#9831: The first dose always hits the hardest
NyQuil--
[43,000 word rant, which quotes heavily from Denis Leary, deleted]
--for the first time since I had this illness in EARLY JUNE I took NyQuil for the symptoms. Of course it hit me like a 16,000 ton weight (see bracketed statement) but at least I slept well. This morning I feel less congested and I'm still high as a kite.
Doxylamine succinate takes a bit to get going, but once it does, I'm OUT OF IT for 15-18 hours. It's an old-school antihistamine, and it's highly sedating, which is why they put it in NyQuil in the first place. But I hardly coughed at all last night and when I did, I was able to get to sleep afterwards. If I couldn't, I'd get up and have a popsicle, and that fixed it. That happened twice. Not bad.
I haven't had any of the prescription antitussive (cough) medicine since Friday, and I'm now beginning to suspect that stuff does not work for me the way it's supposed to. I think it made things worse, rather than better, because without it I'm coughing a lot less at night.
I need to get the grass cut--at least the front yard--but I'm not operating power equipment until I feel a lot less spacy than I do right now. At least I can tell its "drugs" spacy and not "fever" spacy.
Meanwhile, nothing on the tubzorz really sparks any commentary, so this is going to have to do for today's post. Sorry about that.
[43,000 word rant, which quotes heavily from Denis Leary, deleted]
--for the first time since I had this illness in EARLY JUNE I took NyQuil for the symptoms. Of course it hit me like a 16,000 ton weight (see bracketed statement) but at least I slept well. This morning I feel less congested and I'm still high as a kite.
Doxylamine succinate takes a bit to get going, but once it does, I'm OUT OF IT for 15-18 hours. It's an old-school antihistamine, and it's highly sedating, which is why they put it in NyQuil in the first place. But I hardly coughed at all last night and when I did, I was able to get to sleep afterwards. If I couldn't, I'd get up and have a popsicle, and that fixed it. That happened twice. Not bad.
I haven't had any of the prescription antitussive (cough) medicine since Friday, and I'm now beginning to suspect that stuff does not work for me the way it's supposed to. I think it made things worse, rather than better, because without it I'm coughing a lot less at night.
I need to get the grass cut--at least the front yard--but I'm not operating power equipment until I feel a lot less spacy than I do right now. At least I can tell its "drugs" spacy and not "fever" spacy.
Meanwhile, nothing on the tubzorz really sparks any commentary, so this is going to have to do for today's post. Sorry about that.