ok, I'm going to the doctor tomorrow for this *&%($ cough

grrrr...

do they still give the good cough syrup with codeine? The last time I had a cough like this, a few years ago, they gave me vicodin cough syrup. It just didn't have the same effect. The codeine stuff WORKED. The vicodin? Meh...

Is codeine on the shitlist these days, or can you still get it?

At least at my doctor's office. Feel better. :hug: <<<but not too close...

that's good news. I'll ask for it if they try to pawn off that fake shit.

with a huge copay.

I wish I was closer. I've got a bottle in the cabinet.

yeah, the vicodin stuff just never did anything. But I've had the codeine syrup twice in the past, and both times... BOOM! stopped the cough and let me sleep.

Hold on to yours - it's good to have around.

Mr. MG had a dry cough for a couple of weeks. I finally convinced him to go to his walk-in care, suspecting bronchitis. Turned out he has pneumonia. :scared:

And they did give him cough syrup with codeine. Damn, I haven't seen that stuff since college, when the infirmary doled it out like candy just to get us to go away and sleep our illnesses off.
:rofl:

His didn't come with any refills, though. :(

because I've been running a low-grade fever. Never more than 102, usually around 100/101. She said that can be a sign of pneumonia :shrug: She's not a doc - just a mom.

yeah, the codeine syrup is good for that - and that's what I need. I haven't slept well in ages.

I was given:

a breathing treatment with albuterol mist in the office
a steroid shot in the office
a scrip for a round of heavy duty antibiotics
a scrip for 7 day Prednisone dose pac to take starting 10 days after the shot
a scrip for prescription strength expectorant (now available OTC as Mucinex)
and an albuterol inhaler to use 2 x per day to open my chest for as long as my chest felt tight.

I was a sick puppy. The doctor said I had bad bronchitis, but the radiologist who read the xrays said it was pneumonia. I was out of work a full week.

This was a doc in the box visit, of course I became ill on the weekend

They did not give me the codeine syrup. I did not care; I was so sick I could not comprehend anything more complex than Food Network

the dr that you had that and it didn't work

i'm some opiate junkie or something. It's probably been 7 years since I've had codeine cough syrup, and I think I've only had it twice in my life.

and your doc probably knows your history pretty well anyway.