What's worse than a summer cold? A pregnant summer cold

Katie
I am 34w5d and I have a summer cold. I am miserable. My doctor and the birthing center said I could take sudafed. I go to the pharmacy to buy said sudafed and the pharmacist was the worst! Told me that it was her recommendation that pregnant women not take it. She said she's sell it to me if I wanted it and then instead of selling it to me when I told her my doctor and safe meds sheet told me I could take it, she printed off a paper to tell me the dangers of taking it in my first trimester. So here I am in my third trimester, sick, not able to breathe out of my nose and not having slept in almost four days! Have any of you been sick and if so what have you taken for relief?