mucinexDM

Last night, I was coughing a lot, as I am getting over a cold. I took some MucinexDM in the hopes that it would tackle both the mucus problem and the coughing problem.

The first thing I noticed was that I couldn't sleep at all. My body was tired, but I couldn't settle down. I fell asleep for a few minutes or hours at a time, then awoke again to restlessness. At around 5 in the morning, I awoke to my quickening heart beat. I lept out of bed and ran to get some Gatorade, but then felt nauseous and collapsed on the floor. My limbs were numb and my heart wouldn't stop accelerating. I told Daniel I needed to go to the hospital, but he recognized the beginning of a panic attack and told me to breathe in and out deeply.

Once my heart rate got under control, the nausea returned. I vomited several times over the next few hours and ended up sleeping on the carpeted floor right next to the bathroom. If I began to think about making calls to get off work, my heart rate would go up and I'd have to make myself breathe in and out.

The nausea and irregular heart rate continued in waves until the medicine wore off at 1:00 this afternoon. I slept for another three hours and was finally able to eat some food.