Today, I woke up with a nasty cough. My mother gave me cough syrup for it. After about 30 minutes, I was dizzy, nauseous, and high as a fucking kite. Turns out the cough syrup reacts badly with my prescription medications, making me even sicker than I already was. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I took cough syrup for a miserable COVID sore throat and harsh cough. It went down the wrong tube, and now I'm coughing worse, trying to get it out of my lungs. It hurts. FML
Today, I have an acute URI and acute bronchitis. The cough syrup works amazingly well to stop the coughing, but if I take the cough syrup it gives me insomnia. So I get to choose: do I want to spend all night coughing, or spend all night tossing and turning? FML
Today, I woke up with one of the worst migraines I've had in months. My mother (who thinks I'm a hypochondriac) began to scream at me about "making up an illness". When I asked for my meds, she called me an addict, and dumped my $300 prescription down the sink. 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 woke up with a high fever and hallucinations. I called for my mother, who after checking me, swore that I was just hungover from a night of partying, called me a "f*cking hedonist", and refused to help. FML
Today, my daughter has an ear infection and hasn’t slept more than 15 minutes a night for the last three days. Well tonight she was finally asleep, but I needed to take my own tablets. I had a violent coughing fit while choking on them, and woke her up. FML
Today, due to the high pollen count and despite taking hay fever medicine, I passed out in the bathroom from not being able to breathe. My mother accused me of doing it on purpose to make her late for work. FML
Today, I learned that Nyquil has such an amazing effect on me, that it won't even allow me to wake up to go to the bathroom. FML
Today, I woke up with a migrane, so I took one of my prescription migrane pills to get me through my day. The pill made me dizzy and nauseous, so I took a motion-sickness pill. That pill gave me a migrane. FML
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
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Tripartita 45
FYI, kites actually maintain relatively low altitudes during coitus.
hellnosucka 27
I've always wanted a portable chemistry lab.*sigh*
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Tripartita 45
FYI, kites actually maintain relatively low altitudes during coitus.
J352SAURUS 30
You never fail to amuse me with your wit, good sir.
RichardPencil 32
Yeah, the first few times are hard, but once you build up a tolerance, your meds and cough syrup could become a party!
DataWog 30
If you're on an SSRI, that's a good recipe for death.
KyoshiroT 32
First time taking cough syrup? If so, FYL. Unless if the cold/sickness doesn't mix with the medicine then double FYL. I hope you feel better OP!
hellnosucka 27
I've always wanted a portable chemistry lab.*sigh*
Moerighan 23
Shouldn't you read the bottle or pamphlet before taking things you don't know about?
LyricaSilvan 30
A lesson for your mom, and people in general: read medication labels BEFORE giving/taking anything, so you know what to avoid. I know someone who took a sleep aid and then chased it with Tylenol, due to a headache. They ended up passing out all the next day. Turned out the brand of sleep syrup they were using had a warning label that said not to mix it with certain pain relief meds. The point being, there's a reason they put that information on the label. Make sure you remind your mom not to give you anything without making sure it's safe first.
Brandi_Faith 34
While this is true, almost every medication has certain labels, like to contact your doctor before taking if you have diabetes for example, and I understand why people don't want to contact their doctor every time they go to take a medication. The best & easiest thing to do is to call your pharmacy and talk with a pharmacist. I've done this many times. Not only do they know which meds interact badly with each other, but they also have a file of all the meds you are on and can look it up with a few clicks of a keyboard. I got prescription cough medicine when I was around 12 years old, and my mom accidentally gave me 2 tablespoons instead of teaspoons. I started feeling funny (high, of course I had no idea what that was) and she had to pull over on the way to school because I had to puke. She immediately took me home, realized her mistake, was devastated, and I just slept it off feeling a lot better after I'd puked. Needless to say, we always read the directions extremely carefully now and are very careful to not mix up teaspoon and tablespoon. Lol.
shitstorm28 11
always read the label.
Goblin182 27
Read the warning label.
NostalgiaFreak9 43
I'm high as a kite, I just might stop to check you out. Lemme go on, black eyed blister in the sun, lemme go on Big hands, I know you're the one. (If you get the reference, I'll send you free desserts)
sturschaedel 27
I love the Violent Femmes! So, what's for dessert?
lewlews 5
Ahh yes, I too love the .. "violet femmbotts" (pls I want cheesecake so bad)
Zebediabolical 45
I'm pretty sure that's not a Violent Femmes lyric. I don't think their song contains the line 'black eyed blister in the sun'
SecondBee 12
I have a similar issue because I take opiate pain relief. You always always have to check the label. And it's not on your mom, it's your responsibility to manage what you take when you are sick and to make sure it's compatible with your daily meds. Or skip the daily meds for the extras (depending on what you take meds for that may or may not be possible).
GhostFox 34
That really depends on the age of the kid, and what medications their on. And even if they're only on a few meds, even as a teenager, a parent is responsible for their kid's health and should still be actively involved in medication for their child. Teaching the teenager while they monitor medication, yes, but still monitoring it.