this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
77 points (97.5% liked)

Centurii chan

537 readers
30 users here now

Posts and discussion about comics (and, sometimes, associated media) by the artist centurii-chan.

They have a history of edge-posting - nothing that the current mod considers outright racist, sexist, or otherwise hateful, but problematic enough that you may want to look elsewhere for horny comics.

While you're here, abide by the following rules or face a ban :

  1. Don't be dicks to each other.
  2. No hate speech, racism, sexism.
  3. Posts should be related to centuriichan comics.
  4. Mark NSFW posts as NSFW.

founded 9 months ago
MODERATORS
underline960@sh.itjust.works
railway692@piefed.zip
77
Me: I'm just gonna tank this fever. No medicine / all-natural healing. Me 2 hours later : (media.piefed.zip)
submitted 1 month ago by railway692@piefed.zip to c/centuriichan@sh.itjust.works
10 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

centurii-chan | XCancel

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have a friend who prefers to rawdog his illnesses.

My question every time is

fucking why

I'm dosing up on everything over the counter I can. I want to be as numb as possible until it's over.

[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I’m imagining an early 20th century-er who witnessed polio, measles, etc. take out half their siblings then seeing the option of meds and vaccines that saved most of the population a couple decades later glaring at your friend with angry confusion, lol.

I know people like your friend too, unfortunately. Letting a fever burn complications into your system is not “healthy.” Stress and excess inflammation slow the progress of healing, so easing that within reason is critical.

I’m downing every *Quil and expectorant on hand the first day those flu symptoms show as well. No reason to suffer if it’s not mandated ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Doctor's advice is to use fever reduces when needed. Otherwise you're likely just prolonging your illness.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

tbf, he does listen to doctors' advice. Takes his vaccines, all that. But when it comes to symptom alleviation, he doesn't 'need' it, so he doesn't take it.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Because the more you repress your symptoms, the longer you will be sick and the more damage it does to your body. Just have to keep a fever within limits.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the longer you will be sick

Not necessarily. The main issue is that people suppress their symptoms and then dont properly rest because they feel fine. Its like having a huge bleeding cut, taking painkillers so you dont feel it and then just going about your day as if nothing happened.

So they could become healthy again in the same time frame, but they dont because they have no self discipline.