i am sick

you will soon not be worried about yr sinuses at all

Though, if you do snag that Massive Attack boxset (which I hope you will), that should send thee on thy way.

ned very very otm

Mom: Well, you said you were out walking around in the snow for hours on Tuesday.
Me: I'm not falling for that. Colds have an incubation period of way longer than 36 hours!
Mom: Well, I'm just saying...you should stop drinking so much coffee, too
Me: (ponders life without Dunkin Donuts, shudders in pain) yeah, whatever.

Unless you're me, who is allergic to chilli and spices, it gives me horrible clogged bleeding sinuses, which I'm suffering from today thanks to indulging in my newfound love of making lentil curries.

*snort, snuffle*

Skiddley-bom TISH!

None terribly well documented, but the better part of my college career could be considered one study. My one roommate who didn't believe in my NyQuil + red wine pre-emptive at-the-first-sign-of-symptoms cold cure could be considered the control I figure.

man, i wish i had health insurance.

Haha, it's hard to communicate just how erratic Philadelphia's weather has been for many years now.

I swear when I was a kid in Philadelphia in the 70s we had actual seasons. At least that's how I remember it. Maybe it's always been strangely erratic.

Anyway, sorry you are feeling so terrible. I don't like the sound of lungs hurting. I'm lucky that I hardly ever get chest colds. I just get endless near sinus infections.

I've had a sore throat for two days, but no other symptoms showed up and it's getting better now. Dodged a bullet.

whenever i get sick i'm sure i'm going to die. does anyone else feel this way?

sorry amateurist, i don't know what i'd do with a 103 degree fever. besides not now i had one, since i've never figured out how to read a thermometer.

http://familydoctor.org/503.xml (a link from MedlinePlus)

High fevers, with temperatures of 103° and above, can signal a potentially dangerous infection. Contact your doctor in case of a high fever or if a lower fever doesn't resolve with simple treatments.

78 matzoh balls?

fuckin hell.

Yeah I think I would def be sick after that.

haha i used to work with joey chestnut's sister

I haven't had matzoh ball soup in so long.

:(

sick

:(

(((chicken soup for you)))

You were sick not long ago! Not fair.

I was sick in the summer? I guess that wasn't that wasn't that long ago, no. Colds love me esp when I'm stressed out or tired. Stupid colds.

i've found that dayquil and whiskey/bourbon really power me through an illness

― acid waffle house (dubplatestyle), Friday, February 2, 2007

this sounds glib but it really has worked for just about every cold i've ever had as an adult

"grandpa's cough medicine"

this cold I've had since Friday *before* Thanksgiving refuses to go away.

I missed Thanksgiving due to illness. It's the second time in the space of a month that I've been sick. It's because of the immunosuppressant I take for rheumatoid arthritis, and I'm at the point where I'm not sure if the arthritis symptoms would be worse than fighting off near constant colds. It's depressing.

Oh, that sucks, Nicole. A friend of mine was in a similar boat due to some steroids she was on for an autoimmune thing. :/

At least my voice has take on an interesting Lohan-esque rasp.

wow i don't know if i've ever felt this terrible. fever, headache that nurofen plus is proving ineffective against, shivering, drenched in sweat, inability to swallow, the works. somehow even worse than yesterday! have actually just spent an hour moaning in pain

I had the same thing on Monday and Tuesday. The worst of it passed fairly quickly but I am still feeling lethargic and coughing.

http://www.quietearth.us/img/t/The_Stand_cover.jpg

thanks a lot, god, you whimsical bastard

urrrrrrr kill me. Ive shed like 4kg in less than 24 hours simply from puking and gastro. Fuckin just before xmas. Im too busy to be sick.

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

cursed germy children infecting my house

So I have been dealing with a chronic illness for the past year and it's gotten to the point where I'm so frustrated and tired and fed up with feeling sick all the time. I fucking hate it.

Like I am tears at my desk because of it.

:((((((((((((

Horrible stuff, really depression-inducing. Is there any light at the end of the tunnel yet?

oh e that's awful

oh no :(

:(

E, that's horrible. Are you in a try-different-stuff phase to see whether anything improves things? Or is it not like that?

I'm so sorry, E. Is there anything or are there any times when you feel better as opposed to worse?

Aw hey guys thanks. It's nothing super serious. I have IBS and so far of all the things I've tired nothing has helped. I often feel silly and as though my feeling so bad about it is not justified but it's impacting my life on a daily basis and hindering my activities and making me really upset. I am nauseous after 75% of my meals. I threw up my dinner 2x last week, and by about 2:00 pm on most days my stomach gets so swollen that I legitimately look about 6 months pregnant. It's horribly uncomfortable and nothing has given me relief. Last week I was in bed by 9 four nights because I felt so awful lying down and sleeping was the only way I could get comfortable. I'm exhausted all the time and clothes that I put on in the morning are too tight to the point of being uncomfortable by the time I go home. That's not exactly helping my pre-exisiting body image issues which in turns makes me anxious which in turn triggers the IBS. I'm seeing a therapist, a nutritionist and a GI doc. The later now has me on hardcore probiotics, metamucil and a laxative. We'll see if this helps. Sorry to go on. I'm just so fucking tired of feeling sick.

ugh E, that sucks. i hope the new treatment gives you some relief

i think i cried every other day for a month when my GERD was at it's worst, it's such a horrible feeling when all that is physically going on

Yeah. I'm basically trying everything I can and hopefully one day something will work but right now I'm just so frustrated. I think I'm going to try acupuncture and maybe a super strict elimination diet next. I'll figure it out. Thanks for letting me vent.

ooooff. Anticipating feeling terrible after eating food has to be the worst. And feeling horrible at work is really, really demoralizing. Good luck with the meds combo. Is your therapist also offering any thoughts on meditation type things? Having had to deal with anxiety, maybe you explored that in the past already.

hugs to you, E. Vent away, it is important and healthy!

this may be tmi to ask but is stool transplant a possibility? Not sure if that is done for IBS but some GI docs I worked with at the hospital love it for ulcerative colitis and crohn's.

(not at all my intention to be all "oooooh you should try THIS it helped my best friend's cousin's daughter." That is soooo annoying to do to people who are ill! I guess I'm just into stool transplants? IDK I just hope you get some relief soon)

Yeah I'm trying that more too and if that doesn't work then when I go back to the GI doc in six weeks we're going to try a recently approved drug for my type of IBS. I almost feel silly because it doesn't seem like a big deal but i feel sick pretty much every day and it just sucks and, yeah IO, it's really depressing. Oh, you're all so nice.

x-post - isn't that so interesting? That they can even do that. I don't think I'm quite at that level or if they'd even do it for what I have since it's mostly stress related. I'm sure that eventually i'll figure out something that works but for now it kinda sucks. I even skipped an outdoor britpop dance night on Saturday because I felt too bad! O_O ;)

It is a huge deal! I'm trying to think of a deal that be huger than feeling awful all of the time? I dunno I think it part of how women are socialized, just trying to minimize our discomfort and downplaying how important it is.

Yeah from two minutes of education about stool transplants, my take-home message was that it is basically probiotic therapy administered from the other end! Which makes perfect sense, actually!

I've had a lot of respiratory issues in the last couple years: some kind of infection that developed into pneumonia last July, then a month-long bout of strep-ish in November, and now another five-week on/off throat infection. I've had some blood work and throat swabs done, and AFAIK no smoking gun. I guess I should go to an ENT now?

So this is a little bit better but my stupid weird occular immune thing is flaring up and I can't really see out of my left eye and it hurts and I am feeling very sick of feeling sick and also sorry for myself. Bah.

I have an appt with my eye doc tomorrow, a full physical on Monday, an appointment with the ocular immunologist on 8/13 and one with the gastro doc that same week. I'm going to get to the bottom of this if it fucking kills me.

Occular immune thing? That sounds like it sucks.

http://www.mersi.com/services/what-we-treat/uveitis-ocular-inflammatory-disease

Hope this goes away quickly, E.

Thanks, M.

x-post - It does. I was diagnosed with it in around 2008-ish. It's recurrent and but I haven't had a flare up in a while and this one is particularly stubborn. My eye is really sore and photosensitive and I can't see right out of it.

Yeesh E. I hope it goes away quickly, too.

Much luck. Presumably you're already on prednisone and Remicade/Humira. Some friends on other forums with autoimmune disorders swear by the anti-TNF-α biologics. Some of the usual dietary means of suppressing inflammatory response seem to have benefits in model organisms: supplemental fish oil/EPA (and presumably reducing the opposing, proinflammatory arachidonic acid), dark greens/lutein, purple cabbage/berries/anthocyanins, and resveratrol.

eye maladies are particularly upsetting :(
hope you feel better soon, e

:) thank you

x-post - I am on prednisone drops but nothing oral. I went to my reg eye doc yesterday and they ran so many tests. Right now only my right eye is flaring but the decreased vision is concerning so they're trying to get me in to see the specialist I was supposed to see next month asap. I suspect he'll put me on some type of oral meds.

fluid ingestion regimen

Urrrrrhhh damn you stupid head cold, why did you have to descend upon me when I cannot take any time off to rest from it.