..and it sucks. Two more classes to sit through...Claritin isn't working quite as well as I'd hoped.

Yah, I know exactly what you mean... I probably swallowed about 2 liters of mucous during my electronics class, and the cold medicine is really screwing with my head.

isn't claritin for allergies?

same here...it's horrible! My face is all swollen and sore. But I'm going to the doctor today so maybe that'll make it somewhat better...

DayQuil > Claratin for colds

I hot toty with a bottle of morphine:D

Yes please.

i'm on day 13 or 14 of this "cold"... but i dont think of it as a cold anymore, i think of it as "this thing that is attackign my breathing lungs and face nose and ears" to being sick i say i'm tiard of it. i went to the doctor on day 4 of this, day freaking four. thay perscribed 2 antibiodicts. then i went back on day 11 and thay added a 3rd. and my ear stated herting yesterday. and arrrrrg, i want all thoes little pieces of lung back that i have been coughing up d@^# it!

"I like a cold because I get to do my favorite drug which is NyQuil. I love that stuff. What do the rest of you use, Robitussin? Robitussin why do you bother? Non-narcotic sissy pansy bull****! NyQuil's got the best thing I've ever read on a medicine package - 180 proof! It's the moonshine of medicine."
-Lewis Black

I've got a cold, too Sucks.

Think of all the happy little viruses, bursting hundreds upon hundreds of your precious cells... Laughing at your immune system's futile efforts...

I would, but I enjoy the image of you having your head slammed repeatedly in a doorway more enjoyable

may I suggest some Dr. Mario?

A friend of mine has a cold, and I think he gave it to me.

I hate colds. I never really used to mind them, but they always come at the worst times and it's the most frustrating thing ever. especially when it takes your voice forever to bounce back and you have to sing and...yeah

who DOESN'T have a cold?

I don't. In fact, I'm the only person I know who isn't sick right now.

Tell me about it. My (ex) band had a show to do at our college back around Easter last year, and my cold had finally gone away 2-3 days before the show.

Practicing with a cold is next to impossible. The only good thing I found to do was to drop about two tablespoons of honey into a small coffee cup (not a big mug) and fill it about half way with hot water, and stick a slice of lemon in it. It's like a thick vocal-cord elixir thing, it really helped. And during the show, I had my 2 litre of Tropicana with me, and everyone kept laughing when I'd chug my orange juice between songs. :p

What pisses me off is when doctors prescibe antibiotics for colds. It's a VIRUS you moron... let's just expedite the creation of resistant bacteria while doing nothing to help the cold... It makes sense for more dangerous viral infections, but only because they can leave your immune system too weak to fight off a bacterial infection.

That's because most people aren't happy to wait something out -- they'd rather take drugs..even if it probably won't help them..lol

I had one of those 24-hour stomach viruses a couple of weeks ago. Pure hell. I vomited seven times in six hours. I felt like I'd been hit by a truck. Ugh.


Anyway, hope you get to feeling better soon, CadetLee.

some cold are caused by bacterial infections yes? so people go to the doctor to find out if thay have a bacterial infectionl. and then docror, if he is a good doctor, will reconise the difference, and only perdcribe med's and antibiodics as needed.