Wheeee!

[andrewducker]

I popped out to Boots at lunch to pick up something to deal with the cold Adam gave me at the weekend. It's not that bad, just a constant trickle of gunk down the back of my throat that keeps making me cough.

I was recommend Nirolex - active ingredients Pseudoephedrine and Dextromethorphan. Shortly after taking some, I started feeling much better. Far too much better, if you see my meaning. So I looked up the two substances online and discovered that Pseudoephedrine is a lesser form of Ephedrine, a stimulant related to amphetamines while Dextromethorphan is taken by students who want to get out of their heads and can have similar effects to Ketamine and PCP in sufficient quantities.

Yay for over the counter medicine!

Comments

[andrewducker]

Yup - didn't realise about the sugar until after I got it back here. Nothing I can do about it now though - I'll just have to find something non-sugary for tomorrow.

[kpollock.livejournal.com]

Not to worry, you'll get used to looking. Sugar is in just about everything pre-processed. I remember telling Sean that, and him protesting and me picking up packets of breakfast cereal in the supermarket and showing him that they all had sugar (except, as I pointed out, porridge oats, shredded wheat and Allbran.)

My tooth decay paranoia led me to examine medicines too.

[andrewducker]

I know it 's in vast amount of foods, but it never occured to me to look for it in bloody medicine.

I was amused to find that lots of cereal list "raw sugar cane". Oh, it's good for you if it's still in vegetable form? I don't think so...