Head Cold

[EdgeleyRob]

Get well soon ts.

I've never had any adverse reactions from the flu jab.
This year I had to have the one off pneumonia jab because of my heart probs.
Wow,I was warned it is a severe injection,dead arm for best part of a day.small rash and a headache.

[Petrushka]

A bad cold has been going round the office like wildfire in the past fortnight or so though up to now I've managed to avoid it. Keeping fingers and toes firmly crossed that it stays that way.

Get well soon, ts.

I probably mentioned upthread that cinnamon appears to be beneficial in preventing a cold in the first place.

[teamsaint]

Get well soon ts.

I've never had any adverse reactions from the flu jab.
This year I had to have the one off pneumonia jab because of my heart probs.
Wow,I was warned it is a severe injection,dead arm for best part of a day.small rash and a headache.

blimey.

anyway thanks, but mine is proving to be very minor,I'm pleased to say. I'm even considering going up to London for work tomorrow.
My rapid recovery and return to work has nothing to do with a lunchtime recital I spotted at St Brides, Fleet St.

oh, and THE boss seemed happy with the numbers, I'm sure you will all be thrilled to hear .

[Serial_Apologist]

Get well soon ts.

I've never had any adverse reactions from the flu jab.
This year I had to have the one off pneumonia jab because of my heart probs.
Wow,I was warned it is a severe injection,dead arm for best part of a day.small rash and a headache.

I thought the pneumonia preventive was incorporated into the general flu jab now? That's what I told the surgery last year, anyway.

Is it my imagination, or have common colds suddenly become much more proliferous? The one I'm suffering right now is my sixth this year - and the third since October!

[Bryn]

I thought the pneumonia preventive was incorporated into the general flu jab now? That's what I told the surgery last year, anyway.

Is it my imagination, or have common colds suddenly become much more proliferous? The one I'm suffering right now is my sixth this year - and the third since October!

I can't comment on the level of proliferation but I do find the cold I am currently in the second day of clear symptoms of is far more debilitating that any I can recall. I would usually work through the the initial, most impactful days of a cold but the frequent retching, indeed projectile vomiting of mucous has forced me to bed with hot water bottles for chest and feet. Hopefully the worst will be over by the morrow, and I can get back to work.

[vinteuil]

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... me and mme v in the middle of a boring common cold. And we had a (worse) common cold about a month ago : I thought we might've developed some immunity, but not apparently for this one.

It's not a big thing but it's irritating - poor sleep bicoz bunged up nasal tubes; less appreciation of nice food and wine

[Beef Oven!]

I’m feeling a little bit under the weather, more light-headedness the anything else, but it’s not moving on to a head cold.

Great thread, by the way.

[Richard Tarleton]

My heart sank in Tesco yesterday - checkout girl coughing and sniffing, blowing her nose and handling all the shopping - didn't realise until too late to choose another queue. Will suggest hand sanitisers to store manager.

[Sir Velo]

And why do they always think it's somehow more hygienic to sneeze into their hands? Haven't they heard of Kleenex?

[Dave2002]

Get well soon ts.
This year I had to have the one off pneumonia jab because of my heart probs.
Wow,I was warned it is a severe injection,dead arm for best part of a day.small rash and a headache.

Thanks for the info.

I was offered the pneumonia jab too - the medics always seem to think that their offerings are a good idea. I refused on the grounds that the flu jabs don't seem to have agreed with me, and I suspect the same will be true of the pneumonia jab. I'll continue to avoid it for the time being then.

I'm not against these things in principle, but the assumption that everyone is going to benefit, and also that "hardly anyone" will have a problem is manifestly false - though "statistically" it is "probably true"!

PS: Surely ts isn't actually ill if I've read the posts correctly. If he is, he has my heartfelt sympathies and wishes for a speedy recovery.

[teamsaint]

Thanks Dave . I felt quite poorly for about 24 hours , but it didn't hang around, I' m very pleased to say

A Speedy recovery to any current sufferers.

[Nick Armstrong]

I wonder if it will wind people up if I say that I think the last cold I had was in September 2012 (remembered because it coincided annoyingly with a hotel stay in Bath). There might have been one other since then, but certainly not for 3 or more years. Recently had to throw out a whole load of Vitamin C / "First Defence" / throat lozenges and potions, which had 2014 expiry dates...

[Alison]

Last flu jab definitely made me feel out of sorts for three days with heart palpitation an unexpected spin off.

Same conclusion as Dave.

[Petrushka]

I wonder if it will wind people up if I say that I think the last cold I had was in September 2012 (remembered because it coincided annoyingly with a hotel stay in Bath). There might have been one other since then, but certainly not for 3 or more years. Recently had to throw out a whole load of Vitamin C / "First Defence" / throat lozenges and potions, which had 2014 expiry dates...

My late father never seemed to catch a cold, or anything else for that matter. Indeed he had flu once in his long life (he lived to the age of 94) and caught a mild sniffle no more than two or three times at the very most. The rest of the family and all those around him might all be prostrate with bugs and viruses galore, and of course we all were countless times, but my father just never was. He was just never ill. Nobody could understand it but it's perfectly true. The only time he was ill in any serious way was the night he died.

[muzzer]

I reckon playing a wind instrument regularly is a good cold deterrent.