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Last Active 10-30-22 11:20 pm
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| Vitamin b12: Magic is Real
JUST GOT OFF THE PHONE WITH THE DOC. The lazy devil phoned in the entire conversation -- literally and figuratively | | 1 |  | The Exploited
Fuck the System
OH WELL, FUCK HIM.
He refuses to investigate the CAUSE of my illness. Fortunately, I don’t need him to treat the symptoms. I started treating it myself a couple weeks ago when I saw the labs | | 2 |  | Grave Digger
Healed By Metal
LOW VITAMIN B12 is treated with over-the-counter stuff anyway.
1000ug-sublinguially. | | 3 |  | KMFDM
Hell Yeah
HOLY MOLY.
The first day -- and I mean within 20 minutes or so -- the “hit” was somewhere in terms of power between chugging a large cup of coffee and dropping a decent dose of my eldest niece’s Adderall. | | 4 |  | Toxic Smile
RetroTox Forte
BUT IT WAS JUST A DOSE OF VITAMIN B12!
Vitamin B12 isn’t even a stimulant or anything. It’s just a metabolite. You know, a nutrient, like calcium or niacin or folate. Shit like that. We’re talking multivitamins here, not Black Beauties.
I’ve taken multivitamins before, and they didn’t do anything like this. Apparently, it’s got to be delivered under my tongue. My stomach is simply not doing its job delivering the product, so it has to go in through a route that isn't strictly oral. Nor anal, come to that. | | 5 |  | Das Ich
Relikt
I DON’T GET “HITS” LIKE THIS ANYMORE, now that I’m apparently back to normal levels.
But the resultant mania is pretty wild. I haven’t felt like this since I was struck by Long-Covid, maybe not since my 20’s.
I can easily go an occasional six hours of sleep without a day of drowsy hell, and my stomach and headache pains are no longer disabling. No more days spent miserably planted on the couch watching reruns like a filter-feeding coral polyp | | 6 |  | Sloth
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IF ANYONE OUT THERE IS FEELING GENERAL SICKNESS, DEPRESSION, FATIGUE -- anything that makes you feel more like a sloth than a hummingbird in other words -- consider a cheap multi-vitamin for a start and just see what happens
I had to read a lot of stuff online -- crazy old unreliable Dr. Google -- and pester the shit out of my real doctor to run all kinds of tests, this lab result finally popped up low.
(I think he’s kind of pissed that something actually came up. He’s been insisting it was in my head for years, the bastard). | | 7 |  | King Diamond
Conspiracy
I DON’T USUALLY BELIEVE STUFF LIKE THIS WORKS. I’m not prone to placebos, and 97% of the supplement industry is a big racket, generating huge amounts of profits and gallons upon gallons of expensive urine.
But this one worked. It didn’t CURE the problem, but I’ll take a good treatment any day. | | 8 |  | Beastie Boys
Licensed to Ill
I FEEL LIKE I’M RUNNING ON JET FUEL THESE DAYS, and I’m only drinking a couple cups of coffee a day
What I’ve got is a serious case of mania. Whether it’s a good case or a bad case, I’ll just have to wait and see
(It turns out that you can pour rocket fuel into a car’s engine, and it won’t explode or anything. All engines run on controlled explosions anyway) | | 9 |  | Primus
Frizzle Fry
HOWEVER, KEROSENE BURNS HOT AS FUCK AND IT WILL MELT THE PISTONS AND SEIZE THE ENGINE.
So it’s not advisable
I’m worried that my mania is like an engine running on kerosene. Speed sometimes causes brain melt-downs in the form of bad shit like strokes, as occurs sometimes during meth and coke overdoses. | | 10 |  | Grave Digger
Ballads of a Hangman
BUT MY PARTNER HAS END OF LIFE POWERS and she’ll just pull the plug if things go tits-up.
If I can rely on her for anything, I can rely on her for THAT at least | | 11 |  | Grendel (NL)
Timewave Zero
MANIA IS IN FACT CLASSIFIED AS A VARIETY OF MENTAL ILLNESS.
But I'll take it any day over fatigue and depression. Like Sonia Konietzko says:
"Hell yeah, bring it on
Bloody hell yeah"!
FEEL-GOOD MUSIC FOR THE MANIC, Grendel's Chemicals + Circuitry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fo-a9QvFPA | |
kildare
07.09.24 | I recommend all albums to a greater or lesser degree except those by Toxic Smile and Sloth, which I don’t really know but needed for the list. So I gave them a spin for research purposes | kildare
07.09.24 | TOXIC SMILE was totally listenable as background muzak, despite only 91 listeners on Spotify and only two ratings from a single user on Sputnik. It certainly deserves a more critical look from experienced Sputniks who know good progressive rock/metal from poor, cuz I’m not that guy | kildare
07.09.24 | SLOTH is apparently a Nu-Metal band that doesn’t appear to have been criticized much by Sputnik’s major critics either. There’s just under 400 listeners on Spotify, which sounds lowish
I’m not the guy to ask about quality Nu-metal either (Christ, what exactly AM I good for?), but a user called Bitch2tiger wrote of it:
“Song writing that parallels to that of System of a Down at times w/ an instrumentation that's far less bombastic but certainly not outside the realm of art rock”
That sounds like SOAD fans would not be wasting their time by giving the album “Dead Generation” a spin and a critical rating, for good or for ill. I’m not a radio-metal fan, but if one of my locals had played the following track on the radio I would not have noticed any difference in quality from the songs around it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXuAExqzZ94.
Maybe that’s the problem. Maybe they’re TOO generic, too derivative
| artificialbox
07.09.24 | that is awesome I love to hear this sort of stuff. I recently found out I was super low on omega 3’s cause I haven’t eaten fish or eggs in over 10 years. started taking krill oil pills and within 3 weeks started feeling soo much better. better mood, better sleep, more energy etc. love me a good vitamin. | kildare
07.09.24 | I too believe that the Omega-3 "gospel" is a biological fact. And if I can cut out sugary processed stuff and stick to a diet of fish that's even more noticeable.
Didn't know about krill though. Sadly, I'm allergic to crustaceans, so that one is off the table. But thanks for commenting because some of these supplements are definitely worth looking into. Snake oil is bullshit, but I'm confident that Fish and Krill Oils are the real thing, as is stuff like b12
Thanks artificialbox! | Snake.
07.09.24 | this isn't b12 scoob | kildare
07.09.24 | Thanks for commenting Snake. But I suck at comment threads (I don't know what you mean, that's part of the problem), and the times I've tried before I comment awkward and look stupid, or end up in combat. And I'm pretty sure that I have been a thread killer on at least two occasions. So I really need to stay out.
Anyone can say pretty much anything on here and I'll try not to respond, even a direct attack. Anyway, right now I'm much more in the mood to watch a battle than engage in it even if it came to that | Ladron93
07.09.24 | So, you have to take vitamin B12 supplements? Nice. Better than the doctor's prescriptions.
I take vitamin D3 supplements (5000UI) in a daily basis. | Snake.
07.09.24 | @kildare lmao it’s not that deep bro I’m just shitposting dw 😂 | Colton
07.09.24 | are you a vegetarian or vegan by chance? | chemicalmarriage
07.10.24 | Take the b12 before you beat some ass in the circle pit | anode
07.10.24 | call me crazy but i think your cocaine and meth usage may be associated with your mania | Butkuiss
07.10.24 | Kildare is my favourite “I can’t tell if this is a character or not” user these days | NexCeleris
07.10.24 | Definitely not not. This one looks credible, though. | kildare
07.11.24 | @Ladron93: D3 is a good one | kildare
07.11.24 | @Snake.: I would honestly appreciate a good shitpost if I could recognize them better! | kildare
07.11.24 | @Colton: Very perceptive of you. Yeah, I've been messing around with my diet for years, and I was dabbling in grain/sugar-free veganism a couple times a week for the last seven or so months. But I wasn't strict about it, and it doesn't explain the disappearance of symptoms I've had for the years I was a heavy carnivore. I suspect I have a rare, unknown genetic issue with b12 that the vegan experiments made worse | kildare
07.11.24 | @chemicalmarriage: Lmao psychologically I've felt invincible enough to WANT to revisit moshing. Then I put on my knee braces at nights before my walk and am reminded that I'm too feeble to even jog these days, much less mosh. The spirit is willing, but.... | kildare
07.11.24 | @anode: "your cocaine and meth usage may be associated with your mania": Yeah, I'm reminded of how Psychiatrists prescribe Adderall -- chemically known as amphetamine, now called "medicine," but what WE used to call "yellow-jackets" or "white crosses" -- they give kids speed and then treat their resulting anxiety with anti-depressants that effectively work as tranquilizers.
But I haven't used the hard shit in years. Like I wrote in 4 and 8 above, the hardest drugs I'm using these days are caffeine and vitamin-b12. That's why I call it magic, because what I'm experiencing is wildly unexpected. I bring in the talk of coke and meth as analogies because it FEELS like I'm on something much more powerful. Maybe the writing wasn't clear enough that it was analogy. If so feel free to point it out. For me writing and music criticism are some of the main attractions of the site | Colton
07.11.24 | interesting kildare. I know b12 deficiency is said to be more prevalent among vegetarians and vegans but I’ve also heard it’s prevalent among the general population regardless so supplementing is probably not a bad idea for anyone | chemicalmarriage
07.11.24 | Kildare if I'm ever in the pit and I see a dude with a knee brace on I'm buying some beers and we are gonna whoop some ass | kildare
07.11.24 | @Butkuiss: "Kildare is my favourite 'I can’t tell if this is a character or not' user these days"
A perfectly concise, deliciously ambiguous comment that I'll only ruin if I comment any more on it | kildare
07.11.24 | @NexCeleris: Thanks for the benefit of the doubt! I promise there are no lies here
But fair warning, I won't say that I don't enhance my images a little. (For example, in truth it's hard to quantify if the b12 hit was REALLY as powerful as a cup of coffee. But man, it felt that way). My best life experiences were from the late 80's through the early aughts. But photos weren't as good then as they are today; they're a little grainier, and the colors are a little off. So if I'm describing a picture of a tree in a review or a list, I do what everyone does before they post an image online: I drop it in GIMP and make the green leaves a little greener, and the resolution on the bark a little clearer. But no reasonable person would equate that with deepfake, make-believe bullshit.
Plato probably would've said that it WAS bullshit, and probably would've hated even routine, rhetorical touch-ups of images like we all do before we post. But if I start going on about his fantasies of banishing poets and sophists from his imaginary Republic, the Sputnik who manages the storage arrays containing this site is going to hate me even more. So I'm out.
Thanks for the comments everyone | Egarran
03.23.25 | What a rollercoaster. |
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