Have you ever got a cold after playing?

[njbm 2,873]

We attended a very nice house party last Friday. I had lengthy kissing sessions with two women. By Monday night, I had a pretty serious sore throat and cold.

 

After a Bliss cruise encounter a couple of years ago, I developed really bad chest and throat problems that had me wind up at a ENT specialist.

 

I don’t think of myself as particularly susceptible to illness. Has anyone else experienced this? Couples have cancelled on us for having a cold, which seems considerate.

[Alura 2,774]

In my youth I worked on the Navajo Reservation. I came to know a traditional medicine man who was also trained as a physician.

 

I had a bad cold. He told me his theory that germs had nothing to do with colds. Before the coming of the Europeans, when we lived in harmony with Mother Earth and Father Sky, if we came upon a life-threatening situation, our bodies reacted by preparing us to fight or run with (what medical schools call) adrenaline. We fought or ran, thereby using up the chemical.

 

Today, when our boss chews us out, we argue with one another, or any stressful situation, our bodies prepare us the same way. Adrenaline flows into our blood stream, but we aren't able to fight or run. The adrenaline, unused, turns to poison within us, weakens our resistance to disease already present in our bodies and we get colds a week to ten days later. He recommended that we run after stressful situations to use the adrenaline.

 

It seems to work.

[njbm 2,873]

I am leaning toward I had a tongue bath with viral cells.

[ViSexual 1,008]

Alura, how interesting! You know, my wife and I were talking about something similar just the other day. We both had bad colds this year and it was the first time either of us have been sick in well over 10 years.

 

The country seems to have been in constant drama and turmoil the past couple of years. With the nasty tweets and the constant fighting of the partisan Congress, it's a daily thing.

 

I've wondered if the stress that so many of us deal with has increased the amount of illness. You know, it might be a good study for someone looking for a topic for a masters or PHD thesis?

[Guest]

I think it is settled science that stress depresses the immune system. The only way to 'catch' a cold is to be exposed to the virus, from there it is a battle between your immune system vs the quantity of germs available. I don't know anything about poisons that exist, lying in wait. My husband was a submarine officer and went on long deployments without visiting a port. A very stressful life, but no one ever got sick from germs, viral or bacterial.

 

I would think that any cruise, lifestyle or not, you will be exposed to a lot of sick people, and as shown, any communicable illness spreads like a wildfire on a cruise ship. Perhaps lack of sleep, excessive drinking, and proximity, contribute.

 

We have never got a cold or anything other than a hickey from dating.

[njbm 2,873]

Among the things I could have contracted, I’ll take the sore throat.

[udsarge 119]

Gee a sore throat...tell em to take it easier next time...oooh not that kind of sore thoat