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Reviewer: 35-44 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I began taking because of the heaviness in my chest and the inability to cough up phlegm. After approx an hour, I began to cough effectively to start breaking up the congestion. I did not feel the heaviness in my chest again. I took only 2 pills in a 24 hour period and begin to cough up the phlegm to begin eliminating it from my system. I did not take any other medications with this medicine.
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Reviewer: 45-54 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I took the tablet with a full glass of water and then drank about a glass of water an hour for the next six hour. Rather than loosening up the gook in my chest, it dried me out to the point I could hear my lungs wheeze and whistle. I thought I was having an asthma episode. I tried it again two days later and had the same ill effects.
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Reviewer: miarayne, 25-34 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I am taking the medication for a cough that produces flem because of a cold as the directions indicate. The medication has not helped my cough at all and it feels as though it has drained the fluid from my body to the point that my throat is so dry I can not swallow. The only positive thing is that it is clearing my head congestion that I did not know was there, I can tell this by the runny nose I
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