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All throughout my life, I always get 1-2 colds per year around the fall/winter. And they usually aren’t too bad to deal with. But when the Covid pandemic came along and we all started wearing masks and social distanced, I managed to not get sick for over two years. But then last year when I eventually started returning to normal, I caught a bad cold and got soooo sick. I was really run down, had a low grade fever and a bad cough. I knew it wasn’t Covid because I got tested a few times and it all came out negative. So it most likely was a cold but a very bad one. It took almost two weeks for me to fully recover. Well earlier this year, I caught another cold and this one was a breeze. Just sniffles for a few days and was done.
So is it possible that I got really sick from my cold last year because I haven’t gotten sick in so long and my immune wasn’t used to fighting off infection? Because it just seemed like an odd coincidence how I got the worst cold of my life right when I haven’t gotten sick in so long.
No. It is perfectly normal for some colds to be worse than others, probaby related to whether you had an infection with a closely related virus in the past.
No. It is perfectly normal for some colds to be worse than others, probaby related to whether you had an infection with a closely related virus in the past.
And viruses reinvent themselves...some bug you may have caught three years ago may have evolved into something a little different by the time you picked it up again. Your immune response to the newer version could be different.
No. It is perfectly normal for some colds to be worse than others, probaby related to whether you had an infection with a closely related virus in the past.
Ok thanks. Just wanted to be sure that my mask wearing wasn’t affecting my immune system, as people claim. Good to know it wasn’t.
I had the worst respiratory virus in decades (RSV) as soon as I started unmasking last fall. Coincidence? I don't know. But it did occur to me that lack of exposure to any pathogens for several years may have had my immune system slacking off a bit. I'm not in any high risk groups for RSV (yet...lol) so it's a bit puzzling that it was as bad as it was.
I had the worst respiratory virus in decades (RSV) as soon as I started unmasking last fall. Coincidence? I don't know. But it did occur to me that lack of exposure to any pathogens for several years may have had my immune system slacking off a bit. I'm not in any high risk groups for RSV (yet...lol) so it's a bit puzzling that it was as bad as it was.
The funny thing is, I had a couple of colds after that later in the year and they were extremely minor. Funny how after my immune system got hit so badly that one time, I somehow only had minor sniffles on the follow colds thereafter. Certainly an interesting coincidence when you think about it.
I've had only one cold since the start of covid, and it was mild.
I think the only reason I got that cold was because I have a non contagious infection messing with my immune system; I've also had pink eye and a cold sore recently. Surgery this week is supposed to get rid of the infection, and let my immune system go back to normal.
There are many non-Covid viruses that cause problems, some can cause bad enough symptoms to send people to ER.
RSV (mentioned above) is one of those and another is HMPV. Both of these haven't gotten a lot of attention but make people sicker than a simple cold virus.
I believe as time goes on we'll hear about many more viruses that get named because Covid caused so many problems.
My husband and I got a very bad (unknown) virus 3 years before Covid appeared, and I remember a very bad one I got after shaking hands with people who'd flown to Florida from UK (15 years ago).
Viruses are being moved around the world a lot faster now. Makes me think about what happened to Native Americans here in US when Europeans arrived.
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