Ai Hav argh Coaal'

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<p>^that's how i sound like if i try to say 'i have a cold'.</p>

<p>it started like on saturday, i believe, when i opened up the windows while sleeping because it was JUST SO HOT.</p>

<p>my head doesnt hurt THAT much but i do have a fever. i have a runny nose (cant breathe) and have been blowing away in tissues for awhile now. (desk full of crumpled tissues)</p>

<p>and i sneeze a lot, too...:( and i feel like 'uuuuhh..ehh..'</p>

<p>but i have so much stuff to do today....:(
any thoughts on how to get better? excluding sleeping and eating chicken soup or something...</p>

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<p>take airborne -- ive been taking it and havent gotten sick in like 9 months</p>

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<p>antibioticz</p>

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<p>ooo yeah go ask your doctor for some antibiotics -- i dunno what it is but from the moment i start taking them i feel better, i guess its the thought of something trying to make your body get better i dunno</p>

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<p>heyyy</p>

<p>i would appreciate suggestions withOUT drugs.
if i dont hv time 2 sleep i dont hv time 2 visit the doctor.</p>

<p>are there any tips that will at least keep me sharp for the next few hours? (i'm fresh out of redbull, sorry)</p>

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<p>Be careful with taking antibiotics for everything. That's how you end up with superbugs that are resistant to everything.</p>

<p>Anyway, in terms of complaints, I totally have you beat. I've had a sore throat for two weeks now. It started out mild, and since I had finals I ingnored it. Last weekend, though, it started to get really bad.</p>

<p>Now my entire throat is so swollen up that I can barely swallow even water. It hurts like hell--the doctors gave me Tylenol 3 for the pain (mmm, codeine!)--and so does my ear. The throat is pussy and infected, and the doctors say that if it gets any worse they have to take a knife up there and drain the pus.</p>

<p>They gave me antibiotics, but the first one they gave me wasn't strong enough and didn't do a thing. I just got worse. I've been on a stronger one for a day. Hopefully it will help.</p>

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<p>im so sorry -- the only thing that compares is when i was swimming last year and i developed this huge infection inside my chest/lungs (from breathing in water during swimming) and yeah anyway it was nasty.</p>

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<p>We should start a nasty-infection support group on this site.</p>

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<p>it should be like whats the worst infection/disease you've had</p>

<p>For me, some blood disease thing when i was two (in the hospital for a while) and the chest infection thing</p>

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<p>I once had what my doctor thought was Rocky-Mountain-Spotted-Fever.</p>

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<p>I had an allergic reaction to a medicine I was taking that caused a "drug-induced lupus." My joints started hurting like arthritis and I got a 102 fever every day. Basically, I felt all-around crappy constantly for months. The doctors and my family thought I had leukemia until they finally figured it out..I still have to go to Duke Children's Hospital every 3 months because my system went so crazy..and this was pretty long ago--first semester sophomore year.</p>

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<p>I got a tummyache once after eating half a pack of processed cheese rubber square things when I was seven. I haven't had one since. I can't even bear the smell of them.</p>

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<p>Mono sucks--I had it last summer. Who else has had that?</p>

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<p>my gf had mono last year...it pretty much sucked and some how i didnt get it...</p>