fucking sick
Dec 22 2007
So I caught a bad cold just in time to take a bus 8 hours then a train another two to visit family for the stupid holidays. Anyone got any cold remedies or coping ideas? The only ones I have is eating the spiciest possible food I can stand so I can breathe again, and drinking hot whiskey. Stupid immune system.
Dec 22 2007
#2
Ginger.
Honey and lemon.
Mentholyptus chemically sweets that clean your ears out as well.
Dec 22 2007
#3
get some eucolyptus or tea tree oil and put some on a handkerchef and when you feel blocked up, have a whiff and away you go. you could always use this (having a cold) as a brilliant excuse not to go and visit the family... that's what I'd be doing 
all the best.
gregg.
Dec 22 2007
#4
Vodka.
Generations of sniffly Slavs can't be wrong.
Dec 22 2007
#5
i dunno... whenever i feel like i'm coming down with something, i just start drinking a lot of orange juice, and it usually goes away.
Dec 22 2007
#6
Vitamin C and zinc. Anything else is hippy bullshit.
Drinking mint tea is nice too because it numbs your throat if that bothers you.
Dec 22 2007
#7
Nate wrote:
So I caught a bad cold just in time to take a bus 8 hours then a train another two to visit family for the stupid holidays. Anyone got any cold remedies or coping ideas? The only ones I have is eating the spiciest possible food I can stand so I can breathe again, and drinking hot whiskey. Stupid immune system.
Even more whiskey.
Dec 22 2007
#8
Whiskey always makes me feel awesome when I'm sick and I drink but I get even sicker the next day. But if you are fine with a 4 day or so long binge then I highly recommend it.
Dec 22 2007
#9
mikus wrote:
Whiskey always makes me feel awesome when I'm sick and I drink but I get even sicker the next day. But if you are fine with a 4 day or so long binge then I highly recommend it.
I'm sorry you are not as in contact with the magic Whiskey Eleves as I am.
Dec 22 2007
#10
the only borderline hippy shit which I have found works for me is emergen-c
Dec 22 2007
#11
Yeah but that's because it has Vitamin C. It has real shit, plus some hippy shit. So you get real benefits, plus an empty wallet.
Dec 22 2007
#12
heat up any clear booze
Dec 22 2007
#13
I've got a wisdom tooth coming through and its fucking painful. I've recently discovered I have a bad allergic reaction to over the counter painkillers. Any tips for me?
Dec 22 2007
#14
yep... chew a clove - not a clove of garlic but a clove - one of those little blacky twig type things.
all the best.
gregg.
eta - or get some clove oil and rub that on if you can't chew. 
Dec 22 2007
#15
Asher wrote:
I've got a wisdom tooth coming through and its fucking painful. I've recently discovered I have a bad allergic reaction to over the counter painkillers. Any tips for me?
Prescription painkillers.
Dec 22 2007
#16
Asher wrote:
I've got a wisdom tooth coming through and its fucking painful. I've recently discovered I have a bad allergic reaction to over the counter painkillers. Any tips for me?
Whiskey
Dec 22 2007
#17
Nate wrote:
Anyone got any cold remedies or coping ideas?
the hot whiskey is good, but also take a garlic clove, cut it in half, and swallow it like a pill. i know it works, i got it from this guy:
Dec 22 2007
#18
mikus - Indeed, but finding a doctor this time of year isn't likely, it'll have to wait til post new years.
fnbrill - I'm broke, but I wish I could afford some. Whiskey solves everything!
grrregg - Odd suggestion, but I'll see if I can find some tomorrow and try it, can't hurt I guess!
Dec 22 2007
#19
catch wrote:
Ginger.
Honey and lemon.
Mentholyptus chemically sweets that clean your ears out as well.
I mix all of these together ie:
Juice of one large lemon
Enough honey to sweeten
a knob of ginger finely sliced
A couple of menthol cough lollies
put all in a tea pot and infuse with boiling water.
Dec 22 2007
#20
Asher wrote:
I've got a wisdom tooth coming through and its fucking painful. I've recently discovered I have a bad allergic reaction to over the counter painkillers. Any tips for me?
Backing up greeeg whole cloves does works well, place the whole clove close to the source of the pain
Dec 22 2007
#21
Asher wrote:
fnbrill - I'm broke, but I wish I could afford some. Whiskey solves everything!
Nyquill or local variant will do in a pinch. I've also used cleaning solvents, rubbing alcohol, bleach and ammonia martinis when broke. 
This last bit is serious, take a cheep beer, which I know the antipode has in abundance. Place beer in a plastic container and freeze. Drink what doesn't freeze. If it's good enough for the celts, it's good enough for us. It's kind of whiskey.
Dec 22 2007
#22
whiskey is irish shit, drink whisky good old scottish shit!!!
Dec 22 2007
#23
lemsip you hippy fucks.
then take off sick from work every day you were sick in your holidays
Dec 22 2007
#24
Asher wrote:
I've got a wisdom tooth coming through and its fucking painful. I've recently discovered I have a bad allergic reaction to over the counter painkillers. Any tips for me?
Get 'em out. Not sure how it is where you are, but here its considered a medical emergency (apparently if they come through wrong they can grow into a major artery) and they have to treat you even if you're broke. I got mine out at the city hospital for free and they even sent me home with a generous perscription of oxycodone. Sweet, sweet oxycodone...
Anyways, you don't want to to fuck around with that. It'll just keep getting worse if you don't deal with it.
Dec 22 2007
#25
"I've also used cleaning solvents, rubbing alcohol, bleach and ammonia martinis when broke"
I also advise you *not* take the above advice.
Dec 22 2007
#26
grrregg wrote:
yep... chew a clove - not a clove of garlic but a clove - one of those little blacky twig type things.
all the best.
gregg.
eta - or get some clove oil and rub that on if you can't chew.
I tried the oil of cloves remedy and had a tooth ache and a nasty tasting mouth.
Dec 22 2007
#27
i thought this thread was gonna be about puffs.
Clove oil works, but the taste is so bad as to invalidate it.
Dec 22 2007
#28
I thought this was going to be Jack's latest video.
Dec 23 2007
#29
spent most of this weekend sideways. ::groans::
Dec 23 2007
#30
Tried the clove thing tonight, ended up with a mouthful of clove bits and a nasty taste. Beer helped though.
SRB - Yeah, will prob get onto that once things come back to life after New Years.
It's all about the garlic, juice up a few cloves of garlic in with some oranges and away you go. Can't have too many fluids either, preferably clear types. Sleep as much as possible too.
all the best.
gregg.