Nervous to be around sick people

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  1. Lisa

    Lisa Member

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    Does anyone else get concerned that
    Getting sick or catching colds will set things off for
    You? I was never nervous before mm
    But now... A different story , my sister wanted
    To give my son a birthday gift and she was
    A but sick I told
    Her please wait I don't want to catch anything.
    Today I could SCREAM!!! Went to dermatologist
    And I hear loud constant coughing and
    Choking thinking its a patient, only to be
    Escorted to the patient room by this sick
    Woman who now is taking my info into the computer.
    How the $&@# do they have someone so
    Sick around patients . Sooo angry now
    I will be doubling my vitamin c.
    I know people have to work and make a living
    But that's so inappropriate in a dr office
    She was hacking away. It didnt sound
    Like a smokers cough but maybe I'm wrong
    But it was nasty. Lol maybe I should put myself
    In a bubble
     
  2. MikeB

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    "You can't live in fear"
    Johnny Blaze
     
  3. jaypr

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    I know what you mean. People don't think. I too don't think the employee with the cough should have been in work.However on the other side of the coin when I was little the kid next door used to eat soil. I also have a client who together with his son live in a house that is extremely dirty.I couldn't live there, (I always refuse a tea or coffee saying I have had too many already today) but they are never ill. The father is 92.
     
  4. Lisa

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    I know I shouldn't
    Live on fear but I am fearful of vertigo
    Woke
    Up again after turning my head with severe

    Dizziness and nausea still can't move my head
    Have to remain very still but
    No ear fullness tinitus hearing proble
    S at all . Lately my dizziness is the only
    Symptom is this mm?
     
  5. Cheryl

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    Lisa,

    If you're having vertigo when you put your head in certain positions, you may be suffering from BPPV, or positional vertigo. It's commonly triggered by rolling over in bed, looking up or down. Some of the calcium crystals in the ear become loose and migrate to places they aren't supposed to be. When you move your head a certain way the crystals shift and cause the vertigo. There is no tinnitus or ear pressure associated with it. The good news is, the crystals can be maneuvered back into place. Your ENT can do this and can also teach you how to do it at home.

    http://vestibular.org/understanding-vestibular-disorders/types-vestibular-disorders/benign-paroxysmal-positional-vertigo
     
  6. Lisa

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    Thank u Cheryl I will see h next week
    I hope that's it does the dizziness last all day?
    I can't move my head or even sneeze without
    My head feeling like its spinning
     
  7. Bulldogs

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    if you are nervous being around sick people than i would really consider buying or taking IMMULOX to strengthen and balance your immune system and get a Flu shot. I am sitting in CVS as i type this waiting on my flu shot.
     
  8. Lisa

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    I will for sure never had the flu shot
    Before but I will
    This year , I haven't heard of immulox will look into
    It. I have honestly never been one of those
    Germ a phobic people except for with
    My kids when they were little never for myself
    Now I may become like that.
     
  9. Vicki

    Vicki Guest

    Lisa you can search the forums or archives forgot where I posted it but I have a thread on immulox
     
  10. Vicki

    Vicki Guest

    I found it here's my thread
    http://menieres.org/talk/index.php?topic=546.0
     
  11. Lisa

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    Thank you Vicky :)
     
  12. RedBikeGirl

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    I work in a hospital, so no, that's never really occurred to me. You could wear a mask, if you're that afraid. In this day and time, I don't think that's too unusual.
     
  13. Lisa

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    If I had known on advance how sick she sound
    I would have brought a mask with me I have
    Never seen a hospital staff member appear
    So sick . I thought she should not have
    Been around patients , ESP some people
    Could be undergoing serious treatment which
    Could be harmful to them I felt it was unprofession
    My husbands dr was undergoing cancer
    Treatments and called all her patients
    To reschedule if they were sick due to
    Her condition which was completely understandable
    Not even for myself but there are patients with
    Skin cancer getting treatments who don't
    Need to get worse by seeing their dr
     
  14. RedBikeGirl

    RedBikeGirl Member

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    You are exactly correct. No healthcare employee should be around patients if they are that sick. If they are, and they have no choice but to work, they should either wear a mask, or work in a non-patient care area temporarily.
     

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