Help me! I am on day 4 of the worst cold I’ve had in years. I can’t remember the last time I was this sick. I can’t even sleep I’m so miserable Luckily it isn’t the flu so I’ve been able to eat just fine.
Aside from chicken soup, I’m a vegetarian, what are your secret cold remedies? Theraflu isn’t even helping me sleep and that usually knocks me on my ass. I’ll try anything that doesn’t involve ingesting critters.
It was scotch, or maybe bourbon, with brown sugar mixed in. Worked wonders!!
One of my favorites is to peel and cut up a ginger root. Boil them in a few cups of water until there’s only about 1 cup of water remaining. Strain out the ginger, and drink the liquid like hot tea (it may need some honey to be palatable, depends on your tolerance of ginger!). It always makes me feel better.
Don’t remember the source for this, but it is supposed to work 
flush out the sinuses with a netti pot before bed, a dash of vicks under the nostrils, 1 benedryl, 1 dose cough syrup, a couple motrins, one shot of Jack Daniels.
As we discussed, I avoid the Theraflu and Nyquil stuff due to the decongestants which are counter-productive to good sleep.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I strongly recommend against trying to get rid of a cold by running really hard in cold weather. Tried that yesterday, and it didn’t work for crap. Neither did drinking a few Irish coffees later on in the day.
Otherwise, don’t know what to advise apart from treating symptoms. Sudafed and Robitussin DM (the DM part is very important, says my Dad the doc) allowed me a little sleep last night, in between temperature swings.
take a nap and go to bed early 
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i told you this last year…mince raw garlic in some olive oil. scoop it up with a potato chip or something and eat it with the olive oil. repeat everyday until you’re better.
also, peel an entire big ginger root and chop it up. boil it in water for 20 minutes and drink the hot water. it will be spicy to the taste, but just sip it while hot and it will really help to zap out your illness. frankly, i think this is faster and more impactful than garlic for an immediate response, garlic acts like an antibiotic in the body; it’s good but is a bit slower.
no complaining that you’ll smell and stuff like you said last year. just do it, kitty’s witch doctor orders.
Thank goodness for kittycat and her witchy ways!
Bernie
I have some gingerroot tea that I brewed really strong. Hard to even drink. I’ll do garlic too. I sent the hubby out for supplies and he came back with Nyquil so hopefully I can get a full night’s rest.
This thing is now traveling into my chest. Started as a sore throat, moved to a head cold now is going into my chest. My husband doesn’t think he’s ever seen me this sick before. Gads.
Right now I am on the couch watching bad movies with my cats and husband. Drinking Gatorade. I’ll have to ride this one out and hopefully shorten the length of it.
I’m just wallowing in self pity at this point. It has been really nice outside the last couple days and of course I haven’t been able to go for a run. 
Thanks everyone for the advice and letting me act like a big baby.