The doctor says lots of people are getting/being 'Post viral' this winter; are they?

[KatyMac]

DD hasn't 'picked up' after sinusitis & the dr said lots of people were struggling this way this winter

Are other people finding the same?

[baremadness]

Any chance of it being glandular fever? That took me out for months!

[KatyMac]

I do hope not; I have CFS so I worry

& DD is so unhappy atm

[butterfingerz]

Lack of vitamin d at this time of yr, probably most people are running pretty low unless they've been lucky enough to get away for some winter sun.

Not sure what the MN consensus on sunbeds is, probably a big fat no no, but I was feeling really run down - lingering cough and reoccurring sinusitis... Went on the sunbeds a few times and feel really good. Apparently sunbeds helps body manufacture vitamin d like the sun, never knew this despite having used them in the past. So if you're feeling really desperate, give it a go maybe.

[KatyMac]

I'll up her multivitamins - being mixed race Vitamin D is always an issue

[KatyMac]

Just had total meltdown about not going to school - then she fell asleep

It's going to be a rough few weeks I think

[KatyMac]

I'm torn between letting her go (& picking her up early, when she gets over tired) or making her stay at home

[BoffinMum]

Me too, bronchitis and I am struggling a bit after 4 weeks now.

[KatyMac]

It's so frustrating

[KatyMac]

Aaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh!

& breathe

[KatyMac]

She is all clingy & needy and while I love her dearly - I also work from home & don't need a 5 ft 4 inch toddler on my knee

and now she will read this & strop

[baremadness]

How old is she katy?

[KatyMac]

15 & normally very active; when I say very active I mean 18 hrs of dance a week

So inactivity is really bad for her & me

She is so out of sorts and this is so not her character

[baremadness]

Really go back to the docs and insist on blood tests. Anaemia or glandular fever are both options.

[littlemisssunny]

I had sinusitis had just finished the antibiotics then a couple of days later on Boxing Day I had a horrible virus that wiped me out for 2 weeks then I got labrynthitis and had to take vertigo tablets (apparantly very common with this virus) it is only now 3 and a bit weeks later I am feeling better and got my appetite back. I'm still very tired though.

[KatyMac]

I thought the mood swings and emotional-ness were typical of post viral rather than anaemia (not sure about glandular fever)

[KatyMac]

I don't know - maybe because I have ME/CFS I am more ready to believe a diagnosis of PVF & be more terrified of it

Also I had a bad episode with what I thought was misdiagnosis a couple of years back so maybe I'm not inclined to 'rock the boat'

She is just so poorly & miserable

[ihatethecold]

My dd9 got whooping cough in August. She was shattered for months. I had to stop all after school clubs/ play dates.
After 3 lots of antibiotics she was an emotional wreck.
Thankfully by Xmas it had gone.
My point is too the person up thread who has been coughing for ages. Have you thought about whooping cough ?

[WifeofPie]

Hmmm...I don't know . I run 5 days a week (so plenty of fresh air/exercise) but had a particularly nasty cold over Christmas and now, just can't get through the day without an afternoon kip. I am wiped out.

[Dumdeedumdeedum]

I've suffered with CFS too so I really really hope nobody has it. It's awful!

[GrendelsMum]

A really nasty virus went through my halls of residence when I was a graduate student, and left loads of us in really poor shape for weeks on end. GP was very worried until everyone's results came back negative and she decided it was post-viral fatigue.

Basically the only thing to do was lie on the sofa and sleep / get bored and try to get up / get tired again / sob / sleep

My advice to your daughter would be that she'll get better much sooner if she rests her body for a while, horrid as it is.

[KatyMac]

She wants to go to school tomorrow; she hasn't managed staying awake all day yet

[KatyMac]

I'm hoping bizarrely for a snow day today; I think if she goes in she will be back very soon

[Pagwatch]

I am back at the Doctors later this morning. He is diagnosing post viral syndrome - something I hadn't heard of before.

It started in October and I have had norovirus, a cough for nearly to months now, ear problems, sore throat, endless mouth ulcers, fatigue and a random appetite.

In my case it has fuck all to do with lack of fresh air or excercise.
I walk the dogs and, until this latest bout which made the Dr ban excercise just before Christmas, I work out hard twice a week.

It's utter shit.

[MadameCastafiore]

I had post viral arthritus for about 12 weeks - was fecking horrendous and loads of people at work have had bugs that they just can't shake off.

It is to do with the fact that the weather was so mild and we didn;t have a cold snap - well thats what my nan would have said - so we should all be much better annd no one should get sick now due to present cold snap!

[KatyMac]

It's crap isn't it; it's a rotten illness

DD has a show coming up and an important course; she needs to be fighting fit