Boy, I wish that my student health center would give out codeine whenever anyone claimed an ache or pain. At my school, the standard response is a pregnancy test. You could come in carrying your head in a paper bag and your stump of a neck spouting blood and they would say “Hmm…are you late in your menstrual cycle?”
I’m not really sure how they treat the guys.
Anyway - a little codeine now and then is nothing to sneeze at.
Nope, pregnancy tests are required along with allowing a pap smear, for birth control. I’m serious about the codine for everything cure. A friend of mine went to Student Health last year, was fed the “sinus infection have codine” line and a week later spent a month in the hospital with mono. Way to diagnose!
Sigh. In good news, I cleaned my Toxic Waste Pit of a room. No, really, I did. I also had ice cream and chicken soup for dinner. (my sore throat thanked me) and, to really make the day spiffy, Girl Scouts are selling cookies in the lobby of my dorm. No sign up sheets, just hand the kid cash and she hands you your thin mints. The kids are doing it right, I bet they are raking it in. Way to sell to the college students girls!
Sweetness, I have NO idea what is wrong with you, but I love you dearly and am sending strong prayers and positive healing thoughts your way.
And don’t be kissing inor if you have a fever…he is feverish enough already! 
Scotti
Bronchitis? I was falling over when I had it.
Usual first-line treatment is amoxicillin, although they sometimes go with azithromycin (“Zithromax”). If you want to save a bunch of money and don’t mind the stomach upset, tell them to make it erythromycin instead of Zithromax; AFAIK it’s the same antibiotic, just without the time-release and stomach-soothing gloops (which are what cost you $80 instead of $15).
On the other hand, erythromycin makes you barf like you just ate at Lulu’s (“Eat at Lulu’s and lulose your lulunch!”), and is a lot less convenient to take (every few hours instead of once a day).
Note that amoxicillin isn’t quite as broad-spectrum as erythromycin/Zithromax; there are some bugs that amoxicillin can’t affect.
Third line is “Augmentin”, which is amoxicillin plus clavulanic acid (overcomes bacterial resistance to amoxicillin). Wonderful stuff, highly recommended, but you’ll want to stay VERY near a bathroom and don’t EVER eat anything that gives you gas. You’ll also need to shower after every trip to the bathroom. A strategically-placed maxipad might help, too.
Augmentin also can’t kill some of the bugs that erythromycin will.
Achmed (who has had too much experience with antibiotics in the last year and a half. . . .)
Woo-hoo! I’m up today, and I go home!
Thanks all for the love, combined with my healing pjs I think I’m going to survive this bout of whatever it is.
Hugs an loves to all.
Oh, Scotti, inor is hot isn’t he? Or was that not what you meant?