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Poorly again

purplepenguin

purplepenguin

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Tablets (oral)
Why can’t I get well? First I had the stomach bug and days later I get this god awful cold and bacterial sinusitis. I can’t taste anything and all I want to eat is soup and a nice buttery white roll.

Roll on summer!
 
purplepenguin said:
Why can’t I get well? First I had the stomach bug and days later I get this god awful cold and bacterial sinusitis. I can’t taste anything and all I want to eat is soup and a nice buttery white roll.

Roll on summer!
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Sorry to hear you are poorly I had the same thing just before I was diagnosed in late December hope you feel better soon
 
purplepenguin said:
Why can’t I get well? First I had the stomach bug and days later I get this god awful cold and bacterial sinusitis. I can’t taste anything and all I want to eat is soup and a nice buttery white roll.

Roll on summer!
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My LSA's have both had time off this term - unheard of for them! - flu and sinusitis and awful reaction to anti-b's. I've been the healthiest one in Nursery - only months of lingering colds. Children are lovely - but as the term "super-spreaders of disease" is very apt :) Today alone we sent home two (conjunctivitis and an explosion of poo - yuck) Summer can't come soon enough for us!
 
Nice! I knew there was a reason I moved from FS! Nasty poo!
Still, only two more wake ups and it’s a week off, will my voice last out with my very unruly children?
 
purplepenguin said:
Why can’t I get well? First I had the stomach bug and days later I get this god awful cold and bacterial sinusitis. I can’t taste anything and all I want to eat is soup and a nice buttery white roll.

Roll on summer!
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Are you taking multivitamins?
 
I ask because I forgot to renew mine so didn't have any for a week. God I was I'll. Laryngitis and fly like symptoms, it was awful. It set my asthma off and couldn't breath. I thought at one point I'd end up in hospital. :(
 
There are so many bugs going round at the mo, and once you get one it knocks your immune system and makes you more likely to catch another. I'm currently crawling out from under a few things and for the first time in my life decided to reduce socialising for a while (not that I am a social butterfly at the best of times).

I just figure the fewer plague carriers I encounter, the better. At least until I have had a week or two to build my resistance back up.

Only problem is today I have to spend about 4 hours in the company of someone who has some virus or other.
Captive audience.
Hey ho.
 
Brunneria said:
There are so many bugs going round at the mo, and once you get one it knocks your immune system and makes you more likely to catch another. I'm currently crawling out from under a few things and for the first time in my life decided to reduce socialising for a while (not that I am a social butterfly at the best of times).

I just figure the fewer plague carriers I encounter, the better. At least until I have had a week or two to build my resistance back up.

Only problem is today I have to spend about 4 hours in the company of someone who has some virus or other.
Captive audience.
Hey ho.
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Take plenty of alcohol handwash? The added aleo vera ones seem better for me. My mum and the kids are walking bug carriers. I try not to mix the 2 over winter. Tummy bugs pounce!
 
Brunneria said:
There are so many bugs going round at the mo, and once you get one it knocks your immune system and makes you more likely to catch another. I'm currently crawling out from under a few things and for the first time in my life decided to reduce socialising for a while (not that I am a social butterfly at the best of times).

I just figure the fewer plague carriers I encounter, the better. At least until I have had a week or two to build my resistance back up.

Only problem is today I have to spend about 4 hours in the company of someone who has some virus or other.
Captive audience.
Hey ho.
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Touch wood, I've managed to avoid everything this time round, but having been off work since the beginning of October has probably helped - my commute involves two half-hour train journeys each day as well as a couple of bus rides on occasion and then eight hours in an open plan office, all wonderful breeding grounds for bugs and the like!
 
Brunneria said:
There are so many bugs going round at the mo, and once you get one it knocks your immune system and makes you more likely to catch another. I'm currently crawling out from under a few things and for the first time in my life decided to reduce socialising for a while (not that I am a social butterfly at the best of times).

I just figure the fewer plague carriers I encounter, the better. At least until I have had a week or two to build my resistance back up.

Only problem is today I have to spend about 4 hours in the company of someone who has some virus or other.
Captive audience.
Hey ho.
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We are all going to have to start wearing surgical masks like they do in Japan.

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When a person is receiving chemotherapy, as I was 5 years ago, the immune system takes a big hit and drops so low for a week or so during each chemo period they have to be so careful not to catch anything at all or it will be hospital on an antibiotic drip. The advice given at the danger periods is to stay off work, never go near any form of public transport, stay away from public places including the school gates, get plenty of fresh air outdoors in quiet places, have plenty of fresh air in your home, anti bacterial handwash - not just for yourself but for everyone that lives with you or visits your house as soon as they enter, anti bacterial spray in the kitchen and bathroom, all door knobs etc. and anything else you can think of along those lines. All sensible advice.
 
Life without a functioning immune system is scary it's almost impossible to avoid all infections. You just have to be careful.

I am under instructions to contact doctor immediately if I pick up any infection I was not joking about surgical masks.
 
I can't wait for half term! I've managed to avoid the flu and tummy so far this winter and I want to keep it that way!
 
I work in an open plan office and managed to avoid all of the various cold, flu and other bugs and viruses flying around just before and after Christmas but the day that after finishing work a couple of weeks ago prior to an operation I got a cold which caused some concern as to whether they would go ahead with it or not!
 
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