So that happened.
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betterdolphin is to thank, by way of mintyapple.
In other news, Brynden and I have started looking for houses, I'm not a fan of living a squillion miles from my social life, and having severe asthma severely sucks.
I guess I got spoiled by only having infrequent(ish) asthma issues for so long, but like this last year my childhood is haunting me and NOT IN THE FUN WAY. I think I've breathed in more albuterol than oxygen in the last month. I didn't get to go to Lilies War mostly due to my lungs' determination that air just is not for them, and fuck life they don't have to do this anymore.
It's like someone let my lungs discover guy-liner and they went emo on me.
FFS Bronchial Spasms are you kidding me? Last time I had this BSbusiness (pun sooo intended har) I was like ten and had pneumonia for the 6th time and like... that was appropriate. This is not appropriate. I cannot drink while taking these meds, damn it!
I did however consider the trufax historical medical treatment of asthma which was a good glass of wine or six. I may be making up the 'six' part. I also may be leaving out the fact there were medicinal herbs in the wine.
...
Does it count as medicinal if I drop a fennel seed in the bottom of the glass? HUZZAH IT DOES. THANK U GALEN.
I am however less enthusiastic about the other historical treatments. Except possibly for the one involving opium. I could smoke some opium and see how that goes... >.> Chloroform however, is right the fuck out.
ALSO. Has anyone else here ever read/listened to the possible side effect of certain asthma medications now? My favorite is Advair. It may cause your asthma to kill you, just fyi. I generally take whatever they hand me, but I've got a small collection of Advair disks now. My personal experience with it is that it is useless. Although it did sort of cut down on like... wheezing issues. Downside is that it seemed to keep down the exact warning signs I usually get of an OH FUCK FIND MEDICATION NOW attacks, resulting in them becoming OH FUCK DYING KTHNX attacks. So I won't be recommending that as a thing, ever. Yeah the smaller moments of coughing and wheezing are annoying but I'll trade some small daily bliss for having some precious warning time to run for the nearest ER/nebulizer/etc.
Singulair and Theophylline are slightly better, in my experience. Again, it's not touching what the hell ever is happening right now for me, but in case someone reading this is all "oh my luuuungs!" poke a doctor about that stuff. Prednisone has also been a kick ass emergency rescue device time and again but DO NOT take it regularly or for prolonged times. Moon face (it's legit called that, and I don't know what else to call it- your face gets puffy and roundy even if you haven't gained weight and it's weiiird), weight gain, psychotic episodes, and like... complicated medical issues arise. I usually take a small tiny tablet of it to calm down inflamation in conjunction with an inhaler if I wander through a bad allergen (RAGWEED IS PROOF THE GODS ARE EVIL AND CRUEL) and it's a lot easier than running for a nebulizer and does not result in my falling sideways and reciting Lewis Carroll poems. I don't take it daily for more than like 3 days. EVER. EVER EVER EVER. I don't like turning into a raging, hungry, puffy-faced psychopath, ok? I got a doctor who gave me a ten day prednisone prescription- a mega dose then tapering down. I made it 5 days in and went I WILL JUST DIE KTHNXwhile feasting on the souls of abandoned kittens.
Oh, and Advair is also REALLY UNPLEASANT to take. I'm sure there's someone out there for whom it's not a horrid thing, but anytime I took it, it's... annoying. Not like taste-wise (there was some inhaler I had as a kid that I KID YOU NOT tasted like burnt tires sauteed with a dead skunk so it's hard to equal that) but you click the disk open, put it to your mouth and breathe in. You're breathing in a crazy fine particle dose of it- sort of like with a real inhaler in a way- but I can feeeeeel the granules in the back of my throat and it wigs me out.
How bad was that long-ago inhaler? surely kid me was exaggerating, right? Nope. I sobbed and screamed and chose death over it (no lie, 8-yo Summer actually screamed 'I'LL JUST DIE' when presented with it, and begged for a shot or some other lesser terror) enough that my mom took a hit from it just to show me it wasn't as bad as I thought. She gagged, spent five minutes chugging a soda to kill the taste (this is a woman whose ability to convincingly sell parental lies is LEGENDARY), and went "Ok, honey, you win that round. No more of that." She then proceeded to gauge how bad off I was by how willing I was to consider taking it. If I really didn't even argue when handed it (it was the green-capped one- I hated the color green after that) then it was basically time to put me in a car and find an Emergency Room cause I was halfway dead.
... I think it was Atrovent? Or maybe Combivent, actually... One of those two. Google mentions Atrovent's bitter taste and that it may cause 'taste perversion' due to a bitter taste. If by 'taste perversion' you mean 'try to claw your own tastebuds off' then they're right on track.
To this day she makes a face when I bring up the green inhaler. It's one of the small joys my childhood medicine cabinet ever resulted in. It did also result in the odd talent for remembering what various inhalers taste like, and prednisone. Prednisone is also 'bitter' btw, but it's what I would actually call 'bitter' whereas Atrovent is 'the foulness of a thousand dead skunks boiled in tar and left in the desert sun.'
Most other inhalers are pretty neutral. Albuterol tastes funny but it washes out easily. Prednisone's taste is hard to get out- have something with flavor to wash it down. Do not take with water. And do not take on an empty stomach they are not kidding you'll wish you were dying otherwise.
Now, back to working on a romance novel! <3
betterdolphin is to thank, by way of mintyapple. In other news, Brynden and I have started looking for houses, I'm not a fan of living a squillion miles from my social life, and having severe asthma severely sucks.
I guess I got spoiled by only having infrequent(ish) asthma issues for so long, but like this last year my childhood is haunting me and NOT IN THE FUN WAY. I think I've breathed in more albuterol than oxygen in the last month. I didn't get to go to Lilies War mostly due to my lungs' determination that air just is not for them, and fuck life they don't have to do this anymore.
It's like someone let my lungs discover guy-liner and they went emo on me.
FFS Bronchial Spasms are you kidding me? Last time I had this BSbusiness (pun sooo intended har) I was like ten and had pneumonia for the 6th time and like... that was appropriate. This is not appropriate. I cannot drink while taking these meds, damn it!
I did however consider the trufax historical medical treatment of asthma which was a good glass of wine or six. I may be making up the 'six' part. I also may be leaving out the fact there were medicinal herbs in the wine.
...
Does it count as medicinal if I drop a fennel seed in the bottom of the glass? HUZZAH IT DOES. THANK U GALEN.
I am however less enthusiastic about the other historical treatments. Except possibly for the one involving opium. I could smoke some opium and see how that goes... >.> Chloroform however, is right the fuck out.
ALSO. Has anyone else here ever read/listened to the possible side effect of certain asthma medications now? My favorite is Advair. It may cause your asthma to kill you, just fyi. I generally take whatever they hand me, but I've got a small collection of Advair disks now. My personal experience with it is that it is useless. Although it did sort of cut down on like... wheezing issues. Downside is that it seemed to keep down the exact warning signs I usually get of an OH FUCK FIND MEDICATION NOW attacks, resulting in them becoming OH FUCK DYING KTHNX attacks. So I won't be recommending that as a thing, ever. Yeah the smaller moments of coughing and wheezing are annoying but I'll trade some small daily bliss for having some precious warning time to run for the nearest ER/nebulizer/etc.
Singulair and Theophylline are slightly better, in my experience. Again, it's not touching what the hell ever is happening right now for me, but in case someone reading this is all "oh my luuuungs!" poke a doctor about that stuff. Prednisone has also been a kick ass emergency rescue device time and again but DO NOT take it regularly or for prolonged times. Moon face (it's legit called that, and I don't know what else to call it- your face gets puffy and roundy even if you haven't gained weight and it's weiiird), weight gain, psychotic episodes, and like... complicated medical issues arise. I usually take a small tiny tablet of it to calm down inflamation in conjunction with an inhaler if I wander through a bad allergen (RAGWEED IS PROOF THE GODS ARE EVIL AND CRUEL) and it's a lot easier than running for a nebulizer and does not result in my falling sideways and reciting Lewis Carroll poems. I don't take it daily for more than like 3 days. EVER. EVER EVER EVER. I don't like turning into a raging, hungry, puffy-faced psychopath, ok? I got a doctor who gave me a ten day prednisone prescription- a mega dose then tapering down. I made it 5 days in and went I WILL JUST DIE KTHNX
Oh, and Advair is also REALLY UNPLEASANT to take. I'm sure there's someone out there for whom it's not a horrid thing, but anytime I took it, it's... annoying. Not like taste-wise (there was some inhaler I had as a kid that I KID YOU NOT tasted like burnt tires sauteed with a dead skunk so it's hard to equal that) but you click the disk open, put it to your mouth and breathe in. You're breathing in a crazy fine particle dose of it- sort of like with a real inhaler in a way- but I can feeeeeel the granules in the back of my throat and it wigs me out.
How bad was that long-ago inhaler? surely kid me was exaggerating, right? Nope. I sobbed and screamed and chose death over it (no lie, 8-yo Summer actually screamed 'I'LL JUST DIE' when presented with it, and begged for a shot or some other lesser terror) enough that my mom took a hit from it just to show me it wasn't as bad as I thought. She gagged, spent five minutes chugging a soda to kill the taste (this is a woman whose ability to convincingly sell parental lies is LEGENDARY), and went "Ok, honey, you win that round. No more of that." She then proceeded to gauge how bad off I was by how willing I was to consider taking it. If I really didn't even argue when handed it (it was the green-capped one- I hated the color green after that) then it was basically time to put me in a car and find an Emergency Room cause I was halfway dead.
... I think it was Atrovent? Or maybe Combivent, actually... One of those two. Google mentions Atrovent's bitter taste and that it may cause 'taste perversion' due to a bitter taste. If by 'taste perversion' you mean 'try to claw your own tastebuds off' then they're right on track.
To this day she makes a face when I bring up the green inhaler. It's one of the small joys my childhood medicine cabinet ever resulted in. It did also result in the odd talent for remembering what various inhalers taste like, and prednisone. Prednisone is also 'bitter' btw, but it's what I would actually call 'bitter' whereas Atrovent is 'the foulness of a thousand dead skunks boiled in tar and left in the desert sun.'
Most other inhalers are pretty neutral. Albuterol tastes funny but it washes out easily. Prednisone's taste is hard to get out- have something with flavor to wash it down. Do not take with water. And do not take on an empty stomach they are not kidding you'll wish you were dying otherwise.
Now, back to working on a romance novel! <3
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Date: 2011-06-23 04:26 pm (UTC)Hey, if you want a pick-me-up, have Brynden bring home Smokin' Seventeen for you. I'm only 3/4 through it, so can't vouch for the ending (I'm assuming the pendulum will swing back again) but so far the book has made this babe very happy.