Take 2 advil during the day and try sleep with vicodin. Ya won't even notice
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Pump ur body with vitamins and lean protein it gives ur body all the components it needs to fight as effectively as possible. U will be on the mend in less than a day. Or maybe I'm just weird. Counter intuitively if its covid nicotine in a form that won't irritate ur throat actually inhibits its ability to attach ur body as effectively.
I do the same. Whenever I'm ill, I eat a lot of canned fish (no cooking required, and it's not nice cooking in a horrible headache).
I tend to get well very soon even if the illness has felt very bad. And sometimes when I don't do the same, for whatever reason, I remain ill much longer.
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All of them aren't. Just the ones that did not attend to their general healththroughout their lives by abuses, or were born immunocompromised.
Ikr I'm also suffering from this rn, but in my case throw on chills until I pop paracetamol and then I'm on a grill, bone aches like I got Raynaud's in my legs... Yup it's flu time!
The Nyquil that helps you sleep is a Godsend when I feel like this.
Piercing headaches sounds more like Covid.
Some people get them from common colds. Just be happy you do not.
https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/facts-about-the-common-cold explains why we don't have a vaccine but honestly you symptoms sound like you got the flu of some kind.
People still get a cold? I haven't seen one since zicam became a thing. Lots of flu variations fucking people up though.
Their website advertises it as a homeopathic product, are you sure this isn't a scam? It looks like its just some vitamins C and Zinc.
That's basically all it is. Rhinoviruses don't hang with zinc. The vitamin C is probably just to keep you from gagging on the taste.
It's the quickest way to tell if it's a cold or some other flu. If Zycam works, it's some variant of a rhinovirus, and it'll be dead in a couple days. If it doesn't work, you've made some other viral friend. The other cold like strains don't seem to give a shit about zinc, so if it's not immediately obvious it's working within about 30 minutes, move on to other remedies. If it is working, don't over do it, you can fuck up your sinuses with too much zinc.