Being Sick Sucks

[MetalPants]

So I get up this morning, do my normal routine, and am feeling fine. I drive my 30 minute commute into work and start feeling different. I step out of the car and the Stomach Fairy gives me her special blessing and I lose my breakfast.

I actually wanted to work today. It pisses me off that I am missing work and the whole timeline. If the timing had been 30 minutes to an hour earlier I would have been saved getting ready and driving to work.

 

[Kestra]

Hope you get better soon. Being sick does indeed suck!

 

[K'Ehleyr]

I second your emotion.
For the last 3 weeks I have had razor blades in the throut, splitting headaches, constant tiredness and nausea, hacking cough and feel like complete shite.
Adrenalin got me thro Christmas, New Year and Son's eighteenth, (that and the penecillin I found in the drugs drawer ~ although it may have been the cats but at least I won't get fleas for a while) but now I have 3 days off from work I have gone "duff ~ enough".
I have obviously self diagnosed with the help of Google and apparently I have T.B., a brain tumour and H1N1 ~ I'm going for a nap...

 

[enlisted person]

Hopefully its just a 24 hr bug and will pass through quickly. Could also be food poisoning. That happens all the time and unless you get real bad it never gets identified. best of luck.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Doesn't food poisoning usually involve a lot of cramps before the main event?

 

[MetalPants]

Doesn't food poisoning usually involve a lot of cramps before the main event?

No. With food poisoning you're just going along and then BOOM you've spent 24-48 hours in the can.

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ I hope you feel better quickly, Big Guy. Also, everybody else who is feeling sick. I, myself, have just spent the last week with the worst flu of my life....

 

[MetalPants]

Thanks for all the well wishes folks!

 

[Small White Car]

Nearly everyone I know has been sick at least once over the last 3 weeks. (Sometimes more than once.)

I'm not sure what's going on but it's everywhere. I, myself, had something that took me 10 days to get over. Usually I conquer anything I get by the 40-hour mark. It's been crazy out there.

 

[BolianAuthor]

Aye... a lot of stuff's been goin' 'round... hope you get well soon. I know food poisoning isn't fun at all... havin' to stick near the toilet at all times...

 

[Kestra]

Nearly everyone I know has been sick at least once over the last 3 weeks. (Sometimes more than once.)

I'm actually amazed that I haven't been sick the whole fall or winter so far. That's unusual for me. On the other hand, my back is messed up and I would like to bitch about that at least for a few days more.

 

[BolianAuthor]

I hope your back feels better... I know how back pain can hurt.

 

[Kestra]

Thanks dude. Yeah, it's incredibly painful. I might need another MRI done.

 

[Sector 7]

Since I have fibromyalgia, I get respiratory infections/bronchitis every 3-6 months. This time it has lasted about 3 weeks. Hopefully, it will end soon.

 

[sojourner]

(that and the penecillin I found in the drugs drawer

This is not good. If it's not enough antibiotic to kill the virus all you are doing is helping the virus become more resistant to that particular antibiotic. Go to a doctor and get a full course and take it to completion or don't use any at all.

 

[ThankQ]

(that and the penecillin I found in the drugs drawer

This is not good. If it's not enough antibiotic to kill the virus all you are doing is helping the virus become more resistant to that particular antibiotic. Go to a doctor and get a full course and take it to completion or don't use any at all.

If I wouldn't get kicked off the board for overt spamming, I would quote this post in 2,327 consecutive replies.... like this:

(that and the penecillin I found in the drugs drawer

This is not good. If it's not enough antibiotic to kill the virus all you are doing is helping the virus become more resistant to that particular antibiotic. Go to a doctor and get a full course and take it to completion or don't use any at all.

(over and over and over again)

 

[Zulu Romeo]

(that and the penecillin I found in the drugs drawer

This is not good. If it's not enough antibiotic to kill the virus all you are doing is helping the virus become more resistant to that particular antibiotic. Go to a doctor and get a full course and take it to completion or don't use any at all.

Actually, antibiotics affect bacteria directly, not viruses. Antibiotics attack different parts of the bacterium to either kill them directly (e.g. attacking the cell wall), or cause them to stop reproducing (e.g. halting protein or folate synthesis or DNA replication) so that the body's immune system can have a chance to fight them off. If anything, the doctor may give an antiviral drug to take, which essentially aim to prevent viral propagation by stopping any single particular aspect of a virus particle's replication cycle depending on the drug and the type of virus. (And yes, they can develop drug resistance too. )

Throat infections in the community are in the majority of cases caused by viruses. If you use an antibiotic in this case, at best the antibiotic will get rid of any secondary bacterial infection that might occur if the viral illness cripples you so completely that you become susceptible to bacterial infection - but this is a situation that isn't common in the general UK population outside of hospitals.

At worst (and most likely) it'll select out other bacteria that are naturally resistant to the antibiotic - in this case, likely to be certain strains of the otherwise sensitive Streptococcus species living peacefully in the throat - and that might make the throat ailment worse by converting a viral infection (which is already damaging the affected throat mucosa) into a secondary bacterial infection that no amount of that antibiotic will help treat. On top of that are the side effects of the drug, which can make you feel just as lousy, and can be avoided if you don't need that drug in the first place.

Bottom line: if symptoms persist, consult a medical professional.



Oh yes, and MetalPants - get well soon.