Constantly sick with cold symtoms since August, literally

So I have been constantly sick since about August Mind you, I've always been sort of sickly but it's getting ridiculous. For awhile it was once a month but its gotten even WORSE lately. To the point where I'm sick 26 days out of a 30 day month

I've had blood tests and allergy tests and according to those I'm completely fine.

But literally I have constant cold symptoms 24/7... Sometimes flu like symptoms. Stuff nose, constantly running nose, EXHAUSTION ( I mean sleeping 12 hours a day and can't get out of bed to save my life) congestion, and OCCASIONALLY a fever and stomach pains, swollen glands and a sore throat from drainage.

This has been going on for months now, and I can't handle it anymore. It's CONSTANT. I can't even get a job, literally. Sometimes when I wake up I feel like I'm going to pass out for 5 hours straight if I don't lay down, my chest is heavy and I'm so congested and I sleep for 12 hours a day and STILL feel like I need to sleep more. Usually I give up around 4:30pm and just go back to sleep for a few hours because I've been feeling like shit and like I'm going to die since I woke up.


I literally can't get a job. I can't do anything. I'm F-ing helpless and I REALLY need help.

I have POTS heart condition, and I take my meds for that regularly. Haven't had many problems. I take Midodrine. I have moderate asthma, and I use my inhaler as needed. I am HSV-1 positive (herpes 1) and have it genitally (or so we think) and am on Valtrex 500mg a day.... I've never had any problems with it, and contracted the virus in December, however I've been this sick even before then. (but if anyone thinks that could be attributed to it, please let me know)

I've been to allergy and heart doctors and my lungs/heart are fine.

I don't know what to do. Someone, please help me. It's getting to the point where I'm so helpless in my own life that I want to kill myself. I can't even leave my house to do anything fun, much less to actually get a job.

I guess I start by asking a few questions you should be asking yourself. How long have you lived in your house/apartment? And do you have a gas furnace or water heater. I moved into a house last October and my son was getting sick. My doctor ran so many tests and couldn't find anything. We left for a vacation a few weeks ago and felt better a few days into it. Our house had some mold, and our furnace was leaking small amounts of gas. The furnace was 20+ old. I would start by looking around the house and make sure there isn't anything that could be making you sick. I wish you the best. I hope this might help you. Good luck!

I also have HSV1 genitally for almost two years now. I also take valtrex 500mg everyday. I do not notice many "outbreaks" anymore. But I get cold/Flu like symptoms often.

When I first contracted the virus I was sick SICK for weeks.......lasted more than a month. Doctors where first thought i had mono but that was not the case. The truth is when your having an outbreak you can get sick with flu/cold like symptoms. Depending on how bad your outbreak is, depends on how sick you get.

The first time i got HSV1 was the worst but i know now that I get sick more often because of it.

You can talk to your doctor about a higher dose of valtrex and see if that helps at all.


You can also just read a bit more in depth about HSV1 and you should find information on what causes outbreak so that you can better prevent them therefore not getting sick as often.