Getting Sick After a Trip

[Pauline]

After our last Europe trip, to Switzerland last September, I posted a thread called "Restless After a Trip". After our lovely two weeks in Puglia and Basilicata, my thread is about getting sick after a trip.

I had those weird bug/spider bites to deal with during the first week of the trip. My eye was swollen and my head hurt. My eye recovered, more or less, after a few days and it did not ruin our trip. A few times Steve had to drive when it was my turn because my eye was watery or itchy. TMI, I know.

Driving home from Gatwick after this trip I had a sore throat and could feel the cold starting. I am still blowing my nose and tired, and now Steve is getting the cold. I think it is a combination of things - the let down of the adrenaline on the trip, you are eating and sleeping differently, being with all those people on the plane and in the airport.

I am happy that I got this cold AFTER the trip and not before or during. Only once in my travel life have I ever canceled a trip because I was sick - and that was my only free "press" trip (to Lazio)!!

I am also adjusting back to the English weather. We are having lovely sunny days, but temps in Ostuni were in the low 70s and in Basilicata in the 60s - here it is in the 50s.

 

[Chris]

Hope you feel better soon. And if your eye hasn't cleared up, you really should see someone (if you can, he he). Eyes are important!

I've got a bit of a sore throat and cough 12 days before I leave that feels like it might be a cold brewing. I hope it's just springtime, but if it's a cold, I wish it would hurry up and get here and get it over with!

 

[Pauline]

12 days before is a good time to get sick! But I hope you have a quick cold because you need to be well for organizing and packing.

I just read an Amy Tan article about Lyme Disease that someone linked to on Facebook (here is an article on her website)!! But my symptoms seem more like a spider bite. I will see someone next week if it hasn't cleared up (it is almost gone).

 

[chiaro di Luna]

I haven't been sick in 3 years until 4 days after the flight to Nassau in Feb. Close to others---3 seats in a row, air on plane,tired from the time to get there traveling seem to be factors for me. I use the sanitizer on the tray table and arm rests and watch what I eat but it didn't help. I have actually gone into the toilet and found the coffee package--to be brewed sitting unwrapped on the sink. Steward/ess left it there and forgot about it. I put it in garbage. yuck.