[OT] Mother of all colds - anyone else get it?

Tim Watts · 2017-02-11T17:23:43+00:00

There I was, boasting the other week that I hardly got colds these days and those I got lasted a couple of days at worst. So my daughter goes and gives me Porton Down's special brew. She of course gets better in 2 days. Sone gets it and has a week off school. I got the full monty. 2 weeks of virus related fun - all flu like symptoms, but about 1/3 as intense, so not flu. Fever, headache, aches, nose like niagra etc. Then I get the bonus freebie - a chest infection that actually gets me to the doctor with shortness of breath. Doc measured low blood O2 levels, gave me a week's worth of amoxycillin and a biff chit for work and boots me off to the hospital for a chest x-ray (I presume to see if I had anything bad like pneumonia). The antibiotics are slowly working and the crappy virus parts seem to be buggering off. But this is notably the most "interesting" cold I have ever had. Anyone else get it? My builder neighbour got flattened too and he's not one to wimp out easily.

Feb 11, 2017 21 Replies

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harry 9 years ago

It's both. But mainly by touch. You touch something and then touch your nose/lips and bingo! The culprits are door handles, light switches, taps, pens, books and computer keyboards. Participated in an investigation once.

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RobertL 9 years ago

That's similar to my experience. A cough on the chest two months, then a terrible cold (7 days), now back to just a cough. Slight feeling of shortness of breath sometimes.

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