Re: confused and frustrated - any advice?

[Guest guest]

I don't know what Val will have to say about this, but I'm not even sure that we

should be stress dosing for a simple cold, or if it's a major cold, then maybe

just take an extra 5 mgs. a day or something....I know this is about HC, but I

just wanted to suggest taking Mono at the first sign of a cold and the

homeopathic stuff (oscillinium-spelling?) you can get at any major drugstore now

like CVS (will stop the flu or at least make it much milder (but we must

definitely stress dose for the flu. Mono is only at health food stores

like the Vitamin Shoppe. I always keep some in the cabinet.

confused and frustrated - any advice?

3 weeks ago I started to ramp up my HC from 10mg total a day to 20mg

total at the same time I started having cold symptoms. I stress dosed

10,10,5 and 5 for 2 days. On the 2nd day of 30mg, I had a fever but

woke up the next day feeling better. I messed up my dosing that day and

only took 25mg. Since I was still feeling better I continued to taper

back down to 20mg total. The next eight days I felt like I was fighting

a cold, but I didn't feel really bad. It was Thanksgiving week and I

was fairly busy. Day 9 I started feeling bad in the afternoon and

spiked another fever. I added 2.5mg to daily dosing for the next 2

days. Added another 2.5 for the 2 days after. For the last 3 days I

have been miserable. I have taken 30mg today and yesterday. I seem to

be getting worse instead of better. I am so confused. Does this mean

that 20mg daily is not enough for me and so I am not stress dosing

enough? I would love some suggestions, I can't seem to see the forest

for the trees here.

Thanks,

English

[Guest guest]

,

It wasn't so much the cold as the fever that I was stress dosing for. I

have been taking all kinds of homeopathic remedies along with a sinus

rinse morning and night that worked very well until last night. Now I

am congested despite the rinse, have stuff in my chest and it's (gross

me out) green.

Thanks

English

[Guest guest]

It really sounds liek 20MG i not enough and thus your stress doses are

juist giving what you needed without being sick and are not enough with

the illness.

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[Guest guest]

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> It really sounds liek 20MG i not enough and thus your stress doses

are

> juist giving what you needed without being sick and are not enough

with

> the illness.

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So how much do you think I should up the stress dose? 35?

Thanks Val,

English

[Guest guest]

Sounds like this was more of a regular cold. Maybe a really bad infection of

some kind. I don't usually get a fever when I have a cold.

Re: confused and frustrated - any advice?

,

It wasn't so much the cold as the fever that I was stress dosing for. I

have been taking all kinds of homeopathic remedies along with a sinus

rinse morning and night that worked very well until last night. Now I

am congested despite the rinse, have stuff in my chest and it's (gross

me out) green.

Thanks

English

[Guest guest]

>>So how much do you think I should up the stress dose? 35?<<

For aany illnerss that either iw bad enough to miss work ro keeps oyu in bad for

the day I take 20MG righ off the bat, the minute I feel symptoms then the next

day oif still feling bad I take 5mg exytra with each dose.,

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[Guest guest]

Yeah, thats what I am thinking too. I am having alternating chills

and hot flushes too, ARGH!

English

>

> Sounds like this was more of a regular cold. Maybe a really bad

infection of some kind. I don't usually get a fever when I have a

cold.

>

>

> Re: confused and frustrated - any advice?

>

>

> ,

> It wasn't so much the cold as the fever that I was stress dosing

for. I

> have been taking all kinds of homeopathic remedies along with a

sinus

> rinse morning and night that worked very well until last night.

Now I

> am congested despite the rinse, have stuff in my chest and it's

(gross

> me out) green.

> Thanks

> English

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Should I go ahead and take 20 now even though I have already taken 25

so far today and it is evening when I would usually take my lowest dose?

If we think 20 is not enough for regular dose, should I go to 25 or 30

and add 5mg additional to that dosage?

Thanks,

English

>

> >>So how much do you think I should up the stress dose? 35?<<

>

> For aany illnerss that either iw bad enough to miss work ro keeps oyu

in bad for the day I take 20MG righ off the bat, the minute I feel

symptoms then the next day oif still feling bad I take 5mg exytra with

each dose.,

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[Guest guest]

,

Sorry I can not answer your ? but I have a ? for you.

When you take HC are you taking the 20 mg at one time?

a

English wrote:

Should I go ahead and take 20 now even though I have already taken 25

so far today and it is evening when I would usually take my lowest dose?

If we think 20 is not enough for regular dose, should I go to 25 or 30

and add 5mg additional to that dosage?

Thanks,

English

>

> >>So how much do you think I should up the stress dose? 35?<<

>

> For aany illnerss that either iw bad enough to miss work ro keeps oyu

in bad for the day I take 20MG righ off the bat, the minute I feel

symptoms then the next day oif still feling bad I take 5mg exytra with

each dose.,

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[Guest guest]

No, I take it 10, 5, 5, 2.5

English

>

> ,

> Sorry I can not answer your ? but I have a ? for you.

> When you take HC are you taking the 20 mg at one time?

> a

>

[Guest guest]

>>Should I go ahead and take 20 now even though I have already taken 25

so far today and it is evening when I would usually take my lowest dose<<

I take it whenever I get FIRST symptoms that feel liek a baddie coming on, but

if you are more comfortable taking it in the AM as this is already started,m

that is fine too.

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[Guest guest]

Thanks Val,

I think I will take 20 this morning. I was too afraid to take it last

night. I added 5 to my 2.5 bedtime dose and ended up having to take

an ambien at 1am.

How do you think I should dose after the 20 in the am? 15, 5 and 5?

And how long do you think I should hold the increased dose?

Thanks so much,

English

> I take it whenever I get FIRST symptoms that feel liek a baddie

coming on, but if you are more comfortable taking it in the AM as

this is already started,m that is fine too.

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[Guest guest]

Sometimes for me, the 20MG dose is all the extra I need, but oyu have

been sick for a few days so should probabyl add 5MG to your second dose

an 2.5 to the third adn then usual bedtime dose as the extra last night

did not help.

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[Guest guest]

Thanks Val,

How long should I keep up the extra dosing?

English

>

> Sometimes for me, the 20MG dose is all the extra I need, but oyu have

> been sick for a few days so should probabyl add 5MG to your second

dose

> an 2.5 to the third adn then usual bedtime dose as the extra last

night

> did not help.

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[Guest guest]

How long should I keep up the extra dosing?

Until you are well.

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[Guest guest]

OK, thanks!

English

>

> How long should I keep up the extra dosing?

>

> Until you are well.

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[Guest guest]

Val, I was just doing the math for this and if I dose this way it means

I will be taking a total of 47.5 - 20, 15, 7.5, 5 - is that too much

or do you think it is ok. As a reminder, we decided that 20mg must not

be enough on a regular basis so that 30 stress dose wasn't enough of a

stress dose.

Thanks,

English

>

> Sometimes for me, the 20MG dose is all the extra I need, but oyu have

> been sick for a few days so should probabyl add 5MG to your second

dose an 2.5 to the third adn then usual bedtime dose as the extra last

night did not help.

[Guest guest]

For illness dosing this is fine, but if you are on it more than 3 days

you will then have to taper down form it.

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[Guest guest]

So you take 20mg immediately and then all of you regular doses for the

rest of the day also? So, if you started feeling bad at noon on a

given day and you usually take 7.5mg of HC at noon and you had already

had your 10mg at 8AM, you would take 27.5mg at noon and the rest of

your daily doses as normal and then double everything the day after?

>

> >>So how much do you think I should up the stress dose? 35?<<

>

> For aany illnerss that either iw bad enough to miss work ro keeps

oyu in bad for the day I take 20MG righ off the bat, the minute I feel

symptoms then the next day oif still feling bad I take 5mg exytra with

each dose.,

[Guest guest]

>>So, if you started feeling bad at noon on a

given day and you usually take 7.5mg of HC at noon and you had already

had your 10mg at 8AM, you would take 27.5mg at noon and the rest of

your daily doses as normal and then double everything the day after?<<

The 20MG boost dose replaces whatever dose you usually take next so just 20MG at

noon then you may or may not need mroe the rest of the day. I sometimes do and

then other times I am fine.

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[Guest guest]

Thanks Val,

My Doctor just called in a Z-pack for me so hopefully I won't have to

be on that dose for too long.

English

>

> For illness dosing this is fine, but if you are on it more than 3

days

> you will then have to taper down form it.

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