To be fed up of feeling rough

[PumpkinPie2016]

Not really asking for solutions as such but aibu to be fed up of being ill 🤧

For context, I am 35 and teach in a secondary school. Fit and well normally.

Got a bad cold towards the end of September which wasn't necessarily unexpected. Lasted about 9 days and seemed to improve. Floored me while I had it, though I was in work.

Few days later, it came back- this time more a head cold. Had a pcr due to fever which was negative.

Then it went for a bit and half term came. Swollen lymph node under my left arm which was really painful and I was utterly exhausted. Got over that.

Last week and half - it's back again. With horrendous cough, had red blisters in my throat, shivering. Two pcrs and eleventy billion lateral flows done - all negative!

Just so fed up. I had to have a day off work last week (first in years so really not like me) as I felt so awful.

Is anyone else just constantly unwell? Moan over haha 😄

Yes, same age and job and I’m experiencing the same as you. I haven’t been off ill for years, and somehow dragged myself through this week by going to sleep straight after work each day. I seem to be catching the next big before I’ve recovered from the first.
We’re all wearing masks here.

Yep, same. My job provides PCR tests and every week I have tested negative for COVID. It's not quite the right symptoms anyway.
I am really fed up of it now. This is the longest head cold/feeling fatigued ever...! I can't seem to make myself feel better; nothing works.

I feel for you. Could the problem be that you're not taking enough time off? You're not giving your body any recovery time from the first thing so your resistance is low and you're catching the next thing.

Could you get a "positive" result and take 2 weeks off to recover?

Sounds like you need it irrespective of covid status.

Sorry to hear others are suffering similar 😢 back in masks at our school too in corridord but it's becoming difficult to enforce sadly. Doesn't seem to be the same support for it as before.

@CouldThisReallyBe you may well have a very valid point there. I am a head of a core department and we have had more staff absence than usual this term for various reasons so I have been desperately trying to keep going to hold the department together

Maybe I do just need to take a few days to recover. I feel so bad for my exam classes though

Tests aren't 100% reliable - could you be suffering from Long Covid?

I'm a bit older than you but same job. There has been a lot of staff absence this term but honestly if you're very ill, you should stay at home.

Same here!
Teacher- and have had to take time off for colds twice through COVID- never have done before. Felt shocking. And the rest of the time I feel crap, but manageable crap.
It's probably a mixture of stress from massive changes and having to change plans all the time different bugs about, covering others etc in an already stressful job.
Sorry you feel ill- look after yourself.