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Title: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: Zero on March 19, 2010, 09:25:45 PM
...but now I see why people complain about it all the time. I feel worse off than when I get the Flu for crying out loud. No energy, aches everywhere, i'm really out of it, i can hardly talk or breathe and when i do it hurts, and i can't sleep because i can barely breathe.

Doc says i'll be fine and was surprised it advanced so fast. Got some antibiotics and I'll be okay as long as I don't do anything reckless this weekend. He advised me to sleep as much as possible but how can I when I can't...well..sleep? lol

ITT: Being sick and why we were idiots when we were kids for being thankful for being sick
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: on March 19, 2010, 09:46:43 PM
I had that once when I was in 1st or 2nd grade.
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: Red on March 19, 2010, 09:56:48 PM
I finished taking my antibiotics for my strep last Monday. It blows. But I've had it so many times (once ever 2-3 years or so. Sometimes more often.) that I know how to handle it. Strange enough it's the only thing I've ever gotten that's doctor worthy. He suggested removing my tonsils, but then he contradicted himself and said I don't get it often enough.

So yeah, poop sucks.
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: Magnum on March 19, 2010, 10:22:14 PM
I got that during Christmas (actually, I get it EVERY DAMN CHRISTMAS  D:) and I'm usually out for two weeks. The bad part is I still have to go to school and do finals...

I hate Christmas time.
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: Rayquarian on March 19, 2010, 10:28:53 PM
I got that once while I was on a trip to Texas to see some people I can't even remember.
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: Friendly Hostile on March 19, 2010, 10:41:46 PM
I used to get it yearly as a kid.  But it was just the sore throat and a lot of heavy coughing.  I was still able to function for the most part.  I just wasn't allowed near people while still contagious.
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: The Seventh on March 20, 2010, 09:01:16 AM
I've only had it twice, and yeah, it blows.

Pretty much everything you said: aches, fever, little energy.
I never had it bad enough to have difficulty breathing, though...
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: StarWindWizard7 on March 20, 2010, 09:49:04 AM
I can't remember the last time I got that.

I'm sure it's been a while.
NOW though, I'm still sick from this horrible cough/sneeze semi running nose that's been on me for the last 3 1/2 weeks. -_-
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: L10 on March 20, 2010, 10:12:14 AM
I used to get it a lot as a kid. And one year it was really bad, everyone in my house got it at least twice. One would catch it from the other, and by the time it made it to the last person in the house, it mutated enough for the first person to catch it again. I think when it was going on it's third time around my mom went and cloroxed and bleached everything in the house.
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: StarWindWizard7 on March 20, 2010, 10:14:04 AM
Quote from: L10 on March 20, 2010, 10:12:14 AM
I used to get it a lot as a kid. And one year it was really bad, everyone in my house got it at least twice. One would catch it from the other, and by the time it made it to the last person in the house, it mutated enough for the first person to catch it again. I think when it was going on it's third time around my mom went and cloroxed and bleached everything in the hosue.
I LOL'D :D
Sounds like a good idea.
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: Lotos on March 20, 2010, 10:28:05 AM
Right now, I either have a cold, allergies, or an upper respiratory infection.
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: Doodle on March 20, 2010, 01:12:43 PM
I don't think I've ever had full blown strep throat.
Just sore throats that come with colds, which I'm having to deal with right now.
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: Thirdkoopa on March 20, 2010, 01:14:31 PM
Sore throat is one of the worst pains I've ever gone through for me personally; I just don't like it at all. I can't remember if I've had strep throat before and I doubt I've had but If it really does blow sore throats out of water then I'm screwed.
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: Kayo on March 20, 2010, 05:24:52 PM
I've had it so many times I think I'm immune to it now >_>

Seriously, everyone around me can have chronic strep, and I'll get nothing. Weird immunities are nice. :U

Can you even be immune to strep?
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: Zero on March 20, 2010, 07:35:00 PM
Quote from: K on March 20, 2010, 05:24:52 PM
I've had it so many times I think I'm immune to it now >_>

Seriously, everyone around me can have chronic strep, and I'll get nothing. Weird immunities are nice. :U

Can you even be immune to strep?

Well, yeah. Eventually your body has enough antibodies for it that it just stops affecting you.
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: BOREDFOREVER on March 21, 2010, 11:36:19 AM
Never had strep.  Had a fair share of bacterial infections though.
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: Zero on March 21, 2010, 09:38:58 PM
I'm not intercourse ing joking. I have no sense of time anymore. I looked at the clock five minutes ago, or so I thought, and it was 10:41PM. Now its 12:30AM...what the hell?

intercourse  being sick and intercourse  meds
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: The Seventh on March 22, 2010, 03:40:39 PM
Quote from: Zero on March 21, 2010, 09:38:58 PM
I'm not intercourse ing joking. I have no sense of time anymore. I looked at the clock five minutes ago, or so I thought, and it was 10:41PM. Now its 12:30AM...what the hell?

intercourse  being sick and intercourse  meds
But the meds are quite possibly saving your life...
Title: Re: I've never had strep throat until now...
Post by: Zero on March 22, 2010, 04:10:52 PM
possibly, but most people can survive strep without them. Only very rarely does the infection spread from the throat.