My cold had my head stopped up somethin’ crazy and the reformulated Sudafed wasn’t doing a thing. So I scrounged around the bathroom and found a couple of 12-Hour Sudafeds that hadn’t expired yet. They were the real thing (the kind of thing you now have to ask for from behind the pharmacy counter and show ID so they can make sure you’re not cooking up meth).
Not only did the Sudafed clear my head but I had no interest in food. Which got me to Googling “sudafed appetite suppressent.”
Turns out muscle-heads often use Sudafed (or the active ingredient pseudoephedrine) to lose weight. Hey, some of these guys have no problem washing down a Sudaded and an aspirin with a caffienated drink, all in the name of fitness. It’s called “stacking.” I once had a personal trainer advocate that nonsense. And he was a paramedic.
I’m not going to link to these sites because I’m not advocating this — cold medicine, no big whoop, right? Wrong. Pseudoephedrine can cause insomnia, headaches, dizziness and elevated blood pressure. You also can’t use it if you have elevated eye pressure (glaucoma).
Just pointing out that if you find yourself losing weight with a cold, it’s probably your cold medicine. Hey, I’ll take the 2-pound weight-loss.
