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I'm currently enjoying something flu-like with a fever that's been recurring for three days (does it let off during daytime or am I just taking enough Ibuprofen? Not sure.), utterly stuffed nose and sinuses to the point where nasal spray doesn't even get through the snot anymore, alternatingly feeling too hot and too cold, the mother of all headaches, and resulting from all of this sleep that's far from restful.
Any tips? Meds that help, food that helps, methods that help? Activities to engage in while in this state?
It'll probably be over on its own soon either way, but maybe I'll look up your answers the next time.
Is Rhino PRONT not clearing your nose?
You may need to be insistent, my experience in Germany has been the Apothekerin will try push something pflanzlich.
I think it depends on the place and individual. In Austria, two out of three pharmacists will look at you like you eat puppies if you ask if they have any chemical options (and like a potential druggie or vexatious patient if you name a specific active ingredient), but once I was passing through Munich and the lady at the pharmacy in the Marienplatz subway station enthusiastically and unpromptedly gave me two of Big Pharma's finest (this was also in a blocked nose situation).
That could be, it was a rather consistent experience in Germany even when I'd ask my German Ärztin wife to go to the pharmacy.
In Austria I thought it was odd there wasn't a topical lidocaine preparation for sunburns only spray sore throats.
In Finland there was no topical diphenhydramine, given the mosquitos, it seemed odd.
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