Original Title: A Crappy Question
I’ve gotten myself some kind of flu/sore throat/ear infection so I went and got the usual long string of pills in packets.
I had lunch, took the pills, and about 20 minutes later took a big dump.
So the question is, how long do most pills take to get into the bloodstream and start working?
Did they have a chance to start healing me, or did I just poop them all out?
This is a completely serious question.
If I remember right it takes about 1-2 days for stuff to travel the entire length of your digestive system, by which time it would have absorbed everything it can. Aren’t most drugs absorbed early on in the stomach ? Most stuff is absorbed much further on. (I might be wrong about the stomach bit…)
Dude, I just got through a bag of pills on the weekend for a sore throat that turned into a chest cough and then nasal congestion. I had that 3 sec delay all weekend from those fucking pills…
No good dumps though. I’m disappointed after reading your post. I feel gypped.
I don’t think you pooped them out though. You were getting the pills’ healing goodness.
I’m not a doctor, but I’ve played one on TV.
I had the same question during Christmas, but got good advice rather than the answer. Luck to you if it’s what I had.
Ah. You have cipro in there. I love cipro. I always lose a whole bunch of weight when I am on it. Pooping like 40 times a day.
Wise Taffy sent me this: [quote]You’re safe, don’t worry. The medicine is in your stomach, where it’s rapidly being absorbed (takes between 10 minutes and two hours, depending on the meds). What was just produced has been sitting in the large intestine since a fair few hours (sometimes even a day or more) before you took the pills.
For future reference, only vomiting directly after ingesting pills or severe cases (and I mean severe) of diarrhoea are going to reduce the efficacy of medication.
Cheers
Taffy (6 year dispensary veteran)[/quote]
I suppose I’m not supposed to technically reproduce a PM, but I think this info should be in here.
Thanks for all the advice everyone!
Eat some corn to find out how long your poos take.
spinach is way better than corn. If you have a healthy digestive system, I don’t think you should be able to tell that there was any corn… but a good dose of spinach makes it green
Good lord, the inefficiency. :s
Why don’t y’all just cut to the chase: pop the top button on a stopwatch, swallow it and yer powder, and catch the stopwatch just after it hits ya where the good Lord split ya?
Less debate, more empiricism.
But how will you know if it’s yer powder that came out? There are a lot of variables in a poo event. You need to swallow other objects to be sure. Corn is ideal for his purposes.
If yer pooin’ powder and retainin’ stopwatches, then pfft you got bigger worries than some Asian stomach bug.
Still, gotta grant that corn casts a certain mesmerizing spell on the subject of poo and its cycle time.
I’ve got another related question:
If I took my last dose of antibiotics/meds at about 10:30 am, is it safe to drink alcohol now, roughly 13 hours later?
How long does that medication stay in my system?
I got a brutal full body rash before when I mixed the 2, I don’t want it to happen again.
Oral medication differs widely in its pharmacokinesis. For example, when Julian in Hessle Place used to wrap me up some speed it was straight in there for the Poly Bop on a Wednesday within an hour, or Stomp of a Friday evening. But if you were to have a heavy curry or lots of spuds beforehand you could be on your fifth pint before the buzz landed. Then there was that time I dropped a couple of microdots round at AXXX’s house, and I could hardly recognize my own reflection in twenty minutes never mind the giggling. I take my hat off to Pharmacology students. We law students had Promissory Estoppel but they had the keys to the CD cabinet.
I could have drank 5 pints since I first asked the question.
Still waiting for a proper response.
Can I start drinking or are those meds still in my system?
Stomp? 
Shoulda talked to Simon from Marple. We were probly there at the same time…
Mind you, Simon told me speed de-calcifies your bones and teeth so you should eat two tins of rice pudding before you go out. Imagine what two tins of rice pudding and eight pints of Strongbow looks like all over Oxford Street…
Must you hijack EVERYTHING!?
Is it safe to drink now?
I have a 78973 track mind. Sorry. :blah:
Regarding the meds. It’s been ages. How bad could it be? Give it a whirl.
You need to read the prescribing notes or look it up on the internet. Drugs differ widely in how quickly they act. It’s like how long is a piece of string. Some are absorbed in the stomach, some in the duodenum, some in the jujuthingummybob, some wait all the way to the larger intestines. And then the actual pharmakenesis or however you spell it plays a huge part. Some bind to protein thingys and some are metobolised in a completely different way anyway fuck it have a drink sure what difference can it make now?
Metronidazole or Flagyl is an antibiotic used to treat things like giardia, trichomonas, and infection with clostridium difficile (explosive diarrhea brought about by antibiotic use).
Cephamandole (not familiar with this one) but a disulfiram reaction is fast heart rate, flushing, nausea and vomiting. In the states they give alcoholics who are trying to quit a drug called antabuse which causes a disulfiram-like reaction if they drink alcohol.
Ketoconazole is a drug used to treat fungal infections like jock itch, ringworm, yeast infections and the like.
Hope this helps.
Bodo