i better not be getting fucking sick again

[datasuspect]

i just cleared up the last one and that motherfucker took almost three weeks to run its course.

jesus fucking christ!

[hippywife]

1. Is this a cold?

If so, I recommend zinc lozenges or Emergen-C stat! They both work and zinc lozenges are cheaper but make everything you eat taste kinda funny for awhile. Good luck! :hi:

[datasuspect]

2. it gets cold in my flat

because they are skimping on heat this year (it's off from midnight till about 4 am - radiator heat, either that or it's really low) and i think sleeping in a frigid room isn't helping.

[hippywife]

4. I'm not so sure that it is the cold

that causes colds as much as it is a virus that is easily passed by contact with people. I went for years without wearing a coat in the winter time, even going out with wet hair but I went decades without catching a cold. Now that I work in a retirement community/nursing home, I start catching colds about twice a year. If I get on it with one of those two remedies at the first sign, I can usually stop it in its tracks.

[LaurenG]

3. Make an omelet with a few cloves of garlic

or just eat a few cloves. Years ago when I was feeling "fluey" my neighbor showed up at my doorstep insisting I eat 4 cloves of garlic she'd minced and handed over to me.

After she left I just sat at the table looking at it but then figured what the heck. I put them in a one egg omelet to get them down. I was feeling better in hours.

It may have been the garlic or just that I was feeling temporarily sick but if your not going out today you might want to give it a try.

[mzteris]

5. that zicam stuff works

amazingly well.

After you do get sick - I recommend Mucinex, too.

Oh - and in the early stages - I take 3 Echinacea and Goldenseal tabs and 1000 mg of Vitamin C four times a day for several days. It really seems to help me and my kids to either avoid getting sick altogether or makes it a lot less virulent and shorter in duration, too.