Mucinex DM - Worth a Try for a Lingering Cough

I caught an airplane cold on the way home from my recent vacation.Although NyQuil helped me sleep through the night, I remained congested and coughing, with no real signs of improvement.A friend told me that she had good luck with MucinexDM so I decided to give it a try.

MucinexDM's Maximum Strength active ingredients are 60mg of Dextromethorphan, a cough suppressant, and 1200mg of Guaifenesin, an expectorant.The Maximum Strength tablets have twice the amount of active ingredients of the normal strength medicine. The large tablets should be taken with a lot of water.

The cough and congestion relief began about two hours after taking the first pill.You take a pill every 12 hours. Based on my experience, it seems that the pills provide temporary relief of the symptoms rather than curing the cough. While I am happy to be able to breathe and not have an annoying cough, the pills seem to make me a bit groggy.There is not an explicit warning against driving on the box, but I would recommend against it.

I have noticed awide variation in price for MucinexDM Maximum Strength.At one drug store it was about $1.25 a tablet.Wal-Mart has the best price at about 75 cents per tablet.

While I don't necessarily view this as the cure for the common cold, I am happy to have another weapon in my cough fighting arsenal.