Don't be hacked off! (Sudafed Non-Drowsy Expectorant)

Member Name: platypuskn

Product:	Sudafed Non-Drowsy Expectorant
Date:	30/11/06 (420 review reads)
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Advantages: A miracle worker in a bottle!

Disadvantages: Thick, sticky and icky

I was brought up a house where the only medicines in the cupboard were calpol (for when I was younger) and the odd paracetamol. Therefore, I had never tried anything like a cough medicine, and to be honest thought they were for weak-minded people.

Boy, was I wrong! In my first year of university I was nearly always ill with some sort of bug or another. Nothing uncommon there - Freshers Flu, late nights and alcohol all added to a never-ending cold (not that it stopped us partying!).

At one point about Christmas I got a really bad cold complete with awful cough. I coughed endlessly, and ended up with terribly sore ribs. Yet still I resisted such black magic as cough medicine! Everyone around me was downing the stuff, but I thought I could hack it (literally) without.

Then, one day, I heard that its possible to actually break your ribs by coughing. I was so sore by this time that I relented and got some Sudafed. I have NEVER been so surprised, and relieved, at the results. For the space of a few hours I could breathe without coughing, which helped my bruised muscles to heal.

The stuff tastes disgusting, and looks horrible too. It's also pretty thick, and you can feel it slowly oozing down your throat - yuck! But, it works!!!! You can breathe again, and don't get stared at like you're carrying the plague!

I also pretty much lived off stuff like this when I had glandular fever.

So, if you're like me and think medicine is for wimps, think again. Theres no need to break your ribs over some stupid principle. Just be thankful stuff like this exists. And works!

Summary: Don't try to be a super hero - take some!