Anyone just never THAT ill?

[TheRookie]

I may live to regret this thread, tempting fate and all that....

But is anyone else just never ill enough to be in bed all day?? I am always seeing on Instagram and Facebook people /influencers are ill in bed, so full of cold or whatever. I get colds but I just carry on with it, dose up with day nurse and be on my way!!

I remember once in the last 5 years since having kids I was in bed for a day with a sore throat but that was because I was heavily pregnant and absolutely terrified it was covid, and didn't want to pass anything on to my other kids and DH. I wasn't actually ill, more scared!!

I actually crave a day in a cosy bed with a book, hot drinks on tap 😅😅

I had 100% attendance in school and rarely call in sick. I was ill every school holidays though and I can't remember a Christmas where I haven't been ill. My body saves it up for when I relax. It's fab.

I was like this, along with many friends, until my 50th year. (I am 52 now) Got Guillain Barre syndrome and was literally paralised in ICU on life support for 6 weeks.

2 friends are dead (within a year) from cancer. (under 55)
1 has breast cancer right now and can[t get out of bed.

I wonder how old you are?

At 47 I would have been saying the same.

I'm very envious of you all. My immune system is shit, without having any actual auto immune condition, and I catch everything going. I can battle through some colds, but I'd say at least three or four times a year I come down with something that just knocks me on my arse and I have to take a day or two in bed or I just don't recover. It's not fun though, because you feel shit and even once you're functional again, you still feel like crap, just not enough like crap to justify lying in bed any more.

Including Covid I think I'm at 3 illness requiring actual bed rest this year. I rage against every single one. I'm too busy to abdicate from life, but it's forced on me

Does anyone ever NOT get floored with norovirus? I have a bad sick phobia and would love to hear anyone… just one person… say it’s not so bad!!! Or at least not terrifying! 🙈

I seem to catch colds very easily, before covid I used to soldier on into the office with all the other sneezy tired people. Post covid I’m much more conscious of isolating and stopping others catching my germs… when I think about how many were ill at work spreading everything pre covid, it seems so grim!!

Me. I've never had a day in bed ever - I'm now touching something wooden!

I can't remember the last time I took time off work, not in the last 20 years, pre children there may have been self inflicted reasons for missing work

I was on life support and not expected to live some 27 years ago.

Once I got past repeated chest infections for a few years afterwards, I've been in fairly rude health (touch wood). Food poisioning is most likely to properly take me out of action, everything else I tend to plough on through.

And I'm very unforgiving of other people moaning about being ill, which is a not so nice hang over of my own illness.

Can count the times I’ve been that ill.

Covid before it had a name.
Pregnant and had flu.
After a seizure.
This week when my ear drum had a hole and I could barely wake up.

Does anyone ever NOT get floored with norovirus?

aha! Me! That one doesn’t get me. Chaotic upbringing so I ate some SERIOUSLY terrible things as a kid. Norovirus doesn’t touch me. People say wow you must keep your toilet so clean… nope. My stomach is clearly adjusted for feral living, on scraps and green ham.

Yes twice this year. A week in bed with Covid and made worse by broken ribs affecting my breathing. Then a few weeks later I was even worse with flu. My temperature was so high that I was hallucinating. I'm hoping I've had my share for a few years because the previous time I was that ill I was 22, a long time ago.

People do things differently. When my DF was dying he still got up each day, got dressed etc. When he was in hospital, he would get up each day and get dressed rather than staying in bed. The day he died he got up, had a shave, got dressed, etc.

It doesn't mean he wasn't ill. He was very tired and he would nod off, even in the middle of a conversation. He just would never stay in bed all day if it could possibly be avoided. Unfortunately it also meant the health care team didn't realise just how ill he was, and he wasn't moved onto the palliative pathway when he should have been.

Thinking about it, I would always choose to get up rather than stay in bed all day. But I did carry on going to work with double pneumonia, which was taking things too far, and meant it took longer to recover. That was because the dr didn't think to sign me off and I didn't think to ask.

I've only had it once (stomach of steel!)
Also phobic
I was actually only sick twice but the other end.. Ended up sleeping in the bathroom as I basically went about 70 times a day
Then on day 3 I went down with flu. Was a fun week!

Real flu had me bedridden for days. Food poisoning also left me unable to leave bed apart from the toilet for 2 days. Apart from that I'd get on with it.

My mum was like this and so am
I but then she had cancer and died so when she did get ill she got really ill. Just reckon that will be my luck too

Yes, two threads on it very recently. 50s to 60s "sniper alley"

Lots of healthy people, vegan, non smokers, never ill, welloff (ie no hardship) just die. Cancer.
With some cancers, you really are bed ridden. It is not a question of "I will go to the loo, have a shower" you cannot move, you wear nappies, you die.

Make it past that, you will be ok until 80.

I'm sometimes ill, but never 'sick' ill. I think it's worse if you're prone to vomiting. Luckily none of us are - aside from my stepson who was a VERY sicky child!

Also I'm not often that ill, but I do have pain - as in, I get migraines and I also get really bad facial pain (probably from grinding my teeth) but it's so bad painkillers don't touch it. As it's not often I don't really want anything stronger than paracetamol or ibuprofen.

My maternal grandparents died of heart attack and cancer; paternal of old age - rarely ill at all. Hope I go the same way they did.

That sounds like flu. Key difference between flu and generic cold viruses is the speed of which they come on.

Real flu can be asymptomatic. That's the whole point of giving 5-11 year olds the flu vac, you wouldn't know they have it as they get it so mildly but if they pass it to grandparents they could die. Exactly like covid. Under 5 get it for this reason too and because flu can hit them hard when they socialise in Preschool and nursery.

Absolute bollocks. If you have real flu you can't barely walk to the loo, or get a glass of water. Once I couldn't pick up my bf baby off the cot next to me.

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Oh yes that’s what I remember. When I left work I was fine and then on the bus I was really struggling to breathe without the fire feeling in my chest and I remember feeling at the time quite panicked as I had never felt that before. I’ll put it down to flu as I was a fit and healthy 22 year old.

Ditto.
I never knew this wretched condition could be so awful. Don’t feel as if I’ve even got the energy to breathe today. 😔

I count myself very lucky to rarely be ill. I don’t know if it’s just an attitude thing or if I actually get less ill/have a stronger immune system than others. I don’t think I’ve ever been unwell enough to stay in bed all day. Covid was really really awful but I was 36 weeks pregnant so might have been worse than otherwise, and before that was probably Bali Belly on honeymoon 10 years ago! Never been that horrendously ill before and hope to never repeat it. Even then still managed to get out of bed and eat some rice 😄 I don’t think I’ve ever lost my appetite and it shows hahaha

Flu when pregnant with ds1. Spent 2 weeks in bed, just sleeping, drinking water and going to the toilet. Probably the most ill I’ve ever been. Ds1 was born 3 weeks after that and was as skinny as anything (though is now an adult and is still skinny).

also had kidney infection once. The only thing which helped was lying in a hot bath until the antibiotics kicked in on day 3. I remember crying with the pain and I looked grey.

Don’t believe anything influencers say or post. What sort of person posts photos of themselves when apparently so Ill anyway? Attention seeking dickheads with no life. What normal person does that? Stop following that trash

Oh I am in pain daily though and have a random facial rash that flares up and wipes me out that no-one can diagnose, so I’m not perfect after all 😄

Me. I have never ever been unwell enough to skip any prior commitment whether work, social or anything else. I only missed school for chicken pox - and even then I wasn'tactually unwell, but I had the spots. When I had Covid I still worked, just online. I've never been to bed before 10pm (except maybe in the first week or two with a new born?). I've never spent a whole afternoon on the sofa. Maybe once a year at most I'll have 30 min afternoon nap if I'm tired - but that's more likely to be a after a late night out than from being ill. I've never been to the doctor for anything other than contraception/pregnancy/smear/vaccination.

I guess it's mainly just luck. I know it won't last forever. But I think a little bit must be attitude too. My husband and kids are pretty much the same. The rest of my family not much different either. When people talk about spending the day in bed I'm sympathetic, but depending on the context a little bit of me is sometimes thinking "really???". And if I say I'm not feeling 100% and someone suggests bed I probably look at them as if they are crazy!