Sigh...

[elfs]

I got over eight hours of sleep last night. Props to dakiwiboid for leading me to Robitussin Honey; I lucked out and found a formulation that had dextromethorphan and nothing else and it really worked quite well.

Reading the Dextromethorphan FAQ makes me wonder about it, though. It's a powerful disassociative anaesthetic that, if it were seeking FDA approval today, would never be made available over the counter; the only other drug similar in effect is ketamine. Oh, joy. The government is no help, they have a big "just don't use it recreationally, okay?" I have no intention of doing so; stuff sounds nasty and I'm old enough to buy wine, thank you. A pediatric use guide admit they have no idea if the stuff works in kids.

Y'know what I think? I think the doctor wimped out and recommended 20mg codiene, when the standard dosage is 30mg of dextromethorphan, and the two are supposed to be dosed similarly.

So, I feel better. The fevers and chills are gone, the cough is mostly under control and doesn't bother me in the daytime. I haven't done any writing or coding this week and I'm behind in my language studies because the CD-burner is down with the linux box.

The windows box successfully survived the Win98SE/SP1 upgrade as did the Linux box (because the drives were unplugged when I did it). I still don't have audio under Windows, but I have full-screen VCD under Linux. No test of the DVD player or the Iomega drive yet. I was shocked to discover that screen wasn't installed on Redhat by default. Sucessfully built a 2.4.25 kernel but didn't get a chance to test it; a typo in the GRUB config caused a kernel panic. Rebooting to 2.4.20-RH9 worked fine.

Took the girls out to a restaurant last night; Omaha and I were dead on our feet and in no mood to cook, and the house was busy with shaterri moving on to new digs. He was a damn good roommate, but we do live in the boonies. Ah, well. The restaurant was a seafood joint, mid-level, lots of deep fat fried stuff. The girls had shrimp platters, and Yamaarashi-chan ate all of hers. Kouryou-chan was a mess. Wally's (that's the restaurant) supplied us with crayons and sheets with drawings on them to color, blank on the opposite side, which kept them occupied, and dinner came appreciably quickly. They practiced spelling words with one another. It was Yamaarashi-chan's turn to water her plants when we got home, and she was actually rather nervous and twitchy with the watering syringe. We use one of those dosing syringes for babies we had leftover from Kouryou-chan's infancy, since it's small and the kids would have a hard time overwatering with it, but she kept missing the pots (which are only about two inches wide anyway).

Another day...

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[happy-hacker.livejournal.com]

My wife recently had the same kind of cold - 1-2 weeks of feeling like absolute crap followed by another week of cough that won't let you sleep. My pharmacist recommended Delsym, which contains Dextromethorphan polystirix (which the bottle claims is equivilant to 30mg of dextromethorphan hydrobromide. The difference is it lasts 12 hours per dose. In fact, my pharmacist said that under no circumstances should one take it more frequently than that, and that if your cough persists through this stuff you need to see a doctor. My wife assures me it works like gangbusters, and she was getting more than 12 hours of cough suppression out of a dose. She also says it tastes terrible and be sure to shake it up.

I sent all this to you on AIM, before it occured to me that if you made your AIM Handle public you're probably blocking anyone not on your buddy list.

-HH