other leg, after surgery on it leaving nerve damage which makes the calf muscle permanently cramp, really, really badly, as the 'relax' countermanding signal it seems, is not sent as it ought to be.
Works like clonidine, blocking noradrenaline release, its both a powerful muscle relaxer and also, a hypotensive agent, dropping blood pressure quite profoundly. If I mis-estimate dosing intervals or single doses it can easily render my BP so low that if I stand, even slowly rising to compensate, the orthostatic hypotension is strong enough to hammer me to the ground, cutting my legs from under me, so I couldn't go myself.
Got two unexpected scripts though, one for cephalexin, an antibiotic of the cephalosporin type. Which despite being allergic to penicillins, I can take (they both have the beta-lactam ring in their structure but cephalosporins I'm alright with, penicillins could kill me), didn't ask for it, don't need it. But at least it's there now in case I ever have an infection again, so I can treat it without the hassle of making and going to a doc appt.
And a 12-count bottle of chlormethiazole, my antiseizure drug. I typically have to BEG for rescue packs, it's like pulling teeth, despite that, although I confess, this is so weird as for me not to comprehend how it could be possible, and others on a neuropharmacology forum, said 'impossible, unless you are some extremely rare mutant in terms of your GABAa receptors', and only believed it because I said this is personal experience, and I have refrained from taking it for as long as a week before without other GABAa agonists/positive allosteric modulators of any sort whatsoever (it lasts about 5-6 hours after a dose), I've not become physically dependent on chlormethiazole despite at least 192mg (odd number I know, but thats the dose, calculated as freebase, contained in a single capsule) three times daily, more sometimes if I have one of those days where breakthrough seizures just seem determined to happen.
But it just hasn't happened. And I don't think it will either, as long as I do stay at 3xdaily, not including rescue packs and the doses taken several times over 3x on single days when needed occasionally, or over a couple of days, and rarely, recreational doses of home-brew material, which only happen once in a great while so don't impact tolerance, it's like someone who might drink a glass of wine or a beer a day one time, getting really drunk, but not doing that again for many months on end, just with a different, and to me vastly superior drug to alcohol)
If it was going to, several years would be more than enough time to make it happen, given it's recommended for no more than two weeks in the BNF) I've been on it at LEAST three years, maybe four or five, I've not kept strict track of total time between first ever dose and the dose I took just this morning about 10 min ago)
Got the cephalexin, which I've no use for right now, but also, a bottle of chlormethiazole caps aside from the main lot I get weekly. Rescue pack without asking. If that gets on my repeats by their accident, good. So much the more convenient for me. Although it was for some reason put in a separate bottle, I saw '12 capsules' on the label and was about to ring the surgery to say 'what the fuck now?' but then found it was just in a second bottle, the other lot. Although the pharmacy had put it in a PLASTIC bottle. They put the main rx of it in a glass one, as it has to be, since the drug is volatile, the capsules contain the freebase, and it DISSOLVES plastic, and slowly volatilizes through the capsule walls, if not kept cool. It MUST be kept in glass, although a teflon container wouldn't be affected either, as I've used fluoroinert-capped glass bottles to store the freebase before after making it from vitamin B1, and the caps were not attacked.)
Taken my oxycodone as well, 60mg, IR, not yet my morphine because I'd need to walk to get to a water source to prepare the injection, and if I get up right now, I'd go right back down again. Waiting for my BP to return to, if not normal, then to sufficiently high to permit me to rise and stay on my feet. The oxy I've just taken in a larger dose than otherwise, to compensate for no morphine shot right now, one strong opioid is as good as another when it comes to preventing me going into withdrawal and stopping my poor, tortured knee and hip joints from bellowing their protestations at me.
