*headdesk*

[athersgeo]

Well, I have internet back at work. Finally. We had a power cut on Monday which killed our router. Since then, we've been having issues (!!). Which would be less of an issue, but for the minor detail that we're supposed to be web developers here!

I've now got to try and catch up from two days of no 'net/server access. I have a list about as long as my arm of stuff I need to do and it's SO not helped by consumptive fits. I think the BT engineer thought I was probably dying of the plague or something from the looks he was giving me earlier, and I'm struggling to speak to folks on the phone. Which would be less of a problem, except today's the boss' day off.

And no, I'm NOT umpiring this weekend.

Which might mean I can go to Oxford. On the other hand, I really DON'T want to suffer a consumptive fit on the M4 (bad enough when it happens on Muller Road where the worst that can happen is I stall [Muller Road being v.busy of a morning - as I think I've mentioned a few times]).

Ugh.

Anyone got a guarenteed cough cure?

Comments

[carolynp.livejournal.com]

Not just you with net problems!

Every site I tried to acess this morning was 'cannot find server' for at least the first time of trying...and they are not all on the same server!

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

That sounds like an issue with your ISP. Which is a pain in the arse but should pass without you needing to do anything too drastic.

[carolynp.livejournal.com]

Seems much better now. Strangely our ISP at home is different to the one in the office, and different again to the provider for the servers that MCR is on.

[witchy-rachel.livejournal.com]

Guaranteed cough cure!

Head-ectomy! I guarantee you wont be coughing after one of them!

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

And it's a mark of how much my stomach muscles and such hurt that I'm actively considering this to put me out of my misery.

[witchy-rachel.livejournal.com]

I have an axe, and a hacksaw, and I aint afraid to use either!

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

If I'm still coughing this time next week, I'll be turning up on your doorstep.

[witchy-rachel.livejournal.com]

I could make a home visit for such a special treat as this!

[b-liz.livejournal.com]

Nothing guaranteed - but I'm sure I could come up with some to test on you if you did come to Oxford ;)

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

I may just take you up on that ;)

[germankitty]

*hugs*

Not a cure per se, but something maybe to soothe your throat -- an old home remedy my grandmother used to make:

Take 3 or 4 onions, chop into quarters and boil them in water with brown lump sugar until very soft. Then drink the liquid while still hot, maybe adding a little lemon juice or codeine-containing cough drops. (It's not a weird as it sounds; the etheric (?) oils in onions do have soothing properties.

Also, freshly-made chicken broth; I've read somewhere that it really is a remedy for cold-related symptoms. :)

Good ol' Vick Vapo-rub (or any mentholated cream) on your chest at night will make breathing easier, too; you might also ask your pharmacist for drops to put on your clothing to clear the airways. (Water mixed with menthol, aniseed oil and so on; maybe they can mix something up for you? If not, buy the essential oils, dilute them slightly and use that. I'll see if I can scare up the recipe I used when my son was little.)

Oh -- try inhaling vapors. Fill a shallow bowl with scalding hot water, add a few drops of menthol, drape a towel over your head and the bowl and inhale the steam.

And the easiest thing to do -- keep your mouth and throat moist by sucking on cough drops/lemon or menthol candy; at the least, it'll prevent some of the irritation caused by heated air, talking and coughing.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

I hate to say this, but at various points during the last week, I've tried most of that (yes, even the boiling onion thing) and none of it's helped. The vick-on-the-chest routine's just made my chest sticky and made me sneeze (too much menthol does that, unfortunately), inhaling vapours did the same (with the added bonus of making my eyes sting) and sucking candy's produced the world's first escape velocity lemondrop thanks to me coughing. Thanks for the suggestions, though.

And the really weird thing is that despite the coughing, my throat is not that sore. Head, back and stomach muscles are killing, off and on, but throat isn't.

[germankitty]

Oh. Okay then ... sorry, I'm all out of other ideas. Hope you'll feel better soon.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Thanks

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

oh man, coughy mc upper respitory infection, i totally feel for you. this was me not too long ago. i was coughing so hard i was breaking capillaries and coughing up some blood, which freaked me out let me tell you. and then the abdomenal muscle pain is its own hellish delight, and the frosting on the congestion cake is the throwing up! the only thing i found that helped was codiene cough syrup, which i have to get from the doctor here, but you may have better access too. along with the pain ending power of codiene, there was also a numbing agent for the throat/cough thing, and i was able to sleep.

course some people get sick from codiene, so that won't work if you are one of those unforutnates. i could also suggest, if you have a steam humidifyer, that you add vapor bath (i get the baby version from johnson and johnson which is less strong) to the compartment at the outside of the humidifyer (do not add it to the water, it will bubble and ooze and clog things up). it diffuses with the steam into the air, is not gooey like the chest stuff, and really does sooth your poor self.

feel better!

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

I haven't YET hit the coughing up blood point, BUT, I think I have bust a couple of small capilliaries in my eyes.

I've tried the vapour thing (though admittedly, only with Vick Vapour Bath), to no great success - the vapour just made me cough worse. The baby version might be better...assuming I can find some. The codiene cough syrup sounds like it might be an idea, though - assuming that I can get it here (what we get and what you get across the pond varies tremendously - we can't get midol, zb!). As far as I know I have no issues with codiene. I think I shall be going to a biggie chemist tomorrow to see if I can get some.

Failing all this, I have a drs appointment on Tuesday.

[aspartaimee.livejournal.com]

midol is advil, so you aren't missing much. as soon as my mom told me, i was like, EFF THAT. i will not play their little game.

baby stuff is not as harsh, that's why i get it. johnson and johnson make it here in the states (http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=10793&catid=27029&trx=PLST-0-SRCH&trxp1=27029&trxp2=10793&trxp3=1&trxp4=0&btrx=BUY-PLST-0-SRCH). sniff it before you purchase it, though, as you might have a more delicate dispostion than even i.

and if all else fails, tell the doctor you want cough syrup and the GOOD stuff on tuesday.

feel better soon!