Another cold like acute illness

I posted about this back in the early spring maybe?

Like a lot of the community I originally developed the phenomenon of not catching acute illnesses despite being chronically "sick".

As I progress in treatment it seems I catch this cold like illness all the time and it flairs my usual symptoms with it. Nearly identical symptom profile cold wise (symptoms seem to be less severe each time) I've had it 5-6 times in the past 6-8 months. The summer was a bit of a break and then two weeks ago I had the same thing. Cleared up rather easily in 5ish days. Now it's like I literally have the same thing again.

I take a decent amount of immune support that should over lap with a cold. High dose vitamin c. Monoloaurin. Cistus tincture. Colloidal silver spray incase of some sinus infection - not to mention the rest of the herbals I'm on for the B's
When it starts it's very allergy reminiscent (sneezes, non stop runny nose etc..) but after a couple days it starts to feel more cold like.

It's very odd to me whatever is going on. I'm playing with the idea my body might be having die off's from new herbals started over summer but that wouldn't explain the allergy like symptoms nor would it explain this starting in the spring pre new herbals...

Dr. A.C. said to keep a log of symptom and will discuss at next appt.

I have tried in the past. It helps with the runny nose but not the flu like feelings that come with it.

hi Loski

i have not had a cold in 7 years now

but i do occasionally get a flare in my otherwise relatively stable conditions starting a couple of days after being around people who have them - normally - increases in fatigue, pain and sleep disturbances - so i think i do get them but that they do not follow the normal course due to disturbance of my immune system from Lyme etc al. i have seen that CFS specialists say this happens to CFS patients also.

i would say that if it is a cold - its a good sign that your immune system is improving and you are now presenting a more typical response to respiratory viruses.

of course it could well be an allergy also - esp given the allergy like symptoms - and can be hard to track down the trigger.

Thanks for the responses everyone.

Walkingbyfaith - Will update if Dr. A.C notices anything with a pattern etc..

Garzie - The one thing that makes me lean away from allergies is that my girlfriend had similar symptoms about 2 of those 6 times. That could be allergies too but in January we were both really sick with identical symptoms for 2-3 weeks. Nor is January suggestive of allergies in the NE US. Suspected covid but both tested neg. I feel it's a good sign too, the first couple times I felt that "sick" feeling again I was like woah this sucks but it feels like something I should feel from time to time and haven't in so long - if that makes sense. The hardest part is that my neuro symptoms flair too during and it's very reminiscent of a possible regression but I remind myself I'm having cold symptoms too and I try to tell myself I can panic about the neuro stuff when the cold seems gone lol

RainlyCloud - so the phenomenon of getting sick again seemed to stop for you? did you have a regression in the mix of that or it was just a one time thing? Interesting data to pool around this topic IMO.

Saraeli - hey sometimes the basics get forgotten about. Good point. Early on I tried neuro protek for a few months and didn’t notice a difference - however this wasn’t happening then. I also tried taking regular allergy meds used for mast cell and didn’t notice a difference - again before this was happening.

I mentioned above in the thread that the sinus symptoms are improved from allergy meds but it doesn’t really seem to fix anything else and my nose almost feels worse because it’s still irritated but the mucous stops - almost feels that my body wants that mucous immune response?

Today I had some green gunk come out - so I’m leaning sinus infection. I’ve also had to stop pushing through it as symptoms have increased and am resigning to being a sick lazy person for today.

Perhaps when this clears if I get the initial allergy like reaction I’ll stay on a consistent allergy med schedule and see if it makes s difference..

If you’re blowing green, you’ve got an infection in there. Go to the doctor and take abx if they prescribe it. I know a guy who’s been legally blind since childhood because of a sinus infection.