| Multiple colds this year 13:11 - Dec 4 with 1824 views | ThisIsMyUsername |
Has anyone else been suffering from multiple colds this year? I've come down with the third in the last eight weeks approximately, each time feeling pretty rough for four or five days.
I flew back from Europe on Sunday morning so potentially I caught something on the plane. I usually get one cold each winter but this year has been something else.
I'm 32, fit and healthy, with a good diet, exercise and sleep levels. It just seems that whatever is out there is battering my immune system over the last couple of months. [Post edited 4 Dec 2024 13:12]
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| Multiple colds this year on 13:17 - Dec 4 with 1776 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
Yes. One after another.
I live in a tourist area, and my wife works with kids, so we are "novel virus exposure central", but still- a bad year. |  | | |
| Multiple colds this year on 13:32 - Dec 4 with 1734 views | Churchman |
I haven’t but my best mate has. There seems to be a lot of it about. Get well soon. |  | | |
| Multiple colds this year on 13:35 - Dec 4 with 1724 views | ElderGrizzly |
Yep, 3rd in about 6 months.
One was pneumonia though and now have a chest infection. i also have 2 small children, with one at nursery, so she is the likely patient zero.
I do travel long haul a lot though and latest trip was 10 days ago. This started 8 days ago 🙄 |  | | |
| Multiple colds this year on 13:44 - Dec 4 with 1695 views | Cotty |
Do you have very young kids? That's the primary source for somebody your age! |  | | |
| Multiple colds this year on 14:07 - Dec 4 with 1653 views | Dubtractor |
| Multiple colds this year on 13:44 - Dec 4 by Cotty |
Do you have very young kids? That's the primary source for somebody your age! |
My other half is a primary school teacher. I get a lot of colds each winter.
Ffs etc. |  |
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| Multiple colds this year on 14:12 - Dec 4 with 1638 views | Keno |
No just the one could its taken about 6 weeks to shift |  |
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| Multiple colds this year on 14:14 - Dec 4 with 1623 views | hype313 |
| Multiple colds this year on 13:44 - Dec 4 by Cotty |
Do you have very young kids? That's the primary source for somebody your age! |
Yep, for the first 3 years of my kids life I had a permanent cold, with a few Norovirus chasers thrown in for good measure. |  |
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| Multiple colds this year on 14:20 - Dec 4 with 1602 views | _clive_baker_ |
Let me guess, you had the vaccine?
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| Multiple colds this year on 15:49 - Dec 4 with 1507 views | Denny32 |
All vaccinated on here I bet | | | |
| Multiple colds this year on 16:21 - Dec 4 with 1470 views | Hugoagogo_Reborn |
There could be a few strains going around that you've either not had before, or haven't had for a long while, to which you have now lost immunity.
I got at least 7 or 8 colds a year at school, got around 4 or 5 a year when I worked in (a frankly far too hot) office, but now I work outside a fair bit, I get maybe 2 or 3 a year absolute max.
Also, airplanes are a Petri dish of germs. I haven't been on a flight since February 2020, when I got something suspiciously like COVID, just before lockdown.
I always got sick after long haul flights, previously.
Get well soon! |  | | |
| Multiple colds this year on 19:04 - Dec 4 with 1325 views | Plums |
| Multiple colds this year on 15:49 - Dec 4 by Denny32 |
All vaccinated on here I bet |
Is that you Fauci? |  |
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| Multiple colds this year on 19:33 - Dec 4 with 1283 views | Denny32 |
| Multiple colds this year on 19:04 - Dec 4 by Plums |
Is that you Fauci? |
No ...its bill Gates here | | | |
| Multiple colds this year on 19:57 - Dec 4 with 1243 views | Swansea_Blue |
Yep. But they’ve got shorter and less bothersome as they’ve gone on. I’m fresh out of my third one of the autumn/winter, which as little more than a day of sniffles and then 4-5 days of catarrh (which was bloody annoying actually).
Last year was worse for us - some real horrible viruses rather than normal colds. Could have been covid I suppose, but we weren’t testing. |  |
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| Multiple colds this year on 09:41 - Dec 5 with 1096 views | ThisIsMyUsername |
It's 'good' to see I'm not alone!
I don't have kids and I'm not around them very often either, so that's most likely not the cause. I think this latest one will be from the plane. It's happened the last few times I've flown. I'm going to Egypt in March and I think I will wear a face mask (which I always thoroughly hated doing) as catching a cold on the plane is getting tiresome.
Re vaccines: I had the initial three Covid vaccines when everyone was being vaccinated. Since then I've not had any further Covid and/or flu jabs. I suppose being in my 30s I don't get automatically invited. I have no idea how much people are still being recommended to get vaccines regardless. Is it possible and still worth doing? I know you can buy a flu vaccine at Boots (well, I know you could a few years ago as I did it for some reason). | |
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| Multiple colds this year on 09:50 - Dec 5 with 1078 views | Facefacts |
Yes, I'm off sick from work at the moment too. Third time this year. I'm 61. I don't get offered free Covid or flu jabs. Was actually too ill to watch the other night, although I do have Amazon Prime. Sick of being sick. |  | | |
| Multiple colds this year on 10:07 - Dec 5 with 1050 views | NthQldITFC |
| Multiple colds this year on 15:49 - Dec 4 by Denny32 |
All vaccinated on here I bet |
Not me - I've used the magic lights and the bleach, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with me at all. The straightjacket makes typing difficult, but when the flying saucers land and I take my pointy aluminium foil hat off, they've promised me that they'll dig out Bill Gates's nano-chip and and use it to somehow stop the chem-trails by injecting it into some specially trained unicorns, or something.
But don't tell anyone. |  |
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| Multiple colds this year on 11:18 - Dec 5 with 977 views | SitfcB |
Jabbed. |  |
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| Multiple colds this year on 19:43 - Dec 5 with 811 views | Churchman |
Gosh, I didn’t realise it was such a problem. Thanks for posting that.
As it goes, I’ve had the Covid, flu and pneumonia vaccinations, not that it is any guarantee but as far as I’m concerned, anything to reduce the odds. | | | |
| Multiple colds this year on 23:27 - Dec 5 with 728 views | Freddies_Ears |
Last winter, Nov - Mar, I had 7 nasty cold-type bugs, all slightly different symptoms and never clear for more than 7 days in-between. Pretty sure the penultimate was Covid, as it dragged on 3 weeks and removed my sense of smell and taste (smell still zero, taste around 20% back).
It was an utterly miserable 18 weeks. In the end I went to a private GP, in case I had immunity issues due to some underlying condition. I am glad I did that.
Clear so far this winter... | | | |
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