Menopause Matters Forum
Menopause Discussion => Other Health Discussion => Topic started by: countrybumpkin on October 05, 2013, 01:25:12 PM
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I started two days ago thinking I have go that horrible feeling at back of nose I am getting a cold but yesterday is had almost gone, it was just teasing :P I woke up in middle of night totally bunged up with razer blade throat and barking cough.
It seems there is alot of it about. I am super busy with moving house in 5 weeks so of course I have to succumb to this.
OUr buyers called today and he was barking like a dog as well, he said the nose bit had got better but the cough is awful ::) Just what I wanted to know.
I am taking the herb pelagonium tablets, strepsils and lots of hot steam and hot drinks.
Wish me luck as I have a hospital appt middle next week that is so far away I have to stay in hotel overnight as its an early appt. Probably means i can cough all over hotel and hospital staff!
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There's an awful lot of it about. I had the heavy cold and total exhaustion last weekend, went to buy some Sudafed and they'd had a run on it.
2 days off work, went back later in week. Yesterday I was fine, did loads at home and at work. Last night couldnt sleep, today sneezing, feeling like death, think sore throat may be on it's way :(
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I had drs appointment yesterday and nearly everyone there was sniffling & coughing. If I manage to avoid catching it, I'll be lucky!
Hope you feel better soon. :hug:
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My daughter had this about a month ago. She was really quite unwell with it and the cough lasted ages.
:hug:
To all who are suffering.
Honeyb
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DH took a cold away on holiday and I brought it back >:( - began with a very sore back of the nose, which ran for 48 hours ::) then a cough developed and I had difficulty in drawing a deep breath. So KARVOL was a necessity. The virus disappeared by Wed., now I can breath again ::)
Lots of liquid. Rest as much as possible. Feet up, blanket round you ;)
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I've been coughing for hours now........... :( Blooming DR's waiting room. Please let it pass quickly. Will have to cancel my flu jab now.
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I am still in two minds about the flu jab, over two years ago I had one and did not feel well afterwards for some weeks a few months later I got a flu virus and felt the worse I have ever had, I vowed not to have another flu jab.
Its been about 18 months now and I have not had even a cold (I hope I have not jinxed myself by wring this) then recently I get the letter from the surgery inviting me to have a flu jab, and the conflict starts again as to whether I should have one.
About 10 years ago I had the flu jab and the same thing happened, I got a bout and felt very unwell, when usually I don't and decided I would not have a flu jab again, the only reason I had one a few years ago is because it stated on the letter that if you lived with anyone with heart problems you should have the jab to protect them.
So undecided once again. MY OH refuses to have one.
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M in L had never had 'flu until she was given the jab - she was almost taken to Hospital all 3 times :o even though the GP muttered that there wasn't a connection. She got it into her head that she had to have it because the GP told her it was necessary, when we explained that they got a tenner for every jab ........... ;) she never had 'flu afterwards as she didn't have the jab again.
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I really think that some peoples immune systems over react to vaccines.
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I sometimes feel a bit off and always have a sore hot arm but that's it.
The one that made me feel really unwell was the polio vaccine. I felt so ill with that one. Not something I think I will have again.
Some people do react more than others I think.
Honeyb
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Probably because their bodies are already protected!
I have an irritating cough again this afternoon >:( nuisance value only but :-X
However, where I had my BCG injection at age 13, if a cold is in the offing that area of my arm itches like mad 3 days prior to the cold starting :o
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I don't think you can protect your body from a virus it has never seen before and as flu changes every year it's impossible to be protected as such. It's just down to luck and not coming into contact with anyone that is carrying the virus.
Not a risk I want to take.
Honeyb
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I worked at a Dr surgery about 12 years ago and I saw the info sheet that came with the flu jabs and assume that things have not changed since. Technically you cannot catch flu from a flu jab as its an inactive vaccine so far so good, and this is what Drs always tell you BUT some peoples immune system can over react making them ill and some people the vaccine hammers their immune system for a time making them suseptable to any flu like viruses that are around.
It seems people fall into two camps. Most people have no effect whatsover from the jab but the others find that they are ill all winter catching every virus thats around.
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Thank you countrybumkin for confirming what I have always thought and I think an awful lot of other people have come to realise, saying that I am sure the jab has saved a lot of lives in the vulnerable.
Seems for some you can have the flu jab and still get the flu, or not have it and be hammered. The lucky ones are the ones who benefit and have no side effects.
I wonder if people who have auto immune conditions or come from atopic families don't tolerate the jab so well. I come from an atopic family and all of us react to vaccines, growing up we all had to have so many because of living in different countries and in the tropics, even having to have some yearly, I am sure it must effect immune system.
Changing the topic but still about immune system, estrogen enhances the immune system and progesterone suppresses it (has to so that a woman's body does not reject the foetus) probably a bit of useless info but I do find it interesting.
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Need to add that M in L was 79 when she had her first 'flu jab ......... she had got to that age without suffering!
:thankyou: Countrybumpkin!
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I found this interesting - hope they soon make it possible http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24175030
Taz
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Not the same as the 'common' cold though ::)
Looks quite a nice virus formation even though it can be a nasty bug ;)
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Kills over 250,000 people every year...
Taz
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World wide?
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4000 die in Britain each year from flu. Changes year on year of course. The bigger the uptake of vaccine the fewer the deaths.
Honeyb
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Why do we not get 'exact' figures when these are issued, why round it up to a whole number? :-\
How is the cold today?
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Thanks CLKD for asking, think today is worst day of the cold, cough is very hard and dry and hurts like heck, nose is no longer streaming but I feel totally spaced out, the hit with a brick in face feeling. Eyes heavy, head heavy. I think I am at the bunging up stage which I always find the worst and once I get to the daren't blow my nose in public stage I know its on the mend ;D
I was speaking to the guilty person who I caught it off and she is still coughing and unwell 10 days after I last saw her :o so its not a cold that gets better quickly obviously
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:foryou: lots of fluids, warm bath, early night ;)
I remember in 1991 having a cold followed by a cough which remained 'hacking' for 3 months >:( I was SO tired by the end of it until someone suggested high-dose magnesium tablets. Several people we know had the same type of cough for weeks and weeks and :(
This last cold didn't make me feel ill as such, runny nose followed by a dry cough which suddenly went after 4/5 days :o
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High cocoa solids chocolate can soothe a cough (honestly - try it!), but it has to be at least 70% cocoa solids to be effective. Last time I had a nasty cough that was keeping me awake, I kept a bar of Green & Blacks chocolate by my bed and sucked a piece when the cough was troublesome - it really did work. :)
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Any excuse for chocolate suits me! ;D. Must remember that one. :)
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:thankyou: :clapping:
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I've been on holiday in France and OH got a cold and of course gave it to me.
Nasty coughing and as I have permanent nasal drip problems, I have to rush to spit out in the bathroom otherwise the constant hacking coughing makes me sick.
Luckily I stocked up on Fervex in France, which has no caffeine or ephedrine (I can't do those = palpitations, so can't do lemsips).
I propped myself up on 5 pillows last night :o Didn't get much sleep.
Read that constantly sipping water helps thin mucus so am trying that now.
And the chocolate thing of course!
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Take care with Fervex oldsheep if its raspberry flavour.
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=151010
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Oh that does not sound good at all. Wonder how it happened.
My darling daughter has come home from university with a dreadful sore throat. She is currently in bed feeling sorry for herself. She managed to get herself home and bring all her washing with her ;D
What's the betting that a small miracle will occur over night as she is seeing the boyfriend tomorrow ::)
Honeyb
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Honeybun - Whatever they go down with in their first few weeks is known in universities across the universe as 'Freshers' flu' (eventhough I know it's very rarely really flu!!) All it takes is one of the newbies to bring a bug with them and they all get it - it's a bit like all the Reception class a primary school going down with the first cold ... strains of bugs they've never come across before, so no resistance. She'll bounce back in no time.
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Well the minor miracle occurred and she went out with the boyfriend at the weekend. Her throat looked terrible all white blotches. She gargled a lot and that got rid of the nasty stuff. She went back this morning feeling a bit better and armed with a multi vit and echanacia. Can't hurt to take something. I also bought her some fruit as I suspect her diet is not as good as it was.
She said all her flat mates have the same thing. One brought it in and it went through the other four in a flash.
Hope she has taken her germs back to Glasgow with her ;D
Honeyb
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