We’re all so ill

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What is going on with the violent & never-ending illnesses this year. DS1 came home from school at the end of Nov with flu, sat under a blanket on the sofa for 10 days & then went back to school. Immediately upon his return DS2 (4) caught it & repeat with him for the full ghastly period. Then, last Sat, down I came with it - full-blown, face-exploding, sneezing, shivers, fever, nausea etc etc. Still feeling exhausted/congested. Wed this week just gone DS1 comes home from school coughing. Cue next two days coughing, shivering, vomiting & generally feeling wretched. Yesterday DH starts with the cough, shivers, aches. DS2 pale & lethargic this morning, not eating so awaiting the fresh hell of him about to get sick again.

I’m not sure how much more of this shit I can take. The house is in a terrible state, so untidy. I’m exhausted, we haven’t done tree/anything Christmas related because we’ve all been so so rough for the last month. We all had the flu jab this year, I know it’s not guaranteed to give complete protection but I was hoping it would take the edge off. Appreciate these illnesses may not have been flu but they sure felt like it in terms of symptoms/severity etc.

I’m so done. I’ve never known a winter like it for illness

Odour free garlic capsules going forward.

I rarely get a cold/virus touch wood but at the first sign I take 500mg vit c.

I only had a cold for one day last week!

Not so lucky with migraines and headaches mind ...

Same! Currently recovering from flu and I don't have the energy to hold my phone and reply too much here.

We've had 3 x flu in December, 2 chest infections in November and a UTI on Christmas Market weekend away.

Sounds like my 2022 version of the 12 Days of Christmas. 😆

Get well soon everyone. I would love a walk outside but the sharp cold air will trigger my chest again and currently have Costochondritis. So stuck indoors 😕

I've heard this story so often recently. Its shit. It's just completely shit. I'm currently in bed with a fever and bad head...I cant think of one week in the last 6 weeks where one of us didn't have similar. It's getting me down and I have an understanding employer and because of when I was ill (I had noro over some holiday I'd booked off for example) and the ages of my kids and I wfh it's not been too bad work wise. So I feel a bit over the top in feeling down about it as no one is at deaths door...it just feels constant though. A lot of people I know are going through similar.

I was just thinking this morning that we need a 2 week circuit breaker, staying at home and not seeing anyone for 2 weeks sounds amazing right now.

Fingers crossed you're all better soon and that's it before xmas.

I feel your pain.
have Covid for first time (testing still as NHS staff)
god I feel dreadful today, trying not to think about all the things that need doing as we’ve just returned from holiday abroad too 😩

@DrinkFeckArseBrick

Agree with the 2week circuit breaker. It’s so needed now to limit these awful illnesses from spreading

Sorry you're all so unwell. We had an awful virus that knocked me out and it's so difficult to get straightened out again after.

Agree with the 2week circuit breaker. It’s so needed now to limit these awful illnesses from spreading

Absolutely not, this is how we are in this mess inthe first place. Some Drs have accredited the Step A and Scarlett fever reductions to our piss poor immune systems after lockdowns. These viruses have always existed - what's changed is our exposure to them.

I could have written your post.
@BeautifulWar oh yes we do need this circuit breaker as the pharmacists here couldn’t even supply us pencillin for
my little one - you can’t see a doc for love or money . So until you’re in this position please don’t talk. It’s been 4 weeks of hell here for us and many other families I know from school. Partner nearly got admitted to hospital because of pneumonia. We are wrecked and still are.

You are confusing hard lock downs with having a school Xmas holiday circuit breaker for everybody where everybody needs a break to rejuvenate and recover. A 20% of our school was off ill last week, including staff. Numbers speak for themselves. It’s been a horrible month.

I've noticed that people who get colds are being floored by them for 2 weeks. In the past, it would have been a few days of sniffles.

Just an observation. I'm not a Mumsnet doctor or anything

We’re just being hit now with all the usual bugs that are around in the winter. As another poster has said, that’s the result of all the pointless lockdowns. The last thing we need is a “circuit breaker”!

I'm absolutely full of it atm, having already had a cold last month. Feeling very sorry for myself. Sympathies, OP!

Absolutely not to a circuit breaker! If people choose to self-impose one that's up to them but I think our immune systems just need to shape up after 2 winters spent abnormally.

According to fb memories, I get ill pretty much this time every single year. I've usually watched all my colleagues floored by it before it gets me. This year is no exception. But hopefully over by Xmas.

Schools are horrible, germ infested places at the minute. Kids coughing and sneezing and asking for tissues all the time. I spend a fortune on tissues.

Could have written your post!
I have no idea what's going on but christ I am so done with this winter. Absolutely relentless

We’ve all had various illnesses over the last couple of weeks. Wife was so poorly the only time I’d seen her look so rough was immediately after childbirth.

Still, “rather now than Christmas I thought” although my dad just phoned me to say he’s got a horrific cold…we were out with him last night. Have I tempted fate? We shall see

I’m 3 weeks into this dreaded bug! My house is a tip, my son has watched so much YouTube! I’ve just had a bath (too pathetic for a shower) now having a lie down before going out. It’s so frustrating!

I have just had a cold that lasted two weeks - very unlike me and usually shake things very quickly. It was also much more severe than the usual cold. Also much worse than when I had covid for 5 days at the beginning of the year. It is lack of immunity

Depends on your definition of ‘circuit breaker’. If it means you personally take it east to rest and recover, fine, go for it. If you think we should close businesses and FORCE people apart, jog on!

I am getting over 'flu too - also had jab in October. I have the jab every year and haven't had flu' for several years till now.

Yes I haven’t been dressed in almost 2 weeks coming towards the end of it now I hope

There was a scientific research paper published earlier this month - what seems to be happening is, if you have covid it not only lowers your immune system, it limits what the remaining immune system can do (obviously it sounds far more scientific than this, and involves white blood cells and T cells), so a simple cold lasts much longer and is far more severe.
This also explains what’s going on with the current strep A outbreak.

I'm really worried about this. I'm having chemo at the moment and was hospitalised with an infection last week, only 5 days after my first chemo session. I've never felt so ill on top of all of the chemo side effects. I already hadn't seen my children for two weeks because they had illness after illness and I'd been advised to stay away so they had to move in with my parents for a while. I'm so scared I'm going to catch something again. The antibiotics they had me on caused me such painful diarrhoea I needed morphine to cope. Feels as though there is literally nothing good left in my life anymore, it's so depressing. All I ever hear is bad news and misery.

I mean, the schools need to have a circuit break @Mariposista as the kids are just coming home week after week with some new illness

The schools naturally get a break though out the year away, the lockdowns have delayed our immune system from getting a regular bout to keep topped up and ready to defend. We’ve had exactly the same the past month it’s relentless, as a single mum it’s even harder, and with a 6mo getting EVERYTHING…. But a circuit break is not going to do anything at this point.

God we had this when the DC were small in about 2010. We got back to back swine flu, chickenpox and norovirus. I had a sick child at home continuously for 11 weeks. Drove me insane and thank de fuck I was on mat leave. Christmas was a write off.
Hope you feel better this week.

I hope your family all feel better soon OP. I started with flu on Wednesday - coughing, aching, shivering, pains, nausea - today it's finally started to come out. I feel very sorry for myself as I'm not going to be able to take my DS to see winter lights tonight. It's rubbish.

I've also heard the theory that it's not lack of immunity caused by lockdowns but lack of immunity caused by covid itself. Past covid infections seem to lower immunity to other illnesses. I hope there is research going into it.