Q. Last weekend, I was at a party in an apartment packed with people, and two days later symptoms of the flu came on hard and fast. Now on the fourth day, my fever, which hovered around 100.6 the whole time, has come down to 99.6. My body aches, and the coughing has made my rib cage sore.

In this edition of The People’s Pharmacy, Joe and Teresa Graedon also hear from a reader unhappy with the side effects of their antidepressants.