sex and drugs, except without the sex part
There are exactly three over-the-counter medications that ever do me any discernable good. Pepto Bismol chews settle my stomach without themselves being so horrid as to make me throw up anyway. Excedrin Migraine makes the pain rather more bearable, if I take it the first moment I feel one is oncoming. And Dayquil/Nyquil really does ease the drippy nose, can't breathe, coughing, achy misery.

Everything else just makes me sick to my stomach, if it does anything at all.

Unfortunately, during my current bout of lurgi (much less miserable than the last), my reaction to Dayquil/Nyquil has moved from "Oh sweet baby Moses on stilts, that tastes vile," to, "Well, I hope I absorbed some of the drugs from that in the minute and a half before I brought it back up along with my lunch." And this particular sickness hasn't otherwise been particularly stomach-related, while I know I've taken Dayquil in cases where it was, and not thrown it right back up.

This is the price I pay for my uniformly blissful reaction to vicodin, etc., isn't it?