I asked my wife, who is 6 hip surgeries deep and has extensive opiate uhh… experience? But only ever prescribed pills. She strongly disagrees with you
It’s possible that doing it for fun brings out the subtle differences more. If it doesn’t hit as hard it’s not as fun, even if 2 hours later it feels the same.
I know suzzer is impervious to persuasion here, but if you do a deep dive you can find lots of stuff like this:
So, it is completely believable that you and your recreational drug enthusiast friends bought into this belief that two fives is worse than a ten and it just became accepted, which then affected how you perceived its effects. Link shows some evidence and if you spent 20 min I’m sure you could find loads more.
Or you can believe your “delivery stuff” hypothesis that for some reason no professional pharmacologist has thought to investigate or publish (if you can find something, I’d love to see it) and for some reason only seems to apply to the getting high part of the medication and nothing else.
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Got a letter from BCBS yesterday saying that I have to change one of my prescriptions to a 90-day supply or else it won’t be covered. wtf? I mean, that’s fine - 90 days means I have to go to the pharmacy less frequently, but why? It’s so stupid. 90 days OR ELSE?
So I had to register on their pharmacy benefits website to see what pharmacy networks are “90-day” (all of them? my two other meds are 90- and 180-day) and if I can’t find one, I have to get them by mail.
My wife, who works in the insurance industry, called BCBS about something else and then asked about my situation. The lady told us an entirely different thing. She said I HAVE to order by mail, which is clearly not what the letter says. After putting me on hold for several minutes, she said I can do a 90-day prescription at my usual pharmacy, but ONLY that one, which again, makes no sense.
It was a perfect example of our dumb healthcare system. All sorts of overly complicated stupidity for no reason. And in the end, 90 days of this drug is about $8. Retail price is sub-$20.
Also, I got my new CPAP mask today - now I’m trying the minimalist version with the little nostril “pillows” and a chin strap to keep my big mouth shut.
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I’m on the CPAP manufacturer’s site to look up something on the new mask I got. The description is insane: “the CPAP mask that discreetly fits into your lifestyle.”
Yeah, strapping a thing to my nose with headgear and attaching a hose to it is very discreet. Nobody will ever notice.
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They are probably trying to get you to join their in-house pharmacy and are just bad at it.
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Yup
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They want you to order it from the company they are getting kickbacks from. 100% serious. Pharmacy benefit managers are a plague
Yeah, that’s what I assumed. I even told my wife it must have something to do with pharmacy benefit managers. Aside from the “YOU MUST GET A 90-DAY SUPPLY” which was like, whoa whoa, take it easy, the letter was pretty flexible, giving me the option to use a pharmacy that did 90-day supplies or order by mail (through their Express Scripts company). It was just so weird when the customer service lady said I was required to order by mail for this specific, cheap drug, before changing that to, “ok, your pharmacy is fine, but only that one, ok?”
Nothing about it made sense and everything was convoluted.
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CPAP trip report: with the new minimal “nasal pillow” mask, I definitely slept better last night. Still didn’t get much sleep, as I’m still not good at falling asleep with something attached to my face (plus I need to figure out how to position the hose better), but I can tell this will be better than the full mask.
The woman at the doctor’s office who showed me how to use it said that the main complaint is that it can get a little irritating, which certainly happened as the night/morning went on. Guessing my skin just has to acclimate to it. Also got a little wet at the seal - not sure if it was sweat or internal condensation from the humidifer.
I got the chin strap to help keep my mouth closed. I’ll have to mess with the tightness of everything to get the optimal seal to comfort balance. Think it was a little too tight.
Glad to hear it helped!
I have a stand/hose holder thing next to my bed. This kind of thing comes in a lot of different forms but you get the idea:
At the beginning I definitely had everything too tight, thinking it would make for a better seal, but it turned out that too tight is as bad as too loose in that regard.
The thought of it freaks some people out, but I also swear by mouth tape.
And finally I got rid of the bulky/stiff chinstraps that are generally available and bought this one off Etsy. Getting the fit right can be tough but I like it a LOT more.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1652860724/chin-strap-for-sleep-apnea-mouth?ref=yr_purchases
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You will get used to it. Just takes some time. I don’t even think about it anymore.
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I’m going to buy a sex swing for my CPAP mask.
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They need to make a combo CPAP machine/alarm clock/smart speaker/phone dock/charger.
Holy shit, I’m going to go on Shark Tank.
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I’m just happy Guy Fieri got his apnea dealt with.
Anyone who has abused pills knows exactly what you are talking about. Thank you for your service.
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Important features of any health insurance plan:
- All IDs are printed so small on the card that anyone over 40 can’t read them, even with glasses. The only solution have to take a picture of the card and blow it up.
- IDs are always called multiple things depending on who’s asking and who’s displaying. Sometimes Member ID, sometimes Plan Number, sometimes whatever.
- Group ID, also called Group Name and Group Number, might be 10 digits, it might be 6 digits, depending on where it’s displayed.
- Nowhere on the plan website are these numbers displayed in an easy to copy and paste form. The only place to find them is an image of the card. So you still have to type them by hand into some other system.
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You got an ID card? I got a fucking app…