Comments | ssj_bini: Finally come to that point...

ssj_bini

Finally come to that point...

Jul 27, 2005 20:02

I've been severly cutting down on milk lately, and completely stopped the chocolate, hoping it'll lessen my coughing. So far it seems I'm indeed coughing less, though more severe, but that could be a back-effect by the sudden lack of allergy-trigger, or whatever ( Read more... )

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derekmacleod July 28 2005, 01:17:02 UTC

Are you allergic to milk or something? That sucks, I love milk, I couldn't imagine not drinking milk everyday! And chocolate! Even better! Well hopefully your coughing subsides, maybe you'll find it's from something else altogether, but if not, I still hope it goes away...don't allergies just suck?

ssj_bini July 28 2005, 10:15:43 UTC

Yeah they do!

I'm not necessairily allergic to milk, I used to be as a baby, but then it subsided... and eversince I've been drinking hardly anything but milk :p
So yeah it's tough, so far I'm doing pretty good without it, but yeah it sucks mayor ass...
The thing is, milk stimulates the production of slime or whatever... and slime is basically what makes me cough pretty much... I think...
So I've finally come to that point in my life where I think I should quit the milk... I already knew about the chocolate and I never ate a lot of it, but perhaps anything was too much...

Anyway, I hope this back-reaction-thing passes soon... I've heard stories of ppl coughing so badly that at a certain point they felt something snap in their stomach or whatever... or broke a rib... ok, so those ppl had other conditions as well, or just had surgery or something, still doesn't make me feel any more comfortable...
Not that I'm totally scared now, just makes you think you know...

ssj_bini July 28 2005, 10:18:38 UTC

Only good thing about it is that I automatically get a sixpack :p
Yeah I got me some good muscles by coughing.

derekmacleod July 28 2005, 12:35:55 UTC

Ooh? Sounds sexy! But I'm sure the coughing will pass. Is it possible that something other than the milk is causing it, or are you pretty certain that it's milk? But maybe you can find alternatives, like orange juice is always good. Plenty of other things too...pick your poison! ;)

ssj_bini July 28 2005, 16:05:56 UTC

Hehehe orange juice is indeed good, but my poison is ice tea :)

I'm pretty sure it's milk and chocolate... those are things I've already had allergies for in the past, and whenever I eat or drink 'em now the coughing seems to get worse... my aunt says it's just between my ears, well whatever... at least it's worth a try!

derekmacleod July 28 2005, 21:43:37 UTC

Yeah I been meaning to start drinking tea as well...probably good for ya, more so than all the soda I drink, but I have cut back quite a bit the last few weeks, I'm rather proud of myself on that! But I'll never give up milk, even if they said it causes cancer, I'd still drink it until I was dead! ;)

Chocolate is good in moderation, I usually drink chocolate milk, but if I have something chocolate, I need milk to go with it...if that applies to you, then yeah, laying off the chocolate is a good idea!

ssj_bini July 29 2005, 18:29:07 UTC

Nope, I don't need milk to go with the chocolate, but like I said, I've been allergic to it before... that passed aswell, but if I eat a lot of chocolate my coughing's a lot worse... if I eat a little it's hardly noticable, but yeah... it's probably better to lay off the chocolate completely...

But hey! Today I found out why my coughing's gotten worse instead of better these past few weeks... I'm gonna get my lungs x-rayed on monday just to be sure, but most likely I got a double pneumonia! FUN! :sarcasm:
So now I'm on antibiotics... YUM!

*sighs and shakes head* Typical... the one time I decide to adjust my drinking/eating habbits to lessen my coughing, and I get THIS, which definitely won't help my coughing...

ssj_bini July 29 2005, 18:33:45 UTC

And the thing is... my mom said "so it's not the milk and chocolate that made it worse... so if you're done with the antibiotics you can go back to drinking milk... to a certain extend of course..."

"Mom, before this, I've been coughing too remember?"

"Yes, well, I'm just trying to make it more comfortable for you..."

*sighs and shaked head* Mothers... :p

derekmacleod July 29 2005, 21:45:54 UTC

Well it does suck that you might have pneumonia, but at least it's something that will pass, and a reason why your coughing has gotten worse. So yeah, maybe you can have a little milk afterwards? Who knows, but either way, as long as the coughing goes away that'll kick ass at least...

ssj_bini July 29 2005, 22:15:45 UTC

Yeah we finally know the real reason why it's gotten worse... I'm glad about that...

The thing that actually made us wonder was that it was about 30 Celcius here and I was cold... I'm not sure if you know about Celcius but 30 degrees is pretty warm...
That kinda triggered my mom "Maybe it's not just the "rehab" from the milk that's making it worse..."
That's the thing when you cough all the time... you don't notice when your coughing suddenly has a different cause...

But it was well hearable in my lungs, the doctor even had the doctor-in-training to come listen, cos I was an "odd case"... right... :p

And yeah, I think I could have a little milk every now and then... I mean... just like a little chocolate every once in a while... see it as a treat or something, I dunno :p