That sensation that you sometimes get before you get sick of being just…bleh. Generally unwell, though you can’t really pinpoint why, exactly. Or in my current case, when you’ve been sick, some of the symptoms have gotten better, others have gotten worse, and you still feel generally icky.
Is it an actual, medically-acknowledged thing, or just seem as people whining and/or imagining things? If it is real, what causes it?
it does somewhat depend on what the original illness was
“Coming down with something”?
Crosswords have led me to believe that this feeling is “ague,” though I believe that to be etymologically incorrect.
Sounds right. Thanks.
Nausea?
Logy
Quesy?
I was just at an immunologist’s today talking about just this feeling. I get recurring frequent malaises, and have for years, which don’t seem to develop into a proper cold or flu. I didn’t know how to describe it to her, but did my best - she said the word to use was “malaise”. And that I didn’t have lupus.
My dad calls it “the ick.” I don’t suppose that qualifies as the kind of quality answer expected in GQ, but it’s all I got.
It’s never lupus.
[Monty Python]
Vet: It’s the old stockbroker syndrome, the suburban fin de siecle ennui, angst, weltschmertz, call it what you will.
Mrs B: Moping.
Vet: In a way, in a way … hum … moping, I must remember that.
[/MP]
Medically, we refer to the vague symptoms before the full illness as the prodrome.
Creeping malaise?
Thanks. Now I’m gonna have that song stuck in my head all day.
Actually, that’s rather okay with me.
Does this mean it’s medically acknowledged? I mean - when I saw the nurse the other day and explained that on top of a bad cough I just felt ‘ech’, she (probably) didn’t just write it off as me whining?
But they always tell you it might be Lupus, to get you off of their hands and on to someone else’s …
Douglas Adams would have assigned a British place name to it. (see: Meaning of Liff)
I suggest Illey, West Midlands.
In my experience, it’s called " the glurg"