Great Mysteries

[geminigirl]

When I'm vertical, I cough less (good thing) and am sleepier (also good)
When I'm horizonal I cough more (bad thing) and am wide awake (also bad.)

Don't get it. Although at least the yellow sludgy cough medicine is doing a good job at knocking out the cough, even if the sleepiness it causes seems to not go away.

Unless the exhaustion is either the lack of sleep catching up with me or the lack of air catching up with me. (peak flows still very low, but I can't figure out what else to do. They started dropping very quickly after the nebulizer treatment last night-within 45 minutes they were back down to where they were in the AM. I figure a few days of the medication and then maybe I'll worry.)

Comments

[thepozlife.livejournal.com]

By any chance is the cough medicine Tussionex? I had that prescribed this last spring when I had a slight pneumonia. It's a fairly potent but effective cough medication that has Vicodin.

... the exhaustion is either the lack of sleep catching up with me or the lack of air catching up with me.

This probably a combination of both. I hope you feel better soon.

[geminigirl]

It is in fact Tussionex. I know the cough gets worse at night and when I lie down, so I'd asked him for something that would knock it out at night. Robitussin DM is fine for during the day, but the effects start to wear off quickly enough that it's a waste at night, and not really worth it when I'm lying down. The Vicodin should be making me sleepy though, and it's really not. I took it two and a half hours ago and I'm still up.

It's sludgy. I poured it into the medicine spoon that I had last night and it was nearly impossible to get out. I ended up just grabbing a regular measuring spoon tonight.

Even as a kid I hated liquid medications; I learned to swallow pills as soon as I could, because they tasted so vile. I even refused children's chewables because the taste was icky. (Mostly artifical cherry stuff-St. Joseph's asprin wasn't bad, it's orange flavored, and Dimetap is grape-I still take that for my ears.) This stuff isn't bad...it's palatable. Far more so than the really awful liquid Percocet that I had over the summer, which the pharmacist said "put it in the fridge-people say it kills the taste some that way." But the cough medicine looks sort of like sludgy Mountain Dew.

[fortryll.livejournal.com]

Holler if you need anything, okay love? We worry bout you!

*hugglesnuggles*

[geminigirl]

Thanks. Can't think of anything. No appetite, which is making it hard to take my drugs because I have to take them with food.

[fairion.livejournal.com]

Don't try to lie down sweetie. You need to fix yourself a nest where you can sleep in a vaguely sleeping position. Pile a bunch of pillows on the bed. Use extra blankets if you dont have enough pillows but dont lie down. A 45 degree angle is enough and should still be comfy enough you can nap.

*hugs* hang in there

[geminigirl]

I've actually been sleeping on the futon in the living room, because I can use the corner with the arm and the back to help stay vertical. Still, sitting is the least likely to make me cough and harder to sleep in.

I'll be okay in a few more days, I think.