Having cold mean better immune system?

Anyone know anything about this? Someone on yahoo buhner group said that she had her first cold in years this week,and that she's heard its a sign her immune system is working better. I got a cold this week,and its my first in over a year i believe. truth to this? hmm

I'd like to know the answer to this, too.

I am having my first cold in years, and it's a doozy! I'm kind of excited, thinking that this means the immune system is kicking things up a knotch.

Anybody here who can confirm this?

I've wondered this. I used to get colds all of the time. Now that I'm sick w/ Lyme, I very rarely get colds.

I heard this, too, and had it explained to me. I have no idea if this is accurate, though!! For real, don't take my word for this. The logic that was explained to me was: you're still "getting colds" when you have a suppressed immune system, but as your body is not as adequately fighting them, you don't get typical cold symptoms... That is to say, the symptoms we associate with having colds are actually the symptoms of our immune systems fighting the colds... fevers for example. Hmmmm... accurate?

Thanks, Marigold, that explains it quite well.

We still get the viruses, but we don't mount an immune response, which is what the runny noses, etc., are - immune responses.

I too have heard what marigold mentioned.

People with LD may not get cold symptoms because our immune systems are so taxed already dealing with lyme, that there are no resources left to fight a new infection.

We still get the infection, we just don't respond to it. So, getting cold symptoms would mean that things are improving to the point that our body has the resources to actually fight the cold.

So nice to have something positive happening! That's exciting!!