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Wonder if dexamethasone has similar effect - felt much younger when it was prescribed to me for brain swelling.

• hinkley 2y ago
  It’s difficult to get objective measures of how something makes you feel when you already feel bad. About half of my best food experiences came after a stressful physical experience. I know that food wasn’t as amazing as my brain was telling me it was, but I still enjoyed the experience. The other people in that Dairy Queen were absolutely not having the transcendental experience my friend and I were enjoying. “Brain swelling” sounds like it would put a lot of things into a new perspective.
  • EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
    My measure was - definitely could get more work done in a day compared to any day in the previous 10 years. Dexamethasone prescribed for swelling probably means it also works on removing fluids from the brain, similar to the drug described in the article. Not that I recommend it for anyone, the drug has terrible side effects.
    • hinkley 2y ago
      So it’s like a diuretic for the brain?
      • EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y ago
        Maybe, IANAD