Do you guys still ride when sick?

[Fujichants]

Thanks for the kind words Tokie!

I can happily say that the worst of my cold is over. I'm still coughing a bit here and there, but I was able to do a 40 miler this morning with some climbing. I had a lot of pent up energy! Let's hope I don't wake up sick again tomorrow morning.

I hope everybody else is feeling better!

[SheFly]

Good to hear a few of us are on the mend! I still don't quite feel well enough to ride outside, so did just over 2 hours on the trainer yesterday. I actually think it might have hurt me though - I was cold the entire time (despite sweating and working).

Had a relapse to sleeping in the spare room again two nights ago, but did sleep in my own bed last night with no coughing fits! YAY! I am feeling better this morning, and may go out and play in the snow today instead of doing any trainer time.

Be well everyone!

SheFly

[tzvia]

What the heck is this thing!! You think you are over it and start feeling better, then bango, it's baaaakk. With me, it's been off and on for almost a month. It's good to see that at least some of you are getting over it but don't count your chickens and take it easy. I now have it in my chest; the coughing is just killing me as I crashed last week, landing on my back/shoulder and breaking my ruby frame . Coughing takes on another dimension when your ribs are sore; by comparison paying my part of the crash replacement is a lot less painful. Please all, be sure you are really over it before upping the intensity; I did when I was 'almost' over it and here I am spewing out my lungs again. Today even though it is lovely outside, I am going to put my MTB on the trainer and do low intensity while I dream of the local trails (I don't want to suck in the dust and pound my sore back right now.)

Well, at least I am getting the next frame model up on the Ruby from the Elite to the Expert but I would have preferred doing it the normal way. Thanks to Wheelworld Santa Monica for the help there!

[RoadRaven]

What the heck is this thing!! You think you are over it and start feeling better, then bango, it's baaaakk. With me, it's been off and on for almost a month.

Cross post: My apologies, but I wrote this yesterday, and feel to lazy to rewrite it... But tzvia, sounds like you have what I had last year!

Anyone else dealing with cold after cold?
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...660#post394660

This thread has just reminded me of a cold I had at the end of our last winter - people had named it the 100day cold/flu.

I got sick for about a week, started to get over it, then got sick again. The third time I got sick my work mates sent me to the doctor, convinced I was getting pneumonia or pluerisy. The doctor said she had lots of people coming in - same thing happening - they thought their immunity was low and they were getting lots of different bugs, when in fact it was the same one reinventing itself over and again!

I did as much work as possible from home, took suppressant drugs when I had to teach (so I didn't splutter over everyone), lost my voice for nearly 4 weeks in the middle of it and took 6-7 days sick leave.

[NbyNW]

In a weird way, it's been kinda nice knowing I'm not the only one struggling with this thing. I'll feel like I'm so close to feeling better, but then I'll have a night like last night where keep waking up coughing, and feel lousy the whole next day. Aaargh.

Glad to hear others are starting to feel better and start riding again! Gives me hope.

[Tokie]

Tzvia! sorry to hear about your bike,back and ribs + cough = ow,ow,ow! Do you have some good cough medicine? The prescription kind is most excellently effective! Perhaps a humidifier with our Santa Ana conditions in So Cal would be nice? I asked my coach to "fast track" my training to get me ready for 2 races coming up the first weekend in Feb. Coach said "no" , no relapses under her watch! so I am on a pokey training schedule this week - just as well! I am glad to hear that everyone is on the mend too! Tokie

[tzvia]

Tzvia! sorry to hear about your bike,back and ribs + cough = ow,ow,ow! Do you have some good cough medicine? The prescription kind is most excellently effective! Perhaps a humidifier with our Santa Ana conditions in So Cal would be nice? I asked my coach to "fast track" my training to get me ready for 2 races coming up the first weekend in Feb. Coach said "no" , no relapses under her watch! so I am on a pokey training schedule this week - just as well! I am glad to hear that everyone is on the mend too! Tokie

Thanks, yea I am taking all kinds of cough stuff; coughed from 2am on last night. Hoping to be well enough to MTB this weekend. Been off the bike for over a week now. Called in sick today. I hope nobody else has anything like this and your new year starts better than mine did.

[jobob]

I picked up a bottle of Zicam Cold Remedy yesterday morning - the RapidMelts with Vitamin C and Echinacea. I took one every 3 hours or so per the directions.

Now, it may be just a coincidence and my cold is finally running its course, or it may be a placebo effect, but I felt noticeably better yesterday evening & this morning. I still have some congestion & I'm coughing a little, but nowhere near as bad as over the last week.

Fingers crossed.