Poll: Pill-popper or waiting it out?
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I usually wait it out. Unless its something that will not go away. Such as being sick for several days or if you stabbed yourself. Then I see a doctor. (note: the flu sucks)
Depends entirely on the illness.
If its heartburn I pop some gaviscon asap! (I swear the inventor of that is a god!*worships*)
If its a headache, a'll leave it till it affects my gameplay, then I'm on the paracetemal and going to bed to sleep it off.
if its just a cold or the flu (without a headache) i usually leave it and sleep it off. (i sleep in a similar fashion to being in a comatose state)
If its heartburn I pop some gaviscon asap! (I swear the inventor of that is a god!*worships*)
If its a headache, a'll leave it till it affects my gameplay, then I'm on the paracetemal and going to bed to sleep it off.
if its just a cold or the flu (without a headache) i usually leave it and sleep it off. (i sleep in a similar fashion to being in a comatose state)
I'm the only person I know of in my family who doesn't get headaches, stomachaches, ect. Even when I do get them, a glass of water or two clears it up quickly enough.
That being said, I don't trust mecidinal science. I'll go to the doctor if I've broken a bone (never happened, by the way) or if I've gotten sick enough that I think it may be thretaning my life, but as a general rule, I don't just agree with what doctors tell me.
Apologies Abound
That being said, I don't trust mecidinal science. I'll go to the doctor if I've broken a bone (never happened, by the way) or if I've gotten sick enough that I think it may be thretaning my life, but as a general rule, I don't just agree with what doctors tell me.
Apologies Abound
I use medicine when i feel dizzy. i've a horrible low pain tolerance.
However, i did once break my wrist without knowing it and went three weeks without a cast!
However, i did once break my wrist without knowing it and went three weeks without a cast!
Only if the "Natural" stuff works better than the extensively tried and tested commercial stuff that takes several years of safety testing to get on the market. (even then cure is worse than the disease half the time...anal leakage is growing more and more common with these things...)naftali1 said:
Tea and vitamins work for me...I'll go for pills if they are really necessary (like last week when I got a kidney stone I took a good amount of vicodin) but other than that I pretty much stick with natural stuff that'll just keep my immune system healthy. It's really the best way to prevent sickness, too.jasoncyrus said:
Ill wait for as long as I can before having to take pills, not because I don't like the pills, but I am too lazy to always get them.
Pills were invented for a reason. Why suffer when you don't have to? Unless there is a potential side-effect, in which case you need to assess the risk, etc.
Natural as in sitting auround a bowl of boiling herbs and spices for congestion? Or natural as in like... cheroke hair tampoons?naftali1 said:
Ex-manager of mine told me his home remedy.
For this remedy, you need one 2L bottle of orange juice and one uberhot vegetarian curry.
Drink the orange juice. Eat the curry. Dress in the warmest clothes you have and wrap yourself in 15 blankets. Proceed to sweat the bastard out.
I don't know if it actually worked, but being hot as hell with a blocked nose and a burning tongue took my mind off being sick.
For this remedy, you need one 2L bottle of orange juice and one uberhot vegetarian curry.
Drink the orange juice. Eat the curry. Dress in the warmest clothes you have and wrap yourself in 15 blankets. Proceed to sweat the bastard out.
I don't know if it actually worked, but being hot as hell with a blocked nose and a burning tongue took my mind off being sick.
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