Why am I out of the house?

[silverthorne]

I am at work, and I has the Plague. :P

Good news? I've found that Aveeno intense relief hand cream actually does very good in soothing the nice red patches under my nose from the constant stream of liquid snot.

Bad news? I'm now out of meds and have a grand total of $8 in the bank until Friday, and I might need it for the gas tank. I'm debating the risk of a possible over-draw. I think it depends on whether I sleep the rest of the infection off tonight or not.

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[cluegirl.livejournal.com]

Unsolicited advice here; take it for what it's worth.

Give your system a vita-shock of the following: B complex twice per day -- once when you get up, and again before you sleep, and at least 4 D tablets each day. These two things will shorten the duration of your infection faster than anything else you can do.

I know you're strapped right now, but you working in a hospital, I don't know what kind of access to vitamin supplements that might give you. As for the rec, the D works best to combat the infection-- better than C, or any other supplement I've ever found, -- and the B is for adrenal support, since upper respiratory infections have a chicken/egg relationship with adrenal exhaustion.

When I had the sinus infection That Would Not Die last year, it wasn't until I started taking the extra Vit B complex every night that things started to break loose for me.

So there. Hope you feel better soon.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

I'll make a note of that and get some when my budget allows. :)

Unfortunately, that's not something I can get for 'free' at the hospital. If I'm truly miserable, I can hit the employee nurse up for a single (sometimes two) dose of cold meds, but that's about it.

Other than that, you're on your own (and if I hit her up, she might possibly send me home--not because I'm 'too sick' to work, but for infection reasons, which I'm handling by using gloves, wiping everything down right after I so much as think of sneezing or coughing, and making liberal use of the anti-bacterial lotion available to me).

I did manage to wrangle enough money loose to get a pack of NyQuil meds without hitting red, so I can at least suppress the symptoms. Sleeping a lot while home seems to be doing the trick, too--took a three hour nap when I got home, stayed up for two more, then went back to bed until morning, and it's migrating down now, which with me is usually a good sign--I'm generally done with it a few days after that happens.

Anyway, thank you, and I will make a note to get that stuff into the house, to use for next time, at any rate. :)

[cluegirl.livejournal.com]

Actually, given your stress levels for the last several years, you should be taking at least one B complex per day anyhow, to let your adrenal gland recover from what it's been put through.

That will also help lessen the cravings for salt and fat, by the way, since that's the adrenal system's primary food, and when you're starting to crash, that's what it tells your body to give it. A B complex is closer to perfect for it though, so if it has the B's, it should leave the diet-busters alone more.

But when you get cold/flu-sick, definitely up the dosage to help the adrenal gland cope.

/meddling.
:D

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

:)

*hugs*