User Reviews for oscillococcinum

I swear by this product!! I was very skeptical when this was first recommended to me, but it works! Key point: you MUST take it as soon as you start having flu symptoms.

I have used Oscilloccocnum for many years. I keep it with me during the flu season. If you will take it at the onset of flu, when you seem to be feeling off and can tell it is coming on, it will nip it in the bud. If you wait till you totally have the flu, it only helps some. This has saved me many times. Key is to Be Prepared!!!

Woke up with a sore throat and fatigued. I went back to bed and felt worse in the afternoon. My shoulders and neck were hurting and I had a headache. Took ibuprophen that night. Was awake much of the night due to the pain. Took one dose in the morning and two more at six hour intervals. Felt a little better that night and woke up the next day with no pain. I still had a light headache and felt tired. I felt better during the day. I will try this again and hope for the same results.

in 24 hours I was normally working again. this is very rare in several occasions I had influenza before and took me a whole week to feel better. amazing

Oscillococcinum works on all my family members, including 2 teenagers.

I'm not sure I ever had the Flu since I was very young maybe so it is difficult to validate these results. Nobody believes it because my recovering was so quick after taking this. I felt my glands reacting late Wednesday nite (I got it from the subway home), Thursday it really started coming in and hit me hard, by that nite I felt like death. Friday I could barely move but I did and since I had no cold symptoms I wanted something that read flu and not cold and flu. This was pricey so I assumed it had reason. Started it Friday nite (6pm) and took it every 6 hours, last (6th) dose Saturday nite. I thought my swollen painful hard to swallow glands would last forever but I woke Sunday feeling 80% better and was 100% by the afternoon. Even Saturday I had much less fatigue. It was not a cold which would last 2 weeks at least. High fever, mucles ached so bad, was very weak.... It was the flu. I'm not sure if it worked but if i get the Flu again I am definitely taking this again. I would recommend trying this. Read More Read Less

After a couple days of aggravating cough I started having chills and loss of appetite. I bought the children's oscillococcinum. I took it the same way I always take homeopathic remedies. I put just one pellet in a jar, added one half cup of water, and let it dissolve 5 minutes. I put one half cup of water in a second jar, stirred the first jar gently and transfered one teaspoon of jar one to jar two. Stirred jar 2 gently and took one teaspoon of jar 2. In 15-30 minutes I no longer had to lay my head down, the chill was gone and I could stop wearing my coat in the house, and I was hungry. I still cough now and then but much less than before. I was duly impressed. I will take this again the next time I get feeling like that - but sooner. In homeopathy less is better; it's called the minimum dose law. I can't believe that Boiron is telling people to chug that whole tube. You get the same dose - 200C - whether you take 100 pellets or 1 teaspoon diluted as I did. The results are better if you do it my way. Also using 200C it's not advised to boost the effect with multiple doses. One pellet is enough then lay off and let it work. Read More Read Less

I started getting bronchitis a few days ago and was really feeling down. A client recommended I take this and I started taking 3 days ago every 6 hours. I am surprised at how good I feel. I should be wiped out and sleeping. I have copd and usually am VERY sick with upper resporitory viruses. If you have asthma or copd you know like I do.....we'll give anything a try! This worked and I will use again for sure.

I have discovered this last year and love it. I have not had symptoms for more than 48 hours when I use this stuff! My colds used to last 7 - 10 days, but this stuff kills it in the tracks! You just have to make sure you use it within the first 24 hours of feeling bad. Everybody in this family loves it.

Have been using this for about a year, when it was reccommended by a friend. I swear by this stuff the minute I feel those old symptoms starting I am at the drug store. I have not had a cold or flu for more than twenty four hours since using it. I have two small kids and work with the public, so I am constantly being exposed to all kinds of germs, I highly reccommend you give it a try, it's worth the ten bucks.

I have been using it during flu season for at least 5 years. It works every time if you take it at first sign (24 hrs) of symptoms. I have respiratory problems and can't risk catching the flu (allergic to flu shot). I give it to the whole family the minute someone shows any symptoms and they have remained flu free. The sooner you take it the less symptoms you have. I can't survive a Chicago winter without Oscillococcium.

A coworker recommended the medication and I was skeptical about it at first but since I am working single mother with two young children, I do not want to be sick nor want the kids to get sick. I tried out for each of us at each time we were running down and it works great. Better than anything I ever took before. The med tasted good, my 3 and 5 yrs old love it. I don't even have to worry about them not wanting to take cold med. LOL

looks like it's working, started taking it, and symptoms are disappearing. it's my first time, my pharm sis recommended it.

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I have been using this for over a year and a half. I do have to say I was skeptical at first, when a friend recommended it. But, I have to say, both my husband and I notice that if we feel the effects of a cold or flu coming on we take "oscillococcinum" as soon as possible. It so far has kept us from having bad colds and I have not had the flu since 2008. And my husband and I did not get flu or H1N1 vaccines this year either.

When I BEGIN to experience the symptoms I take this and feel better within eight hours. Sometimes it completely alleviates the symptoms and sometimes it has simply shortened the time and severity that I have been sick. I have had the "down for 7 days" variety of influenza in the past and the symptoms that I am referring to are the same as experienced when I was down for a week. No vomiting but upper respiratory, fever, and severe body pains--diagnosed by my internal medicine MD. This stuff works for me!Read More Read Less

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I have never been more disappointed in a product that was supposed to be safe. After one treatment I experieced very severe lower abdomen pain and I thought this has got to be from something else so the next day I tried it again and the stomach pains were worse and lasted for hours. I will never use oscillococcinum again!!

Both of my girls came down with what we believe to be swine flu (they are not testing anymore). I started to feel sick, so decided to give oscillococcinum a try - I don't know if it was mind over matter, but it seemed to work for me. I started with the nasty cough, and it was gone within a day and a half. I remained with a low grade fever on and off for about 4 days, but in general felt pretty good.