A Question for You Doctors and Hypochondriacs out There
Posted by SpikeI have had a bad cold lately. In addition to numerous other remedies that don't work, I have been taking some pills out of the Zee Medical chest in the breakroom at work. It's called Histenol-Forte II. It hasn't helped much, so today I decided to get serious; I went to the store on the ground-floor of my building and bought some DayQuil for the low-low price of seven dollars! For only six doses no less. But I am sick, so whatever. And I am happy to report that today I feel much better. So I decided to compare the ingredients of the MercedesBenz of medicine, DayQuil, with the free public transportation of medicine, the HIstenol Forte II.
DayQuil:
Acetaminophen: 325 mg (Pain Reliever aka Tylenol)
Dextromethorphan: 10mg (Cough Suppressant, but i don't have a cough)
Phenylephrine HCI: 5 mg (Nasal decongestant)
Histelnol Forte II:
Acetaminophen: 325 mg (Pain Reliever aka Tylenol)
Guaifensin: 100mg (Expectorant--but i don't need it, because, like Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, "I am especially good at expectorating")
Phenylphrine: 5 mg (Nasal decongestant)
In other words, i just paid over a dollar a pill for medicine that is, as far as i can tell, functionally identical to the free medicine i could get from work.
Now here's the question for the doctors. Is there any difference between the two? Is there any reason I should feel, better about my decision to drop $7 on medicine that, it appears to me, is pretty much identical to what I could have gotten for free?
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