You sicko. (Cold, flu, and general illness comiseration thread)

Guess what I just got for Christmas: NOROVIRUS!

I will be missing my family's celebration today, work tomorrow (which is actually bad, since someone else will have to work my shift), and probably my boyfriend's family's celebration tomorrow.

Eventually I'll feel better and enjoy this quiet time on the couch...but for now, I'm freaking out about not being able to hold down water. I really need to take my antidepressant, or else today's gonna be a Fate Worse than Death.

Suddenly my swollen glands and cough are looking like a much better deal for Christmas.

Still sucks, though. That's like asking which football team you want in your hometown, the Cleveland Browns or the Miami Dolphins.

Day 2: I can hold down water and bland foods, and have tried my luck with black coffee to take down my pounding headache. Being physically dependent on caffeine is fine, until it's not. The body aches are still here, though.

Well, not really sick per se, but I wish the air around here wasn't so dry; I'm getting tired of this cough. I think I've taken more cough drops than I can count. Even my humidifier can only do so much.

Same here. Between the dry, frigid air and all the dust in the shop where I work, I'm about to cough up my lungs in chunky bits.

Sore throat, diarrhea, stuffy nose, headache, irritated stomach.

Woo!

-flops over bedridden-

Uuuuugggghhh I got sunburnt REALLY badly during my little trip to Geelong with two of my friends for my birthday and even now that I'm back in Tasmania I'm still feeling it...

For some reason the skin around my right eye, especially the bottom, feels like I got hit there, even though nothing like that actually happened. :S

And now my bottom jaw is aching just as mysteriously. x_x

edited 22nd Jan '18 5:06:11 PM by Demetrios

I feel like my sinuses are gonna explode. I must have caught some weird kind of cold or my organism is so broken it doesn't know what a fever is anymore.

I have this sore place on the side of my rib cage, but I can't figure out why. It feels as if I had slipped on the ice and fallen, with my torso hitting a curb — except that I have no memory of any such thing happening, and there are no bruises. Weird...

EDIT: Now that I think back, I did some heavy lifting a day or so before I noticed this ache in my side. That may be the culprit — I must have strained or pulled a muscle somewhere.

edited 28th Jan '18 1:33:31 PM by pwiegle

My throat hurts, my head is cloudy, my nose is stuffed up, and I'm sneezing and coughing. At least I don't have class tomorrow. Must sleeeeep.

I've been coughing all day yesterday and it's still going on. I don't feel sick, though. I think it's just my throat. Too bad I'm out of cough drops.

Splitting headache, nausea, vomiting, temperature fluctuations etc.

No, I'm not going to college tomorrow.

This day did not have a good start. I went to bed at a reasonable time and I slept peacefully... but then I woke up at an appallingly early hour with my stomach hurting. And on a work day, no less.

Bump. Aw man, I took a Zyrtec this morning and I'm still sneezing. x_x

Take Zyrtec in the evening, it makes you sleepy.

Bump. All of a sudden, I feel like my allergies are going off. :S x_x

For three weeks I've been dealing with varying degrees of laryngitis, literally no other symptoms. Seeing as how I work in a call centre and have been out of work the majority of last week because my voice is almost completely gone, this is infuriating - it subsided after three days off work and the weekend, then after about five calls yesterday it came back with a vengenace.

And somebody at work tried to accuse me of faking it. Yeah, brilliant idea, it's not like I need to make a paycheck or anything><

Edited by TomoeMichieru on Feb 27th 2019 at 2:28:07 PM

I’ve been dealing with severe allergy congestion for at least five days. I’ve been coughing, sneezing, and having watery eyes the whole time. I finally feel clear enough to work tomorrow.

I finally feel clear enough to breathe through my nose!

It’s been hard.

Stomach flu.

Oh geez. I hope you don't have to go anywhere today. Now would be a good time to sit at home and take it easy.

Hey. I got a bit of a cold from my uncle. I feel kinda crappy but it isn't too bad.

The most memorable excuse for absence I ever heard was: "I didn't come to work yesterday because my mate said I didn't look well."

Help, my toe's looking swollen and shit, my toenail appears to be digging into my toe, it hurts when I touch it, and I swear that it's secreting smegma. Wat do?

Sounds like an infected ingrown toenail, and that "smegma" is probably pus. I'd probably pop into urgent care and get that shit on antibiotics stat. Source: Ingrown toenails and I have a long history together.

Well, good news is the paronychia on my left ring finger seems to be clearing up without a hitch. Didn't even need to drain it! Slightly disappointed that I didn't need to, since I'm one of those pimple popping weirdos, but it's not like I would've gotten much out anyway lol

Not sure why I got it though, since I've never been a nail biter, and I don't do work that involves getting my hands dirty. I did clip my nails a couple days before it appeared, so maybe that's why?

Edited by CustardAndPie on Apr 12th 2019 at 1:23:15 PM