That Dark Chocolate is good for coughs and sore throats, go pour some Hershey's down his trap! Or, that codine he had last week would help with some cough syrup...
Tell him he could damage his vocal cords. And that he should medicate it unless it is productive. The music works tho! When in doubt music is good medicine! Or, that as a good boyfriend/housemate he should value the good mood that a nice sleep can bring to his Girlfriend...When in doubt play the grumpy card. I do it, especially when sleep is at stake.
Have played the grumpy card probably too many times in the last month, during which i have not been able to sleep well at all. It has descended to the Irrational Bitch card, which I really don't think is to anyone's benefit to play anymore. Sigh.
No, every time I say that his cough is driving me nuts he brings up the fact that I had this cough before and it was even worse, because I didn't cough so often but when I did I made awful noises. (Um, my cough was productive. And I coughed like once an hour. Also, I was at work eight hours a day during which he didn't have to listen to it. But that's logic, and if you play the Irrational Bitch card you don't get to use logic.)
So, I'll just stay up a while and listen to the headphones and hopefully he'll fall asleep and STOP COUGHING. Before I snap and hurt somebody. Blah!!!
Not medicated? How much of that hateful cough syrup am I supposed to drink before you consider me 'medicated?' The problem is not that I don't drink enough cough syrup; the problem is that it doesn't do anything.
Unfortunately the codeine we have is in headache pills, so it's combined with aspirin and... caffeine. Doesn't help much when the coughing is keeping you awake. Maybe the coughing will ease, but then you're sleepy and jittery.
Nothing beats 'em for headaches, but they're bloody useless for just about anything else.
ew, I guess you really are stuck with it then! I didn't realize that there was caffene involved. I have taken Tylenol III with robitussen before and it kicked the cough right out of the park, when the cough meds by itself didn't work. Sorry to be a pest!
Yeah... Tylenol III rules. But you need a prescription. AC&C is pretty good, but Canadian federal law mandates that codeine be mixed with at least two other ingredients, and so they put in aspirin and caffeine which means that it kicks the ass of headaches, but lacks that warm delightful sleep-for-a-day-and-awake-healed effect that TIII has.
I sure hope it's the cough you had before and not whooping cough, which is going aroudn like wildfire all through the Northeast. Trevor got it last year. The problem is that there's no booster for whooping cough, and the vaccine wears off. So some adults are now terribly vulnerable, but some are. I never caught it when Trevor had it, for example. You end up coughing horribly painfully for months. Trevor was sick from late October through early February. The coughing gets really bad--he would throw up from it, sometimes. And it got to the point where if he tried to take a deep breath, or move or anything, he'd cough. There's no treatment unless you catch it really early, so no worries about not having health care...even if they catch it the first day, they can't do much. All they can do then is make it a little weaker. Anyway....now I've probably scared you needlessly. Sorry...
my last suggestion, then - when Jim has the sniffles, it drives me mad, because it never nver stops, but how can you be mad? Answer: earplugs. He makes a sheepish face, but it is a lifesaver. I always have a *cheap* box of squishy wax plugs from the drug store around because I go to many concerts in my other life, often to hear people we are thinking about booking but don't know too well, and sometimes the opening acts... well, lets just say I never go without them.
That was going to be my suggestion as well. When all else fails and the person doing the coughing can't do much about it, I get proactive and plug my own ears. My husband also has a wicked snore, so they come in handy more often than you'd think. It takes a day or two to get used to them, but once they've gotten comfortable you hardly notice them.
Hope you sleep well, and Dave's cough goes far, far away soon.
I used headphones the other night and waited until I was so exhausted that I just went and fell asleep. It helps that we have separate bedrooms.
Last night I think I intimidated the cough. I told that cough that if I had to, I would get up at midnight, in my pyjamas, with no bra, and go to Wegman's, and buy Nyquil. Dave coughed like three times and then fell asleep.
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I hear
Date: 2005-01-09 05:08 am (UTC)Love, Hacking cougher's anonymous
Re: I hear
Date: 2005-01-09 05:16 am (UTC)"It's not so bad," he says. "It's not like it hurts or anything."
It is driving me crazy.
At the moment I am listening to Motorhead with headphones on and the volume all the way up.
Not conducive to sleep, but at least I won't snap and punch him in the neck.
Re: I hear
Date: 2005-01-09 05:35 am (UTC)Re: I hear
Date: 2005-01-09 05:45 am (UTC)No, every time I say that his cough is driving me nuts he brings up the fact that I had this cough before and it was even worse, because I didn't cough so often but when I did I made awful noises. (Um, my cough was productive. And I coughed like once an hour. Also, I was at work eight hours a day during which he didn't have to listen to it. But that's logic, and if you play the Irrational Bitch card you don't get to use logic.)
So, I'll just stay up a while and listen to the headphones and hopefully he'll fall asleep and STOP COUGHING. Before I snap and hurt somebody. Blah!!!
Re: I hear
Date: 2005-01-09 04:15 pm (UTC)- Z
Re: I hear
Date: 2005-01-09 06:11 pm (UTC)Re: I hear
Date: 2005-01-10 01:54 am (UTC)Nothing beats 'em for headaches, but they're bloody useless for just about anything else.
Re: I hear
Date: 2005-01-10 02:34 am (UTC)Re: I hear
Date: 2005-01-10 03:20 pm (UTC)AC&C is pretty good, but Canadian federal law mandates that codeine be mixed with at least two other ingredients, and so they put in aspirin and caffeine which means that it kicks the ass of headaches, but lacks that warm delightful sleep-for-a-day-and-awake-healed effect that TIII has.
Oh well. Drug smugglers can't be choosy.
Re: I hear
Date: 2005-01-10 01:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-09 06:45 am (UTC)You end up coughing horribly painfully for months. Trevor was sick from late October through early February. The coughing gets really bad--he would throw up from it, sometimes. And it got to the point where if he tried to take a deep breath, or move or anything, he'd cough.
There's no treatment unless you catch it really early, so no worries about not having health care...even if they catch it the first day, they can't do much. All they can do then is make it a little weaker.
Anyway....now I've probably scared you needlessly. Sorry...
no subject
Date: 2005-01-10 01:52 am (UTC)No, it's not whooping cough.
Holy shit, dude.
No, we're good, thanks. I'll stop complaining now, and... go hide under my bed.
no subject
Date: 2005-01-09 10:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-10 01:52 am (UTC)I did and his only answer was, "Vicks is weird."
I then offered to rub him with anything else of his choice, and his only answer to that was "That wouldn't help the coughing."
I think he's broken. *poke*
no subject
Date: 2005-01-10 06:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-10 02:36 pm (UTC)That was going to be my suggestion as well. When all else fails and the person doing the coughing can't do much about it, I get proactive and plug my own ears. My husband also has a wicked snore, so they come in handy more often than you'd think. It takes a day or two to get used to them, but once they've gotten comfortable you hardly notice them.
Hope you sleep well, and Dave's cough goes far, far away soon.
no subject
Date: 2005-01-10 03:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-10 03:18 pm (UTC)I used headphones the other night and waited until I was so exhausted that I just went and fell asleep.
It helps that we have separate bedrooms.
Last night I think I intimidated the cough. I told that cough that if I had to, I would get up at midnight, in my pyjamas, with no bra, and go to Wegman's, and buy Nyquil.
Dave coughed like three times and then fell asleep.
HA! I am mighty.