How often do you get a cold?

JerryHandbag · 26-10-2008 01:37PM #1

Feel free to move to appropriate forum....

I am now in the really annoying cycle of gettin a head cold every 2/3 weeks, not a full blown flu, but enough to knock me out for a whole day....so drained right now, sniff sniff:(

I have a deviated septum which might explain a lot, but its not like I've been jogging naked in the cold wind and rain lately

MagicMarker · 26-10-2008 01:39PM

In all my time in Canada, suffering through some inhuman temperatures, i only ever had one cold, and that was during my first few days there in December temperatures.

I've been home a month now and have been suffering ever since.. sniff sniff

SoWatchaWant · 26-10-2008 01:47PM

Coldn't tell ya

Oshare Bones · 26-10-2008 01:51PM

Are you getting enough vitamin C? Take a rubex every day and you won't get a cold.

towel401 · 26-10-2008 01:52PM

2 or 3 a year

i think i'm going to get one now

JerryHandbag · 26-10-2008 01:54PM

Oshare Bones wrote: »

Are you getting enough vitamin C? Take a rubex every day and you won't get a cold.

Really? Might try that....beats those awful awful lempsip pouches

Holsten · 26-10-2008 02:52PM

Not very often, but I'm getting the beginning of one at the min.

GAAman · 26-10-2008 03:09PM

towel401 wrote: »

2 or 3 a year

i think i'm going to get one now

Holsten wrote: »

Not very often, but I'm getting the beginning of one at the min.

Oh my god the op is contagious!!!!!!!

Sniff sniff.........:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

Ruu_Old · 26-10-2008 03:13PM

Wind chill is the killer in Illinois in Winter, this year maybe got a slight headcold for about 2 days and I was pretty much back to full health the next day.

shenanigans1982 · 26-10-2008 03:17PM

Around the end of October like clockwork every year...which then turns into bronchitis every year. Felt it starting a few days ago.

md23040 · 26-10-2008 03:21PM

My symptoms at the moment are like an aggravated hay fever. Some one mentioned to the other half last night [stuck in bed myself] that conditions are caused because of winds coming from the North and some sort of allergen that is not normal to this part.

Tried goggling to verify any of this but no result. My symptoms are like a bad cold but are definitely allergy related. Lemsips, Garlic, Aspirin etc wouldn't shift the problem but will try some anti histamines and see if it works.

Any one heard the same - not an urban myth??

Podge2k7 · 26-10-2008 03:23PM

Around 2 or 3 times a year!

Soby · 26-10-2008 03:25PM

mines been on and off for the last month!!..all started the night i p

**ked flem..:(

Blarney92 · 26-10-2008 03:27PM

md23040 wrote: »

My symptoms at the moment are like an aggravated hay fever. Some one mentioned to the other half last night [stuck in bed myself] that conditions are caused because of winds coming from the North and some sort of allergen that is not normal to this part.

Tried goggling to verify any of this but no result. My symptoms are like a bad cold but are definitely allergy related. Lemsips, Garlic, Aspirin etc wouldn't shift the problem but will try some anti histamines and see if it works.

Any one heard the same - not an urban myth??

I think the "goggling" could be the problem.

BroomBurner · 26-10-2008 03:30PM

I got the flu jab a couple of years back, cut the number of colds/severity of ongoing blocked nose problem by a good chunk. My sister got the jab too and it has reduced the number of chest infections she was getting.

Loopy · 26-10-2008 03:50PM

Usually just one bad one a year..

Firetrap · 26-10-2008 03:53PM

2-3 a year I'm nearly recovered from the one I developed last weekend.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 26-10-2008 03:55PM

Usually one bad one during the year, and maybe two minor ones.

LolaDub · 26-10-2008 04:21PM

I have one now thats lasted about three weeks! The liffey has re-routed itself through my nose, my head has a headache bordering on a mygraine all the time and i'm in absolute agony! /moan over

Usually i get maybe 2 a year, i guess around the change of the season. Whenever it starts getting nippy out i know there will be one along soon

Carraigrock · 26-10-2008 05:07PM

The Flu jab and a cure for the common cold are two completely different things. Trust me - if you ever got the flu you would know about it.

JerryHandbag · 26-10-2008 05:21PM

GAAman wrote: »

Oh my god the op is contagious!!!!!!!

Sniff sniff.........:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

HA! Brings new meaning to the term Computer Virus

To those who only get 1 or 2 colds a year....ye dont know how lucky ye are!! Its not much consolation to me but a good few ppl I know are sufferin as well at the minute...

Mhmm...weetabix · 26-10-2008 05:44PM

Haven't had a full blown cold in a couple of years now since I started taking vitamin supplements (also improved my diet significantly) everyday, if I feel I'm getting a cold I just double the dose for a couple of days until symptoms are gone. It works for my dad aswell (his diet isn't great by any standard)...

Loopy · 26-10-2008 06:04PM

Emory Great Meteorologist wrote: »

Usually one bad one during the year, and maybe two less bad ones.

I wish there was an option to not thank people

meglome · 26-10-2008 06:10PM

Pretty much never, not even the slightest sniffle normally. Got the flu about about ten or twelve years ago, it's the only time in my life I remember ever having it.

26-10-2008 06:12PM

I honestly don't mind colds at all, they are an excuse to drink lemsip. Yum.

I've devolped hayfever on holidays for the last few years.
Now that is annoying. Being somewhere beautiful and not being able to see through streaming eyes.

Captain Slow IRL · 26-10-2008 06:16PM

Haven't had a cold or flu in about a year and a half - had days when I thought I was coming down with something, but the sickness never really materialised.

Last time I was sick was around valentines day last year - and it was the worst I was ever with a flu, 2 days in bed, not able to move - my antibodies seem to be unstoppable ever since!

lisajane · 26-10-2008 07:16PM

I get about 2/3 colds per year. This is the first year that i have been eating healthy, taking multi vitamins, vit c, and exercising, so that might change though. I heard that the cold viruses aren't as bad if you keep yourself healthy.

I have had the beginning of a cold for the past week- sniffles, cough, not hungry as much. The beginning isn't half as bad as it used to though. It just wont come, take its course and f off. I have been taking loads of vit c and echinacea lately.

Cunny-Funt · 26-10-2008 08:18PM

Feels like every 2nd week at least these days

Creamy Goodness · 26-10-2008 08:21PM

depends what you define as a cold.

is it the full works of blocked/runny nose/sore throat/cough or just one of those?

i would get all three at once, once per year.

i would then get 2/3 of them once a year each.

JPGB · 26-10-2008 08:26PM

I seemed to be getting them pretty regularly last year about 6 or 7 times a year up until I started eating an orange or mandarin a day fruit with Vitamin C. This year I've only had one.:cool:

Latchy · 26-10-2008 08:33PM

I think i have an alergy of some sort as i am sneezing all year round so hard at times to tell it it's a full blown cold .Think it might be Rhinitis but yesterday i bought some vicks sinus nasel spray and some happinose ointment to rub in nose , to help prevent any allergens getting in .Just in case

How often do you get a cold?

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