Anyone else, sore throat etc?

[sasywtch]

Anyone know what's going around? Yesterday at 11am, I'm fine and in a work class. 11:30am, I feel a scratch in my throat. The rest of the day I felt crappy. My throat started to hurt, head plugged up but worst of all were my muscles were just so tired. I slept from 6pm last night until 10am this morning. I didn't have a fever and didn't eat. Today is a little better but I have to say, I've never felt that worn out in my life.

 

[emer95]

I'm just starting to come out of a wretched cold. It started with the scratchy throat a week ago and then developed into pure misery. I took one day off of work and people were annoyed when I came back. But it's tough to take off multiple days for a cold!
Not a good time of year to be stuck in bed. I'm still not even close to 100% but I'm so behind with everything!

Hope you feel better very soon!

 

[anniemae]

There is so much going around this time of year. So many viruses, colds, flu etc. Usually it just takes time to pass and nothing else can be done but rest. If it is something that needs antibiotics, head to the dr. otherwise, just rest and liquids.

 

[aprilgail]

MOnday afternoon throat got scratchy- by Tuesday morning it felt like razor blades in my throat! Slept Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon but have to put on my big girl pants today and get up and go to work LOL.

 

[lynxstch]

Both bad colds and flu are going around here. I had an awful cold a month ago, which started with the sore throat , then the stuffed up head, followed by the coughing and muscle aches. It took till last week before the cough finally went away totally. Hubby says lots of people at work have either it or the flu. Hope you feel better soon.

 

[Kitty 34]

I've been real dizzy this week. Couldn't get out of bed on Monday.

 

[Poohlove]

The week before Thanksgiving I started with my throat feeling like it was on fire and buy the time I went to bed my head was completely plugged up. My eye sockets and cheek bones hurt. Then I got the cough. I got as much rest as I could and drank lots of water and Gatorade, took Nyquil at night and did sinus rinses twice a day. All but the cough was gone in about 4-5 days. I still have a little bit of a cough and some sinus congestion and its been about a month.

I hope that everyone feels better soon!!!

 

[Christine]

I don't know of anything in my area, but most of my worst colds start out like you described. I also get REALLY tired and achy feeling but when I talk to my friends about their colds, they generally don't.

 

[usnuzuloose]

I've been real dizzy this week. Couldn't get out of bed on Monday.

I am having that also , from my sinuses. I hate that feeling. UGH

 

[Buntington]

Yup, I've been sick all week and my kids were sick last week. At least I know where I got it. The first day was the worst, muscle aches and no energy to so much as move my hand to type. Some of my coworkers have legit had the flu, but what we've had is more like a yucky cold/sinus infection. But the sinus stuff has made me really nauseous and kind of dizzy too. I can't hear out of both ears. I'll be glad when it's over! We all got our flu shots this year, so keeping our fingers crossed that we avoid anything worse.

 

[Melissakay1q]

DD's nose started to run two days ago. Later in the same day, DH started to feel bad. Runny nose, congestion, scratchy threat. I think I'm feeling a touch of it now, too.

 

[monsterkitty]

Three weeks ago I started with a hoarse voice that moved to a sore throat for a few days. It then moved to head congestion. Because it was tired of staying in my head/throat, it moved to my lungs and became bronchitis.

I still have it. It's like a guest who has come to stay at your house and won't leave.

 

[tcufrog]

Just word of warning. Strep is going around. At a friend's son's school about a quarter of students and staff are out.

 

[I loveStitchnippyjon]

Finally over a nasty bug from a month ago! Generally I start with a sore throat, which disappears once the sinus congestion begins. This time the sore throat lasted for over 2 weeks! Hope to stay healthy through Christmas! (Fingers crossed!)

 

[mousefanmichelle]

My dh has been sick for the better part of a month. Just this week he said his throat feels like it has 2 golf balls crammed in it. He can barely speak. It comes and it goes for him. Luckily I have dodged the bullet and so have my kids - dh is holding onto those germs and not sharing so we are lucky!

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

Anyone know what's going around? Yesterday at 11am, I'm fine and in a work class. 11:30am, I feel a scratch in my throat. The rest of the day I felt crappy. My throat started to hurt, head plugged up but worst of all were my muscles were just so tired. I slept from 6pm last night until 10am this morning. I didn't have a fever and didn't eat. Today is a little better but I have to say, I've never felt that worn out in my life.

We've been sick since my other grandson came to visit a couple of weeks ago. Sinuses, congestion, fever, aches, swollen glands/throat, . I've been spamming Mucinex because it seems like the only thing that works.

 

[xlxo]

A lot of my colds start with a sore throat.

• Gargling mouthwash helps control minor infections for me.
• For deeper infections.... hot/cold with soup and ice cream.
• If still bad after a day.... I visit the doctor for stronger stuff... Typically, doctor does not want to over prescribe.... so a visit to the pharmacy for some other cough syrup to addresses the symptoms.
• if still bad after a few days.... back to doctor for stronger stuff that he did not want to give me the first time.

 

[mom2rtk]

A lot of my colds start with a sore throat.

• Gargling mouthwash helps control minor infections for me.
• For deeper infections.... hot/cold with soup and ice cream.
• If still bad after a day.... I visit the doctor for stronger stuff... Typically, doctor does not want to over prescribe.... so a visit to the pharmacy for some other cough syrup to addresses the symptoms.
• if still bad after a few days.... back to doctor for stronger stuff that he did not want to give me the first time.

Or if you have one of those snazzy high deductible health plans like I do, you skip steps 3 and 4 and hope you live to tell the tale. Hey, maybe all these high deductible plans will actually be good for issue of growing resistance to antibiotics in society? See? A silver lining.

I had one in mid-November that did seem to drag on. Thankfully it's gone now. The congestion really dragged on though.

 

[sasywtch]

Thank you all. I started out to work today and had major sweats, the worst hot flash ever. I never had a fever but it felt like the fever was trying to get out of me (if that makes sense). So, I figured my body was trying to tell me something so I'm home on my sofa with my comfy blanket. Normally I get a cold or a sore throat and plow though it but this one, never have I felt so weak. I honestly didn't even want to get up to go to the bathroom. My stomach felt like it was sick also which was weird. Good news is, I lost 2 lbs.

 

[HeatherC]

Sorry for everybody feeling crummy. Wanted to just mention that Vitamin D gummies have worked wonders for us. I buy the Vitafusion ones and the whole family takes them beginning in Sept.. The last few years doing this has upped our energy level in the winter and has definitely helped ward off colds.

When we feel a cold coming on we also just take one 50mg zinc tablet. Seems to stop the cold before it gets worse.