@katrina2017 Thank you! I am a very very bored pasty Victorian child at this point. I need a feather pen and parchment to start writing my manifesto before my untimely demise.
I’ve had a fever every day for 8 days and I’m so pissed off.
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@gina I live off of Gatorade, ramen and so many cold meds when I get sick. I pretty much chug nyquil, which with my meds isn't recommended but anything is preferable to that shit.
My hacks are afrin, daily vitamins with super hero doses of zinc and vitamin c, a cool mist humidifier, vapo rub, and Popsicles of any kind. This last batch was icee type ones which helped me feel better about life. See also warm jello, spoonfuls of honey, raspberry tea, chicken noodle soup and chopped the food network TV show and bridgerton.
I hope your witchiness recovers and you write a novel about the olden days because you are an entertaining writer and I need more of that in my life.
My hacks are afrin, daily vitamins with super hero doses of zinc and vitamin c, a cool mist humidifier, vapo rub, and Popsicles of any kind. This last batch was icee type ones which helped me feel better about life. See also warm jello, spoonfuls of honey, raspberry tea, chicken noodle soup and chopped the food network TV show and bridgerton.
I hope your witchiness recovers and you write a novel about the olden days because you are an entertaining writer and I need more of that in my life.
@gina My mom would always make us “potion” when we were sick, and I do think it helps. Here is the recipe :
16 oz warm water:
1 tbsp raw Honey
2 tbsp apple cider vinegar(with the mother)
2 tbsp lemon juice fresh squeezed
½ tsp ground cinnamon
Add honey to warm water and stir until the honey is fully dissolved.
Add apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, cinnamon.
Drink when fully combined.
Other things that help me are drinking kombucha and taking 1000 my Tylenol and 400 mg of ibuprofen at the same time. This combo has been found to have very high pain relieving effects.
16 oz warm water:
1 tbsp raw Honey
2 tbsp apple cider vinegar(with the mother)
2 tbsp lemon juice fresh squeezed
½ tsp ground cinnamon
Add honey to warm water and stir until the honey is fully dissolved.
Add apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, cinnamon.
Drink when fully combined.
Other things that help me are drinking kombucha and taking 1000 my Tylenol and 400 mg of ibuprofen at the same time. This combo has been found to have very high pain relieving effects.
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@gina I am so sorry, I had some virus about a month ago, that took me out in a similar fashion — and then even though the cough and fevers were better, I was so tired. Like probably could not have roused from a burning building fatigue! I absolutely had to nap. I started getting worried that I was going to have to file for disability for sleeping sickness. But eventually I recovered.
Ever since I listened to the physician who present the Med ram podcast talk about how hospitals should consider bringing back solariums for COViD, due to sunlight having healing properties, I am like, “ehh, maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t but it surely can’t hurt — so now my kids groan, as I am a “get out their in the sun and walk” any time my kids or I are sick.
Ever since I listened to the physician who present the Med ram podcast talk about how hospitals should consider bringing back solariums for COViD, due to sunlight having healing properties, I am like, “ehh, maybe it does, maybe it doesn’t but it surely can’t hurt — so now my kids groan, as I am a “get out their in the sun and walk” any time my kids or I are sick.
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@gina Do you have a humidifier? Try the Vicks vaporizer too, used with their liquid Vicks to help make the air more breathable. Other than that, lot of water, oranges and mandarins, veggies soups, and I noticed actually working out a bit, even 30min walk helped me recover better when I had this, better than just taking meds.
@gina Did your doctor prescribe Tessalon Perles? This was the only thing that worked for me. I was coughing so much I was pissing myself and the cough was so deep I was coughing myself sick (vomiting due to the coughing). This stuff basically paralyzes your throat and the muscles that make you want to cough so you don’t cough. I was diagnosed with an upper respiratory tract infection.
@gina My kid got me sick. Something the doctor told me is called para flu. Not flu a or b. But like it. I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO SICK IN MY LIFE. Fever, cough, my lungs hurt and are wheezing, my eyes had gunk coming out of them. Steroid, antibiotics, Albuterol inhaler, and medicated eye drops later... I still feel like shit.
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@gina You’ve got all the good suggestions here, but I want to add my solidarity for just how fucking awful it feels when you’ve got Shit To Do and are languishing like a wretch from bygone times. I have been sick since the goddamn end of February, first with the wretched monster-cough respiratory illness, which turned into fucking pneumonia just as I was almost better, which took weeks to fully clear, then literally just as I was truly almost improved, morphed seamlessly into a violent stomach flu that I’m only now feeling some relief from. I have not been to the office since February, and have missed kids birthdays and major life events due to being completely incapacitated. It is Extremely Horrible, and beggars belief that I have been taken so thoroughly out of everyday existence that I have not been outside for more than 15 minutes for the entire month of March. I’m doing all the things too. The ginger, the immune boosters. So my thoughts are with you! May the force be with us and may the germs fuck right off and let us just live