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[rimturse]

Just got back from the doc. I am a wimp and feeling very hypochondriacal.

The back-pain is not common, but explainable, it doesn't feel like it, but apparently it's a deep muscle pain caused by the coughing. The doctor called it the barrel-effect - not sure I appreciated my torso being compared to a barrel. Anyway I'll be fine. Just have to wait out the cough. I was told to take my temperature regularly (so I bought a thermometer), inhale steam and drink plenty of camomile tea - the latter is of course only going to happen over my dead body. Yuck. I'd rather cough.

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[darkspires.livejournal.com]

He does have a medical license? I mean not one from the dark ages? If you need steam then it is a deep productive cough and of course your back will be sore from trying to expell.

Well, if he can't come up with any medications to give you then you might want to try Friar's Balsum. It is stuff that is mixed with boiling water and inhaled. This is the old treatment for asthmatics.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

*lol*
Yup, their webpage did say he was a certified general practitioner. I'll try to find the Danish name for Friar's Balsum (if it exsists here) and pick it up when I go to town.

[angrboda]

Could have told you that with the back pain. I tend to get them between the ribs.

Liquorice root. There's a reason there's liquorice extract in cough medicine and it's not because of the taste. At least it's not ONLY because of the taste. Buy some liquorice root and steep it in hot water like you would tea. For a cup you'll need piece about the length of a finger nail, perhaps a bit more. Bash it with a hammer so that it breaks open and pour boiling water on it. It doesn't need to be steeped for very long, you can drink it almost immediately. You can steep the same piece for root numerous times. I've never been able to drink enough to tell how many cups it will last for. :) It's very very sweet though, it's like drinking sweets. Info in danish on liquorice root as a natural medicine
It doesn't give nearly as much effect as a proper hardcore cough medicine with alcohol and opium in it, but it's a good alternative to the chamomile, since I'm getting this funny feeling that you don't particularly care for that.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

...but it's a good alternative to the chamomile, since I'm getting this funny feeling that you don't particularly care for that.

*lol*

I think C is bringing me some hardcore tablets from Switzerland to kill the cough. I've taken them before and they are pretty awesome, except that they also work as sleeping pills on me. The liquorice root "tea" sounds good. It is really that sweet? I chewed them as a child, but I don't remember them being particularly sweet. Of course that was maybe 25 years ago and kids can probably take much more sweetness than adults. :)

Yeah, I normally get rib pain as well or muscle pain in my stomach muscles. These have been suspiciously absent this time round. Maybe I'm coughing differently. I have to say I prefer the back pain to the other pains, it's not as bad.

[angrboda]

Save them for bedtime then. My doctor gave me norske brystdråber when I had my throat infection in january last year. That's the stuff with alcohol, opium and liquorice extract (and it's absolutely VILE stuff!). He gave me a prescription after I came into his office and told him I had been coughing non-stop all night until I threw up, so I got it to give me some rest at night. I slept better already the next night.

It's much sweeter used this way than it is when chewed, I think. Actually, I think in health shops you might be able to buy shredded roots as well, which would spare you the hammer bashing, but I don't know how to dose that to a cup and... well, I find the hammer bashing kind of fun. :p