Coughs & Colds

[twist330]

Well here we are in the Uk in the middle of winter and I have noticed something very odd!

Over the last few weeks my DH has had the cold from hell! possibly a chest infection with it. It is not like him to be ill at all. The bug seems to have gone round the whole of his office at work.

But I haven't caught it! In fact since these neuro symptoms started around 15 months ago I've not had a sniff!

I have asthma and I work with children so I would get at least 2 or 3 colds during the winter months and probably a summer cold too. Also I have an allergic sneeze I would wake up in the milddle of the night sneezing 10 times in a row, it seemed to be connected to over heating.

It has stopped, I still get the asthma but with no colds or coughs it is well and truly under control. (I had read somewhere that you are unlikley to have MS if you have Asthma but over the  last few weeks I have noted quite a few forum members do have asthma.)

I'm not complaining but wondered if others have experienced this.

[twist330]

OK well that is quite interesting.

Thanks all fore your responses.

[Guitar_grrrl]

I am diagnosed, and when a cold virus tries to attack, I've been over it completely within 2 days at most, and the one that caused my big flair last time (Nov. 2009) was over in 6 hours!!  I haven't had the flu since 1998.

[twist330]

Hi I can't take time off I'm self employed!

But as you have a Dx and someone is showing the absence policy (My DH has it at his work) I would have thought you should say it was discrimination.

I know the madness of it all that you get fewer points for being off a longer amount of time conscutively than the ocassional day or 2 of here or their even if the reason is due to chronic illness.

Madness who ever thought that one up should be struck down with a chronic illness

[nicnic34]

am typing on the laptop in bed,full of cold...and stressing at being off sick from work. it's not the general cold stuff that has go to me but the tiredness.do any other msers get hiT hard by common colds?

for years i've followed the same pattern of dragging myself into work, spreading my germs and not being particularly useful, and then ending up off sick anyway totally zonked out. promised myself now i have a diagnosis i wouldn't do it again...but here i am, had to come home early on day 1, took holiday half days 2 and 3..and am now off sick anyway and probably in more strife than if i had just rung in on monday and said IM ILL!

does anyone else get support from their employer about taking care of yourself when you're ill like you are advised by the doc?,it's really causing me stress. have always been hard working and never had a bad sickness record, and yet suddenly in the past year because of being off for a grand total of three weeks with optic neuritis when diagnosed, staying home with 'normal' illness has pushed me into the realms of the sickness and absence policy,unpaid leave andthe veiled threat of redeployment and tribunals.

oh and by the way,in case anyone was wondering..i work for the sharing caring NHS..
sorry rant over,needed to get that off my chest!x

[addicted2harleys]

This is quite interesting to me.  Every time someone around me gets a cough or cold, I back away.  I fear getting a cough or cold because I don't want to flare.  

My daughter has something going on with her throat.  It may be mono.  We will find out Friday.  I am worried because she has been not feeling good for two weeks.  So she has been contagious already, which means I could possibly get it.  

Addi

[twist330]

Thanks for your response Alex.

I have googled this and found some info that suggests, if you have MS your auto immune system is a such already "on guard" hence you are less likely to catch the common cold.

As yet I'm not Dx, so I find this interesting.

[HVAC]

I have Asthma and have had since childhood as well as MS. I do not get colds that often anymore. I do have bad allergies and get sinus infections from the allergies. I clean my sinuses with saline and a water pick everyday during certain times of year and gargle with salt water. I also sleep with salt steam from a vaporizer. I used to get bronchitis and pneumonia until I got the vaccine. I am not sure about a connection between MS and colds or MS and Asthma.

Alex