How are we fighting colds this year?

littlemack · Jan 4, 2007

Man. I've got a terrible cold and it sucks. I'm mainly pissed b/c I feel too sick to train. Anyone else got this head cold shit? I'm pretty sure I got it at the gym. Shook some dudes hand and then he tells me he's got a bad cold and can barely breath. I think my immune system was down. Did legs pretty hard core until I was slumped over in a corner. Started feeling it on Monday and today its running over my ass full steam like C-Dub.

Went to the pharmacy to find the strongest OTC cold medicine I could find. Spent an hour reading labels only to realize they all have the same shit in them. Ended up getting:

Alka-Seltzer Plus Night-Time Cold
Ingredients (Each Tablet)
Acetaminophen 250mg-Pain reliever/fever reducer
Dextromethorphan hydrobromide 10mg - Cough Suppressant
Doxylamine Succinate 6.25mg - Antihistimine
Phenylephrine HCI 5mg - Nasal Decongestant

Taking this along with Zicam and Vitamin C.

Let me know what you guys are taking or have taken that works. Really sucks having down time like this

Thanks!

abadseal · Jan 4, 2007

Lysine (amino acid)
Inositol with IP-6 (Buy at Vitamin Shoppe)

Never get sick and in the rare event I feel it coming on they kill it in its tracks.

Dave_19 · Jan 4, 2007

man im battling a bad cold right now. It seems like I always get sick lately.

doug1 · Jan 4, 2007

something that helps me is good old nyquil, it's got all the stuff to help sleep. and sleep tends to be one of the most important things for kicking/preventing the cold. If it's that bad, don't train, it's just draining the body of energy necessary for repair. the weights will still be there when you return.

BOOMSHAKER · Jan 4, 2007

Acetaminophen 250mg-Pain reliever/fever reducer
Dextromethorphan hydrobromide 10mg - Cough Suppressant
Doxylamine Succinate 6.25mg - Antihistimine
Phenylephrine HCI 5mg - Nasal Decongestant
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I have the samething but in the liquid form. AND I had to sign for it! I swear I almost started laughing in the Pharmacist face but thought to myself I better not or I dont get my stuff that way I could :sle

ing- for a few hours at night!

mike1107 · Jan 4, 2007

Dave_19 said:
man im battling a bad cold right now. It seems like I always get sick lately.

same here bro and it seems like medecines don't help me as much as they used to
I think virus are more resistant now though ....

Ashop · Jan 4, 2007

littlemack said:
Man. I've got a terrible cold and it sucks. I'm mainly pissed b/c I feel too sick to train. Anyone else got this head cold shit? I'm pretty sure I got it at the gym. Shook some dudes hand and then he tells me he's got a bad cold and can barely breath. I think my immune system was down. Did legs pretty hard core until I was slumped over in a corner. Started feeling it on Monday and today its running over my ass full steam like C-Dub.

Went to the pharmacy to find the strongest OTC cold medicine I could find. Spent an hour reading labels only to realize they all have the same shit in them. Ended up getting:

Alka-Seltzer Plus Night-Time Cold
Ingredients (Each Tablet)
Acetaminophen 250mg-Pain reliever/fever reducer
Dextromethorphan hydrobromide 10mg - Cough Suppressant
Doxylamine Succinate 6.25mg - Antihistimine
Phenylephrine HCI 5mg - Nasal Decongestant

Taking this along with Zicam and Vitamin C.

Let me know what you guys are taking or have taken that works. Really sucks having down time like this

Thanks!

Luckily have not been sick this season yet.

Stump · Jan 4, 2007

Same Thing

Littlemack, tool almost the exact same thing you are on, even the Zicam, seems like that was the main factor in clearing my cold up (almost 3 wks long) lost about 16 lbs when all was said and done. Now I'm on this product called Cold-FX it strengthens the Immune system and it seems to work been on it about 2 wks. Hope all works out for you.

Doggtales · Jan 4, 2007

Zicam, Water, Water, Water, kleenex, and lots of hand sanitizer. I'm on the edge of developing an obsessive compulsive disorder with the hand sanitizer. Think about all the colds that are spread throughout the gym via handgrips, bars, dumbells, etc. Hell...if my hands wouldn't sweat so much, I'd wear rubber gloves to the gym!

DoMeStIcTaBs · Jan 4, 2007

abadseal said:
Lysine (amino acid)
Inositol with IP-6 (Buy at Vitamin Shoppe)

Never get sick and in the rare event I feel it coming on they kill it in its tracks.

Nice tip bro. i will be looking into this. i also take garlic and vit C and green tea. currently started using acai juice(really high in antioxidants) with alcar and COQ10 amongst other things.

If the cold cathces you off guard and you need somethig now. Go to the drug store and get something called Air-Bourne. It is effervescent like alkalseltzer and will nip it in the BUTT!!! keep taking it till the cold subsides. Ffor me works in a day or less and works everytime.

Good luck,
RM

muscle96ss · Jan 4, 2007

Try something called Sambucol; its black elderberry extract. However, you need to start taking it within 24 hours of onset of your symptoms. Also take 2 zinc lozenges(25 mg. of zinc glutonate) every few hours. Make sure it is zinc gluconate and not another form. Colds used to knock me out for several days to a week; now I can knock em out much quicker and sometimes prevent them from coming on any further.

leapfrog · Jan 5, 2007

cold

when i need them i choose the 12 oz gloves:s

rt-smi ,but i need to dust them because i haven't needed them in years

leap

PS.there is a drug documented medically to cure a cold,but you'll never see it because it is a schedule 1 .:action-:m

leap

littlemack · Jan 5, 2007

Started taking 4 oz. of acai berry today. Will see if that helps. Took some this morning and actually feel better today, but I may just be on the downward run of this thing. I'll make a run to the drug store and see if I can find some of this other stuff.

Big Ed · Jan 5, 2007

i have found that no matter how much meds i take it all comes down to time. 2 weeks it usually takes me to get over a cold.

Kahn · Jan 5, 2007

I'm not, I work in an elementary school so I'm taking all I can get. Three so far this yr. Yipee ki ya motherfucker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

marbalizer99 · Jan 5, 2007

I usually only get sick once a year and I don't take medicines. For example, I don't take tylenol for headaches (which I rarely get) or any of the other various medicines available for all the little things that bother people. I only take Nyquil for colds if I'm really sick to knock me out for the evening.

I take a multivitamin daily and thats about all. Just switched to:
NOW ADAM's 2x day
1g NOW Vit.C
400mg NOW Vit.E
600mg NOW Niacin
NOW ECG (green tea stuff).

Also got the Flu shot for the first time ever this year because I was walking by a place that was giving them out and I had some extra time and figured I would watch their injection technique

(the nurse asked why I was watching while she did everything - but I've done that since I was a kid).

dragondog · Jan 5, 2007

use alot of coconut milk (least 1/2 can everyday)...not got sick in years.

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gassy · Jan 5, 2007

I think DoggCrap said a while back that he takes:
beta glucans
astralagus
olive leaf extract
and rarely gets sick

Philips · Jan 5, 2007

The last time I got sick, I was told to get this stuff called AIRBORNE from different individuals from my school. I never actually got it, but maybe you could check it out. Should be able to get from like walmart.