Let's do some arithmetic. On October 3rd I received an 80 gram dose of Talvey. It has a half life in the body of 8.4 days. So the effective amount remaining is:
- October 3: 80 grams
- October 11: 40 grams
- October 20: 20 grams
- October 28: 10 grams
- November 6: 5 grams
- November 14: 2.5 grams
- November 23: 1 gram
How low does it have to get before the side effects go away? I figure 5 grams in the best case, 1 gram in the worst. Then add a couple of weeks for my taste buds to regenerate and we get a target recovery date of November 20 - December 7.
Fuck. I hope my adventure in playing amateur doctor turns out to be wrong.
It'll be a Thanksgiving miracle!
If not by Christmas, maybe sing, “Soylent night, holy night…”
Argh…
Wow, Talvey is really slow on the E in ADME. I'm guessing it has to get down into the micrograms and, even then, it will probably take weeks for your taste to fully recover. I know, it sucks.
At this time of year losing one's sense of taste might be the best holiday diet enhancer there is
Kevin can now eat nothing but all the stuff that's actually good for him and he won't care a bit!
I once experienced the exact opposite. Just before Christmas, my doctor put me on a 10-day course of prednisone. For me, the most notable side effect was uncontrollable appetite -- coming at a time when my wife was making cookies, Chex mix, and other traditional holiday treats. I gained 10 pound in 2 weeks.
Have you thought about asking an actual doctor? This article lists loss of taste as a major symptom for which you should contact your doctor immediately.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/drugs-talvey-side-effects
I think you mean 80 mg, not grams. Talvey comes in 40 mg vials, so you are down to 1 mg left. 80 grams is nearly 3 ounces, a huge amount for any drug! Good luck!
"So you're saying this is Pumpkin Pie, eh?"
[it's Soylent Green]
Or chocolate pie (if you saw The Help)...
youll be good to go by thanksgiving!
The 8.4 day figure is an average of numerous subjects. It depends on the drug, but person-to-person variation in half-life is typically somewhere in the vicinity of 20-50%. So it wouldn't be surprising if your half-life was 4.2 days or 12.6 days. Let's hope it's the former.
Say, while you're not able to taste anything now would be a great time to try all the hottest, most thermonuclear hot peppers you can find.
You might not taste them but I bet they'll make you sweat.
And cause all that Chernobyl-like internal dialogue!
You could enter a hot pepper eating contest!
He might not taste them going in but he'll feel them going out!
But will he?
He must do this for science! Society needs to know!
There must be somebody in the readership who can explain how half-life decomposition works. Why does the rate level out over time, and how does the substance know to "slow down" as it were?