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Is it possible to always be sick
by KTPoof, Nov 07, 2008 01:25PM
I get a cold every two weeks like clock work and each time it last about a week to a week and a half. It doesn't matter if its fall, winter or spring, I am always sick. During the summers I would get strep throat anywhere from 2 to 4 times which is why I have recently had my tonsils removed. I am sick once again with a sinus congestion, cough, yellow mucus, tiredness and pain in the lower back and have had family and friends ask for the hundredth time why I am always sick. I never have a real temperature, my body temp is naturally 97.6 and I never go above 99/100 when sick, but can only name a handful of times in my whole life that I have had a high temperature. I am sick so often that I no longer go to the dr or take antibiotics because its pointless and I don't want to be constantly shoving drugs into my system. Now is it possible that I am just a sick person and need to somehow build up my immune system or is this something i should really get checked out?
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My other thought is that you may have at one time caught a virus that has weakend your immunity to other bugs. Glandular fever is one that often makes the sufferrer vulnerable to many other bugs. The best advice I can give you is to do a diary of all the bugs and colds you are suffering including symptoms, dates and what you currently do to remedy them (lemsip etc) and then take this diary along to your doctor to get his advice and possibly arrange for a blood test to see if you do have a weakened immune system
Best of luck
Jenny
(im also sufferring with a cold at the moment, but rarely get them so sympathise with you having to live your life dogged by them)
I would recommend in paying for a flu jab each Autumn to minimise your risk of a more serious infection.
Let us know how you get on with the journal and the doctors outcome
Best wishes
Jennyx