Had this flu now for 2 months. It comes and goes but now almost everyday I have to spend most of it in bed, sweating and aching with a headache and wheezing just about able to breath. Got to see a doctor on Wednesday so I hope I am well enough to get there on that day or I will have to see if I can get a home visit or something. Not what I had hoped for after stopping smoking, eating healthier, excercising more, loosing some weight, cutting out alcohol … My skin is worse to and basicallly I look half dead already. Apparently this is not that uncommon they just don’t widely publicise it. So can’t enjoy snuff or anything much at the moment. Remembered I had a tin of 666 medicated so might use that. So there you are. You can be tickedy boo one minute and the next some little bug or virus gets into you and that’s it. Your life is misery. Apparently stopping smokng can mess up your immune system and make things worse? and to top it off it’s summer and warm and instead of being out and about it’s bed for me. In winter I had no colds or anything! My body just seems to work in reverse.
Wow two full months?.. have you visited the doctor before this coming Wednesday? That sounds mighty miserable. I’m quite sure smoking can throw a wrench in the normal function of your immune system, as many other drugs. Common with smokers who are quitting is “smoker’s flu” that for some does last a few months… I stopped with snuff and snus, and I was still an absolute mess, a handful of days i could hardly breathe and there was a terrible pressure in my throat and chest, as if a ball was stuck in both places, and I do not have acid reflux. Also, headache, exhaustion, constipation, anxiety, aches, cold sweat at times, and mood swings; very flu like… all lasting only about a month, however. The majority of people I’ve known personally to stop get sick very easily after quitting. My good friend had very bad pneumonia that almost killed him at 52yrs due to the smoke doing as it does to all of us, creating a gap in our cilia in the lungs that makes it near impossible to hack; another man I knew had it kill him in four short days. I suspect that the body is struggling so much to recover from the smoke and chemicals, that it just can’t fight off some of what is coming in. I’ve had a short cold twice in the handful of months I’ve quit, but hopefully as they say, at the year mark it gets easier. I’ve looked briefly, but never found any solid research on quitting’s effect on the immune system. Little long winded… sorry about that! Good luck though, I hope you kick it very soon
Give some time to your body for recovery, also multi-vitamins will give you a boost
Thing is I quit smoking about a year ago and had no problems at all until this thing 2 months ago. I think my breathing had initially improved some soon after quitting otherwise I never noticed anything dramatic. I just snuffed away happily and used an e-cig also so I had no nicotine withdrawl or very little. I’ve never had a problem like this for so long and at times it did seem to be clearing up and I would have some energy back and would go cycling and next day I’d be back to the bed routine. I also seem to have pulled some back muscle down my left side and that just adds to the misery. I can barely move and that doesn’t seem to be getting any better either. I imagine the doctor will just prescribe antibiotics and maybe they will work? I hope this will all clear up but at the moment I really don’t know if I will ever get back to normal. It seems quite serious like I have flu, bronchitus and asthma all at once. Maybe I just never give it enough time to properly clear up when first I got this a few months back? Don’t have any choice now. I’m kaputt!!! I can partly understand now why dying can seem like a good option. I’m stuck with this for a while longer for sure.
Look forward to have good mood, is very important, also very important is to delete bad thoughts, many times WE feeding the fear. You have change page in your life and focus on that brilliant step! The more you discover the problem the more you feed it.
reminds me of when I got mono. Fun stuff. Hope that’s not what it is cause the shit sucks.
Mono… That was the worst year of my life, stuck at home with a paid teacher. @I_snuff_therefore___ I think Nikolaos have good advice on the multivitamins and positive thinking, it’s amazing how bad thoughts in hard times literally change our minds and even the shape of our DNA. Perhaps the days of energy you might have over exerted, but all you can do now is eat well, hydrate, be optimistic, and go with the doctor’s prescribed meds and/or routine. Stay hopeful, days that are more conducive to plowing your nose into your snuffbox are on the way 
When ever I get I tell the sick to fuck off! This is my body, I will do what I want no matter how high my temp is! I have worked with 102.6 Fahrenheit temp cause I will never let a infection tell me what to do. It was a non contagious infection.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Keep the flag up with smile and positive thoughts! Take care
I don’t think your illness is due to tobacco. Just get out more into the fresh air and don’t skip meals
Sounds to me more like viral pneumonia - Mrs Pufnsnuff had that a few years ago, thought it was just a cold, then flu, finally got checked out by a doctor and ended up in hospital. Not the best Christmas she’s ever had!
Certainly looking forward to seeing if the the doctor can recognise it and hope my lungs aren’t permenantly damaged. Sometimes they sound like a bowl of rice crispies, snap, crackle and pop. Maybe there have been others in the local area with the same thing so the health centre may already be aware of this virus or whatever it is. Spent most of the day in bed, headache being about the worst thing although the aching, sweating and breathing are still difficult. My pulled muscle is a little better and earlier today I did manage to cough up a green blob of fleme so hope that might be a good sign. Could actually have stayed in bed but forced myself to get up for an hour now. Actually I don’t have a sore throat or runny nose or any other problem but it’s bad enough as it is and I definitely never had anything like this before and haven’t had to see a doctor in years. I keep trying to sense if I am improving any at all after all this bed time and currently I still don’t seem to be but it also looks like I’m not going to die either but who knows. I would liked to have seen the doctor sooner but at the time I made the appointment I cycled to the health centre so wasn’t to bad, I just knew I should book an appointment because this wasn’t going away and since then I have just been floored again by it. As I say, never had anything like this before. One day could be out on the bike although not at full power and the whole next following week barely able to stand.