Blurgh

[the_gneech]

Con crud. Uck. Buddha's the healthiest one in the house just now.

-The Gneech

Comments

[kevinjdog.livejournal.com]

Feel better soon!

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Thanks … I hope to!

-TG

[rhanlav.livejournal.com]

Well, just make sure you have lots of oranges and orange juice.

Yarrr!

--Salen

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

At least I won't get scurvy!

-TG

[alaskawolf.livejournal.com]

its a bummer to hear your not feeling well, i hope you feel better soon

take care and rest up, and pet the kitty too :)

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Will do, thanks!

-TG

[kylet.livejournal.com]

:::Hugs, wearing a surgical mask::: You take care! :-/

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Nice thing about virtual hugs, is they don't spread bugs. ^.^

-TG

[mapdark.livejournal.com]

Get well!

heck.. I got an almost concrud without EVEn going to a con ^^;

My sister's cold + sunburn .. lovely.

*hugs*

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

D'Oh!

-TG

[frostdemn.livejournal.com]

>.> I take no responsibility. My Con Crud spent the weekend in Sacramento with my brother!

But regardless, I hope you feel better soon!

I DID think of asking you to ship us Con Crud...

[mammallamadevil.livejournal.com]

then we wouldn't have gotten the real stuff...(actually, I had a mild dose of it...let's see what happens this weekend when I get home)..get well soon Gneech and Lythandra!

From the Flowery Branch, GA Waffle House,

MLD

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I hope so too! :)

-TG

[the-mcp.livejournal.com]

Probably won't help you much now, but for future reference, here's my anti-con-crud regimen:

Phase 1: Beginning at least two weeks before the con, begin taking one (1) "A-to-Z" multivitamin capsule (Centrum, One-A-Day, etc.) plus the following additional supplements:

-- vitamin C (at least 500mg; more is good up to a point, but multi-thousand-mg megadoses not necessary :) )
-- B-complex, with at least 25mcg B-12
-- vitamin E, (at least 400 i.u.; again, megadoses not necessary)
-- zinc, 25mg (preferably zinc picolinate, but chelated zinc gluconate will do if your local shops don't have the picolinate variety.)
-- echinacea supplement, 400mg minimum
-- goldenseal root supplement, 400mg minimum

Phase 2: Beginning 2 days before the convention (or the day you actually leave home to travel to the con, whichever comes first), continue the regimen with the following changes:
-- increase zinc to 50mg
-- increase echinacea to 800mg, or even 1200mg if it's a big con or you're particularly prone to confluenza. :)

maintain this regimen throughout the con, and for 3 days after you return home.

Phase 3: return to the phase 1 regimen for another 5 days after the end of phase 2.

I've been doing it since ConFurence 6, and it hasn't failed me yet. :)

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

I usually don't get con crud, mostly thanks to megadosing on Vit. C beforehand. This time, tho, it was just too powerful.

-TG

[the-mcp.livejournal.com]

The major players in my regimen are the zinc, echinacea, goldenseal, and some members of the B-complex, all of which are supposedly good for the immune system. The rest are just there as a sort of nutritional top-up, since sometimes you just don't get to eat as well as you might want to during a con, especially if your mealtimes and choice of dining establishments is subject to the unpredictable whims of a group outing. :)

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

I may keep this on tab. I usually don't have too much issue with CC, though I had a light bit a phlegm after DC this year.

[kamau-d-lyon.livejournal.com]

Buddha's the healthiest one in the house just now.

Ouch. Hope you feel better soon.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Thanks ... hopefully I'll be better sometime this weekend.

-TG