Eaten for the first time in four days. Food poisoning. And worse, food poisoning that reached it's height during a combined hangover, and one on the day attached to the night where my pain script were due this morning. Unless you count two blackcurrant and liquorice, possibly three, yesterday, I've had nothing but a few chemicals from the lab, blended into a powder which, upon addition of water, begins to fizz and turn tangy and sour, providing the following:
Sodium+ as chloride, bromide citrate
Calcium++, as carbonate
potassium, present initially as hydroxide (caustic potash, very, very carefully measured such as to be neutralized by my acid-base self-carbonation trick and end up as ascorbate and citrate)
Magnesium, as sulfate.
Also including vitamin C, as ascorbic acid powder and citric acid. Stored a dry powder, enough acid present to react with the calcium carbonate, forming Ca citrate, and ascorbate (vitamin C salt of the Ca++ cation), also enough to totally neutralize the caustic potash in a serving, forming a tangy, efervescent, refreshing drink when water is added to a couple of teaspoons full in a mug and stirred well.
And a modification of my own, addition of some sodium bromide. The bromide anion being an ancient sedative, it has an extremely long half life, so suitable for only occasional use as needed, or a few days at a time. It helps to make it pharmacologically active in a way other than replacing electrolytes, the Br- ion calming frayed nerves.
Because I've had food poisoning after some bad dairy produce, that laid me low for several days, and made me royally miserable.
Basically similar to a hybrid between dioralyte, and alka-seltzer, with the bromide added to re-create 'bromo-seltzer', which used to be sold a long time ago before bromide couldn't be used in OTC pharmacy produce any longer legally. (It isn't recreational, not at all, but it DOES have calming effect and one that also, as a bonus, helps provide some seizure protection. OVERuse of bromides can cause a health problem named 'bromism', and due to the MASSIVE length of the half life of the bromide anion, some remains in the blood for a couple of WEEKS after a single dose. But knowing that, I could act accordingly, and blend my own alka-seltzer which ACTUALLY helps ameliorate a hangover (and in last night's dose, I did also grind a 5mg tablet of nitrazepam into powder and sprinkle it so it floated on the top, although that isn't a standard ingredient. I was a food poisoning making Lestat Rett bloody well miserable optional extra.) Plus a couple of ondansetron tablets. Rapid relief of stomach cramping, helping also sooth me until I could, after taking some cyclizine and buscopan by mouth too, and take a large dose of a combination of 2x alpha2 adrenergic autoreceptor agonists for the adrenolytic activity, as I was due to pick my med refill up at 8am.
Even got a little rest. Until getting a lift off my old man to the pharmacy and back home, 70mg oxycodone IR up the nose straight away in the car, 3 caps of 192mg chlormethiazole base, and on getting home, a 390-410mg shot of morphine sulfate, and several strong ass antinauseant and gut-calmers, one of them being more usually used for cancer patients, and horribly expensive to the NHS for even a few tablets, but one that'll help even the worst sickness of the worst, hence it's being prescribed mostly for chemo patients, ondansetron, in particular.
Fuck me, after the ondansetron was added to the already taken cyclizine, buscopan, and deliberately spiked-with-nitrazepam cup of DIY bromide-containing selzer, which soothed my poor scourged bowels and gizzard, that pair of BIG lines of oxy, and the whopper of a morphine shot, oh me oh my, that was a bloody well relief. Helped to drastically slow gastrointestinal peristalsis, as well as neatly line up a sniper rifle and pop a 5.56mm round in the back of that food poisoning's head.
I feel so much better now.
