Latest awful lurgey
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Currently enjoying a new variant on the cold/flu/whatever it is.
Not as bad as the flu thing from a couple of months ago; that was truly miserable. This is just annoying more than anything: constantly runny nose, lots of sneezing, really irksome part is having barely been able to taste anything for about 3 weeks now.
Anyone had similar? If so how long before you can properly taste again? I enjoy my grub (a bit too much) and it's dismal not being able to do so!
Not as bad as the flu thing from a couple of months ago; that was truly miserable. This is just annoying more than anything: constantly runny nose, lots of sneezing, really irksome part is having barely been able to taste anything for about 3 weeks now.
Anyone had similar? If so how long before you can properly taste again? I enjoy my grub (a bit too much) and it's dismal not being able to do so!
I have it, or have something. Started nearly two weeks ago with just a sore throat and I thought, here we go, cold on its way. Colds don't normally wipe me out like this has though. Last weekend was spent either shivering with achy muscles, permanently blocked nose, and cough that left my chest burning, or just falling asleep for most of Sunday. Then when I think I'm getting over it, it comes back at me with some of the same Wednesday/Thursday. Now I've mostly just got the annoying cough. Benylin seems to be helping with that a bit.
I did lose sense of taste for a couple of days, on the other hand that might have been down to my attempts to kill whatever this is with fire in the form of homemade curry.
I did lose sense of taste for a couple of days, on the other hand that might have been down to my attempts to kill whatever this is with fire in the form of homemade curry.
Wife & I both been unwell for a week and she mentioned sharp burning in her chest, but I haven’t had that. No blocked runny nose for either of us, both sore throats and coughs (she’s been worse than me),
My lungs feel gurgly if I lie on my right side, and my head’s been muddled until today and I found it difficult to focus to read. My appetite has gone completely. My heart rate is elevated too - it’s generally around 100. Wife’s is normal.
My lungs feel gurgly if I lie on my right side, and my head’s been muddled until today and I found it difficult to focus to read. My appetite has gone completely. My heart rate is elevated too - it’s generally around 100. Wife’s is normal.
Edited by Sheepshanks on Monday 15th April 03:29
ajap1979 said:
Not sure what the latest awful lurgey is, but I'm pretty sure I have it. Like so many other posts here, I'm a fit and healthy individual, I pay a lot of attention to my diet, ensuring it is nutritious and loaded with antioxidants. I sleep well and I exercise lots. Colds are something that are normally experienced once every couple of years, and generally brushed off without too much pain or effort.
At the beginning of February I started with a mild cough. Not thinking too much of it, I ignored it and carried on as usual. By the time we went on holiday on the 8th it had progressed to some mild pain down the left side of my chest. We go to Tenerife and I love to run every day in the warm weather, so I was determined to continue ignoring it, which ultimately was a stupid thing to do. I woke one night breathless and the mild pain had been replaced with a sharp stabbing pain each time I coughed or breathed in deeply. I saw a doctor the next day who said I had bronchitis, and he prescribed a seven day course of antibiotics, saying I'd feel better within five days. With a week of lying in the sun ahead of me, I was pretty confident I'd shift it, but when I returned home I still wasn't 100%. Then it progressively got worse to the point where I saw a doctor this week and was prescribed another seven days of antibiotics. I've gone from running 40 miles a week, to feeling out of breath just walking the dog.
I guess my lesson is to be sympathetic to the first signs that I may be coming down with something. I rarely rest, but quite often I credit not getting ill to that, feeling like rest is me putting down my guard.
Theres a varient of whooping cough doing the rounds (100 day cough is another name they are calling it). Lots around. My wifes had it since end dec/early jan, I got it early march, just getting over it, but still feel tired quicklyAt the beginning of February I started with a mild cough. Not thinking too much of it, I ignored it and carried on as usual. By the time we went on holiday on the 8th it had progressed to some mild pain down the left side of my chest. We go to Tenerife and I love to run every day in the warm weather, so I was determined to continue ignoring it, which ultimately was a stupid thing to do. I woke one night breathless and the mild pain had been replaced with a sharp stabbing pain each time I coughed or breathed in deeply. I saw a doctor the next day who said I had bronchitis, and he prescribed a seven day course of antibiotics, saying I'd feel better within five days. With a week of lying in the sun ahead of me, I was pretty confident I'd shift it, but when I returned home I still wasn't 100%. Then it progressively got worse to the point where I saw a doctor this week and was prescribed another seven days of antibiotics. I've gone from running 40 miles a week, to feeling out of breath just walking the dog.
I guess my lesson is to be sympathetic to the first signs that I may be coming down with something. I rarely rest, but quite often I credit not getting ill to that, feeling like rest is me putting down my guard.
Well, think I'm finally coming to the end of whatever I had.
Various iterations since the first week in Jan - that's 4 months.
Lingering cold symptoms started clearing up last week - still have the occasional cough, but its calming down, sense of taste and smell seems to be gradually coming back.
Not been able to fully enjoy a meal for months!
The little one has developed a runny nose / cough over the past two days, so I'm fully expecting to have contracted that by the end of the week.
For the time being I'm taking delight in the fact I can taste food again.
Various iterations since the first week in Jan - that's 4 months.
Lingering cold symptoms started clearing up last week - still have the occasional cough, but its calming down, sense of taste and smell seems to be gradually coming back.
Not been able to fully enjoy a meal for months!
The little one has developed a runny nose / cough over the past two days, so I'm fully expecting to have contracted that by the end of the week.
For the time being I'm taking delight in the fact I can taste food again.
I managed to avoid covid, though I did get the jabs for work and travel reasons. I have been bed ridden for almost ten days now and don’t seem to be getting any better. At the start it felt like a very bad cold but over the last week or more it has been truly awful. I didn’t think it was possible to feel this bad without actually dying first. I don’t get ill very often but this is on a whole new level. What if anything makes this better/go away?
Every inch of me aches
Every inch of me aches
Feeling rough for the first time in about 6yrs, the worst hacking cough I have ever had, sound like a 60 a day man, didn't know it was possible to produce some much crap, color range is cool though, bright green through to hard brown lumps, I presume the are sections of decaying lung, probably around day 5 or 6 now, was really impacting on my sleep which made it worse, that was until I started taking Benylin the drowsy one, wow 8hrs straight through.
Belfast Bap said:
I managed to avoid covid, though I did get the jabs for work and travel reasons. I have been bed ridden for almost ten days now and don’t seem to be getting any better. At the start it felt like a very bad cold but over the last week or more it has been truly awful. I didn’t think it was possible to feel this bad without actually dying first. I don’t get ill very often but this is on a whole new level. What if anything makes this better/go away?
Every inch of me aches
Same here, avoided covid throughout the entire pandemic but this got me.Every inch of me aches
I found the remedies that worked best were the ones that contain paracetamol, phenylephrine hydrochloride and guaifenesin. And hot lemon made with real lemon juice with some ginger added, tastes disgusting but helps you feel better. Wrap yourself up in bed and sweat it out.
king arthur said:
Belfast Bap said:
I managed to avoid covid, though I did get the jabs for work and travel reasons. I have been bed ridden for almost ten days now and don’t seem to be getting any better. At the start it felt like a very bad cold but over the last week or more it has been truly awful. I didn’t think it was possible to feel this bad without actually dying first. I don’t get ill very often but this is on a whole new level. What if anything makes this better/go away?
Every inch of me aches
Same here, avoided covid throughout the entire pandemic but this got me.Every inch of me aches
I found the remedies that worked best were the ones that contain paracetamol, phenylephrine hydrochloride and guaifenesin. And hot lemon made with real lemon juice with some ginger added, tastes disgusting but helps you feel better. Wrap yourself up in bed and sweat it out.
Wow what a week. Came back from a few days in cornwall went to Newquey whic it seems was rife with covid. Came back last week did not test but have had a nasty bout of something 3 days lolling around in bed a cough that has strained my abs etc.What really did me was it took my brain into a reall downer,full of all my regrets,the wrong turns I have made not as young as I was,could not get out my head this hill called mount wise that I drove up last week in newquey but could easily run it when on holiday and now getting up the stairs is not easy lol all these negatives running round my head and got weepy a couple of times it was horrible.I am over the worse of it and feeling more positive again,very odd virus
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