Something is going around, how do I avoid it? [more inside]
posted on Sep 25, 2008 - 23 answers

How do you get to sleep with a raging head cold?? [more inside]
posted on Sep 9, 2008 - 39 answers

What do you do when you first start to feel a cold or other sickness? Are there any remedies that work best at the first sign of a cold [more inside]
posted on Aug 27, 2008 - 63 answers

I'm sick as heck, need to do a metric buttload of work involving typing and reading, my eyes are burning so badly that doing the work is painful, and I can't fix it. Help? [more inside]
posted on Jan 31, 2008 - 16 answers

Is it rude to attend a party when you have a cold? [more inside]
posted on Nov 10, 2007 - 18 answers

I have been trying to get rid of what I think is a case of the common cold for 13 days now and I am wondering why it is taking so long... [more inside]
posted on Oct 14, 2007 - 10 answers

I started a new job yesterday (yay!). I got sick on Sunday (boo!). I need to get better fast, but how? [more inside]
posted on Oct 9, 2007 - 22 answers

Tell-me-I'm-not-going-deaf-filter: I was flying home from Chicago one night ago, happily listening to the new Cornelius album - drifting off into the soft relief that benedryl supplies when you have been rocking a head cold for 2 days (sore throat, leaky nose, watery eyes, headache) - when suddenly I'm wide awake with a severe pain in both my ears from the plane starting its decent. And it lasts. I swallow and swallow, but I'm reeling in pain, saying terribly mean things to my very confused and sleepy girlfriend - and it doesn't stop until well after I'm off the plane. [more inside]
posted on Oct 3, 2007 - 45 answers

What is your action plan for staying well? [more inside]
posted on Jun 22, 2007 - 21 answers

If a fever is the human body's response to pathogens, does taking medicine to bring down one's fever increase recovery time? If this is true, is it true of all medicines that treat cold/flu symptoms?
posted on Mar 21, 2006 - 11 answers

How do you and your significant other deal with one of you being/getting sick (cold/flu/etc)? Does the sick one make any attempt to avoid getting the other sick? If so, how?
posted on Feb 7, 2006 - 22 answers

Let's hear your method for preventing colds and other sicknesses! [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2005 - 66 answers

Ugh. I just came down with a cold yesterday. Now I have a sore throat and, curiously, a rash on my throat... [more inside]
posted on Aug 21, 2005 - 11 answers

Any tips for getting through a day at work while feeling flu-ish? [more inside]
posted on Jul 6, 2005 - 14 answers

SickFilter:
If you caught a cold this week
and hacked and sneezed and lacked some sleep
And when you talk you simply squeak —
How do you ward off bronchitis?
posted on Oct 22, 2004 - 10 answers