• TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    672·
    11 个月前

    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@feddit.nl
      201·
      11 个月前

      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.

        • CareHare@sh.itjust.works
          26·
          11 个月前

          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.

          • ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz
            10·
            11 个月前

            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.

              • ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz
                4·
                11 个月前

                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
              4·
              11 个月前

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

              • ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz
                5·
                11 个月前

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

            • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
              1·
              11 个月前

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

        • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
          23·
          11 个月前

          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

          • beastlykings@sh.itjust.works
            6·
            11 个月前

            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.

    • 31337@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      11 个月前

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

      • lad
        9·
        11 个月前

        I don’t recall having any memory issues

        That’s the point 🌚

      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        11 个月前

        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@lemmy.world
      20·
      11 个月前

      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@lemmy.world
        61·
        11 个月前

        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@lemmy.world
      13·
      11 个月前

      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”

  • Siethron@lemmy.world
    8·
    11 个月前

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

    • Perfide@reddthat.com
      10·
      11 个月前

      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.