And do you have ANY idea what that much Plutonium would do to you? :eek: :eek:
I’m guessing you don’t have allergies.
If we’re not vomiting (I can count how many times I’ve vomited in my life in one hand and have fingers left) but our throat is bleeding and we can’t sleep for the racking coughs, what would you recommend for the cough? Just to have a reference. I do use acetaminophen for the aches (ibuprophen if the acetaminophen is not working) but pharmacists often look at me funny when I ask for a cough syrup.
Makes me wonder what the heck their problem is, all I want to get rid of is the cough… I don’t need acetaminophen, which is what they want to give me, I’m already taking it!
Qadgop, I know that the amount of expectorant in Robitussin is useless, but what about the new guaifenesin pills, such as Mucinex? They have 600mg of guaifenesin per tablet, and the recommended dose is one or two tablets every 12 hours. Is that enough to have an effect?
While we’re discussing non-PE allergy & cold remedies: why can’t we get the same eucalyptus-oil medicines in the U.S. as are available in India and East Asia (Vicks Vapor Rub doesn’t count)? From what I understand, the remedies available in Asia all but cure the common cold and its allied maladies.
On the network news, many years ago, they talked about how meth labs work. Among other things, a meth lab needs some sophisticated chemicals such as anhydrous ammonia.
Basically, it seems it is much easier just to get something with Psuedoephedrine and extract it, which Q.E.D. said was not quite so easy to do but probably a lot easier than trying to synthesize it from scratch in a meth lab.
I’m also guessing that you don’t have asthma that is triggered by allergies. (Mine respond to Claritin just fine, but different things work for different people.)
I would guess it could make you rich. Didn’t that Russian scientist try to sell some for $1 million per gram?
Just thought I’d do a little web-surfing to find some ingredients used by a meth lab:
Rubbing alcohol
Cold pills
Acetone
Red phosphorous
Gasoline antifreeze
Cleaning products
Battery acid
Anhydrous ammonia (farm fertilizer)
Lye
Engine starter fluid
Link http://www.methanddeath.com/meth101.htm
Well since “cold pills” are on the list, I guess all of this is necessary just to separate out the pseudoephedrine. (Q.E.D. was right in saying that it is a difficult process).
Anyway, looking at some of the chemicals such as rubbing alcohol, red phosphorus, and engine starter fluid, it’s easy to see why meth lab fires and explosions are so common.
Yes, it’s ridiculous too. All the meth dealers are doing now is hiring people to go buy the limit of Sudafed, bring it back to them and then they get another person to go out and buy the 9 grams a day or whatever the limit is.
There are ways around everything. Legalize drugs = no more meth labs.
Most drugs (including morphine) are not necessary for survival. The “let a few bad apples spoil the bunch” approach to drug scheduling and legislation is something we ought to be moving away from, not embracing.
That does sound chillingly cost-effective, when put that way…
Make you challenge a famous environmentalist to eat the same amount of caffiene? 
The major ones don’t even bother. They get illicit shipments of pure PE, stolen or hijacked right from the pharmaceutical companies. According to the DEA, only 10% or so of street meth is produced by PE extraction from OTC medications.
My doctor wanted to put me on Desoxyn (Yep, prescription, pharmaceutical grade meth. That’s all it is.) But he said he didn’t want to put me through that, because it’s so hard to get and almost no pharmacy will carry it. So, even though it could help me more than anything else, I have to keep going through all these ADHD drug trials because I CAN’T get meth. :mad: Like all true ADHD folks, I am NOT going to get addicted to amphetamines. Trust me, it would have happened by now. I still have about 4 bottles of different strengths of Adderall in my closet because I tried them all and didn’t like them, and they’ll stay there until they get thrown out! So WHY make it so hard for law-abiding people to get this drug for legitimate use??? If someone wants to abuse it, they will anyway!!
Moderately severe coughs sometimes respond to benzonatate pills. After ingestion, hey’re secreted by the lung lining cells and act as a topical anesthetic.
For real heavy duty coughs, I prescribe hydrocodone. But it has to be a nasty cough, and there generally can’t be a history of alcohol or drug addiction in the past.
I once treated a young woman for such severe paroxysms of coughing that she was getting hypoxic. Before I came on duty, my colleagues had been trying albuterol nebulizers (she was coughing, not wheezing!) and oxygen to no avail. I arrived hit her with 25 mg of demerol slow IV push. Her cough stopped in less than 20 seconds. AND she kept breathing. And did fine. Never did discover what caused her cough, though.
Maybe. Does it work for you?
Sigh…as long as you’re here, I just came back from the doctor this afternoon with a diagnosis of my annual case of bronchitis. He gave me a prescription for 875 mg of Augmentin, 2x/daily, and told me I should stop being so pigheaded about avoiding my albuterol inhaler. I’ve started the Augmentin, and though my sinuses are already clearing, the coughing is actually worse than it was this afternoon when I saw him (like a moron, I didn’t ask him for anything for the cough, because I didn’t think I’d need it). The inhaler isn’t doing squat, but then he’d listened to my lungs and said I wasn’t wheezing anyway.
Usually the cough, etc. abates somewhat within a day or so of starting the antibiotics, but anything OTC I should try in the meantime? All I have in the house is Sucrets, some store-brand knockoff NyQuil (the old stuff, with pseudoephedrine, but the cough suppressant is dextromethorphan hydrobromide, 10 mg), and a TON of herbal tea and honey. There is a 24-hour pharmacy a block away, though - and I’m a (mild intermittent) asthmatic, if that makes any difference.
(Boy, would I hate to get dressed and go out again, though - even with no fever, the cough is driving me bonkers.)
Dunno any remedies for coughing, but whenever I get congested, I start eating roast beef sandwiches with lots of jalapeños on them. Partially because spicy food clears my sinuses, and mostly because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to taste anything on the sandwich other than the brown mustard. Similarly, I eat pasta and pizza with a protective layer of crushed red peppers.
A local Vietnamese restaurant used to offer Cambodian Beef Soup–hot & spicy. Quite the thing for that “think I’m getting a cold” feeling. Maybe I wasn’t really getting a cold. Or it was just a good anesthetic. Once I was stuck at home with sinuses feeling as though they were filled with cement. I chewed up & swalled a few cloves of fresh garlic. Worked like a charm! And orange juice frozen treats are great for a sore throat.
I avoid “multi-symptom” OTC remedies. For pain–ibuprofen. For runny nose–pseudoephedrine–one pill at a time instead of two.
Houston’s allergy levels yesterday: Grass & Tree–“High.” The allergy shots of my youth helped a lot, but I’ll still pop the occasional pill. And I get one cold per winter. Thence, the OTC & “natural” remedies. (And any remedy can have “side effects.”)
If I had a severe, long-lasting cough or sore throat, I’d actually Go To a Doctor!
Nevermind - I gave up and called my doc again, and he’s going to call in some codeine cough syrup for me. I should be very amusing at work. And I should write a Pit thread on employers who don’t give you sick days until you’ve been working there a certain amount of time (6 months in this case), even when you are verifiably sick and contagious, and even when a co-worker has an immunosuppressed child.