Always getting Sick - Anyone else or tips?
I keep getting extremely sick with a flu, virus or covid that floors me every 2-4 months and its really frustrating.
I know in our industry theres a ton of “ive only gotten sick three times in my life” but I was hospitalized with mono and some infection that fucked me almost permanently back in 2021. Before that i was healthy and rarley sick. I also exercise, eat healthy and see a specialist for vitamins and supplements to help my immune system.
I do have sick days but I’m not sure what to do with co workers and mgers who assume its bs. Most people i worked under always assume sick is bs but Im tired of feeling like im the ass hole for legitimately being out of commission. Any suggestions on this? Even if I explain this or show tests i dont want to be forced to prove im not full of shit. A bit of a rant but this is out of my control and other than my sickness shit im a top performer but it fucks with face time.
Dude how the fuck are you a VP just now getting mono? Did you hook up with chicks in college? Pretty sure you can only get that shit once.
Lol you'd be surprised how late some people get mono. A doctor I used to work with had a patient who caught it in their 70s or 80s. I remember the doctor holding back laughter after leaving that patient encounter (patient was relatively fine, mild symptoms).
How’s your diet?
How’s your stress levels?
sleeping, drinking water?
Are you exercising?
Start wrapping it bro
Take 10,000 IUs of D3 per day. It will boost your immune system and give you good bone health.
keep a bottle of hand sanitizer on your desk and use it everytime you got to the bathroom or before you eat anything. Drink lots of water (3L / day)
+Gribso
and
Do not pick your nose. Do not poke your eyes. Do not suck on your thumb. Stay out of the subway.
Last one is tough if you're in NYC
Stress is too high.
You are getting sick every 3 months?
Get tested for AIDS you dork. In all seriousness, get you shit together and focus on your health.
Zicam / zinc supplement
Vitamin C
Low vitamin d
Let me guess. Vaccinated?
Flintstone gummies tbh. Was taking them during covid first outbreak and hung out with people who had covid multiple times yet never got it. Simulation hack
unironically... touch grass. Go outside, get some sun. It's good for you. Also, go see a doctor and see if there is a more serious underlying autoimmune disease
I've had a similar experience and I'll give you some advice/what worked for me. Got mono/epstein barr senior year of HS, got incredibly sick and had to be hospitalized. The doctors initially thought I had lymphoma because my lymphatic system was so screwed up, my lymph nodes were so enlarged, and the tests for mono came back negative. Eventually they tested for a different strain...and that came back positive. I never really got sick before this, but after getting mono/epstein barr, my immune system was completely wrecked, I kept getting sick every 2-4 months like you, and had chronic fatigue syndrome. Throughout college I had to be hospitalized a few times because of mysterious infections that wouldn't respond to normal antibiotics - always related somehow to my lymphatic system and particularly my tonsils.
Fast forward, right after college/grad school I got a seriously bad viral infection specifically in my tonsils, which I had to be hospitalized for. At this point, I was over it. I told my ENT that I wanted my tonsils out. The ENT recommended against it since getting an adult tonsillectomy is rough and I wasn't necessarily even getting strep throat, rather mysterious viral infections. Long story short, I got them out along with an adenoidectomy. I'll be blunt, this is the most pain I've ever been in ever in my life. The icing on the cake is that painkillers make me sick af, so I had to raw dog the recovery with just advil, which didn't help whatsoever. I lost 20lbs in two months during recovery.
But was it worth it? Absolutely. I haven't gotten significantly sick once (knock on wood) since my tonsillectomy & adenoidectomy. I've had small colds here and there but nothing anywhere close to the severity before.
Epstein barr/mono is an insidious virus. It's in herpes virus family, which includes obviously herpes, chickenpox/shingles. You can never get rid of it and it lives latent in your cells and can become reactivated. The thing with mono is that it primarily targets your lymph system whereas other herpes viruses target other areas in your body more so than the lymph system. So in my case, I think the mono was becoming reactivated in my tonsils/adenoids so removing those removed the ability for the virus to continue making me sick. I'm not a doctor so take that for what it is, maybe there's a doctor on here that can chime in.
Aside from surgery, make sure your supplement/lifestyle stack is well-optimized:
1. Vitamin D3 + K2 (important to have the correct ratio, look it up)
2. Super healthy diet, try to get all your vitamins through your diet rather than a multi-vitamin
3. Limit stimulants/caffeine
4. Regular cardio & weightlifting
5. Get as much sun as possible
6. Probiotics
7. Avoid anything that inflames your body (excessive alcohol, lack of sleep, seed oils, processed foods, etc)
Hope that helps.
ur immunity is weak
chech if you don't have cancer
It could be just that you never fully recovered from being sick at one point, and so your body is constantly on the edge of getting sick again.
Also, try not to pull an all-nighter, as that will seriously impact your immune system. If you go without sleep, try to spend as much time as you can (weekends, etc) sleeping, even forcing yourself to sleep longer if possible, so give your body the chance to repair itself and recharge. I know that often isn't possible, however.
I know one guy who was basically non-stop, out the door by 5am, and going home around 11pm, for (apparently) almost 20 years, and he would sleep almost the entire weekend away. Probably not healthy, or ideal, but I guess it's about finding what works for you, and working around that.
Try to eat healthy, and take a multivitamin. I try to take Airborne at least once a day when I start to feel like I'm lagging and might be getting sick.
Also, as already suggested, you might want to get checked out, because it could be something simple that medication might resolve, or it might uncover something more serious that can be treated better if caught earlier.
Also, if worried about time, you might want to have a telehealth medical evaluation, as it might be something that could be handled easily.
Good luck.
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