I've been sick for 20 days.

[milkomania]

I've been sick since New Year's. Nothing I've done effects it. I feel almost good for a half a day, then I'm right back to feeling crappy again. I went to the clinic- spent $110- and got Tamiflu which only knocks me out for 4 hours. Nothing's working, so...

Clearly, this means cheetos.

[Bone Daddy]

*In before the cowbell joke

[Deleted]

Sick as in cough and flu type of sick, or sick as in fever and general-please-kill-me-now symptoms?

[Piccolo]

Try taking Vitamin D and sleeping 10 hours a night. If that doesn't work, maybe ask for some tests... might have mono or something?

[Deleted]

Am I included in your will? Because my advice will vary depending on if I am or not.

[edgestar]

I've had a sinus infection since New Year's Eve. The pain goes away for maybe a day, then comes back worse.

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

If all else fails use fire.

[chazraps]

Have you considered it might be allergies? If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? In the past few years, people have been developing allergies later in life and the warmer climate/odd weather has lead to a new rash of allergy issues.

I had the same symptoms as you last summer, and no medical advice or anything could help me. Finally, on a whim a doctor suggested that I might have allergies (which I, in 25-years-of-living had NEVER had before) and to try taking Zyrtec. I began feeling better within a day and was completely healed within a week. My buddy Mike came down with the same thing a month later, so I suggested Zyrtec and soon he was healed at the same speed.

My advice:



Get this 14 pack of Zyrtec and take at least half of it. It's a one-a-day pill and only $15.00 for that whole pack. You can't have any alcohol while on it, and a side effect is moments of irritability, but it will help you significantly.

Hope this helps.

[milkomania]

It's not mono or allergies. It's the flu. All of my roommates have it too. We live in close quarters so we're all this way. I think I had the flu for a week when I started. Now it's been a rotation of cough, fever, chills, runny nose, aching all over, repeat. The thing that sucks is for about 4 hours a day I feel fine. I've tried allergy pills, too. The only reason I got Tamiflu at all was because nothing OTC was working.

If I die, somebody has to feed my cat Bowie, the rockstar cat. He likes tuna and "Let's Dance".

[AFN: Judge Shred]

Kind of odd, that is exactly how long I have been sick as well. Mix of flu and sinus infection and blech.

[Error]

Almost 3 months for me. A rotation of URI, bronchitis, and sinus infections with the flu hitting 2 weeks ago. Weather isn't doing me any favors either.

[Citizen Snips]

Start mainlining NyQuill.

[chazraps]

In that case, try the antibiotic Levaquil. You may have an advanced infection.

[theryno665]

A few years ago, I was sick for like 3 weeks straight. I couldn't hold any food down and was mainly living on citrus and Vitamin C pills, if I was lucky enough not to throw them up. And right after I finally took myself in and got tests done, I was perfectly fine. I still don't know what it was I haven't been that sick since then.

[milkomania]

The whole sickness thing is a mess. I'm a self-employed personal trainer, so as long as I am sick, I can't work (and no sick day benefits). I'm going to the doc on Tuesday as I suspect I've got bronchitis. You know what that means- more $$$$. I've never spent so much damn cash on a stupid sickness.

[Psy]

In 2011 I contracted pneumonia and it about killed me, coupled with a lung infection. I still haven't recovered all my lung capacity according to the doctors - but admittedly that's probably because I haven't done the 6-mile morning runs they said I should do. They're f***ing insane if they think I'm running for 6 miles every day, no thank you.

Anyway, I take illnesses a lot more seriously now after that. Adopting a wait-and-see attitude will get you one of two things, both of them if you're Jim Henson: 1) Dead, and 2) Wrong-sounding Muppets.