Whenever you wake after a big night out there are a few precautions you need to take. An important tip is to make sure you don’t sit up too fast, otherwise things start to spin. Sunday felt like one of those morning, but I soon came to realise that it wasn’t a shocking hang over but the start of something worse. When I woke up again this morning feeling the same I knew it had come – the dreaded flu.

I haven’t had the flu in a while, every time I start to feel a flu coming on I’d down a couple of Codral Immune Boost capsules and it would go away as quick as it came. Having recently run out of Codral I headed to the chemist to get some more. When I got there I started to panic, I couldn’t find it on the shelf. So I asked the pharmacists if they were out of stock, surely they were just out of stock because the thing works like a charm. Her reply: “Sorry Codral doesn’t make that anymore”.  Unbelievable. I thought to myself “Crap, I’m going to be sick”.

And you know when you’re at the shops and the sales person says “Oh sorry dear, we’re sold out of size x“, you just stand there, staring at them blankly, looking confused because it just doesn’t make sense. You stand there hoping that they’ll say “Just kidding – psych!” or something; anything but “They don’t make it anymore”. But no, they kid you not. And I kid you not, they no longer make Codral Immune Boost.

On a friends recommendation I’m trying one of Blackmores echinacea (plus garlic) dietary suppliments to help stop the flu. I’ll let you know how it goes.