paul&mandy
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1 of bloods tested for that but didn't hear back either way.. Dr did say might of had it too long to show with blood test.
Cough
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paul&mandy
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I was really rough over lambing, so much so I didn't go out for a few days. High fever and coughing. Took multiple COVID tests all negative. Was sent for bloods and chest x-ray and all come back fine.
I think I have an ok diet. Bit of fruit and usually veg with tea and eat meats etc. I'm did read it's a problem in vegans.
Biggest issue is I think I'm run down. Just never get much of a break.
paul&mandy
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I don't. Perhaps need to speak to Dr again why this is happening so I can avoid being this bad in future.Do you eat any liver? Liver and onions twice a week wouldnt do you any harm
ollie989898
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The most obvious place I would see someone with low vitamin B12 is in alcoholics who have been consuming a lot of alcohol over a long time period. Alcohol irritates the stomach/gut and so it just becomes angry and stops handling a lot of nutrients properly, vitamin B12 is just one such example.
paul&mandy
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I don't really drink much. Sort of 1 of the little cans of cider in the summer once twice a week and maybe a small whiskey once or twice a week in the winter. Sometimes can go months with nothing. Totally stopped now though
paul&mandy
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Still Ill, kids bought home another cold. Still not lost the cough and now full of snot too. Beed constant Ill now over 2 months. Wife's not been great either. Kids 6 and 15 seems to bounce back after a day or so.
Perhaps our issue is not laying up and resting?
Perhaps our issue is not laying up and resting?
primmiemoo
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That's getting to be a long old time of it. The physical act of coughing is enervating, and you've had a long wrestling match with the cause of the coughing. Was your doc helpful?
@ollie989898 "prescribed" taking things easy to somebody elsethread. The problem with outdoors lives is it's so alien to have a few duvet days when there's a window of good enough weather for jobs. Take advantage of the storm, maybe, and flake out on the sofa in front of a favourite film?
ollie989898
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You won't find any athlete or weight lifter that attends the gym or trains when they know they are ill, not if they have any sense.
It is best to stay indoors in the warm and do the bare minimum. If you need to sleep, then sleep.
It is best to stay indoors in the warm and do the bare minimum. If you need to sleep, then sleep.
Aye, the cough has put feet beside the wood stove here for a couple of afternoons this winter
Had a plethora of NHS funded tests and pills, but thankfully no nasties have (so far) been found to explain the lethargy, choked bronchials, and constant reminders of those days when post rugby aches prevailed
Mind, the docs look sideways when you tell them the prescribed rest occurs after the livestock is fed, the sheep are dosed, the pup gets a run and the water troughs are thawed
The answer to their next question is always
"Naw, there's nobody else that kens what's to be done"
primmiemoo
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One thing we did in 2020 was draw up a set of instructions for most tasks in case anyone is taken ill. What seems silly things to write down about a quirk of one of the dogs, or to just check such and such gets trough room among the sheep or bullocks was updated only recently.
Hope you're feeling OK.
Aye, there's a list in the tractor that the farm assurance insist is written
The inspector never asks if there's someone else on the farm who could read it, never mind do it
Thank you for your well wishes, I am improving.
Improving is better than the alternative
paul&mandy
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Off to the Dr again later. Just fked tbh. Never been so Ill this later 12months.
primmiemoo
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All the best.
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Whooping cough mapped as Wales becomes epicentre for infections
People are being urged to get vaccinated with doctors warning the infection - also known as the 100-day cough - can be serious and even life threatening for young babies
www.walesonline.co.uk
paul&mandy
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Basically whooping cough. 2 more days of these stronger antibiotics and getting better. Dr said as I left it so long blood tests wouldn't show whooping cough. These is a separate test for that I had.Whooping cough mapped as Wales becomes epicentre for infections
People are being urged to get vaccinated with doctors warning the infection - also known as the 100-day cough - can be serious and even life threatening for young babies
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- South Wales UK
Did you have vaccinations as a child too?
paul&mandy
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I guess so... Have to check with Dr.
Lost both parents as a teenager so nobody to check with.
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Hopefully medical records have details
- Location
- South Wales UK
Whooping cough mapped as Wales becomes epicentre for infections
People are being urged to get vaccinated with doctors warning the infection - also known as the 100-day cough - can be serious and even life threatening for young babies
www.walesonline.co.uk
ollie989898
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There is plenty of it about. Had the long cough thing myself but it wasn't covid, I checked a few times thinking it was, but I thought the chances of it were remote as I had a go with covid in about October.
The kids are the biggest reservoir of infection going. I should probably keep the oldies away from them when they are infected.
The kids are the biggest reservoir of infection going. I should probably keep the oldies away from them when they are infected.