Common cold and steroids

[Rabdos]

Hello!

I am currently having typical symptoms of common cold with one major difference: they are much less severe.

This is because I took nose steroids as soon as I suspected that I caught a cold.

So far, it is since Wednesday and the symptoms are very very bearable while for me typically a cold would drop me bed for a week and I wouldn't be able to move and I would also get chest cold.

Do you think taking steroids at the beginning of the cold will help me overcome it with much less severe symptoms or it is only delaying it and I will become horrible after few days?

 

[Guzzler]

Steroids for a head cold?

 

[Mike d]

Like to see any evidence for a link between the two

 

[Rachox]

There is no known cure for a cold! The ones that have sent you to bed are more likely to be flu. You should be offered a flu jab each winter as a diabetic.

 

[Rabdos]

For me, every cold brings me to bed and I doubt it's flu most of the time. I get 2-4 of them every year.

I think it's the immune system that over-reacts to the common cold. I see people at work saying 'oh I have a cold' and I wonder how can you be at work with a cold? I cannot, I need to stay at home and it is always very severe.

I was also doing some training with a rheumatologist and a patient came in with a joint pain and a cold/flu. The doctor gave him a steroids injection and he also said 'your cold will disappear too'.

Dymista is the think I was given by a doctor to put whenever I suspect a cold and so far, it has been the very first time that I have a cold and I am not at the bed. The severity of the symptoms are 10-20% of what I usually have.

I never had a 'light' cold like this, all my colds were always severe.

 

[Robbity]

I think you'd probably be more likely to see a rise in your glucose levels from steroids than fix your cold.