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Tylenol Cold and Flu is what I am taking right now and I can actually function at work.

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Jack Daniel's works great.

oh, and be careful with Jack Daniel's, that stuff has made me throw up like nothing else

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FYP

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Me too!
But... the best way to shorten and reduce the symptoms is by using some natural immune boosters.
Echinacea/Goldenseal & Zinc lozengers or Zicam - all available from drug store - take a bunch... in 3 days all better :-) (colds usually last up to 9 days!!!)
Nyquil etc.. good as a 'bandaid' for symptoms - but won't help heal faster like the herbals.
be well... sniff.

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Even if the echinacea is real, which it sometimes isn't , it won't help with a cold.

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How often do you take Zicam (zinc)?

Where can you find the stuff - drug store, supermarket?

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How often do you take Zicam (zinc)?

Where can you find the stuff - drug store, supermarket?

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Yeah... supermarket, pharmacy etc... little pricey $10ish.
they have it in different forms: swabs, nose spray etc... use it like every 4hrs... but get going! Best if used on earliest signs of symptoms. Lots of proven results showing dramatic lessening of time w/cold.
I know - colds just plain suck.
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Am I the only person that actually likes the taste of Alka-Seltzer?

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i've never had it.

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Am I the only person that actually likes the taste of Alka-Seltzer?

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i've never had it.

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It taste like battery acid, but you take the stuff right when you feel something coming on and it kicks ass. I haven't taken much else in a long time.

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It's not a cold. Enjoy your avian flu.

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Yeah...always did the Dayquil and Nyquil thing, but looking for a better remedy.


What do you all do to feel good and get rid of colds quickly?

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Zinc lozenges (Cold-eeze is one good brand) help, but you have to start them at the first sign of a cold (you know the morning when you wake up with your throat feeling a little scratchy and say to yoursef "Is this the start of cold?") for them to really be effective. They will help a little if you start them later. Pseudoephedrine (suda-fed, contac non-drowsy) is fairly good for drying up runny nose and reducing nasal and sinus congestion. Unfortunately, it is being phased out and replace with phenylephrine (similar but not quite as good), because pseudoephedrine is used to mak methampetamine.

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Colds suck. My kid gave m,e one that I've had a couple of days now.

I always say there's two kinds of cold medicine. There's medecine that works. And medecine that won't knock you on your ass.

So far they seem to have been unable to create one that both works and allows me to function. As a result, I've been completely goofy for two days. I'm dizzy and unable to concentrate and doing retarded things. I don't like this but it seems a little better today. FWIW I've been doing the Nyquil/Dayquil thing.