Holy crap! I can't use Benedryl for minor seasonal allergies because of sports, so I tried using the Zicam for allergies swabs. Back to the wackness that is the Benedryl. Oh, well. Sounded too good to be true.
@restless: Dude, try yourself some Claritin or Zyrtec. Or get a prescription for a mild nasal steroid (like fluticasone propionate). Works for me and steroids can't rob you of your sense of smell.
@scroll_lock: And by swabbed you mean you poked the thing in until, finally, the blood came and the voice telling you to cut up Richard Simmons bad went quiet?
I used that stuff once. It, combined with snot, formed a thick crust on the inside of my nose. It also irritated the outside of my nostrils, turning them bright red. Basically, I looked like a junkie two days into withdrawal who had a penchant for stuffing Q Tips up his nose.
I used the Gel Spray about a year ago, thinking it was like any other nasal spray. I sniffed it in deeply and felt a burning sensation. This was followed by a complete loss of smell and taste. Afterwards, I read the directions that said to just squirt it in the nose and rub it around, not to sniff it in deeply, but it was too late for that.
To make things worse, it didn't even help. It's just a zinc delivery system, not a decongestant. After several weeks my sense of smell and taste returned, but are diminished, and I doubt I'll ever get it back to the level I had before.
@BEERxTaco: So a company with a useful product should suffer because some people (like you) are too goddam stupid to read directions before you cram something unfamiliar into a hole?
Idiot. You gonna sue somebody next week because that new pencil you bought isn't labeled "Do NOT Jab in Eyes"? I hate you so much.
@firedmyass: After reading this comment, I hate you with a pure undiluted passion that makes the seas boil and puppies weep in fear. I hate you more than a yeast infection on prom night. More than the smell of an old diaper sitting in the sun. I hate you more than Glenn Beck hates the tiny little bit of his soul that just won't die no matter how hard he tries to kill it. I could power the entire Eastern seaboard off of the dirty coal of my hatred.
@BEERxTaco: Zicam should have a bigger, more detailed warning. But it works great. It has instructions on it. If you snort Zicam, you are an idiot. Once I was real sick and kinda sleepy and I snorted some on accident- it burns if you do that. I think you'd have to snort a lot (fucking moron) to lose your sense of smell. IT'S THE BEST (FIRST) COLD MEDICINE EVER INVENTED THAT ACTUALLY SHORTENS THE COMMON COLD and now it'll probably go under. You stupid non reading fuck.
I once lost my sense of smell from an infection and it was horrible. I tried to cure it with wasabi, which made for a difficult time down below the next day. $12 million? They got off cheap.
@BookishLookish: A friend of mine had sort of a mini-stroke (in which she fell and hit her head) -- at first she was fine, but a couple weeks afterward she lost smell AND taste. Two and a half years later, they're still not back. I can't imagine how miserable that would be.
On the other hand I could probably be a supermodel if I couldn't taste the deliciousness of Taco Bell, potato chips and beer.
@BookishLookish: Thankfully I got it back after two weeks...I read some stuff about anosmia, the part about having to rely upon friends and family members to help with your hygiene was particularly unnerving.
@dado: Besides the pleasure that we get from smelling, there are tons of safety things, too. When you push out a rugrat (aka are reduced to being a mammal), this becomes really clear. I cannot imagine not being able to smell my kid. And not being able to smell if a carton of milk went bad? I also believe you can smell crazy and thus avoid it. Ya smell me?
@dado: @BookishLookish: it does suck to lose your sense of smell! i lost mine my first semester of grad school, went to a neurologist, ear, nose and throat specialist, oncologist and psychiatrist and no one could tell me why i lost it. what made it worse was not that i couldn't smell, cause i could it just wasn't the same. i couldn't tell the difference between peanut butter and coffee, gasoline and cigarette smoke, etc... since everything smelled differently, nothing tasted the same, my friends had to sit with me and help me associate new scents with familiar items... then this year, it slowly started coming back... i have no clue what caused it and what's changed!
Also, I was talking about cold remedies with friends recently and it turned out that zinc lozenges make all of us barf. So now I definitely won't be putting it up my nose either.
Wasn't Denny's running a free breakfast thing on Tuesday? I'm pretty sure this is from everyone expelling whatever crap they consumed at that godawful place
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(OK, now you're supposed to say, "How does he smell?")
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"How does he smell"?
"Terrible"!
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As an aside, let me confirm that Zicam does not kill the smell of flatulence.
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To make things worse, it didn't even help. It's just a zinc delivery system, not a decongestant. After several weeks my sense of smell and taste returned, but are diminished, and I doubt I'll ever get it back to the level I had before.
I hope they go bankrupt.
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Idiot. You gonna sue somebody next week because that new pencil you bought isn't labeled "Do NOT Jab in Eyes"? I hate you so much.
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Amateur.
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On the other hand I could probably be a supermodel if I couldn't taste the deliciousness of Taco Bell, potato chips and beer.
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At least you've still got your tits!
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Also, I was talking about cold remedies with friends recently and it turned out that zinc lozenges make all of us barf. So now I definitely won't be putting it up my nose either.
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