MucinexD

For the past two weeks and two days I have been fighting some sort of an upper-respiratory ailment. This has been compounded by the point in fact that on the Friday before Christmas I got caught in a chilling downpour while walking two miles from home. That lovely event was repeated on the Tuesday after Christmas. My symptoms have been nasal congestion coupled with chest congestion that has caused me to wheeze as if I were on an iron lung. A few days ago I was told by a couple people to get some Mucinex. I was leery in that I am a great fan of advertising and I absolutely hate their commercials. Later that day, I went to the drug store and discovered the stuff went for $23.99. I could not imagine that it could be worth that price so, cheap bastard that I am I opted for the DayQuil instead. Nothing like making yourself fell better rather than well.

A couple days later (New Year’s Day) I noticed that the Mucinex was on sale at the local Rite Aid. It is just a couple blocks away so, I bundled up much warmer than the weather and made my journey. The display in front of the pharmacy order window offered Mucinex D which has as its active ingredients: Gualfenesin, an expectorant and Pseudophedrine, a nasal decongestant. The pharmacy assistant told me that they kept the Mucinex D behind the counter. She got an 18 count box and asked for identification. I thought it odd that it was kept behind the pharmacy counter and odder still that she was asking for id. I was floored when she typed all of my driver’s license info into her computer. I asked why and was told that it was store policy. My ailment and the fact that she was so cute prevented me from arguing. I’ve always found it impossible to argue with the very cute. Anyway, I just told her that the stuff better work at this price and with such a process. She smiled and I lost my train of thought.

I was to learn later that Pseudophedrine is a main ingredient in Meth. production and is now being controlled tightly by the government. This reminds of gun control in some respects… The jerks making meth are probably not going to be willing to go to the local drugstore and offer up driver’s license id. just as I suspect that people who want guns to kill other people most of the time avoid the legal gun-getting process. –just sayin’.

Well, I hobbled back up that great hill and got back into my bed clothes; read every inch of the packaging and took two of the huge tablets which were to work for 12 hours. “We’ll see” I thought… I fell asleep for a couple hours. I woke up to what felt like someone had shoved an industrial Shop Vac down my throat. I coughed violently for about 45 minutes. A couple times there I thought I was going to lose consciousness. I actually saw stars and deep purple for a second or two. About 15 minutes after that I felt right as rain. My chest was clear and my nasal congestion was 80% gone. Around mid might I took another two tablets. About ten the next morning I again had the same horrifying coughing/expectorating. This was equally productive as the first time. Again around four in the afternoon and equally wrenching and far less productive coughing event transpired. I took another two tablets at bed time and this morning I have to admit that I feel 90% better than before MucinexD. I guess the moral to the story is that, sometimes the process is worth it.