I've been up all night

[Ohiogal]

With a nasty head cold.

Can’t sleep.

Ugh.

[PJMcK]

1. Me, too

Except mine is in my lungs. It's hard to breathe and the congestion is driving me crazy!

Hope we're healthy in time for the New Year!

[Ohiogal]

2. I don't know if we will be in good shape to celebrate much tonight....

My head is so congested, it feels like a balloon. Can’t breathe.

Well, we can be miserable together, PJMcK!!

[PJMcK]

3. Hell of a way to start the New Year, eh?

Mucinex (pills) is my new friend. Once it kicks in, I can breathe a little. I hate being sick!

Only one thing makes me truly miserable, Ohiogal, and it ain't our illnesses. It's the asshole squatting in our White House.

Try to get some sleep, friend.

[Ohiogal]

4. I hate it, too.

Being sick ... and being even more sick of that mean, destructive asshole you spoke of.

Hopefully things will be looking up for all of us very soon!

[Freddie]

5. Feel better soon!

A year ago today I started feeling like crap which quickly became The Flu and I was sick almost the whole month of January - one week feeling like I was hit by a truck and the next 3 weeks with a lingering cough and weakness. Hope it’s just a cold for you.

[Ohiogal]

6. Thank you

My husband just had this and was nice enough to share it with me...lol. He was better in about a week, so if I’ve got the same thing, I have another 4-5 days to go.

I’m sorry that flu knocked you down so hard. What a way to start the new year, as PJ said. Glad you survived it and let’s hope we also outlast that miserable cretin in the White House, too,

[akraven]

7. Don't take OTC's, except saline nasal spray.

Eat as much as you can of softish (is that a word?) foods - soup, pudding, sherbet, even popsicles. Drink LOTS of liquids.

My mom had a saying that a treated head cold would last a week and an untreated one 7 days. I truly feel for you, I hate them myself.

Sending

[watoos]

8. I am an internet doctor,

so it is best to disregard my advice.

When I worked on the road and got sick and couldn't miss work, this is what I did. I bought a bottle of green (must be green) Nyquil, unscrewed the dispensing cap and threw it away, drank approximately 1/2 the bottle then got under the covers. By morning I had sweated out my cold and ready to go to work.

p/s I've been up all night tonight with my hiatal hernia acting up. Any internet doctors know anything about hiatal hernias?

[Ohiogal]

10. I thought about getting some NyQuil for tomorrow night.

Any particular reason for the green?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. Take it easy with the Nyquil; it's got acetaminophen, which will mess up your liver

if you take too much of it. Otherwise Nyquil is great.

[Ohiogal]

9. Thank you

It seems as though there’s not much you can do to hasten a cold’s departure, is there, akraven?

I think I have drunk enough tea today to last me a lifetime. And I’m a morning coffee lover, except when I have a cold, then I crave tea. Decaf, of course.

[BamaRefugee]

11. Me too. With a total hip replacement on my left side! Who knew amputating your thigh bone would hurt

so much?
But I'm off of the prescribed Norco, too dangerous, gonna make it on Tylenol or bust!
As much as this hurts, it's better than any other day in the last 2 years when I was crippled by the bad hip PLUS the ever burning fire of meralgia paresthetica in the same thigh...onward and upward from here!

[Ohiogal]

13. I hope the pain goes away soon

That must be dreadful

Good luck with Tylenol! My sister’s 90 year old plus mother-in-law had two hip replacements after she turned 80 and did quite well both times.

[LiberalLoner]

12. I'm so sorry.

I hope you feel better very soon! NyQuil helps me when I have a bad cold.

[Ohiogal]

14. It's an old stand by!

[smirkymonkey]

16. I think it helps because it allows you to sleep.

Some tea w/ rum and honey would probably also do the trick. Anything that will knock you out for a long time usually does the trick for me. I find that not being able to sleep, tossing and turning usually seems to prolong it, but if I am out for a while, I usually feel better faster.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Nyquil is just the ticket for me because it knocks me out.

A lot of sleeping is the best cure for a cold, I think.

[Fla Dem]

15. Rest as much as you can. Hope you feel better soon. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. Maybe I should catch a nasty head cold.

Otherwise I have no hope of staying awake until midnight. I'll go to be early, wake up, and it'll be 2019 already. I'll have missed the whole thing.

Unless my neighbors are kind enough to wake me with firecrackers and gunshots at midnight.

Feel best.