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  • 3 weeks off the bike and counting – manflu content
  • ourmaninthenorth
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    Three weeks ago, I feel so rundowon I give into the Mrs and agree to her picking me and the bike up from work as I can’t face the 17 miles home.

    Fast forward three weeks and I’ve had a temperature, sinus headaches earache (for the first time in 20 years), waking daily with a sore throat, lethargy and a cough that just won’t shift.

    I haven’t had an illness last this long since I had malaria 15 years ago…

    And it’s sunny out, with great weather for being out on the bike.

    Is this some sort of karmic justice – what have I done to deserve this?

    Waah 😥

    Posted 13 years ago
    cynic-al
    Free Member

    4 weeks off running and riding here, chest infection 🙁

    Getting hammered most of last weekend didn’t help 😮

    Posted 13 years ago
    Shred
    Free Member

    2.5 weeks off with really bad cold/sinus infection. Started getting better and one easy warm up ride and a 2 hour road ride and am sick again. Getting on 2 weeks now and am hoping to do a easy ride this weekend. Getting so frustrated.

    Posted 13 years ago
    cynic-al
    Free Member

    Unfortunately you can’t fight it – I found this out on an easy 40m run yesterday.

    Posted 13 years ago
    ourmaninthenorth
    Full Member

    And I can’t book a medical appointment because my GP is away on the one day of the week when he runs surgeries at a time I can make (evening) and the others are fully booked.

    “He’s free the next Monday”. Like that’s going to help.

    Hmm, time to annoy the drop-in-centre at St Mary’s Manchester.

    Posted 13 years ago
    binners
    Full Member

    Never mind that!!!

    Have you sorted that ensuite out yet? Pull your bloody finger out!!! 😉

    Posted 13 years ago
    thepurist
    Full Member

    Can’t believe nobody’s said this yet…

    M T F U

    Posted 13 years ago
    ourmaninthenorth
    Full Member

    I don’t live there yet..!

    Posted 13 years ago
    ourmaninthenorth
    Full Member

    thepurist – have been trying. Honest guv!

    Posted 13 years ago
    woody2000
    Full Member

    You sure it’s not a re-occurence of malaria?

    Posted 13 years ago
    flippinheckler
    Free Member

    I’ve got a cold came on last Sunday now developed into a cough and I need to train for a 67 mile Sportive on the 27th and a Hike & Bike on 8th April, very frustrating.

    Posted 13 years ago
    BigJohn
    Full Member

    I had something similar. Only just getting over it.

    Day Nurse cold & flu capsules give you a bit of a buck-you-up.
    Antibiotics took 2 goes to get rid of the chest.
    I stopped having coffee & alcohol for a few days because of a feeling they were holding back recovery
    Fruit juice and vitamin tablets and fruit squash are being consumed, whereas they wouldn’t usually get a look in.

    Posted 13 years ago
    Bunnyhop
    Full Member

    Go to the Dr. asap. I had similar 4 years ago which turned in fatigue syndrome ( which I now have under control).

    Get well soon and sort that en-suite out tout suit (sp?)

    Posted 13 years ago
    thepurist
    Full Member

    OMITN – in fact, the correct answer is to MTFD and take time out to recover. I went back too quick a few years back & got a secondary post-viral thing that was way way way worse than the original.

    Posted 13 years ago
    jamiep
    Free Member

    3 weeks in plaster so far with mutliple fractures to hand wrist fingers 🙁

    Posted 13 years ago
    geoffj
    Full Member

    What Woody said.

    Posted 13 years ago
    ourmaninthenorth
    Full Member

    Hmm, so for the benefit of those who haven’t seen my bleating on Twitter, this weekend I seem to have gone down with something else – I *think* it’s a mild dose of gastric flu.

    Mrs North commented that on Saturday i was the most ill I had been since we first met 15 years ago. Indeed, it’s the most ill I’ve felt since I had malaria (and, no, it isn’t a recurrence of that).

    On the plus side, I ate last night for the first time in 48 hours. Maybe this is the kickstart my diet needs.

    Posted 13 years ago
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