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Just post your longest time for how long you have not been sick

ex: mine is 2 months, when i was like 11, i had a very strong immune system, blah blah blah, post yours.

Pre-teens, a long time. I was well tough.

Now I'm on medication for IBD that suppresses my immune system as part of process of putting it in remission. I'm susceptible to colds and stuff more than I used to be for sure.

I haven't been sick for over a year.

Does sore throat count? If not, the last time I was sick is four years ago, when I had a flu. No, I don't take any seasonal vaccines, I just have a good immune system.

I'm currently getting over a terrible cold, but before that, I wasn't sick for at least half a year.

Techno wrote:I haven't been sick for over a year.

Same. *knocks on wood*

I went like a six-year stretch where I only missed school for skipping, but I assume I was a little sick sometime in there.

Counting colds, and food poisoning, over a year. If not, probably more than 10 years. I go to Sierra Leone with no jabs except yellow fever. I Haven't been to the doctors since I was 8. :(

Man, I used to get strep throat /all/ the time when I was a kid. I had it five times in kindergarten alone. By about fifth or sixth grade, though, I stopped getting it. Since then, I've gotten the flu once (three years ago), and colds that come about once every winter, but I can generally stay healthy for a... er... healthy span. ;)

4 years. From 9 until 13.

toasters wrote:

Techno wrote:I haven't been sick for over a year.

Same. *knocks on wood*

Did you know you knock on wood to alert pre-Homeric Greek legend wood-living elves that you're about to invade their area of the tree/wood object?

I am sick right freaking now. :( I've gone a good year or so without being so before, I'm pretty sure.

3 weeks? Auto-immune disease fucking over my entire system ahoy! Although I do get better stupidly quickly (Recovered from swine flu in about 2 days, rest of my family took 1 to 2 weeks).

Grades 6-12, never got sick. Then, late-last semester I got sick. :(

I'm extremely confused as to how length of time between illness is ever something one consciously pays attention to.
I have no effing idea when I was last sick, nor do I have any clue as to how often I actually get sick. If you were to monitor my health for a few years to find out, I'd just as readily believe you if you said I get sick every six weeks as six months.

Tsukatu wrote:I'm extremely confused as to how length of time between illness is ever something one consciously pays attention to.
I have no effing idea when I was last sick, nor do I have any clue as to how often I actually get sick. If you were to monitor my health for a few years to find out, I'd just as readily believe you if you said I get sick every six weeks as six months.

The onlny reason I had an answer was that at some point in my childhood I had been healthy for so long that it became a subject of conversation.

I could easily go a year without being doctor-definition "sick." I've been well enough to attend school consistently every day since 2005, and I've always felt fine in the summertime - it's actually less stress, so I kind of feel better.

flagmyidol wrote:

Tsukatu wrote:I'm extremely confused as to how length of time between illness is ever something one consciously pays attention to.
I have no effing idea when I was last sick, nor do I have any clue as to how often I actually get sick. If you were to monitor my health for a few years to find out, I'd just as readily believe you if you said I get sick every six weeks as six months.

The onlny reason I had an answer was that at some point in my childhood I had been healthy for so long that it became a subject of conversation.

And I used to be sick so often that now I have a tendency to take note of good health. You're just too normal, Suki. ^_^

Mmm, the answer depends entirely on the definition of sickness. I've got an omnipresent minor nasal thing, I get a decent (w/ sore throat and coughing) cold probably a couple of times per year, never had the flu, and haven't been vomitingly sick (excluding seasickness) for many many years.

Does drinking copious amounts of gin and Mountain Dew until you vomit count?

If yes, one day.

How long can you last in this frozen water burial?

Haven't got a cold in many, many years. Haven't been sick for many, many years. Like flag said, my...immunition is so good it's a topic of conversation for a lot of years.

That said, I can't remember when was the last time I had fever.

SlappyMcGee wrote:Does drinking copious amounts of gin and Mountain Dew until you vomit count?

If yes, one day.

If we count that, I've also been sick for a day with an over-consumption of orange Tic-Tacs and Canada Dry.

It depends on what you say. :\
A cold? 4 weeks ago.
Actully like something BAD bad?
Bladder infection, 3 months ago.

Few months ago I got sick for the first time in 3 years.