I also keep getting sick -- help!

[Anonymous]

I've been sick on and off for quite some time.

January: It started with a terrible headache that turned into a runny nose.

Mid-Jan to Feb: The cold turned into bronchitis in January. Visited doc and received medicine to stop the cough long enough to help me sleep. Took a month to get over the cough completely. Felt ok by end of Feb.

As of March 6: Started with bad headache. Turned into body aches. Basically, sick a third time in three months with all over body pain and runny nose.

What do I do to stop this?

I already:

drink water
sleep enough
eat healthy
visited doctor 1x so far
took prescription cough pills
take OTC day/night meds

[Anonymous]

Do you get new communicable illness like flu or covid? There are different strains.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you get new communicable illness like flu or covid? There are different strains.

It is possible. Is it normal to get two in a row so close to each other?

OP

[Anonymous]

It sounds like a sinus infection. OTC medications that dry up the runny nose can make everything. worse and elongate the problem. I would go to an ENT or urgent care to see if an antibiotic is warranted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a sinus infection. OTC medications that dry up the runny nose can make everything. worse and elongate the problem. I would go to an ENT or urgent care to see if an antibiotic is warranted.

This is good advice. I would also check your HVAC system for mold.

[Anonymous]

There are multiple strains of flu. You def can get flu and covid close together.

[Anonymous]

Are you wearing a kn95 or n95 when you are indoors in public? Are you washing your hands? If not, you are almost certainly going to get sick with a respiratory infection at least once during the late fall and winter.

If you don't want to get sick, wear a kn95/n95 when you are in public indoors. Also, run hepa filters inside your house and crack windows when you can to get more ventilation. That will lower the risk you get sick from your households members.

If you don't want to mask, and you are the kind of person who tends to get colds (which most people are, but a minority of people are the types who hardly ever get sick) you are going to get sick during cold and flu season. You just are.

So just decide what matters to you more - going maskless in public indoors or avoiding getting sick.

I've been masking in good masks -kn95 - since covid hit when I am indoors other than my own house/airbnb, etc, and I have not gotten sick since Jan 2020. Good masking works.

I have asthma and I used to be the kind of person who spent about a third of the year sick with a cold or cough that lingered and had a tendency to turn into pneumonia or bronchitis. Now that I mask, I don't get sick. It's amazing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you wearing a kn95 or n95 when you are indoors in public? Are you washing your hands? If not, you are almost certainly going to get sick with a respiratory infection at least once during the late fall and winter.

If you don't want to get sick, wear a kn95/n95 when you are in public indoors. Also, run hepa filters inside your house and crack windows when you can to get more ventilation. That will lower the risk you get sick from your households members.

If you don't want to mask, and you are the kind of person who tends to get colds (which most people are, but a minority of people are the types who hardly ever get sick) you are going to get sick during cold and flu season. You just are.

So just decide what matters to you more - going maskless in public indoors or avoiding getting sick.

I've been masking in good masks -kn95 - since covid hit when I am indoors other than my own house/airbnb, etc, and I have not gotten sick since Jan 2020. Good masking works.

I have asthma and I used to be the kind of person who spent about a third of the year sick with a cold or cough that lingered and had a tendency to turn into pneumonia or bronchitis. Now that I mask, I don't get sick. It's amazing.

Me again. But you should also schedule a physical and make sure you get blood testing - CBC etc - to make sure nothing else is going on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you get new communicable illness like flu or covid? There are different strains.

It is possible. Is it normal to get two in a row so close to each other?

OP

Um, yeah. Of course you can. You can get both at once, too!

[Anonymous]

1. Wear a mask, will help with viruses and allergies. Tree pollen season has just started.

2. Possibly a recurring sinus infection. What I do is rinse nasal passages (with neti pot, distilled water, and a nelimed salt mixture) every single night to prevent buildup.

3. You may need some antibiotics to take care of the infection first. Also use a decongestant and mucus thinner, like Mucinex D.

I have to mask and rinse sinuses every single night to stay baseline healthy with my autoimmune condition.

If you have had COVID multiple times (or even once) your immune system is not as good as it once was.

[Anonymous]

And, by mask I mean a n95 or kn94 type well fitting mask, not a baggy blue surgical mask.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you get new communicable illness like flu or covid? There are different strains.

It is possible. Is it normal to get two in a row so close to each other?

OP

Um, yeah. Of course you can. You can get both at once, too!

Thanks. I never used to catch colds or the flu, so this is all new to me.

OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you wearing a kn95 or n95 when you are indoors in public? Are you washing your hands? If not, you are almost certainly going to get sick with a respiratory infection at least once during the late fall and winter.

If you don't want to get sick, wear a kn95/n95 when you are in public indoors. Also, run hepa filters inside your house and crack windows when you can to get more ventilation. That will lower the risk you get sick from your households members.

If you don't want to mask, and you are the kind of person who tends to get colds (which most people are, but a minority of people are the types who hardly ever get sick) you are going to get sick during cold and flu season. You just are.

So just decide what matters to you more - going maskless in public indoors or avoiding getting sick.

I've been masking in good masks -kn95 - since covid hit when I am indoors other than my own house/airbnb, etc, and I have not gotten sick since Jan 2020. Good masking works.

I have asthma and I used to be the kind of person who spent about a third of the year sick with a cold or cough that lingered and had a tendency to turn into pneumonia or bronchitis. Now that I mask, I don't get sick. It's amazing.

Me again. But you should also schedule a physical and make sure you get blood testing - CBC etc - to make sure nothing else is going on.

I think I will do this. I never used to catch the flu or colds. Now I see what people were complaining about! Each one takes so much time!

OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Wear a mask, will help with viruses and allergies. Tree pollen season has just started.

2. Possibly a recurring sinus infection. What I do is rinse nasal passages (with neti pot, distilled water, and a nelimed salt mixture) every single night to prevent buildup.

3. You may need some antibiotics to take care of the infection first. Also use a decongestant and mucus thinner, like Mucinex D.

I have to mask and rinse sinuses every single night to stay baseline healthy with my autoimmune condition.

If you have had COVID multiple times (or even once) your immune system is not as good as it once was.

I will buy more saline rinse and do this every day. I think this would have helped when I was at 10k feet altitude and having so much trouble.

Doctor said they could provide antibiotics if I was not better by X date. I was feeling somewhat better so did not request them. But maybe I should go back.

I hate wearing a mask bc they fog up my glasses but I might need to suck it up!

OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you get new communicable illness like flu or covid? There are different strains.

It is possible. Is it normal to get two in a row so close to each other?

OP

Um, yeah. Of course you can. You can get both at once, too!

Thanks. I never used to catch colds or the flu, so this is all new to me.

OP

You hadn’t have COVID before either. Maybe more than once.