I have a cold. Glenn brought it home from work, gave it to Matt and me. I'm not suffering too much, but the symptoms are enough to make night time breathing a bit difficult and I've been coughing a bit.
So I buy the Nyquil and Dayquil in capsule form. Dosage instructions are 2 capsules every 6 hours, I take only 1...although I may take 2 in a day, as was the case earlier today, and this evening I took one Nyquil capsule around 7pm and another one at 10pm. I wrote for a while after the 10pm dose, posted to my blog and decided to come to bed. It is now 1:30 am and I've been twitchy and feeling agitated, obviously -- since I'm not able to sleep -- wide awake.
I'm not sure what ingredient is doing this. The damn medicine is supposed to make it easy to sleep and I'm wired up like it was speed. Makes me think that my lack of appetite could be coming from the same ingredient...that's a plus since I've been slowly gaining weight and could shed about 20 lbs. In fact the whole thing could be a productivity enhancing medicine for me once I go back to work since it's got me so alert I feel ready to write all night.
It is also possible that the cats got into it...Yogurt is chasing Pumpkin around (and vice versa) like they were kittens, it's a staredown right now in the foyer...a bit of low growling...ah, there goes the pounce! Pumpkin gets away and tears off past my feet into a tight turn around the couch, now they're back down the hall and "thump, thump, thump", up the stairs in three bounds...Pumpkin is 14 years old and Yogurt who was adopted as a nearly adult stray is probably 12, this means they're getting pretty old in cat years. Now they're back downstairs...Pumpkin has thwapped Yogurt upside the head and strutted head high, tail straight towards the ceiling, into the kitchen for a celebratory drink of water. Yogurt gives a "I don't know what you mean" look around himself and has flopped down near my feet.
I'm drinking a glass of "Tension Tamer" tea in hopes that the general twitchy-ness will go away soon and I can try to get to sleep. Wonder how long till it kicks in.
Posted by Dawno at December 30, 2003 02:53 AMya wanna know what? that same thing happened to me. i was starting a new job a couple years ago, and i was feeling a bit shitty, so i took nyquil the night before i was supposed to start working there. i was up for five days. besides that fact, i was jittery and my eyes were wide open as if i were surprised at the fact that my jaw wouldn't stop jigsawing from side to side. i stayed up all night, uncomfortable, and i haven't been the same since. no, i'm okay now, but i don't take nyquil anymore. just thought i'd share
Posted by: jen at September 21, 2004 04:58 PM