Who else has gotten sick this autumn/winter?

[miroku]

Almost correct.Another shandy?;)

[Celtic Dragon]

Yep, couple of weeks ago had a could, cough and a temp of 101 deg F. Still got the cold and cough but its dying off. Really annoyed me as it cost me my first sick day in 8 years! I was the only 1 in my dept with the perfect record.

Simialr things have been going round my office like wild fire and both my parents have soemthign similar to. This could be a fun Christmas.

[ArnageWRC]

Hmm, how many with all these ailments work in 'modern' offices, with air conditioning? As soon as 1 person gets ill, it soon spreads. It is annoying, as you know it will spread, and there is nothing you can do.

[Globs]

jbi said:

Sitting here with a raging temperature, yet shivering like mad with the heating whacked right up, joints aching, skin hurting and coughing my lungs out while my nose runs like a broken tap.

After 5 day's the novelty has worn off somewhat...

Anyone else gotten sick so far this autumn/winter? you have my commiserations

Most people are running a vitamin D deficiency this winter...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/90351...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/96986...

article said:

Prof Norman Ratcliffe, from Swansea University, said the dull summer will lead to high levels of deficiency in the sunshine vitamin.
Other experts said vitamin D deficiency was a 'major public health concern' and Britain was heading back to the 1920s when large numbers of children suffered bone pain and bowed legs from the effects of rickets.
The combination of a 21st Century childhood of not playing outside, being driven to school and constantly wearing high factor sunscreen will be compounded by the poor weather this summer, they said.
Most doctors have yet to 'wake-up' to the problem, it was argued.
Prof Ratcliffe said that because 2012 was one of the dullest summers on record, vitamin D stores have not been replenished in time for winter, when light levels in most of the UK are insufficient to make vitamin D.

For a couple of pound every few months for vitamin D pills I avoid all that - and so should you .

[NiceCupOfTea]

Had a nasty cough a month or so ago I couldn't shift for a fortnight, and last Monday went down with that Norovirus thing that's doing the rounds. Nasty. Still not quite right even 6 days later...

[Countdown]

jbi said:

Sitting here with a raging temperature, yet shivering like mad with the heating whacked right up, joints aching, skin hurting and coughing my lungs out while my nose runs like a broken tap.

After 5 day's the novelty has worn off somewhat...

Anyone else gotten sick so far this autumn/winter? you have my commiserations

Yep - that was me for the last 3 days.

Recovering today thankfully and lots of TLC from Mrs C helped

To be honest I think it's the first time I've been sick in yonks.

[maniac886]

Just recovered from this and it took me around a week to get back to normal. Felt like absolute ste.

[Condi]

Yes, far too many times.

Used to work outside and was very rarely ill, moved to an office and been ill more times than I care to remember, including the norovirus which knocked me right out for a day or 2. Currently feel fine but have one nostril which will not stop running, for some reason. Thing is that nobody opens the windows in the cold to let the germs out, at least one person has been ill since late September and I seem to catch them all eventually.

[Mobsta]

jbi said:

Sitting here with a raging temperature, yet shivering like mad with the heating whacked right up, joints aching, skin hurting and coughing my lungs out while my nose runs like a...

This. Right now. I hallucinate in my half sleep and struggle to tell dreams from reality for up to 15 minutes upon awakening, living in an alien half world until I've managed to wake myself fully.

It hurts to touch my head gently with my fingertips, I'm dizzy, tingling like a clitoris during an orgasm (in an unpleasant way) and burning up. And am on such a different planet the mere act of GF turning a page in her book next to me in bed is enough to make me wonder what on earth is going on if I'm drifting in and out of sleep.

I can only imagine proper flu like this is what it's like slipping in and out of a coma.
No drugs necessary. I'll cough on you for a fiver.

[jbi]

Globs said:

For a couple of pound every few months for vitamin D pills I avoid all that - and so should you .

I've just put in an order with the lady for a bottle of multivitamin tablets, thank you for the suggestion

At the moment I will try anything.

Not a good feeling when you rumage through the medicine cabinet and all of the col/flu stuff is expired while it's p!ssing down outside.

[BlackVanDyke]

Got home this evening from 5 days with my folks. Instant dodgy tum and sore joints within an hour of getting into a nice warm comfy bed. That'll be a virus then. Oh goody.

[ShredderXLE]

I came down with the sickness bug about a week and half ago. For three days solid it was trying to liquify my insides and then force them out at several thousand PSI. I have never in my life felt so ill. I still dont feel normal now and have been having on and off bouts of the rusty water and stomach cramps every couple of days.
At least im at home though and not on some god forsaken ship like those other poor sods.

[Globs]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/51913.php

article said:

I guess our hospital was under luckier stars as only about 12% of our patients were infected and no one died. However, as the epidemic progressed, I noticed something unusual. First, the ward below mine was infected, and then the ward on my right, left, and across the hall - but no patients on my ward became ill. My patients had intermingled with patients from infected wards before the quarantines. The nurses on my unit cross-covered on infected wards. Surely, my patients were exposed to the influenza A virus. How did my patients escape infection from what some think is the most infectious of all the respiratory viruses?