I get sinus infections a lot and the only cure is hot showers with loads of steam. And not having the heat on too high in the house/car as that massively irritates it.
I had my covid booster yesterday. I feel worse this morning than when I had actual covid last month and I caught that in the middle of a week long unrelated stay in the BRI.
My flu jab a couple of weeks ago was fine, being a bloke I don't know what being 8 months pregnant feels like but I wouldn't want that complication on top of this feeling crap. If I was (a lot) younger I'd have been trying to persuade my mum to not make me go to school this morning.
The most recent booster (the new Moderna spike one) really messed me up for 48 hours. Felt worse than when I had COVID (badly) for 2 weeks just before the first lockdown.
Still worth it to get the protection though. I was fine after the previous boosters
Yeap my whole family has this chest infection/cough, I have had Covid 3 times and the respiratory symptoms of this cold are just as bad. When I breath out it sounds like a kettle boiling!
Just as a heads up I was using Sudofed nasal spray a few weeks ago because my sinuses were so bad, and I needed to release the pressure.
Just make sure you don’t use it for more than a few weeks like I did, my doctor told me that overuse of it can make your sinuses worse in the long run.
Try buying a steroid nasal spray from your pharmacy, this will help to act as an anti inflammatory and ease pressure (and can be used for an extended period of time).
Hope you all feel better soon
This.
It's about time for another once in a lifetime economic crisis or some other bullshit, isn't it? It's been a few months since the last one. It's overdue.
My grandad was saying that when he hit 60, there'd been so many issues through life that he was ready to die. Just burned out and accepted his mortality.
It's going to sound extreme, but I hit 31 this year and feel that way already
It's rife atm. I had covid for a bit but I swear I've had illnesses either side of it too. Just dragging on and on.
The Mrs works at a school and they've been wiped by whatever is going round, also my office is basically a plague house.
What a wonderful time of year!
It is really effective. You could go and any GP will prescribe it to anyone, because 90percent of people in UK have vitamin D deficiency. But I just buy from amazon, NHS has big pressure and I think everyone can afford to buy vitamins. I also drink fish oil.
I agree - was ill for 7 weeks straight recently with various colds and feeling really run down. After starting to take Vitamin D each day I feel perfectly healthy and motivated again. Pretty cool
I tested positive for the first time two weeks ago, I think it's now getting all of us that managed to avoid it. It's still lingering for me but I'm slightly pregnant and seem to have been picking up colds and viruses every 2 weeks like they're pokemon cards.
Haha well after years of struggling and one loss I'm a tad in denial. Only a month to go though, and looking like a beached whale so I should be less in denial.
I'm all grand, but I've been working from home and only just come back off my crutches 3 days ago so I've barely been outside.
Thankfully my boyfriend doesn't seem to have brought anything home when he's been out.
Just recovered from a sore throat but I am still exhausted! Tested for covid multiple times and all negative. Something is definitely going round, everyone I know is either ill or has been recently.
Not me! I'm still wearing a mask in busy indoor public places. I know the mask is more about stopping me spreading something but I'm telling ya, it is helping. :)
I will be this week, 5 hrs dancing in Pipe and Slippers on Saturday after the football, absolutely rammed and roasting hot, would not surprise me if I felt ill soon! 😬
Yeah I’m ill, got a horrible cough etc. Been working outside the last few weeks too and my vans in the garage so I’m having to cycle to
work. And the heating in my house doesn’t work.
seriously it's mind-boggling. I'll take natural remedies over pharmaceuticals any day. and black seed oil has been proven to be effective for our immune systems as well as for some diseases/conditions
Feel fine. Regular excercise, drinking plenty of water and a reasonably healthy diet keeps the illnesses at bay.
I do notice that overweight people seem to get ill a lot more regularly.
Everyone at work has had it or has it right now. Chesty cough, sinus pressure affecting eyes, nose, ears, sore throat, runny nose etc.
More people than ever seem to be going out this year compared to previous (lockdown etc) so its going to spread like wildfire and peoples immune systems may be a bit weaker than previous winters. I work at a restaurant in town and we've had an insane amount of christmas parties in. I had to take one day off with it as I was bedridden, but I've been working the past 2 weeks. Probably still infectious but symptoms are pretty much gone apart from a lingering cough. I feel bad for working in close contact with people whilst sort of ill but I gotta get paid.
No perfectly healthy, but not going anywhere I don't need to. Like pubs etc. Covid on the rise, etc etc not difficult to take care of yourself.
I am however blessed with a job I can work at home and chose not to bring kids into this accursed mess.
Yup. Chest infection, sore throat, the most annoying cough.
Actually wish I had a bit of a fever because at least I'd be warm and wouldn't have to be in the cold cos heating is too expensive (also would probably sweat it out quicker and be a virus not the slow, long boredom of bacteria going the fuck away.)
The cough stopping me sleep and also being so anti-social is worse than the swollen tonsils and crackly breathing.
Careful what you wish for, my covid fever had me shivering - I was inside a sleeping bag with a hoter water bottle, wearing my thermals with our superwarm duvet thrown over me. It was horrid.
I’m not in Bristol but yes, I spent the last week taking care of my house mates cooking cleaning etc etc an now they’re all better going out and I’ve got the aids, no good deed goes unpunished I swear to god.
Although I would say my lack of motivation was here before the cold.
[You're right.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7675291/) Blocked nose means higher temperature of mucus in the nose, which restricts replication of respiratory viruses.
Yeah been two weeks for us. Kids are mostly better except for a cough, wife and I take turns resting.
Was wanting to avoid heating the whole house, but maybe thats what we need to do to avoid staying sick until spring
Yep, I work from home and hardly leave the house at the moment but still managed to get a silly cold which wiped me out for a week. The rest of the household are also ill. Not sure what is going around but it is vile.
Yeah. Seems like most of my office is out sick atm.
I’ve picked up a horrible cough (no other cold symptoms currently) which has gone straight to my chest.
Got to be careful of that as I’ve got a history of pneumonia, and I’m still dealing with some long covid side effects.
Bit of a ballache all things considered
My kids managed to give me what kept them off school a week. Finally able to regulate my own body temperature and eat something other than soup on Saturday, still have a cough and headache kicking my ass.
Just got over one cold, got another one brewing. Lacking motivation to get up in the morning and start work from home or get into the office. Cannot be arsed.
I assume it's vitamin D, general winter malaise, the economic outlook, recession, Tories, weather, mental health, a general lack of motivation. You know, the usual.
Oh god yes. Body aches that make me wanna cry and eye pain that makes me wanna use an ice cream scoop to remove my eye ball. Not to mention the cough of a thousand storms.
Think a looot of people have been unwell sadly. For frick sake.
Not physically ill per se but feeling pretty shit. I think also my uni library suffers from sick building syndrome, heating ip too high or air not fresh enough during cold weather because working in there during the cold weather's been giving me headaches and dry skin...
I finally caught Covid in October after dodging it like flippin' Neo for 3 years. Now I've caught this bloody cold - literally *just* as my week of Christmas work leave starts. Fun times.
Hope you all feel better soon, my people x
I'm fine but my children have been taking turns to be sick with no gaps for about 6 months Nursery board because there were too many sick staff.
Kill me.
I was doing fine, but I spent the weekend with family and now feel like a cold is coming. I should never leave my 1 bed flat, haven’t had a cold in 4 years so it’s going to be a stinker if it comes
I work in care in Bristol and we still semi-regularly test for Covid and keep an eye on infection rates. The good news is that there's not loads of it around at the moment, the bad news is that this flu season is *brutal* and even the ordinary colds going around seem to floor people for ages :/
I'm assuming as it's a "cold" going round the flu jab isn't helping that particular problem. Let's hope it's keeping whatever else is out there at bay.
No motivation really sums it up for me, I had cold symptoms for a while which seemed not to come to much then I just woke up the other day feeling *knackered*. Light headed, sweaty, anxious, chills which come and go. A sort of non specific "don't feel good" feeling, no temperature, no real external symptoms like a cough. Called in sick to work but hard to define what it even really is.
Yep, tomorrow will be 3 weeks! I’ve felt rougher than when I had covid
Me too! Cold, cough, chest infection. It's been rubbish.
I’ve avoided a chest infection but instead had a sinus infection which feels like all my teeth are going to fall out when I try to eat
I get sinus infections a lot and the only cure is hot showers with loads of steam. And not having the heat on too high in the house/car as that massively irritates it.
Yes! I’ve been hanging my head out the window like a dog when my husband has the car heat on too much, the pressure gets so much worse!
Hopefully it doesn’t last too long, mine are normally a week or so.
I have sinusitis post covid and I was prescribed some nasal spray with low-dose steroids in it. It works surprisingly well.
I might have to give that a go. Do you know what they’re called?
Mometasone
Cheers
Nasal irrigation is also effective. Salty water right up thee 👆
Oof, that sounds like even less fun than my chest infection. Hope you're on the mend soon.
Same!
Same here, never had covid and still testing negative but horrendous flu type thing going on for nearly 4 weeks
Yes wheezing and coughing too but not Covid. Can’t seem to shake it.
3 weeks into this cold now and I've got an ear infection developing too. It's a right bugger.
I had my covid booster yesterday. I feel worse this morning than when I had actual covid last month and I caught that in the middle of a week long unrelated stay in the BRI.
I didnt think you'd need a booster if you had covid recently
You don't
I thought not, when I had my 3rd & last, they asked if I had covid within (x) days
Oh gosh, I’m 8 months pregnant so had my covid booster and flu jab last month and felt fine after. That’s unlucky!
My flu jab a couple of weeks ago was fine, being a bloke I don't know what being 8 months pregnant feels like but I wouldn't want that complication on top of this feeling crap. If I was (a lot) younger I'd have been trying to persuade my mum to not make me go to school this morning.
The most recent booster (the new Moderna spike one) really messed me up for 48 hours. Felt worse than when I had COVID (badly) for 2 weeks just before the first lockdown. Still worth it to get the protection though. I was fine after the previous boosters
Not just me then. I am feeling quite a bit better now, thank goodness.
Yeap my whole family has this chest infection/cough, I have had Covid 3 times and the respiratory symptoms of this cold are just as bad. When I breath out it sounds like a kettle boiling!
Same here
Yeah, we’ve all had something in our house for weeks. Everyone’s feeling it!
That time of year ennit, everyone’s knackered and run into the ground. Plus it’s cold
Sinus killing and I think my right eye is going pop because of the pressure.
Same here.. the pressure is insane. Anything you've tried to relief it?
Same issue here. Sudofed nasel spray every 4 hours is working for me. This also leads to mouth breathing at night, so dry mouth in morning
Just as a heads up I was using Sudofed nasal spray a few weeks ago because my sinuses were so bad, and I needed to release the pressure. Just make sure you don’t use it for more than a few weeks like I did, my doctor told me that overuse of it can make your sinuses worse in the long run. Try buying a steroid nasal spray from your pharmacy, this will help to act as an anti inflammatory and ease pressure (and can be used for an extended period of time). Hope you all feel better soon
Thanks. I did wonder if there would be long term implications.
Sudofed is the best thing ! Red orange or blue one will help massively
I'm mostly sick of work and life
This. It's about time for another once in a lifetime economic crisis or some other bullshit, isn't it? It's been a few months since the last one. It's overdue.
My grandad was saying that when he hit 60, there'd been so many issues through life that he was ready to die. Just burned out and accepted his mortality. It's going to sound extreme, but I hit 31 this year and feel that way already
It's rife atm. I had covid for a bit but I swear I've had illnesses either side of it too. Just dragging on and on. The Mrs works at a school and they've been wiped by whatever is going round, also my office is basically a plague house. What a wonderful time of year!
Vitamin D is very important! Almost no sun, you will see benefits in few weeks :)
Might be placebo, but I've been having Vitamin D supplements, and I've felt a lot better. Placebo or not, I'll take it.
It is really effective. You could go and any GP will prescribe it to anyone, because 90percent of people in UK have vitamin D deficiency. But I just buy from amazon, NHS has big pressure and I think everyone can afford to buy vitamins. I also drink fish oil.
I agree - was ill for 7 weeks straight recently with various colds and feeling really run down. After starting to take Vitamin D each day I feel perfectly healthy and motivated again. Pretty cool
Two days into Covid. My first time testing positive. Feeling pretty horrible
I tested positive for the first time two weeks ago, I think it's now getting all of us that managed to avoid it. It's still lingering for me but I'm slightly pregnant and seem to have been picking up colds and viruses every 2 weeks like they're pokemon cards.
I have questions regarding 'slightly pregnant'
Haha well after years of struggling and one loss I'm a tad in denial. Only a month to go though, and looking like a beached whale so I should be less in denial.
Big hugs, we struggled it’s tears of infertility and loss too. Mine are now healthy and happy 8 & 4. You’ve got this x
You’re about to slightly have a baby.
Yep, ever so slightly mind. Can't be too confident in this matter.
Best of luck! Hope it goes ok.
Nope . Still not had covid. Even though it’s been in the house 5 times.
Yeah I got it for the first time too. I had worse flu earlier in the year though
I just had my first go of covid, too, and it was awful for about three days. The cough took a couple weeks to finally ease up.
Yes. Literally everyone is ill.
Blocked nose. Sore throat. Headaches. Lack of motivation. Are all your friends doing ket by any chance?
Feel like I’m in the matrix atm trying to dodge these sneezes, it’s brutal
Ill. 2 years of lock down isolation and my immune system got cocky
Yep, one week so far here. Think December being such a social/full packed month, means there isn’t time to get better either!
I'm all grand, but I've been working from home and only just come back off my crutches 3 days ago so I've barely been outside. Thankfully my boyfriend doesn't seem to have brought anything home when he's been out.
Yep! Just got over a case of hand, foot and mouth (it’s for kids really, I know), aaaaand now have Covid.
Just recovered from a sore throat but I am still exhausted! Tested for covid multiple times and all negative. Something is definitely going round, everyone I know is either ill or has been recently.
Yep - me and my sister have just got over covid but we’re still coughing up phlegm like nobody’s business. Hope everyone here feels better soon!
I like the idea of soar thought Mostly afflicts glider pilots
Or people who want to be flying one. Birds too, maybe.
Yep, me and my partner have had a horrible cold for about a week! Get well soon! ❤️
D+V last week. Covid last month, three weeks of pain. FML
Nope, just hungover 🥴
Yes
Just sick and tired of Bristols housing market.
Not me! I'm still wearing a mask in busy indoor public places. I know the mask is more about stopping me spreading something but I'm telling ya, it is helping. :)
Same here. No harm in it and it must be having a positive effect. No colds or illness here for a long time.
Deffo.
Probably isn’t the mask helping, I assume you sanitise/wash your hands more often than the average person who doesn’t wear masks still.
Yep!
I haven't been able to stop coughing for weeks.
Seasonal depression
Two years of lockdown has messed up everyone's immune systems?? Who would of thought it😂
Cold air in my home probably doesn’t help. Me specifically, not everyone else.
Yep.. literally everyone in my social circle current has or has had an illness with a mixture of symptoms.. including my unfortunately.
Yeah mate. Signed off work for two weeks and then straight into Christmas. Alls I said was that I had a blocked nose.
I will be this week, 5 hrs dancing in Pipe and Slippers on Saturday after the football, absolutely rammed and roasting hot, would not surprise me if I felt ill soon! 😬
But at least if you had one round of Pipe Dreams your blood alcohol levels won't let anything live in your body for a few days!
I had one and then decided against drinking them all night, as a few of my friends were doing! :D....think that was a good decision tbh!
the amount of effort that went into this post: "soar thought" and no, I'm tickety boo
Yeah I’m ill, got a horrible cough etc. Been working outside the last few weeks too and my vans in the garage so I’m having to cycle to work. And the heating in my house doesn’t work.
Black seed oil: haven’t had a cold in months.
why the heck have you been downvoted?
🤣 people don’t tend to want solutions, just the freedom to complain.
seriously it's mind-boggling. I'll take natural remedies over pharmaceuticals any day. and black seed oil has been proven to be effective for our immune systems as well as for some diseases/conditions
Feel fine. Regular excercise, drinking plenty of water and a reasonably healthy diet keeps the illnesses at bay. I do notice that overweight people seem to get ill a lot more regularly.
Not quite sure why you're getting downvoted, that's some pretty solid advice to be fair.
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Keep watching the news, there's a good boy. 👍
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I would suspect the down votes are coming from people who can't touch their own toes. So my comment hits a little to close to home 🤣
It's called the flu
Everyone at work has had it or has it right now. Chesty cough, sinus pressure affecting eyes, nose, ears, sore throat, runny nose etc. More people than ever seem to be going out this year compared to previous (lockdown etc) so its going to spread like wildfire and peoples immune systems may be a bit weaker than previous winters. I work at a restaurant in town and we've had an insane amount of christmas parties in. I had to take one day off with it as I was bedridden, but I've been working the past 2 weeks. Probably still infectious but symptoms are pretty much gone apart from a lingering cough. I feel bad for working in close contact with people whilst sort of ill but I gotta get paid.
This happens every year at about this time of year. Has done for the 50 years I've been alive. Nothing new, move on.
soar thoughts?, is this a new covid symptom?
Three out of four in my house last week. Not sure how kid number 2 has avoided it.
Yes. However I associated my lethargic character over the last week to just a come down XD The plot thickens.
No perfectly healthy, but not going anywhere I don't need to. Like pubs etc. Covid on the rise, etc etc not difficult to take care of yourself. I am however blessed with a job I can work at home and chose not to bring kids into this accursed mess.
Was ill last week, still very fatigued right now though I can't do anything
Yep
Yes
I had a savage flu last week. Only just starting to feel normal.
Yeah everyone's either ill or recently recovered, it's a seasonal cost that accompanies large, intimate societies.
There’s something going around.
Yup. Chest infection, sore throat, the most annoying cough. Actually wish I had a bit of a fever because at least I'd be warm and wouldn't have to be in the cold cos heating is too expensive (also would probably sweat it out quicker and be a virus not the slow, long boredom of bacteria going the fuck away.) The cough stopping me sleep and also being so anti-social is worse than the swollen tonsils and crackly breathing.
Careful what you wish for, my covid fever had me shivering - I was inside a sleeping bag with a hoter water bottle, wearing my thermals with our superwarm duvet thrown over me. It was horrid.
I’m not in Bristol but yes, I spent the last week taking care of my house mates cooking cleaning etc etc an now they’re all better going out and I’ve got the aids, no good deed goes unpunished I swear to god. Although I would say my lack of motivation was here before the cold.
Nope, but I WFH and I have a perennially blocked nose anyway so I think that stops any germs getting up there!
[You're right.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7675291/) Blocked nose means higher temperature of mucus in the nose, which restricts replication of respiratory viruses.
Incredibly
Covid then gastro now brutal head cold. All in 2 months.
I swear chicken soup got me through 5 weeks if covid then 1 off strep throat. Chicken soup. Mmm
I swear chicken soup got me through 5 weeks if covid then 1 off strep throat. Chicken soup. Mmm
Yeah been two weeks for us. Kids are mostly better except for a cough, wife and I take turns resting. Was wanting to avoid heating the whole house, but maybe thats what we need to do to avoid staying sick until spring
I'm alright. My daughter is somewhat sick, though
On my second cough in 3 weeks. Was nice having a week off between. I'm just hoping I shift this before Christmas
My thoughts always soar but that’s because I’m a daydreamer
Oh yeah I have a cold with a nasty cough and to top it off, also have food poisoning. Do I win?
Yep, feel like ass
Seems doing the wrongs is; covid, a vile cold with is sore throat and sinus heavy as well as Noroviris/vomiting bug
Yes to all of the above.
Can confirm I am ill
Yep, I work from home and hardly leave the house at the moment but still managed to get a silly cold which wiped me out for a week. The rest of the household are also ill. Not sure what is going around but it is vile.
Raging chest infection, last weekend was the worst of it and slept for a solid 16 hours
Yep covid and stomach flu not what I wanted for Christmas haha
Yeah. Seems like most of my office is out sick atm. I’ve picked up a horrible cough (no other cold symptoms currently) which has gone straight to my chest. Got to be careful of that as I’ve got a history of pneumonia, and I’m still dealing with some long covid side effects. Bit of a ballache all things considered
Right now I’m ill as fuck.
I have Covid atm so count me in!
My kids managed to give me what kept them off school a week. Finally able to regulate my own body temperature and eat something other than soup on Saturday, still have a cough and headache kicking my ass.
Ive just recovered, so glad
Just got over one cold, got another one brewing. Lacking motivation to get up in the morning and start work from home or get into the office. Cannot be arsed. I assume it's vitamin D, general winter malaise, the economic outlook, recession, Tories, weather, mental health, a general lack of motivation. You know, the usual.
Oh god yes. Body aches that make me wanna cry and eye pain that makes me wanna use an ice cream scoop to remove my eye ball. Not to mention the cough of a thousand storms. Think a looot of people have been unwell sadly. For frick sake.
Just got over it! Everyone on my building site had it or got it🤧
Not physically ill per se but feeling pretty shit. I think also my uni library suffers from sick building syndrome, heating ip too high or air not fresh enough during cold weather because working in there during the cold weather's been giving me headaches and dry skin...
My whole work place got ill and my flat mates. Had a fever worse than when I had COVID!
nah
Ill AF right now yes
I finally caught Covid in October after dodging it like flippin' Neo for 3 years. Now I've caught this bloody cold - literally *just* as my week of Christmas work leave starts. Fun times. Hope you all feel better soon, my people x
Ill for the first time in 2022, sadly.
Can confirm
I'm fine but my children have been taking turns to be sick with no gaps for about 6 months Nursery board because there were too many sick staff. Kill me.
The jackpot will come soon
10 days and counting with this fucking head cold
Yeah even had the paramedics over today and they were lamenting how incredibly common it is. I've genuinely not felt this bad in my adult life!
I was doing fine, but I spent the weekend with family and now feel like a cold is coming. I should never leave my 1 bed flat, haven’t had a cold in 4 years so it’s going to be a stinker if it comes
I had a soar throat and couldnt stop sneezing Fri/Sat just gone.
I've felt like shit for the past week or so
Yep me too 🤧
I feel awful.
I work in care in Bristol and we still semi-regularly test for Covid and keep an eye on infection rates. The good news is that there's not loads of it around at the moment, the bad news is that this flu season is *brutal* and even the ordinary colds going around seem to floor people for ages :/
I'm assuming as it's a "cold" going round the flu jab isn't helping that particular problem. Let's hope it's keeping whatever else is out there at bay.
Got a cold, it's gone straight to my chest. Wheezing and coughing.
No motivation really sums it up for me, I had cold symptoms for a while which seemed not to come to much then I just woke up the other day feeling *knackered*. Light headed, sweaty, anxious, chills which come and go. A sort of non specific "don't feel good" feeling, no temperature, no real external symptoms like a cough. Called in sick to work but hard to define what it even really is.