Comments on: Fizzing Painkillers http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2006/02/18/fizzing-painkillers/ Chemically-enhanced neural rewiring, on a semi-regular basis... Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:36:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tracey - Keitai Goddess http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2006/02/18/fizzing-painkillers/#comment-26267 Tracey - Keitai Goddess Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2006/02/18/fizzing-painkillers/#comment-26267 I hate the Japanese medicines of packets of powder.. they make me want to retch. Again - what is wrong with tiny pills that just go down easily with a mouthdul of water. Odaiji-ni I hate the Japanese medicines of packets of powder.. they make me want to retch. Again - what is wrong with tiny pills that just go down easily with a mouthdul of water.

Odaiji-ni

]]> By: dr Dave http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2006/02/18/fizzing-painkillers/#comment-26187 dr Dave Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2006/02/18/fizzing-painkillers/#comment-26187 Bah, Tod: the suppository thing is a urban legend. It's just that, being very much unknown in the US, the mere fact it's used every once in a blue moon in Europe (particularly France) makes it seems common seen from abroad. Truth be told, I don't remember seeing a suppository ever since I was 6 or so... At any rate, I've never ever heard of a cold medicine suppository :P Painkillers are a different matter, as I do remember one very famous movie scene involving morphine, suppositories and some toilet scuba-diving... Funny trivia #1: did you know that most people among a certain class of users tend to insert it in an orifice it wasn't intended to go through (namely: tourists, using mouth instead of rectum). Funny trivia #2 (learnt recently): did you know that the proper way to insert a suppository is <em>not</em> (as one might be inclined to think) pointy head first, but the other way round (aerodynamics be damned). Actually, such a common misconception that many guides will recommend the pointy head first, as a way to facilitate insertion, while it is <em>in fact</em>, meant to help the little buddy go up the tract as it contracts (and therefore needs to be backward)... Honestly I would never have guessed if a nurse friend of mine hadn't pointed that recently. <em>Ahem</em>, yea, anyway... Bah, Tod: the suppository thing is a urban legend. It’s just that, being very much unknown in the US, the mere fact it’s used every once in a blue moon in Europe (particularly France) makes it seems common seen from abroad. Truth be told, I don’t remember seeing a suppository ever since I was 6 or so… At any rate, I’ve never ever heard of a cold medicine suppository :P
Painkillers are a different matter, as I do remember one very famous movie scene involving morphine, suppositories and some toilet scuba-diving…

Funny trivia #1: did you know that most people among a certain class of users tend to insert it in an orifice it wasn’t intended to go through (namely: tourists, using mouth instead of rectum).

Funny trivia #2 (learnt recently): did you know that the proper way to insert a suppository is not (as one might be inclined to think) pointy head first, but the other way round (aerodynamics be damned). Actually, such a common misconception that many guides will recommend the pointy head first, as a way to facilitate insertion, while it is in fact, meant to help the little buddy go up the tract as it contracts (and therefore needs to be backward)…
Honestly I would never have guessed if a nurse friend of mine hadn’t pointed that recently.

Ahem, yea, anyway…

]]> By: devin http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2006/02/18/fizzing-painkillers/#comment-26184 devin Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2006/02/18/fizzing-painkillers/#comment-26184 Aren't a lot of medicines in france delivered by suppository? Like cough medicine, painkillers, etc ... maybe you'd have better luck with that :-) Aren’t a lot of medicines in france delivered by suppository? Like cough medicine, painkillers, etc … maybe you’d have better luck with that :-)

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