weird...

[cellio]

This is the weirdest cold (?) I can remember. It started with a mild cough Saturday night (after I'd performed, fortunately). That continued Sunday, and I applied tea, ginger root, and steamed milk (not concurrently). Nothing productive -- just the motions of a cough. Sunday night I started to get a mild runny nose (non-productive, i.e. the output didn't have any icky bits or colors). I took a 24-hour Sudafed before bed. Today at times I sounded a little hoarse, though my throat feels fine. Nose and cough action unchanged; took another Sudafed tonight. At no point have I had anything resembling a fever, which I understand I would have if I had either flu.

Isn't the runny nose supposed to come before the cough? I mean, the latter is usually caused by the former, right? I discounted the cough as possibly some sort of environmental reaction (dry air?) when it showed up because it was out of order.

Weird.

(I don't particularly like taking Sudafed, but I also don't like getting up every 3-4 hours at night to take more cough medicine, and I can't take most over-the-counter decongestants. And I figured if there's stuff in there, better to deal with it while it's still in my head, right?)

Comments

[kyleri]

I've started getting colds like that, too -- cough first, then the rest of it. I'd thought it was just the move to drier air, but now, I dunno.

Nothing more useful than the data point to offer, alas.

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

Have you been tested for allergies?

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

I don't normally recommend Sudafed before bed, because it tends to cause insomnia. I guess you're one of the few. What works, works. Zei gezunt.