I have never in my life had a cold this bad

[waterfalls]

I feel terrible, I am exhausted, can bearly catch my breath alot of the time, and have to blow my nose constantly, so it is now very very sore, have been like this for 3 days and no sign of any improvement. Oh and my backs killing me
sympathy please c'mon

have you been to doctor? could be a chest infection

You have my sympathy -I'm hovering on the verge of getting something at the mo and thats bad enough. Dose yourself up and go to bed with a hot toddy

Oooh never thought of a chest infection, the decongetion tablets I am taking are'nt doing anything.

Any of this sound familiar ?

I have that viral thing that everyone has had.

Hot, cold, exhausted,cough, cold, dodgy tummy despite not eating very much.

I was lucky DH was off with it too, he was two days ahead of me, so was able to help with the school runs, which left me free to sleep 13 hours a night, then get up see DS out the door with DH and then go back to bed and sleep for another 6 hours or more.

Oh now I am congested and my cough is getting worse. Happy Days.

only thinking chest infection because you said you can't catch your breath... get theeself to the doctor... just in case!

Yes LadySherlockofLGJ
spot on, I have/had everything you said.

There's a really bad cold virus going around here - both my parents have had it for about a week (both say they've never felt so bad with a cold before) and poor dd2 (12mths) has also had it for a week - took her to the GP this morning and there's no infection anywhere, it's just a very severe virus.

starlover
I wil see how I go for the next couple of days, if no improvment I will see the GP, thanks

i see we shall have to cajole her into going. i was her fanny monitor. i shall take it upon myself to see she gets to the GP!

waterfalls, get this sorted BEFORE the weekend!

methinks you may have an infection if you are experiencing difficulty breathing.

I am going to see the GP tomorrow, AB's are called for at this stage.

ALERT

TMI below

What is coming out of my head and off my lungs atm, could power the national grid, it is luminous.

Bloody hell, there is no escaping you is there[grin[

Sod the solar panels, then. LGJ, a few coughs from you and.....voila! Toast for a week.

I hope you all feel better soon. X

BTW

WF

I have had to have a hot bath in the middle of the night/ stroke sunrise every morning this week just to get enough steam going to facilitate my breathing.

GET IT SORTED NOW Lecture over.

Wimps! This household has been ill on and off for about 4/5 weeks now. Poor dd has borne the brunt of it and looks bloody awful . She has missed over three weeks of school (on and off) and is so bored but exhausted at teh same time.

Green gunge all the rage in this house too!

Sounds like what DS1 has just had - high fever and streaming cold since Saturday, exhausted, still not back at school.

My sympathies. The rest of us are just waiting to get it.

OK, OK,I will see how I am in the morning
Another thing, my lips are so dry and nothing helps, I keep drinking water thinking I must be dehydrated, but thats not helping either, And I am so bunged up I keep waking myself up snoring

Singersgirl

Rest assured you will get it, it is evil.

it's been through here. DD1 got a chest infection extraordinnaire.

i've had a phlegmy cough for weeks and this morning work w/a sinus headache so bad i thought i was going to be sick.

waterfalls, that's exactly the same in our house but times 4. I can't sleep for the snoring!

pmsl

Should go to bed now then and build up my resources

Yep, it's gone through us too. I've had three days off with streaming cold, blocked-up head and now satisfyingly rattly, wheezy cough. Mild panic last night as I lay in bed trying to catch my breath and couldn't. Super. Ds also full of snot, burning up and miserable as all hell yesterday. We've done lots of weak-and-feeble lying around on sofas.

Roll on summer.

DS1 has never had 4 days off school before. He looks like a ghost and is producing the hugest quantities of disgusting greeny-yellow snot - I mean industrial quantities - and is leaving a charming trail of screwed up snotty tissues behind him.