are you sure it's not that aspartame has no taste, and without the 11 teaspoons of sugar in it you begin to notice that coca cola actually tastes fucking rank? ;P
Nah. Definitely the artificial sweeteners that taste rancid. All soft drinks don't taste the same, but all "diet" drinks taste of little else but artificial sweetener. Just overpowers the taste of everything else whatever they're in. Ick. Fukkin vile stuff. As I said, I find the standard versions too sweet as it is usually so the even sweeter artificial ones can get to fuck. Give not fuck one about the calories - "diet" stuff just tastes worse than stale tramp's piss. Worse than
warm stale tramp's piss. I mostly just drink water actually. Such a pansy me sometimes
Incidentally, am the same with salt. Not put salt on food for many years so find most processed food (almost
all processed food, in fact) tastes of little other than excessive amounts of salt and sugar and is borderline unpleasant. Not that that stops me from eating/drinking junk by any means. But does mean I bitch about it.
Well I probably had 120mg in the evening last night ... then another 60mg as I fell asleep ... then the 120mg this morning, so I take it there might be a build up too?
I should check out if it has any negative effects on the kidneys really, having only one, I need to remember to be careful with this stuff.
Also, like you Shammy, I've really reduced my alcohol intake, which is having a good effect on my body but it's a killer to not keep chugging delicious beer and cider during the day, straight from the fridge in this weather.
I don't get hangovers really, and I LOVE how alcohol makes me feel. I never ever get proper drunk, just like the relaxed body buzzy kinda feeling it gives me.
Build up is definitely a possibility, I'd think. Can't recall the half-life offhand but it always seems to last quite a while for me. I mostly take one reasonably large dose of a morning to get me through the day as painlessly as possible but if I took the doses you did spaced out as you did (assuming I had no massive tolerance built up) I'd basically be in the same position: a bit dozy. 300mg within what I'm guessing is ~12h give or take a couple is not all that different from taking it as one dose only you probably won't get a "hit" from it as such. Could see it feeling a bit more sedating actually cos I'd presume that means you've had a reasonably steady amount of codeine and/or morphine products floating about yer bod the whole time rather than getting it all up front. This is probably why people are supposed to take them spaced out over a day rather than as a single dose.
Am not aware of it having any specific kidney-woes but worth checking out if it could be a problem for you. Opiates are known for affecting one's widdling habits (as in it backs you up a bit) which may be less than ideal. Worth looking into if got less giblets than is usually recommended.
Also, nice work on the booze-reduction. Must be summat in the air recently cos seems to be a few EADD folk cutting back on the demon drink. Must be at least a fortnight since I last supped now. Not even thinking about it much these days. Which is a good thing cos despite a full complement of internal organs I'm pretty sure at least half of 'em don't work half as well as t'other half due to being pickled
Cold alky hols definitely does have quite considerable appeal when weather's nice but am actually not fancying it much. Not cos I've got some anti-booze thing going particularly. Just not in boozy mood of late. Wonder if I broke me?
