Sunday

Not sure whether to go for one of the liquorice teas or not!!! I've had a few days break and, though I'm not feeling too bad, wonder if a liquorice tea would be a good thing. Don't feel amything as bad as I used to still .. Swiss clinics aren't on my mind .. just a vague interest that I have a cold.

Not quite sure what my immune system is up to either as stopping the Cellcept means that my immune system is having to start functioning better than it was before the reduction. They're immunosuppressants but I'm not sure if the symptoms will be the same as those from a withdrawal from corticosteroids with also suppress the immune system. I can't find anything on the net that tells you about withdral from Cellcept. It would be difficult anyway cause it's often used for organ transplants so withdrawal is a common word when writing about it.

Thought I had found something but it turned out that Cellcept was just a link on a page which get the impression of being about withdrawal symptoms for medications .. but wasn't!!

Shall I drink one of my lovely liquorice teas .. I have to say that they're nice but I don't think I really need one. I just feel as if I've got a cold rather than coping with everything I had to with a cold before .. and me tongue's still ok too.

I might've been without a cold for a couple of days while drinking my teas .. lol .. at least I felt as if I was .. the rest of the time I've been aware that I have one just that the symptoms aren't like they were. It had got to the stage where the symptoms used to get very, very nasty and painful .. though I didn't develop bacterial infections, and I really had thought, as I was never free of them that it really was getting to the stage where making enquiries about these clinics would be a good idea.

I know I've got a cold and it's not too nice with these meds and the heat of the past few days .. but it's bearable. I'm not swelling up as I was either. My bottom lip used to jut out on the worst days when I first got up .. think I mentioned that before .. it was always a sign that things were about to get much worse .. but it just hasn't happened recently

Dinner's on anyway .. meds have been taken .. suppose I'll go and get myself a cup of tea .. though not a liquorice one.

Have to see how things go.

I expect to be quite ill with this flu .. if not very ill. Am glad that some of my immunosuppresant drugs have been reduced I was on a very high dose .. at the momeny part of my immune system is having to get used to working again and producing chemicals that it hasn't for a while. Sometimes this happens easily .. sometimes not if you've been on a mega dose for a long time.

Anyway, I'm still not too bad.

I'm going to try and eat well too .. I don't really expect things to work that well if I'm not. I wouldn't expect the herbs to have quite the effect they have in the labs .. well, I'm not sure quite what the dilution difference would be in a person and in a test tube .. but, going by the effect the elderberry treatment has .. what works in the lab can still work in the person .. at least to some degree. I've decided not to get that .. ok for seasonal flu but I'm not too happy at the thought of using it for this flu at the moment.

I'm hoping that the herbs and spices will slow the virus down enough for my immune system to be able to cope with it ok and without causing me too much bother.

To do that I need to keep my immune system as healthy as I can with this illness. With a non functioning immune system I doubt that all the herbs and spices in the world would get you through this flu. I think the elderberry remedy cuts the duration of the illness down by about a half and reduces symptoms .. but unfortunately, stimulates parts of the immune system that could cause trouble especially if this flu mutates into something nastier. Hopefully it'll go the other way though and just diminish in potency.

Well, that's about it .. isn't it. There are other odds and ends .. am going to try one more. Wondered about two .. but I'd have to send abroad for it .. and I don't know if I can be bothered though it was said to help in a previous panademic. I wonder if anyone who's reading this has ordered it. I didn't know about it til a few days ago. It's tempting .. does sound good.

Most people won't need to be thinking along these lines .. but for those with underlying illnesses it might be worth it I guess. I get the impression that it helps with lung infections but whether it's needed with anti biotics being used in treatment I don't know. I don't know if it's an anti viral because I haven't read much about it yet.

I haven't ordered tamiflu off the net .. won't either. Though it is tempting.