I hate colds

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not flu, just colds. You don't feel bad enough to stay home, but you feel bad enough not to be able to work. Nothign fixes it, nothing makes you feel better, and people avoid you like a common pygmy.

Grrrr.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Johnney, you're right.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, everyone tells you you *should* be at home. particularly if you have a cough with it.

I tend not to notice the difference much apart from the cough that goes with it, coz despite my best efforts a snot factory where my nose should be is my default state.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The mian problem I have is with the nose blowing. The tissue ruptures down to me blowing to hard and to long.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Taking Sides: Blowing Your Nose vs. Sniffing.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer sniffing, but I am aware of how disgusting other people find it, so I try not to do it @ all.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

in Japan it is the accepted thing iirc. Blowing one's nose is considered disgusting.

I don't know whether beer is good for colds, but it's something I like to believe.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

A reasonably hot & spicy curry is good for relieving colds.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

According to my boyf beer is the cure for everything...

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a cold. It sucks. I am going to have chilli mac for lunch which ought to make me feel better.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to have Stella for lunch. I'm with MarkH and smee's bf - beer is the elixir of youth and will make my cold go. If that doesn't work, I'm trying leeches.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

curry's on the menu here today, but the chances of it being hot and spicy are next to nil.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

This is why you should carry Tabasco with you at all times.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

And Beechams.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

They should bring out Tabasco flavoured Beechams.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a problem with colds - I work for my parents, and I know from bitter experience when I was younger that my dad considers anything that doesn't give you a fever something you should pull your socks up and work through. So no days off for me.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I've had this cold now for the whole of February - no time off work, no fever, no aches, just an astonishing torrent of nasal unpleasantness and bronchial shenanigans.

I'm guessing there's some chesty infection nonsense going on which might respond to GP-prescribed drugs (rather than the pharmacist's finest which I've been knocking back like sweeties); it's too late for the antivirals and if I took any more vit C I'd turn into an orange.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

Ghhhhhh.........

I am a gigantic sinus. I find it hard to breath, concentrate, swallow. And I took benedryl, but that made it impossible to work. So now I'm just feeling like shit. I hope that this will act as my seasonal immunization.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

tell me about it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

why the hell do people come to work sick? I have a coworker who is so eager to please that she comes in completely ill even when we tell her to go home, and stays, sniffling and snorting and coughing all day. Goddamnit I hate getting sick, I hate, hate, hate head colds, and I'm going to catch one, any minute.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I say getting drunk is an excellent cold cure. Last night I was feeling totally shitty, but I had to go to the pub to see off a friend who's leaving the country for a few months. I managed to drink five pints of Guiness (which somehow seems healthier than lager) and woke up today with a totally clear head; no cold, no hangover. This has happened on several other occaisions as well.

― Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree kyle, in fact I hate people sniffing snot everywhere more than I hate having a cold myself... eugh.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never called in sick to work, and I feel an obligation not-to, provided I can still do my job. I dunno, exactly, why.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in the early stages of a cold right now, by gosh. The familiar sandpaper sensation in the back of the throat. It sucks. Been drinking lots of tea and water and soup and takin' Vitamin C and these British powders called "Beachums" (the wife swears by'em), but I'm still going to have to ride it out. Most concerned about passing it onto the baby. Shitty.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

This is what I feel like

http://www.cmxs.com/animals/images/proboscis-monkey.gif

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

This is what I feel like....

http://www.itsonlyamovie.co.uk/screen%20shots%20and%20titles/the%20burning%20ss%20throat.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

! That's far, far, worse than my proboscis monkey.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Try and get some Lemsip if you can, Alex. It's much tastier than Beachums.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Beachums really tastes foul.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I really like Lemsip. I sometimes drink it when I'm healthy. Go for the lemon over the blackcurrant, though.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 7 October 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

this is what i feel like:

http://emeagwali.org/travel/caribbean/jamaica/grand-lido-negril-photos/grand-lido-negril-fire-eater-march-2001.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 7 October 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It is 11:26 and I have to get up at 6:00. I am extremely congested, have a sore throat and loaded sinuses. I'm bitchy, bored, and -- most irritatingly of all -- my skin is hypersensitive. I've got two big projects to finish in the next week, I'm insomniac, and the benadryl I took an hour ago is leading me into some shade of Repetative Thought Disorder. I've got these weird, disturbing, scenes from A Woman Under The Influence stuck in my head. Specific lines, even. I feel like I'm going nuts, and I know that when I wake in the morning my first question-to-self will be "are you better?" and if the answer's anything less than "assuredly so!" I'm gonna be incredibly bummed.

Also, my eustachian tubes are all crusted up and my eyes keep watering.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 October 2004 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Beechams All-In-One is great - it's one of the few things that does actually make you feel better, highly recomended. It always felt like doing a shot of Aftershock, and I recently looked on the ingredients and it's 20% proof! No wonder it sorts you out!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 7 October 2004 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a slight cold but what's really bothering me is i inhaled some fumes from newly applied wallpaper glue (not intentionally; sometimes you just gotta go to the can, y'know?) and now i feel queasy.

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 October 2004 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

This is what I feel like

http://www.mobtastic.com/artists_bio_ringtones_logos_picture_messages/images/pic_kylie_minogue.jpg

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 October 2004 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Um, she's just what I feel like right now.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 October 2004 06:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Beachums-All-In-One, eh? Must seek that out.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/unbranded/b/unbranded-beechams-all-in-one-size-160ml.jpg

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 7 October 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

So, I buckled and have taken Vick's Dayquil. It somewhat deadens the symptoms, but is giving me woozy medicine-head in a big bad way.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Unh huh. It makes me feel really post-orgasmic all day, but in an unfun way.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe i should try some of this stuff!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 8 October 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It ain't doin' me any favors right now.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 October 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i don't usually take stuff unless i have a bad dry cough (tip: suppress dry coughs, let 'wet' ones run free, as non-productive coughing just irritates your lungs more, while 'wet' coughing is actually getting the bad shit out)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 8 October 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I officially have one now, thank you coming-to-work-sick fucks

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 8 October 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

also, I hope your own colds turn into pneumonia and you die. this might be my illness talking.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 8 October 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I still feel like Kylie. Evidently my condition is not improving.

― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 October 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel much worse than I did last night. Kyle's curse is working.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 October 2004 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

beechams lemon flu-plus is pretty good you know. goes really well with curry from hillmartons. my cold got pwned after just one serving of the combo!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 8 October 2004 06:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Weirdly, I feel a lot better. Yesterday at work I had the runny nose and watery eyes of the cold-afflicted, and swore to have today off work. I wake up this morning, and I'm as right as rain! Odd how this kinda thing works.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 8 October 2004 06:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope for the same tomorrow.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 8 October 2004 06:51 (twenty-one years ago)

LEMSIPPIN' AND ROBOTRIPPIN'

My cold reached Burroughsian proportions yesterday.

Lying in bed hallucinating strange fever dreams of tribes of 12 year old arab rent boys harvesting my greygreen snot and injecting it into giant insects... this is bad.

I'm at work coz I can't pay my rent otherwise. I don't get sickdays. Grrrrrrr.

― Danger Whore (kate), Friday, 8 October 2004 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Feeling okay today. Definately was hovering somewhere around Kate's magnitude of suffering and hallucinating yesterday morning. Today I've got a dry cough, 's about it, but I forced myself 10 hours of sleep and I'm totally groggy, hung-over from the benedryl, and generally slow. I feel sort of dangerous.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 8 October 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

What do you do to stave off a cold when that barely perceptible throaty tenderness and nasal drippiness begins, if anything?

Echinacea is just a placebo, right? Yet I tried it and green tea once last winter and didn't get sick -- just lucky?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 October 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I believe echinacea does have some positive effects, but keep in mind that some sources say it turns hair gray. (I have used lots of the stuff and am now more gray than I would prefer. That may be entirely coincidental, but I still resent echinacea a little, since nobody warned me.)

Gargling with warm salty water is definitely a good idea.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 17 October 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

xpost: You avoid pygmies?

― Booger Nose, Monday, 17 October 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

What do you do to stave off a cold when that barely perceptible throaty tenderness and nasal drippiness begins?

It's bird flu! Burn him! BURRRRRN HIM!!!!!!

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 17 October 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Zinc lozenges you let dissolve completely in your mouth. Supposedly creates a hateful environment for the cold germs, but you have to start them as soon as you recognize symptoms. These seem to have worked for me in the past, but how do you really know?

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 17 October 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

i hate colds too. but i heard youj're not supposed to eat dairy when you have cold? but what about yogurt - is those cultures like ok? when i had dysentary i was told to only eat plain yogurt and bread and rice

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 29 October 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard of that. I've had a cold for about two weeks now. It's slowly going away. About frigging time. But I can't take much (or rather I don't want to take anything) cause I'm pregnant.

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Saturday, 29 October 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

When that barely perceptible throaty tenderness began, I started gargling with antibacterial mouthwash twice a day and it was fending off the cold quite nicely ... until I decided that a smoky club and drinking until 6am was a good plan. I sound like Mariella Frostrup this morning.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Saturday, 29 October 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.