Tuesday, 20 May 2008

Painkiller Cocktails And Financial Gloom

Decided to kill the headache so I could do something today. This is my usual method for emergency headache treatment -4 paracetamol, 4 aspirin, 4 ibuprofen. Yes it's probably destroying major organs but I really am past caring.

Anyway, I decided to check my finances. I still have a little in the way of savings so I haven't been too worried. Unfortunately, despite reigning in my spending, I find I'm still using up more cash than I'm getting in benefits. Slowly but surely my reserve is vanishing. Until now I've found it really hard to care about money. Today I'm going to have to have a rethink about how I spend.

5 comments:

Chris Thomas said...

Holy shit Ant, that sounds like a lot of painkillers to me. Do you regularly take that many?

Does anything in this article sound familiar:
http://archive.salon.com/health/addiction/2000/10/18/buzzed/index.html

Chris Thomas said...
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Chris Thomas said...

I'll paste that link again:


http://archive.salon.com
/health/addiction/2000/10/18/buzzed/index.html

Ant said...

I only take so many when I need to kill the headache to function. Rarely more than once a week.

Chris Thomas said...

Well, that's ok then (but it still sounds to me like a dangerous amount to be taking). That article might have explained some of your physical symptoms (headaches, constant pain, etc) if you were hooked on painkillers, but I think that sort of dependancy is a daily occurance, not weekly.