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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Robbity" data-source="post: 2075624" data-attributes="member: 93179">My father never used to get colds, and I haven't had one now for probably half my life - BUT since first reading this thread  I've had a few mad sneezey sessions and a very runny nose - definitely neither a cold nor hay fever, so what have you done to me   [USER=41816]@Brunneria[/USER]?? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite15" alt=":bag:" title="Bag    :bag:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":bag:" />I had a bad dose of flu as a young teenager, but until I was diagnosed with T2 I tended to skip annual flu jabs after a bad reaction to one, but I do now get one every year.The only thing I do currently get is a bad cough every winter - I used to have this as a child but grew out of it, until it came back one summer about 14 years ago  -a couple of years after I retired  - I'd cough until I was sick, and it only cleared up after my GP arranged for me to see a specialist, at which point I had a miracle cure...They eventually put it down to whooping cough, which I'd already had as a very young child. But it now comes back every winter minus vomiting  - I think the cold air probably triggers it (and it's worse if I'm stressed out), but I'm certainly not ill or take anything for it, and haven't seen any increase in glucose levels from it.Robbity</blockquote>

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