Well, That Was Certainly Odd....

I'm a featherweight when it comes to drugs, I know that. I don't drink or take mood altering chemicals at all, and I'm a rather small critter, so when I take anything stronger than, say, Advil for medicinal purposes, I'm used to it knocking me for a loop.

So when I decided to help get rid of my latest back spasm as quickly as possible by taking one of the Tylenol with codeine that I still had from previous injuries, I was prepared. I knew that the edgess of the world would rapidly become soft, fuzzy, and unpredictable, and that the floors would cease to be flat and solid, and that I would rapidly lose the ability to, say, hold a book, or predict where my arms were, or stay particularly conscious. I don't take the stuff often (maybe once a year, usually less), mostly for just those reasons, but I know what to expect.

What I *didn't* expect were the auditory hallucinations. Bells, sirens, whistles, voices shouting in words I couldn't quite understand, all starting about half an hour after I took the stuff and persisting until I fell asleep in self-defense. It's several hours later now, and the noises seem to be gone (though the world is still not quite normal - typing this is a very slow and meticulous thing, since my coordination still seems to be at about half what it usually is), but I'm still slightly freaked.

I'd like to never experience that again, if at all possible. I think I'll stick to over-the-counter stuff from now on....