Are you getting sick since starting school?

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Specializes in trauma/surg.

I have never been a person that gets sick that often, BUT this semester (2nd since starting clinicals) I am sick every other week. REALLY sick, like lying in bed for 2 days and not being able to shake it for at least a week to 10 days. I am SO SICK of being SICK!!!! I know that it's because my eating patterns are messed up, am getting NO sleep, and am stressed to the max. I need to run to Walmart and get some vitamins, and sleep better, and eat better, but in reality, I'll probably only get the vitamins. Do any of you have any tips??? I can't keep feeling like this for another year!!!! Help!!!:o

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Yup I've never been as sick as I have been this semester.. Had a sinus infection and just came down with an upper respiratory infection. And I can't even blame the clinicals its being around my fellow students and catching their germs because they aren't practicing even basic germ control by covering their mouths when they cough... grrrr :)

Our instructor told us to take Magnesium and Vit B12 suppliments to ward off illness caused by stress.. I've not be religious about taking mine but it didn't seem to help :lol2:

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I don't know where I standon vitamins...I've always been a person to get sick really easily when i was in high school, and since I've started college i've only been sick once *knock on wood*. I've been taking vitamins because like you guys, I don't eat right, I'm stressed about everything, and i don't get enough sleep because i have all my school stuff running through my head constantly. I'll even wake up in the middle of the night thinking about something I've learned in school...it's pathetic!!! I haven't been sick yet but i don't know if it's just the vitamins or if because in college, if your sick and don't feel like going you just don't go...unlike high school when if your sick you have to go cause you only have so many days your allowed to miss therefore you get everyone's illness.

I'd recommend them, but you still have to get our sleep, and try to eat right...oh yeah, and try to not stress out...haha easier said then done!!!

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Specializes in NICU Level III.

I get sick all the time now - probably because I'm always so run down!

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I have not been sick. I take time for myself, put the books away and relax. I know if I get too stressed my immune system will not function properly. I try to take my multivitamins, drink water, and eat plenty of proteins. I also have a prayer life and go to church. I know the prayer is helping more than the food. I am always calm, no matter what is going on.

Try adding prayer to your schedule. Dont take God out of your schedule.

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Add me to the list. Especially nearing the end of the semester, (only in second semester, but has happened both times) I get even more sick. Then I "get better" on my week or two off btwn semesters.

No, I don't get enough sleep. No, I don't eat well. No, I don't take my vitamins. That may be why. I can barely think straight enough to focus on what is happening the following day and what I need to read\complete as to school work, and it just slips my mind to do the rest.

I think exercising would help. With the stress as well as the immune system; Take a walk to decompress after lecture, or studying.

Good luck, hope everyone gets better...

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What does your inner wisdom tell you to do here? School is stressful, and that impacts your immune system. Anything that reduces stress, ie prayer, meditation, yoga, exercise, bodywork, nature walks, "all about me days", need to be scheduled. Stress causes biochemical changes in mind/body/spirit. Taking care of you has to be a priority. If you don't take care of your body, where will you live? Vitamins are cheap insurance as is Vit C, eating healthy (no transfats!), and SLEEP (you remember that word, don't you?).

I know your budgets are tight when in school, but if you can do it, Sambuccol, an elderberry syrup extract, might help protect you from viruses (not medical advice, just folk wisdom). Developed by an Israeli virologist, cheapest place to buy is Amazon.com. Please, take care of yourselves. You are the future of nursing. Good luck.

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i have lost my voice on each of my end of year clinicals (starting 3rd one next week!) last year i had to go (my instructor pulled the, i'm sick and i'm here crap) one of the fellow students took my temp and it was actually higher than my pts! i'm sooo sick of being sickly at clinicals. drives me crazy. and during term clinicals when we go for a few days each week, i almost always have nose bleeds or sinus infections!!! it's ridiculous!

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