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Jan. 24th, 2007 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
saffronhareWow, this Aleve Cold & Sinus is some powerful shit. It's an OTC cold/sinus medication, but you have to pick it up from the pharmacist. They take your driver's license and everything. You know, because people do crazy things and we somehow feel like we ought to keep them in the gene pool against all odds or reason. Or something.
Anyway. I was looking for something to get me through the nasty 48-72 hours of a cold. Cherry-flavored Nyquil does me just fine through the night if I need something, but daytime? Everything makes me drowsy or loopy or otherwise interferes with my functioning. And I can't really afford a day off work to whimper at home, or even a particularly unproductive day at work, what with the Chicken Pockalypse and all. So I heard about this stuff and figured I'd give it a try.
Damn. When they say "non-drowsy," they really really mean it. I am zooming. No palpitations or sense of fairies crawling on my skin, thank all the little gods, but I'm seriously ramped up. Much like the impulsiveness and derring-do that happens at the two-drink mark, but friendlier. Maybe. Yeah, I think I'm friendlier. Very chatty too.
Trouble is, I stoopidly took the first dose at 8:30 p.m. yesterday. Yeah. I don't know what I was thinking. I was miserable with congestion and it seemed like a good idea at the time, and I totally underestimated the non-drowsiness that would descend. It's a 12-hour dose, so I was able to take a second tablet at 8:30 a.m. today, and that will get me through kiddie bedtimes at home this evening...after which I can collapse in a little puddle and get some sleep tonight. With any luck, the furnace will even be working. ::fingers crossed::
Today, I am almost literally an Introvert On Speed.
Anyway. I was looking for something to get me through the nasty 48-72 hours of a cold. Cherry-flavored Nyquil does me just fine through the night if I need something, but daytime? Everything makes me drowsy or loopy or otherwise interferes with my functioning. And I can't really afford a day off work to whimper at home, or even a particularly unproductive day at work, what with the Chicken Pockalypse and all. So I heard about this stuff and figured I'd give it a try.
Damn. When they say "non-drowsy," they really really mean it. I am zooming. No palpitations or sense of fairies crawling on my skin, thank all the little gods, but I'm seriously ramped up. Much like the impulsiveness and derring-do that happens at the two-drink mark, but friendlier. Maybe. Yeah, I think I'm friendlier. Very chatty too.
Trouble is, I stoopidly took the first dose at 8:30 p.m. yesterday. Yeah. I don't know what I was thinking. I was miserable with congestion and it seemed like a good idea at the time, and I totally underestimated the non-drowsiness that would descend. It's a 12-hour dose, so I was able to take a second tablet at 8:30 a.m. today, and that will get me through kiddie bedtimes at home this evening...after which I can collapse in a little puddle and get some sleep tonight. With any luck, the furnace will even be working. ::fingers crossed::
Today, I am almost literally an Introvert On Speed.
