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Jan. 21st, 2010 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI hate, hate-hate-hate, the idiotilaw that says we can't buy Co-Codamol in quantities higher than 32 pills. That tends to be four blister-sheets of eight; I put one on the living-room table and one on the desk, one by the bed and one in the wash-bag - and suddenly I have no spares for any of the jacket pockets, and I have to go out to another pharmacy and buy another box. Is just stupid, and conspicuously more expensive than the old days when I could buy 'em in hundreds. Grr.
I was out with Harry yesterday (buying him a suit for a Very Important Interview: I seem to have dressed him in grey and black and purple. Um. They may not quite be expecting that. But I think he looks gorgeous...), and he says that maybe a quarter of the population can't metabolise codeine. I think, I hope I must be in the lucky seventy-five; Co-Codamol - coco to its adherents - has always been my analgesic of choice, and this morning when I could barely move for pain I swallowed a big ibuprofen and a couple of teeny-tiny raw codeines and now - well, at least I can move. And type. Of course, I have no evidence that it's not the borufen that makes the difference, and/or indeed the paracetamol in cocos. But to know for sure I'd have to go on a straight codeine regime and see how much I ouchied or otherwise, and I like my cocktails, thanks. I like what works, even if it only works halfway.
I was out with Harry yesterday (buying him a suit for a Very Important Interview: I seem to have dressed him in grey and black and purple. Um. They may not quite be expecting that. But I think he looks gorgeous...), and he says that maybe a quarter of the population can't metabolise codeine. I think, I hope I must be in the lucky seventy-five; Co-Codamol - coco to its adherents - has always been my analgesic of choice, and this morning when I could barely move for pain I swallowed a big ibuprofen and a couple of teeny-tiny raw codeines and now - well, at least I can move. And type. Of course, I have no evidence that it's not the borufen that makes the difference, and/or indeed the paracetamol in cocos. But to know for sure I'd have to go on a straight codeine regime and see how much I ouchied or otherwise, and I like my cocktails, thanks. I like what works, even if it only works halfway.