has this ever happened to you

[diala84]

Yep that happens to me most of the time. I think that when you think you are better you end up pushing yourself too hard and your body has a relapse. I need to learn from the past but somehow I usually end up doing this to myself. It is hard when I can't get paid sick or vacation leave so my paycheck is significantly less if I don't go to work.   

[jbaily91]

I don't get sick hardly at all, but when i do i am sick for at least 2 weeks. I hate being sick. it is terrible to feel so bad.

[StarlitNirvana]

Eeek! I hate when that happens, it's the worst. I am sorry you are sick and I hope you feel better soon

[tjshorty]

this has been happening to me for a few months now.   I am just about to my wits end with it.  don't want to break down and go to the doc. because I don't feel that bad.  I am so tired of this cold

[Azanne07]

yes i have had that happen

[pgk1965]

at my house it used to go around and around from one person to the next ...it sometimes takes a couple weeks to stop

[osage]

  What I have found out over the years is that your body actually needs 3 days of complete rest and then most of the time, you will recover from a cold. I have always tried to get to Friday to begin my 3 day period but that doesn't always happen. And I mean complete rest. Not doing a thing but taking medication and being in a prone position! 

[kaitsilva]

I think that when you KNOW you're sick, you take precautions-- you drink fluids, eat better, take vitamins or Emergen-C, etc. The second people start to feel better, they toss all that aside because they want to go back to their normal routines, but viruses aren't necessarily dead on the day you start to feel better! Gotta keep up that healthy routine for at least a few more days or else your immune system relapses and you just get sick again!

[workmama]

you no when your sick for a couple of days and you think you got it licked so you feel better for a day or so and it comes back twice as bad i just hate that i have the flu and thought i was done with it and today i feel like hell again

Luckily, I am one of the few people that barely ever falls ill. Maybe I will have a little cold here and there once every 2 years, or have a headache occasionally, but other than that, I am just lucky and some of my friends think I've done some kind of magic spell to never get sick....hahaha!! 
No, I just don't. I like to think it is because I like to take very good care of myself. Being vegan, drinking lots and lots of water, eating fruits and vegetables and exercising everyday is a huge benefactor I think.
Hope you get to feeling better and Good Luck!! 

  ~workmama~ 

[tfw6693]

yep, been there, done that. I finally found out that if I take better care of myself, it is not as often.   

[sammywantsya]

same here lol done that too it sucks lol but gotta deal with the pain

[laurindat]

yeah, I get that. it gives a false sense of hope... I actually had something similar happen to me recently. I sprained my thumb a week or two ago, and thought it got better the other day. but then just last night, I felt the pain coming back and had to ice it again :- seriously hate it.

[Laurieandjohn]

the same goes for me having lupus doesnt help my immune system is shot to begin with

[dcrotteau]

 
 The flu shot does not contain a live virus.  It's dead.  Flu vaccines (the flu shot and the nasal-spray flu vaccine (LAIV)) cause antibodies to develop in the body about two weeks after vaccination. These antibodies provide protection against infection with the viruses that are in the vaccine.

The seasonal flu vaccine protects against three influenza viruses that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming season. Three kinds of influenza viruses commonly circulate among people today: influenza B viruses, influenza A (H1N1) viruses, and influenza A (H3N2) viruses. Each year, one flu virus of each kind is used to produce seasonal influenza vaccine.

[ernica96]

it's a virus it won't leave as fast as you think it will....even if i do feel better i know it's coming back