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Numb lips - how to get rid of it

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D0oinMeCleanin · 16/05/2015 22:12

I have a bad cold. A very bad cold. I also have asthma and whenever I get a cold it knocks me off my feet.

I walked to my gran's earlier, which was probably ill advised but it's done now.

I could barely breathe by the time I got there and my lips and hands were numb and tingling.

My gran gave me a bowl of steaming Vicks and a towel, which cleared up my chest enough to get my inhalers into me, I can breathe now, but I am still slightly short of breath, which is normal for me and a cold.

My lips are still numb and it's annoying. Dr Google says if my lips are still numb after an hour I need to call an ambulance. This is an over reaction I feel.

I can breathe okayish now. I don't feel dizzy. My hands are not tingling any more but my lips are still numb. How do I make it stop?

Please don't tell me to go to A and E. We don't have one. We have a minor injuries place. Our A and E is miles away and I don't drive and cannot afford a taxi, so I'd need to wait hours for one of those ambulance car thingies, which is silly.

Last time we needed A and E it took 6 hours for an ambulance to come and get us from the minor injuries place and that was for severe breathing difficulties and chest pain so I could be here waiting until morning, by which time the walk in place will have doctors on site.

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LilRedWG · 16/05/2015 22:16

All out of hours GP for advice.

Hope you are feeling better soon.

LilRedWG · 16/05/2015 22:17

Call, not all.

D0oinMeCleanin · 16/05/2015 22:23

The GP just directs me to 111, who surely as it is asthma will direct me to A and E?

I don't feel like I need immediate medical attention, it's just really fecking annoying.

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LilRedWG · 18/05/2015 18:07

So what did you do in the end OP? Hope you are feeling better now.

D0oinMeCleanin · 18/05/2015 18:17

It was gone by the morning.

I'm still a bit fluey but much, much better and can breathe normally today.

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