[Closed] Anybody else got a stinking rotten cold/chest infection?

Yep me too,its bloody annoying as I now have a few days off and cannot tho riding,and have been to busy with work previously to get out on my bike.
I can feel a change of job coming on in the New year.

I,ve even got a very slight ache in my fingers.It also seems worse at night,resulting in a lack of sleep.Very annoying.I think a bike ride would result in a hospital stay.

Norovirus?

Yup, whooping cough.

Very frustrating as I haven't ridden this month at all, nor am I likely to for another week or two - and I have a new bike to build and ride!

Yep a chest infection here, possibly a side effect of the new asthma medication the doc gave me a week ago WTF, but at least no streaming nose. No roast potatoes for me tomorrow at my sisters 🙁

Just finished that to move onto the rampant 5hits and puking- oh joy!

Aye, just finished my 3rd round of Anti Bios. I've had it for 8 weeks now in varying degrees of fleminess, it started off as man flue (i.e a cold). It's still there too, probably ebola or summit 🙁

yep been almost completely incapacitated for the last week, but definitely entering the recovery phase now. So I should be right by about April then. 😥

Had it for 2 weeks now. Today is the first day I haven't needed paracetomol or ibuprofen to feel vaguely human.

shame you can't give it to Thatcher-- a free gift in her time of need 😀

Have had a cold/cough for weeks now. Have been ill on and off for so long it really is getting on my nerves. Managed to get out on the road bike today but feel exhausted now.

Ah so Fred has a new login 🙂

Yup, bloody cold/cough/aches here. Not going to let it spoil my fun though. Opened the alcohol 2hrs ago 🙂

manflu. 🙁

so if you mention the T thing you must be 'fred'-- how quaint..

Coughs,sweats and sneezing hit me on Saturday.Any ideas about when I,m going to start feeling human again?Any fast miracle cures on offer.

vitamin c --large doses -- ride it out--no short cuts with it i'm afraid

Yep coughs lots of sneezing and sweats for me too
Just started Sunday

I'm hoping the answer is the Oban I'm about to open just hope I can taste it
Don't seem to have much appitie either

Cheers rb.Just hope it doesn't develop into anything serious. Some of you guys sound in a bad way.

Been battling with it for the last three weeks tried everything, night nurse, loads of fresh orange, sudafed - even a 12 mile ride yesterday in high winds - which nearly finished me off.

Visited the docs this morning - prescribed antibiotics, already feeling better after the first dose.

Yup, have a bad cold for almost two weeks. Haven't been riding as very busy at work and so very tired.

Ob,is drinking alcohol a good idea?I feel a bit out of it now and I,m sober.

Had it since Thursday. Right b#stard. Sore throat from hell, cough, nose like a river, shivers. Thought it was the flu but it's not. Still bad though. It's got me awake at this time! (on the plus side I'm keeping an eye out for Santa, if nothing else I'll put this whole does he/doesn't he exist thing to bed).
Think I'm through the worst. Drink lots of fluids, have ibuprofen and lemsip at regular intervals and eat shed loads of oranges. No idea if any of that actually helps, in reality just praying that this doesn't go on for 2-3 weeks 😯

Buy multiple new bike parts op

Hora I dont need to add addiction to illness.

Sore throat and full head here !

Another manthrax sufferer here. Not sure I'll make it through to Downton Xmas special. 😥

It's been nice knowing you!

Any ideas why my virus seems worse on a night than when i first get up.?

rudebwoy - Member
vitamin c --large doses -- ride it out--no short cuts with it i'm afraid
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Ballcocks - you can only absorb so much vit c - the rest is just pissed away.

Damn, according to my doc, my right lung is fluid-filled at the moment. Looks like the SPAM winter challenge won't be on my diary now 🙁

Yep, kicked in on Boxing Day. Seriously queasy too 🙁

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR - Member

Yep, kicked in on Boxing Day. Seriously queasy too

I have had a stinking cold for the last 10 days or so and I regularly get the queasiness nowadays as well 🙁

I have decided just to stay in the house, keep warm and watch films/box sets and hope it goes away soon.

Posted on Xmas eve and thought I was through the worst of it. Hah! Oh the optimistic ignorance of youth..
Has morphed from head cold to sore throat to cough from hell, all the while accompanied by a nose like a fountain, sneezing and the shivers.
Its been a week now and frankly it's starting to take the mick
If -as I'm thinking right now - these things are getting worse and worse each year, god help us all come 2016 😯

We're doomed!

fr-that sounds more like whooping cough.Lot of it about this year.

Well much better now but sadly won't be racing tomorrow 🙁

Hope others are recovering too! Hideous lurgy this last one!

Had it for last 48 hours. Bloody miserable especially the non-stop nose drip, coughing and sneezing. Broke all the rules and went for 1 hour run with dogs this morning. Time will tell if that was a good/bad idea.

I have a lower respiratory tract infection, on day 3 of antibiotics. Loss of appetite, coughing, full of mucus, feel like death, high temp. Feeling very sorry for myself, wife described me as melodramatic!! Nothing like a bit of sympathy. Running out of things to read.

Desperately need to make up a fancy title for my 'cold'. Much more of this and I will be broke having bought all sorts of crap for all of my bikes over the last few days. All bikes running perfectly, even bled the brakes on my best bike which won't be out for months. I need a target an adventure, a quest no less...

Thecrookofdevon - have I mentioned the Big Bike Bash before?

This is might quest and adventure for a bold soul like you. It is also not until the end of August so you may feel better by the. Google I now, read the reviews and buy the tickets. You will feel better.

I felt fine when I woke this morning but now have a temperature and have coughed up half a bucket of phlem. Hoping to accelerate the illness with a long hot bath and a bottle of laphroig.

Loads of coughing and splutering in my local Chavsda.

Been laid up since chrimbo night, full of snot, coughing, ache all over, no appetite, now hurts to blow my nose muscles across my back really tight, getting properly fed up with it now 😥 on the plus side my wife has been an angel

Anybody else got the feeling of something trapped in their chest.The irritation causes me to have coughing fits.Starting to get fed up with it.

Cold of doom sufferer here too, i thought i was over the worst of it so went for a little bimble on the ss today, bad idea it almost killed me and now i feel rotten again. Harumph!

WCA-how did the booze option go?Worth a try?

I'll see your Cold Of Doom and raise you Tonsilitis.

Has successfully put paid to any and all plans I had for the last few days of the year.

sore throat
red, swollen tonsils
pain when swallowing
high temperature (fever)
coughing
headache
tiredness
chills
a general sense of feeling unwell (malaise)
white pus-filled spots on the tonsils
swollen lymph nodes (glands) in the neck
pain in the ears or neck

And you can add to the list of The Usual Symptoms: a migraine that could floor a cow (it hurt to look at anything), nightmares, loss of appetite and an inability to sleep.

I pray for a swift death.

GJP - Member
Yep a chest infection here, possibly a side effect of the new asthma medication the doc gave me a week ago WTF, but at least no streaming nose. No roast potatoes for me tomorrow at my sisters

Really GJP ? I've recently had my asthma drugs changes ( well thats after finally admitting at 42 that I do have asthma ) and from the start they've made my chest feel irritated and now I have another chest infection, I know we men complain about being Ill but constantly getting chest infections is boring and time consuming.

Matt

UPDATE: Still praying for a swift death here.

The worst virus I've ever had has morphed into a bad headcold with cough.

Brilliant.

Started coughing on boxing day. Had to go to bed a few hours later, spent four days in bed. Feel a lot better but the ache seems to be right inside my bones. Feel very weak still, this has been a bad one.

I feel better now.

Not surprising really, as I started back at work today, grrr!

Have not had any colds/coughs at all this year until day after boxing day, it's now gone to my chest but it's not an infection as i feel fine, just a small space monster hoiked up every now and again. Disappointed I didn't make it till the end of the year germ free 😐

Me to Mr Smith.Do you find yourself sweating alot?

Did have a sweat inducing curry last night. And this morning lurgy more or less gone. 😀

Had it for weeks now - more or less OK apart from the continually-blocked sinuses and hacking cough. At least I'm coughing loads of crap up which can only be a good thing...

as above Ive had "it" since 12th December, had 48 hours of feeling really crap, but just had snotty nose and hacking cough since. Coughing up some nice brown/red/green chewy blancmange stuff now which is nice.

Yeah had a cough for the past month or so. I cam still ride and go to work though so not the end of the world!

Got some boomerang thing that gives me all the symptoms mentioned above, never develops into anything especially serious but never completely goes away either. Maybe feel clear for a week or so, then it comes back.

Been going on since October.

WTF?

Hmmm I got a sore throat last Thursday that was never too bad but in the last couple of days has developed into a full blown cold so I guess it's going to take about another week to go.

Have had for nearly a week now. Sore throat then flu like symptoms that put me in bed for a day or so. Now it's attempting to get on my chest. Annoying. Need to be fit for skiing in two weeks.