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W · 14 Apr 2003, 20:19

I barely ever get sick (I've been sick like 5 times the last 10-12 years), and I hate it. Runny nose, lack of consentration etc. Well, I'll get a few days off from work, atleast it's something.

Just so this thread isn't all me-me-me, how often do you get sick? (And I'm talking viral infection here, to the degree that you show noticeable symptoms)

mbushell · 14 Apr 2003, 20:21

I've been sick with love for the last year ://///

mpr0733 · 14 Apr 2003, 20:22

Thanks to the airconditioning machinery at the office, about two times a year on average.

pablissimo · 14 Apr 2003, 20:22

Very rarely to a degree that I couldn't go to school/college/uni.

And never to a degree to have gone to the doctor about it in the past 10 years or so.

Ste · 14 Apr 2003, 20:22

i rarely get ill too...
if I do I can generally attribute it to some sort of excess earlier in the day, or the night before...

LHC · 14 Apr 2003, 20:22

I am very rarely ill actually, which is nice. The occasional mild cold but never enough to stop me doing anything.

W · 14 Apr 2003, 20:23

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Originally posted by mbushell
I've been sick with love for the last year ://///

Please note me specifying what kind of sickness I was talking about. I do not want to hear from all you people who do it with your family.

Kurashima · 14 Apr 2003, 20:23

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Originally posted by W
I barely ever get sick (I've been sick like 5 times the last 10-12 years), and I hate it. Runny nose, lack of consentration etc. Well, I'll get a few days off from work, atleast it's something.

Just so this thread isn't all me-me-me, how often do you get sick? (And I'm talking viral infection here, to the degree that you show noticeable symptoms)

Pretty Often , i have quite a poor diet, and thats the cause. One too many nights out for a steak dinner instead of a salad.

I never take time off work. Just reach for far too many cold remedies, and mix and match. Fortunate enough to have an ex whos a pharmacy assistant, and advises me on what i can take together for max effect.

Mirai · 14 Apr 2003, 20:27

I got a cold a while back when I came back from Vancouver. That was feburary. The last time I got to meet the hospital staff was 2 1/2 years ago, where I was struck down with a staphylococcus Aurius infection, and got to know the inner workings of an MRI machine personally. 10 times. Over a 2 month period.

Dante Hicks · 14 Apr 2003, 20:28

I phone in sick every once in a while (sickness of the soul), but get sick pretty rarely. One proper sickness in the last 3 or 4 years I suppose. Maybe one minor cold a year though.

Haven't needed to see a doctor in roughly a decade.

Aryn · 14 Apr 2003, 20:29

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Originally posted by W
lack of consentration etc.

omg you ARE sick

hope you're feeling better soon.

to answer your question.. i think i've only been sick to the degree where i can't go to school/work twice in my life (not counting stuff like chickenpox)
i take echinacea almost every day so i don't get sick very often :P

acropolis · 14 Apr 2003, 21:21

I was sick for a good part of the day in the Summer of 2001.

It sucked. I'm sitting at my desk and I just had an awful headache. blah.

More commonly, I get a stuffy nose at night and it kills my attempts to sleep (one nostril clogged, turn over to the other side to drain, other nostril clogged, turn back, repeat til 5 AM)

Kal_Zakath · 14 Apr 2003, 21:38

I usually get sick once a year around October or so. Cold/wheezing, goes away in a couple days. Dunno why, but I've had it for the past couple years around then.

Snurx · 14 Apr 2003, 21:58

Im pretty often sick, but never anything serious.
The only times i cisit the doctor is after getting beatings, something that happens too often..(Was to the doctor today to remove some needlework..

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Helveticus · 15 Apr 2003, 01:01

Just had my 1st ever day off work sick, got that bored by the 2nd day I went back, despite feeling even worse than the 1st day. Don't know my doctors name, gender, location, or even if they're still alive. So I'd have to say, on average, never.

Radical Edward · 15 Apr 2003, 09:06

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Originally posted by Kurashima
Fortunate enough to have an ex whos a pharmacy assistant, and advises me on what i can take together for max effect.

does s/he tell you to take bottles of whisky with lots of asprin, under the advice that it will "solve all your problems"?

Rids · 15 Apr 2003, 09:08

I used to get ill all the time, normally 7 or 8 times a year with quite major viral infections causing me to miss at least a few days of work.

Recently that has come down to well, twice a year, at worst.

djbass · 15 Apr 2003, 09:52

I refuse to be sick, therefore I almost never am. Can't recall having anything major for quite some time.

I am currently holding the theory that an increase in sickness lately could be due to too much relience on drugs to cure the disease.

=[DJ Bass]=

Radical Edward · 15 Apr 2003, 10:06

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Originally posted by djbass
I am currently holding the theory that an increase in sickness lately could be due to too much relience on drugs to cure the disease.

yeap, people have weak immune systems because everything is so squeaky clean. personally I wallow in a pit of filth and grime, and never get any illnesses apart from occasional outbreaks of plague and cholera.