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And I'm officially sick

Yesterday I woke up and went downstairs to hang out with some relatives. At about 5:30am or so I took some Tylenol for my headache I had, but some water went down the wrong pipe, so went into a massive coughing fit. Ever since then I've had a sore throat and coughing, but not feeling congested, nose isn't stuffed up and body aches and minor chills.

I took NyQuil before bed last night, and this morning I took Robitussin Non-Drowsy with the Guaifenesin. Still coughing but not as bad. Still have the sore throat and body aches but feeling hot. Woke up with a headache, went back to bed until 9:00am and took 2 Excedrin Migraine and headache gone in 5 to 10 minutes which is great!!

I have a seizure disorder so am thinking the headaches are related to it. There's been at least 2 times when I woke up and my head hurt so bad, like it had been in a vice. Like it physically hurt, and sometimes the medicine does nothing to alleviate the pain.
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My Dad had a remedy for sore throats, heat up some real lemonade, stir in a teaspoon of honey and two crushed tylenol, natural theraflu, drink up while it's still hot.
twiigss · M
@NativePortlander1970 We have honey and green tea tea bags here, so I'll pour in honey first, just enough to cover the bottom of the mug, then I'll start the water from the Keurig and drop in the tea bag so the water can directly go on it.

Your Dads method sounds like a solid one as well 🙂
@twiigss He created it while taking classes in pharmacology during nursing school in the early 70's.
twiigss · M
@twiigss He also gave us hot oj and crushed tylenol for colds and flus, his theory was that vitamin c has to be heat activated to properly work.
twiigss · M
@NativePortlander1970 I once bought a bottle of 500mg vitamin C chewables, but this was probably around 1995-1996. I ate those things like they were candy. Good point you bring up, haven't had any vitamin C today.
@twiigss Those chewables are very addictive, I used to do the same.
twiigss · M
@NativePortlander1970 OMG YES!! I probably ate that whole bottle before the week was over with.
@twiigss I bought the rolls of them.