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0Jim0 aka Jim Gray is a 28.67 year old boy, has been a member since September 19, 2003, has scored 13061 submissions, giving an average score of 1.35.

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Jun 27 '08 by 0Jim0

39 Comments

Watch this

last home remedy I ever try..

So I have a sinus infection and I thought, instead of going to the walk in clinic and getting some antibiotics like I normally would, why don't I see what I can find on the internet.... I'm a dumb ass

Here is the remedy I found
2 cups V8 Juice (for vitamin c)
2-3 cloves Garlic crushed (use more if you can)
2 T Lemon Juice
Hot Sauce (the more the better, so as much as you can handle)

Since I didn't have all this at home I used
Water (I'm already taking extra vitamin c)
garlic powder (which turned out to be garlic salt)
Lemon Juice (got that one right)
Frank's red hot (not that hot to me)

Now I feel like puking everywhere; because it tasted like shit...
and every time I burp I taste it again...

nice...

d3d on Jun 27 '08 at 7:22pm

clever

boysbeambitious on Jun 27 '08 at 7:23pm

yikes

0Jim0 on Jun 27 '08 at 7:24pm

not clever at all....

Sarcasticatbest on Jun 27 '08 at 7:25pm

Wow, that sounds gross.

I can see their method.. tho not sure that would work either.

radiostaticstar on Jun 27 '08 at 7:29pm

blech.

i have bad sinuses, and i use this,

to flush them out cause the antibiotics and sprays with steroids don't treat me well...

t4sh4 on Jun 27 '08 at 7:30pm

Hey guess what... I have one too!

I have been rinsing my sinuses with salt water every hour for 2 days. It's been helping significantly.

0Jim0 on Jun 27 '08 at 7:30pm

yea, I don't think it's helping at all... I think it just makes people feel like morons and then those people suggest it to other people to they don't feel like morns alone.

I'm trying to break the cycle.

ISABOA on Jun 27 '08 at 7:30pm

damn jim

I feel your pain - i took my last antibiotic pill yesterday for a sinus infection

sucks

t4sh4 on Jun 27 '08 at 7:31pm

geeze how many of us threadless'ers have sinus issues!? D:

ISABOA on Jun 27 '08 at 7:31pm

oh - listen to tasha

the sinus flush works - I have been doing it regularly too -

and boy i hate it

avalanche_lily on Jun 27 '08 at 7:31pm

I second Radio.

I live by SALINE.

flourpower on Jun 27 '08 at 7:31pm

Ugh, when I had an awful cold, my dad made me use one of those. It didn't do very much, though I'm not sure I used it right. I've heard that they work amazingly well, but I was too grossed out to use it again.

ISABOA on Jun 27 '08 at 7:31pm

it is an EPIDEMIC!!!

0Jim0 on Jun 27 '08 at 7:32pm

every hour sound like to much work for me.
do you have one of those neti pot things (I think thats what they're called)

0Jim0 on Jun 27 '08 at 7:32pm

I'm a little surprised myself

0Jim0 on Jun 27 '08 at 7:33pm

the worst part is I have to fly next Tuesday... It could be a real disaster...

t4sh4 on Jun 27 '08 at 7:34pm

I just use a syringe (w/o a needle attached) and spray it up there. I'm almost 100% better...yesterday I had to stay home from work I was so miserable. I've also been drinking tons of packs of Emergen-C stuff.

ISABOA on Jun 27 '08 at 7:34pm

i got the flush kit from the store

it is just a bottle with lots of saline packets to mix with water

doc said to do it a couple times a day

t4sh4 on Jun 27 '08 at 7:35pm

eeeeeep as for flying that MEGA sucks! That would hurt my ears so much :(

t4sh4 on Jun 27 '08 at 7:35pm

^isa I'm too cheap to pay for those packs... esp since salt does the same thing ;)

radiostaticstar on Jun 27 '08 at 7:36pm

yeah, saline is the only thing that's working for me right now.

especially since all those meth heads fucked up pseudoephedrine.
sure it's not great for the heart and everything, but boy it sure cleared my sinuses...

0Jim0 on Jun 27 '08 at 7:38pm

lol radio.
I might have to try some of that hippy nose flushing junk.
or are you guys just messn' with me because I already fell into one trap??
:D

iPear on Jun 27 '08 at 7:40pm

improvising doesn't always result int he best alternative.

ISABOA on Jun 27 '08 at 7:40pm

i am an anti-hippy

and after this mess I am willing to dump a bucket of saltwater up my nose at the first sign of trouble

0Jim0 on Jun 27 '08 at 7:42pm

I'll have to try it then.

t4sh4 on Jun 27 '08 at 7:54pm

Im not hippy either- to set the record straight. I'm just sick of being on antibiotics...there are some that dont work for me anymore :( scary stuff.

0Jim0 on Jun 27 '08 at 8:17pm

yea thats not good. I was just messn' about the hippy thing

Twiggyhall on Jun 27 '08 at 8:20pm

lmao @ all your substitutions for the original recipe!

But also sorry you don't feel well :(

0Jim0 on Jun 27 '08 at 8:22pm

I think the garlic salt was the worst part....
Thanks though

Twiggyhall on Jun 27 '08 at 8:25pm

Serial! Sounds nasty!

blossompossum on Jun 27 '08 at 8:29pm

The original remedy doesn't sound like it'd be terrible, but still, I feel sorry for you.

Another thing you shouldn't do: take vitamins as soon as you get up and while your kidneys feel like they're dying (meaning that you drank a lot of water on an empty stomach). I did that and it made me feel incredibly nauseated... I hung around in the bathroom for half an hour in case anything happened, until I figured it'd be good to get something to eat instead.

againstbound on Jun 27 '08 at 8:31pm

That's what I had for breakfast! But with milk instead of water.

0Jim0 on Jun 27 '08 at 8:34pm

I've done that too Blossomopossum, not good..
I can picture the milk curdling in your stomach from the acids in the lemon juice againstbound.

hanzabean on Jun 27 '08 at 8:35pm

I am sorry that I laughed. I hope you get bettah!

0Jim0 on Jun 27 '08 at 8:38pm

I posted it here knowing people would laugh, I am!
that's what I get for being a moron.

hanzabean on Jun 27 '08 at 8:45pm

I think the burping part is what got me, because I laughed again.

I don't see how the original thing would really do anything except if you totally believed it would, and that had the placebo effect somehow.

I'm a moron sometimes, too. One time I sort of fell into a partially frozen ornamental pond (like four feet deep) because I stepped on it to see how frozen it was.

0Jim0 on Jun 27 '08 at 8:47pm

thats funny.
My assumption was that the hot sauce would open up your sinus and I don't know what the lemon and garlic; but garlic seems to show up in almost all home remedies..