{"id":1340,"date":"2010-04-02T00:32:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T07:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2010-04-02T00:32:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T07:32:25","slug":"drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am generally pretty averse to taking drugs<\/em> – prescription or over the counter. I know there are those who have conditions requiring drugs for health, mental stability or quality of life, but I’m not one of them. <\/p>\n

And I’m known to suffer (though not necessarily in silence)<\/em> through headaches, backaches, toothaches, sinus congestion, etc. until they are completely unbearable before taking anything, other than essential oils\/teas\/herbal remedies.<\/p>\n

But I have to say I have a testimony of Mucinex<\/em>. I am so grateful that it is now an over the counter medication, not requiring a prescription. And Sudafed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Every time I go to Salt Lake I get a sinus thing<\/em>. This trip it headed straight to my chest (I don’t think I fully ever recovered from my December thing). I spent the entire time there coughing up phlegm (yuck) and sounding like a frog when I talked. <\/p>\n

Now that I’m back in the northwest, my head is starting to clear up. Actually got a full night’s sleep last night. Maybe one more day of Mucinex and I’ll be good.<\/p>\n

Do you have any drugs you’re partial to…. over the counter or otherwise? Any you avoid like the plague?<\/p>\n

Sorry for that unpleasantness. I promise my next post will contain Kauai pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am generally pretty averse to taking drugs – prescription or over the counter. I know there are those who have conditions requiring drugs for health, mental stability or quality of life, but I’m not one of them. And I’m known to suffer (though not necessarily in silence) through headaches, backaches, toothaches, sinus congestion, etc. … Continue reading Drugs<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}