Cold/Flu - turns into bronchitis/pneumonia this year

Have you read my whining posts about being sick for over a month? I'm sooooo sick of being sick!

I just got this and I never get sick... it seems highly contagious.

I've noticed, too. A lot of people I work with, and a lot of customers have been noticeably sick. Employees, you sometimes assume they might be playing hooky, but they're still getting sick and trying to come into work so they don't risk their jobs. Visibly sick. As OP said, many are sick, and it's turning into bronchitis, no real pneumonia cases that I know about yet. Meanwhile, they're not terribly happy with me, I go outside in the cold without a coat repeatedly throughout the day, I should be sick too. They're all blaming each other for giving each other whatever illness they think they have, meanwhile I work with them as well, and I'm just working like usual.

Personally, I think some of it is just comfort. People are used to being warm, 70 or so degrees. They go home, they relax, they work in a sane temperature, their car isn't cold for too long, etc. When they get cold, any virus in their system takes hold, because it's a kind of shock to their system. Meanwhile, I take such bad care of my body, going out in horrible weather improperly dressed, several times a day, sometimes as part of my job, other times for a smoke, and I can return to the warmth when I feel like it, so I'm not forced to stay out in it. Over time doing that, I think my body's so used to it I'm not shocked nearly as much. Most people don't have the same circumstances, or the experience doing it. They get sick even though some of them are wearing gloves to avoid germs, taking all sorts of other precautions, and part of me thinks this is just making it worse, as they're not giving their bodies a chance to protect itself, making it more susceptible when they are exposed to something.

Like George Carlin said, as kids they played in the N.J. river, they were "tempered in raw sewage".

Knock on wood...

1. garlic
2. yoghurt (containing live cultures)
3. oil of oregano

Together they can rid you of almost any ailment.

Also, avoid refined carbs and sugars.

I believe I did. One of the reasons why I decided to post my experience.

Have you seen a doctor yet? I wonder if yours is bronchitis too.

Its not cold here in the Central Valley of California, its in the 60s and even low 70's for the past month or so.

I rarely 'get sick'. Colds and flu I get around the holidays - and then its not lingering, long term or even enough to put me into bed.

This time - Oy! I've been sleeping nearly 12 hours a night (My normal is 6-7 hours a night), fatigued and coughing, coughing, coughing.

I agree. I was just amazed at how many people were in the pharmacy on a Saturday, and how many were in "urgent care" with what seems to be the same thing.

I've been to Saturday clinic before - usually its just me and the sign in nurse.

i to got bronchitis and after 2 weeks of feeling like crud its now turned into pneumonia and ive done the zpack and inhaler and cough syrup and prednisone now im on augmentine, i dont know abiut you all but im sick of being sick and im sick of taking meds

both, my husband and child got Flu right now. Type A. It's more severe then type B.

Thank God, I didn't get it, otherwise, nobody would be able to take care of anyone. I've been eating garlic for the past few days coincedentally, I think it helped. Doctor said a flu and strep are going around, some people got both.
This one can cause complications like Pneumonia.

early nov mine started.. went to my ear. 4 courses of antibiotics.. ear cleared up finally.. chest and nose haven't..

sick of it..

Next time get a Flu shot, I have never been sick this fall and winter since I got the shot.

Hmmm... this doesn't sound good. I too NEVER get sick, but here I am sneezing and chasing my runny nose with tissue all day. I feel very fatigued and out-of-sorts.

lol

same here. I've had a problem with coughing sneezing sore throats etc etc etc for AGES now.

uk

oh well, you got to die of SOMETHING!



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