How Long Are You Sick For?

[Iasius]

I noticed a sore throat on Saturday morning and during the day running nose and headaches followed. Sunday was a bit worse with a slight fever, but today I already felt better. I hope most of it will be over tomorrow.

This time around will likely have been shorter than the average by a day or two I'd say, so 4-5 days would be my answer if that were an option.

 

[WillsBabe]

If we're talking about colds I'm probably ill for about 5 days. When I was younger I never got colds or flu at all. These days I pick up colds constantly and they take forever to recover from. It may be because I'm older, it may be because I work with homeless people and come into contact with more sick people.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I selected 7 days plus.

I don't actually get all that sick when I have a cold, I am usually over the cold symptoms in a couple of days. Unfortunately a cold triggers off my asthma big time and it can take up to a month for my asthma to settle down. I often have to sleep sitting up when my asthma is bad.

I don't get the flu. I have the injection every year.

The longest illness I ever had was the second time I got pneumonia. I was sick for about 6 weeks.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I seldom get sick; if I do catch a cold or pick up the flu, it's usually done in a couple of days. However, the week before last I picked up a nasty stomach bug that's been going around here and I was sick for more than four days-- that hasn't happened to me in at least fifteen years.

 

[NCC1701]

Last year I got the common cold for about three days, first time I'd been that sick since about 2002, I think. Vitamin C worked wonders for it, that's for sure!

 

[Spot's Meow]

When I'm sick it always lasts for at least a week.

 

[Crash]

I seldom get sick; if I do catch a cold or pick up the flu, it's usually done in a couple of days. However, the week before last I picked up a nasty stomach bug that's been going around here and I was sick for more than four days-- that hasn't happened to me in at least fifteen years.

That nasty bastard has been all over the country, I've heard. Both the girlfriend and I got it, too. I haven't been that sick in a decade myself.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Wow, sorry to hear that; I didn't realize it was so widespread. About half the people where I work had it.

 

[Kestra]

When I get sick, I'm usually non-functional (can't go to work, can't do anything besides lay around) for about a week and a half. I'll be off exercise (especially cardio) for about a week or so after that, and a cough can last months.

But man, do I appreciate my health when I'm feeling well!

 

[auntiehill]

I usually get dreadfully ill for about 3 days and then I'm back to normal.

However, right now, I am terribly ill with some kind of virus that I've had since Friday, and I don't feel any better at all.

*cough hack sniffle*

 

[DanTheGrey]

Typically only 3-4 days, but this past 12 months I've been sicker in than in the previous 25 years.

Since last summer I've had a chest cold, a flu, a head cold, 2 stomach bugs and another head cold. I normally have a flu or 2 through the winter, usually over with in a couple of days with lots of sleep.

 

[nx1701g]

I'm kinda lucky. I very rarely get sick and when I do it usually only lasts a couple of hours. I had the flu last Monday (got it around 7:00pm) and was back to normal by midnight. My Mom and Dad both had it and it lasted for three days. My aunt had it for a week.

 

[Daneel]

I'm very fortunate in that I hardly ever get sick. I'm not even sure I recall the last time I was sick, to be honest.

Oh wait, now I remember: I think it was Christmas Eve 2004. Yeah, most of my family came down with something that night, but by Christmas Day, we had all pretty much recovered. I've always had pretty good antibodies, I guess.

The worst time I was sick, though, was when I was 13. I had these searing stomach pains for the better part of a week. To this day I have no idea what caused them, but I'm just glad I've never had anything like them again -- they were excruciating.

It's actually kind of weird that I'm so healthy, considering some members of my family: my dad seems to complain about being sick every other week (when he was still teaching, he once took an entire semester off with all the sick leave he had accumulated over the years -- I guess it's only when he entered his fifties that he became more susceptible to illness). Personally, I think it might be worse in his head than it really is in his body. That's probably the situation with my grandmother as well -- if you believe her, she's been terribly sick for the past decade, or at least that's how long it seems like she's been complaining about her health almost non-stop. To be fair, in the last year or so, she has appeared to deteriorate somewhat noticeably... which has only caused her to complain moreso. I don't mean to sound insensitive, but when it comes to her state of well-being, she almost always focuses on the negative, and that can wear thin...

>sigh< Don't get me wrong, I love my grandmother, flawed as she may be, but I definitely hope that, should I live that long, I don't become like her.

Wow, I really went off-topic there, didn't I? Sorry -- as you were.