sospan wrote:
" May be resistance is thinner now? "
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I sense that is the case with me post-injury/PCS these four years now.
All the more reason to keep up with good nutrition, supplements to strengthen our immune system in these winter cold/flu/virus-prone months.

As a personal chef to still-active elders, I have to take extra precautions to maintain my own health, so as to not "bring into their home" anything they could more easily "catch" than many of us here.

I have some tried-and-true-for-me things always in my possession, that have served me very well. If interested, private message me, and I'll be happy to share.

Klaus, in my experience, when I was ill, I like you felt that "everything" was exacerbated/worsened. Once well again, I returned to "baseline" as others above have posted.

Xanadu, your counsel here re: anxiety and our fears is well spoken. It seems somehow in my own life that I've had to desensitize myself to my own-generated worst fears ... by living them through-? as it were!

I cannot fathom "living through" another relapse ... thus all the greater need/motivation to genuinely take care of myself while I am "being better, doing better, able to do more" ... e.g. making "down time" for myself ... before it's a "no choice" down-and-out-for-the-count, until I recover again to be able to function.