Bye Bye DU, Bye Bye DU

[JANdad]

I go night night...

I go night night...

wheres blanky? Daaaad, wheres blanky?

Go find it!

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. I'm turning this forum around

You and your crack-headed slattern of a mother have to get off.

[WildEyedLiberal]

5. "crack-headed slattern of a mother"

:rofl:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. If you don't STFU, you're OFF this plane

I'm tryin' to give a fuckin' safety talk here!

:rofl:

[rug]

3. Drink up, Junior.

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. Forget Junior!

You have any idea how well that shit goes with Manhattans and live blues? Oh, mama.

[RetroLounge]

12. Uhm, yes, yes, I actually do...

It mixes well with southern comfort too.

and the nod? Damn...

RL

[JANdad]

6. NO!

Is yucky!

WHAHHHHHHH

[mzteris]

7. codeine makes my kid a raving lunatic.

And that's not an exaggeration.

This winter he had a terrible cough that gagged him. Couldn't sleep. Could hardly breathe from coughing - you get the picture. (He'd just turned 13, btw.)

Enter codeine from the pediatrician. The first couple of days - okay. Cough's under control. Everything skating along just fine. And then he suddenly turned into Linda Blair from the Exorcist. We were seriously considering calling 911 and having him committed or something. The kid was spitting and screaming nonsense and flailing around TRYING to hit whatever he could reach. We practically laid on him to retrain and calm him down and he finally fell asleep.

His dad and I were crying. Trying to figure out if he was "taking drugs" - or what? Then it hit me. He WAS taking drugs: Codeine. I looked it up. It's a RARE side effect - but I called the pediatricians office the next day and they said - hokay then. DON'T EVER give him THAT again - and we'll make a special note in his chart. Oh and make VERY sure that every doctor he ever has knows this. The next time could be worse.


I shoulda known. This is a kid who couldn't take PediaCare products. It made him hyper as the devil - we're talking nearly 48 hours of wide awake screeching play with only a couple of brief cat naps - when he was about a year old.


This has been your PSA for the evening.

[idgiehkt]

8. it makes me hallucinate too so that's probably what happened.

Poor kid.

[mzteris]

9. hallucinate?

Yikes. I wonder. It would fit some of the actions 'cause we couldn't figure out who he was talking to, not much of what he was saying, and who he was trying to beat the hell out of.

He didn't want to talk about it AT ALL. Some months later he finally said he really didn't remember a whole lot of what had happened.

Thanks for telling me that.

[idgiehkt]

10. I saw metal spiders crawling up my bed

they had metal spikes on the ends of their legs and they were aiming for my big toes; I was sure their goal was to poke holes in my toes. My parents came in and found me practically climbing up the wall to get away from them.

Forgive the comparison but it also sounds similar to the reaction that cats have when they come off of ketamine after surgery, which is also hallucinogenic.

[hyphenate]

13. OMG

That sounds SO like my own experiences with Ultram. If you ever saw the SF film, Runaway, with these robot "bugs" and they looked just like metal spiders. In my hallucinations, they were smaller, though, and when I turned off the lights, I could practically see them doing acrobats from my lamp to my clock, to other places around the room.... In some cases, they actually looked like preying mantises. It all went away when I stopped taking the Ultram, thankfully. There was one really bizarre incident when I was having a nightmare, woke up and swear I saw a ninja standing mext to my bed!

I won't be taking that anymore!!

[mzteris]

14. ewwwwwwww -

I'd be climbing walls, too.

That sounds awful.

:hug:

[truedelphi]

11. Glad you figured it out.

And could take action to normalize him

Some of us have kids that hit thirteen and act Linda Blair-ish for four or five years.

My son's bad year was the Four year. Terrible foul fours.

There aren't even military schools to ship them off to at that young age.

[mzteris]

15. um - normalize him?

yeah. I took him off the codeine and make sure every time a med scrip is written or filled that they DOUBLE CHECK ingredients.