There is some nasty "gonk" going around, i don't know if it is a nasty cold, flu or a milder Covid. (Up: It has return with vengance)

[Slayven]

But it had me on my ass for a week and change. Just now starting to recover. I had the shakes, full body pain, coughs, etc. Normal flu stuff, but it seemed want to stick around longer than normal. I know when i about to get sick because i get a little tickle in my throat the day before, but this time it was 2 days before the full thing hit.

Over the counter stuff just seemed to waste of time, the only thing that seemed to help with anything was some good cough drops.

 

[Planx]

Patient Zero

 

[RadzPrower]

Ours hit worse in late fall to early winter. We've actually not been sick for a while now, but we had stuff going around from November to early January.

 

[MasterYoshi]

Had some sort of cough that took me over a month to shake. I had no energy, appetite, and lost a ton of weight

 

[PopQuiz]

Gunk?

 

[bawjaws]

Aye, UK here but there's been a series of really rough colds/flu going around here for the last 3 months or so. I caught something mid-December and it floored me until mid-Jan. Wrote off the festive period somewhat!

 

[WedgeX]

Did you get swabbed for anything?

Our family has gotten basically every virus and bacteria that you can't get vaccinated against since November. It's real great.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

Yep, been going around for some months now. We have had at least on other thread here about it filled with people saying the same thing about it just holding on and not letting go for a good 10 days. My wife caught a little something something two weekends ago that I was bracing for. Luckily, she recovered after a few days and I somehow didn't catch it.

 

[Chucker]

Ours hit worse in late fall to early winter. We've actually not been sick for a while now, but we had stuff going around from November to early January.

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This sounds about what we had in MD. Hit around the beginning of november, tested negative, stuck around til thanksgiving, had a cough for a week more.

 

[Rowsdower]

My mom got this two weeks ago. Oddly my Dad and I didn't get it, and she was around us constantly coughing. I thought it was Covid, but I didn't get her tested, so who knows.

 

[Slayven]

Did you get swabbed for anything?

Our family has gotten basically every virus and bacteria that you can't get vaccinated against since November. It's real great.

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Nah, just stayed locked down

 

[julia crawford]

Going around what? I mean it looks like you caught something yourself but who is also sick and with the same symptoms?

Like we can all be catching different stuff you know. And COVID is still very much around as is everything else.

 

[perfectchaos007]

I went 5 years without getting , but I've been sick with fever twice this year already. Covid test was negative. It's called "gonk" where you are, but colloquially here it's called "The crud".

 

[WedgeX]

Nah, just stayed locked down

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Well, good on you murdering that virus/bacteria.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

Going around what? I mean it looks like you caught something yourself but who is also sick and with the same symptoms?

Like we can all be catching different stuff you know. And COVID is still very much around as is everything else.

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Why does this post have the tone of the bad cop during a good cop/bad cop interrogation scene?

 

[Slayven]

Well, good on you murdering that virus/bacteria.

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Harlan Ellison would have wrote a tale about my efforts

 

[Poodlestrike]

Shit's swept through my office at least twice. My GF got it. I seem to be immune so far, but I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

 

[NealMcCauley]

Fam and friends in my hometown have all been sick the last week with the same thing. One person at work had something a few weeks ago, and their doctor said it was mild pneumonia. I've been feeling sluggish the last few days but chalked it up to early allergies and weather/time changes.

 

[Derbel McDillet]

Had some sort of cough that took me over a month to shake. I had no energy, appetite, and lost a ton of weight

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I had something similar to that and figured it was the flu, which I had never had before as far as I could tell. Full on sick for two weeks. But the symptoms lingered.

Even lost my voice.
Had to justify my prolonged absence to my freelance jobs and they weren't happy despite hearing how bad I sounded.

Just went out once to celebrate a friend's birthday. Ugh.

 

[Qikz]

I'm due in our office and so is everyone else for 2 days next week. Hearing gunk like this is going around certainly doesn't make me any happier about being forced in.

Fuck.

 

[julia crawford]

Why does this post have the tone of the bad cop during a good cop/bad cop interrogation scene?

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I was just watching the wire so maybe that's it.

 

[Transistor]

I figured with all the Everclear you drink that you'd automatically disinfect any germs that try to enter you, Slay

 

[pioneer]

Somehow I've mostly been spared but my wife has been sick on and off since New Years. It's absurd. She works at a grocery store which I've taken to referring to as "the Petri dish." She wears a KN95 but there's thousands of people in there every day coughing and sneezing without them so

 

[ngower]

I'm going to a big event this week and have pretty much accepted I'm getting COVID

 

[QuigleyMcShine]

My kids' daycare has been absolutely decimated for the past 2 or 3 weeks. My daughter was out for a few days with the flu, but even a week and a half later I don't think anyone in the house feels 100%.

 

[Shadybiz]

I recently had bronchitis for a couple of weeks. Probably the worst part was that towards the end of it, I managed to pull a chest muscle or two from all of the coughing. STILL hurts a little bit. I guess I can count myself lucky; some people have actually fractured ribs from coughing with bronchitis.

Nah, just stayed locked down

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Well that was probably a good idea. It could very well be a mild case of Covid. I have had Covid twice. Both times, the symptoms were no worse than a mild cold. I'm assuming that's because I had been vaccinated, or I just got lucky.

 

[G_Shumi]

It could be seasonal allergies. The weather here in the US for the midwest and east coast has been very, very erratic. And so many people I know are sneezing a lot and feeling congested because of it.

We're talking +/-10° changes within a day or two, spring-like weather to full-on snowfall differences within the same week, etc.

 

[Conkerkid11]

I don't get out much, but I went to go see Dune 2, and of course I ended up getting sick even though it was a matinee with hardly anybody there.

 

[Beefsquid]

My wife and kid keep getting slammed by something multiple times this year. The kid's school has been dealing with a lot as well, tons of kids out each week. Probably a mix of flu, covid, colds, and whatever other seasonal shit goes around. It does all seem to be hitting harder this year though.

Somehow I've dodged most of it, but sucks to see them sick over and over.

 

[Bjomesphat]

It's funny, after avoiding COVID for so long and being overly cautious for longer than probably needed, it went through our house in December. That said, everything else we've been hit with this winter has been 100% worse. I'll take COVID any day at this point.

 

[Derbel McDillet]

It could be seasonal allergies. The weather here in the US for the midwest and east coast has been very, very erratic. And so many people I know are sneezing a lot and feeling congested because of it.

We're talking +/-10° changes within a day or two, spring-like weather to full-on snowfall differences within the same week, etc.

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I feel like these symptoms were way to severe for it to be that.

Body aches, always feeling cold, throwing up at night, sore throat, coughing up mucus.

Pretty much had to down Ginger Ale, Water and Robitussin for a while month.

 

[Tendo]

Norovirus is ripping through my area (and guts)

 

[SilentEagle]

My mom got this two weeks ago. Oddly my Dad and I didn't get it, and she was around us constantly coughing. I thought it was Covid, but I didn't get her tested, so who knows.

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Same happened to my mother. She is coughing a lot. It never happened before.

 

[The Lord of Cereal]

Yeah, just getting over an upper respiratory infection that's been going around where I am. Wasn't as bad as Covid but was still pretty bad.

Had a fever (anywhere from 101.3 to 103.2), had some of the body aches/temperature sensitivity that comes with that but ultimately the worst part was the sore throat in my upper throat and the fact that I had a lot of dry congestion and even after drinking several liters of water I felt dehydrated

 

[TaySan]

It hit me badly around December but I'm fine now. :D

 

[Slayven]

I figured with all the Everclear you drink that you'd automatically disinfect any germs that try to enter you, Slay

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Can't drink like I use too, getting old

It could be seasonal allergies. The weather here in the US for the midwest and east coast has been very, very erratic. And so many people I know are sneezing a lot and feeling congested because of it.

We're talking +/-10° changes within a day or two, spring-like weather to full-on snowfall differences within the same week, etc.

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No disrespect...but I am from Georgia, pollen has started yet. My street doesn't look like a college math chalkboard yet

 

[Tendo]

Can't drink like I use too, getting old

No disrespect...but I am from Georgia, pollen has started yet. My street doesn't look like a college math chalkboard yet

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Oh lord. remindin me of my time living in North Carolina.

 

[Slayven]

Oh lord. remindin me of my time living in North Carolina.

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LOL if they used that in The Happening, people wouldn't have laughted

 

[teruterubozu]

Why does this post have the tone of the bad cop during a good cop/bad cop interrogation scene?

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Post-pandemic world. Illness is controversial.

 

[Orayn]

It's covid. Everyone is catching covid every month or two, getting sicker and sicker each time in some cases. To some, it's apparently unreasonable doomer behavior if you point this out or find it concerning in any way.

 

[djplaeskool]

No disrespect...but I am from Georgia, pollen has started yet. My street doesn't look like a college math chalkboard yet

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I got my loratadine tabs and advil sinus and congestion relief ready.

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Those are just Joro spider hatchlings ready to invade the rest of the eastern seaboard.

 

[nitewulf]

We all had RSV here, lasted a month.

 

[Thrill_house]

Feel you. Woke up this morning fucked up, called off which I rarely do. Had 2 guys in my shop that were out of commission for a week straight. Be damned if I go in like this, holy hell. Don't think its covid seems like a stomach bug here though

 

[dedhead54]

Did you get swabbed for anything?

Our family has gotten basically every virus and bacteria that you can't get vaccinated against since November. It's real great.

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This has been me and our youngest. I've been sick more than I haven't since November. Something started back up last week and I still feel like ass so going to get swabbed today. I feel like this may be strep and I know it has been going around.

Amazingly my wife and our 4 year old have not been sick much this winter.

 

[Kyrios]

Tons of stuff has been going around since last November. A lot of viruses seperate from Covid have been having a field day (or months) right now.

I work with doctors and nurses and they all say it's been real bad. RSV and the stomach bug have been the main ones that can't be shaked for a while now.

My mother has been feeling like crap for over a month now. She's been attached to a tissue box since mid-February.

Just been a brutal winter all around as far as sicknesses go.

 

[Horns]

Been sick for weeks. It's really thrown me for a loop. I was supposed to run this 30 mile race in a couple months but thinking of switching up to a shorter version of it. I just can't train when I feel this way.

 

[Derbel McDillet]

Going around what? I mean it looks like you caught something yourself but who is also sick and with the same symptoms?

Like we can all be catching different stuff you know. And COVID is still very much around as is everything else.

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I mean, if I'm talking to family, friends and strangers online I live nowhere near and we're describing similar symptoms and failing covid tests and it lasts for a month straight, seems easy to figure it's not all different stuff.

 

[Bladelaw]

Had it last month, it was COVID, went all through our house and we were miserable for a total of 3 weeks. Fucking sucked.

 

[Ulbrick]

I remember having delta COVID and it was rough.

I've got something now that's destroyed my throat, giving me heavy flu like symptoms and a rough cough - I've had today off work because of it.

It sucks.

 

[julia crawford]

I mean, if I'm talking to family, friends and strangers online I live nowhere near and we're describing similar symptoms and failing covid tests and it lasts for a month straight, seems easy to figure it's not all different stuff.

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well ok but op had none of that