I can’t take a lot of cold medicines, but I wish I was unconscious right now.
What makes you feel better in this situation? Hot showers? Whiskey? Soup? Watching that comfort movie your mom put on when you were a kid?
Hot tea with honey (there are plenty of herbs that will help like chamomile). Slowly sucking on a spoonful of honey also helps with a sore throat. I also find it helps to move from the bed to the couch because I’ll get sick of the bed and the bedroom and being in the livingroom changes things up. Also hot showers and changing the pyjama. Just anything that makes me feel like I’m not marinating in my bed 24/7.
Sleep. A lot of water. Alcohol makes it much worse, don’t do that. Try to hibernate for as long as possible basically. Spicy soup will help clear the sinuses.
Yeah, I know any sleep I get with the booze, it won’t really help. I wish I didn’t know that, though. A hot toddy sounds nice, but…ah, well.
For symptoms:
Mom made me a shot of whiskey, honey and lemon juice as a child. (We did not drink in my household. Ever.) Works a charm.
My wife makes me hover over a steaming bowl of salt water, towel over head. Does seem to work well. Can’t hurt to expand your lungs with the heat and get some salt air in there, right? A trip to the beach, especially in the water, cures a great many ills.
The cure:
What breaks my fever is curling up in bed under a ton of blankets and knocking myself out. When I get to dreaming heavily I’ll wake up soaked in sweat. Not mildly moist, I mean to say soaking wet, really gross, have to get up and towel off. That’s how I know I’m on the other side and getting better.
Probably double check with your doctor before drinking alcohol if you’re not allowed to take other drugs, as alcohol is also a drug.
I’d recommend soup and other hot drinks like tea or hot water with honey and lemon.
Also gargling salt water or iodine gargle or mouthwash can help a lot if you have a sore throat, or even better is sore throat spray with topical anti-inflammation such as Benzydamine, but I guess maybe check that with your doctor too 🤷
I think it’s an NSAID? That’s a “use with caution” situation, then. The salt water gargle is something I forgot about. I’m glad I posted this question. It’s reminding me of all the stuff that’s helped before in case the coughing gets worse.
Hot, steamy showers. Warm blankets. Soup for your throat.
The only medicine I take is medical cannabis. Obviously if I was fucked up or whatever I’d take Babylon medicines but cannabis is the cure for what ails you probably 85% of the time
Cream of chicken soup
Hot toddies to ease the sore throat.
Which drugs can’t you take??
I read hot tiddies to ease the sore throat and was so confused
That would make me feel better!
that too, why not
They might distract me!
Alcohol wouldnt?
Cough suppressants and nasal decongestants, apparently? I can take antihistamines but I try to avoid them.
Hm, I do have whiskey, but I wonder if I still have honey left?
I love a good hot toddy, but alcohol is poison so I’d advise against drinking much until you’re better.
Orange Juice and Chicken Soup.
I never take medicine for a cold; they don’t help cure it, they just alleviate symptoms and in my experience, not well enough to bother wasting money on it.
Hot and Sour soup always makes me feel better.
That sounds amazing
Lots of hot liquids. my grandma picks linden blossoms during July, dries them and gives me for the winter colds. I’ve learnt that it contains natural compounds that makes your body sweat like crazy which is a good thing when you are sick.
also thyme, daisy, rasperry leaf teas
Lots of blankets/heat. Sweat it out.
I have the best/worst fever dreams.
when I got covid the first time I had a fever dream last three days. in those three days I watched myself die and be reborn at least 100 times.
fucked me up for a long time, I didn’t want to get out of bed at all because death was so fucking amazing and I just wanted it all to end.
fun times.
The first sleep paralysis episode I had I was convinced the whole time I had died and was in this weird ghost zone where I could hear people and see a bit, but couldn’t move. Fucked me up, too, though in my case I was scared of sleeping for a while. It doesn’t sound as bad as your experience, though, damn.
Yes to nostalgic comfort movies! Plus hot salty soup, ginger ale and, why not, saltines. All the nostalgic sick stuff. :P
Hot showers (for steam), spicy food, pine-orange juice.
Oh, pineapple! Whew. I was like “i don’t think pine and orange would mesh well…but if I feel really sick…”
Spicy food does sound like a good idea!
Haha, yeah. I read once that pineapple juice is better for colds than orange juice. No idea if it’s actually true so I hedge my bets by having both.
Three consecutive bong hits.
I should keep a pack of weed gummies on hand and keep them in a nyquil box for times like these
Videogames and naps
