is anyone else sick?

this kind of seasonal sickness is yet another reason to get out of this country and find somewhere warmer. i imagine the midwest is knee deep in snow this time of year, even if otherwise you have my warmest sympathies mike. get well soon.

Is that better Graham? I can't supply clean air.

(Was anyone else expecting the full question to be something like "Sick of paying too much for car insurance?". I've perhaps been watching far too much digital TV)

(greetings from liverpool)

Can't we say 'ill' - it's so much nicer?

I'm not sick, but my mom has bronchitus!

Gah, I get so drained and apathetic and listless when sick, even with this minor mystery cold/flu. I can't concentrate, I can't read, I can't think. I really want to borrow my buddy's South Park DVDs but her phone's been disconnected and I'm in no state to drive. Why is there no such thing as a chicken soup torrent?

I'm getting over a cold which turned into a chest infection and a bout of laryngitis, couldn't take anything for it.

And the morning/afternoon sickness too of course.

I feel like a bag of shit.

ate two separate meals from burger king today. i tempted fate and lost resoundingly.

Ah fuck, Rumpie, being pregnant, can you take any meds? :-(

Paracetamol, not much else. Seeing the midwife on Wednesday so will see what is safe. I feel like I'm open to every infection going right now.

Yes, you are in fact. Pregnancy makes you more prone to sickness. *Hugs*

felt like shit yesterday and have just phoned in sicko today - memo to self: you never get a hangover w/ w33d

have phoned in sick with third flu this week.

I'm home ill, "looking after" (LOL, I'm posting on the internet while Ava wraps a retractable tape measure round Tallulah's neck) two similarly ill kids while ill wife heaves boxes out of the shed (her preference over yet another day wrangling sub-3-y-o terrors).

Seems to be a heavy cold but with additional gob problems - could be onset of gum disease or related to the throat/sinus issues, but I have very gritty/sore/permanently dry mouth. Sorta miserable and I know I'll go in tomorrow (if I go in tomorrow) to 150+ emails and my colleagues will have got as far as item #1 on the huge handover email I blearily typed out last night.

Oh, look - Bobinogs is on!

i had a cold last week. drinking industrial quantities of guinness over the weekend seemed to have killed the fucker.

this afternoon it's come back with a vengeance. tits.

sneezing

i dissected a beetle yesterday

then ate it

Bobinogs?

Anyway, once you have kids (and especially if they go to kindergarten/daycare) then you're bound to get sick about every other day.

I am sick! Boo!

awww, what's wrong?

Oh look - I'd forgotten I was ill 23-24/10 as well. Had a further four days off with nasty throat infection at the beginning of Nov and stupidly didn't finish course of antibiotics (cos I was well again and back at work). Now the infection is back and I've finished off the Penicillin...

Oh Mikepaws :(

been ill for 2 weeks. only started to feel human again today when i wake up without a headache and a fever for the first time

Today marks my one month anniversary of being sick. This is the longest I've ever been sick in my life.

go steal some antibiotics.

What's dumb is that for the first time in a long while, I have health care. But at the end of every week, I'm always convinced that it couldn't possibly go on another week, and that going to the doctor would be a waste of time.

dude.
DUDE.
c'mon.

you're going to die die die

This is the third time I've gotten sick this winter. Chills, achy, cough, headache...I ain't got TIME to be sick, motherfucker!

I've got the bar exam in 39 days and a brief due at work in a week!

FUCK BEING SICK WHEN BUSY!!!!!

I think I am taking tonight and possibly tomorrow off. I need some rest.

I'm currently working on my fourth week of this damned cold/sinus infection.

My boss effectively dodged this same cold/flu by "sitting in a steam room for an hour, and then drinking Scotch to ridiculous excess."

I may try that this evening, but with bourbon.

Thoughts?

I've been battling a cold THRICE for the past two months. On top of that my mum has/had pneumonia, my husband and oldest daughter also had colds and/or a virus. My dad also had a cold but only for a day or so.

I'm on the tail end of a bad cold that started Sunday

Scotch, while tasty, isn't really gonna help yr immune system none.

Bourbon is totally out of the question, naturally.

Damnit.

NyQuil it is...

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Capital N, little y, GIANT FUCKING Q!!!

i stayed home sick today, but now i have to go in monday instead.

getting there

...

Yep.

chilies are great things

Frozen fruit is good for sore throat
I have to go to a work party tomorrow

woodford reserve - also good

after watching some nasty bug (a form of flu? who knows) knock out my wife and both kids over the last 3 weeks, it's finally my turn. at least it's gone sequentially so we've all been able to take care of each other. still. ugh. my first fever in at least a few years. judging from its observed course so far, i probably have two more lousy days ahead.

surely i amn't the only one ailing in the 2nd week of december. where my co-sufferers at?

Don't have a fever, but I've had the sniffles for over a week now. Gone through several boxes of kleenex already

isn't it funny how that works? xp I always assume it's cause the virus keeps on mutating until it finds a suitable version to slip past your immune system.

i was really sick thanksgiving week, felt better for a week, and now i feel as though i've developed some kind of winter allergies. been sneezing and blowing my nose all week, with itchy sore throat. i just want it all to go away. my nose is raw now from all the tissues :(

boo, hate raw noses. we've dramatically upped our tissue consumption around here. tis the season.

i splurged and bought some w/ lotion tonight bc putting on facial moisturizer even made it sting!

i have sciatica, apparently

Just went through a nasty bit of free-floating paranoia. Thought it was going to develop into a bout of hypomania, but nothing happened, thankfully. Slept for 14 hours and now it's going away.

had a cold all this week, bleah.

Seems like I'm sick the second week of December every fucking year.

been feeling wonky all day, just came home and have a massive headache. my torso has felt like it's 'tender' since morning. stomach was a little unsettled too. blargh

i have sciatica, apparently

― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 December 2009 06:44 (5 months ago)

i'm almost sure I have it too. i've been having off and on pain for at least a couple years

jesus...had a cold for last two weeks or so but it was just a bit of congestion etc, nothing major. then yday evening i just get this onset of shivers where i can't even move in bed without shivering, had to put on loads of clothes. sinuses ache, mouth is a bit swollen, and chest is a little sore which makes me worry about having pneumonia. didn't sleep properly at all, mind was just racing with sweaty delirious dreams.

hoping this goes away quickly as i have a job interview on friday and an audition for a play tomorrow.

if you had pneumonia, i think you'd know, you wouldn't be able to move.

i've had a cold for about 6 days now, aching head and hot and cold flushes, only thing to do is plenty of fluids and keep warm.

having a hot bath and getting into bed with many layers on to sweat it out always seems to work.

wish i still had a bath :(

yeah i'm just being paranoid on the pneumonia issue i'm sure. hot bath sounds great apart from the effort required to get out of bad and get into one. might try eating something soon. ugh...

you have an audition for a play! that's pretty cool. hope it is for a character who has the ague...

went home for the weekend to go to a conference and thence dancing but haven't been able to do more than lie in bed huffing decongestant and whining about how everything hurts. :(

yeah it's annoying, i might go even if still sick but i would be rubbish, my throat is sore etc and i am not myself.

you definitely should go even if still sick! you might end up being better than you expect. I had a friend who would with absolute regularity get minor illnesses or injure herself before performances (she was in ~musical theatre~), after a while I started to suspect it was her way of not giving herself a chance to be nervous.

i guess i can mention it to them too, if they were doing a second round or whatev they might give me a go...

GAH....had to cancel my audition, can't even walk to the shops and can barely leave my bed. extremely annoying.

Theraflu man...shit straight works.

i've had a cold for about 6 days now, aching head and hot and cold flushes,

This sounds like what my whole family has had for the past two weeks. The doctor diagnosed it as viral meningitis (not the same as spinal meningitis, thank god). My experience with it was pretty brutal though. I really couldn't function at all. It would take me minutes on end to climb out of bed. My poor daughter had it too and had to be hospitalized for a few days. She's recovered now though.

Sitting in a waiting room now. Had a flu-type thing all week, that's mostly gone, now it's a gross lung-busting cough that won't go away. Ugh, fml.

blugh.

THERAFLU people...nightime version especially...puts you in a coma.

haha don't think there is a uk version of theraflu...

Can't do theraflu, the flavors make me gag. NyQuil green death is my friend for nighttime. And Ricola! and fresh squeezed lemon with honey & hot water.

i have little or no appetite but have had a few weird cravings. needed weetabix badly today for some reason.

Mmmm Weetbix.

looks like there is something called Lemsip in the UK which is similiar?

Similar, I think theraflu has more drugz in it

i always just lather up in Vicks chest rub.

i smell like a sexy throat lozenge.

lol

Dear god get me out of this waiting room...

for some reason my mother always insisted when i was a kid with an earache to dip cotton balls in Vicks and then shove them in my ears. No wonder Im half deaf in one ear.

Vicks in your ears? Crikey

vicks would be nice actually, reminds me of being sick as a child. lemsip is okay, it does a job i guess. missed the audition anyway, there'll be other auditions i guess.

i do still swear by vicks...its comforting.

yeah bigtime, i've not seen it or used it in fucking years, but that smell is amazing.

Yeah, it's a good comforting smell

Theraflu has acetaminophen, which makes my skin turn a shade of puce and become hideously itchy.

Welp, Doctor says I have bronchitis. Guess that explains brain-aneurysm-every-time-I-cough.

Stupid pharmacy computer is down, no drugs yet. Rrrraarrr! Honestly today is taking aaaaallll day.

i was back at my parents' and found a tub of vicks but i think it was about 10 years old? it didn't seem to do much. or smell of anything.

oh god i hate this, i can't concentrate on anything and every time i swallow it's like a cheesegrater in my throat.

My illness is less bad than everyone else's on this thread, being a v mild cold, but I've come here to complain anyway because along with earache I have incredibly muffled hearing in the left ear. It's been really hard to follow what people are saying today at work, plus music is a bit disappointing right now, and I like music to be the only thing in life which isn't disappointing. Y'know?

Get well soon, everyone.

get well soon too! I get blocked ears all the time, i sympathize. Feels awful. Doc says I have narrow ear canals, I usually have to get them syringed every 6 months. Which is gross, but hearing is so much better than not hearing...and earaches are the worst

oh earaches and deafness are the worst, esp if you're me who is terrible with the thinking i can fix my ears by poking around inside w/ kirbygrips when clearly the problem is on the other side of the eustachian tube.

whiskey (in hot toddy form) is helping w/ the throat though not too much with the concentration tbh

i don't know why i am adding the definite article to everything though

Just came off a mild cold. Every single time I've been sick in the last 15 years has followed the same course- sore throat, runny nose, congestion, then full blown coughing fits for several weeks. Luckily this last case was so mild my coughing only lasted a week. I think my immune system is wising up to this mugs game.

have had a series of problems almost comical in their variety over the last couple of months. at the very end of my third course of antibiotics in same period. literally have one pill left to take. but felt like absolute crap yesterday, looked it up, found out it causes nausea and dizzyness, so it does so it does. now have the choice of taking the final one and teaching for 8 hrs while trying not to vomit-swoon or not finishing the course, which is apparently really bad and risky, though i find it hard to believe it's as precise as all that, and maybe having a tolerable day.

stayed home w/ a fever today - shivering, sore throat, splitting headache, the works. this is my body paying me back for over-exerting myself this weekend, i think

I would like to send a round of cozy blankets, hugs & chicken soup to all who be illin' on ILX. Get well soon!

my wife is sick, bedroom smelled like a menthol factory.

Loose stools, headache,... Yep, I was pretty sick yesterday.

Picked up a sinus infection on transatlantic flight. Hurts lots. Jetsettin int all that.

think i have bronchitis too, dr prescribed me an antibiotic without telling me what it was for! well done nhs. but i've had chest infection before and i know once you get that crackling as you exhale that's usually what it is. still feeling horrible, it's been a seriously rough dose, can't sleep properly, last night i was so hot when i tried to sleep that i was delusional. my mind is just racing and i'll start thinking i am nucky thompson or something. i know it sounds mental but it's that thing where you are having so many mini dreams and waking up so many times that your brain ceases to distinguish between sleep/wake/reality/dreams, had it before with a really bad flu a few years back.

anyway i have a big job interview friday so i really really hope i feel better by then.

that thing where you are having so many mini dreams and waking up so many times that your brain ceases to distinguish between sleep/wake/reality/dreams

so much hate for this

also my room smells like a wet yak

awesome!

haha

I also feel crap cause my kid was having same symptoms but didn't crawl into her bed like I did. Man, my pain treshold (?) is lower than my almost 5yo. Fuuuuuck.

horrible stomach stuff for the last two days.. yesterday literally ate nothing but bread and water, went to bed at 10pm and woke up at 9am o_O

fuck sake, i hate my crappy constitution. had a fucking pile last week and have felt like shit in spite, or because of stopping the antibiotic they gave me to prevent infection about two/three days early. stomach in ribbons, feel like i have the shits but i don't, would be better if i did. maybe eased a bit today but a boring weekend beckons. no doubt i'll be right as rain in time for work on monday.

achy and congested today. i'm not full-blown sick but i definitely have a low-level cold thing.

Had a terrible throat for the past couple of days. Seems to be moving to my nose now, though, which is better. But still rubbish.

Ugh, yes, sick. We had to leave New Orleans a day early last week because my wife was solid infection from the neck up -- she may still have to have tubes in her ears if the latest rounds of antibiotics and steroids don't work. I picked up her, or somebody's, case of crud last Friday night and went to the doctor Monday. Now our daughter is starting to feel a little scratchy.

Been huddled around a hot pack for the last few days (when I'm not sleeping or vomiting, that is) because of a really, really bad toothache. I went to the emergency room for it, and was prescribed antibiotics.

i am godawfully ill

Here in the Boston area we've had a pretty mild winter so far in terms of snow etc., but that didn't stop me from getting a pretty bad sinus infection a few weeks back. I'm better now but still feeling like I'm on the verge of getting sick again. I just hope I can keep it at bay until springtime at least.

and ... it begins. sore throat like crazy.

(today at school i watched a kid projective vomit all over the place so – given my options - feeling a bit lucky)

not really sick so much – probably shouldn't've stayed home. now bored.

uh...oh - feeling a bit ill. Beeen caning the OJ.

Only in my soul

A little off but nothing too bad, just seems to be a low-level something.

Thankfully, no, but both my wife and son have been suffering from nasty colds and/or sinus infections all week. I'm amazed I'm still healthy.

i have sciatica, apparently

― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 December 2009 06:44

hi dere, think i woke up with it today. now what?

^^^been there. Now what is someone taking you to the doctor, who prescribes drugs and minimal rest (you shouldn't go more than a day on bed rest in most cases),

Think I got flu yet again. Certainly feelin drained. CAn't type properly , must blame it on that obviously.

Coincides with me having a couple days off whcih I should be using constructively. may go back to bed and read Lord Jim.

i think i have a cold. anyone want to bring me some matzoh ball soup from jerry's deli? i'll pay you in beer and hugs.

for hugs? anything :)

get better soon gb

thx

in an absolute state today, got in from class last night and got this rush of the shivers where i couldn't stop shaking. upset stomach and demented dreams all night and all day today. you know when you don't even know if you're asleep or awake, such is the madness of the fever dreams.

on the plus side there's always the chance i recover in time for the weekend.

I felt like that four weeks ago. Two courses of antibiotics later and I just about feeling normal again. I hadn't needed a sick day since 2009. Sick times.

First illness of the season. Maybe a mild flu? Temp hasn’t been over 102 and has mostly sat around 100. But bleah. Had to cancel a social thing Friday I was really looking forward to, and just generally feel puny in all respects. On the plus side it frees me up from thinking about doing anything and I’ve just been lying on the couch watching movies.

Anyway, sympathies to anyone else ailing.