I'm sick, for the umpteenth time. Wtf?

[LaraMN]

I swear I have been sick more in the months since I quit smoking than I have been in the last three or four years, combined! What is up with that?! I think I'm getting laryngitis, which would severely impair my aility to yammer endlessly at anyone who will listen. Bah! Double Bah!

[some guy]

1. sorry you're illin'...

they never tell you how all that smoking makes all the little germs and virii want to stay away so they don't become nicotine addicts...

On the plus side, if you have laryngitis, you can still post on DU and yammer on to all of us. Though frankly, we don't seem to be in a mood to listen to your yammering today either. 30 minutes without a reply to this post? Must be a record for you. :D

:hug:

:hi:

[LaraMN]

2. Lol! Not everything I spout about is necessarily interesting.

Sometimes I think smoking must have toughened up my lungs, or something, because I never got colds when I smoked, as I seem to now. Maybe the lung-healing process makes one more susceptible to respiratory crap. Ah well, I'd rather have a cold than cancer, at any rate!:thumbsup:

[Burma Jones]

3. Same thing happened to me when I quit

I suppose it's all those Bronchial cells flexing their muscles again........Good Luck, and watch out for the six month threshold, that was when I resumed smoking for a few times before I finally quit for good ten years ago.

[Scout1071]

4. Sinus problems?

Have you had your teethed checked lately? I once had a tooth dilemna that I wasn't aware of and it turns out that it had been aggrivating my sinuses for over a year. I kept getting sinus infections. I got the tooth fixed, sinus problem went away.

My Doc and Dentist conferred - your teeth can affect your general health, particularly your sinuses.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

5. I've been sick a lot this year too

I missed a week of work with strep, which I've never had in my life. I've also been afflicted with various colds, etc. etc. I blame Bill Clinton (jk). And I hope you feel better soon!

[Boojatta]

6. If no medical knowledge is required to participate in this discussion...

then here are a few guesses:

1. The psychological impact of worrying about whether or not the quitting of smoking will "take" and stress of repeatedly having to suppress the impulse to smoke are weakening your immune system.

2. You aren't washing your hands as often as you were when you smoked. Maybe they seem cleaner than when you smoked, but maybe they have microscopic germs on them.

3. You coincidentally quit when you were in close contact with at least one person who did a lot of travelling and picked up germs from around the world.

4. Your body "sees an opportunity" to flush out some toxins that previously were slowly accumulating. (This one is based on what I've read about folk medicine. There might be zero systematic experimental evidence to back it up at this point in history.)