Robitussin vs. Muccinex

November, 2005

This was a particularly hard month. The month my baby would have been born had we not miscarried. It was harder than I had imagined. I remeber thinking to myself, it won't be so bad. I'll probably be pregnant again by the time our expected due date rolled around. And here I was, November and still not pregnant.

I had begun to consider all the possibilities of why I was not getting pregnant. I had already been tested for hormone defficiencies, thyroid problems, and diabetes and everything seemed normal. I had started the OPK's thinking perhaps I was missing ovulation. Still nothing. And now, I was wondering about my cervical muccus. I had noticed, through my charting, that my CM seemed to dry up right before ovulation when I needed it most. So what did I do? Googled it. It was then that I learned about the use of robitussin for thining out the CM to make it more "sperm friendly". Worth a try, I thought. So I bought myself some robitussin.

In my opinion, there is no medicine more disgusting than robitussin. I absouletly HATED the bitter taste of that nasty red slime. And I had to take this three times a day?!?! Ewe. Believe me when I say that I tried. I really tried to keep up with the robitussin, but it just was not working. That stuff was disguisting. Most days I forgot a dose or two. I promise it was not intentional, even though I did abhore the taste of that junk. I would have been willing to drink a whole gallon of the stuff if it could garuantee a healthy baby.

The next time I was at wal-mart I decided to check for another brand of medicine with the same ingredient, that perhaps would not taste so bad. A pill form maybe?

You cannot even imagine the joy on my face when I discovered Muccinex, a high dose pill form of the same ingredient in Robitussin! Hallelujah! 600 mg in just one pill! Although it was a bit pricey, I bought it without a second though, and frolicked home.

The Muccinex did the trick. That very next cycle my CM was pleantiful and eggwhite (the best consistancy for baby making). For the first time in months, my hopes were up.