I have been sick with a cold for about a week. I have a lot of congestion and bad sinus headaches. I called my doctors office on thursday and the nurse told me i could take sudafed and she name a couple of other cold medicines. I work full time and was frustrating of the running nose and headaches. I just started feeling guilty for taking sudafed and tylenol. Most of my friends are like your not suppose to take anything.......so i feel kind of bad. Should i jsut though out the cold and headaches?
I have been very sick also - completely stuffed up, fever, headaches, etc. My doctor told me only to take tylenol and to just stick it out I'm miserable, but that is what I'm doing.
My doctor told me not to take anything in the first trimester unless I absolutely needed to. Every doctor is different though and i'm sure lots of people take stuff. I haven't needed to take anything so I'm not sure if I would or not.
please, just take tylenol and sudafed. i have been taking tylenol daily, and my OB actually laughed when i asked if it was dangerous for the baby. she said absolutely not! please don't suffer anymore and take the meds!
I caught some kind of crud a few days ago. Thinking it was just a cold. I had a 101 temp by afternoon. I broke down(and hated the thought of taking them) and took 2 tylenol and I was so happy I did. My temp went away. My back quit hurting from being on bed rest. I got a list from the Dr. and it had about 10-12 ok OTC drugs on it. Now, I am coughing up stuff from chest congestion but feeling much better. I hope you get to feeling better too!!
I currently have a double ear infection and sinus infection (complete with facial swelling, nice). I was given the ok for sudafed and tylenol. I hate taking meds too, but I was seriously in tears last week because I was in so much pain. I couldn't sleep or eat. It was awful.
I took one dose of sudafed, but what worked the best was saline nasal spray. It was like a miracle! The sudafed didn't help much. Just nasal spray and cough drops. The cough drops helped because I would cough and it would make me vomit and the coughing caused some pain in my lower stomach.
Re: If you have a cold and bad headacheds.........
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