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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I really feel this comic.

I was sick beginning of December, mostly recovered after a week and I went back to work, but my throat still hurts when speaking - had 3 weeks off around Christmas, rested my voice, visited doctor for meds, but it’s still not gone. Doctors are still not sure what it is, but similar thing happens a lot with covid, so maybe it’s that.

Such a small thing, but lasts so long and doesn’t improve, I have zero control over it, and it makes me hopeless. I feel like it broke me, a successful manager, a married man in my 30s, I was crying yesterday when walking my dog.

Not sure how long can I go on working this way - I could of course go on sick leave, but doing that just after returning from a long holiday and kicking off a new project, will not make me too popular, and would guarantee that I miss the promotion I’m working for.

[–] nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee 6 points 7 hours ago

Not sure how long can I go on working this way - I could of course go on sick leave, but doing that just after returning from a long holiday and kicking off a new project, will not make me too popular, and would guarantee that I miss the promotion I’m working for.

Capitalism~^TM

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Stuff like this is why everybody who says shit like "it's just a cold, move on" is a cunt.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 2 hours ago

Most of those ppl are too smoothbrain to realise the difference between a symptom and a disease.

Also, most of those are also the ones coming to work with a cold and cough and spreading it to others by coughing on shared-use equipment like keyboards and sometimes even coughing right at other's faces.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 36 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Every single other voice assistant should absolutely say that in response to hearing “Hey, Siri.”

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

They won't, because adding more wake words makes it much more likely to be triggered accidentally.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 11 points 14 hours ago

"Hey, err, Alexa...

_How fucking dare you."

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 7 points 18 hours ago

maybe in 10 years when we train an ai to know when to respond

[–] lath@lemmy.world 62 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

There are tips and tricks to help ease the symptoms.

For example, if you eat out out some gingers, you'll die happy.

[–] Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 16 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I am so confused by this comment, and further confused as to all the upvotes.

There is clearly an inside joke that I'm not getting, or people are really hot for gingers.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 hours ago

Guilty as charged, I'd for sure eat out a Ginger right now if there's a chance she'll break my fever, hell even if she can't!

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 14 hours ago

Ginger tea is actually amazing when you have a cold. Especially if you make it with fresh ginger. Burns away all your snot and some of the pain in my experience.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 36 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Drink liquids to stay hydrated, use lotion-impregnated tissues to avoid drying out your nose when you blow it, take a DayQuil.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 32 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

lotion-impregnated tissues

I make those myself.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 2 hours ago

Stop making too many of those when you are sick. It takes too many nutrients, which would otherwise go into replenishing WBCs.

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 20 hours ago

...I am a degenerate.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 17 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

I'm just gonna share this here and leave it up to people as to whether not to believe me, but when I moved to Canada I had gotten a really bad cold. An old lady I worked with asked me if I had ever taken Echenacia. Hadn't heard of it. She said to start taking it at the first sign of cold symptoms and continue 3x daily like an antibiotic until the symptoms have cleared. No joke, every cold I've had since then (2017) has only lasted 4 days or less, and the symptoms are very manageable and mild.

It's honestly the single most effective supplement I've ever entertained, and it's relatively inexpensive to pick up in any pharmacy or supplement aisle.

[–] scarilog@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Hmm would love if this was true, but checking on Google scholar it looks like most studies say using this as a treatment for the cold doesn't conclusively show any link to a shorter duration of sickness, etc.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Back before COVID every cold I had lasted a day or two. Now my immune system is fucked up.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] candybrie@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Placebos are so effective, we've just started selling them explicitly (Zeebo). If it's cheap and doesn't have any negative effects, I don't care if it's a placebo or more; it works.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 7 points 21 hours ago

I fucking feel this. Every time I start to get a cold Im like “FUCK THE NEXT WEEK”

[–] suodrazah@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Am I not supposed to continue smashing cones? Because cold, flu, covid... has always been improved in me with an enormous intake of THC.

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I've found a chemically induced coma has fixed up my (light viral) illnesses right quick and painlessly! 😌

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Day 6 here. :( First 3 days I crawled into a bottle of NyQuill.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 1 points 19 hours ago

I always go for tylenol complete, the nighttime ones knocks you out at night, and the daytime ones make you feel like a god who can do anything. This is not a paid advertisement but if you’re listening Tylenol, then it could be!

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Buh, no fair!