Now that a good friend has terrified me. . .

[xiphias]

So, a dear friend has pointed out with the enthusiastically hypochondriac glee of the second-year medical student that, if you squint hard enough, what I've been describing on my LiveJournal could be the early stages of whooping cough.

Thanks, dear friend!

But if the codeine-containing cough syrup works, then it's probably not whooping cough, right?

How long does codeine take to kick in? More or less than fifteen minutes? Should the cough suppressant effect kick in before the wobbly dizziness?