Having avoided feeling ill all winter, I've now got a damned cold or man flu. I've been trying this new method of cold avoidance I saw in the paper and it's worked up until now. All I want to do is go to bed but I'm at work until 9am tomorrow so fat chance. Sniff.

Whats the cold avoidance method?

Elephant doses of Vitamin D.

One of the reasons we don't get so many colds in the summer is not because we are not huddling together for warmth like we do in the winter, it is sunlight. We make Vitamin D when we are exposed to the sun, and it is linked with the immune system.

The idea goes that if we take massive amounts of Vit D for three days at the beginning of a cold it either reduces it's length or stops it developing altogether. I've only found it in pill form with Calcium but having spoke to a Doctor I know he says any excess Calcuim in our diet is simply lost through the kidneys, he also says that the whole idea is a pile of crap!

I've been taking pills from Tesco (in a blue and white container if you want to try it yourself) and I'm on six of the buggers a day and it seems to work. Perhaps it's a placebo effect but I've not had a serious cold all winter until now. A few sniffles that go away in a few days.

If anyone else has a go please let me know what you think. The study that the idea comes from was published in Nature magazine, which is a respected scientific journal, so it's not some quack idea.

Shit man, I was gonna start one of these threads. I have Winter Vomiting Sickness, its absolutely fucking disgusting. Headache, sore throat, fucked joints, fever, dizzy, cant move or sleep and I keep puking my guts up!

My bro gave me some codeine though so I'm pushing on through!

Get well Ian!

Atom wrote:Shit man, I was gonna start one of these threads. I have Winter Vomiting Sickness, its absolutely fucking disgusting. Headache, sore throat, fucked joints, fever, dizzy, cant move or sleep and I keep puking my guts up!

My bro gave me some codeine though so I'm pushing on through!

Get well Ian!

I love that stuff!

I used to get that in doses that would blur my vision so much that I couldn't make out my hand two feet in front on my face.

God I miss hospital!

I've had a cold since I started Uni. It just gets worse then goes back to normal every now and then.

Atom wrote:Shit man, I was gonna start one of these threads. I have Winter Vomiting Sickness, its absolutely fucking disgusting. Headache, sore throat, fucked joints, fever, dizzy, cant move or sleep and I keep puking my guts up!

My bro gave me some codeine though so I'm pushing on through!

Get well Ian!

does that mean you cant come for a beer at the weekend??

Atom wrote:Shit man, I was gonna start one of these threads. I have Winter Vomiting Sickness, its absolutely fucking disgusting. Headache, sore throat, fucked joints, fever, dizzy, cant move or sleep and I keep puking my guts up!

My bro gave me some codeine though so I'm pushing on through!

Get well Ian!

Aww bless

get well soon Atom
x

Cheers sherry!

I hope I can come for a beer on the weekend but unfortunately, the thought of drinking anything other than water makes me feel sick. I am feeling much better today though!

terrorizer wrote:Having avoided feeling ill all winter, I've now got a damned cold or man flu. I've been trying this new method of cold avoidance I saw in the paper and it's worked up until now. All I want to do is go to bed but I'm at work until 9am tomorrow so fat chance. Sniff.

You didnt catch it from me!!!

You are all soft, just down loads of Jagermister, that will sort you colds out, and get ypu pissed at the same time.

if you have what tom has its impossible to drink.

I haven't eaten for 2 and a half days either! I nibble the burned corners off toast I find under the oven.

Atom wrote:I nibble the burned corners off toast I find under the oven.

haha

fuck everyones got the ill, stay away from me ive got some granny muntnig to do over the weekend..

god...

suck my balls

are you a allowed back in the intrepid fox yet?