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any suggestions for a stuffed up nose??


I put some Vicks right inside my nose, it won't take the cold away but it will help you breath again. Benedryl works best for my colds. But I also take a bunch of mneral type vitamins for prevention :)
 
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A steamy shower and Vick's vapor rub, plus some Sudafed PE (the new stuff).

I hope you're not getting the flu.
My sweetie has it and it's not easy trying to take of him from across the pond. He's not eating or taking in enough liquid...I just know it! He just sleeps. Poor thing.


About 14 years ago I had something, not sure what. But I was drnking lots of water as I always do, but still got dehydrated anyway. I was at work when I just sat down and couldn't move anymore, could hardly talk. They hauled me to the E-room and pumped liquids into me. Getting dehydrate is dangerous stuff. I think I was lacking in some kind of salts and couldn't retain a proper hydration level. Was an eye opener for me. :D I don't know how old people who live alone make it when they get sick :sigh:
 
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Best thing for stuffed nose: fix some soup (cream of mushroom works well),a nd then add as much cayenne pepper as you can stand. For my wife, that is about 1/100 of an oz. For me, about 1/2 tsp.

It'll clear you in no time!

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ANd if that doesn't work go out and get ZICAM. It works very well to shorten the cold as well as relieve the symptoms
 
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Ugh, I wish this house weren't so drafty. It's not all that cold, but it's wet and icky out. . .so this house always feels so cold. . .yuck, yuck, yuck. . .
 
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One thing I find helps; is a product called Airborne. Basically, it's a fizzy vitamin pill. It's not medicine at all. Due to the exposure level of my job at Greyhound, I had to do something. When I feel the symptoms of something going on I take it twice a day. When I actually am sick I do the same whilst still taking the meds. They are expensive, sometimes though, Walmart will have them on sale.
 
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One thing I find helps; is a product called Airborne. Basically, it's a fizzy vitamin pill. It's not medicine at all. Due to the exposure level of my job at Greyhound, I had to do something. When I feel the symptoms of something going on I take it twice a day. When I actually am sick I do the same whilst still taking the meds. They are expensive, sometimes though, Walmart will have them on sale.
Studeclunker, then I'm giving your company business because I'm taking the Greyhound bus when I go to Florida! That's tomorrow!!!

Stein Auf!
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Hot pepper.

horseradish.

Candied ginger.


They'll all help stuffy noses.

I also really rely on drinking LOTS of fluid,and irrigating my sinuses with saline. I don't bother with fancy equipment. I just make saline in a little custard cup I keep in my bathroom for this purpose, and "snuff" it up my nose then spit it out. I used to get sinusitis a couple time a year before I started doing this. Now it's very rare that a bout of sinus stuffiness gets so bad that I need antibiotics.

It's gross, but it works.
 
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Hot pepper.

horseradish.

Candied ginger.


They'll all help stuffy noses.

I also really rely on drinking LOTS of fluid,and irrigating my sinuses with saline. I don't bother with fancy equipment. I just make saline in a little custard cup I keep in my bathroom for this purpose, and "snuff" it up my nose then spit it out. I used to get sinusitis a couple time a year before I started doing this. Now it's very rare that a bout of sinus stuffiness gets so bad that I need antibiotics.

It's gross, but it works.
It might be easier to buy saline solution in a spray atomizer. They sell them with just the solution in them. Easier to assimilate.
 
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Generic Benedryl and Generic Mucinex are what I took last week to be able to breathe.
I can't take benedryl (or any of it's friends) it doesn't mix with my other meds.

I started on Cymbalta for my fibro pain and depression today. It's kind of scary, because I had to go off of prozac (for the ocd) to do it. (been on it for 15yrs).

Please say a prayer that it works. If the ocd thoughts come back, I have to go back on the prozac (fluoxetine..for those into generics ;) ), and more than likely just live with the fibro pain. Nothing has really worked for that, so far.

Thanks for all your caring thoughts.
 
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