As a certified manflu sufferer, I gave this an upvote. I know that there’s been a lot fun made at guys ‘overreacting’ to colds, but maybe it’s time to listen to the victims. Occasionally, I get a cold where i just feel a bit shit, tired and full of snot. But most of the time a cold shuts me down entirely, I can’t think, talk nonsense, if I try and drive I almost crash. I’m a compete mess. Sure, maybe my body is just overreacting to the virus, but so is anaphylaxis and that kills people.
As a certified manflu sufferer, I gave this an upvote. I know that there’s been a lot fun made at guys ‘overreacting’ to colds, but maybe it’s time to listen to the victims. Occasionally, I get a cold where i just feel a bit shit, tired and full of snot. But most of the time a cold shuts me down entirely, I can’t think, talk nonsense, if I try and drive I almost crash. I’m a compete mess. Sure, maybe my body is just overreacting to the virus, but so is anaphylaxis and that kills people.
I’m pretty sure that labour is worse, but…
https://www.nature.com/articles/nri2773
At least for me, if I’m sick enough to be complaining about feeling bad I probably need to go to the hospital.
I can see how that could come off as being a baby since you wouldn’t know about the all times I didn’t feel incapacitatingly bad.