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xiphiasSo, like many of y'all, I'm down with a Creeping Crud with the following characteristics:
1. A bad cough. This is its primary and most significant feature.
2. An intermittent fever, never getting to dangerous levels, although occasionally getting to the "Wooo, wobbly" levels, and the "lying awake at night coming up with really GREAT ideas for a TOON game, that I can't remember ANY of any more" level. And also getting down to normal, just to mess with you. Oh, and I also woke up having sweating enough that it was dripping out of my hair.
3. Body aches and pains, probably from the fever.
And that's it, mostly.
The problem is that the cough is nasty. Cough suppressants barely touch it. Expectorants don't do a thing. And while there is no nausea with this Crud, you occasionally cough so hard that you start retching. A sore throat presents, simply because of the stress of coughing so much. You can't sleep because of the coughing.
So, I've been trying to find ways to deal with the coughing, especially if it can get me to be able to sleep.
I've sort of found something, somewhat.
If I lie face down, with my head and arms hanging over the edge of the bed, it seems to suppress the coughing. It's hard to sleep in this position, but not as hard as it is to sleep while coughing.
I've got my massage table set up next to my computer, and when I start to have a bad coughing fit, I go over and lie down on it, with my head and arms hanging off the top edge.
Um.
It's not a GREAT solution, but it's the only thing I've found that does anything at all. So I pass it along to anyone else suffering from this crud. If you're anything like me, at this point, if I'd suggested gargling with a live chicken, you'd be willing to try it. . .
1. A bad cough. This is its primary and most significant feature.
2. An intermittent fever, never getting to dangerous levels, although occasionally getting to the "Wooo, wobbly" levels, and the "lying awake at night coming up with really GREAT ideas for a TOON game, that I can't remember ANY of any more" level. And also getting down to normal, just to mess with you. Oh, and I also woke up having sweating enough that it was dripping out of my hair.
3. Body aches and pains, probably from the fever.
And that's it, mostly.
The problem is that the cough is nasty. Cough suppressants barely touch it. Expectorants don't do a thing. And while there is no nausea with this Crud, you occasionally cough so hard that you start retching. A sore throat presents, simply because of the stress of coughing so much. You can't sleep because of the coughing.
So, I've been trying to find ways to deal with the coughing, especially if it can get me to be able to sleep.
I've sort of found something, somewhat.
If I lie face down, with my head and arms hanging over the edge of the bed, it seems to suppress the coughing. It's hard to sleep in this position, but not as hard as it is to sleep while coughing.
I've got my massage table set up next to my computer, and when I start to have a bad coughing fit, I go over and lie down on it, with my head and arms hanging off the top edge.
Um.
It's not a GREAT solution, but it's the only thing I've found that does anything at all. So I pass it along to anyone else suffering from this crud. If you're anything like me, at this point, if I'd suggested gargling with a live chicken, you'd be willing to try it. . .