A Cold in the Making
January 17th, 2007 by admin in: Health and FitnessI’ve been battling the precursor to a cold for the last week or so. I call it a precursor because it’s not a full blown cold just yet, but I can tell my body is working overtime to fend something off.
I’ve always been a big fan of Sudafed, but regardless of the marketing to the contrary, Sudafed seems to throw my brain into a fog, but it does seem to work.
Since I don’t want to be completely worthless for the next few days, I want to stay away from the Sudafed till I really need it.
Yesterday during lunch I went out and bought a big jug of Vitamin C tablets. Today, on a similar mission I bought a small bottle of Zicam.
For over $10 I bought a small bottle with just 25 tablets. Taking the tablets as directed means my $10 bottle of Zicam will last me just 5 days.
After only having taken 4 tablets so far, I can’t say I’m getting any better, but I’m not feeling any worse either.
Does anyone have experience with Zicam? What’s your “guaranteed to work” cold remedy? I’m open for suggestions!
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January 19th, 2007 at 3:37 am
Yes, absolutely! I just beat a cold by using Zicam! Well, actually, I beat the cold, stopped taking the Zicam as soon as I felt better, then got sick again. :-/ I like the dissolvable tablets. Just make sure you take them for 2 days FOLLOWING the cold as well. Also, I recently found out that Vitamin C totally counteracts Zinc. You shouldn’t take them together, contrary to some of the anti-cold supplements you’ll see on shelves. I would try to find the link where I read that, but it’s so late, I don’t particularly want to. LOL.
January 19th, 2007 at 8:32 am
Oh no! Seriously? Vitamin C negates the Zicam?
Well, along with each zicam tablet (I like the disolvables too) I take (took) one, 1000mg tablet of pure vitamin C.
Dang!
January 19th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
One advice: drink and drink lotsa lotsa of WATER