Dealing with a Sinus Infection: My Quest for Relief

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The discussion revolves around a user expressing frustration about being sick with a cold or flu after five years of good health. They describe severe sinus pain and difficulty breathing. The thread quickly becomes a mix of sympathy and humor, with other users offering various remedies and advice, such as drinking fluids, taking Nyquil, and consuming homemade chicken broth. There are playful exchanges about the effectiveness of vodka and other unconventional suggestions like using ginger tea and hot showers to alleviate symptoms. Users also share personal anecdotes about their own illnesses and the importance of rest and hydration. The conversation highlights a supportive community atmosphere, with participants encouraging each other to take care of their health while also engaging in light-hearted banter.
  • #51
Y'know, I already ate dinner and you all are making me hungry again! Now I want sushi as an appetizer and something with curry as a main course!
 
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  • #52
MMMMMMMMMM! Sushi appetizers followed by a Curry entree'! :-p

How about fried ice cream for dessert? :biggrin:
 
  • #53
I think we're taking the Polymeal concept to extremes here.
 
  • #54
Ice cream for dessert sounds good. Thanks, I was already craving ice cream tonight. I have nothing in my house for dessert tonight and really want dessert! Hot chocolate just didn't tickle the right taste bud. :frown:
 
  • #55
Fried Ice Cream, it's fun and delicious! :biggrin:

I have to drive north somewhere first to drop off some antibiotics to Evo so she can consult with evil tommorrow. I hope I can find my way out of my driveway! :smile:
 
  • #56
Why don't you try some "medicinal" marijuana.If it does not help you for your cold at least you get high .
 
  • #57
I'm sure habaneros up the nostrils would be horrible, but I think the horseradish on your beaver Tsu suggested would be even worse.

g'night everybody. I'll throw myself out for that one.
 
  • #58
GET YOUR DISGUSTING MINDS OUT OF THE SEWER AND BACK IN THE GUTTER WHERE THEY BELONG! :smile: :smile: :smile:

http://www.bevmo.com/productinfo.asp?sku=00000009656&N=168+166+42+31&area=more&bhcp=1
 
  • #59
Tsu said:
GET YOUR DISGUSTING MINDS OUT OF THE SEWER AND BACK IN THE GUTTER WHERE THEY BELONG! :smile: :smile: :smile:

http://www.bevmo.com/productinfo.asp?sku=00000009656&N=168+166+42+31&area=more&bhcp=1

:smile: Sorry, every once in a while they just keep rolling when they land in the gutter, and the slippery little devils escape. :smile:

And, tribdog:
 
  • #60
brewnog said:
Sack the sushi, get yourself a decent curry, that'll loosen things up a bit.


edit: loosen up your sinuses a bit


Mmmmm, there's a good thai place in town. Lunch for me tomorrow there.
 
  • #61
tribdog said:
I'm sure habaneros up the nostrils would be horrible, but I think the horseradish on your beaver Tsu suggested would be even worse.

g'night everybody. I'll throw myself out for that one.




Trib, next time i see you, you're getting a rolled up newspaper on the nose.
 
  • #62
franznietzsche said:
Trib, next time i see you, you're getting a rolled up newspaper on the nose.

*hands franz a copy of the NY Times Sunday edition*
 
  • #63
Moonbear said:
*hands franz a copy of the NY Times Sunday edition*

Score, the funnies!

Oh, right, back to beating trib with it.
 
  • #64
Moonbear said:
*hands franz a copy of the NY Times Sunday edition*

NY Times? I say you have fine taste m'lady
 
  • #65
Evo, please go see your doctor or try a walk-in clinic, if its really that bad. I seem to remember, you're not a morning person, so maybe after you see your client.

Meanwhile, chicken soup with some hot sauce (tobasco, habanero, cayenne, etc) and curry in it might help.

I use that combo, particularly when I have a cold. Then again, I tend to put hot sauce (particularly Dave's Insanity, Dave's Total Insanity or Mad Dog Inferno) on most of my food.
 
  • #66
The_Professional said:
NY Times? I say you have fine taste m'lady

The Sunday edition is just the fattest newspaper I know of. :biggrin:

Alternatively, when I was a kid, my parents made us roll all the old newspapers into logs to use to light the fireplace in winter. One of those newspaper logs might do the trick. tribdog was very very bad this time. :devil:
 
  • #67
Astronuc said:
Evo, please go see your doctor or try a walk-in clinic, if its really that bad. I seem to remember, you're not a morning person, so maybe after you see your client.

Yes, Evo, get thee to a doctor! You know what Tsu and I do to people who stubbornly refuse to see a doctor when they should. :devil:
 
  • #68
Tsu said:
Two words - BEAVER HORSERADISH! :smile:
Why do I get punished? She said it first.
 
  • #69
eegads, I am contaminated by the flu!

It is probably the A(H3N2) strain of the virus, but it will incapacitate me for a week. Already suffered a 102.5 fever, and now I have muscle pains, back pain, red eyes (which hurt like the dickens), insomnia (from the decongestants) that caused me to stay awake until 5:00 AM this morning, chills, cough, sore throat, sneezing, and sniffling.

Right now I am taking Acetaminophen, Ibuprofin, and 75 gm of (3R,4R,5S)-4-acetylamino-5-amino-3(1-ethylpropoxy)-1-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic acid ----- which is more commonly known as Tamiflu (but I like the chemical name better).
 
  • #70
motai said:
eegads, I am contaminated by the flu!

It is probably the A(H3N2) strain of the virus, but it will incapacitate me for a week. Already suffered a 102.5 fever, and now I have muscle pains, back pain, red eyes (which hurt like the dickens), insomnia (from the decongestants) that caused me to stay awake until 5:00 AM this morning, chills, cough, sore throat, sneezing, and sniffling.
Poor motai! :frown: I know what you're going though. (pours hot chicken broth into motai's computer) Moonbear, get over here and add the pastina before the broth cools off!

Hope you feel better soon motai. (hope I haven't infected anyone else) :rolleyes:
 
  • #71
*dumps pastina into motai's computer* Get some rest and feel better.

Now, everyone, stay away from Evo and motai while they're still contagious! We don't need a whole PF epidemic going around.
 
  • #72
thanks Evo. I have had more than my share of chicken soup but I have a hard time talking because of the sore throat. I found soy milk to sooth the sore throat as well as a lozenge.

The worst part is not being able to rest because I am either constantly uncomftorable or in some sort of pain, the insomnia didn't help .

Nothing tastes the same. Even water has a weird aftertaste. I can "smell" my cold I am not as hungry as I usually am, but curry sounds good right about now. I can't read a book for more than 5 minutes before forcing my eyes shut. Even now it is difficult to see out of my bloodshot eyes. I got to get to bed soon, that has been my haven for most of the day.
 
  • #73
Motai, the same things apply to your situation as applied to Evo's.

I also remembered - warm Dr. Pepper (softdrink) is pretty good for sore throat.

For nausea or gastroenteritis - decarbonated (i.e. flat, no carbonation) Coca-Cola. Flat Coca-Cola (not RC, not Pepsi, not diet Coke) is especially effective because it contains some phosphorylated carbohydrates which are directly soothing to the stomach lining.
 
  • #74
motai said:
thanks Evo. I have had more than my share of chicken soup but I have a hard time talking because of the sore throat. I found soy milk to sooth the sore throat as well as a lozenge.

The worst part is not being able to rest because I am either constantly uncomftorable or in some sort of pain, the insomnia didn't help .

Nothing tastes the same. Even water has a weird aftertaste. I can "smell" my cold I am not as hungry as I usually am, but curry sounds good right about now. I can't read a book for more than 5 minutes before forcing my eyes shut. Even now it is difficult to see out of my bloodshot eyes. I got to get to bed soon, that has been my haven for most of the day.
The flu sux. :frown: People tend to forget how painful it is and over the counter pain medication doesn't help.

Try to sleep. Here, Ill share the bucket of codeine gokul gave me. :smile:
 
  • #75
By the way Evo, have you recovered?
 
  • #76
motai, even if you can't sleep, just sit in bed and watch TV or something else that requires no thinking. You can't do anything that requires thinking while sick with flu, so don't even try.

Who else got those big activity books when they were sick as a kid? The ones you could color and do word search puzzles, etc. Those are perfect for being sick. They should make versions of those for adults...:rolleyes: oh, nevermind, just get the kid's version! *sends motai activity book and box of 64 Crayola crayons*
 
  • #77
Astronuc said:
By the way Evo, have you recovered?
No, I only came down with it Saturday (my constant whining just makes it seem longer). :rolleyes:
 
  • #78
Moonbear said:
motai, even if you can't sleep, just sit in bed and watch TV or something else that requires no thinking. You can't do anything that requires thinking while sick with flu, so don't even try.

Who else got those big activity books when they were sick as a kid? The ones you could color and do word search puzzles, etc. Those are perfect for being sick. They should make versions of those for adults...:rolleyes: oh, nevermind, just get the kid's version! *sends motai activity book and box of 64 Crayola crayons*
oooh, my mother would buy me Colorforms sets when I was sick. I LOVED COLORFORMS! Do they still sell those?
 
  • #79
Evo said:
oooh, my mother would buy me Colorforms sets when I was sick. I LOVED COLORFORMS! Do they still sell those?

Colorforms were great! I loved them too. I don't know if they make them anymore.
 
  • #80
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  • #81
Cool - a spammer which must search for threads about people with colds :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :biggrin:
 
  • #82
I've only been online 10 minutes and already banned two spammers.
 
  • #83
J77 said:
Cool - a spammer which must search for threads about people with colds :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :biggrin:
:smile: I was wondering why someone would ressurrect this thread. Can we make fun of spammers publicly? I mean, how desperate does someone have to be to dig through a forum for old threads about people with colds to insert their spam? :smile:
 
  • #84
Moonbear said:
:smile: Can we make fun of spammers publicly? :smile:
Yes! Most definitely! It's open season, all year round. There are no bag limits either. Fire away! with prejudice! and malice! :devil:

You might guess, I don't like spammers. :mad: :devil: :biggrin:
 
  • #85
I had forgotten how much I can whine when I'm sick. :redface:
 
  • #86
Evo said:
I had forgotten how much I can whine when I'm sick. :redface:
You, whine? I hadn't noticed. :smile:

So do you feel better now - 15 months later?
 
  • #87
Why do we call unwanted advertising, spam - as in Spiced Ham? Does anyone know how the name came about?
 
  • #88
Do you mean Hormel's "Shoulder of Pork and hAM" or how the term has been applied to unsolicited and unwanted electronic advertising?

As for the latter -
Although the first known instance of unsolicited commercial e-mail occurred in 1978 (unsolicited electronic messaging had already taken place over other media, with the first recorded instance being via telegram on September 13, 1904), the term "spam" for this practice had not yet been applied. In the 1980s the term was adopted to describe certain abusive users who frequented BBSs and MUDs, who would repeat "SPAM" a huge number of times to scroll other users' text off the screen. In the early Chat rooms in services like PeopleLink and the early days of AOL, they actually flooded the screen with sizeable quotes from the Monty Python routine. This was generally used as a tactic by insiders of a particular group who wanted to drive newcomers out of the room so the usual conversation could continue. This act, previously termed flooding or trashing, came to be called spamming as well. By analogy, the term was soon applied to any large amount of text broadcast by one user, or sometimes by many users.
according to Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)#History

as this thread veers way off-topic
 
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  • #89
geeze, I just re-read the entire thread.

Two words - Beaver Horseradish! :biggrin:
 
  • #90
Astronuc said:
as this thread veers way off-topic

:redface: I was wondering about this and it just popped out.

Beaver Horseradish!
 
  • #91
Ivan Seeking said:
Beaver Horseradish!

:confused:

Thanks Astronuc; I've also always wondered where the term spam originated for annoying advertising. Now I know! :approve:
 
  • #92
Oh well, I tried to get back on-topic.

And it was too "spiced ham". :biggrin:
Hormel founder George A. Hormel, and marketed as ''Hormel Spiced Ham''
http://www.cusd.claremont.edu/~mrosenbl/spamstory.html
 
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  • #93
I like the fake etymologies listed at Astro's link, at Wiki. :smile:
 
  • #94
I like the fake etymologies listed at Astro's link, at Wiki.
Can't trust Wikipedia about such matters as food etymology. I mean really, what's the world coming to?

marketed as ''Hormel Spiced Ham'' - not a terribly inspiring name for an innovative product fated to save lives, win wars, and balance diets of people world wide.

Hormel Spiced Ham got off to a slightly rocky start. Other meatpackers began to introduce their own canned luncheon meats, and Hormel lost its controlling share of the market. Soon, however, they came up with a cunning plan to rectify this situation - they would give Hormel's luncheon meat a truly catchy name. Toward this end, they offered $100 for a suitable appellation. The winning name was, of course, ''SPAM'', and a legend was born.
It sounds like they held a contest, and the inference is that whoever devised the appelation "SPAM" was thinking "SPiced hAM", as opposed to "Shoulder Pork and hAM". I guess we'll have to go to urban legends.

Well - Hormel's site is no help.
In 1937, Hormel introduced a product that would become world-renowned--SPAM® Luncheon Meat.
http://www.hormel.com/templates/knowledge/knowledge.asp?catitemid=71&id=18
 
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  • #95
Ivan Seeking said:
:redface: I was wondering about this and it just popped out.

Beaver Horseradish!
Well, it was Tsu's idea. I saw Beaver and immediately thought that it was some brand or type of horseradish from Oregon.

tribdog just got a bit too excited, again. I wonder how he found his way out of the gutter? :rolleyes: :biggrin:

I guess you know that the Beaver is the state dog of Oregon, probably Minnesota as well. :smile:
 
  • #96
Astronuc said:
Can't trust Wikipedia about such matters as food etymology. I mean really, what's the world coming to?

No no, I mean the the joke etymologies in the history section.

There are three popular fake etymologies of the word "spam". The first, promulgated by Canter & Siegel themselves, is that "spamming" is what happens when one dumps a can of SPAM luncheon meat into a fan blade

:smile: :smile: :smile:
 
  • #97
Ivan Seeking said:
No no, I mean the the joke etymologies in the history section.
Oh, sorry Ivan, I missed the connection. I was thinking in the context of the origin of "SPAM".

We used to fry it. Actually it's not too bad. But then I'll eat just about anything. :rolleyes:
 
  • #98
I'm dying. I've been sick since yesterday. And I'm scheduled to have my flu shot Tuesday. :cry:
 
  • #99
Evo said:
I'm dying. I've been sick since yesterday. And I'm scheduled to have my flu shot Tuesday. :cry:
Too late, Evo, and this year's flu shot is designed to prevent last year's strains. I have a severe respiratory problem due to fragrances and perfumes, and have not had a flu shot in at least 5 years because they do not work for THIS year's flu. When the asian bird flu mutates into something that passes person-to-person easily, it's going to make the early 1900's pandemic look like a sniffle. Our medicine is entirely reactive and the drug companies are driven by profits, so it should not be a surprise when nature throws us a curve ball and kills about half of us.
 
  • #100
Evo said:
I'm dying. I've been sick since yesterday. And I'm scheduled to have my flu shot Tuesday. :cry:

Please take care of yourself. Are your daughters at home to take care of you, or are you all alone?

If you're that sick, the flu shot will have to wait. My grandfather got one when he had a bronchitis that hadn't fully healed. It triggered a series of bacterial infections of which he never recovered... :frown:

I'm sympthatising with you at least. I've had my first bronchitis in years. I refuse to take medication though, I've always tried and let my body take care of it itself. Seems to be working.

Anyway, wrap up well, keep warm and keep it relaxed as far as you can (hugs).
 

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