Recurring cold and flu symptoms - 3 times this winter

I live in New Jersey and I take enough supplements everyday to choke an elephant Tons of different antioxidants.I eat lots of fruits including blueberries and blackberries,cranberries,etc.I exercise daily.Here I am with the third cold in three months!They seem to come from nowhere.One day I'm fine and all of a sudden I have a full blown head and chest cold.Coughing like a lunatic.First one lasted  10 days and then I felt great for two weeks.Then out of the blue I sick with the same symptoms again,but for three weeks.Again for two weeks I'm fine and then boom I get the same thing all over again.I'm on day two with this last occurence.I hope it's not the three week version again.The thing that really makes me angry is that I received a flu shot two weeks before the first occurence.In past years I have been free from colds and the flu for the entire season after having the injection.I'm starting to get very frustrated and angry.It sure seems like something is going around,but I don't see or hear any medical people coming forward with any information about whatever it is. 

Same here! I have never been sick for such a long time. It started with the flu in January which evolved into something congestive and now I am suffering from extreme fatigue plus a fever on and off and it is now March.
I was really worried but then remembered reading somewhere that the effects of the flu can be experienced for months afterwards. I am so sick of being sick and am wondering if this is some new strain of Norovirus that is attacking us.

This is so weird. I'm glad to know there are others out there with the same thing. What can I say, misery loves company. I got sick for the first time mid Jan and that lasted a week. Then right after Valentine's day it hit me again and I had this horrible dry cough (that was 10 times worse at night) that lasted for about 10 days. I literally just got over that like a week ago and just yesterday I'm on round 3 of this cold/flu ordeal. I'm sick n tired of being sick n tired.

Three was the charm for me. It's gone. Finally!

I also have recurring colds going on for many years! Each time my body temp. drops i.e. working in the garden and don't have a shower immediately after, within two days I would have a cold. I Emailed the cold research centre at Cardiff suggesting that we carry a cold virus most of the time but our body fights it off or keeps it under control without us even knowing about it. But when our body temp. drops, for whatever reason, the virus thrives at this lower temp.The reply I received agreed with this theory. So the secret is to keep a normal body temperature!!! I also recently discovered that I have a lower than normal body temp. which does not help. (age 67). Hope this is helpful, fellow sufferers.

See Cardiff Univ. website on cold research.

HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT GLUTEN? OR HAVEYOU THOUGHT ABOUT LEAD IN YOUR DISHES? THERE ARE SO MANY CONTAMINANTS TODAY THAT IT CAN JUST BE A PROCESS OF ELIMINATION'TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF ALL.' GOOD LUCK TO YOU.

I STARTED MASSIVE VIT D, ABOUT L0,000 A DAY, VITAMIN C LIKE CANDY WHEN SICK, AROUMD 20,00 A DAY, SAMBUCA (CAN GET SYRUP AT HEALTH FOOD STORE)..EVENING PRIMROSE OIL FOR ASTHMA OR BREATHING DIFFICULTIES, AND PROBIOTICS, DR. O HIRA BEST, BUT GO TO A GOOD HEALTH FOOD STORE, THEY CAN HELP YOU. AND ECHINECHIA IS A MUST.  GARLIC HELPS WITH ALL, AND THEN B-6, AND B-12, AND PLENTY OF WATER.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm so glad that I found this forum, my mother has been sick since Christmas and still is exhausted, weak and has the same cough (dry but there is mucus).  It started as a cold, then she was better, then she went down hard and couldn't get out of bed for five days.  No fever but had a bad cough and clogged sinuses. Took her two weeks to just get out of that, another two weeks of fatigue but able to start resuming a normal life.  Then it hit again, weak/dizzy/cough/tired.  We're heading into month three.

Many people at my work have had two to three bouts of this flu, seems to not really go away.  What is strange is that I'm usually the one to get sick all the time in the past, always a flu every year, colds, sinus issues, bronchitis.  Then back in 2010 caught the H1N1 and didn't completely recover for five months.  One of the sickest times of my life.  Then June 2012 caught a flu, only went down for four days (fast recovery for me).  But oddly I have not caught this weird flu, despite being surrounded by many people who have it.  I did think it was grabbing hold of me in January, I did a ton of raw garlic daily along with mega doses of vitamin C, oregano oil and olive leaf extract.  I still haven't caught it.

I'm now wondering if the H1N1 gave me some form of an immunity that has now minimized the impact of these new flu's.  Anyone else know of someone who had H1N1 or Swine Flu and built up a strong immunity?  Maybe this is a light at the end of your tunnels, assuming that I don't get as sick again.

Is anyone experiencing dizziness with this flu?  The flu is gone but I still have lingering fatigue, weak doing normal activities (showering, cooking), I have dizziness and still have laryngitis despite the cough being gone (unless I talk too much).

Has anyone experienced a dizzy feeling with this flu?

Wow! How interesting that so many people are having this same thing going on! In my case, this has been happening for about a year and a half. In that time I've had six or seven colds that came on for no apparent reason. They have been lasting for 2 to three weeks each time. Sometimes even a little longer if count from "feeling fine" through the entire cold and back to "feeling fine" again.  In my case, this has been accompanied several times by full blown laryngitis. Weird huh?  No idea why.  I haven't had much of the flu type symptoms although with the last bout I did have one or two days of low grade fever.

I used some over the counter concoctions like Nyquil to try to get some sleep and that has helped to subdue symptoms but has not helped with shortening the duration of these episodes (of course.) I have also dosed up on vitamin C and zinc but they haven't seemed to help much.

So, now that we see so many people complaining of these mysterious cold symptoms, has anyone offered any advice or suggestions as to why this happens and where it might be coming from? Any advice on how to combat this? I'm really getting tired of all the coughing and nose blowing and tiredness etc.  It's depressing to get well only to get yet another episode of this c**p.

Does anyone have ANY ideas on this?

Thanks,

Dave

 

 

 

I've the same problem - seem to get better and then it's back, I've even stopped mixing anywhere though OH still goes out and he's had it twice - normally has nothing!
Seriously wonder about fluoridated water, and nuclear disasters as well as vaccine trials and experiments.

Same story as all posts, but it's been a recurring cycle for a couple years for me now!!!  tried many, many different things & different docs... is this a new disease that docs r ignorant about or maybe that they are trying to keep "hush" until some sort of solution is developed?  being self-employed, it makes everything 10 times harder!!!

I identify with all you who are experiencing one cold after another.  I felt

my third one since Christmas coming and desperate,  read these entries and

liked the suggestion of chopped onions with honey.  I put brown sugar

with the onion and allowed a syrup to form, then added honey which 

soothes the throat.  I ate the onions and syrup and was amazed at

the difference the next morning.  I made another batch and ate it too.

It's an old fashioned remedy and worth trying.  I'm a believer in the

honorable onion.

Guys this is not just in the States.

I'm in Europe and have the same $#%#^^ for the third or fourth time now since december 2012.

Lot of people over here suffer from it as well.

It seems to decrease in intensity though.

Will try Vitamin C 1000mg, Echinacea even more water and green smoothies and spicy Asian food.