Poll I get colds and flu...

Croatoan · Feb 25, 2016

I am just curious because I read some people here say they never get a cold or the flu and i am wondering how frequent people here get colds and flu. This has to do with an idea I have about oxidative stress.

Merry · Feb 25, 2016

I haven't had a cold or the flu for close to twenty years.

Who Me? · Feb 25, 2016

Merry said:
I haven't had a cold or the flu for close to twenty years.

Been about 2-3 years for me.

Remy · Feb 25, 2016

Well, I have my first one in about five years right this very minute. Somebody pass me the Vicks Vapor Rub.

Empty · Feb 25, 2016

When I am getting well again, I get colds and flu.

Merry · Feb 25, 2016

Remy said:
Well, I have my first one in about five years right this very minute. Somebody pass me the Vicks Vapor Rub.

Sorry, @Remy. May you feel better soon.

Merry · Feb 25, 2016

Empty said:
When I am getting well again, I get colds and flu.

We are strange creatures.

Croatoan · Feb 25, 2016

This is really interesting to me. I used to get them at least once a year, if not twice.

But this makes me wonder as well if some with Me do not get colds because they are not in contact with people alot. Hmmm...

Veet · Feb 25, 2016

I think I've had flu about 4 times in my life. colds...cannot think of a time, in countless years, long before I was out of circulation.

Empty · Feb 26, 2016

Croatoan said:
This is really interesting to me. I used to get them at least once a year, if not twice.

But this makes me wonder as well if some with Me do not get colds because they are not in contact with people alot. Hmmm...

I had written in my post that it is not to do with contact with people - but took it out as it is so obvious.

Empty · Feb 26, 2016

Merry said:
We are strange creatures.

I have had several variations over the years. Yes, it is puzzling.

ShyestofFlies · Feb 26, 2016

Despite only leaving the house once a week or less, I still pick up colds and flus several times a year and always have. Ever have that kid in your grade school classes who was absent over 30 days every school year to the point where they were nearly truent? Yeah, that was me. If I see my cousin's baby, even if she's realtively well? I get sick. Someone coughs within a mile of me at the store? I get that. Anyone in my household knows someone at work who is sick? You guessed it.

Seanko · Feb 26, 2016

@Croatoan yes, by having a curtailed working & social life those with ME/CFS do not come into contact with cold & flu viruses to the same degree.

I do get colds & they take a very long time to get over..2 weeks on average

lisaadele · Mar 11, 2016

I rarely have a cold/flu as well.

I had a cold about 3 years ago and I remember just feeling great. I felt normal without my usual symptoms and while I was tired I remember that it felt like a normal tired. It was such a good feeling.

I am frequently exposed to colds and viruses through our fall and winter season because I have kids at home. I react with an increase in fatigue and flu-like symptoms when exposed but I don't develop the cold virus symptoms.

Rosie26 · Mar 11, 2016

I seem to have a pattern where I get all the colds going around in the space of 2 years then I go without a cold for next 2 years.

Rosie26 · Mar 11, 2016

Veet said:
I think I've had flu about 4 times in my life. colds...cannot think of a time, in countless years, long before I was out of circulation.

I can only count 1 flu and that one had the aching bones with it. I definitely picked it up from someone I knew because they had the aching bones as well a week before I got it. This was the flu that changed everything for me. I became bedridden with severe ME. It very nasty. The person who gave it to me recovered well, my life changed completely.

RuthAnn · Mar 12, 2016

Rosie* said:
I can only count 1 flu and that one had the aching bones with it. I definitely picked it up from someone I knew because they had the aching bones as well a week before I got it. This was the flu that changed everything for me. I became bedridden with severe ME. It very nasty. The person who gave it to me recovered well, my life changed completely.

How long ago was that, Rosie? Have you had any improvement at all?

Rosie26 · Mar 12, 2016

RuthAnn said:
How long ago was that, Rosie? Have you had any improvement at all?

It was in 2001. I did eventually improve but it was all so painfully slow. I moved on to a more stable moderate level after about 6-7 years and then menopause began and changed things again. I now am moderate but have bouts of severe.

Veet · Mar 12, 2016

The most recent flu I had was the one that left me 'chronically fatigued'. This was when I started researching CFS. I never resumed my former levels of energy or activity. Nearly 4 years later I was knocked flat in a heat wave, the true onset of ME.

RuthAnn · Mar 12, 2016

Rosie* said:
It was in 2001. I did eventually improve but it was all so painfully slow. I moved on to a more stable moderate level after about 6-7 years and then menopause began and changed things again. I now am moderate but have bouts of severe.

Rosie, I was just looking at homeopathic manganese and noticed that aching bones is a symptom for needing it.

If you feel like it, take a look at this list of symptoms and see if there's anything else in there that might help indicate if the cold brought on a manganese deficiency.

http://www.homeoint.org/books/boericmm/m/mang-act.htm