I woke up today and noticed that my throat felt very slightly funny. I thought nothing of it until I noticed that funny feeling was getting worse. It's dry, scratchy and tickly! I feel like coughing every two seconds, like when I breathe, but I've been trying to fight off the urge as to not aggrivate it further. It's not sore at all today, which is good.
It's the same exact feeling I get every time I start getting a cold, and a cold is the LAST thing I need. :no:

I haven't been getting enough sleep for 5 or 6 months now--maybe 6 hours at the most each night, and some nights are as little as 4. I'm sure this is one of the causes.
Also, I went vegan over a month ago and perhaps I'm not getting enough nutrition...:sick:

Anyway, I'm asking for your help and advice!! Is it possible for me to combat it now before it gets worse? What foods/liquids should I be consuming? I don't have ANY money for supplements or those cold fighting pills, so that's not even an option sadly.

Please help me...I get so suicidal when I'm sick...I hate it. *pouts*

Go out and get INTRANASAL Zicam as soon as possible and use it according to package directions. (Zicam also makes throat sprays and things but the intranasal is the stuff proven to work. it comes in a pump or in swabs.)

Aside from that, drink a lot, sleep more! thats not enough sleep!

Thanks! Do you know how much it is, because I have barely any money to my name!

I know it's not enough sleep. My boyfriend started working his first full time job 5 or 6 months ago and we both haven't adjusted our sleep accordingly. We're night owls.

Its actually fairly expensive ($12 I think), but if you buy the pump instead of the swabs it lasts through a few potential colds. It DOES work though, so if you can scrape the money together for it and are really serious about using it (every 2 hrs except when you're sleeping) then I strongly recommend it.

ETA: http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=44322&catid=382&trx=PLST-0-SRCH&trxp1=382&trxp2=44322&trxp3=1&trxp4=0&btrx=BUY-PLST-0-SRCH
Thats it.

Hi, so sorry to hear you are getting sick! You know what I drink - POM juice, can probably get it at your store. This juice has tons of antioxidants in it. Unfortunately, it's not like a $3-4 2 quart jug of OJ, it's more like $5 for a pint or $8 for 2 pints. maybe if you drank 1/2 of the $8 kind one day and the other 1/2 the next it might catch the cold for you before the cold catches you?

Otherwise, for future reference... I actually drink one of these $8 bottles every week. Like you, I'm on a very restricted budget, but I'm looking at it as my "insurance" for not getting sick this winter... so far, it is working *knock on wood*

Get well soon!

POM tests on animals, FYI.

Drink lots of water, GET REST, have lots of fruits and veggies (soup :lick: )

Hi, so sorry to hear you are getting sick! You know what I drink - POM juice, can probably get it at your store. This juice has tons of antioxidants in it. Unfortunately, it's not like a $3-4 2 quart jug of OJ, it's more like $5 for a pint or $8 for 2 pints. maybe if you drank 1/2 of the $8 kind one day and the other 1/2 the next it might catch the cold for you before the cold catches you?

Otherwise, for future reference... I actually drink one of these $8 bottles every week. Like you, I'm on a very restricted budget, but I'm looking at it as my "insurance" for not getting sick this winter... so far, it is working *knock on wood*

Get well soon!

Oh, thanks sweetie!! Yes, that was one bad cold! There were a couple days where I was in too much pain to simply stand up or get out of bed. I hate that. I'm better now though, just coughing up a lung due to the congestion, but it's clearing out slowly but surely I guess. :)

Maliaka, I noticed after I posted that you posted about a week or more prior, so I wondered if you had already gotten sick! :( i'm glad you are on the upside now!