I’ve got a bad head cold, so I just took a robitussin pill and a naproxen pill. Robitussin for throat and coughing, naproxen for headache.
Robitussin was red, naproxen was blue.
We’ll see how my take on reality is when I wake up.
If you happen to see a white rabbit going down into a hole, you may want to consider your options before pursuing the rodent.
After all, you could wind up being marooned.
I hate to inform you, but…
Later, I got a phone call.
Now that’s just silly.
Because rabbits are not rodents.
Naproxen for a headache?
That doesn’t seem the best choice or even a good choice. It seems it can help some, especially for migraines (and maybe not even best there) but this does not sound like a migraine.
IANADoctor but you might want to ask your doctor about this.
I’d think Tylenol or Ibuprofen or Aspirin would be a better choice for a headache (assuming no reasons you can’t take those…as always follow your doctor’s advice).
Lots of reasons (as you mentioned) to not take one of the big three, but there’s another reason to consider naproxen, in that it’s reported effective time is twelve hours, though everyone I know who uses it including myself, find it closer to 8.
Even so, that’s twice as long as I get out of any of the other three. So sometimes, if my pain is moderate but lingering, I’ll take naproxen before bed, because it’ll keep the pain down for the full night, while otherwise I might have to wake up and take more and risk waking up fully.
Still, I agree that if any of the other three mentioned aren’t forbidden for medical reasons, they all do a much better job at pain control for me at least.
Now that I am getting older a late-night pee is pretty common. I wish I could still sleep an uninterrupted eight hours but (mostly) I don’t. So, waking and taking a pill then is not really much of an extra burden. YMMV of course.
Sorry if TMI.
I’m 51 this month, so yeah, tending to the younger end of the board. Though when I’m behind on hydration and drink too much, too late, it can happen. I have a lot of sleep issues nearly needing treatment per my last sleep study, so I do a number of avoidance strategies, this being one of them.
Oh, and since I forgot to mention this in my last post, @Northern_Piper, sorry you’re feeling so poorly, and hope you recover fully and quickly from this!
There, now I feel less like a jerk!
Re blue pill: on doctor’s advice. Let’s leave it at that.
Purple haze all in my brain
Lately, things just don’t seem the same
Actin’ funny but I don’t know why
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky
So this your take on reality this morning? I am deeply disappointed to find you being so . . . realistic.
You might want to get tested for sleep apnea if you snore, needing to urinate at night can be a symptom of sleep apnea.
Lagomorph.
They are, however, long-eared varmints!
I believe the correct line is “Scuse me while I kiss this guy.” At least, that’s what Lady Mondegreen told me.
Are they varmints or galoots? This is science, people!
Flop-eared or floppy-eared sometimes too.
Hope you’re feeling better as a new day dawns.
My advice to you is to take a white pill RIGHT NOW; how can you be appropriately patriotic with just red & blue pills?