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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Baloo: [QB] Getting back to the OP: I just turned 42 (last Thursday -- thanks for all the cards 'n' letters :P). As an OP (Older Person) I find that, having survived numerous injuries, one motorcycle accident, and one serious car wreck, injuries come back to haunt you. I have a bad shoulder (aches sometimes & I can't sleep on it) and a bad knee (3 steel pins and 3 day's advance warning of really bad weather -- I wonder if they'd used seven pins I'd get a week's advance warning?). Occasionally I get a migraine headache (on the migraine scale of pain, mine rate a "1" -- at least my head doesn't explode). I use (infrequently) ibuprophen (800 mg horse-pills) for the occasional migraine or insistent shoulder or knee ache. One pill usually kills the pain in ~30 minutes, and it usually doesn't come back. I also get infrequent heartburn. Once every few months (usually when I'm stressed) I'll take some Tums (actually the generic equivalent from Wal-Mart) or some acid blocker (AAFEES' cheap imitations sold at the Base Exchange). If I'm really feeling cheap, I'll just mix a tablespoon of Baking soda with some water and drink that down. It makes you belch real good, but yuo have to take it a few times to quench the fires. During the spring, I sometimes get allergies. Usually I just try to be well-stocked with kleenex�, but sometimes I need REAL drugs. When I'm really stopped up but need to stay awake I take pseudoephedrine hydrochloride (Sudafed or its generic equivalent). If staying awake isn't an important issue, then I'll take tripolidine with pseudoephedrine (Actifed or its G.E.) When I've got a persistant cough, I'll take an expectorant cough syrup (it doesn't suppress the coughing, it just loosens the phlegm up so you can hawk loogies). I try to avoid taking any drug unless it's necessary. That way, if it [i]is[/i] necessary, I don't have any built-up tolerance for the drug, and it works better. I do smoke (it boosts adrenalin and endorphin production, but I didn't know that when I started smoking). I also have an occasional drink (a good beer or brandy, but since I don't often drink it doesn't take much). Any questions? ~~Baloo [/QB][/QUOTE]
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