Just having trouble getting over colds etc.

[Teddy (punchie)]

Just need to vent I guess .........Anyone else having a hard time with this winters colds? This is the first cold (sinus) without color. I'm all stuffed up and sound like crap and ears ringing is making it hard to hear. Working as a custodian in a school does not help. Just tried of this cold season. Sitting here typing after cleaning brass to get boxed up and can't breath through my sore nose. I think it's about time for that old nose to go on strike

Be Safe!!

Teddy

[Recycled bullet]

You need to use arm and hammer heavy duty saline spray just spray into your nose, breathe, spray again, blow you nose, then use as needed until you heal. Drink plenty of black coffee, do pushups and take naps on an as needed basis.

[BLAHUT]

What I was taught to do... Get your self in bed, pile on the quilts, and sweat. Give yourself a fever, body heat kills the cold vires. Vitamin C 1000 MG+ a day, more if your body can handle it.
Haven't had a cold in years, hope it stays that way ???

[deltaenterprizes]

Trying to get over a cold right now! It’s been coming on for a week and it’s just starting to get better!

[BLAHUT]

You all can try Xlear, it is a nasial spray, that kills all the bad stuff in your nose.

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Menthol cough drops and hot showers. Make sure the humidity in the house is 40-50%, if possible.

[Bored1]

Vitamin C and zinc seem to help. Brand doesn't matter, whatever cheap supplements are avaliable at your local pharmacy. The drinks seem to get things moving a little bit faster, but taste absolutely awful.

I'm just getting over who knows what, but being a nurse married to a nurse, I end up picking up all sorts of things and it's just how it is.

[Thundarstick]

Haven't had a cold in 2 years. Woops, now I've done it!

[MrWolf]

I take vitamin c 1000mg twice a day and during the winter season I take echinacea, two pills twice a day. My gf (and daughter who is a P.A.) laughed at me for making expensive pee. Got my gf to try my way and she hasn't gotten sick like she used to for a few years now. I also take other vitamins, but those two seem to work best for the colds. For the first time in at least 15 years, I did have a "cough" that was one of those deep ones. Knew I needed an antibiotic as had ot once before. That is the extent of getting sick. Also agree with humidity. My house is very dry. We have three humidifiers going 24/7 and a fish tank that I am constantly topping off due to evaporation. Bit windy here which I think is the issue.

[Baltimoreed]

Vit C every day works for me. Very seldom get sick, maybe one head cold a year. I believe that I had mild covid way back when between my first shots with a deep cough but it cleared up before I got to the dr. My wife was an 8th grade English teacher who always had upper respiratory problems until she started getting the flu and pneumonia shots. Neither of us smoke.

[Misery-Whip]

Long hot showers blowing your nose, followed by very hot and spicey foods. I had the last cold for almost 3 weeks. This is what got me over it. Get it koving and keep it draining.

[waksupi]

Zinc tablets, and elderberry.

[Recycled bullet]

This is my second day fasting and my sinuses have opened up and I can breathe better now.

There inclined pushups stretch by back and strengthen my shoulders, strengthen my heart.

Breathe like you mean it and the stress lowers.

The black coffee is in the microwave.

Have not needed the saline today.

[MaryB]

The creeping sinus crud that is going around is a nasty one. Lasts 3+ weeks... and you don't get immunity. I am on round 2 of it... drainage down throat has me sounding like a 4 pack a day smoker, always coughing up stuff from the back of the throat...

I do lots of vit C but this one it had no effect. Sleep, fluids, a box of kleenex every 2-3 days...

[abunaitoo]

I've had it twice so far this year.
Just when I think it's over, it comes back.
Doesn't help that drug stores are all out of almost everything.
I think it just might be a damacrap conspiracy.
Make the people sick, so we don't have the energy to fight back.

[slim1836]

I got a cold on Thanksgiving and it lasted until mid January. Took a Z-pac (sp?) and it did nothing. Got stronger meds and it finally went away. I have limited contact with the outside world now.

Slim

[Shawlerbrook]

Same here. Started around Christmas. Then sinus infection with 2 different antibiotics. Cleared up, but still have mild sinus pressure. Was wondering if any of this is related to the Covid shot.

[lightman]

Sorry to hear this. Hoping you get well soon!

[Half Dog]

I’m going to contribute my minimal amount of colds to vitamin D3. Once a week does it for me.

[firefly1957]

I used to get a high fever and get over about anything in a day or two at 40 years old I started running a low temperature when sick and cold like symptoms could last weeks . You mentioned something else that changed at about 40 years old if I had a cold burgers and snot were green or yellow since then that is rare they are white and clear .
So far I have done well though all this "COVID" thing had less colds then normal and they where short last week I had symptoms for three days no fever I took cold medicine for the sinus trouble and I varied which ones rather then taking all the same thing.

[Polymath]

Cut and mince the skins of 3 lemons and 2 grapefruit. Gently simmer for 2 or 3 hours, let cool and strain out the clumps. Pour into a ice cube tray and you have premeasured cubes. Put one in a tall glass of boiling water, add honey to taste, 4 tbsp. rum if you wish. This makes a curative good for ridding you of colds. For legal reasons, I won't tell you what similar meds this concoction is like but it was popular in "Africa" Hint hint.

[Teddy (punchie)]

Same here. Started around Christmas. Then sinus infection with 2 different antibiotics. Cleared up, but still have mild sinus pressure. Was wondering if any of this is related to the Covid shot.

No Shot here but did just get over it 3 weeks ago.

[SDguy]

Since Covid I have been religious about keeping my Vitamin D levels high I push vitamin C for weeks at a time if I expect being exposed the crud that is going around. Vitamin D3 is the big change for me in the last 3 years. Knock on wood I have had way less cold & flu symptoms since pushing the vitamin D3.

Takes a considerable time to get your D level up in your blood so this is a immune booster than needs to be employed constantly as a booster to get the full effect. If you live in the deep south, all you need to do is get regular sun exposure on your skin. Within reason more is better.

I live in the north so I rely heavily on D3 supplementation. few western doctors have been comfortable with my supplement intake. Although the doctor that I see is very much on board with my supplements & blood levels. A rare few are not able to handle higher doses so finding a knowledgeable functional doctor to work with would be prudent.

[Scrounge]

What I was taught to do... Get your self in bed, pile on the quilts, and sweat. Give yourself a fever, body heat kills the cold vires. Vitamin C 1000 MG+ a day, more if your body can handle it.
Haven't had a cold in years, hope it stays that way ???

Add some Vitamin D, and zinc, more sleep, and more heat!

If you use alcoholic beverages, get chin deep in a bath as hot as you can stand to be in, and drink hot buttered rum, or hot toddies, as well.

Bill

[Handloader109]

Zinc, plenty of zinc the first day you feel a cold coming on. There are some good brands out there, but just zinc.....

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[Cosmic_Charlie]

In most of the developed world, the People's collective immune system took a big hit recently. There is obvious correlation and empirical evidence but it must not be discussed.

[fixit]

I don't get sick, but I did this year, twice! The first was a new one for this year, and it ain't fun. It's called the influenza like illness, and it knocked me down for 3 days. The second was a head cold that started to go to my chest. I'm mostly over that now, but all of this is to say that the whole lock down b.s. has got a lot folks' systems out of whack! Oh, yeah, one shot, because my job was at stake, haven't had other, problematic illness spite of exposure, and healthy in early 60s

[fixit]

C.C., I read an article about that very thing. They are calling it an immunity debt, and it's because we weren't getting exposed to the things that we normally do during the sickness seasons.....quite literally, we NEED to be exposed to illness in order to develop immune responses.....who'd thunk? All of this means that the powers that be deprived us of our normal, self immunizing processes.

[BamaNapper]

I got home New Years Day from helping my son remodel a bathroom. His wife had a head cold and a cough she was fighting, same with him and their son. Or so they thought. I was there for a few days and starting feeling the scratchy throat and stuffiness the day before I headed home. When I got home the wife handed me a test kit as soon as I got in the house. Yup, within seconds the test showed I was positive for Covid.

I'd been taking C, D3, Zinc, and a multivitamin for months before then. They help. But everyone was assuming the head colds going around were just head colds. The most recent 'vid strains are super contagious and I can attest that they feel exactly like a cold. It takes a week to pass, and some of the more annoying symptoms hung on for a month.

[deces]

Might want to look into eustachian tube dilation.

[Mk42gunner]

I'll admit that this is impractical, but the absolute best cure for dripping sinus I have ever found is a good whiff of CS aka tear gas.

Robert

[shortlegs]

When cooking the lemons and grapefruit skins leave the lid on the pot till it cools so the oils dont evaporate.
I live in the south and I still take 10,000 iu of vit d every day.
Wife had a kidney transplant a year ago and is at clinic regulary. She brought home covid twice this year from the hospital. Since upping the vit d , we both have been healthier and no illness sneaked in.

[Lloyd Smale]

The creeping sinus crud that is going around is a nasty one. Lasts 3+ weeks... and you don't get immunity. I am on round 2 of it... drainage down throat has me sounding like a 4 pack a day smoker, always coughing up stuff from the back of the throat...

I do lots of vit C but this one it had no effect. Sleep, fluids, a box of kleenex every 2-3 days...

same here. been coughing since the first of jan and allways feel like theres heavy muscus in the back of my throat i cant get out. Ive tried 3 different inhalers the doc precribed and even home remedy on line i could find. I just got a referal from my va doc to see a specialist.

[Good Cheer]

The wife and I keep our vitamins and other supplements up.
And still we got hit hard by the lingering un-covid creeping staggers in November.
Best wishes for a speedier recovery.

[fixit]

If anything has been taught been taught by the unpleasantness of the past couple of years, it is that we need to take our dietary intake more seriously. Vitamins D and C, as well as one that seems overlooked, zinc. The zinc seems to be more critical in fighting fighting the "new" bugs, and as we get older, these all become increasingly critical!

[fixit]

Lloyd, I feel for you! I suffer from chronic sinus congestion, as well as the attendant post nasal drip. Fortunately, most of the time it's not a problem, as long as I'm proactive about irritations. But every now and then I don't catch it in time. I like the expression somebody here applied....the creeping nasties!