Munchlet
07-03-15, 16:06
Since last Sept I've had 5 colds and as you can imagine I'm seriously worrying about my Immune System.
So far they've only been colds, none of them fortunately have progressed to any type of infection and the last 3 have been little more than a bit of a runny nose and a scratchy throat in fact oddly the last 3 appear to have only affected the right side of my nose and not my left which I find really strange and on the whole apart from being a bit sniffy I've felt ok with them.
I did start a new job in an infant school in November and everyone there has been telling me that the first year is usually awful and you catch everything going but I keep thinking it's something sinister like leukemia (because my immune system is compromised).
My family keep saying that if it was anything sinister they would be a lot worse that little colds and that they'd more than likely progress to nasty infections etc.
Thing is because I'm worrying about the colds all the time and it's stressing me out that I keep catching them I've read that stress makes you more susceptible to them.
Other people in my office have been off with stomach bugs and when they've caught colds they've had really bad throats/coughs with them, which touch wood I haven't but I'm still worrying.
Does anyone know if stress does make you catch more colds??
thanks
So far they've only been colds, none of them fortunately have progressed to any type of infection and the last 3 have been little more than a bit of a runny nose and a scratchy throat in fact oddly the last 3 appear to have only affected the right side of my nose and not my left which I find really strange and on the whole apart from being a bit sniffy I've felt ok with them.
I did start a new job in an infant school in November and everyone there has been telling me that the first year is usually awful and you catch everything going but I keep thinking it's something sinister like leukemia (because my immune system is compromised).
My family keep saying that if it was anything sinister they would be a lot worse that little colds and that they'd more than likely progress to nasty infections etc.
Thing is because I'm worrying about the colds all the time and it's stressing me out that I keep catching them I've read that stress makes you more susceptible to them.
Other people in my office have been off with stomach bugs and when they've caught colds they've had really bad throats/coughs with them, which touch wood I haven't but I'm still worrying.
Does anyone know if stress does make you catch more colds??
thanks