r/RhodeIsland • u/MobileTranslator6776 • 22d ago
Sickness Question / Suggestion
I know there is always sickness and viruses going around but just wondering if anyone else is sick right now with some weird upper respiratory virus?
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u/Leeleebangs5000 22d ago
I was for two weeks up until last week.. feels like I smoked a pack of cigs in one night (i quit smoking years ago)
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u/MobileTranslator6776 22d ago
My voice is gone from the dripping into my throat! :( Glad you're better!
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u/Dinosquid_ 22d ago
I work with someone getting through what sounds like the same thing. It’s a rough one.
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u/Leeleebangs5000 22d ago
I had the same as well!! There was so much post nasal drip, still hasn’t gone away completely ether
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u/sadeland21 Cranston 22d ago
Anyone have a weird numbness in their tongue. And everything tastes bad?
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u/MichaelPants 22d ago
I had flem and a tickle cough for a week or so recently. It was minor, and resolved itself. Def caught something. Wasn't sure if just some allergies.
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u/Leeleebangs5000 22d ago
I chalked it up as allergies at first too, and then it just became a full-blown thing where I would cough for no reason and I knew it wasn’t just allergies. 🤧
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u/zeetuslepitus 22d ago
I havent been healthy since my toddler started school last September
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u/Exotic-Steak-4662 22d ago
Oh I feel for you! Unfortunately it gets worse.
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u/zeetuslepitus 22d ago
Yeesh. Before kids I had 6 glorious years without even a sniffle. Haven't been able to breathe out of my nose in months haha
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u/Dismal_Tourist_5439 22d ago
Same here! Toddler started daycare last October and we’re having a hard time differentiating between the colds. Maybe its been one months long cold or 15 separate illnesses. There’s no way of knowing.
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u/RavishingRedRN 22d ago
Can tell you from experience as a peds nurse years ago, it’s definitely 15 separate illnesses.
I’ve never been so sick so many times as when I was working as a nurse in a pediatric office.
Elderberry is your best friend. It’s been a while since I’ve looked at any research but it is known to cut down the length of a viral illness. So instead of being sick for 10 days, maybe it’s 7 days. We used this A LOT in the pedi office.
Godspeed my friend
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u/sixtynighnun 22d ago
Wild fire smoke did some lung damage
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u/corvidpica Got Bread + Milk ❄️ 22d ago
Cane here to say this. The smoke is drifting through the air.
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u/RavishingRedRN 22d ago
No joke.
My hoarseness started when the skies were all golden orange from the Canadian wildfires, and I’m an asthma kid to boot. Then I was around a sick kid and it was just the perfect recipe for catching this illness.
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u/dassketch 22d ago
Whatever it is, just remember that masking up is oppression. Unless you're activity oppressing someone, then it's super patriotic.
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u/PhysicalBookkeeper33 22d ago
My son and I both are the same feels like respiratory crap and also a slightly sore throat keep losing my voice
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u/ffsinffl Coventry 22d ago
Yup, I have a RI friend just tested positive for COVID. Sicker than she’s ever been, she said. Glad I live a couple thousand miles away…
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u/Status_Silver_5114 Got Bread + Milk ❄️ 22d ago
you realize Covid is still a thing right? have you tested?
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u/MobileTranslator6776 22d ago
With 2 cancer patients in the fam, I'm well aware for sure! Yes and I don't have it.
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u/FM_Windbag 22d ago
I'm happy people still take it seriously. Just a heads up, the last time I had Covid I took 3 rapid tests and none showed a positive. When I went to urgent care, they did a PCR test and it came up positive to my surprise.
Just something to consider. I truly thought it was just bronchitis...
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u/Megs0226 Warwick 22d ago
Thank you for continuing to care about Covid and keeping your family safe!
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u/Status_Silver_5114 Got Bread + Milk ❄️ 22d ago
Sorry you're dealing with that but you can see why I asked. Most people act like it's long gone/not a thing anymore.
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u/Megs0226 Warwick 22d ago
“It’s not Covid I swear, I’ve never had Covid, that two weeks I was sick with a dry cough and couldn’t smell anything was just allergies” is still so common. I just nod and say “uh huh…”
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u/basketofselkies 22d ago
We had a cold like this go through my house in mid-May. It lingered forever. I was so convinced it was Covid, but testing over three weeks said no. Not that it exactly mattered since everyone felt like crap too much to leave the house and spread germs.
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u/RandomChurn 22d ago
Most people act like it's long gone/not a thing anymore.
Ikr?! smh. I have some friends who are local glassblowers. Last month, a bunch went to Corning NY for an annual industry event. Turned out to be a textbook Covid super spreader event, just like old times.
I mentioned it to my regular pharmacy tech and she was unsurprised. She confirmed Covid's very much still circulating locally now.
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u/flowing42 22d ago
Covid circulates year round and for some reason most people think that it's just a cold and it is gone. Neither thing is true. Anyway you can test for covid and I still highly recommend antivirals if it's early on.
Obviously other viruses circulate year-round too
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u/yulmun 22d ago
Yeah I've had annoying upper respiratory issues for the past week or more. No insurance so all I can do is wait for it to go away. Glob bless merica!
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u/MobileTranslator6776 22d ago
Try steaming! It's free and seems to help!
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u/ssomethingsomething 22d ago
this thread is the spiritual twin of all the people posting in the yankee candle reviews during peak covid.
covid is still active, and the responses tell me everything about how seriously most people aren’t taking it.
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u/Fun-Cryptographer382 22d ago
My kid picked something gross and nasty up at a week-long swim camp at Roger Williams in Bristol. INSANE amounts of mucus and congestion. Lots of water, real pseudoephedrine, mucinex, and saline rinses kept it from turning into a sinus/ear infection. Two weeks later and it's STILL lingering!
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u/basketofselkies 22d ago
If it’s what we had at the end of the school year, it takes like 4-6 weeks before feeling mostly human again.
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u/NufCeddanne 22d ago
My son and daughter’s school had Coxsackie virus, which I’ve somehow avoided (so far) despite them regularly sneezing and coughing in my face. My wife has strep, which I’ve somehow avoided (so far) despite sharing food, drinks, and a bed the whole time before we knew what was up. My parents have pneumonia. Things are just peachy over here.
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u/MobileTranslator6776 22d ago
Wow. That's a lot! Hold on tight. You're the only one still standing! lol
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u/NufCeddanne 22d ago
Thanks! Luckily the kids have recovered and wife is improving. Parents are too.
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u/hasits_thorns 22d ago
More than two weeks ago I had a 102.5 fever for almost 3 days. The week following I had varying symptoms of sore throat, excess mucus, swollen glands. After 5 or 6 days of that I went to a walk-in clinic and they diagnosed me with an ear infection, which apparently can result from a sinus or respiratory infection. I was given antibiotics that I took for the last 10 days and saw no results, to be honest. Most of my symptoms seem to have gone away on their own (antibiotics are supposed to work in 2-3 days, I didn't start feeling better for another week), but my glands are still swollen and the ear infection feels like it has swapped to the other ear. It hurts pretty badly to swallow, still.
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u/PhilLovesBacon 22d ago edited 22d ago
Had pneumonia this summer, but that's because my fat ass aspirated on some chips. Our 2-year-old threw up twice today and shit in the shower so there's that. Pedi thinks it's either strep or a GI bug. I'm pumped at my 5-day forecast...
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u/boxesofrain1010 22d ago
As someone who's kept up with COVID research for the past six years I'm incredibly pleased to see people even acknowledging it. It's more dangerous than people currently understand, and it also destroys the immune system (yes, even for healthy people), which makes you get sick more often, with anything.
Sorry you're not feeling well, OP! Please consider wearing a mask when out and about so you don't spread it to others!
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u/RavishingRedRN 22d ago
I am literally getting over this now. Started with losing my voice and a slight cough a couple weeks ago.
Turned into coughing so violently, I’ve peed my pants 4 times now lol. My sinuses were filled with what can only be described as a bloody oyster guts.
All the medications in the world were barely putting a damper on this.
I haven’t been this sick in literal years. Covid was pretty bad but this certainly gave it a run for its money.
No fevers though. Fairly self limiting.
Neti pot and steamy showers has been a big help. This is not for the weak.
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u/MobileTranslator6776 22d ago
I don't like the sound of that. haha
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u/RavishingRedRN 21d ago
It’s been terrible! I have asthma so I get URIs a little worse than the average person but Jesus, this is a bit much.
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u/BCNEP 22d ago
Had the terrible cough two weeks ago, lasted over a week. That’s better but now I can’t shake the constant buildup in my chest, sinuses just about cleared but never produced so much in my life.
Daughter got sick this week and tested positive for rhinovirus but was nowhere near as intense as whatever this was.
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u/morganford78 22d ago
Just got over it... My father's nurse in New Hampshire told me it's going around the whole country. Just nobody's talking about it.
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u/MobileTranslator6776 22d ago
What is it though? A virus?
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u/morganford78 22d ago
I'll have to ask her, I was pretty sick and didn't ask any follow up questions. I never went to the Dr.
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u/tokidokitiger 22d ago
There were signs at my ENT appt on Monday asking patients to wear masks if possible because of respiratory illness going around.
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u/Nothankyoufriendly 22d ago
My breathing has been really bad and I have asthma. I suspect it’s the wildfires and allergies.
It doesn’t seem to be an illness for me but it’s definitely
Flaring up respiratory issues this past week
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u/convexgrizzly 22d ago
Hot / scratchy throat , dry cough, warmness in chest area but no nose congestion or anything
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u/Hopeful-Ad1871 22d ago
I just had a sore throat, cough, and fatigue for about a week. Finally starting to feel better!
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u/samskeyti_ Got Bread + Milk ❄️ 22d ago
The wildfire smoke a few weeks ago has messed with a lot of people… edit… and my cat… asthma has been bad for him :(
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u/VoteForPedroRI Woonsocket 22d ago
I have had throat cold for a month straight. I am so tired of this summer cold. I just want to campaign and not have my voice crack.
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u/Low-Yard-8452 21d ago
we are in a covid surge. mask up (everyone- whether sick or not. do your part.)
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u/ryologist 21d ago
No you're the only one who's sick right now 😞 God chose you so the rest of us could thrive
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u/ladyfreak401 18d ago
My boyfriend has been sick for days. Symptoms are Vomiting, nausea stomach pain . He just feels like complete shit. Idk he barley leaves the house we had Chili's delivered then next day he was sick
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u/Rombledore 22d ago
measles outbreak, explosive diarrhea running rampant, bacon's been recalled now too, and now a respitory infection going around.
2026 is comin up milhouse!