Today, I tried to power through work on a construction site after a couple of sick days. I can't do anything without constantly sucking on cough drops. And it turns out that excessive consumption of cough drops can have a laxative effect. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I took a cough drop to soothe my sore throat, only to choke, gag, and spend the next ten minutes at the point of vomiting because the bitter lozenge got stuck in my windpipe. FML
Today, I came down with painful sores in my mouth, just after having gotten over a cold. Apparently I'm allergic to the cough drops I've been eating for the past week to make myself feel better. FML
Today, in preparation for a presentation at work, I decided to take a handful of vitamins to fight my cold. As I was putting the bottles away, I noticed one of them was a laxative. FML
Today, I was tired from an all-nighter I'd pulled because I thought I had the next four days off work. I got called in, and went because I have bills to pay. However, the amount of energy drinks I drank to stay on top of my job duties gave me such bad diarrhea, I had to go home. FML
Today, I was cruising with a coworker and his friend, and I started getting tired. His friend offered me a caffeine pill. It wasn't caffeine. It was laxatives. FML
Today, I woke up with really sore abs; not from working out at the gym, but because I've been coughing for 3 days straight and nothing is helping. Now every time I cough, it physically hurts. FML
Today, I woke up with the worst cold, ever. My nose was running like crazy and my eyes were all puffy. So I stumbled over to the medicine cabinet and took what I thought were three tylenol cold's. Two hours later I'm still sick and I can't leave the bathroom. They were laxatives. FML
Today, I had such a violent coughing fit that my stomach emptied itself all over the floor while at my sales job. FML
Today, I found out that a water pipe at my work had burst over the weekend. There is absolutely no water in the building, including the bathrooms. It's a 9-hour day, and I took a laxative this morning before I came in. FML
Today, I went back to work after a horrible bout of respiratory illness. After a few hours of using hot tea, cough drops, and tissues to deal with my lingering cough, I found out that my asshole coworker has filed a formal complaint about me disrupting her concentration. FML
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Top comments
Steve95401 49
I hope you're near the Porta Pottie during the work day.
bella_nana347 23
Shit man. I hope you don't fall behind from taking so many breaks.
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Comments (47)
samlovesham1234 9
Sounds like the brand you had contained Xylitol.
justash12 10
Generally just the sugar free ones do that. Hope this helps!
JosephKorso 15
That's why you relaxative when you're sick.
sousaphonist 14
I, too, have discovered this...
Tytonic 16
Umm... No, no it doesn't. I've downed more than 60 in an hour when I had an absolutely horrible sore throat. Not the best idea, but it doesn't really have any negative effects.
Roseand_fml 3
On the bag of sugar free cough drops, under warnings, it literally says excessive dosage may cause a laxative effect. I learned the hard way too..
clair_brodie 35
I am guessing you got sugar free cough drops?
Coniferously 13
Sounds like a shitty shituation (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
False_Stupidity 42
Sorry, but the smiley face dose not make it any more ok to use that way overused pun on here.
Enslaved 38
OP might be making a connection with the cough drops that's really not there. Many times when you're sick, the only way to get well is when your body flushed out the sickness from throwing up or by the opposite end. His body might have had the same response with or without the cough drops.
popularonion 33
It's probably the artificial sweetener in the cough drops. I know from personal experience it can have a laxative effect.
worldclassrager 41
I knew about menthol poisoning but not laxative affect...learn something new Everyday