This is happening to me too!! It is so frustrated. Got the first flu around November 2008, again middle December, again new years 2009, end of January and now again middle February 2009. I am working and can't stay off work. I've been on antibiotics 2 of the 5 times. I'm going to my doctor again to get antibiotics. Is this a new flu? Or is there something wrong with my immune system?
I started a cold before Christmas. It turned into a chest infection, treated by antibiotics. The cough sounded terrible. It lasted three weeks and after a break of one week I got three very bad head colds, with coughs, one after another and think the current one is turning into another chest infection.
I have been taking vit. c (large doses) and echinacea, even before the infections began.
My four month old grand-daughter and 3 and 1/2 year old grandson are suffering too. Am I giving the viruses to them or vice-versa
I have been taking vit. c (large doses) and echinacea, even before the infections began.
My four month old grand-daughter and 3 and 1/2 year old grandson are suffering too. Am I giving the viruses to them or vice-versa
So glad to have found this site. I've felt like a walking petri dish for many months. I started working in an elem school this past year. I had my first bout with "whatever this is" in mid October. I was out for about a week & then recovering for the next week. Then it hit me again in mid-Nov. Then hit again in mid-Dec making me sick over Christmas. And again mid-Jan & yet again...mid-Feb. The almost clock like work of this illness has me creeped out. My family is sick this month as well. I'm hoping that they are not finally catching whatever I've caught. I've been more concerned about ME & what what a recurring illness means...is there something seriously wrong with me?
I've been to the Dr. now 3 times. First time, U.C. said "just a virus". 2nd visit to my primary this time said it might be a sinus infection so prescribed Amox. Felt better after a few days, but it returned again this month. My 3rd Dr visit, I had chest x-ray, blood work, urinalysis done. I'm waiting on the results tomorrow. I never fully recover between "outbreaks". I'm usually tired.
Below are the symptoms listed for Mycoplasma Pneumoniae from eMedicine. I have had all of these symptoms at one time or another during these past 5 months.
-Fever
-Malaise
-Persistent, slowly worsening dry cough; absence of cough makes the diagnosis of M pneumoniae unlikely
-Headache
-Chills, not rigors
-Scratchy sore throat
-Sore chest and tracheal tenderness (result of the protracted cough)
Thank you to whoever posted Mycoplasma Pneumoniae as a possibility. Now I have something to call my Dr. with tomorrow! I'm sick of being sick!
I've been to the Dr. now 3 times. First time, U.C. said "just a virus". 2nd visit to my primary this time said it might be a sinus infection so prescribed Amox. Felt better after a few days, but it returned again this month. My 3rd Dr visit, I had chest x-ray, blood work, urinalysis done. I'm waiting on the results tomorrow. I never fully recover between "outbreaks". I'm usually tired.
Below are the symptoms listed for Mycoplasma Pneumoniae from eMedicine. I have had all of these symptoms at one time or another during these past 5 months.
-Fever
-Malaise
-Persistent, slowly worsening dry cough; absence of cough makes the diagnosis of M pneumoniae unlikely
-Headache
-Chills, not rigors
-Scratchy sore throat
-Sore chest and tracheal tenderness (result of the protracted cough)
Thank you to whoever posted Mycoplasma Pneumoniae as a possibility. Now I have something to call my Dr. with tomorrow! I'm sick of being sick!
I, too, am so glad I found this forum. I am healthy, young, and I exercise regularly, but I am on my 4th round of cold/flu bouts since January. I have used similar language like "groundhog day" and "sick and tired of being sick and tired." I've used up all my empathy points from my friends and co-workers. I was starting to feel like a leper until I found this forum.
Perhaps, like previous posters, I have walking pneumonia...
Perhaps, like previous posters, I have walking pneumonia...
Hello sick mates, Me too, january 2009 got the first bug, just never fully recovered, its starting to really get me down now, depressed and totally bored with feelng crappy. anyone any ideas, had amox felt great for 2 days then relapsed, usually fit and healthy, starting to worry its something sinister,..help
Vitamin D3 - two caplets of 4000iu each , each day turned around my recurring colds with dry cough. It took about two weeks, but it really works. Any cold/cough you get after will be much milder and shorter in duration.
I have also been sick once a month since February. I exercise regularly and get outdoors often, but still I have been sick 3 times in 3 months. I usually only get sick once a year, if that! I only have a stuffy nose and sore throat this time which makes me think it is not Mycoplasma Pneumoniae. I will try the vitamin D3 and hope for the best I guess.
Same here. I'm on the fourth bad cold since January. =(
When I'm over them the scratchy throat never really goes away - then several weeks later, another cold develops.
I've been downing Emergen-C like crazy, guess I should keep this up even after the cold is gone.
I've never been sick this much, not even close. My X was out of work for a week with a cold and she usually never gets sick, and if she does, she's only out for a couple of days.
I'm glad I found this thread - I was beginning to think something was really wrong with me but it sounds like this is a fairly wide spread thing.
When I'm over them the scratchy throat never really goes away - then several weeks later, another cold develops.
I've been downing Emergen-C like crazy, guess I should keep this up even after the cold is gone.
I've never been sick this much, not even close. My X was out of work for a week with a cold and she usually never gets sick, and if she does, she's only out for a couple of days.
I'm glad I found this thread - I was beginning to think something was really wrong with me but it sounds like this is a fairly wide spread thing.
I would like to know if there is a measured increase by the CDC or WHO in people getting sick with cold and flu in the last couple of years that's NOT related to the swine flu. There's so much attention on H1N1 but many more people die of the "regular" flu each year in the U.S.
Glad I found this site...
Going on my 3rd "episode" since the end of February. I can feel it coming on tonight, which means full force tomorrow. Only a few days of no coughing between each episode. Hopefully going to the doc tomorrow, maybe it will help since it will be Day One?
I think everyone should post where they are located...
I'm in New York City.
Going on my 3rd "episode" since the end of February. I can feel it coming on tonight, which means full force tomorrow. Only a few days of no coughing between each episode. Hopefully going to the doc tomorrow, maybe it will help since it will be Day One?
I think everyone should post where they are located...
I'm in New York City.
We started in Mexico with the flu in March just acky... then here we are back in Alberta once again the same thing.
In about May we as a family were feeling sick again... with a neck ache that felt like a pulled muscle but we all had it. Strange.
And here I am starting up again with cold and hot flashes, aches, not fun!
My wife just got over it about 2 weeks ago.
In about May we as a family were feeling sick again... with a neck ache that felt like a pulled muscle but we all had it. Strange.
And here I am starting up again with cold and hot flashes, aches, not fun!
My wife just got over it about 2 weeks ago.
I live in England and only last week got rid of my last bout of feeling like death, started with a stiff neck then progressed to really sore throat, ear pain, blocked sinuses, feeling sick, headache and ridiculous deep chesty non productive cough. This lasted in varying degrees for three to four weeks. Just started feeling better last week and here it is again minus the stiff neck. Thinking vitamins and more vitamins. Work for myself so can't afford to have time off work, perhaps that may be why it's taken so long to recover, I am usually fit and healthy.
I have this same type of recurring illness, complete with heavy duty muscle aches and all over soreness, like the flu. This time (I'm in the throes of it now and I'm just so done) it started with a terrible sore throat. It seems cyclical but I haven't been great about documenting it, which I'm starting to do now. I was a public school teacher for 20 years and never had anything like this until maybe the last year or so (I stopped teaching 2 years ago).
I am 52, very active and WAS quite healthy, healthy lifestyle, eating habits, etc. Now, the minute I feel this "mystery illness" coming on, I just give in to it and it's doing bad things to my mental health as well.
I have had bloodwork, but nothing extensive. Is it adrenal-related? Immune system breakdown? I am starting to think the episodes are not just cyclical, but possibly preceeded by an emotional upset (15 year old daughter, need I say more?) or extreme fatigue. I'm ready to go back to the doctor, but my husband lost his job in June and with it, our health insurance.
I am 52, very active and WAS quite healthy, healthy lifestyle, eating habits, etc. Now, the minute I feel this "mystery illness" coming on, I just give in to it and it's doing bad things to my mental health as well.
I have had bloodwork, but nothing extensive. Is it adrenal-related? Immune system breakdown? I am starting to think the episodes are not just cyclical, but possibly preceeded by an emotional upset (15 year old daughter, need I say more?) or extreme fatigue. I'm ready to go back to the doctor, but my husband lost his job in June and with it, our health insurance.
I just found this site today after having a very bad recurring flu/cold.
It all started last September after I returned from a trip to Scotland (I live in Northern California). At that time, I was sick in bed for a couple of days with aches, fever, scratchy sore throat, headache, etc.
Then came the Cough From Hell.
It was a constant, dry, tickly cough that made it almost impossible to speak normally and it lasted for 3 and a half months. I spent every single weekend in bed for six weeks hoping that additional rest would help. I couldn't go out with my husband or family for fear of having a coughing fit. And any sort of laughing was completely out of the question -- can you imagine trying not to laugh for almost four months? I even lost my voice several times because I had bruised my vocal chords.
My doctor put me on three different antibiotics, then on two different inhalers. They took a chest x-ray, some blood, and could not come up with any answers. She assured me it was probably just a virus that would 'cycle through'.
All of the coughing left me pretty tired (I'm a healthy, active 43-year-old) and I never really regained my pre-flu strength. Like another poster here it also seemed to affect me mentally. I felt foggy and a little depressed. I got my next flu at the end of December and they've been coming regularly almost every two months. The flu only seems to last a few days, then I get that darned cough again and it lasts about a week.
I am at my wits end and have depleted my boss's and co-worker's empathy -- they just want me here at work and healthy for a change.
I am going to the doctor for a physical on the 20th and will ask about Mycoplasma Pneumoniae. I really hope that that is the problem so that I can get the right treatment to end this thing.
It all started last September after I returned from a trip to Scotland (I live in Northern California). At that time, I was sick in bed for a couple of days with aches, fever, scratchy sore throat, headache, etc.
Then came the Cough From Hell.
It was a constant, dry, tickly cough that made it almost impossible to speak normally and it lasted for 3 and a half months. I spent every single weekend in bed for six weeks hoping that additional rest would help. I couldn't go out with my husband or family for fear of having a coughing fit. And any sort of laughing was completely out of the question -- can you imagine trying not to laugh for almost four months? I even lost my voice several times because I had bruised my vocal chords.
My doctor put me on three different antibiotics, then on two different inhalers. They took a chest x-ray, some blood, and could not come up with any answers. She assured me it was probably just a virus that would 'cycle through'.
All of the coughing left me pretty tired (I'm a healthy, active 43-year-old) and I never really regained my pre-flu strength. Like another poster here it also seemed to affect me mentally. I felt foggy and a little depressed. I got my next flu at the end of December and they've been coming regularly almost every two months. The flu only seems to last a few days, then I get that darned cough again and it lasts about a week.
I am at my wits end and have depleted my boss's and co-worker's empathy -- they just want me here at work and healthy for a change.
I am going to the doctor for a physical on the 20th and will ask about Mycoplasma Pneumoniae. I really hope that that is the problem so that I can get the right treatment to end this thing.
hello all,
i am into 5th episode of this strange flu like illness this year alone.
it sarted around november 08.
i wish we could phone each other up an talk about this.
i feel for you all as i know that this illness is exhausting.
i have had lots ftests done yet i do not get taken seriously.
i have even been for full std test and that was all clear.
laid up in bed right now tiny bit stronger than earlier.
i am normally very healthy.
it is getting m down at the moment.
more blood tests tomorrow.
triage nurse said on phone that i may have swine flu????
keep getting hot flushes pain in stomach total exhaustion.
:$ :$ :-( :$
i am into 5th episode of this strange flu like illness this year alone.
it sarted around november 08.
i wish we could phone each other up an talk about this.
i feel for you all as i know that this illness is exhausting.
i have had lots ftests done yet i do not get taken seriously.
i have even been for full std test and that was all clear.
laid up in bed right now tiny bit stronger than earlier.
i am normally very healthy.
it is getting m down at the moment.
more blood tests tomorrow.
triage nurse said on phone that i may have swine flu????
keep getting hot flushes pain in stomach total exhaustion.
:$ :$ :-( :$