antibiotics and salicylates

Sooo...

Turns out the antibiotic capsule covers have salicylates in them. I've been taking them for the last week and the hand and foot have been all tingly again.

Last night, for my dose of antibiotic, I took the powder without the capsule (in some oat bran porridge to disguise the flavour) and the tingling seems to have faded somewhat.

*sigh*

Note to self: pull the capsules apart in future, and perhaps start looking for non-salicylate capsules to replace them.

Femmeremix

Before I go zone-y on painkillers and forget this entirely:

femmeremix is up and running again this year, for remixing stories about female (or female-identifying) characters.

And sign-ups are open for the next 10 days!

This year, for those who may not have the time/energy to commit to an exchange but wouldn't mind someone remixing one of their fics (or remixing other people's fics), there's also a Treats Opt-In.

down one tooth

One extraction surgery, one tooth removed, one implant put in, stitching happening.

I was under sedation with a local, not a general, which meant I kind of zoned out. Semi-aware when they asked me to open my jaw, move this way, if I was okay, but not really conscious. It's an interesting feeling. I 'woke up' once they were done, and the jaw and tongue and lip on the right side were numb which, well, expected.

Came home with my mum, took some antibiotics and painkillers (panadeine + codeine) with a little food, lay down for a couple of hours, woke up just as the numbness began to wear off.

Let me tell you, if this is with painkillers, I'd really hate to be without.

I've found this before with panadeine + codeine; it doesn't work on me. My sister goes loopy, but I don't seem to feel it. A nurse friend suggested oxycodene which is apparently one step below morphine and therefore difficult to get, but my doc (my uncle) has promised that if it doesn't improve or gets worse, then he'll write me a script and talk to the pharmacy about issuing some.

I don't remember how much it hurt the last times I had extractions; there was the wisdom teeth when I was 18, and the 27-molar extraction (the mirror of the one I got out today) about 10 years ago.

Actually, going through my old LJ, it was 12 years ago - the post is here. And it's good to read and compare. LJ, you have proven useful. (Even if there are no tags with which to hunt for the post.)

I think I need to eat something, and then go lie down. My brain is still not quite on the ball right now.