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is this something that happens to everyone ?
every single year, without fail i get a period of illnes.
starts with a cold. feeling a bit snotty, tight chest, headaches... general feeling ill.
this then seems to turn worse.... every year.
now in full blown bronchitis verging on pneumonia ( had this 3 years ago, spent night in hospital ).
doctor prescribed antibiotics.... waiting for em to kick in. sat rattling as i breath... like a rattlesnake.
anyone else get this yearly bout of shyte ?
No. I'm usually pretty healthy. Only had 2 days off work sick in the last 16 years.
I usually get 1 or 2 colds each year.
Have had COVID twice, each time relatively mildly.
24-36 hour D&V once every 3-5 years.
Occasionally get a random 24 hour virus thing, where I start to feel achy/shivery/tired, but then it disappears the next day.
Which is what I thought I was getting last Friday. But turned out to be 2/3 days of flu-type symptoms asking with 5/6 days of the shits. 20-30 trips to the loo every 24 hours day & night. Better now though.
I'm on the tail end of a week long flu/fever. Started with sinusitis symptons, then fever over night, achey joints, so much snot I'm wondering if my body is importing it from somewhere. I stupidly went for a group ride last night, and rode as normal. Felt better towards the end, then bonked and vision went hazy etc.
Feeling a bit better today, hopefully a couple more days and I'll be over it.
Hope you feel better soon @ton
Which is what I thought I was getting last Friday. But turned out to be 2/3 days of flu-type symptoms asking with 5/6 days of the shits. 20-30 trips to the loo every 24 hours day & night. Better now though.
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is this something that happens to everyone ?
every single year, without fail i get a period of illnes.
starts with a cold. feeling a bit snotty, tight chest, headaches... general feeling ill.
this then seems to turn worse.... every year.
now in full blown bronchitis verging on pneumonia ( had this 3 years ago, spent night in hospital ).
doctor prescribed antibiotics.... waiting for em to kick in. sat rattling as i breath... like a rattlesnake.
anyone else get this yearly bout of shyte ?
Oh yes. Regular as clockwork. Sometimes twice in a year. Usually turns into an upper airway infection/ bronchitis, then if not sorted continues to head on down into my lungs for a proper chest infection. Often it is (as would be predictable) after getting run down through not enough sleep, Usually linked with work travel, and stress (because I'm having to travel overseas on work and so am too busy, uber early flights, etc).
Rarely to never fixes itself, usually get pissed around getting worse for 2+ weeks whilst the quack dithers about handing over the antibiotics, then get so bad as a result that I end up on a motherlode of antibiotics + steroids.
I'm surprised that I don't glow like the Ready-brek kid from all the chest X-Rays.
Best couple of years being free from it was the covid years, because we didnt mix with anyone for 2 years.
Couldn't be an extreme hay fever reaction perhaps mixed with something else?Leeds and surrounding areas used to really set me off.
No, not really. I’ll sometimes get a cold, maybe it’ll turn into something a bit worse, with a cough that settles into rattling when I breath, which I’ve had for the last couple of weeks, but doses of Buttercup cough medicine seems to help, and now it’s mostly cleared up.
Possibly the fact that I’m not stuck inside an almost hermetically sealed room with other humans, almost a bio-warfare lab, which I was for just over a decade, means I no longer inhale the results of such close contact any more.
I spent a couple of hours this evening at the club range, all on my own, breathing the nearest thing to fresh air and my head feels quite clear.
Pre-covid I was never ill to any serious degree.
After my first covid infection I've had several bouts of random illness. Any infection seems to absolutely floor me. I did struggle with a severe period of long covid following my first infection. I've had about 5 or 6 actual bouts of covid overall but outside of that I'm ill much more than I've ever been. I have to think there's been some long term damage to my immune system
Lots of people on here describing the natural history of normal VIRAL illnesses.
Not me, thankfully, but seem to have a lot of friends, riding and non riding, who are struggling with regular, prolonged bugs through autumn and winter, even carrying on now
^ Probably a reaction to all those COVID jabs.It was predicted we'd all end up ill.
Not me, thankfully, but seem to have a lot of friends, riding and non riding, who are struggling with regular, prolonged bugs through autumn and winter, even carrying on now
Damn it, come back from dropping daughter back at uni with a suspiciously tickly throat. I'm blaming ton