I'm sick too. My head is so congested it just keeps draining and draining without warning. I ended up just shoving tissue up my nose to keep it from draining so I could sleep. It's so gross. I called in sick the last two days and don't see feeling well enough to go in tomorrow either. This thing is going around. Both my kids had it, my ex-husband had it, several co-workers have been out with it (and even more have come in sick, making more of us sick..one of my big peeves). Yeah, after I fixed someone's computer last week and was waiting for it to reboot, resting my chin on my hand, she says "You'll want to wash your hands after touching my keyboard since I've had this awful cough for days now". Thanks. I *must* stop touching my face when in other people's offices. It had been a good two weeks since my kids exposed me, so I don't think I actually got it from them.

Your actual throat, the tissue lining the esophagus, can be sore, even without tonsils or adenoids, usually from the drainage.

Wishing both of you ladies well...I hope you start feeling better soon!

AGDee, I really hate when people come to work sick and spread their germs around. I would so much rather they take a day (or two, or three) to rest and start feeling better rather than exposing other people to their germs. Plus, I feel like people who come to work super sick aren't even all that productive anyway.

My 14 yr old cousin has been really sick, and I've been trying to not catch what she has.....but now I feel EXTREMELY queasy and run down. AHHHHHHH. I don't wanna get sick :(

Me too! It's a side effect of us having a combined sick and vacation bank. If you never call in sick, you get more planned vacation time. If you call in sick a lot, you get less vacation time. It's designed to reduce call ins for pre-planned things like dentist appointments. Also, since I work for a health care system, it's a hardship for them when they have call-ins in the patient care field since those people have to be replaced. But, I definitely have co-workers who refuse to "waste" their time off on being sick. They are NOT productive at all and they may as well not be there. I sometimes wish management would send them home.

I had to call in, too. Actually, I'm under doctor's orders to rest while recovering from the ridiculous side effects of birth control. (First time taking any pills in 15 years - almost half my life.) Eight days was enough to wreck my systems and require rest and plenty of water. But I'll be back tomorrow at about 75%. Maybe even 80.

I hope everyone else feels better soon. :)

Apparently I gave my bad head cold to my boss. He's been out all week and his wife said he was down for the count all weekend. I did have two meetings in his small, closed office in the morning before I started feeling sick. Oops. At least he knows I wasn't faking it!

This has to be a sinus infection, not allergies! I have a fever and I'm achey. I feel like crap.

I got food poisoning last night. It was freaking awful. No one else got sick, but I'm positive it was food poisoning.

I have been to the doctor for a third time in a month. BOOOO sinus infections.

I am not sure if I have food poisoning or a stomach bug!

We had Fiesta Day at school and had a bunch of Mexican food donated for a fundraiser..... the next day 80% of the school was sick.

It two days since then and I am still sick....so I am not sure what I have....

I have another cold/sinus thingie. Not as bad as the last time, but not fun either.

I spoke too soon, maybe? I'm on antibiotics now though as I think it was a sinus infection. My whole face was swollen and painful in spots from the sinus infection. Yesterday was really bad. Today is still bad enough to be home from work. Tomorrow I should be good to go though. I've used a lot of sick days lately :(

I thought I had food poisoning this week. At 2am this morning I drove myself to ER because the pain, symptoms(no need to be tmi) were very bad. I was wrong. It turns out I have a severe bladder infection. Here's to meds, painkillers, and cranberry juice.

I have been vomiting for the past 30 hours. I was on my way to class yesterday morning and in the lobby of my apartment building, when I got really dizzy all of the sudden. I dashed to the bathroom in the lobby and spent the next 20 minutes with diarrhea and vomiting. Lovely.

I have an exam today and tomorrow and the MCAT on Saturday so this could not have come at a worse time..... I can't keep any food down: how am I supposed to concentrate on Physics?

Went to the doctor again, we're now thinking that I am having reactions to some new allergies, so they did a quick blood test. It would make sense that my body is reacting this way and my lymph nodes are out of control. I'd much rather take some pills and get allergy shots than keep worrying about cancer.

I also get to go to the hospital for a sleep study because I can sleep 3 hours and feel fine, or sleep 10 hours and feel like hell.