TIE UP SINUS PAIN with Tylenol Allergy Sinus caplets: “I am Thankful for” w/o
Written: Sep 26 '02
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Pros: It works
Cons: Expensive
The Bottom Line: Its good, I like this medication.
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| Granniemose's Full Review: Tylenol Allergy Sinus |
This write off is hosted by REMNJAVA (Carol). I was about to look up her Email address to ask if I could join when I received an Email invite from her. Thank you, Carol. This will be a product review for an excellent product (Tylenol Allergy Sinus Caplets,) but I must tell you that towards the end I will veer off topic. I promise to warn you so that you may quit reading.
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About a year ago I was having a sinus flare up, when I happened to run across a review by jlhin about Tylenol Allergy/Sinus Gel caps. I was suffering the whole bit: runny nose, choking phlegm and pressure headaches. I had tried other medications which hadn’t helped a great deal – so I thought “what have I got to loose? Jlhin (Jamie) said it worked for her.”
It cost me about $7 for the big jar (about 60 caps) at our local drug store. I took it as directed (2 caps every four hours.) for one 24 hour period. It helped a lot, but the symptoms didn’t go away completely. I lessened the dosage. I took one cap every four hours. By the end of the second day the pain, burning eyes and runny nose had disappeared.
Just for good measure, on the third day I took one capsule in the morning when I got up, one at noon after lunch, and one before I retired. It worked. It was a good eight months before I was bothered again.
About five months ago I started to have trouble with my eyes. My vision started blurring, and I found myself looking at smoke filled rooms. I actually checked each room to make sure nothing was on fire. The smoke was a vision problem. Then I started to get black zigzag lines across my eyesight, and when I watched TV I would often get a double vision. Try watching one of those thrillers that feature car chases when you are seeing double.
Anyway I saw an eye doctor and the diagnosis was a severe sinus infection, accompanied by severe eye-strain (did I mention that my eyes were burning and my head was throbbing?) I was ordered to not watch TV or use the computer for a while. The medicine the doctor prescribed cured the infection, but it was expensive, and raised my blood pressure. When the infection was over, the doctor suggested an over-the-counter medicine (Tylenol Sinus Allergy caps) which he said he used personally for his sinus problems. I was lucky I had a pretty fair amount of pills left over.
As before, the sinus problem was controlled, and a new pair of glasses cured the rest. My vision is still not 20-20. At my age, how could I expect it to be? I think I over-reacted. My grandmother went blind when she was in her nineties, my Dad went blind in one eye about a year before he died, and my brother went blind about two years before he died. So in my heart I thought it was happening to me. I am thankful that I was wrong.
Now, when the old sinus devil strikes, I take the Tylenol Sinus caps as directed, and I have had no more problems. So I am thankful to Jamie for writing the review that convinced me to try it, and I am thankful to Tylenol for manufacturing the sinus pills.
The pills come in three forms – caplets, gel caps and gel tabs. The cost for a large bottle runs close to $7.00, although you might find a sale in one of the discount stores. The only drawback I found, is that they do make me desire sleep. I truly think that you desire sleep because after a couple of pain filled nights without much sleep, you are tired. When the pills work and the pain subsides, your body says, ‘that’s it – now leave me alone and let me get some rest”.
Ingredients? I took this from the manufacturer’s page because it is easier to read then from the side of the bottle. I found Acetaminophen; chlorpeniramine maleate; and a nasal decongestant, pseudoepedrine; plus other less important material.
The instructions warn you to get a doctor’s OK if you are pregnant, or suffer from high blood pressure. They advise you to see a physician if you take it without desired results after three days. They advise you not to take it more then ten days in a row. It is not realistic to tell you not to give it to little children, and keep your little kids away from the bottle. You all have enough sense to know that.
I think it is a worthy product. Since so many of us suffer from sinus problems, I would suggest you keep a bottle on your medicine shelf to be prepared before it zaps you. Thank you.
STOP READING NOW - I AM GOING OFF TOPIC
While I am thankful that Tylenol developed a product that worked for me, it is not the only thing I am thankful for. Carol’s write off request is to finish the sentence I Am Thankful for - ? Another alert for punctuation purists - I will probably use a lot of semi-colons.
There are so many things I am thankful for that I don’t have enough semi-colons on my computer to list them all. So I shall start, and they will not necessarily in the order of their importance to me.
I am thankful for the ability to breathe when I wake up in the morning. I am finding that so many of my old friends are now living in nursing homes or cemeteries that I feel blessed to still be able to get around and possibly still be of some little use to the world.
I am thankful for a large family that started with just myself and my husband. I am thankful for each one of our children who have grown up and have raised, or are raising children that have so much potential for making the world a better place. I am thankful for each and every one of my grandchildren, and my great grandchildren who are already showing signs of talents and intelligence that astound me.
I am thankful for Jude who gives me her love and respect, and encourages me to do pretty much as I please, providing I use my cane on difficult terrain.
I am proud of the mates my children have chosen, most of whom have shown me respect and love unusual in a clime when it is normal to hate your mother-in-law. I have much to be thankful for.
Of course, I am grateful for the beauty of the land I live in, and I am thankful to be in America where I am allowed the freedom of choice, and the right to defend my opinions without fear of spiteful retaliation.
I am thankful for the brilliant young minds I have discovered in the Epinion family; and who have welcomed me despite my years. I am thankful for the amazing talent of some of our writers. Yes, I am even thankful for computers who permit me to Email my family, and to receive pictures of my great grandchildren, and who I can sometimes “talk” to on the buddy program of my computer. (I am not too sure, however, that my computer is thankful for me.)
I am thankful for the fact that when the twin towers were destroyed that they fell inward instead of sideways, for many more lives and business structures would have been lost had that been the case. In buildings that could safely hold 50,000 people, only 3,000 died on that dreadful day. Of course I am not grateful for the fact that ANYONE died, but I am thankful that it wasn’t worse. I am thankful for the fact that my daughter, who lost her job in New York when the company she was working in went down and everyone except the owner and his brother were fired, found another job by exploring every avenue, and finally getting one as good or better then the one she lost.
I could go on and on, but I won’t. Lastly, I am thankful for the Epinion site, for it is here that I have found young people, both reverent and irreverent, that convince me that my country will be in good hands when I leave this world. I have found products that I would not have found were it not for reviews on Epinions. I am thankful to have persuaded many of my friends and family to look to Epinions for advice before purchasing .
I am thankful to have found friends here on Epinions that bring tears to my eyes; close, warm friendships even though they are cyber friends, that probably wouldn’t exist elsewhere.
I have found friends from different countries, and different sections of this country that will long be in my memory, even though my body may be ashes.
I know that you will be thankful that I will not list names here, for that would make this already too long review even longer. These people know who they are. I am thankful to have found creative humor in unexpected places, and trips that seem to invite me along. I have learned so much about places and items that I was not even aware of before. I am thankful to have learned so much more then I ever guessed about Australia and Paris.
I am thankful to Carol who invited me to participate in this write off.
We have all got much to be thankful for. And you, dear reader friends, can be thankful that I am about to sign off and quit boring you to death.
Virginia
Other participants are Azielinski, Artbyjude, d_Fienberg, kld718, Marytara, Mellissasrn and Pryatha. Please check remnjava’s profile page for links.
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