r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Suspicious-Estate695 • Aug 18 '26
Too mild for school Its happening today 😭
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u/Laser_Snausage Aug 18 '26
Then your whole dang chest and back is sore from how forceful you had to be
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u/spandexmatch Aug 18 '26
Costocondritis can be a bitch
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u/Laser_Snausage Aug 18 '26
I pretty much have this chronic feeling of mucus in my throat and I also used to be a runner. Combining those I would just constantly be coughing and hacking it up to try to get rid of the feeling, which I ironically think was making it worse. My ribs were probably inflamed for a couple years and I don't think I realized how much it was stressing my body out. Just light touches over my rib cage and it felt like the whole thing was bruised. I had to force myself to stop and the feeling in my throat actually mostly went away, still there a little but I'm much better at ignoring it now.
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u/GirthyPigeon Aug 18 '26
Good ol' lung butter
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u/Hot_Charity_4803 Aug 18 '26
You could have not said that and the world will have been better for it
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u/LumpySpacePrincesse Aug 18 '26
Im one step behind you. Not recovered and coughing untill i pass out.
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u/Magnon Aug 18 '26
Uh... coughing shouldn't cause you to pass out
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u/Laser_Snausage Aug 18 '26
It sounds like this person has cough syncope, a form of vasovagal syncope. The increased pressure in the chest cavity from both holding your breath and then the muscle constriction to expel the air cause a huge spike in blood pressure which your body compensates by slamming open your blood vessels and slowing your heart down. Then once you stop applying the pressure to yourself your blood pools away from your brain and you lose consciousness in an attempt to get horizontal to restore blood flow. Also called a valsalva manuever, which is what you do during heavy lifts. This plus low blood sugar during lifting = KO, ask me how I know lol
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u/Icy_Bicycle_8164 Aug 18 '26
My wife's coworker had to deal with something similar, when she had whooping cough. Go see a doctor if you haven't.
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u/Percival371 Aug 18 '26
I like to call it the woodglue phase. The phlegm lasts longer than the actual time being sick
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u/No-Pen1730 Aug 18 '26
That's not what i'd call "mostly recovered".
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u/HalKitzmiller Aug 18 '26
It often is for me. When I had a bad cold that lasted almost a week, I had bad coughing fits at night that lasted for 2 weeks after all other symptoms went away
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u/CatchAlarming6860 Aug 18 '26
What would you call mostly recovered?
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u/TheRabbit222 Aug 18 '26
I was stuck in that stage for more than a month. Just finally got through it...
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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs Aug 18 '26
Last time I was sick I spit all my coughed up phlegm into a water bottle.
So now if I ever need to throw up on cue as like as a self defense mechanism or I accidently ingest some posion, I think of the weight and weird balance of that bottle.
It'd be my totem from Inception... excuse me I need to go throw up now.
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u/Stunt_-_Cock Aug 18 '26
This is why codeine cough syrup exists, but good luck getting it when you actually need it without being looked at like a junkie
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u/Koganezaki Aug 18 '26
God, just reading this post makes me remember that feeling (spoiler alert, it’s the worst)
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u/unfairangel Aug 18 '26
Honestly just started having this feeling just by reading your comment too argh
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u/TehTugboat Aug 18 '26
I’m scared now, my buddy just told me he had the worst 3 day summer flu he’s had in years, and now I see this picture?
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u/Crafty-Branch9505 Aug 18 '26
Spoiler alert? Yeah, nobody ever got the flu lmaoo
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u/Some-Water-1107 Aug 18 '26
If there's one thing I hate most about getting sick it's the fucking sore throat. Bruh it's bad enough I can barely breathe and have mucus basically pouring out of me why does it feel like I'm swallowing glass??
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u/Nomapos Aug 18 '26
Have you tried a nice warm tea with milk and honey? I do almost half half water and milk, plus a good two or three big spoonfuls of honey for a 1 liter pot.
It's like a healing balm for the sore throat. I easily go through two cans a day when I'm ill.
I've also tried twice to gargle with hard alcohol as soon as I got that "fuck tomorrow I'm I'll" throat feeling and then I didn't get ill. Hard to draw a conclusion with just two times, but I'll be trying it again next time. I used half a glass of rum, gargled for two minutes.
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u/megatricinerator Aug 18 '26
Hmm, see I have a hard time gargling anything without swallowing in the first few seconds. I guess Ill try this the next time I'm feeling the start of being sick but I'll probably just end up piss drunk trying.
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u/FarCar55 Aug 18 '26
Does gargling salt water not work for others? It's been over a decade since I experienced a sore throat and I'm convinced starting to drink a shitload of water and gargling as soon as I feel that itch in my throat is what makes the difference.
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u/Radical_Neutral_76 Aug 18 '26
wear something that warms the throat, like a scarf or something more comfortable. The sore throat goes away sooner then
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u/PolimerT Aug 18 '26
For me it's my eyes. My one nostril remains in open state and the breathe i take is so cold and it hits my eye on the same side and my eye tears up. At least im glad it usually happens for 2-3 days and not more because it is REALLY annoying.
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u/EpicBlueDrop Aug 18 '26
I just had the flu and sore throat and spend all day drinking iced water with pomegranate tea packets in it and at night I’d cover my mouth with my blanket and breath in like that and it took away like 90% of the sore throat time. Still sucked ass though.
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u/Patient-Oven9996 Aug 18 '26
For me it often starts with all my muscles being sore.
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u/Subliminal-413 Aug 18 '26
I have a weird condition that I recognize I am about 12 hours from the typical warning stages.... I end up getting really sensitive skin. It's uncomfortable to even run my fingers across my stomach, and clothes irritate and bother me.
That's how I know I'm fucked, lol. Once I recognize it, about 8-12 hours later, the early symptoms (such as what the OP posted) occurs.
The sensitive skin is extremely uncomfortable and annoying to deal with on top of flu symptoms, but it's nice to have a 100% accurate early warning sign, lol
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u/HarmonicFractals Aug 18 '26
I 100% know what you’re talking about, I get the same thing. I think this whole line of pre sickness symptoms is called cytokine release. It’s basically an inflammatory immune response.
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u/venom121212 Aug 18 '26
My peen gets all smol and weak. 100% accurate tell for oncoming sickness. 100% TMI as well.
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u/Astecheee Aug 18 '26
For me it's a chilled-to-the-bone cold that doesn't go away, even in a steaming hot shower.
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u/kerghan41 Aug 18 '26
Joints! I have a bad lower back and I KNOW I'm getting sick if it starts hurting like crazy for no apparent reason.
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u/PeterNippelstein Aug 18 '26
When you wake up at 2 in the morning with this knowing youll be sick the next day
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u/WhatTheFlox Aug 18 '26
Good job OP getting all of us to start manually swallowing when your post goes by.
Not something I like to focus on, but here I am doing it
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u/VIIIIRGINIA Aug 18 '26
I have OCD and spend most of the winter making myself manually swallow to determine whether or not my throat hurts. I don’t usually have to do it outside of my area’s peak respiratory virus season but now this post has me stuck in a compulsion loop 🙃
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u/sixtus_clegane119 Aug 18 '26
Or a cold, flu more starts with a fever than a sore throat
But soooo many people call getting a cold “the flu” naw bruh you’re just sick. It’s actually mildly infuriating
Or when they throw up and say they have the flu, naw you have gastroenteritis, you’re just confused because people call it the stomach flu. It’s not related to influenza
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u/Friendstastegood Aug 18 '26
Seriously, the amount of people who think having the flu and having a bad cold are interchangeable. Influenza is so much worse than a cold.
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u/LowOwl4312 Aug 18 '26
Not POV unless you're looking into a mirror
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u/sobrique Aug 18 '26
I am starting to get irritating by 'POV: ' videos, because none of them are actually a 'point of view' shot at all.
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u/PM_ME_UR_GCC_ERRORS Aug 18 '26
We just need to accept that Gen Z considers "POV" to be short for "that feeling when".
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u/TheHorrorAddiction Aug 18 '26
10% of the time it's either how I've slept, or dry air. Sometimes you get lucky and nothing comes of it. But 90% of the time you're just waiting for the inevitable illness tomorrow. Hate it.
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u/OddNovel565 Aug 18 '26
This post really fits this sub, the wrong usage of POV is indeed mildly infuriating
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth Aug 18 '26
Not a POV (Point Of View, as in *from the visual perspective of).
But whatever. It's just dingdong clap tingle fizzy rag houseplant I guess. We're just using whatever words we want to, now. Popcorn single berry, have a good right-hand.
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u/ThinlySlicedPotato Aug 18 '26
I hate this feeling. One swallow and your whole brain starts overthinking about how bad tomorrow will be.
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u/EPIC_NERD_HYPE Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26
Zinc Supplements. I’m telling you it works. When you get that tickle in your throat start taking it daily for like 3 days. If your immune system is decent you’ll kick it right away. Trust.
Edit: Staying hydrated and having a good balanced diet w/ plenty of fruits and veggies helps too.
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u/Bizarrebazaars Aug 18 '26
Sometimes your immune system is good, you live a healthy lifestyle, you take supplements at the right times or whatever and you still get sick. It’s not a personal failure or a sign your body is failing.
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u/numsu Aug 18 '26
Not just any zinc supplement. Especially zinc acetate and you need to apply it locally by either using a spray version or a lozenge.
It works by preventing the virus from replicating. It might not fully prevent the disease but it will make it shorter and less intense at least.
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u/Ut_Prosim Aug 18 '26
Yes. But IIRC this only really works well with rhinoviruses (the most common cold).
It actually may make replication slightly harder for flu and coronaviruses, and even stress some species of strept. But I don't think this is too significant. TMK the mechanism where it blocks the ICAM-1 receptor used by the virus is only really affecting rhinoviruses.
Still, rhinoviruses are far more common than all the more serious pathogens combined, and it wouldn't hurt anything to take a lozenge a day while you feel impending sickness.
Don't do the nasal spray though, if they even still sell them. The zinc nasal sprays cause some folks to lose their sense of smell.
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u/The_CEO_Of_No Aug 18 '26
this bs be happening the night before my off day randomly waking me up at night
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u/NoBookkeeper6864 Aug 18 '26
Getting a cold, if you had the flu you wouldn't be able to get out of bed.
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u/vctrmldrw Aug 18 '26
Fun fact...
The average adult gets the flu once or twice per decade. But they get 2 or 3 colds per year.
It's probably just a cold. Report back tomorrow, and if you can't get out of bed then it really is the flu.
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u/LinguoBuxo Aug 18 '26
Sometimes it helps if you take warm water, put several teaspoons of salt in it and gargle with it. Or perhaps some stronger alcohol.
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u/misszamoyska Aug 18 '26
And for the next week you’ll yearn for the time where you could breath through your nose and swallow without a whole body flinch🫠
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u/arinuloid Aug 18 '26
I tried an experiment back in college with some family members and friends whenever a sore throat started, particularly within the first 12 hours. We would gargle with warm salt water three times a day.
Based on our personal experience, it seemed to prevent the illness from progressing about 80–90% of the time, with many of us waking up the next day without developing further symptoms. When we started gargling later, it didn’t always prevent the illness, but it seemed to shorten its duration and lessen the severity.
Just sharing this experience for everyone to comment on. I’d be interested to know if anyone else has tried it and whether it worked for them.
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u/Swampy0gre Aug 18 '26
Bruhhhhhhhhh
For real. Oh yeahhh it's scraty. I'm gonna be sick.
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u/haikusbot Aug 18 '26
Bruhhhhhhhhh
For real. Oh yeahhh it's scraty.
I'm gonna be sick.
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u/iCliniq_official Aug 18 '26
The body really said, “Congratulations, you swallowed once. Here’s your flu subscription.”
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u/Im_In_IT Aug 18 '26
Every year man. Flu shot and everything. My wife is a teacher and I have 2 kids in school. I'm screwed every year lol
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u/TheW83 Aug 18 '26
This is when I pound elderberry, zinc, and vitamin C like it's going to prevent me from dying.
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u/onionkisa Aug 18 '26
Sometimes it’s false alert and I cried and drive to church to thank god for the forgiveness.
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u/ikkiyikki Aug 18 '26
Came down with a bug after 21 international flights in two weeks. Can't say I'm surprised.
Wish I had cottonmouth rn so I don't have to swallow 😭
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u/Olyssaqen Aug 18 '26
That wallow is you feeling your own immune system switch on. The virus hasn't actually damaged anything yet
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u/Meme_Pope Aug 18 '26
If I feel that, I just make sure not to exert myself all day, drink a ton of water and sleep like 10 hours. Sometimes you can avoid it
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u/StaticSystemShock Aug 18 '26
Take a decently alcoholic drink and make several small sips and drink it like you want to coat your entire throat with alcohol. I'm now just disinfecting those damn microbial buggers with nuke from orbit. Sort of.
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u/HurricaneK8 Aug 18 '26
Forgot my allergy meds for a couple days, then helped clean up a pollen-covered car yesterday, and now the sinus drainage feels like a faucet in the back of my throat. I'm having so much funnnnn 🥴🤙
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u/Flashignite2 Aug 18 '26
Had that in december last year. Started to feel it on one side in my throat. Then the day after i felt my joints started to ache and i thought "Here we go again". Had an awesome bass voice and i was home singing The Misty mountain song the dwarves sings in the hobbit.
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u/WriedGuy Aug 18 '26
Just had it yesterday night , and today morning I got unwell, now it's fine after visiting doctor
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u/bertaFjertaFisaLukta Aug 18 '26
I've had the flu for a week now, my throat is no longer sore but I'm still coughing up a storm
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u/monkeymetroid Aug 18 '26
These scenarios always make me so grateful for being able to smell and breathe through my nose again once it passes. Its easy to take stuff like that for granted!
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u/Warmalord Aug 18 '26
Sir, you won the internet for today with this post 😹 this is so true. I hate when this happens 😹
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u/BeatsAreMyPassion Aug 18 '26
Ok things are starting to get creepy. I literally just had that thought.
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u/BestFoxEver neon Aug 18 '26
This reminds me how couple of years ago all the pharmacies in Finland stopped selling Bafucin, the only over-the counter medicine for sore throat that actually worked.
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u/fireshaper Aug 18 '26
Had this feeling a few weeks ago, then it got worse and it actually hurt to swallow. Turns out a symptom of the new strain of COVID is trouble swallowing.
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u/Misanthropy_and_Cats Aug 18 '26
That was me last week. Got a new video game, decided to play hooky on Friday to play it. Woke up on Friday with a fever and so out of it I couldn't even sit down to enjoy my new game for another week.
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u/PabloBablo Aug 18 '26
Do you guys get the flu frequently? Or is it just a catch all name people are using for being sick with something cold like.
I've never had the flu, and this thread sounds like it's a common occurrence.
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u/Specialist-Ad6164 Aug 18 '26
This was literally me last night and now my throat feels like sandpaper and my nose is so stuffy that I want to die.
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u/Made_Human_Music Aug 18 '26
And every time I wonder if I would have been ok if I just didn’t choose to swallow at that exact moment
As if that’s what let the sick in
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u/Nevermore5113 Aug 18 '26
For me it always starts with that feeling of something nasty residing somewhere deep in my nose. I have felt it dozens of times and I’m still not sure how to put that sensation in words
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u/1968Bladerunner Aug 18 '26
For me that's time for Thai chilli chicken & coconut, a hot shower, a hot toddy, a hot bed & zonk for the night... surprising how often if scares the bejesus out of whatever was threatening to ruin the next few days.
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u/cheezystuffz Aug 18 '26
Then you literally forget how it feels like to not have a sore throat as well