Does anyone else here get ill everytime they take holiday leave

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As the title suggests, I was just wondering if anyone else suffers the problem I do - getting ill either during or just before holiday leave from work.

This has been happening to me for the last 18 months and I'm getting really fed up. Without fail, everytime I take a week or few days off work I'll start feeling a bit ill just before. By the time my leave comes around I have a full blown illness which makes me feel rubbish.

Currently got a cold, high temperature and chest infection which is playing havoc with my asthma. None of my inhalers seem to be working very well so I'm hopefully off to the doctors a little later to use their nebuliser.

Sooo fed up it is unbelievable........
 
You are the type of person that die not long after retirment it sounds:(

You need to work to stay alive.:(
 
I had 4 days off before Christmas, and was fine when I left work.

I was ill from when I woke up the next day, until the day I had to go back.

Fortunatly, as this happens a lot, I got a sick note from my doctor to cover my illness and then claimed back my holiday days from HR. Although I have to carry them over to next year now.
 
This year is the first chirstmas I've had off in 13 years, and..............I got ill. Just the same as the OP has :( all my plans of going out, meeting old friends & parties was taken off me by the snot, phlegm & fever :(:(:(
 
Feel for you mate, I didn't book any time off this Christmas and have been suffering the last 2 days, and now I'm back in work again (still feel like crap though) :(
 
Yup I do the same, I am never ill, but have been off work since Friday now, and have already developed a cold, and am feeling rough.

I'd love to know why it happens, someone said to me once its because my job is physically demanding, my body realises that and channels all my energy into caring for the child I look after/have to carry/take to school etc, and then when I stop it throws my system out, and therefore I get ill.
 
knip said:
Yup I do the same, I am never ill, but have been off work since Friday now, and have already developed a cold, and am feeling rough.

I'd love to know why it happens, someone said to me once its because my job is physically demanding, my body realises that and channels all my energy into caring for the child I look after/have to carry/take to school etc, and then when I stop it throws my system out, and therefore I get ill.
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Probably just one of those things. My mum is a carer for my dad and gets ill from time to time regardless.
 
I feel crap because I've never eaten so much chocolate in the last few days, since I was young at Easter :p

/looks at unopened box of truffles on table :(


Seriously though, I had a cold a few months ago and hope it does get too cold in Jan/Feb.
 
I got man flu (the worst kind!) just before Christmas this year :( just really getting over it now. Still got a stupid snotty beak and a cough :( Also, randomly last night i woke up at 3.30 and i was actually physically sick (i'm never sick) no idea why.
 
I guess your body is just relaxing, decompressing cause you don't have to work and as such vunerable.

Happens to me too.
 
Yes - we went to the Maldives on Dec 11 (honeymoon) and I had manflu from the second day. Totally ruined the holiday - my wife was not impressed!!!
 
My mate does. He basically pushes himself way too hard at work then as soon as the pressure is off he drops dead. I can't see it being too healthy to be honest.
 
Like others have said I reckon it is probably an example of how powerful the mind is, you don't feel you can be ill so you just keep on going but once you don't have anything that you absolutely need to stay well for you relax and get hit by whatever you have been fighting off the rest of the time.

While it might not be much fun to be ill on holiday it is probably necessary for your body to have some 'downtime', enforced or otherwise although you can take it too far if you always collapse as soon as you take a break.
 
HaX said:
As the title suggests, I was just wondering if anyone else suffers the problem I do - getting ill either during or just before holiday leave from work.

This has been happening to me for the last 18 months and I'm getting really fed up. Without fail, everytime I take a week or few days off work I'll start feeling a bit ill just before. By the time my leave comes around I have a full blown illness which makes me feel rubbish.

Currently got a cold, high temperature and chest infection which is playing havoc with my asthma. None of my inhalers seem to be working very well so I'm hopefully off to the doctors a little later to use their nebuliser.

Sooo fed up it is unbelievable........
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I suffered this this Christmas. I used to get fairly regularly ill, but last year i was good, flu once for a few days in January when everyone I knew was ill. I work like hell this year, 70-80 hours a week, and when I'm not working i'm either partying/out on the lash n the evenings, or skiing/climbing/hiking on any free weekends.

I come home from switzerland to enjoy a christmas break. I have 8 days off so plan to work 4 and have 4 days relaxation. So I get home, do 2 good days work. Christmas eve I wake up and decide to do nothing all day... just as well, by lunch time I was throwing up. Spent the last 3 days in bed emptying myself from both ends. Finally, opened my presents last night between running to and from the toilet. Now I feel much better better, but its time to get the laptop out.
 
There is a bad cold doing the rounds at the moment. Im just getting over it, tend to get the cold this time of year. I think it has to do with everone with relatives in care all going to see them for christmas. That mixed with the I can't be sick over christmas mind set brings them all out sick or not.
 
I think a lot of the time (read: not all) it's all in the mind.

My brother is a lazy student and he is ill every time he comes home (in fact also when not at home) without fail. Constant coughing, blowing his nose etc. it's ridiculous. It's because he wants to be ill as it gives him an excuse not to do work like usual. It's nothing more than laziness. Funny how I live in close-quarters with him and he's coughing and wheezing all over me yet I don't get ill in the slightest...

People need to stop treating colds & other benign conditions like life-threatening diseases and just get on with it. A cold does not permit you to lie in bed all day watching TV. It entitles you to a pack of tissues at most.
 
Whenever I get a holiday, I relax, which causes all the stress I naturally build up to come out in the form of...mouth ulcers. All over my mouth, in the most inconvenient places.

It's painful, annoying and I can't enjoy eating, I can't enjoy anything in fact, and they just get me more stressed which causes them to flare up and stay there for longer.
 
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