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RU OX Alum · #76 10-30-2006, 02:02 PM

if you want to get technical about it, don't do cough syrup. Cough syrup has "meth."

Meth can refer to lots of things, mainly a type of amphetimine, and is very bad stimulant. Crystal meth is what you get on the street. It gets its name b/c it is basically street meth (crushed up diet pills, any stimulant, sometimes dirty things like shoe polish, kerosene, etc.) added to the mix are crushed up quartz crystals, because people think they give extra energy. They give extra brain damage. People seriously, the speed they will give you at the doctor, OTC, etc. is bad enough. Who would cook it all up together?

Drolefille · #77 10-30-2006, 02:03 PM

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Well Blueangel informed the entire messageboard (not that ANYONE is actually reading her posts anymore) that I have a slipped disk and bad knee. I had knee surgery earlier this year which ended a year of excruciating mystery pain (I'm not exaggerating by excruciating either, compared to that childbirth will be a walk in the park) and now I have a herniated disk in my lower back that's acting up.
Also, I value my teeth and prefer no street drug addictions

Vicodin's horrible enough to come down off. I've seen methadone withdrawal firsthand...just bleurgh.

Is this the first Tom Earp post you can't translate? I'm surprised!

Oh, no, I just haven't tried yet. I was just teasing about the vicodan

. I guess I'll translate over my lunch break.

AlexMack · #78 10-30-2006, 02:14 PM

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I can't hold my tongue here. I've also experienced years of excruciating knee pain and several dislocations. I've had knee surgery (among other types of surgery). Childbirth was not a walk in the park. Granted, I didn't have an epidural, which would probably have put a damper on the pain. I'm convinced that childbirth is the most painful experience a human can go through.

Not trying to diminish your knee pain, but unless you've gone through childbirth, don't say it will be a walk in the park (unless you plan to get an epidural, which I would definitely recommend!).

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I've never not planned to get an epidural :P Actually, technically what happened to my knee was that the patella had a severe lateral tilt which caused all my medial hamstring tendons to go into spasm. No doctor could figure out what was wrong. I couldn't sit, couldn't stand, couldn't walk, couldn't run etc. etc. Because of my age, my doctors thought that I couldn't possibly be in that much pain and refused to prescribe me painkillers.
I would honestly say, at this point, that my pain from my leg was easily comparable to childbirth. It really did hurt that badly. Think about the pain from childbirth, then relocate it to just above and behind your knee. Then think about how no one believes that you are in pain, especially that amount of pain, because it's not easily fixable.
I'm not diminishing childbirth, but I am not exaggerating about my knee either.

AlphaFrog · #79 10-30-2006, 02:20 PM

My mom was born with her kneecaps on upside down. She had screws in her knees, reconstructive surgery, and finally total knee replacements. She also gave birth without an epidural. I'm about 99% sure she would take the childbirth (all 57 hours of it) over the knee problems any day.

SydneyK · #80 10-30-2006, 02:51 PM

*shrugs* I guess it's apples and oranges anyway. It's hard to compare year(s) of chronic pain to hours of labor pain. Plus, the result of childbirth is so much more joyful than that of knee surgery. Most women would (hopefully) say they would go through labor all over again, in spite of the pain involved. Most people who've had knee surgery would probably say they'd go to any lengths to keep from having to go through it again.

I'm all for stem cell research. And pooh on Rush for his mean-spirited comments about MJF.

AlexMack · #81 10-30-2006, 03:00 PM

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*shrugs* I guess it's apples and oranges anyway. It's hard to compare year(s) of chronic pain to hours of labor pain. Plus, the result of childbirth is so much more joyful than that of knee surgery. Most women would (hopefully) say they would go through labor all over again, in spite of the pain involved. Most people who've had knee surgery would probably say they'd go to any lengths to keep from having to go through it again.

I'm all for stem cell research. And pooh on Rush for his mean-spirited comments about MJF.

Oh yeah, I'd definitely go through anything to keep from knee surgery again, as long as that anything does not include more pain and limping. I'd rather healthy knees over anything.
Yeah, at least with childbirth you get a prize! Though my prize was pretty great too...walking without pain for the first time in a year and a half. I'd forgotten what it felt like.

Peaches-n-Cream · #82 10-30-2006, 03:08 PM

Did anyone watch Michael J. Fox interviewed by George Stephanopoulos on This Week? Here is a link to the transcript for those who missed it. http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=2613377&page=1 There is also a video.

Drolefille · #83 10-30-2006, 03:28 PM

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