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Summer Colds Are The Worst (1 Viewer)

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James Daulton

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Scratchy throat, congestion, feeling blah.  Severe enough to be annoying but not enough to keep you from work.

Also, symptoms are worstest at night when you're trying to sleep.  

I deserve better!

 
My sinus infection reappeared last week at the end of my vacation. :thumbdown:

I absolutely *** LOVE *** coughing myself into an altered state of consciousness.

 
They do suck.  Did a bunch of survey in N. Dakota a long time ago with a high grade fever and 110 degree heat index.  I don't remember much from that week.

 
James Daulton said:
Scratchy throat, congestion, feeling blah.  Severe enough to be annoying but not enough to keep you from work.

Also, symptoms are worstest at night when you're trying to sleep.  

I deserve better!
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Ugh, been dealing with it for 2 weeks now.  Started with just headaches and light sensitivity, but now full blown cold.  And it's just like you said - not enough to knock you on your ###, but enough to make you feel like crap.

I thought I was getting better until this morning - I feel like poo.  :hangover:

 
Day (night) #2.  Still feel like crap, throat's sore and I have no energy.  I tried to hit it with a couple shots of booze last night, but that doesn't seem to have worked.

Stay tuned as I experiment with more self treatment options on my road to recovery.  And is there anything worse than when you feel like hell but still get hungry?  Can't even ride this waste of time and horrible feeling to losing a few lbs.

FML

 
Ned said:
Ugh, been dealing with it for 2 weeks now.  Started with just headaches and light sensitivity, but now full blown cold.  And it's just like you said - not enough to knock you on your ###, but enough to make you feel like crap.

I thought I was getting better until this morning - I feel like poo.  :hangover:
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I'm ending week 3 with mine / finally think I'm better.  I've been coughing #### up for 7-8 days now.

 
James Daulton said:
Day (night) #2.  Still feel like crap, throat's sore and I have no energy.  I tried to hit it with a couple shots of booze last night, but that doesn't seem to have worked.

Stay tuned as I experiment with more self treatment options on my road to recovery.  And is there anything worse than when you feel like hell but still get hungry?  Can't even ride this waste of time and horrible feeling to losing a few lbs.

FML
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Try Mucinex - that's what finally started getting it out of my system.

 
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Their commercials freak me out.  This cold is negatively impacting my workouts. 
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Hey, I'm stubborn too but I couldn't shake it without it and haven't 100% gotten rid of it yet.  After two weeks of waking my wife up snoring, sniffing, coughing and blowing my nose she had had enough and sent me to the minute clinic.  Doc said it's just a cold and keep doing the Mucinex - she did write me a script for an antibiotic but I'm not taking it unless I have a fever.  

Get well GB - need you posting some selfies in a couple months.

 
4 weeks of yellow phlem, I broke down and got an antibiotic.  I wasn't feeling bad, but I had a sinus infection that wouldn't go away.  Broke my nose when I was little, so my sinuses don't drain well.  I get one every 3-4 years, but usually get sick.  The only thing I can think of is my white blood cells are so strong now due to defending my body from the palm thorn that was in my hand for a year.

 
My wife is into wierd oils now and she has been giving me shots if some oregano oil last 2 days. I feel the cold coming on. Throat is scratchy, stuffiness comes and goes....im fighting it!

Will let you know if the oregano oil #### works

 
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comfortably numb said:
My wife is into wierd oils now and she has been giving me shots if some oregano oil last 2 days. I feel the cold coming on. Throat is scratchy, stuffiness comes and goes....im fighting it!

Will let you know if the oregano oil #### works
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Do you put it in the netipot?

 
comfortably numb said:
My wife is into wierd oils now and she has been giving me shots if some oregano oil last 2 days. I feel the cold coming on. Throat is scratchy, stuffiness comes and goes....im fighting it!

Will let you know if the oregano oil #### works
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Just got back from a run - at one point I had to stop to cough up some phlegm- this old lady out for a walk told me if I start to feel a cold coming on to take some ginger root :shrug:  - I thanked her and kept running.

 
Unfortunatley I'm in the same boat.  Week at Disney and now my throat is killing me.  Just getting over a spring cold, now I'm wondering if I have a bigger issue impacting my immune system...getting old sucks.

 
Over it now but had the worst sore throat of my life last 10 days.  Was on vacation at a beach too  so that really sucked.

 
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I'm about 25% better now I believe.  Dayquil knocks down the symptoms pretty well and when it wears off I can tell I'm not quite as sick as I was yesterday.  Here's hoping I'm all better by tomorrow night so I can workout and put in a long day at work Monday

You may all go back to your regularly scheduled lives. 

 
Used to happen to me all the time when I traveled for work internationally. 

"How do you have a cold in July?"

"Someone just got back from where it's winter in the south equator and spread it."

FML

 
Update.  Still feel like crap, maybe worse than yesterday.  Have a hacking cough in the back of my throat and now my head's congested.

What in the wide wide world of sports is going on around here?

 
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I'm still ####### sick!  Missing work again today and I never miss more than one day of work due to illness but this #### is crazy.  I feel a little better than Friday but not a lot.  Still have the hacking cough, congestion, head and body aches.  I called my Dr's on call number on Sunday but it said to only call him if it's an emergency so I didn't call.  I'm calling this morning and hoping he'll give me some antibiotics or other magic drugs to make this go away.  At least work is pretty slow right now so the lost two days won't kill me catching up.  

Being sick sucks.

 
James Daulton said:
I'm still ####### sick!  Missing work again today and I never miss more than one day of work due to illness but this #### is crazy.  I feel a little better than Friday but not a lot.  Still have the hacking cough, congestion, head and body aches.  I called my Dr's on call number on Sunday but it said to only call him if it's an emergency so I didn't call.  I'm calling this morning and hoping he'll give me some antibiotics or other magic drugs to make this go away.  At least work is pretty slow right now so the lost two days won't kill me catching up.  

Being sick sucks.
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Oooof.

Yesterday was really bad for me.  We went surf fishing on Saturday (I somehow felt decent during the trip), but man that must've zapped whatever energy I had.  I tried cleaning out the truck on Sunday and had to take multiple breaks because I felt like I had just run 20mi.  Took me all day with all the breaks and naps.

Today I'm still cloudy and some congestion, but seems a tad better today.  

Sick of being sick.   :hangover:

 
Ned said:
Oooof.

Yesterday was really bad for me.  We went surf fishing on Saturday (I somehow felt decent during the trip), but man that must've zapped whatever energy I had.  I tried cleaning out the truck on Sunday and had to take multiple breaks because I felt like I had just run 20mi.  Took me all day with all the breaks and naps.

Today I'm still cloudy and some congestion, but seems a tad better today.  

Sick of being sick.   :hangover:
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I am so done with the constant sinus pressure and hacking cough.  OTC relieve the symptoms for a little while then right back they come.

I'm starting to think I may have the ball cancer. 

 
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