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This is a follow up for a sub I posted a few days ago when I suddenly came down with a 100.8 fever and a weird headache.

Two days later, my temp is 99.0 and the headache is gone. My nose is a little clogged and runny.

I have seen no doctor, taken no tests of any kind. I've just been sunbathing for about 30-45 minutes, slamming down pure orange juice and homemade chicken soup, taking zinc and vitamin C and D supplements. Also a low dose of benzo for good, deep, unbroken 10 hours of sleep. Had to change my bedsheets after that first night, woke up soaked in sweat (at least I hope that's what it was!).

I honestly was kind of shaken up. I know covid is bullshit. I question its existence, but even if it exists, I'd survive it just fine. This just shows how powerful being told the same lie over and over for 2 years can be- it can make me question what I know, make me feel like I'm in far more danger than I truly am.

I wanted to thank you users who commented on my original sub. You gave me a morale boost, hardened my resolve, helped me to stop questioning myself. My immune system is doing what it's evolved to do. Getting upset and worrying about covid bullshit does not help.

This is a follow up for a sub I posted a few days ago when I suddenly came down with a 100.8 fever and a weird headache. Two days later, my temp is 99.0 and the headache is gone. My nose is a little clogged and runny. **I have seen no doctor, taken no tests of any kind. I've just been sunbathing for about 30-45 minutes, slamming down pure orange juice and homemade chicken soup, taking zinc and vitamin C and D supplements.** Also a low dose of benzo for good, deep, unbroken 10 hours of sleep. Had to change my bedsheets after that first night, woke up *soaked* in sweat (at least I hope that's what it was!). I honestly was kind of shaken up. I *know* covid is bullshit. I question its existence, but even if it exists, I'd survive it just fine. This just shows how powerful being told the same lie over and over for 2 years can be- it can make me question what I *know,* make me feel like I'm in far more danger than I truly am. I wanted to thank you users who commented on my original sub. You gave me a morale boost, hardened my resolve, helped me to stop questioning myself. My immune system is doing what it's evolved to do. Getting upset and worrying about covid bullshit does not help.

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[–] • 2 pts

They're a wonder. You just need to be careful and disciplined with them.

That's difficult though, because their chemical action on the body is very similar to alcohol; lowers your inhibitions. You take 1mg of, say, alprazolam just to calm yourself down.. two hours later, you see your bottle of 29 more pills, and something tells you that it'd be a great idea to take two more.

Before you know it, the bottle is empty and you can't remember what happened in the last two days. This never happened to me, but I know folks who went through shit like that.

[–] • 1 pt

The problem with benzos is that people who take too many will never accept the idea that they better get rid of the stuff. With every other drug there is the moment people want to stop, and if they get help in exactly this moment, they can. This never happens with benzos.

For covid, better take melatonin instead of benzos for sleep. You need every antioxidant you can get to protect the blood vessels, and melatonin is a much better antioxidant than, for example, vitamin c.

[–] • 0 pt

Yeah, fortunately I didn't care for the feeling, took them only for sleep (but it's a faux sleep really).

I did love Vicodin, but now I just do Kratom and need to quit, I don't take much though.

If I get Covid I'm gonna load up on Kratom, it'll take away the suffering, or at least cut it down.

[–] • 2 pts

I know a guy from high school who got hooked on painkillers, and moved onto shooting up heroin.

His life was falling apart, I tried to offer him help, but you know how addicts are....

One day he asked me to research Kratom for him. I came to him with my findings, and talked him into trying to kick the smack by using kratom to help make the wall-climbing less severe.

He ordered some, supposedly super strong shit, I think it came from India or Pakistan- so I would question the quality. So the guy called out of work for a week, and locked himself in his home for 10 days, drinking tea made from the kratom. I saw him in early withdrawals (I think it's called "precipitated withdrawal"?), and holy shit did that change my view on addicts. I always looked down on addicts, thinking "You should have the discipline to just stop." This is a naive outlook.

The agony this man was in for the first two days was fucking terrifying. The physical withdrawal symptoms were so severe, we almost took him to the hospital because he was really dehydrated and we saw something that looked like seizure activity. He refused and agreed to drink more water.

The tea seemed to ease a lot of his symptoms, specifically the stomach issues that come in withdrawals. At the end of those 10 days, we went and bought a home drug test kit. My friend did it- he was clean, all of the poison was out of his system. We had a "before and after" photo, and it's amazing- initially he was like a wilting flower. After those ten days.. it was like he was resurrected. He relapsed once since then, but has remained clean and in recovery otherwise. He didn't continue to use kratom after kicking.

[–] • 1 pt

Man, I wish all the stories were like that.

Fortunately, when I got low on pills, I never even thought about using heroin instead, but many do exactly that.

I used to look down on addicts as well, people have no idea (and they can get self righteous about it...but pride goes before a fall).