# \*cough\* \*cough\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 27, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826 "2011-02-27T18:50:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/1 "2011-02-27T18:50:40Z")
Oh, bugger. Thursday I was about seven feet away from some kid who was coughing up a lung. Saturday I started coughing. Today I definitely have a cold. I don’t have time for this, dammit. :mad: I took a couple of rather old Sudafed (the red ones) and some Day-Quil. I should be drinking water, but I like coffee better. I’ve had a bowl of ‘picante’ menudo, and I think I’ll have another. Maybe I’ll squirt some Afrin up my nose, and take some zinc. If I seem incoherent today, or unresponsive, it’s the cold. ---
**Author:** ![Heyoka13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Heyoka13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heyoka13)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/2 "2011-02-27T18:54:00Z")
I think I have RSV. It set in just as the food poisoning was clearing up. I have been sick all year. I wonder if I could build a battery powered mister and carry it like a back pack, and spend the rest of my life in a fog of atomized Chlorox?? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/3 "2011-02-27T19:21:50Z")
From the link in this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=598687), If you wait until 2024 there will be a cure for the cold. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/4 "2011-02-27T20:04:47Z")
Ugh, **Johnny** , I know your pain. \ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/5 "2011-02-27T20:06:28Z")
_Sunrise At Campobello_ (1960) just started. A bunch of people having fun on a sailboat and not having colds. Bastards. I hate them. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/6 "2011-02-27T20:16:36Z")
My wife just got over a bout with something similar, but she ended up on antibiotics for four days. If you’ve got a fever, you probably ought to see a doc. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/7 "2011-02-27T20:23:44Z")
No fever to speak of. Just a little warm. I took some more zinc, a couple of vitamin C, and roomie gave me a couple of Gummi Vites. Afrin up the nose, a whole can of menudo in my belly. (It took a while. That’s a lot of soup.) Oh, and a swig of Day-Quil. Not feeling quite so bad now. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/8 "2011-02-27T22:28:53Z")
Boy, if a whole can of menudo doesn’t make you wish for death, nothing will!😛 Seriously, I just talked to my hubby; he almost _never_ gets sick, but he’s sick now. When we talked on Friday, he said he thought he was coming down with something. Now his throat hurts terribly, his chest is dreadfully congested, and he’s coughing like a fiend. He’s taking mega-doses of Vit. C and zinc, drinking gallons of hot tea with honey, and taking ibuprofen for the inflammation that’s making his throat hurt. I advised him to get some Mucinex to help break up the chest congestion, and he said he’d run to a local store in a little while (he works out of town, or else I’d be taking care of him!) and get some; I told him while he’s out anyway, to pick up a bottle of Seagram’s Dark Honey, which is a bourbon/honey blend, and add a shot to his cup of tea at bed time! I hope you feel better soon, **Johnny**! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/9 "2011-02-28T00:29:27Z")
_blergh_ Slept for a couple of hours. Roomie made a sympathy face at me. Her cat is sleeping in the crook of my knees, which is helping to keep me warm. She suggested I take some Mucinex, which, amazingly, I have. Where the hell did _that_ come from? Called my boss and told her I’ll be working from home tomorrow. Also told her I took care of a couple of files that came in. ‘Why did you do those today?’ Because I didn’t want to do them tomorrow. Roomie went to the corner market and bought some spinach salad and surimi salad. We have a pizza in the freezer. I’m not hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/10 "2011-02-28T01:02:26Z")
From the title I thought you’d somehow invented an online hernia check for male Dopers. And I wanted to watch. ☹ Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/11 "2011-03-01T13:57:24Z")
Well, I woke up drenched in sweat. So I guess I’m cured. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/12 "2011-03-01T14:36:45Z")
I hope you’re better! I had this about two weeks ago and the cough has lingered far too long. ---
**Author:** ![Minnie\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Minnie\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minnie_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/13 "2011-03-01T14:54:52Z")
I had a similar thing a couple of weeks ago. Ended up going to the doc for antibiotics because I suspected I had a sinus infection. Felt tons better after the antibiotics, but I was miserable for a week before I got them. It’s been going around here at work. Everyone here has had their flu shot, but this sure feels like the flu. About half of us end up on antibiotics for bronchitis or sinusitis. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/14 "2011-03-01T15:08:23Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Well, I woke up drenched in sweat. So I guess I’m cured. That’s usually a good sign! Hope you’re on the down-side of it now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/15 "2011-03-01T18:27:58Z")
I feel well enough I’m tempted to hunt that kid down and give him a poke in the snot locker. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2011, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cough-cough/572826/16 "2011-03-01T18:42:51Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I feel well enough I’m tempted to hunt that kid down and give him a poke in the snot locker. Give the little shit a swat for me too. I know he didn’t give me this galloping crud, but I can’t very well go into my son’s day care with fists a-flying, now can I?