damn I'm sick of hearing myself whine about being sick.

[derien]

I decided to try to tough it out without cold medicine last night, and didn't get much sleep.  I thought cough medicine would be all I'd need, because this cough has actually been getting more insistent during the last day or two, but the medicine didn't seem to touch the cough. 

For the strong of stomach only,  I figured out why...

This morning I decided, on a whim, to try nasal irrigation, and I got some results, shall we say (yes I think I'll leave it at that).  It was horrible and disgusting and exhausting and all that as the process usually is, which is probably why I find it so fascinating (I AM contrary and perverse, in case you forgot).  Couldn't clear everything, still couldn't really breath through my nose or anything really spectacular like that, but I found when I lay back down that I didn't cough any more.  Like, not at all, and I'd been having wracking coughs every few minutes.  So the expectorant/cough suppressant wasn't helping because this stuff wasn't coming up from my lungs (or not entirely) it was dripping down from the back of my nose and pooling somewhere, I guess.  Presumably if it does that for too long it might cause my lungs to get infected, so I'm guessing I need to take some steps to get this nose thing under control.


So, I still didn't get any more sleep today, but maybe I'll be able to tonight if I can adapt.  Contac didn't dry up my nose the other day; is Daquil better, do you think?

As an aside, usually when I'm sick I avoid dairy products as much as I can because I know the tendency is to make everything like this worse (and last night I had cheese in my dinner *eyeroll*).  The other day Eor made some comment about how I was going to stop at Starbuck's for a coffee while I was on my way to get the car out of the garage after the snow ban.

"Drink coffee, with this nose?"  I sez.

"If you used your nose," he popped back, "It's not called drinking."

I'm wondering how it is that I'm living wrong, because baseline "well" for me seems to include a slight post-nasal-drip, frequent slightly sore throats and a cough whenever I get the slightest bit chilly.  I've never been able to sleep with my head uncovered because my nose/throat dry out and all of the above gets accentuated.  Does my body have some basic malfunction?

ETA: Those of you with memories are probably saying, "But yeah, didn't you learn this last year when you had sinusitis?" To which I can only reply, "When you have a cough your instinct is always to take cough medicine."

Also, my stomach muscles are strained by it all. *pout, whine*

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[derien.livejournal.com]

We're not as wet, but pretty wet here, and also we get large swings in the weather very quickly. But how much should a consistantly soggy weather pattern affect your health? Unless you have allergies to molds or household dust mites, both of which reproduce happily in wet weather.