Colds

Maybe we have more time to think about the discomfort a cold causes as we get older when we where younger we had no time to feel poorly did we.?

Sorry to hear your not feeling too good. I think the problem is that people dont stay at home when they have a heavy cold and traipse around sneezing and coughing there germs everywhere and lots of young people dont seem to know what a tissue is. Hope you feel better soon

I think you're quite right grannypiper! Hope you feel better soon izabella.

Well here I am with cold number 1 of the winter. I have had it for 10 days now and of course have developed bronchitis, as always. Every blooming time! I am not particularly ill, just a slight temp, no voice to speak of and a cough that makes me sound as if I have been smoking 50 a day for the last 50 years! (I have never ever smoked). OH had the same cold for 48 hours and is now fine. I am very pleased for him and not at all jealous - much.

He (a doc) has a theory that it relates to me being a cystic fibrosis carrier.

Thank you grannypiper. Now starting to feel a tad better but coughing +++ and banished to the spare room at nights.

I also hate these people who go out and cough on all and sundry because they get bored at home! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Oh and thanks Jane10 too! Interesting theory Luckygirl

Sympathy to all who are suffering at the moment. I have a hideous cough but not much else in the way of symptoms. It has been worse when lying flat so I have spent a few nights sleeping in a chair. I had a good night last night though as I put Vicks on the soles of my feet (a tip I learned from GN).