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Post Nasal Misery

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By Keith Kloor
Jan 1, 2011 3:06 AMNov 20, 2019 2:38 AM

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Part of me can't believe James Fallows fell for this woo, but another part of me can relate. I've been coughing up a lung for several weeks now (mornings are worst), and that's not counting the other assorted flu horrors, which I've alternately tried treating and ignoring. Here's the various over-the-counter and prescribed meds I've ingested, with little success.

At one point, I was so desperate for relief that I would have eaten Chinese herbal pills like Hershey's kisses if somebody had offered them to me.

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