Does anybody else get totally wiped from 'just' a cold

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Had a horrid viral cold last month that lasted over two weeks, recovered for a week then came down with another one of the buggers. Hacking cough, sore throat, blocked streaming nose, fatigue. Neither one was covid I tested negative more than once.

It's the joys of having small children I suppose.

DH seems to shake it off after a day but these things really wipe me out to the point I can't function properly.

Anybody else or am I a total wuss?

It's really not 'just' a cold to some people is it?

Yes me! I don’t actually get colds that often (although I am exposed to a lot thanks to the kids), but when I get one it stays with me for weeks. I had one recently that went on for 3 weeks, I felt so rotten and lost my voice.

DH gets them for a day, max, and is then totally fine again. But 90% of the time is completely unaffected. Amazingly, he’s been on the shielding list through covid due to being on immunosuppressants for an autoimmune disease, yet he never ever gets ill! He never gets D&V bugs, either. A couple of Christmases ago DS got noro, and gave it to me, DD, MIL & my DM. DH was completely unaffected, even after DS stuck a vomit-covered hand directly into his mouth!

I wonder if I need more vit D. DH takes a very high dose one due to his other meds. But to be honest, he was like this even before he was taking those. So who knows!

There's alot of stuff going around at the minute isn't there? It's like everything we managed to avoid due to lockdown is now running rampant as we get back to normal. Inevitable I suppose but a huge PITA.

I've never had two colds/viruses in such quick succession. They are definitely different strains as I'd totally recovered before coming down with the second one.

Very jealous of those of you who can function as normal. I have been such a dead weight for the best part of a month and I'm sick of it as nothing gets done.

Yup. Through just about anything at me, no problem. Unless it’s a cold or similar. Weeks of misery.

Another one here. My first cold in over five years, and my God it's a doozie. I live alone, it's masks all the time outdoors in Melbourne, so I know how I picked it up: food shopping.

I always hand sanitise going in, but must say more and more people just breeze past, but I don't on the way out. Lesson learned.

Anyhoo, I'm on day five and utterly miserable. I want someone to tuck me up on the sofa and give me Heinz tomato soup and hot Vimto, the sovereign remedies my late DH and I doled out to each other. Sometimes I hate being a grown-up all the time.

I'm teaching remotely, and by chance had no marking to do since Thursday. I don't know how I'd be able concentrate to to do the job properly. Still, needs must, exams will come rolling in on Monday.

I want someone to tuck me up on the sofa and give me Heinz tomato soup and hot Vimto, the sovereign remedies my late DH and I doled out to each other.

Heinz tomato soup and hot vimto sound amazing right now, I know what I'll be asking DH to pick up from the shops

Yep, I get absolutely horrible colds. But on the other hand, as far as I'm aware I've never caught the flu (unless I'm mixing up the two, but I don't think so).

Do any of you take vitamin D supplements? I've always neen one of the 'feel like death with just a cold' types but started taking vit D on my GPs advice a few years ago and it really seemed to help.

I've been taking vitamin D for a while but couldn't say whether it's helping or not yet. I think the fact I'm pregnant means my immune system is at a low point so any potential benefit is probably overshadowed by that atm.

The cough has eased a bit today thank god, but I'm super blocked up and full of green mucus

I forgot to add.. antihistamines! Somebody reccomended them to me and most are safe in pregnancy (I have loratadine which I looked up on the NHS website, fine to use in pregnancy or when breastfeeding) and I dare say it has made a difference today.

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I want someone to tuck me up on the sofa and give me Heinz tomato soup and hot Vimto, the sovereign remedies my late DH and I doled out to each other.

Heinz tomato soup and hot vimto sound amazing right now, I know what I'll be asking DH to pick up from the shops

I felt I had to update on this. I got me down to Woolies to find some Heinz tomato soup, knowing the shelves would be full of the disgusting Aussie Heinz Big Red. You can still get the original recipe here , though made in NZ and lacking the iconic tomato-vined packaging of my youth. Yay.

Back home for the Vimto, we 'd bought a bottle over ten years ago, but I reckoned its being so full of sugar gave it a half-life of plutonium. I wasn't wrong. An odd thing about VImto cordial when outside the sacred North of England was that it was only readily available in Indian groceries in London. And it's the same in Melbourne, like some hangover from Empire.

Anyway, I tucked myself up and was happy.

I've never had two colds/viruses in such quick succession. They are definitely different strains as I'd totally recovered before coming down with the second one.

I am suffering with my second cold in a month too. definitely different colds are I recovered fine in between. I hadn't had a cold, sick bug or anything since Lockdown 1 started. As soon as DS1 doesn't have to wear a mask any more at school and DS2's primary classroom has gone back to normal layout and lessons (no more sitting in rows facing front, indoor PE and singing indoors now allowed) - BAM! We've all had both colds and DS2 had a sick bug in between too.

It's not about complaining that my precious offspring and me have been exposed to - oh horror - a cold! It's that if my kids can catch all these bugs now school mitigation techniques are laxer, they can sure as hell catch the much more contagious Covid variant that is increasing daily in our area!