Hi sailorphyl, I think you'll find less need for the Flonase and Mucinex when your body adjusts to NAC - and you'll probably get some relief within hours of your first dose! It'll come on gradually and you'll notice, later, that you're feeling better. That's because it slips into the body's chain of naturally occurring events with something it would make more of on its own, if it could.

I don't know what dosage of Mucinex you're taking; that drug helps get rid of built-up mucousy crud that's already there.

Read the label. The standard formulation for Mucinex also contains dextromathorphin, which is a cough supressant - and can cause headache b'cuz you're asking the body to cough productively with the guiafeninsin, and telling it not to cough with the vasoconstrictor, dextromathorphin.

Dextromathorphin by itself can raise blood pressure. Read the fine print.

Onward: Mucinex is usually available in the combined form , at 1,200 mg time released doses. They also make a non-combined straight guiafenensin pill in both 1,200 and 600 mg. Look for the single-ingredient 600 if less will get you by. And when it won't take two.

I go to Vitacost instead of Amazon for better price, delivery, selection and excellent consumer reviews - and recently buk-purchased a big bottle of 600 mg. time-released generic guiafenensin, 600 pills, for the cost of three 24-paks of the name-brand pill. I do the same with NAC, stocking up, shopping their specials.

If your nose starts producing less mucous, but enough to keep from having that dried-up crusty nasal lining, the NAC is working just right. You'll need fewer sprays and antihistamines, and be able to wean yourself down to only occasional squirts of Flonase as your nasal passages heal.

I've moved away from Flonase entirely after adjusting to NAC, and toward the gentler but effective xylol and aloe vera based Xlear. It's cheaper, more difficult to find, and easier to tolerate all-round.

The Flonase could be contributing to your BP if used excessively, especially in combination with the other things - but please note, I ain't a doc and this ain't medical advice - just a recounting of my own experiences.

And all that, given the medico-politico establishment's handling of LC, is one of the best sources of treatment that we've got.

Thank God Mayo is big enough, strong enough, independent enough, and has expertise enough to withstand the pressures from WHO and other controlling enteties, and give us this forum upon which to share what we know and can pass on for the beneft of others.

Blessings,
- Chuck