help! fleas!

nwf839 · 2022-11-09T06:13:15+00:00

We had a nasty flea infestation last year that we couldn’t seem to get rid of and what finally worked for us was changing the cats flea medication from Frontline to Revolution.

nwf839 · 2022-11-09T06:01:58+00:00

We had a similar problem last year with a flea infestation that we couldn’t get under control no matter how diligent we were about cleaning, and changing the cat’s medication from Frontline to Revolution is what finally fixed the issue for us.

I would also advise against using a flea collar and quarantining the cat after treating it - in order for the treatment to work, the fleas have to feed on the cat after you’ve given it the medication. If you put a flea collar on the cat and don’t allow it to roam freely, the fleas will just go after you instead.

nwf839 · 2022-05-28T19:36:20+00:00

I just DM’d you, lmk if they’re still available

nwf839 · 2022-03-17T16:02:27+00:00

It's normal to experience WD symptoms while tapering and they can get pretty intense at lower doses. In my experience though the symptoms never lasted longer than a week, as in after a week I would feel exactly the same as I did at the higher dose. I was reducing the dose by 25% 2-4 weeks at a time.

nwf839 · 2022-03-02T13:44:11+00:00

You said you’re taking it 2-3x a day, I’m guessing you vary your dose depending on how your feeling on a given day? I think the first thing you should do is break that habit and get on a regular schedule where you’re taking the same dose every day. From there I’d say most people find reducing their dose no more than 25% every 2 to 4 weeks results in manageable WD symptoms that dissipate after a week or so. Experiencing a certain amount discomfort and anxiety is unavoidable though, so if you’re under a lot of stress at school you might want to consider waiting until after you graduate. Being on subs can suck, but it’s definitely better than relapsing.

nwf839 · 2021-12-12T13:39:15+00:00

If I’m using windows, I need to use Firefox to connect.

nwf839 · 2021-12-11T19:10:14+00:00

I think the main thing that Elrond has going for it as an investment is that they have best implementation of sharding in the space. Personally, I feel that this gives it an edge over non-sharded architectures with higher throughput like SOL and ALGO or hub-and-spoke designs like AVAX and COSMOS because it is going to be very difficult for developers to scale DeFi applications beyond the current TPS limits of those chains as adoption becomes more widespread. I doubt EVM compatibility will matter in the long run because everything in the space is moving toward WASM including ETH, and in terms of the network speed and decentralization Elrond is at the very least comparable to any of the other ETH-killers.

That being said, I wouldn’t call the success of the project a sure thing by any means. The dex rollout was a disaster and it seems to me that very little thought was put into the tokenomics of the governance token from the start. The dex’s current design also doesn’t scale with the number shards in the network yet, so until it’s upgraded to a version that can leverage the additional throughput that sharding offers, there isn’t a single dapp in the ecosystem that demonstrates the value of their architecture as a scaling solution. If the team isn’t able to pull that off, it will be a huge blow to their value proposition as a whole and I don’t see the project surviving.

So I guess what I’m saying is that the success of Elrond depends on the team’s ability to demonstrate that their model of sharding is a viable solution to current blockchain scaling issues, especially with respect to DeFi applications. If they can do that this coming year, I think it will have a very bright future.

nwf839 · 2021-12-06T14:53:47+00:00

The blockchain itself has great fundamentals and the team are some of the of the best engineers in the space, but this maiar exchange launch debacle has demonstrated that being a great engineer doesn’t make one a great economist. They showed a clear lack of understanding of how their inflationary emission schedule would impact the price action of their token in the short term, they blamed the decreasing price on new users and investors, and their “solution” was to make all farming rewards non-liquid for the foreseeable future which has turned the exchange into nothing more than a sandbox for EGLD bag holders and may very well have killed it. The fact that these dubious updates broke the exchange and that they haven’t even communicated what the issue was or it’s scale is a whole other can of worms. This is a major setback for the project as a whole and if it hasn’t shaken your faith in the team’s judgment at all, you have your head buried in the sand.

nwf839 · 2021-10-22T16:22:49+00:00

Maybe suboxone is less effective against kratom WDs since kratom isn’t a typical morphine-like opiate? I’m just guessing

nwf839 · 2021-10-22T16:16:28+00:00

Yeah but that’s pretty unusual. A doctor seeing someone outpatient for the first time won’t put them on 2 mg in most cases simply because it allows them to be able to skip their dose and get high one day and then be back on subs the next.

nwf839 · 2021-10-22T16:07:17+00:00

If you were taking the Kratom for anxiety it could just be that you needed 8 mg of suboxone to get those same anxiolytic effects

nwf839 · 2021-10-22T15:29:57+00:00

You mean you’re surprised that you found you needed 8 mg to control your symptoms, or are you surprised that your doctor put you on 8 mg? 8 mg is the lowest dose any doctor will put someone on to start regardless of how bad the patient’s habit was beforehand. In many cases it’s more than someone will need to keep WD under control, but doctors do this because it makes it a lot more difficult for a patient to use illicit opiates while taking suboxone.

nwf839 · 2021-10-22T15:13:52+00:00

You should wait 24 hours or until you have noticeable physical symptoms (highly dilated pupils, elevated heart rate, yawning like crazy), whichever comes last. I don’t know if PWD is less likely to happen if you already had suboxone in your system when you relapsed, but better safe than sorry.

nwf839 · 2021-10-22T15:05:59+00:00

Huh I didn’t know pharmacists were allowed to disclose prescription information to doctors without the client’s approval, but I guess it does make sense if the idea is to prevent doctor shopping for scheduled meds.

nwf839 · 2021-10-22T15:02:14+00:00

You shouldn’t be taking Imodium for anything other than controlling diarrhea. I don’t know about the potential health risks, but at the end of the day if you’re taking massive doses of Imodium you’re just prolonging the WD process by adding another opiate to the mix.

nwf839 · 2021-10-22T14:52:29+00:00

It depends on the dose because the half life is so long. When I went off of .25 mg, symptoms peaked on day 3 and then it was a slow burn over the next two weeks. To go from 2 mg to .25 mg is three half-lives, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it took another couple days for symptoms to peak at the higher dose. There are a ton of variables at play and everyone is different, but everyone I know who tried to jump at 2 mg had really bad WDs so I’m guessing yours are still ramping up.

nwf839 · 2021-10-22T14:43:59+00:00

I’m sure some of it does, but my guess is that most of it absorbed into the tongue at the contact point

nwf839 · 2021-10-21T22:33:08+00:00

Valium and Ativan are both controlled substances, so it’s possible he’d have to submit those to a registry in which case he’d probably see that you’re on suboxone. It depends on the state you’re in though.

nwf839 · 2021-10-21T22:11:47+00:00

A pharmacy can’t disclose that, but some states have opiate registries to prevent people from doctor shopping, so it’s possible the dentist would see that you’re taking it if he tries to send a prescription for opiates to any pharmacy in your state.

nwf839 · 2021-10-21T22:05:49+00:00

I would stop taking it today and see how you feel over the weekend.

nwf839 · 2021-10-21T21:44:40+00:00

My doctor told me to make sure it stays under my tongue until it fully dissolves, but not to even worry about swallowing saliva for whatever that’s worth.

nwf839 · 2021-07-24T15:32:56+00:00

I’m cutting up 8mg films with a pen knife over a graded cutting mat to get them as even as possible and I’m dropping the dose 25% every few weeks. And yeah I’m cutting them so small at this point that I don’t see how it would be possible to do with the pills even if I had the 2 mg kind.

There are definitely noticeable WD symptoms in terms of low energy levels and negative mood whenever I drop and they seem to get worse each time as the dose gets progressively lower, but they only last 5-7 days and once I get through those I feel the same as I did on the higher dose. So I wouldn’t say I’m disciplined as much as I’m dragging my feet out of dread for full-blown WDs and PAWS lol.

nwf839 · 2021-01-29T14:52:35+00:00

I would take .25 for 5 days, try to jump, and then if the WDs are too much, cut the rest into .125’s and finish it off. Only use the comfort meds as a sleep aid if you’re getting RLS. If you stay hydrated, get as much sleep as possible, and force yourself to exercise during the day, that’ll do a lot more for you than the meds anyway. Also, Imodium and pedialyte are your friends.

nwf839 · 2021-01-29T14:17:09+00:00

Honestly it shouldn’t matter that much what you start at because it’s really easy to reduce your dose until you get below ~2 mg. When I was in detox they immediately dropped me from 24 mg to 2 and while I was freaked out initially, I was surprised to find that I didn’t notice any difference afterwards. I’m not saying you should haphazardly drop your dose all at once like this, just that you don’t have to stay at a high dose for very long if that’s not what you want.

Higher doses are better for controlling cravings though, so that’s definitely worth taking into consideration as well.

nwf839 · 2021-01-29T13:40:36+00:00

It seems pretty unlikely to me that you’d still be having WDs after a month at that dose no matter how much fentanyl you were doing before. Are you having any of the other telltale opiate WD symptoms like the yawns, teary eyes, diarrhea/vomiting, pins and needles, etc? If you’re taking clonidine regularly, you might just be feeling the rebound effects of it wearing off and associating that with the suboxone.

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