r/sick

A few weeks ago I was sick, it started off with body chills and headaches and just feeling really unwell, by day 5 I was getting worse and started to develop a cough almost like a tickley one and I could stop sweating. By day 7 I had enough and booked an online doctor because it was the weekend. He prescribed me with antibiotics and steroids for a chest infection. The next day I wasn’t feeling any relief and was in pain with my throat from coughing and haven’t slept all night so I went to my usual GP. Nothing was helping the cough, cough bottle l, strepsils, honey, hot drinks…..NOTHING. They said that it wasn’t a chest infection as my breathing sounded fine and the steroids were probably keeping me up at night aswell, he gave me anti inflammatory for my throat to try settle it down and that did help. So I stopped taking the antibiotics and steroids because it didn’t seem to be needed because it wasn’t a chest infections.

I eventually got a bit better but had a lingering cough that turned very chesty. Then my nose started and now I’m coughing sneezing and snorting just everywhere, I feel like I’m going insane. Nothing is helping my nose, I tried nasal rinse and that’s not helping.

Has anyone any tips of what I can do to just get rid of the mucus that has me so congested pleaseeeeeeee tell me. It’s been 4 weeks and I just want to feel better😭😭😭😭

I am taking fever medicines twice a day yet it keeps coming back. I also have a bad cough stuck in my chest. I am taking vitamin c + zinc tablets, chopped garlic, antihistamine, steam and paracetamol, yet I am not improving. TODAY IS DAY 4. I AM HAVING FEVER FOR 4 DAYS!!

Fever medicine heals my fever temporarily. It again comes back after a period of fever getting eased. My fever isn't even mild. It's 100-101. I am in 20s. Don't know what's wrong with my immune system.

I go to grocery store every morning where I walk for 20-25 minutes. Isn't this why I am not healing? I do rest whole day. I do get 7 hours of sleep.

It doesn't seem normal to have fever for 4 days.

For context, I work at a huge airport and I think this is how I got this virus. So many people cough, sneeze, you can see the spit droplets sometimes because these people are so inconsiderate and sneeze out in the open onto their clothes in a small space around hundreds of passengers. Then they sniff a lot too.

So I think this is how I got sick. A few people sneezed uncovered, wet, with gallons of spit really close to me. So now because of their inconsiderate behavior, I am so sick. I didn't have a fever or felt feverish, but now I am starting to feel feverish. It was a bad sore throat with coughing. I had to buy cough medicine because I couldn't lay down without coughing up a lung.

This illness seriously has me reconsidering working at an airport because it is indeed as germy as a preschool.

I have this trip I planned for months with everything prepaid and involved family too. I am beyond so upset. I hope this doesn't get worse. I haven't traveled anywhere in almost a year too.

Any way I can get better really fast?

I've been forgetting people’s names and faces, losing track of things constantly and my mind has been in a state of complete disarray lately... Sometimes I hallucinate and don’t understand what’s happening to me. (?) I really don’t feel okay. I haven’t told my parents yet, but I feel like they’re going to notice soon... maybe... It’s been super scary because sometimes I’ll suddenly find myself somewhere or in a situation without remembering how I got there, or I’ll completely lose track of what I was doing a few seconds ago. It’s been happening for the past 5-6 days, although the memory problems started probably around a year ago and have only gotten noticeably worse this year. The brain fog and confusion are seriously freaking me out and I'm shit scared if I'm being honest. I don’t know what’s happening to me but I’m not doing okay

Has anyone been hit with an absolute stinking virus ?, i’m into the second week and feel as rough as, throat,nose, headache and general body aches.

My 16 year old daughter is now in the hospital she has been throwing up now since Thurs has not eaten anything since wed cannot keep anything down not even water the Dr say she has colitis but nothing is helping her at all they give her nausea medicine and it doesn't help she has refused pain medicine because it makes her even more nauseous. They have recommended baths and showers saying it would help and they did at first but it isn't helping at all now and she took 2 baths and 5 showers yesterday with no relief. They think she has CHS also but I don't think that's what it is. She also has not had a bowel movement since Thurs. Also the smell of food makes her even more nauseous

So essentially, I’ve been getting sick with some variation of the common cold / head cold every 3-5 weeks this past Autumn/Winter. And it SUCKS.

I’ve been taking my armour force, drinking my immunity juice and orange juice, going on daily walks, wearing warm clothes when the temperature js low, and still I keep getting sick.

For context I am F25, 163cm, 68kg, non smoker, on birth control and iron tablets and vitamin d, living with PCOS/PMOS on GLP1 meds for it, and this has been happening for the last 5 or so months. My question is:

1. ⁠What blood tests / general tests should I request to figure out what’s going on?
2. ⁠What else should I add to my daily routine to build up my immune system so I’m less susceptible to this common cold?

I will say, there is a chance it could be burnout too after a big few months of work and a short stint as a caretaker, but I feel like it may go deeper than that.

Any help is appreciated! Thank you 🙏

I swear it’s like clockwork. Every year between the second week of August and the first week of September, I get a very bad cold that knocks me on my ass for a few days. I always thought it coincided with the first week of school, but I’m out of college now and still annoyingly sick.

I hate this stupid life! IM SO SICK OF THIS SLIMEY FOAMY MUCUS SEEPING INTO MY MOUTH 24/7 it won’t leave me alone. I’m crying daily just saying LEAVE ME ALONE!!! 😭 before when I had this condition it was more annoying but not as torturous because it wasn’t seeping into my mouth 24/7 it was just stuck in my throat but it would stay put and I could at least sleep I didn’t have to swallow at all.

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I am 23 (female) and have always been healthy. I got diagnosed with Covid for the first time on June 6th and pneumonia on June 23rd. I went to the ER 4 times in the past month because of chest tightness that never went away after I recovered. The doctors have done a CT scan, echocardiogram, and EKG. Everything comes back normal and they say it’s anxiety. I’ve upped my anxiety dose weeks ago and still feel no relief. I’ve been put on Meloxicam to target the rib pain/chest inflammation. Has anyone encountered 2 months of chest tightness post covid? I’m just concerned since it’s been so long.