Wednesday, April 16, 2008
The Stopped-Up Nose
I have a cold. What drives me the most nuts when I have a cold is not the sore throat. Not the runny nose either. No, what drives me nuts is when one side of your nose gets stopped up to where you cannot breathe out of it. Two nights ago, I was up most of the night because I couldn't breathe out the right side of my nose. Talk about annoying! Then last night, I took some generic Nyquil so that hopefully it would clear my nose and make me sleep better. I did sleep better, but my nose was still pretty stopped up. This morning when I woke up, I felt like my thoughts were very slowly swimming through my head. Like they were paddling through a fast current that made the thoughts slow to come out. On the way to work this morning, I read the medicine package, and it said you could take it up to once every four hours. That might be fine for most people, but medicine works extremely well for me, and if I took it that often I probably would have died. Glad I didn't follow those instructions!
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I am not sure about the Generic but I know regular Nyquil has a weight limit on the amount you should take. I did not realize that in college and I took a full dose and wanted to sleep for 24 hours. Ever since then I will not touch the stuff - even though I know I just took to big a dose. Breath Right strips are the best thing to open a nose I have found. I am very stuffy as well.
I hate that stopped-up nose thing! Sometimes propping myself up at night helps (although it's not the most comfortable) and saline also helps some. I kind of laughed about your Nyquil experience! I happen to LOVE Nyquil when I have a cold...and Dayquil too! But I've haven't heard that you can take it every 4 hours. That seems excessive! I hope you get un-stopped soon!
Have you tried a Netti Pot? It really works for Steve.
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