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Tramadol (a synthetic opioid) is the last 'standard' painkiller (that can only be prescribed by a doctor) before you get into whats called 'Controlled Drugs' in the UK.

Painkillers like pracetamol and ibuprofen can be sold in small packets in supermarkets, larger packets and stronger can only be obtained by prescription. Crazier painkillers and NSAIDS are prescription only, but some low strength ones can be bought from pharmacies (like things containing small amounts of codeine).

A Controlled Drug in the UK is one that a pharmacy has to keep under special conditions in a separate lockable area and has to be entered onto register / disposed of correctly (i.e. no-one can try and get them after). Stuff like morphine, high strength codeine, fentanyl etc all live there.

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Was this post done in odyssey. it looks like a previous post.

(weird, this was totally a dupe post in chrome a moment ago. i guess the view new posts feature was glitching out)
 
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Well, I wasn't used to any painkiller when I got my back injury/fail.

Luckily I am not very vulnerable to pain, after several days of spinal cord (or whatever nerves my damaged disc was pressing that made me feel like my whole left leg is on fire) inflammation I got so used to pain that I was only mad about the fact I can't sleep because sudden pain bursts are waking me up every time a move even a bit.

So I took the least possible dose of T to make it possible to ignore the pain / sleep again easier.

Opiates/opoids were just never my thing, even in the time I was taking T once a day or two I had no urge to take it when it was not absolutely necessary.
Tramadol never worked for me ironically :D I was given it but I still ached all over.
 
Tramadol (a synthetic opioid) is the last 'standard' painkiller (that can only be prescribed by a doctor) before you get into whats called 'Controlled Drugs' in the UK.

Painkillers like pracetamol and ibuprofen can be sold in small packets in supermarkets, larger packets and stronger can only be obtained by prescription. Crazier painkillers and NSAIDS are prescription only, but some low strength ones can be bought from pharmacies (like things containing small amounts of codeine).

A Controlled Drug in the UK is one that a pharmacy has to keep under special conditions in a separate lockable area and has to be entered onto register / disposed of correctly (i.e. no-one can try and get them after). Stuff like morphine, high strength codeine, fentanyl etc all live there.

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yea, that's how it works here for the most part as well, except there is no real distinction once you get into prescription drugs. it's all under lock down there. The government just keeps an eye on the opioids and other narcotics more so than the prescription drugs that dont contain those things. Especially the ones that are used to make meth or have opioids in them.

a term like 'controlled drugs' here though would more closely refer to the list of drugs that aren't legal to take recreationally.
 
In reality the forums are still max at 4-5 Yamicks. The "slightly" belated reaction of the CMs has calmed down a lot.

But there is still the time at which most Europeans come home from work and miss their patchnotes in a few hours....
with 10 on the Yamicks scale being the point when your head explodes a la Scanners.... 🤣

Personally, my ears start bleeding at a Yamicks 6... YMMV...
 
BTW: I am 99% sure that the gadget from video below is responsible for the steady recovery of my back over years since the "crisis" happened.
I was only doing necessary training only for several month, naturally, when I felt "normal" again I stopped training, then problems were reappearing, etc.

Until I bough this funny chair.
I sit on it in office, what gives a few hours daily of forced activity for my lower back muscles what stretches my spine in the process.

The ultimate proof that it really works is that when I take some days off/go on holidays, after a week or so without this magic I start to have "uneasy" sensations coming from my back, suggesting that my disc is starting to expand in all wrong directions.

But I had no problems at all for the last few years in time when I was "working" on this thing over weekdays. I can even carry heavy things etc, I just control my body stance carefully.

Source: https://youtu.be/4hOFiHQZgnY
 
I dont get it, who's Yamicks?
A YouTuber, a Latvian loud cursing one.
And with the release of Odyssey he got absolutely serious and calm while giving it a kick.
The opposite of Obsidian Ant normally, what even made the situation a bit more grotesk as OA began to be the loud one then.

And because Yamicks is a loud cursing Latvian we have named the scale after him.
 
A YouTuber, a Latvian loud cursing one.
And with the release of Odyssey he got absolutely serious and calm while giving it a kick.
The opposite of Obsidian Ant normally, what even made the situation a bit more grotesk as OA began to be the loud one then.

And because Yamicks is a loud cursing Latvian we have named the scale after him.

i dont watch youtube or trust anyone who does - or know who this obsidian ant person is either or what latvian is.

come back when you have your own scale not reliant on unreliable attention (censored word for seller of body)
 
i dont watch youtube or trust anyone who does - or know who this obsidian ant person is either or what latvian is.

come back when you have your own scale not reliant on unreliable attention (censored word for seller of body)
Not really a fair comment - YT is just a reflection of the rest of the internetz; there is excellent content on a wide variety of subjects given by people who are extremely knowledgeable and have the good grace to share their expertise in a measured and useful way...

Then there is the other 95%...

As with all walks of life, the issue is with the perceptual filtering of the observer...
 
Not really a fair comment - YT is just a reflection of the rest of the internetz; there is excellent content on a wide variety of subjects given by people who are extremely knowledgeable and have the good grace to share their expertise in a measured and useful way...

Then there is the other 95%...

As with all walks of life, the issue is with the perceptual filtering of the observer...

dont try and man-splain my truth to me.
 
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