When you get sick...
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When you get sick...
I'm curious about something I've learned recently and I wonder if folks could humor me with a response to a poll.
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barbaranoela
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Well-now I am confused---as usual 
When I catch a cold it doesnt last as long as Polly cited--
And sometimes I wonder if I ever really had the full blast of a *flu*--
I do know that I was sick from the Pneumonia shot--just for a day or two-
But it is highly recommended by GP/GI that Lou and I take these shots---and we have for MANY years--
As most know,in 04 I had a very weird pneumonia--after coming home from from AZ. vacation----something I will never forget--2 weeks in hospital---
OH--just remembered---I also had an asmatic/bronchial congestion--which did last for a few weeks--including fever going up and down-needed an inhalant--but never was diagnosed with asthma
I did answer rarely---
yet *weird* because dont have Re-currances of said issues??
Barbara
When I catch a cold it doesnt last as long as Polly cited--
And sometimes I wonder if I ever really had the full blast of a *flu*--
I do know that I was sick from the Pneumonia shot--just for a day or two-
But it is highly recommended by GP/GI that Lou and I take these shots---and we have for MANY years--
As most know,in 04 I had a very weird pneumonia--after coming home from from AZ. vacation----something I will never forget--2 weeks in hospital---
OH--just remembered---I also had an asmatic/bronchial congestion--which did last for a few weeks--including fever going up and down-needed an inhalant--but never was diagnosed with asthma
I did answer rarely---
yet *weird* because dont have Re-currances of said issues??Barbara
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I checked other because I'm pretty isolated nowadays, and in a way, there's less pressure than when I was working so less of that kind of stress. It still seems strange that I never catch anything, like at a restaurant or grocery store or anything, but then my trips are far fewer than other people's and than mine used to be. I think we decided a while back that our immune systems were just too stepped up for anything to take hold in our bodies. Anyway, I look forward to your understanding of the immune system aspects.
Now, lets go back to before I got so isolated. When I was young, I used to catch everything I was exposed to. I'd stay sick long past when the people who'd caught something from me was totally well. I'd get asthmatic type symptoms eventually, even though otherwise, I never had asthma, and "colds" would end up in my brochial area, and at least once, x-ray showed that it could've been called either bronchitis OR pneumonia. Think my doc preferred to call it bronchitis, so as not to have pneumonia in my records as this probably hurts with insurance since people tend to have repeats. Since it was could be called either one, this seemed the fairer thing to do, in my opinion -- sort of like "a tie goes to the runner." Ha!
When I started junior high school, in the 7th grade, my first semester I missed 21 days of school. Most of the other days I was there, I coughed and turned blue so much, I'm sure the teachers and students wished I'd stayed home then as well.
It was particularly stressful due to having all accelerated classes for the first time in my life, so had lots of studying to do, plus there's just more responsibility when one moves up from elementary school to going from class to class, etc.
Another thing that didn't help was that I was a very active kid in gym class, and I later learned that exercise can aggrevate the asthmatic symptoms. Didn't hurt unless I was still not over one of these long drawn out illnesses.
Funny how things can change later in life. I'm sure the food allergens contributed, as the only times I've had anything since I got IBSy, I got over it in the average length of time.
Don't know how you want to count me in your survey, since my chance of exposure is so low, and since I've not caught anything in years. Hey, maybe I am an other!
Yours, Luce
Now, lets go back to before I got so isolated. When I was young, I used to catch everything I was exposed to. I'd stay sick long past when the people who'd caught something from me was totally well. I'd get asthmatic type symptoms eventually, even though otherwise, I never had asthma, and "colds" would end up in my brochial area, and at least once, x-ray showed that it could've been called either bronchitis OR pneumonia. Think my doc preferred to call it bronchitis, so as not to have pneumonia in my records as this probably hurts with insurance since people tend to have repeats. Since it was could be called either one, this seemed the fairer thing to do, in my opinion -- sort of like "a tie goes to the runner." Ha!
When I started junior high school, in the 7th grade, my first semester I missed 21 days of school. Most of the other days I was there, I coughed and turned blue so much, I'm sure the teachers and students wished I'd stayed home then as well.
It was particularly stressful due to having all accelerated classes for the first time in my life, so had lots of studying to do, plus there's just more responsibility when one moves up from elementary school to going from class to class, etc.
Another thing that didn't help was that I was a very active kid in gym class, and I later learned that exercise can aggrevate the asthmatic symptoms. Didn't hurt unless I was still not over one of these long drawn out illnesses.
Funny how things can change later in life. I'm sure the food allergens contributed, as the only times I've had anything since I got IBSy, I got over it in the average length of time.
Don't know how you want to count me in your survey, since my chance of exposure is so low, and since I've not caught anything in years. Hey, maybe I am an other!
Yours, Luce
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harvest_table
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My body seems to have fought off flu's and colds the last year in comparison to my husband and daughter and others I'm in close contact with.
Interesting.
L.Joanna
Interesting.
L.Joanna
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kate_ce1995
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Well, I chose the "catch everything" category, because in the last two years that has been more or less the case. But I think a lot had to do with the stress of moving, starting a new job and then last year's crisis. So far, I've avoided this fall's cold that started the rounds two weeks into school. I have felt a few mornings like I was coming down with it, but I think its been a response to dry air moving in for winter (and we don't even have our heat on yet to make it drier! Time to get new filters for the humidifiers).
Katy
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Hi Shirley....yup...this bug is a nasty one...it is making the rounds at school and hangs on forever. It seems to go away, then comes back...yuck. I am feeling better today...the inhaler is helping..thanks for asking.. 
JJ
PS The D is hanging on....I am taking one Entocort/day and still have D in A.M. and even in the afternoon sometimes...made a mad dash for the loo at the grocery store yesterday!
JJ
JJPS The D is hanging on....I am taking one Entocort/day and still have D in A.M. and even in the afternoon sometimes...made a mad dash for the loo at the grocery store yesterday!
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artteacher
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I've had bronchitis every fall since my teens.
As an adult I had chronic sinus, bladder, and yeast infections.
In my middle 30's I developed IBS-like symptoms, and noticed increasing intolerance to dairy and sugars.
In my 40's these things were added: fatigue, joint pain in feet and hands expecially, diahrrea and occasional fecal incontinence. Diagnosed with lupus, hypothyroidism, anemia. Treated with plaquenel, synthroid, steriods. At this point when I got a "cold" it literally felt like death. It lasted much longer than usual, and I felt much worse. Various diets tried to improve digestion/diahhrea, but they probably added to fatigue. After being Dairy-free mood swings and diahhrea improved.
Late 40's: began antidepressants. Began jobs, had to quit because of health: colds would last months. Lack of energy almost incompacitating despite synthroid. The addition of Welbutrin to Zoloft helped energy. Caltrate 600+ controlled diahhrea perhaps 90%. Colds still made me sick for months, not weeks, developed into infections that required the highest dosages of antibiotics, and 2-3 courses of the antibiotics.
Made contact with this website, began gluten free diet, experimented with eliminating other food groups. Finally diagnosed with MC. Colds gradually began to be less devastating.
Now age 51. Have cut back antidepressants to just 1/4 standard dose of Wellbutrin, .1 mcg levothyroxin for thyroid, Caltrate, follow a paleo-type diet. My blood tests no longer show lupus, although I still have inflammatory markers. Colds are rare (one a year), and are a little longer than normal duration, but aren't devastating. At least half the time, I can get a cold and get over it without it turning into a bacterial infection requiring antibiotics. Sinus infections are down to maybe 1 a year. Yeast infection maybe once a year, bladder infection once every 2 years.
Didn't mean to write a book, sorry. But you can see, the colds are a good indicator of how I've gotten better in general. I attribute it to grain-free dairy-free diet.
Love, Marsha
As an adult I had chronic sinus, bladder, and yeast infections.
In my middle 30's I developed IBS-like symptoms, and noticed increasing intolerance to dairy and sugars.
In my 40's these things were added: fatigue, joint pain in feet and hands expecially, diahrrea and occasional fecal incontinence. Diagnosed with lupus, hypothyroidism, anemia. Treated with plaquenel, synthroid, steriods. At this point when I got a "cold" it literally felt like death. It lasted much longer than usual, and I felt much worse. Various diets tried to improve digestion/diahhrea, but they probably added to fatigue. After being Dairy-free mood swings and diahhrea improved.
Late 40's: began antidepressants. Began jobs, had to quit because of health: colds would last months. Lack of energy almost incompacitating despite synthroid. The addition of Welbutrin to Zoloft helped energy. Caltrate 600+ controlled diahhrea perhaps 90%. Colds still made me sick for months, not weeks, developed into infections that required the highest dosages of antibiotics, and 2-3 courses of the antibiotics.
Made contact with this website, began gluten free diet, experimented with eliminating other food groups. Finally diagnosed with MC. Colds gradually began to be less devastating.
Now age 51. Have cut back antidepressants to just 1/4 standard dose of Wellbutrin, .1 mcg levothyroxin for thyroid, Caltrate, follow a paleo-type diet. My blood tests no longer show lupus, although I still have inflammatory markers. Colds are rare (one a year), and are a little longer than normal duration, but aren't devastating. At least half the time, I can get a cold and get over it without it turning into a bacterial infection requiring antibiotics. Sinus infections are down to maybe 1 a year. Yeast infection maybe once a year, bladder infection once every 2 years.
Didn't mean to write a book, sorry. But you can see, the colds are a good indicator of how I've gotten better in general. I attribute it to grain-free dairy-free diet.
Love, Marsha
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annie oakley
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I checked the first one because I rarely get sick, but I take the flu shot every year, havent yet this year. The only thing that I get are sinus infections and that I believe is related to my deviated Septum, plus all my years of smoking that I no longer do. When I was smoking I would get sick now and then. Love Oma
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Wow Marsha,
You are the poster child for going gluten free. It's hard to imagine that grains could be responsible for all that you went through. I admire your determination to figure it all out. Eliminating gluten is a tricky thing. I don't think i would have figured it out with all the tests saying I wasn't allergic to gluten and the response to gluten just wasn't an immedient cause and effect thing....it took most of a month to feel any difference....where as with soy it is fast. Hopefully with more time my body will respond as well as yours. I'm glad you are so much better...you certainly went through a lot.
Love,
Cristi
You are the poster child for going gluten free. It's hard to imagine that grains could be responsible for all that you went through. I admire your determination to figure it all out. Eliminating gluten is a tricky thing. I don't think i would have figured it out with all the tests saying I wasn't allergic to gluten and the response to gluten just wasn't an immedient cause and effect thing....it took most of a month to feel any difference....where as with soy it is fast. Hopefully with more time my body will respond as well as yours. I'm glad you are so much better...you certainly went through a lot.
Love,
Cristi
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artteacher
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Dear Cristi,
Thanks for the kind words. I think I'm a "below the radar" celiac, and all the other intolerances are due to gluten. (celiac tests were negative). I used to hope, actually hang onto, the idea that I could eat normally some day: but now I don't think that's ever going to happen. Which is ok. I've come up with substitutions for the things I "have" to have. Like chocolate.
Love, Marsha
Thanks for the kind words. I think I'm a "below the radar" celiac, and all the other intolerances are due to gluten. (celiac tests were negative). I used to hope, actually hang onto, the idea that I could eat normally some day: but now I don't think that's ever going to happen. Which is ok. I've come up with substitutions for the things I "have" to have. Like chocolate.
Love, Marsha