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Cold Season
updated: Oct 11, 2012, 9:45 AM

By Edhat Subscriber

My husband and I have had a mild, cold-like bug off and on for the past week or so and was curious to see if others have had anything similar.

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COMMENT 330301	2012-10-11 09:58 AM
Sore throat, sniffly? We've had it over the past week.
COMMENT 330317	2012-10-11 10:13 AM
Yup. Not quite stuffed up, but sore throat in the morning and lots of yellow/green crud from overnight.
COMMENT 330319	2012-10-11 10:15 AM
Yes my husband had it. Same thing, mild off and on. Then I got it!! Mine was not mild and I was in bed yesterday for 1/2 the day. My nose was running like a fosset last night. Thenk goodness for Niquil!!
COMMENT 330323	2012-10-11 10:20 AM
Read the book ACHOO for excellent, science based information about the upper respiratory ailments that come with this season and learn that "cold and flu season" coincides with kids going back to school, picking up bugs an bringing them home. Learn even how colds can be beneficial because they crank up your body's immune system to ward off even more potentially worrisome ailments. Plus the book has a science-based chart how to deal with symptoms most effectively -- or when to just leave it alone and let it run its course.
COMMENT 330328P	2012-10-11 10:25 AM
I've had something mild, too. Could this be pollen? I notice that even my otherwise healthy dog has eye gunk in the mornings these days.
COMMENT 330344	2012-10-11 10:51 AM
I work at a large employer out in Goleta...fully one half of the employees have been passing this nasty, phlegmy, rattling cough around the office for the past 2 weeks. We've been hacking up lung butter for a week, seems to take about 2 to clear up. Same thing happens every year when everyone's special little snowflakes head back to the classroom.
COMMENT 330345	2012-10-11 10:52 AM
Yes, something is definitely going around. My cold started two weeks ago and I'm not completely done with it. I'm hearing from a lot of folks who have been sick lately.
COMMENT 330348	2012-10-11 10:57 AM
I've been sick over a week!
COMMENT 330352	2012-10-11 11:05 AM
I had it. The cough is lingering. I have a couple of friends that had/have it. From the sounds in CVS, others have it, too.
COMMENT 330361P	2012-10-11 11:27 AM
During my recent eye exam, my eye doc informed me that his whole family is sick. Taking those olive leaf extract tabs and green tea twice a day!
COMMENT 330373	2012-10-11 11:48 AM
I had something, but it wasn't mild. Knocked me flat for 4 days and then has stayed in my lungs the past 2 weeks. If it was a cold, it was a mega-cold. Chills and fever too.
COMMENT 330380	2012-10-11 12:04 PM
My husband and I have had it since late August!! Three trips to the doctors. Two different antibiotics for each of us and inhalers. The doctors say it is a virus and it has to run it's coarse. Mine was a dry cough and my husbands was a thick heavy cough.
COMMENT 330386P	2012-10-11 12:43 PM
The pollen in our yard is heavier than I have ever seen it. Everything is coated in green powder.
COMMENT 330399	2012-10-11 01:07 PM
Are we talking man cold?
COMMENT 330406	2012-10-11 01:13 PM
Did any of you have your flu shots yet? I work at the germ capital (lol) and for a change we are all healthy and here to tell about it. Hope everyone feels better!
COMMENT 330416P	2012-10-11 01:54 PM
380 - I am wondering why your doctor would give you antibiotics for a virus?? I thought antibiotics were for bacterial infections??
COMMENT 330430	2012-10-11 02:23 PM
Did you have any epidural shots in your back?
COMMENT 330434P	2012-10-11 02:28 PM
430 - ????
COMMENT 330443P	2012-10-11 02:45 PM
Cold symptoms are not the same as meningitis symptoms. The main things to watch for are headache, fever, stiff neck, nausea and rash. There are a host of other symptoms too but I went to the ER for being sick and they kept asking me about fever and rash.
COMMENT 330451	2012-10-11 03:14 PM
Musinex or a generic helps me when I get congested.
COMMENT 330477	2012-10-11 04:19 PM
I caught it about 3 weeks ago, took Zicam for 2 days, didn't get too bad. But I still have a "frog in my throat" that I can't seem to shake. Sure enough, it was the 4th week of SBCC, and the singing class is suffering.
COMMENT 330479	2012-10-11 04:22 PM
I had strep throat twice, antibiotics for it twice. Both times my throat was so sore I could barely swallow, and the mucus was intense, thick, post-nasal, yuck. The cough after the sore throat lingered. My husband has something like it now, but w/o a sore throat. I don't know if it's strep... he hasn't gone in to get tested. So far our child seems fine, just a little green stuff coming out of his nose. But he doesn't quite have nose-blowing down yet, so stuff in his nose, uhm, sits a while before it comes out. I.E., the color may be due to "aging" in his nostrils, lol.
COMMENT 330490	2012-10-11 04:34 PM
344...mmmmmmm, lung butter. 416P...Yes, doctors over-prescribe antibiotics, but when someone catches a virus and develops a nasty cough it is often due to a secondary infection in the lungs, which can develop into pneumonia, which is much more serious than the original virus.
COMMENT 330514	2012-10-11 06:25 PM
Think about those of us who are teachers! Germs galore! At my school at least one third of the teaching staff has some upper respiratory infection. Simple solution- kids need to stay home when sick. In the upper grades, they don't!!!
COMMENT 330520	2012-10-11 06:39 PM
Flu shots do nothing for a cold...and there is little evidence that it wards of flu either. I avoid flu shots..all of them, and let my immune system do its thing. The drug companies make a ton off flu shots, and scaring people into thinking that they can die from the flu....it is amazingly rare for someone to die of flu...or to get pneumonia from flu.....flu shots are an expensive placebo!
COMMENT 330527	2012-10-11 07:28 PM
Why would anyone today give or take an anti-biotic for a virus? Gheesh, people. Help us out here. You all know now this is dangerous over-prescribing particularly if your doctor did not do a culture first. Run, don't walk from any doctor who is still committing this medical malpractice. He/she just wanted your money because he/she was afraid you would go down the street to someone else just as stupid.
COMMENT 330566P	2012-10-11 11:58 PM
This has got to be one of the ickiest threads in history. Thanks, everyone, for sharing about your lung gunk. Gah.
COMMENT 330577	2012-10-12 06:16 AM
same thing, feels like a major cold is coming on but never really took hold, feels like i have been fighting this thing for a week and a half!
CORKY	2012-10-12 06:56 AM
Sounds like what my visiting brother had this week. Never developed as a cold, but sore throat and low fever for a couple of days.
COMMENT 330584P	2012-10-12 07:07 AM
2 people I live with have it. Sore throat, mild fever, coughing sneezing and goes into chesty cough. Gargle with salt water!
COMMENT 330593	2012-10-12 07:31 AM
Hmmm...Where's grandma when you need her? Guess it's time to cook up some chicken soup with garlic and ginger. Hot toddies are always good too. Honey and cinnamon are both very good remedies for coughs and sore throats . You can skip the brandy if you prefer just hot water, honey, lemon and cinnamon. And lots of green tea.
COMMENT 330612	2012-10-12 08:29 AM
School started and so does cold/flu season. I temped in Carp with a woman who was out the next week, so they called me and now I am sick with a cold. It goes around. I like the info on getting colds early in the season to ward off larger, meaner bugs.
COMMENT 330658	2012-10-12 10:50 AM
i have had the meanest allergies (?) ever in my entire life for the past two months. driving me crazy! stuffy, sneezy, runny, you name it. i will be fine one day a mess the next. hating it so bad!
COMMENT 330684	2012-10-12 11:27 AM
308. If it was a virus, why did you take 2 courses of antibiotics perscribed by your doctor? Antibiotics only work for bacterial infections, not viral infections.
DRBUD	2012-10-12 05:24 PM
I searched all these comments in vain for the right answer to the question but it was not there. But that's to be expected I guess. Even our physcians don't know. If you wish to never have another viral cold, flu, whatever, just start taking at least 500 mg of Vitamin C daily. Preferably the ester form of it. I have not had a cold or flu for DECADES! In my vet practice I used to pull cats and dogs back from the edge of death per distemper, etc. with large i v doses of liquid Vitamin C. Think I was the only vet doing that back in the 60s. Try it, you will like it!
DRBUD	2012-10-12 05:26 PM
Sorry, but I meant to say twice daily on the Vitamin C. It destroys virus particles.
COMMENT 330821P	2012-10-12 05:28 PM
@TRACEY - sadly, people DO die from the flu. I'd say just ask my Dad... but you can't. He died from complications from the flu. And it was a non-vaccinated relative who gave it to him. A very long, drawn out, 7 weeks on a ventilator. I'll take my chances with that "expensive" (HAH!) flu shot. How expensive do you think the care was which he ended up enduring until we removed him from the ventilator and let him go? I have never missed a flu shot since that happened in 1991; and the pneumonia, whooping cough and shingles vaccines as well. Yes, I am going to die someday, but hopefully not in the way that he did.

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