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Post by sunshine78 on May 29, 2010 22:14:58 GMT -5
It's one thing if you're not contagious, anymore, but sh*t - half of my department has been out with this effing cold, at least every day this week. Just when I thought it was all over, and I was safe, I come down with it at about 5pm, today.
My back hurts like a s0nofab1tch, and I'm freezing my balls off. I drove to get dinner in a long sleeved t-shirt, jeans, Uggs, and a jean jacket in 80+ degree heat, and had to roll the window down to get some warmth into the car.
Some jackass cost me my three-day weekend, which NEVER happens, at my place of work. EVER.
Jackasses.
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Post by hellsbells on May 30, 2010 6:42:48 GMT -5
Tak huuuuge amounts of vitamin C
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Post by Karen on May 30, 2010 8:06:52 GMT -5
Ugh, that SUCKS! I just got over a nasty one last week. Yuck.
Zicam, Zicam, Zicam! Go out and get a bottle and start taking it asap. It'll reduce the severity and length of the cold.
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Post by sunshine78 on Jun 13, 2010 22:53:49 GMT -5
That damned cold turned into bronchitis and conjunctivitis, last weekend.
I was FINALLY able to leave the apartment for something besides work and visits to CVS for the first time in three weeks. Hanging by the pool was the shiz.
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Post by cherry on Jun 14, 2010 7:50:56 GMT -5
Just before I got referred for my 2nd surgery, I was constantly sick. I had 5 colds, a bout of flu and a chest infection in the space of 3 months that I can remember! There was no way I could stay off work as I would have been taken down the disciplinary route due to endo-related absence, plus I was on unpaid sick leave only. I was very particular about hygiene in an effort not to pass it to anyone else but for the flu I had to stay off 2 days cos I felt so awful. Thing is, my colleague picked it up on the day that I had come in sick before I went off, he was fine but then passed it to his baby son who ended up in hospital. I really regret that but it's a horrible choice to make, going in to work sick.
I've not been as sick since except for some 'apparent' swine flu but I highly suggest zinc and vitamin c, 1 a day of each on top of your multi vitamin.
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Post by hellsbells on Jun 14, 2010 16:10:49 GMT -5
I take 4 or 5 x 500 mg vit c a day as soon as I feel the tickle in the back of the throat. Do that for a couple of days and then take fewer. I swerar, it either stops it completely in its tracks or really minimises the damage. Vit C is like nature's antibiotic!
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