Loopy
It seems I have gotten myself a summer cold. After suspiciously questioning the other sick employees at the office to determine the source of contagion, I’m concluding that it was our ill CFO who infected me, after he germily waltzed into our open workspace last Friday to shoot the breeze. This is why I am strongly in favor of our workspace having a door. Or a moat. Or angry monkey guardians with tasers.
I tried Sudafed because I have short-term memory when I open the medicine cabinet, and am easily swayed by the packaging claims of “non-drowsy.” But I tend to always forget that Sudafed has no effect on me whatsoever, unless being a life coach to my cold symptoms counts. I don’t think you’re making that throat sore enough, it’ll whisper, or She can still partially breathe through one nostril; don’t you think you can do better? or Only five sneezes in a row? Come on, we both know you’re not living up to your potential.
And yet every time I’m sick, I take the Sudafed, get angry that it’s making my symptoms worse, finally take some Dayquil, and then feel all weird and spacey for a few days afterwards, like my head weighs 18 pounds, or my vision is a few seconds behind when I turn my head, or my feet aren’t quite attached to my body. Although one pleasant side effect (besides actually getting rid of my cold symptoms) is that even though I feel like I’m taking So. Much. Longer. to do things, I get done with them faster than expected. The downside is that when I get ready for work earlier than usual, I always feel like I’ve missed doing something important, like brushing my teeth or putting on a shirt.
I’m very curious as to how long it would take for someone to tell you if you accidentally went to work without a shirt.
Comment by Jess — August 17, 2010 @ 2:26 pm
Why are colds in the winter somehow expected and ordinary while summer colds are a personal attack?
Hope you’re better soon!
Comment by Shelly — August 17, 2010 @ 2:27 pm
Cold medications are so WEIRD, aren’t they?
One of my MAJOR pet peeves is when people come to work with contagious illnesses! NO ONE IS THAT IMPORTANT! Stay home! FTLOG!
Comment by Tessie — August 17, 2010 @ 3:05 pm
Ugh, Sudafed doesn’t make me feel better. It just makes me fall asleep at my desk (yet prevents me from sleeping when I’m in my bed and actually WANT to sleep). And Dayquil/Nyquil just give me that loopy feeling as well.
Hope you feel better soon!
Comment by sarah — August 17, 2010 @ 6:28 pm
Oh, Dayquil screws me up so bad. You did a wonderful job explaining the side effects of that sh*t.
Feel better soon.
Comment by Artemisia — August 17, 2010 @ 7:51 pm
Sudafed never works for me either, but I thought I was the only one. I hate summer colds. I thought I was getting one, but then it went away.
Comment by Margaret — August 17, 2010 @ 8:28 pm
Shirts are overrated.
Comment by Ellie — August 18, 2010 @ 7:27 am
Go for the Sudafed 12-Hour. It doesn’t do anything at the beginning, but that extended release crap, when it kicks in, works pretty well.
Dayquil makes me feel panicky for days after I take it.
Hope you feel better soon!
Comment by saly — August 18, 2010 @ 9:06 am
It seems that all OTC cold meds stopped working on me sometime early in college. I don’t know why. I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one who has problems with them. I just got over a summer cold, and for the first time, I took Airborne when my symptoms first started. Since I only used it for this one cold, I don’t know if I can say that it works miracles, but I can say that the cold stayed in the first-couple-days stage. It just never progressed to that miserable stage, so I’m definitely going to try it again for the next cold.
Comment by DomesticKate — August 18, 2010 @ 10:04 pm