*cough* *hack*

[telophase]

Just back from the doctor - while overall I feel better than I did on Saturday afternoon, I am completely wiped put due to lack of sleep because of coughing. So I went in and got, not codeine, which doesn't work on me*, but benzonatate (I might have spelled that correctly), which damps down my cough reflex and respiratory system and allows me to SLEEEEEEEEEEEEP.

We're about to head out to pick up lunch and my sweet, sweet drugs. SLEEP! SOON YOU SHALL BE MINE!



* Neither for pain relief nor cough suppression. I talked with the doc a bit and she agreed that the pain relief bit was indicative that I might be an opioid non-responder** although the cough suppression thing is a different system entirely (the pain thing is down to how your liver metabolizes it), but at least she believed me when I said it doesn't work for that.

** According to my doc, apparently the difference between drug seekers and non-responders is "That doesn't work for me. I need something stronger" versus "I switched to Advil and it worked better."

Comments

[chomiji]

W00t benzonatate ... the best anti-cough stuff ever. It doesn't even make me particularly groggy (although I would not want to drive in unfamiliar territory, at night, while on it).

Get some sleep!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I don't remember if it makes me groggy or not; it's been since 2007 or so since I've taken it. I credit the humidifier I run at night in the bedroom if I've got a cold for reducing the length and severity of my coughing with colds: it's probably not a coincidence that I got this way now, when I didn't have one in England and failed to run it after coming back (except for the last two nights, that is!).

[nightambre.livejournal.com]

I remember when it was first confirmed I was allergic to codeine. Considering at the time the first thing tossed at you for Bronchitis was the syrup with Tylenol-3 with codeine in it. I got a weird, perverse joy when they'd diagnose me with bronchitis, and begin writing the prescription and I"d have to remind them "I'm allergic to codeine" and I'd get this e.e look.

I don't think I've ever used the term 'stronger'; I think I've always used 'different' or just 'something else'.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee! That was the look I got from Red Cross blood drive employees when I told them I'd had malaria as a kid, before they changed the question to "Have you had malaria in the past 12 years?"

[nightambre.livejournal.com]

Hah! That shouldn't be funny, but it is.

Yeah, the last time they put me on codeine, the walls were bleeding and I was being chased throughout the house by pink, man eating rabbits.

Keep in mind I'd never seen the Holy Grail at this point...

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that would be a minor contra-indication for codeine! XD

I have a friend who had hallucinations from an anti-malarial before he went on a dig in Belize, and he said that while watching the fish swimming around the ceiling was peaceful and relaxing, the voice telling him to kill himself wasn't so much.

[estara.livejournal.com]

May you have sweet sleep soon. For as many hours as you want.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I'm about to crawl into bed and read myself to sleep right now! XD

[awamiba.livejournal.com]

Yes, saying "stronger" gets you the bad, bad looks. I am very careful to say "I need something that WORKS. I do NOT want stronger; I want BETTER." But I also have trouble with Aleve - it makes me super-hyper.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Aleve makes my feet swell up like footballs. At one point before I realized it was the Aleve doing it (I was taking it regularly for an injured back ligament), I'd get bruises on the top of my feet from forcing them into my shoes.