Baby steps to mortgage freedom for beanielou.

Busy_Mee1

Sorry you are still coughing Beanie. It is just so wearing.

I had a cough for 9 weeks last year which was viral, so no antibiotics. When I did eventually go to the Drs they recommended a cough medicine. The type for a dry tickly cough that acts as a cough suppressant. It really seemed to help x

Suffolk_lass

Busy_Mee1 wrote: »

Sorry you are still coughing Beanie. It is just so wearing.

I had a cough for 9 weeks last year which was viral, so no antibiotics. When I did eventually go to the Drs they recommended a cough medicine. The type for a dry tickly cough that acts as a cough suppressant. It really seemed to help x

Me too, it can still cause irritation to your airway if you don't treat it - we are great fans of the Boots BP Pholcodeine cough mixture. It has a tiny bit of codeine in it (which is an opiate) and so it helps with sleep while suppressing the coughing. It is available over the counter from the pharmacist and is quite cheap as a BP (generic medicine)

Karmacat

Oh beanie, how horrible for you. Viruses seem to take forever to shift, don't they and that coughing sounds awful. Hope you managed to get some sleep last night.

beanielou

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

Me too, it can still cause irritation to your airway if you don't treat it - we are great fans of the Boots BP Pholcodeine cough mixture. It has a tiny bit of codeine in it (which is an opiate) and so it helps with sleep while suppressing the coughing. It is available over the counter from the phafrom a boots.
rmacist and is quite cheap as a BP (generic medicine)

Unfortunatly I am 20 miles from a Boots.
If I went to local chemist would I just ask for a BP Pholocodine cough cough mixture?
I know nothing about these things.

beanielou

I have been asked to take a very temporary lodger for a couple of weeks.
Though I really really dont want to the money would pay to get the fence painted & some of the weeding done.
Thoughts?

Karmacat

Ooh, thats a tricky one - can you manage to make things separate, so that you don't have much time with the lodger?

Suffolk_lass

beanielou wrote: »

Unfortunatly I am 20 miles from a Boots.
If I went to local chemist would I just ask for a BP Pholocodine cough cough mixture?
I know nothing about these things.

You should be able to. Have a chat with the pharmacist - I know nothing about any other medical conditions or medication you are taking and you need to just check there is not an incompatibility or other problem. I would personally always ask them to check it does not contain aspartame too (the artificial sweetener) but that is part of the "me" things.

beanielou

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

You should be able to. Have a chat with the pharmacist - I know nothing about any other medical conditions or medication you are taking and you need to just check there is not an incompatibility or other problem. I would personally always ask them to check it does not contain aspartame too (the artificial sweetener) but that is part of the "me" things.

Thanks

HairyHandofDartmoor

I'm sorry you've still got your cought Beanie, it's horrible when it keeps you awake at night .

With regard to the lodger the money would be useful, but do you know them or would it be a stranger? Would it make you uncomfortable to have them in your house? Would it create a lot of extra work for you to do?

How is Miss J by the way?

beanielou

HairyHandofDartmoor wrote: »

I'm sorry you've still got your cought Beanie, it's horrible when it keeps you awake at night .

With regard to the lodger the money would be useful, but do you know them or would it be a stranger? Would it make you uncomfortable to have them in your house? Would it create a lot of extra work for you to do?

How is Miss J by the way?

I dont know the person.
They would only be here a couple of weeks.
I have had lodgers over the years so that part of it does not bother me.

If only there was no coucil tax every month!!