Dratted viruses!

[kerravonsen]

Darn. After managing to avoid it all winter, it's springtime and I've got a cold. Fortunately I still have one nostril to breathe through, or I wouldn't be getting any sleep tonight at all. But my throat is sore. Good thing I've been stocking up on sugarless Fisherman's Friends, they're the best. Though right now I'm experimenting with a Strawberry Sugar Free Strepsils. Why am I being all sugar-free? Not, as you might expect, because I'm worried about my teeth or my diet (they are secondary considerations). It's because, with sugar-full lozenges, one's mouth starts feeling like the bottom of a birdcage, an experience I had with a particularly bad flu once which I never want to repeat.

I'm still going to see my sleep specialist tomorrow, but after that, it's bed. Or, more probably, the comfy chair in the lounge with rugs.

Comments

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Word of warning, it might not happen to you but the sweetener that is used in sugar free items acts as a reasonably strong laxative for me. Commiserations on the cold and the sleep problems. I get the occasional sleepless night and that wipes me out for days afterward. More than the occasional and I would be suicidal in very short order.

[kerravonsen]

More than the occasional and I would be suicidal in very short order.
Which I why I rate last year the worst year of my life.

[kerravonsen]

Word of warning, it might not happen to you but the sweetener that is used in sugar free items acts as a reasonably strong laxative for me.

I think it depends on the particular thing; I've never had any problems with sugarless Fishermen's Friends, but sugarless caramels upset my stomach.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ack. Poor you. I hope you're better soon.

[kerravonsen]

Thanks.
Problem is, I'm so used to pushing myself when I feel tired, that it will probably be hard to make myself rest as I ought.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You should take time off work and give yourself a chance to get better (I learned that one the hard way). Read some books, watch DVDs, listen to music, and take it easy. Look after yourself!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You just recced 'Through the Gate'! Thank you! I wish I'd thought up a better title for that.

Right, I'm off to bed; it's almost midnight.

[kerravonsen]

I wish I'd thought up a better title for that.
It's a good enough title. There's more than one gate.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

::hugs:: Do you have menthol-scented petroleum jelly there? It comes under the brand names 'Vicks' and 'Mentholatum' here. If you smear just a touch above your upper lip it does a good job of opening up the nostrils, and I've used it under my mask many times without ill effect.

Anyway, I hope you'll feel better soon.

[kerravonsen]

Do you have menthol-scented petroleum jelly there? It comes under the brand names 'Vicks' and 'Mentholatum' here. If you smear just a touch above your upper lip it does a good job of opening up the nostrils, and I've used it under my mask many times without ill effect.

Yes we do, though I find if I put it above my lip it burns too much. So I put a few drops of Eucalyptus oil in the mask instead, that seems to help.

[hawkeye7.livejournal.com]

Get well soon!

[kerravonsen]

Thanks.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Ugh. The thing I hate most about colds is the blocked-up-ness, which can go on for days after the cold itself has finished (particularly as my "colds" tend to be allergy-based not virus-based, and clear up within 24 hours). I've never really found anything that works very well; extra strong menthol sweets clear my passages as long as I'm sucking them, but only as long as I'm stucking them, and I dislike the taste. Hope you clear up one way or another.

[kerravonsen]

danks.