Magic Pill

I am serious, folks. If you know of anything that will fix this, please let me know (key is that I have high blood pressure, so cannot take most OTC cold remedies, except in small doses. As in ONE-half a dose of sudafed severe cold formula ONCE a day).

Let's get out the list of symptoms, in the order of appearance:

Sunday:

1. Scratchy throat
2. Fatigue

Monday:

3. Throat is worse
4. Congested
5. just a cold, stuffy nose

Tuesday:

6. Woke up with a severely sore throat
7. Check back of throat for bleeding, it hurts so bad
8. slight fever
9. headache
10. dry cough
11. Did I mention that my throat hurt?

Wednesday:

12. Still sore throat
13. still headache
14. started sneezing
15. Okay, runny nose, but feel overall much better. Fever is gone by noon.
16. By bed time, very tired and sleepy, have used a large amount of kleenex
17. Sinus problems.

Thursday:

16. Woke up after decent night's sleep
17. Went to work cheerfully, with a third of a box of kleenex
18. Realize I may have made a mistake going in to work when box of kleenex is gone before 11 am.
19. Massive sinus pain
20. Nose is raw
21. Head still hurts
22. Another half a box of kleenex is now gone
23. Sudafed is not helping
24. How much longer is this going to last?
25. Still coughing, too, btw

So, yeah. Feeling pretty crappy. I really should have stayed home again today. If I can just get through tomorrow...

Well, this hardly seems fair.

I am feeling miserable right now. My cold has gotten steadily worse all day. This is the first free weekend we've had at home since July. I had all sorts of plans that did not include being stuck at home, sick with this cold.

In addition to this cold, there is something else that is bothering me. Yesterday, I ate a nice lunch, then was hungry less than an hour later. So, I had a snack at work. Potato salad from the Cafe, because I didn't want anything sugary. Twenty minutes later, I was starving again. So, I had a package of Trail Mix from the vending machine. That worked until supper, which was normal sized (one maidrite, with french fries, yum!). Dinner was over at about 6. By 8:30, I was starving again. This is not like me at all.

Today, was worse. I had a blueberry muffin for breakfast. I managed to not break down at 11, when I was starving again, and feeling that blood sugar drop. I had to return something to the library, so I decided to go out for lunch. I went to Culvers, and had a Butterburger basket. I ate every bite, which is also unusual for me (my son usually finished my fries). At 2, I was again starving, but I managed to wait until nearly 3:30 before running for the trail mix again. We just finished eating dinner. In fact, I just finished loading the dishwasher.

I feel like I didn't even eat anything, and am contemplating a bowl of cereal, if we had any without sugar in it. It's to the point where I am ticked off at being hungry again, because all I wanted to do was take some sudafed and doze on the couch for awhile. I can't think of any reason why, other than that it's been really cold here the last couple of days. Maybe my cavelady instincts are taking over, and she wants me to get fat.

Anyway, I'm off to go find something else to eat. This is ridiculous...