Where did this cold come from?
Wondering if you’ve ever gone to bed around midnight - feeling just fine. Throat was fine, Nose was clear, no sign of a cough or even a headache.
Then around 3:30 - you find yourself waking up with a completely stuffed nose. You try to inhale and clear it the usual ways… Roll over on your side and fall back asleep only to wake up with a big sneeze about 30 minutes later.
I haul myself out of bed, shivering a little bit… Head hurting, and going to the bathroom to get a tissue. Allergies from the week before had me blowing through what I had next to my bed.
While in the bathroom, the first blow is notably viscous - you think “ where did that come from?” I dropped the tissue into the garbage and immediately sneezed and sneezed and sneezed… Reaching back in - now groggy with a little bit of a headache… I empty my nose into another tissue and another tissue and another…
My God… I’m coming down with a head cold.
Where did that come from?
I go back to bed… And my nose completely closes for business. I wake myself up, snoring about an hour later and having forgotten to bring tissues and not up to walking back to the bathroom… I blow hard into the T-shirt that I laid at the side of my bed… back just 4 hours earlier when I was allegedly healthy. I’m now socking in a sudden-onset cold. Again another blow filled with snot.
My head is hurting, my nose is completely plugged and I’m preparing for a busy workday loaded with a fresh new cold.
That was yesterday morning… Needless to say I am now loaded with a lovely winter cold in the nose that hit me from nowhere.
Can anyone tell me the story of a similar situation or are you like most people… Your cold’s emerge slowly with clear signs?
Sudden onset colds suck!
