I don’t understand the common headcold; my body feels fine, but my head feels like it’s going to explode.
And what’s with the small tickle in my throat?!
I feel like someone could hack my head off at the torso and say “healthy body, sick head”. That’s a bad visual, but you get the idea.
I think I hate it so much because I am in bed, head feeling sick but rest of me feeling great. I usually go to the gym every morning and feel like I still could, but have been avoiding it so I don’t spread my germs around.
I’m on my third or fourth sinus infection for the year. Can’t remember. And they last so long I can’t tell if it’s a new one or just the old one acting up. We are talking weeks.
Three times I’ve gone to the doctor for a freaking HEAD COLD. Three times they have given me Azithromiacin (sp).
A cold will cure itself-eventually.
Some come and go quickly. Others hang around and can leave a cough for weeks.
Don’t let the cold add to your woes. Years ago I took Contac Cold pills for cold symptoms because I was working and could not afford to be sniffing all day. I must have blown something in my sinus area and the impaction lasted for weeks.
In more recent years I started taking vitamin C to shorten colds and prevent them because of a kid bringing everything home from school. The vitamin C did seem to allow me to bypass a number of colds and shorten some that I had. During peak times with a cold, I would take ad much as 10-12G of C per day. I never seemed to have and negative reaction to this level. When the cold danger was passed, I would bump down to a gram/day. I did this for a couple years successfully without a cold. Then I started to have abdominal pain. I could never link it to anything. I stopped the C just as a precaution. Then the evening news had a segment where they pointed out a link between taking high doses of C and Crohn’s disease and even cancer. My abdominal pain seems to be stopping now without the C.
So live with the cold and don’t do anything stupid like I did.