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(Message started by: Squanto on Dec 16^th, 2005, 6:47pm)

Title: "Silent Sleepies"
Post by Squanto on Dec 16^th, 2005, 6:47pm

I'm repeatedly amazed at the fine details of my (our) affliction that I learn here.

MJ and PinkFloyd recently discussed, almost as an aside, feeling extremely fatigued either not long before or at about the time a hit might be expected to happen.

PinkFloyd called these symptoms "silent sleepies." Well said Pink!

It seemed to me that my shroom doses had smeared the rhythm of my headaches. That is, instead of coming at regular six hour intervals they'd lost their periodicity. The mountains and valleys of pain had sorta been lowered and leveled out a bit.

After reading MJ's comments, I began to pay attention to the subtle stuff. And even tho' my pattern recognition skills leave much to be desired, I find that I too have been experiencing "silent sleepies." Sweaty forehead, irritated eye, nasal congestion, grumpy, and feeling really worn out at about the same time as my major hits used to occur.

I've tried a couple of the less common remedies, (ginger powder in water, green hoji-cha tea, Red Bull) without any noticable benefit. OBTW: Is it just me is it a requirement that all of these "alternatives" taste bad?

Tomorrow it's time for another shroom "dose." It's been 7 days since the last and the headaches are ramping up again. I'll report my results on the other thread I started about "alternate therapy."

Squanto

Title: Re: "Silent Sleepies"
Post by MJ on Dec 17^th, 2005, 2:12am

Sounds like your doing fairly well Squanto.

Regarding the alternative tastes; Have you tried chewing on the mainline meds?

Best of luck today with the dose.

MJ

Title: Re: "Silent Sleepies"
Post by Squanto on Dec 17^th, 2005, 7:21am

on 12/17/05 at 02:12:57, MJ wrote:

...Have you tried chewing on the mainline meds?

Yep.
I tried your suggestion of putting the crushed RC seeds in my mouth. Just got a gritty mess between my teeth. Spit lumps for hours afterwards. I think my seeds were absent when the LSA was passed out. But not the dirt.

I also followed Nani's suggestion of putting a small chunk of shroom under my tongue. After a couple of times of "worrying" the thing around in there, trying to keep it under my tongue, I now just pust a piece in my mouth and suck on it 'til it was "rehydrated" then chew on it for a while, swallowing whatever saliva is generated. When chunk has been chewed 'til it seems pointless to chew anymore, I spit the cud out. I don't mind the taste.

Flash and others have suggested the "GLUP" method. Making a batch of tea and on a regular schedule swigging a portion of the tea. Actually, from a pharmacologic (sp?) point of view this makes sense to me. Getting pretty much measured amounts of the active chemical on a schedule. But I haven't come up with a tea preparation that I don't have to screw up my courage to put in my mouth. The taste of my brews have really been a turn off for me. Tried lemon juice, sugar/honey, instant coffee and such Haven't made one yet that makes me say, "Hey that's pretty good! I think I'll have another swig." I guess it goes back to when I was a little sprout and my Mother annually dosed me with orange juince and casor oil, "Because you need it! Now shut up and swallow!"

I hear the kettle boiling. I outta here for the trip. I'll be back later today.

Squanto

Title: Re: "Silent Sleepies"
Post by MJ on Dec 18^th, 2005, 2:41am

ooops
when I said mainline meds. I meant like pharmaceutical meds, the kind you get at the drug store.

Aspirin and the like. They taste terribler.