**truck Stop Medicines***
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by starstress, Dec 10, 2006.
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Only good one is chicken soup!
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15 miles later my heart ran away at 70 on the PA Turnpike. I was forced to the shoulder and the heart went to the max rate for about 40 minutes while I sweated it out. The cell was in my hand ready to go while I waited to see what will happen.
Whatever was in that gum was definitely a amphetamine or speed type drugs. Legal? Lets call it unregulated.
It was something I learned not to do after that episode. I was thinking if the heart broke it will either kill me through a rythm and timing disruption before anyone got there or its going to damage something important and end my trucking livelhood at that time which in 1998 was something I have built up that year in Arkansas. And I knew I was not prepared to die in that sleeper on the side of that PA tpike for a stupid stick of gum from china. I refused to accept that.
//semi rant.
(I just finished a round of million dollar nuclear scanning just this last month, the heart is a battleship with pipes super clean. Thats not what is going to be ever a problem. Not that. It will be something else. Either a stroke or some form of leukemia or something.)4wayflashers Thanks this. -
From my experience (outside of an amphetamine) the best stay awake thing is to drink some Mt Dew or strong coffee. I never really cared much for that other crap. I mentioned an amphetamine because up till the 80s a driver could legally use them.
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I didnt use it often tho so maybe thats why a swig would work so well.FlaSwampRat Thanks this. -
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Here's a truck stop cure for ya. If you get a bad case of jock itch pour a bottle of rubbing alcohol on it. It's guaranteed to cure you.
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The only thing I found that would keep me awake in the old days, was smoking a cigarette. I'm a non-smoker so one cig was like throwing a lit match in a pile of leaves. It would give me energy and a vicous headache. Both made me NOT want to sleep.
Everything else like coffee or energy drinks would give a a few minutes of alertness, a quick need to use the bathroom, and then a sugar crash or return to dead tired.
Sleep is the only cure for tiredness. Smoking didn't seem to have the let down that sugar & caffeine did.FlaSwampRat Thanks this.
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