[Pyro MX]

*Warning, content may offend certain readers.*

Let's talk about a poorly designed piece of plumbing.

Noses.

That's right. Noses. I'd be sleeping right now but it seems that that cluttered piping mess decided to make my night more difficult than compiling OpenOffice.

It's not that it doesn't breathe well. It's just than when it decides to get full of lukewarm fluid, there's no way out of it.

Have-you ever tried to follow a differential equations class while your nose keeps making you feel your heartbeat up to your head? And the eyes. Talk about an intelligent emergency system. Make the eyes cry. Why the frak would the eyes even NEED to cry? Get the fluid out of my nose, not my bloody eyeballs damn it! Would it be intelligent to get the mouth full of urine because you suddenly have to pee and block the needed evacuation tube? Of course not! Not only you annoy everybody in the class with constant sneezing, but you look like a complete idiot with your eyes full of water. "Man, he really hates maths" must they say.

And just to piss you off just a bit further, when you get up, everything clears up. Sit down again, and BAM! Circulation completely cut off. Speaking of circulation, what amount of fluid can the nose possibly contain? Damn I could cool down my computer just with the fluid that would come out of my nose. But then, I'd have to be standing up all day.

And that's not the worse part. When you go to sleep, you're in for a treat. No matter which position you are : on the back, lying on the side, face down the frakking pillow, banging your head on the wall... the nose will feel the need to block everything going in an out of it and make the pressure go to unprecedented levels. I DON'T NEED TO BE CONSTANTLY REMINDED THAT MY NOSE IS BLOCKED! I KNOW IT ALREADY! So of course, frustration rises. You get up, throw the damn kleenex box on the wall (or the toilet paper roll, because you depleted the kleenex box in minutes) just to notice that your nose suddenly cleared. THEN YOU LIE AGAIN ON THE DAMN BED JUST TO FIND IT CLUTTERED AGAIN! SERIOUSLY!

STUPID NOSE!  

Off to sleep now. If my noses permits it.

[Nuclear1]

Take two Tylenol and call me in the morning.

[watsisname]

Your nose is bothering you and you can't sleep, so you're posting on HLP?  Jesus, go take some Niquil and a couple shots and you'll be out in no time. =P

[redsniper]

lots and lots of pills

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Your nose is bothering you and you can't sleep, so you're posting on HLP?  Jesus, go take some Niquil and a couple shots and you'll be out in no time. =P

It's never that easy.  I get bad sinus infections all the time and it's terrible trying to sleep with them.  Even worse when you have a cold or flu on top of it.  Taking medicine can make it even worse at least it does for me.  Drop some NyQuil in me and I'll be freaking out pacing the floor all night.  Same goes with anything with psudoephedrine in it.  Try being awake for 2 or 3 days not being able to breath and wanting to sleep so bad but you can't even lie down.  It's not fun. 

[Narvi]

Dude, the blockage will be different when you're standing and when you're lying down. Try sitting up on your bed.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

That doesn't work either.  Just results in coughing constantly and you can only eat so many cough drops before you stomach just can't take them anymore. 

[Liberator]

Sudafed PE

One of those little white jewels and you'll be so dry, the sahara will look like a tropical resort.

[Narvi]

That doesn't work either.  Just results in coughing constantly and you can only eat so many cough drops before you stomach just can't take them anymore. 

The point isn't to clear it up, just to let him breathe without falling over.

[NGTM-1R]

Hot shower.

Failing that, drink hot water.

[Narvi]

Or you could steam it to death.

Buy one of those medical steam things, add to hot water, and inhale.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Hot showers work for about as long as you have hot water.  Vaporizers don't work very well and will actually make things worse with repeated use.  Probably good for short periods like colds but if you have any kind of chronic condition it will probably only make it worse. 

As for Sudafed PE the PE = pseudo-ephedrine = pacing the floor all night.  It's meant to clear you up but keep you awake too.  Hence the meth link. 

[NGTM-1R]

Hot showers work for about as long as you have hot water.  Vaporizers don't work very well and will actually make things worse with repeated use.

Dehumidifier then.

[Mika]

 

Ah the joys of common flue

I tend to eat several pieces of raw garlic before going to sleep. Keeps the other airway clear at least. Onion works also. At least in my case. If the smell bothers others, notify them next time about the smell of old alcohol when they have been partying.

15 min steam bath twice a day tends to push some stuff out.

[Herra Tohtori]

Actually, if eating garlic is not effective, stuff some garlic in your nose.

If that doesn't help, try some Naga jolokia (or regular habanero if you're a pussy). Not in your nose though, unless you have a death wish. Oral application will be more than enough. I can guarantee you will not be thinking of your blocked nose in at least half an hour. You will be too busy trying to escape your head, but the bugger keeps following where ever you go...


...extreme measures aside, steam tends to be fairly efficient at loosening the stuff up in airways.

[Pyro MX]

'Morning folks. Got about 4 hours of sleep! Hope you found the thread funny.

Your nose is bothering you and you can't sleep, so you're posting on HLP?  Jesus, go take some Niquil and a couple shots and you'll be out in no time. =P

That substance wasn't available at the moment of the problem. I'm only equipped with some kind of Tylenol. And as FUBAR said, I didn't want to make matters worse. As for posting on HLP, well, I thought it'd be funny.  I recall people posting drunk. Might as well post sick . At least when I got to bed I kept wondering what kind of replies that thread got , which is better than wondering when will my head blow up in pieces under the pressure  

Aaaaanyway, thanks for all the tips. I think that combining all of them could be... dynamite. I think I'm gonna stick to steam for the moment.

*head falls on the keyboard*

[TrashMan]

You're clearly dying...A Horrible, slow death. You should kill yourself now and spare yourself the pain.

[iamzack]

I used to get horrific sinus infections. But I have a really high pain tolerance, so I'd just lay down and not move for a few days, drifting in and out of sleep...

[Liberator]

Ok, so use regular Sudafed or Aleve Cold & Sinus or something.  The point is that there is medication out there that will relieve it.  And BTW, and this just might be my bizarro physiology, but I have no problem sleeping when I take one.  Course most "energy drinks" slow me down if not knock me right out also.

[High Max]

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