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[Gavin]

Sinus rinse works well for minor congestion, but if infected don't use it, might move it to your ears. Get that stuff bad once or twice a year. Shot of decadedron course of prednisone, Flonase, and a z-pack will have you up and running in a couple hours. Don't let them give you amoxicillin. It does not work for sinus infections, and little else these days. There is an antibiotic that kicks it if a Z-pack won't. Starts with an A but not amoxicillin. Could find it on Web MD if you need a script from you legal pill pusher.

[MOPanfisher]

I see the dr. Monthly, so I have an aversion to going any more often than I have to, if I would be smart bough to take the allergy pills when it first starts it would help probably.  It will pass.

[Gavin]

Zyrtec works great for me. 

 

[MOPanfisher]

Zyrtec is what I normally take for a few weeks during allergy season.  Unfortunately is has the side effect of killing taste buds for a couple weeks also, so either way taste and smell go away for a while.  I also have to take Claritin  for a couple days before and after my dr. Appts. and treatments, somehow it keeps the side effects at bay, no one has been able to explain to me exactly how but it works.  Bedtime gets the whole enchilada of a good sized shot of vodka, nyquil, maybe a little cough syrup and if I have taste at the time a squirt of lime juice.  Usually gives me a couple hours sleep even if in the recliner.  But it will all pass and I will again be "normal".

[Gavin]

Zyrtec is an antihistamine, different than a decongestant. Know what you want then call the the pill pusher with the script pad. Is not hard, usually text my RN friends for advice. Better advice than the doc's mostly but I'm not offering any. Not a doc.

 

[joeD]

Ness- You did it yourself and I'm sure your pizza tasted great. Remember, you are in Missouri, cooking outside on a grill. Probably not using flour grown and milled in your backyard. With an oven that's been around for generations. Make your pizza, not a reproduction of a pie from that special cafe in Naples (BTW, there ARE burned edges on Italian pizzas. It's business as usual over there. We admire it. It's "authentic" and "rustic.") Don't call it burned. Start smoking cigarettes, use less deodorant, act more aloof, yet more demonstrative, and think about a casual affair. Your transformation will be reflected in your spectacular pizzas. At your new bachelor condo after being kicked out of your home.

[ness]

10 hours ago, Gavin said:

Starts with an A but not amoxicillin. Could find it on Web MD if you need a script from you legal pill pusher.

Augmentin -- just finished a course.

Also, just looked up Z-Pack and it's got an 'a' antibiotic in it -- Azithromycin

[ness]

7 hours ago, joeD said:

Ness- You did it yourself and I'm sure your pizza tasted great. Remember, you are in Missouri, cooking outside on a grill. Probably not using flour grown and milled in your backyard. With an oven that's been around for generations. Make your pizza, not a reproduction of a pie from that special cafe in Naples (BTW, there ARE burned edges on Italian pizzas. It's business as usual over there. We admire it. It's "authentic" and "rustic.") Don't call it burned. Start smoking cigarettes, use less deodorant, act more aloof, yet more demonstrative, and think about a casual affair. Your transformation will be reflected in your spectacular pizzas. At your new bachelor condo after being kicked out of your home.

Yes, no, who cares, wrong, wrong, wrong, no, wrong, no, no, no wrong, no.

[MOPanfisher]

Sadly I am all to familiar with what the different pills and drugs are and do.  Besides the Dr. my wife, my mom and my sister are nurses, plus the insurance company really wanted to assign me a nurse to call with questions.  The Oncologist Dr. in Spfld has his regular nurse we call if we need something done, and the KU system in Kansas City has a nurse that says she "owns" me and the Dr. just signs stuff.  Plus my regular GP Dr. (the good who diagnosed me to start with) has a NP what like to give me unsolicited advice, (of course she if right about the blood pressure etc.) .  All that is good I have a thing for cute nurses, but then who doesn't.  The Zyrtec is a preventative anti-allergy that works well for me. 

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12 hours ago, Gavin said:

Sinus rinse works well for minor congestion, but if infected don't use it, might move it to your ears.

I start using it at the first sign of a cold.  Seems to lessen the congestion, duration and possible infection.

Nothing worse than a sinus infection.  I hope you get better, Mopanfisher