What's the most infectious thing you've gone into work with?

[eek]

More of a "can do after another coffee or two and a spot of lunch".

The problem with the spot of lunch is then I need a snooze.....

[Scrag Meister]

A positive can-do attitude.

I usually go into work with this, but no one else has been infected in 7 years of contracting.

[Zippy]

Just been invited to leave site as I am breaking out in itchy red pus filled lesions.

It might be something as harmless as chicken pox. Mind you my Grandad is back in hospital so I could have picked up something really nasty.

So, I'm going to the docs now to get a diagnosis. In the mean time can I hear about which tropical diseases you have introduced into the workplace so as not to miss a days billing?


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Sounds like chickenpox (had it). It's not entirely harmless, you know.

I'd imagine you'll be really popular if you show up at the docs surgery with the pox. It's not dangerous to healthy people but can be for those with dodgy immune systems.

[NotAllThere]

An employee of Novartis went into the office just before he became the first recorded case of Swine Flu' in Basel. Would have been so ironic if it had been Roche.

[mudskipper]

Sounds like chickenpox (had it). It's not entirely harmless, you know.

I'd imagine you'll be really popular if you show up at the docs surgery with the pox. It's not dangerous to healthy people but can be for those with dodgy immune systems.

Indeed. And preggy people.

[dundeedude]

Just been invited to leave site as I am breaking out in itchy red pus filled lesions.

It might be something as harmless as chicken pox. Mind you my Grandad is back in hospital so I could have picked up something really nasty.

So, I'm going to the docs now to get a diagnosis. In the mean time can I hear about which tropical diseases you have introduced into the workplace so as not to miss a days billing?


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This is a serious response. I know you've not been well at regular intervals and it's an ongoing infamous forum legend in the making.

Have you considered that you may have IBD such as Crohns? Crohns doesn't often cause rectal bleeding, but it does mean you get unwell much much easier as a result of your immune system constantly fighting inflammation of your insides - usually the ileum in the majority of Crohn's patients.

Some external symptoms are what you've mentioned today, puss-filled nodules, of varying types. The real ongoing symptoms are feeling like crap every so often for a period of time and having problems with various foods - foods that are deemed healthy. Alcohol consumption irritates the gastric tract and so that along with fibrous foods are thought to initiate a "flare up". Feeling excessively tired often is common, as never reaching deep sleep is caused by the inflammation. With no pain receptors in the areas usually affected by these types of illness you probably wouldn't feel anything, except a bit of swelling in the right abdomen at times, if at all.

One of the dangers of it is that symptoms vary and can be seen as "one off" events that eventually disappear. Of the people I know with it, they look back and realise since their teen years that something wasn't quite right, but they thought it was just random illness at times or just the way they were. One died recently aged 38 after only going to A&E after a heavy night out drinking, when the pain became too much and he realised he had left it too late.

If you give your health summary to any GP worth their salt they should be referring you for a colonoscopy ASAP. It's painless and should enable them to tell you once and for all. You don't want to ignore this tulip, as the longer you go on with all the other symptoms, thinking of them in isolation and simply putting it down to bad luck, getting old, all that jazz, you'll simultaneously have insides that are basically attacking themselves. It's an auto-immune condition.

Whilst you're at it, if they do find anything at all, you may as well insist on a CT scan, MRI, X-ray and anything else, as there are huge complications with ulcerative colitis UC and crohn's disease CD that can be more likely to destroy your body gradually than the disease itself.

Coeliac disease also can induce such symptoms, but there is a blood test for that, or biopsy. Strangely, all these auto-immune conditions are closely related, so symptoms can mimic one another.

One last thing I would say is that there is zero chance the statistics are accurate on the prevalence. Most people seem to know somebody with Crohn's, yet the estimate for the UK is 100,000 people affected. I suspect it's more in line of 500,000+. Hopefully one day they find a cure for these poor souls.

Good luck and hope you get it sorted.

[mudskipper]

Thought he'd done the camera up the botty thing already?

[MyUserName]

The theme to Magical Trevor.

After all ... everyone loves magical Trevor!

[MicrosoftBob]

Chicken Pox during the brief period I went back to the darkside, as they demanded a sick note from my doctor before I'd be allowed to go home

So of course I was by then determined to infect as many human remains bods as possible

[Troll]

Just been invited to leave site as I am breaking out in itchy red pus filled lesions.

It might be something as harmless as chicken pox. Mind you my Grandad is back in hospital so I could have picked up something really nasty.

So, I'm going to the docs now to get a diagnosis. In the mean time can I hear about which tropical diseases you have introduced into the workplace so as not to miss a days billing?


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I'm not a doctor, but I think you're going to die

Make peace with your God and go gracefully into the night

HTH