So what OTC is good for sinus headaches? I was taking Pretends to be Effective and Advil and hoping they would make magic.

Migraine meds?

I'm a big fan of the Claritin-D 24 hr.* + Advil cocktail.

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* The one you have to show ID to get.

bon bon, that combo would work for me, but I seem to be one of the few who find PtbE effective.

So what OTC is good for sinus headaches? I was taking Pretends to be Effective and Advil and hoping they would make magic.

I just get the back-alley Sudafed 12-hour and take it with 3 or 4 ibuprofen. Works like a charm for 95% of my sinus headaches. (The other 5% turn into a migraine.)

I'm a big fan of the Claritin-D 24 hr.* + Advil cocktail.

* The one you have to show ID to get.

It's got the pseudoephedrine; hence, the ID/back alley dealie. But, man -- the pseudoephedrine is GOOD SHIT. For congestion.

I need a vintage tea gown, right? [link] For all those garden parties I attend?

It's got the pseudoephedrine; hence, the ID/back alley dealie. But, man -- the pseudoephedrine is GOOD SHIT. For congestion.

Last year, I had a series of god-awful sinus headaches. I tried everything but it didn't even take the edge off. I was working at the time and 12-14 hours a day with non-stop, blinding pain was killing me. Finally, I broke down and begged our writers assistant to find me something. I was like, "Whatever they have BEHIND THE COUNTER."

I may have even grabbed his shirt when I said that. It's still fuzzy. I was a desperate woman.

Yesterday is over and my head hurts again. Ah, well. At least I had a day. And I should be able to nap the edge off this one before teaching tonight.

Work is so freaking busy. It's weird to be in that bit where I do actually know what I'd doing (it's IT, but not in an industry I'd ever worked in before and the org chart is insane). I can actually answer questions. Off the top of my head. That no one else knows the answer to.

It's been a while.

So, about casual sex. Which is a change of topic, be assured. Medically speaking, when was the safest time to be unsafe? Assuming that pregnancy out of the question, when was the last significant low-risk disease-wise window for random shagging?

Medically speaking, when was the safest time to be unsafe? Assuming that pregnancy out of the question, when was the last significant low-risk disease-wise window for random shagging?

You mean, was there ever a time before AIDS where the clap, herpes, and syphilis weren't on the menu? I think not in the past century.

Of course, 100 years ago, a body was likely to have a lot fewer partners over a lifetime, on average, so the rate of transmission was relatively low. Is that what you're talking about? Odds of any given partner being risky? That I don't know if there are statistics to say either way. (Formalized sex surveys are a recent innovation.)

Question re: cats. Ever since Koogie died, our other cat, Shadow, has been particularly weird. I'm sure he misses Koogie as much as I do. I'm not sure I want to get another kitten just yet, though, but I hate having Shadow wandering the house making "Where are you?" noises.

What do you do for a grieving cat? If we try to pay him more attention, he gives us dirty looks and hides behind the bedroom door and growls at me when I don't see him in the dark and squish him with the door.