[flyfish]

rancho_gordo, on Jan 19 2006, 02:40 PM, said:

I've had good luck with Dell (3x!) but if I look back every time they've screwed up the delivery dates.

This is obviously some arcane use of the term "good luck" with which I am unfamiliar...

Fly

[bloviatrix]

Every winter I get a nasty cough that lasts several months. So, this year my doctor decided to try a new course of treatment that I started Tuesday. By Wed. night I developed an allergic reaction to it - mass itchiness. And it's the type of itchiness that doesn't subside. I'm so freaking uncomfortable. Last night was the worst - I kept waking up. Needless to say, I'm not taking this stuff again. I'd rather cough up a lung.

[omnivorette]

Are you taking Zyrtec or something for the allergic reaction?

[bloviatrix]

He just took me off Zyrtec because it wasn't working. This Rx is another allergy medication.

[Wilfrid1]

Oh good, my cold is coming back. Or maybe it's a new one.

[GrantK]

I'm not in Manhattan enjoying the warm, sunny weather and meeting Maurice (and the rest of you).

[Lippy]

The only cough medicine I've ever used that is really effective is something called Tuscosed Linctus, an over-the-counter preparation available in the Caribbean. We always bring back a bottle or two. One teaspoon knocks you out for 20 solid minutes if you take it during the day and gives you a full night's sleep at night (with very vivid dreams, I might add.) I showed the bottle to the pharmacist who told me that he would not be permitted by law to compound something like this. I think the stuff is practically opium. Whatever it is, it shuts down that convulsive cough mechanism and let your body begin to recover.

[GG Mora]

Lippy, on Jan 20 2006, 10:47 AM, said:

The only cough medicine I've ever used that is really effective is something called Tuscosed Linctus, an over-the-counter preparation available in the Caribbean. We always bring back a bottle or two. One teaspoon knocks you out for 20 solid minutes if you take it during the day and gives you a full night's sleep at night (with very vivid dreams, I might add.) I showed the bottle to the pharmacist who told me that he would not be permitted by law to compound something like this. I think the stuff is practically opium. Whatever it is, it shuts down that convulsive cough mechanism and let your body begin to recover.

When I get cough that won't quit, I go to my doc and demand an Rx for cough syrup with codeine (which disrupts the cough response; Lippy, I'm guessing your magic potion contains it). Even at that, he's pretty stingy with it, prescribing 1 bottle only, which is good for a day or two when the cough is really bad. Why not two or three refills? It's not like a codeine high is lots of fun. I'm not looking for thrills, I just want to stop coughing and get some sleep, for fuck's sake.

I believe that in Canada, one can buy cough syrup with codeine over the counter, just as one can buy Tylenol with codeine OTC. In fact, I have a bottle of OTC Canadian headache pills with codeine, although they also contain a helpful dose of caffeine. Once when I was really desperate over a cough, I took the headache pills. Worked fine for the first dose, but by the second I was a one-woman caffeine-fuelled codeine-slowed freak show. Won't make that mistake again.

[Lippy]

GG Mora, on Jan 20 2006, 12:39 PM, said:

Lippy, I'm guessing your magic potion contains it).

That and much more....

[StephanieL]

GG Mora, on Jan 20 2006, 11:39 AM, said:

Lippy, on Jan 20 2006, 10:47 AM, said:

The only cough medicine I've ever used that is really effective is something called Tuscosed Linctus, an over-the-counter preparation available in the Caribbean.  We always bring back a bottle or two.  One teaspoon knocks you out for 20 solid minutes if you take it during the day and gives you a full night's sleep at night (with very vivid dreams, I might add.)  I showed the bottle to the pharmacist who told me that he would not be permitted by law to compound something like this.  I think the stuff is practically opium.  Whatever it is, it shuts down that convulsive cough mechanism and let your body begin to recover.

When I get cough that won't quit, I go to my doc and demand an Rx for cough syrup with codeine (which disrupts the cough response; Lippy, I'm guessing your magic potion contains it).

Tussionex is my favorite cough syrup for precisely that reason, even though it tastes nasty and has a mucous-like consistency.

[Wilfrid1]

StephanieL, on Jan 20 2006, 02:13 PM, said:

... it tastes nasty and has a mucous-like consistency.

Must be three years since I ate that dessert at Ouest, but phrases like this always bring it back to me.

[Behemoth]

GG Mora, on Jan 20 2006, 10:39 AM, said:

When I get cough that won't quit, I go to my doc and demand an Rx for cough syrup with codeine (which disrupts the cough response;

That stuff is FUN. Last time I had it, our area rug turned into a beautiful magical flying carpet. FUN!

[Melonious Thunk]

Had a cab driver tonight who picked his zits constantly, then rolled whatever came out in his ffingers and examined it before discarding it on the floor of his cab. It ranked pretty high on the disgusting meter.

[Cathy]

Melonious Thunk, on Jan 20 2006, 06:44 PM, said:

Had a cab driver tonight who picked his zits constantly, then rolled whatever came out in his ffingers and examined it before discarding it on the floor of his cab.  It ranked pretty high on the disgusting meter.

Euuuuuwwww.

I hope you didn't ask him for change.

This isn't annoying, just funny: I ordered a prime rib roast from one of our vendors, and asked for a little extra beef fat to render. They sent TEN POUNDS.

Oh, and the roast (forerib, with a healthy layer of fat) is probably around 14 lbs. That's a reason to be cheerful.

[Tamar G]

Left my wallet at home. I don't even have loose change in my pockets. Luckily I had brought in a bag of fruit over the weekend so I should be able to tide myself over on my 2 apples, 2 bananas, 2 avocados (it's like a Noah's Arc of fruit) and strawberries.