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I’m f’ing ill… again. Wtf is wrong with me

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Kanfuzed123 · 02/05/2023 11:17

I’m ill again… cold, not a huge problem but it’s just so persistent. I’ve literally been consistently ill since November and picked up every mother ducking but since I caught covid in July of last year.

i wake up feeling like death warmed up, constantly exhausted and in some sort of pain. I’ve been to the drs had a blood test they did a fbc, inflammation markers up, low in folate, iron and everything else ok. I had a stool test (so glam) and it had high calprotectin but my colonoscopy was all clear so not clue what that was.

anyone else been just catching everything left right and centre and was able to well, stop? It’s getting a bit embarrassing work wise and I’d be lying if I said it’s not effecting my performance, just feeling lousy all the time.

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Casdentwo · 02/05/2023 11:22

Yes me to !!!! I've had two good weeks but seem to be sniffing again. I've wondered if it's from having had covid or the covid vacine

midgemadgemodge · 02/05/2023 11:22

Diet ?
Weight?
Exercise?
Age ?
Pollution?

bornintheuk2 · 02/05/2023 11:33

I'm a great believer in Echinacea for a. dealing with the shitty symptoms of a cold and b. building up your immune system so you can better fight off further infections. I was a teacher for many years and I rarely caught a cold. I took echinacea (two a day) to deal with symptoms and 1 a day as a maintenance dose through cold season

bornintheuk2 · 02/05/2023 11:35

posted too quickly..... it could of course be hay fever (lots of tree pollen around at the mo)

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Kanfuzed123 · 02/05/2023 11:36

midgemadgemodge · 02/05/2023 11:22

Diet ?
Weight?
Exercise?
Age ?
Pollution?

Diet: could be better, CoL has just meant that we’ve cut back, I used to get that yummy bakery fresh whole meal bread but now I had the kids (toddlers so have been advised white carbs for them) their bread. Still eat fruit and veg but I definitely have less of it than I used to, prioritising them.

weight: 1kg up, but until colonoscopy had awful awful stomach pain and bloating that was putting 10 inches on my tummy and gave it this almost water bed texture so can’t really know what was fat weight and water weight
exercise; mainly at the weekend, walking with kids on days out, wfh isn’t great but now weather is better getting out for a 40 min brisk walk at lunch
age: 33
pollution: I don’t know, live zone 3 of a city that’s not london but isn’t too too far from a motorway

im still breastfeeding but honestly I’m just exhausted and it’s mentally getting me down

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Rowthe · 02/05/2023 11:42

Are you taking any supplements?

Make sure you're taking approx 3,000 units of vit d a day. Finding the sprays you can buy the best- the on with K2 as well.

Also maybe regular multivitamin that contains zinc as well as iron.

ScrambledSmegs · 02/05/2023 11:45

Inflammation - you can help reduce this with a diet that controls glucose. I know, very fashionable right now in the media with the Glucose Goddess stuff but I've found it to be really beneficial. I started doing it because I have rosacea and it was worth a try but it has genuinely helped with everything I've been low-suffering with for ages (menopause symptoms, migraines, frequent colds, low energy) and just assumed was part of my life now.

SeaToSki · 02/05/2023 11:55

Vit D, Magnesium, Calcium, Iron, Vit C and B variety pack. Try and get all of them in every day at 100% of the recommended amounts and go over the top on D,C and B

then take a zinc based cold remedy when you are ill and for 2 days afterwards.

You are probably deficient in all of them as your immune system uses them to fight off diseases, you need to restock your reserves so you can have an effective immune system

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Kanfuzed123 · 02/05/2023 12:18

SeaToSki · 02/05/2023 11:55

Vit D, Magnesium, Calcium, Iron, Vit C and B variety pack. Try and get all of them in every day at 100% of the recommended amounts and go over the top on D,C and B

then take a zinc based cold remedy when you are ill and for 2 days afterwards.

You are probably deficient in all of them as your immune system uses them to fight off diseases, you need to restock your reserves so you can have an effective immune system

I’ve been taking a generic asda brand that had everything In it, should I spruce for some better ones?

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Kanfuzed123 · 02/05/2023 12:19

AussieManque · 02/05/2023 11:44

Have you by any chance had covid in the last few months? It can dampen your immune system.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2022-12-02/covid-immune-system-infection-virus-rsv-cold-flu-respiratory/101716360

I had it over the summer and I caught everything under the sun since, it doesn’t help 2 nursery aged kids. But when it was just dc1 in nursery, I didn’t get anything really. I just feel on the floor with exhaustion

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Hopingforno2in2023 · 02/05/2023 12:22

You are me! I also had blood tests to check and all were fine. So so sick of being sick.

talknomore · 02/05/2023 12:24

You may suffer from Long Covid.
Lack of sleep with 2 small kids will not help you.

AlltheFs · 02/05/2023 12:27

Same here. DD constantly ill from nursery and so are DH and me. I have had 10 days between 2 cough viruses. It’s absolutely ridiculous.

I can’t remember the last time I was actually well. My bloods are absolutely 100% normal, I take vitamins. Do need more exercise but can’t breathe so that’s not happening.

I had Covid twice last year 5 months apart. The last one was Christmas and we were ill for a month. My immune system is absolutely buggered.

DD is 3.5, been in nursery for 2.5 years, it’s all lies that it gets better. It isn’t!!

TheYearOfSmallThings · 02/05/2023 12:35

I was going to ask if you have a nursery aged child...and you have two! They will be the source of the infections and once they've had every illness available you will stop catching stuff.

I was ready to be buried after DS's first winter in nursery but thank god things improved after that.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 02/05/2023 12:36

it’s all lies that it gets better. It isn’t!!

For most people it honestly does get better, I swear!

Zebee · 02/05/2023 12:41

If your calprotectin is high did you have an endoscopy as well as colonoscopy? Inflammation in the small bowel can cause high calprotectin. Did they take biopsies?

But also covid infection can cause susceptibility to other infections add that to kids and it is a recipe to catch every bug going.

Thesearmsofmine · 02/05/2023 12:43

I had about 3 months at the start of the year like this. It was so horrible. Try and get out in the fresh air and sunshine as much as you can(I know it’s not always easy) but I find it helps me.

Laiste · 02/05/2023 12:49

Flowers OP
I seem to be lurching from one horrible thing to the next too.

At the mo it's a nasty chesty cough. (doing no bloody good to my pelvic floor and worse keeps making me flood as on period!🙄🙄)
Only just got over a sore throat and earache about 2 weeks ago.

I'm not one for keeping track of illness but friend rang this morn to see if i'd had a good bank hols and i'm cough-coughing away down the phone and she said ''You're ill AGAIN??!!'' and i thought - yes, now you mention it. How many more illnesses must i have this winter/spring?! I take a fist full of vitamins every day and have done for years ...

I have a primary aged DD and 2 older DDs who seem to bring everything home from work with them so i feel like i've no hope till the warm weather when i'm usually always well 🙄

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Kanfuzed123 · 02/05/2023 12:59

Zebee · 02/05/2023 12:41

If your calprotectin is high did you have an endoscopy as well as colonoscopy? Inflammation in the small bowel can cause high calprotectin. Did they take biopsies?

But also covid infection can cause susceptibility to other infections add that to kids and it is a recipe to catch every bug going.

No they did colonoscopy first because that’s the end most of my symptoms were, no reflux or indigestion but awful bloating and swelling and mucous. They did do biopsies I’ve a follow up app in June, guessing because all looked hunky dorey, initially the dr thought Crohn’s but not sure now, maybe I have an endoscopy in my future

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Shintyhappypeople · 02/05/2023 13:00

Metatone tonic always helps me when I'm getting to the tail end of a bug. I'm now taking vitamin d too, can't say for sure that it's helping but I haven't had anything for a while.
After covid last time I felt shit for months, everything from colds to conjunctivitis.
I hope you're on the mend soon Flowers

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Kanfuzed123 · 02/05/2023 13:27

TheYearOfSmallThings · 02/05/2023 12:35

I was going to ask if you have a nursery aged child...and you have two! They will be the source of the infections and once they've had every illness available you will stop catching stuff.

I was ready to be buried after DS's first winter in nursery but thank god things improved after that.

When dc1 was in, I was fine until pregnancy #2 then I was hit for 6 with every sodding bug to ever grace the planet and tbh I’ve been a shit show ever since

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SeaToSki · 02/05/2023 16:02

I looked at this Asda Multi Vit
https://groceries.asda.com/product/adult-multivitamins/asda-a-z-multivitamins-minerals-wellbeing-tablets/1000203425087

Ands its kind of OK, but it is giving you a third of the recommended daily dose of a lot of stuff rather than 100%. If you were fit and healthy, that would be fine, but it sounds like you need to boost things up to 100% with most and more than 100% with the few key ones its OK to do that with for a month ish.

I take magnesium, selenium a calcium super dose that also has Vit D, K, Zinc and C as they help it to absorb and then iron at a different time of day as it can block absorbing the others. I would recommend brands, but I dont live in the UK, so you might not be able to get them.

https://groceries.asda.com/product/adult-multivitamins/asda-a-z-multivitamins-minerals-wellbeing-tablets/1000203425087

UnmentionedElephantDildo · 02/05/2023 16:05

Kanfuzed123 · 02/05/2023 12:19

I had it over the summer and I caught everything under the sun since, it doesn’t help 2 nursery aged kids. But when it was just dc1 in nursery, I didn’t get anything really. I just feel on the floor with exhaustion

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Covid dysregulates the immune system for months, and I think there is a very good chance that is what is going on here. Plus aches and pains and exhaustion are all features of long covid

RafaistheKingofClay · 02/05/2023 16:14

Covid is thought to complete CD8 T cells which are the ones that destroy cells damaged by viruses you are infected with so it could be that if everything else is coming back negative from the doctor.

Also known to cause digestive issues because the gut is packed with ACE receptors which is what SARS COV 2 binds to.

Wouldn’t assume it’s that until everything else has been ruled out but the chances are this is long term immune and digestive sequelae from covid.

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