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It happened again today.
A colleague at work is leaving the company, so he had a farewell party yesterday that I attended (normally I work from home). There was about 15-20 of us there, several of whom are vaccinated, and we didn't wear masks.
Felt fine when I got home yesterday, but by this noon I started feeling familiarly 'weird'. Breathing became irritable at the top of my lungs, started getting achy bones and so on. Soon after the headache came. I took Vitamin D, zinc, C, monolaurin, the usual. Didn't help.
By 4 PM I had a 101.8°F fever. I started drinking orange juice at some point, hoping to ride out the fever this time, and it did help a bit, but the splitting headache was just unbearable after a few hours, so I had to take an ibuprofen. Crashed to sleep around 8 PM and now woke up at 4 AM since I can't sleep anymore. Still can't breathe in normally (shallow/scratchy airways).
So my question is: What the actual F**K is happening? This is the 6th or 7th time this year that I come up with this kind of infection (lately it's practically every week). I can no longer leave the house without catching some kind of nasty virus. It spreads to most of my family members too, so it's not just me, though they generally have milder symptoms. This all started about the same time that the vaccines began to roll out in my country.
This isn't even COVID. It generally resolves within a day but it's obviously something you can catch over and over again within a very short time span. And last year when COVID was already on the loose, I went out multiple times without getting infected with anything. It's only after these damn vaccines started.
The only time this did NOT happen was when I was drinking copious amounts of orange juice the days that I went to work, but I still need to verify if this will protect me every time...
A colleague at work is leaving the company, so he had a farewell party yesterday that I attended (normally I work from home). There was about 15-20 of us there, several of whom are vaccinated, and we didn't wear masks.
Felt fine when I got home yesterday, but by this noon I started feeling familiarly 'weird'. Breathing became irritable at the top of my lungs, started getting achy bones and so on. Soon after the headache came. I took Vitamin D, zinc, C, monolaurin, the usual. Didn't help.
By 4 PM I had a 101.8°F fever. I started drinking orange juice at some point, hoping to ride out the fever this time, and it did help a bit, but the splitting headache was just unbearable after a few hours, so I had to take an ibuprofen. Crashed to sleep around 8 PM and now woke up at 4 AM since I can't sleep anymore. Still can't breathe in normally (shallow/scratchy airways).
So my question is: What the actual F**K is happening? This is the 6th or 7th time this year that I come up with this kind of infection (lately it's practically every week). I can no longer leave the house without catching some kind of nasty virus. It spreads to most of my family members too, so it's not just me, though they generally have milder symptoms. This all started about the same time that the vaccines began to roll out in my country.
This isn't even COVID. It generally resolves within a day but it's obviously something you can catch over and over again within a very short time span. And last year when COVID was already on the loose, I went out multiple times without getting infected with anything. It's only after these damn vaccines started.
The only time this did NOT happen was when I was drinking copious amounts of orange juice the days that I went to work, but I still need to verify if this will protect me every time...