Stupid Sick

[Cheesevixen]

So I woke up to the beginning stages of a cold. I am a little achy, tired, and I have a runny nose. Definitely a bad time to be sick with two young ones running me ragged. Kind of wish I had some help doing things today. I honestly would like nothing more than to lay on my favorite couch and eat soup all day long in my fuzzy pajamas.

What makes you feel better when you're sick? :-P

Few things I like when I am feeling bad is
A hot shower
Ramen chicken soup
Covering up with tons of blankets
Watching TV
Drinking lots of OJ

I also like to work out sometimes......I hear that it pumps up your immune system.

[Dodie16]

I usually try to just sleep off my sickness, mostly when I have a headache or whatever. I don't really get sick all that often, but when I do, I get pretty whiney, so I try to stay away from people, because I know that I would just be totally annoying. I hear you on the hot shower, but I usually take a hot bath instead. I like to just lay there and soak for a while with a hot washcloth over my face. Well, I like doing that anytime, even when I'm not sick.

I do alternate taking medicine, like I'll start with Ibuprofen and then four hours later I'll got to Tylenol, and four hours later it's back to Ibuprofen again. I don't really know why I do that, but it's what I've grown up doing because that's what my mom would give me when I was younger. I just sort of carried it along into adulthood, I suppose.

Okay, I used to drink Gatorade when I got sick (vomiting sick), but I hear that it's better to drink Pedialite, because Gatorade doesn't restore the nutrients that you lose as well as Pedialite.

[Insufficient Mage]

I'm caught in a similar situation; came up with a cold recently, and yet I still have to go to work and take care of kids even though I'm feeling pretty cruddy. Normally, I wouldn't go into work while potentially contagious, but unfortunately my sub can't fill in for me because she's suffering from procrastinating for finals, so there's nobody else but me. Fun.

When I'm sick, I looooove to drink tea. I like drinking tea normally but while sick I'll have a couple cups a day. I like putting in a series I've had lying around for a while and just watching it all day, I love SLEEPING, I love putting in hours upon hours into a good RPG.

I wish I could do all of that right now, instead of worrying about upcoming hours of screaming kids to further invoke my headache.

[Tiffany]

Life Brand Hot Cherry Sore Throat/Cough drink. It tastes like shit, but maaaan does it ever work. I'm a huge baby when it comes to getting sick, and I'll drink this (its like neo citran) and in a half hour I am KO'd. I can't drink it if I'm alone with Claire though.

Which sucks.

[Zargabaath]

Drinking lots of OJ

I also like to work out sometimes......I hear that it pumps up your immune system.

When I get sick, which is not often, I usually drink OJ as well, however, the proper fluid is supposed to be clear. I don't care though and go on jugging OJ and water.

I believe working out while sick is counter-beneficial. Working out does help the immune system, however while sick I believe it drains the body taking it longer to get better. I am not sure about this. I usually just get a good night's sleep or a couple of them and I'm usually fine.

I may feast on soup if my taste buds crave... soup.

[GypsyElder]

For me, basically this:

When I'm sick, I looooove to drink tea. I like drinking tea normally but while sick I'll have a couple cups a day. I like putting in a series I've had lying around for a while and just watching it all day, I love SLEEPING, I love putting in hours upon hours into a good RPG.

plus, lots and lots of hours in games as long as I don't have a headache, but If I really want to play I'll just take a pain killer. No cold is going to keep me from playing my RPGs

[Unknown Entity]

When I'm ill, I like sleeping all day with loads of blankets to cuddle up in. Soups are great, my favourite being chicken and noodle.

When I'm not sleeping, I like watching films. When I had chicken pox a few years ago (I got it bad - high fevers, not being able to sit/lay down comfortably, drinking tons of water, hardly eating... baaad) I watched almost every single DVD in my house over a period of one and half to two weeks, and finished GTA San Andreas in a day. I also spent hours on FFX finishing up everyone's Sphere Grids (they're still not finished to this day, but woo!).

So er... lots of films and gaming too. ^^;

Cuddles are nice too, but I don't like people getting something I've got. Unless they're sick too, then I guess it's not an issue. Whilst cuddled in blankets, it's nice when someone strokes your back as you drift off to sleep. <3

[Josh_R]

So I woke up to the beginning stages of a cold. I am a little achy, tired, and I have a runny nose.

I hope you feel better, the regular cold suck's, not to much you can really do about it.


I am lucky enough to have a strong immune system, so when I do get sick it is usually serious. A month and a half ago I got swine flu, nowhere near as bad as everyone made it out to be. I was able to work out every morning, play games, surf the web. All I couldn't do was leave the house.

I do remember when I was younger around 8 or 9 I was sick all the time, probably why my immune system is so strong now. I would always be sure to drink plenty of water, and my mom would make me eat saltine cracker's with either ramen noodles, or chicken noodle soup..

[yuki]

i realy dont like colds coz it make me feel light headed and dizy most of the times
thought when i catch coold idont get fever my body temp actualy falls down last time it was 33
i dont do nothing hold a blanket and stay low
but what i real like is eating ice cream when having cold lool
I. R. BAD ^o^

[SOLDIER #819]

I've gotten sick no less than 3 times within a period of two months this Fall. The first time I lucked out and recovered over the weekend... but the second time was horrible. It happened right in the middle of the week during classes, and I was bedridden. I had just worked out too, so my muscles were even sorer than normal and I could barely move without a lot of hurt. The third time was nothing... but I'm wondering if this is a bad omen.

I tend to just sleep when I'm really sick. Juices taste so good around that time, but I'll also eat whatever's around the house when I get hungry. I don't usually take medicine until it gets fairly bad... but I try to take vitamin supplements at the first sign. I wonder if it really helps though. I'd like to just not get sick. It really really sucks. Especially a super stuffed nose.

[Pete]

When I'm sick, I'll go through a box of Emergen-C like it's nobody's business. I'll get an empty 32oz bottle of Gatorade, fill it with water and then put 3-5 packets in, depending on how sick I feel. I'll keeping doing this until my stomach is full or I feel better. Most of the time it works.

Sinus infections are the worst though. I've gotten 2 in the past year, and have needed antibiotics both times. The fatigue is the absolute worst part of them, cause I HATE feeling all floaty and out of it.

[Sinister]

Cold to cool air.
Humid air.
Shower or bath.
Clove Cigarettes.
Hot tea.
Music.
Miso soup.
Fresh fruit.

My feeling better entirely depends on my ability to produce cold humid conditions. S'pose that makes me out to be an itchy little fungus, but it's true. As humid as possible and nice and cool. Everything else on my list is simply a comfort item that distracts me from illness. Who was it(Voltaire maybe?) that said Medical care is largely an attempt to entertain the patient until he heals himself?

-Sin

[Yuki-onna]

Dayquil. Tea 'n honey.

Occasionally I boil a chicken. Not to make soup, I just like to kill things.

Bleach helps too. Some people would say you could drink it, but I just like to clean with it. Ah, bleach. Good for the brain.

Then I just kind of go into a stasis and wake up when my body is well enough to drag itself out of bed.