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Happy valentine's to you all
my day has ended with me coming up.to bed and leaving my husband and 2 wee boys,watching tv. How had your day gone?
This is week 3 of cold/:flu like symptoms. My gp had given me antibiotics so no metho this week or next.
ls this a common complaint of RA - catching bugs, viruses whatever? I suppose it doesn't help working in a school.
l feel like such a misery and that l am letting my family down by being ill. Does Anyone else feel lime this?
Lisa xx
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Hi Lisa Since our auto immune systems are suppressed byy the RA drugs we are more susceptible to colds and other infections. And a school is a melting pot of infections!  . Antibiotics are only prescribed when the virus turns into a bacterial infection and your GP has already covered that. Sometimes the antibiotics can make you feel worse. Hang on in there, you will get better. Paul Barrett
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Hello Lisa
Sorry to read about you feeling run down.
Ra & meds is an awful combination which leads us to feeling rather flu like & fatigued.
I find having the flu injection the past few years has helped to lesson the bugs/sneezes/diseases.
Last time I was in bed feeling unwell was after my knee surgery & the tramadol making me feel a bit woo woo & out of it.
Everyone is effected differently by ra, if you need to go to bed - then that is what you have to do.
Our spouses are amazing (maybe not in the kitchen making meals)!
Love Jane
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You are not letting your family down at all. They understand and afternoon it is just another day ! 14th February.
Get well soon
Rose x
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Yes this time of year is really difficult for us with our immune systems being compromised by the drugs that we take. At least there are signs of spring in the garden. Tomorrow the weather is supposed to be sunnier after all this rain so perhaps that will lift our moods.
I hope you feel a bit better soon.
Claire
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Hi everyone
Thank you for replying, I have been laying low the past few days and letting the antibiotics work.
We had a lovely day here yesterday and the sun was out so I forced myself to go for a walk with my husband, sons and dog. I slept like a log last night.
Hope you are all ok and have escaped any bad flooding where you are? I noticed my daffodils shooting up in the garden and like you all await the signs of Spring and will envelop the lighter evenings with much delight.
Lisa xx
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Good glad you feeling better.
Actually I live in somerset by the coast. We are ok, but villages just 6 miles away from me have left their villages as they are totally cut off. So e before Christmas it really is seeing to be believed. Apparat the environment fault.
rose
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hi all,just catching up after a long quiet spell from site,i have been ill myself then went down with this flu/cold whatever thing and ended up 2 lots antibiotics,chest xray (waiting for results 2wks now) and still not right,my kids have been the best,i didn't know my daughter/son could actually cook!! they brought me meals on wheels and it was edable!!!,really good,the sun is out here in Lowestoft and its lovely,i do really feel for those people who are having a bad time,i have got some storm damage but I am not letting it get to me,it will cost but I have other things on my mind for now, my son got married last year and I am now to be a granny in august,my daughter got engaged also last year,now I have a light at the end of my tunnel,take care lisa hope you feel better shortly,dorothy
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Hi Dorothy Sounds like you're going through a rough patch indeed. I don't know whether it is the flu jab or that I don't deal with the public in my job, but I've so far been clear of colds and stuff. Fingers crossed that will continue. I'm in Lowestoft too, had some fences down but they were old anyway. My driveway does become a little paddling pool but so far the bungalow is safe! Feel a lot better on those days we're getting a little sunshine and no rain, such a relief. Spring flowers popping their heads up too, on the downside, my garden needs some serious attention now so I expect I'll overdo it and cause a flare. Hope you all feel better soon! Angie Be yourself - everyone else is taken. XX
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Normally when I get a cold it goes straight to my chest and after a couple of weeks requires antibiotics. Then I went on to auto immune suppressing drugs. Perversely I got a cold at Christmas that did not develop into anything and then, 3 days before we were due to fly to Florida I got a cold that went straight to my chest. The doc gave me some antibiotics to take with me, just in case, but it also cleared up on its own, in a matter of 3 or 4 days. How perverse is that? Paul Barrett
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men eh! paul,good to know that one person can shift a cold,i don't normally get this bad but I done a lot of running around last year and I think I just ran out of juice and now I am paying for it,i am lucky angie I have not been flooded I reckon that would have finished me off,did get water in under garage door so my kids moved their motorbikes to the back just incase,cant believe the town got a sink hole only here could get that as if the drains aren't bad enough,i know how you feel about the flowers appearing I can just see them through the mess,i close the blinds and then don't see it any more,dorothy
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[quote=Dorothy-W]men eh! paul,good to know that one person can shift a cold/quote] I wish I could say that was always the case (shifting a cold) but it's not - they normally got to my chest and hit me hard. So, knowing that I was on auto immune suppressing drugs I was very surprised that I managed to beat them. Paul Barrett
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sorry paul was not taking the mick, I never used to get colds or whatever but since I have been on mtx etc I seem to get all the sniffals going,it really gets me down now as I was a very active person but now feel drain most of the time and I know I am on my journey but its a long bus ride,roll on the warmer days,dorothy
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Dorothy-W wrote:sorry paul was not taking the mick, 's OK, I didn't take it that way.  Paul Barrett
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Hi, Its not nice when your unwell. I've got another cold and I find although it doesn't develop into a serious cold or chest infection I just can not get rid of it for about 3/4 weeks I also find that I ache more as I've heard some of my drugs are not as effective when your not well Roll on Spring  Louise.
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Little Miss Sunshine73 wrote:Roll on Spring Louise. Rolling on springs will definitely make you feel worse Paul Barrett
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Especially rusty ones. Fortunately no actual experience.
Do you really know, Paul, Ouch
Anne
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Ha ha ha I'll rephrase; roll on the lovely Spring weather & sunshine
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Hi folks
Thanks for all the replies - hope you are all doing ok?
I have been left with the sniffles but the antibiotics seem to have perked me up and I don't feel as tired. Although being off the metho for 2 weeks and my joints are starting to seize up again so will be taking it again next Thursday. Oh the joys and swings and roundabouts of RA.
Hope you are having a restful weekend wherever you are.
Take care.
Lisa xx
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lisa, good to see you are on the mend,dorothy
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