I catch a cold yesterday while working, finished my shift and went home. 4 hours later I was so tired I laid down on my bed and woke up at 4am the next day, meaning I slept for 10 hours straight.

I called in sick and went back to sleep. 4 more hours.

I woke up, cooked something, ate, watched netflix and kept falling asleep. I started feeling like a person at 2 pm.

I went walking in a park for 30 minutes and went back home, started reading some epubs started having a headache and feeling tired, called in sick for a second day in a row and if tomorrow I feel like this, it’s gonna be the third day in a row I feel tired and very strange, like not completely awake but not tired.

I was hoping to go to the doctor today, but I’m so tired.

I didn’t feel so tired while walking those 30 minutes I mentioned. Now I wonder if walking outdoors makes people feel more awake, because the air has more oxygen than inside my bedroom and if I should open the windows to let some fresh air inside.

  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 days ago

    That’s absolutely normal and expected. The illness is taking a toll on your body and it needs all it’s resources to fight it. Don’t take this as advice not to see a doctor if you were already going to because if you personally feel like something is wrong and out of the ordinary for you, then it’s better that you decide to go to a doctor even if you’re told that it is indeed normal for a cold because who knows if it’s not something worse or if “normal” for you is different. But in general, yes, for colds and most illnesses tiredness is very much to be expected, even to a pretty extreme degree.

  • Zak@lemmy.world
    18·
    3 days ago

    It’s not unusual to feel tired when sick. It’s a particularly common symptom of COVID-19.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    Definitely normal, your body is recovering. If it’s still happening in a week, then I’d start thinking about going to a doctor.

    I get medical anxiety a lot. That’s a rule I’ve set up that helps quite a bit. If it still happens after a week, now you can think about going to a doctor.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    I wonder if walking outdoors makes people feel more awake

    It 100% does. Fresh air, direct sunlight does wonders.

  • schmorp@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Got some of this as well, started with pain in the throat last week, I slept a lot for two days, came down with migraine a day after that, and the last week I have been mentally really unwell feeling more anxious and depressed than usual. Something is going round.

    • Stepos Venzny@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Fresh air has kicked my ass harder than any virus ever has. Allergies have straight up bruised my ribs from the force of my own coughing.

      Make sure fresh air agrees with you before you make any rash decisions about how much to get.

  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    3 days ago

    When I get ill, sometimes I sleep for 18h straight, through alarms and everything…

    You sleep more when you’re ill anyway, but what wakes you up about outdoors is light. It’s much darker inside than out by a way more than you’d think, so that’s probably why you feel awake when outside.

  • Brad@beehaw.org
    3·
    3 days ago

    I’m having pretty much the same thing right now. Started feeling a little bad last Wednesday afternoon. Felt worse Thusday so I took Thursday and Friday of work and basically laid around all day from Thursday through Sunday.

    Monday and yesterday I still had a bad headache and almost no energy. I had to rest and nap all lot.

    Today I’m feeling slightly better, but still fighting a headache and very little energy. The cocid test I took was negative so either it’s a bad cold or flu, but I haven’t felt this sick in a long time.

    • deranger@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      3 days ago

      That’s not how your immune system works. Your immune reserves are not “spent” nor do they need to replace ones “lost”. It’s not like a military battle. Most pathogens are either destroyed or they avoid destruction through some mechanism - they’re not often fighting back against the WBCs.

      Your immune system produces chemicals that make you feel like shit / tired, because it’s evolutionarily advantageous to feel like shit. This keeps you resting and away from others. This is also how medicines like NSAIDS or steroids can make you feel better, by inhibiting the processes instigated by WBCs. It’s not the disease that makes you feel bad, it’s your immune system (unless you’re deathly ill, we’re talking common cold/flu/COVID type stuff here).

      It would be impossible for me to go in depth in immunology but your explanation is not at all in line with the evidence we have currently.