got another cold

[Venora Moonwind]

I have gotten the umpteenth cold for this year and I am soooo tired of this. It comes on suddenly and it takes about a month to get over. it .I am taking vitamins anti oxidents fish oilcalcium I am eating healthy and I am still getting sick all the time. did the stupid RAI just knock out my immune system so badly that I catch every little bug there is?  I wash my hands ALL the time I never touch the bathroom door handles at work. As soon as I feel better I am going to disenfefct the whole house Again. What else can I do to keep from getting this over and over again.
Ok I feel a little better . but do any of you dod this as well and did you have RAI.I would put my money on it that is what did it.
Love Venora

[DLA]

I'm so sorry, V.  I think it has to do with the whole thyroid thing.  Think being without just weakens your immune system drastically.  My belief anyway.  I personally think this is something else the drs don't really know about.  If you think about it most of us are a really unhealthy lot and it all started with thyroid disease.

My parents and a lot of other ppl they know swear by liquid elderberry juice with ester-C.  They take it at the first sign of a cold or anything and swear by it.  Now I did this for a while and it really seemed to work pretty well.  That's before I kept getting more and more wrong with me.  

It's also in with the supplements.  I get mine at Wal-Mart.

Hope you get better soon.  Oh, and don't forget the allergy meds!  Couldn't live without my Zyrtec!
Dac

[shannon828]

Honestly, I haven't had RAI yet and I've been sick all winter.  It's my daughter's first winter in daycare and it's been a particularly brutal cold/flu season in New England.  I got literally every single cold that she got from school.  I even had a flu shot this year, but still got about 8 colds from November to April.  It was annoying to say the least!  I eat healthy, practice yoga and do the Airborne/Emergen-C thing, but still got sick 8 times.  Go figure!

[whittie918]

My mothers doctor told her that I should expect to have a weakened immune system at first.  I started eating like 2 oranges a day and really, it did help kick the cold that would not go away and I have not been sick since.  Taking a supplement will not be as affective actually eating the vitamin C.  Just my 2 cents.

[stella5349]

Sorry V - God these cold are just knocking you down.

I did do some reading in getting these colds. You know, I work with 500 kids at a school and I think I have controlled my colds pretty well again. Germs are all over my work - and we all hate to be sick - so I followed two things and so far (knock on wood) I seem to do well.

Take 2000mgVitamin C w/ rose hips. Get the very best vit - with a good absorb. Try to eliminate the ones with fillers as much as possible. GNC  store brand. I take "solgar" .

I also started the Walgreen's brand of "air bourne" too. I don't know if I need it - but I was only sick once. It was a doosie - but I haven't had one since.

Take care :)