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Ask HN: Any novel aproaches to being sick?
Just wondering if people here have any interesting ways of dealing with being sick (I'm thinking mostly of colds and flus, but feel free to chime in with anything else).
Do you push yourself to work through it? Still go into the office? Do you manage to get decent work done? Or do you give up completely on work and try to sleep it off? Do you medicate? Any good drugs you've found?
- Xichekolas 19y agoI sleep. ... for like 20 hours straight. Then I eat something, then I sleep again. Repeat until healthy. I think last time I was sick, it was with a stomach flu for about three days. I probably slept 18-20 hours a day, with the rest of the time spent puking and crapping my guts out. (Hey, you asked.)
- davidw 19y agoGoing into the office is a great way to infect everyone else with whatever you have, thus multiplying productivity losses. I try and actually stay in bed and read something completely unrelated to work/business/anything requiring much thinking. My personal favorite is westerns... Usually I get sick because of stress, so relaxing for a bit is usually what's called for.
- pchristensen 19y agoAnd it'd be nice if sick days/flexible schedules reflected that.
- JesseAldridge 19y agoTake a daily multivitamin. It really helps. You get sick much less often, and when you do it's much less debilitating.