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
I tend to get some form of respiratory illness around Feb/Mar every year without fail.
The only exception in recent years I can think of was '22, which meant I went into my "outdoor riding season" carrying all my "indoor turbo season" gains for a change, rather than losing a chunk. Went on to seriously challenge/beat my segment times since '17, despite being 48 and being ~80Kg when I was typically closer to 75Kg in previous years.
Feels a lifetime ago now with how my health has declined since, but at least my ebike is now helping to regularly get back into the lanes, after managing to reach them a handful of times in '23 and '24.
Having had long covid since late September '22, I now seem to get more respiratory illnesses over winter and early spring and they tend to last longer.
I seem to have a permanently blocked nose, which affects sleep.
My daughter seems to be making a habit of ending up in hospital about this time of year every year.
Last year was an inpatients for removal of an inch long splinter under the nail snapped too far up to get hold of it under GA
This year it's facial cellulitis following a fall from height onto concrete. - 5 days in the children's hospital.
🙁
hope she is ok and gets sortd mate.
i seem to be on the mend. ran out of snot. last tablet to be taken. and even managed a steady bike ride. fingers crossed.
Aye we are on the backside of it now cheers. Paint stripper antibiotics via IV 3 times a day. Swellings right down , sight is back just waiting on getting kicked out hopefully.
I always used to get a winter cold and a horrible long lasting hacking cough each year. During Covid the social distancing meant I escaped it for two years, following Covid jabs and an occasional winter flue jab (encouraged by my employer) I haven’t had a recurrence since. Any colds have been milder and without a persistent chesty cough afterwards.
Yeh,plus using hand wash gels when out keeps you safe.
Not related to grandkids going back to school?
Damn it, come back from dropping daughter back at uni with a suspiciously tickly throat. I'm blaming ton
FFS - best looking weather week of the year so far and I'm coughing my lungs up and the contents of my head are pouring out my nose.
Had a terrible winter with various infections and flu / covid type illness. Started probably last October with a stye on my eye that got infected resulting in anti-biotics. This was followed up in late November with flu like symptoms (I actually rang in sick for a couple of days!) This lasted up until almost Christmas and included a UTI (worst pain ever and more anti-biotics). Just before new year I came down with something that made even the slightest exertion very painful, i.e. couldn't roll over in bed with out getting out and back in. Ended up sleeping on my back with head and shoulders elevated. Even getting in and out of a car was a performance.
Thankfully all seems to be good now but getting back to my previous weights at the gym is proving a slow process.
lol...... sorry mate. been out for a ride in the sunshine.... was aceFFS - best looking weather week of the year so far and I'm coughing my lungs up and the contents of my head are pouring out my nose.
Yes it was by myself and millions of others.
After 2 winters of isolation, masks and handwashing it was predicted that the regular cold and flu would have a resurgence due to reduced immunity and disruption of the normal cycles - which could take a few years to level out.
