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Do You Get Colds And Flu Over And Over?

gatita

By gatita
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gatita Enthusiast
gatita
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After two entire months with the flu followed by severe bronchitis, I felt almost healthy for about two weeks -- but now I'm coming down with the flu/cold again!!! Arrgghh!

Is this common? Do you just keep getting cold after cold? Yikes, I feel like I have no immune system left.

If it matters, I've been gluten-free for 7 months but still am battling numerous symptoms including SIBO and other stuff. I have a wheat allergy (yes, allergy as opposed to intolerance) but not confirmed celiac.

I am usually super upbeat (like my avatar) but combined with a very sick brother (ataxia) this is all really getting me down... :(

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Em314 Explorer
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Are you sure it's you, and not just that something's going around?  I was sick almost all month in January, but I think that was as much about the crazy flu season as it was about my own immune system.  Almost nobody I knew *didn't* get sick at least once.

 

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frieze Community Regular
frieze
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After two entire months with the flu followed by severe bronchitis, I felt almost healthy for about two weeks -- but now I'm coming down with the flu/cold again!!! Arrgghh!

Is this common? Do you just keep getting cold after cold? Yikes, I feel like I have no immune system left.

If it matters, I've been gluten-free for 7 months but still am battling numerous symptoms including SIBO and other stuff. I have a wheat allergy (yes, allergy as opposed to intolerance) but not confirmed celiac.

I am usually super upbeat (like my avatar) but combined with a very sick brother (ataxia) this is all really getting me down... :(

worry is not good for the immune system...

pricklypear1971 Community Regular
pricklypear1971
Posted

Last year I seemed to catch mild versions of everything my husband and son brought home.

This year not as much.

I swear I get a mild version (milder than sick family members), recover, then it hits hard a few days later. Feels like two bugs but it happens like that more often than not so I'm thinking its a pattern for me.

Adalaide Mentor
Adalaide
Posted

My loving husband who shares everything with me happens to work the the general public. He brings home all sorts of fun things for me. A cold here, a flu there... you know, nothing like a little snot to cement our love I guess. <_< I'm so cool I can spend a week in bed with the flu in the middle of summer. While I don't seem to get back to back things going on, when I do get sick I seem to get the hit by a bus syndrome that no one else gets. My husband will feel kinda sick for 2 days and then be fine. I'll spend a week going through 3 boxes of tissues and feeling generally like crap, or worse. Not sure what's up with that, but it is terribly unfair.

JNBunnie1 Community Regular
JNBunnie1
Posted

At this point, I'm the one who rarely catches anything, and when I do, it's much less

severe than everyone else. I got hit by the flu in January, which is just wrecking New

England still. But I had about three days of honestly sick, but not bedridden at all. I

sure didn't feel GOOD, but I was functional. Whereas the friend I caught it off of wound

up with a sinus, infection, both ears infected, and had to go to the hospital. :ph34r:  I

stayed home and took all my natural supplements, and Advil when my fever spiked, and

was fine. The most annoying part was being stuck in the house so I didn't spread my

germs around!

 

I went very low-sugar (compared to the general population) a few years ago, and entirely

sugar free except for fruit and the occasional spoonful of honey, last year. Since then I've

been pretty cold-proof. It works! I used to catch everything that came down the pike and

stay sick twice as long as everyone else.

love2travel Mentor
love2travel
Posted

I have not had a cold or flu for over a year, thankfully.  Surprisingly, considering my husband has had it a couple of times.  I think my good guys are fighting off my bad guys!  ^_^

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