• @TootSweet
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    6610 months ago

    DPH is scary shit.

    I’m not speaking from experience or anything. Nor about the “dark” trip reports. I’m talking about the stories of addiction, permanent debilitating brain damage, and death.

    It’s pretty fucked that LSD, psilocybin, and THC are schedule I in the U.S. while this shit doesn’t require a prescription.

    (Not that I think DPH should require a prescription. More that psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin should be accessible recreationally.)

    • JustEnoughDucks
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      Here in Belgium, even ibuprofin needs a prescription. Certainly DPH.

      Then again, here weed is still illegal (possession of 3g decriminalized) and the actually very beneficial stuff like LSD and psilocybin are also highly illegal.

      • Onii-Chan
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        2210 months ago

        You need a prescription for ibuprofen? That’s way too far imo.

        • @[email protected]
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          2510 months ago

          You need a prescription for pills of 600mg ibuprofen. 400mg is available over the counter without prescription at any pharmacy. So you could just do 1,5 pills of 400mg and not have a prescription.

          Source: Belgian nurse.

        • Flax
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          710 months ago

          Nah, those ibuprofen trips are deadly

          • @[email protected]
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            1010 months ago

            The issue is the potential risk of severe (and potentially fatal) side effects if ibuprofen is taken regularly, especially at high dosages. You could argue that people have a right to damage their own bodies in whatever way they wish, but that’s the reasoning.

            • ɔiƚoxɘup
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              710 months ago

              Thank you. I just warned my wife. She’s going through a lot of ibuprofen.

              • @[email protected]
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                It’s not common, so don’t panic. But if anyone needs painkillers regularly I’d strongly advise consulting a physician about it, even if the source of the pain is known and harmless.

                Edit - just to be very clear: I’m not a doctor or other medical professional. I just read the paperwork that’s included with the medicine I take.

            • lad
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              410 months ago

              Is it the side effects of medication itself or the pain source remaining untreated?

              • @[email protected]
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                510 months ago

                The medication itself can (very rarely, it wouldn’t be on OTC if severe side effects were common) cause kidney damage.

            • Flax
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              110 months ago

              Yeah. It’s basically as good as perfectly safe if you don’t overdose it daily. Same with paracetamol.

        • JustEnoughDucks
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          Well ibuprofin is pretty damaging to your liver depending on conditions and many people take it without food which is much more damaging than with food.

          That being said, you can call for a prescription and a 50 pack of it is like 0.50€ lol

          • @[email protected]
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            510 months ago

            Are you thinking of acetaminophen? Without googling, my head canon says that acetaminophen damages the liver, while ibuprofen damages the kidneys. But I could be way off.

    • @[email protected]
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      210 months ago

      I use it sporadically to help me sleep and with allergies at night. I don’t recall having any memory issues.

      • TragicNotCute
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        1210 months ago

        You’re probably taking the recommended dosage. These people are not.

      • lad
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        I don’t recall having any memory issues

        That’s the point 🌚

      • @[email protected]
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        110 months ago

        The therapeutic dose (one or two pills every 6 hours or so) will make you drowsy. The recreational dose (6+ pills at once) will fuck you up

    • @Psythik
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      2010 months ago

      Take 600mg (each pill is 25mg) and yes it will.

      You shouldn’t be taking deleriants if you want to see some shit. Never done it myself but I’ve heard that the hallucinations are so vivid that you can be convinced they’re real. Hard pass for me.

      Take psychedelics instead. At least on those, you’re aware that you’re tripping.

      • @bfg9k
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        Tbh nobody should take delerients for recreation lol, they will make you delerious and eventually schizophrenic.

        Stick to the shrooms and acid if you want to see some shit

    • @DRx
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      1210 months ago

      Auditory hallucinations are most common. The sounds of flies buzzing around your head non-stop, creatures climbing up the walls/ceilings

      Also, fun fact, there is a couple mnemonica for anticholinergic poisoning and they go:

      red as a beet, dry as a bone, blind as a bat, mad as a hatter, hot as a hare, and full as a flask

      But in pharmacy school we mostly said:

      “No See, No Pee, No Spit, No Shit”

    • @olutukko
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      1110 months ago

      Yes but for most people it’s a living nightmare that can end up in hospital

    • @AlfredEinstein
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      OP failed to mention the role Benadryl played in Bill Cosby’s social life.

  • @Siethron
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    710 months ago

    I started taking zzzquil regularly lately. Reading all these comments made me think… Shit. Oh well, not like I’ll remember them

    • @[email protected]
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      910 months ago

      Benadryl has been a brand in the US for decades longer than Cetirizine has even been in use, and they never changed the active ingredient when new antihistamines became available. Good thing too, cetirizine doesn’t do shit for my allergies compared to DPH, and most other allergy med brands use cetirizine.

    • @lemming741
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      810 months ago

      That’s sold as Zyrtec here

    • @Psythik
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      We have both. I prefer the dram.