Waves,
I just re-read your post re OTC cold stuff. Thank you again.

Earlier tonight I bought something with active ingredients Dextromethorphan and Guaifenesin.

(I had a friend who was a nurse who used to take this when she had a cough and explained to me once why the combo was good.)

After I took a dose I did a quick Internet search
Among other non-comforting info, I found that Dextromethorphan appears not to be efficacious. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11045895

I'm amazed that for 20 years I have been ok about taking meds from pdocs and yet am a little freaked out about OTC cough syrup.

Right now I am eating some hummus and Sun Chips because apparently both meds can cause nausea and I ain't in the mood for that. . . Drinking more water than I normally would before bed too.


On Friday -- I have to find a new mdoc and make an appointment for a routine check up. My current mdoc is useless. (I'm counting on the cold symptoms being gone very soon.)

Maybe I need to take my night meds (could use the Klonopin ).
I'm getting anxious about making my own med choices --- I would have been comfortable with an mdoc prescribing the cough syrup but don't feel so comfortable doing this on my own.

. . . feeling a bit like a wimp. . .


M.