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Question about how viruses work (not computer viruses)
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Union County, NJ
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To make a long story short, I had been through a virus the last three days, and just like the last time, it just went off like a switch. One second I'm shaking, no strength, no energy, and the next, I'm back to normal. Rather than Google it and read through a ton of crap I don't need to, can someone tell me why it's not a gradual progression back to normal?
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Originally Posted by starman 
To make a long story short, I had been through a virus the last three days, and just like the last time, it just went off like a switch. One second I'm shaking, no strength, no energy, and the next, I'm back to normal. Rather than Google it and read through a ton of crap I don't need to, can someone tell me why it's not a gradual progression back to normal?
eat some bananas' when you do that. Your potassium is probably bottoming out...it will make a great quick fix. As for the progression, I'll explain it to you how it was explained to me in EMT school, which is really basic. Your body has been fighting off the virus with a lot of energy. So when it is fought off, usually your body is "weak" from fighting the virus and is busy recovering. It's kind of like a morning run for the first time in ten years. Your body is working to exercise so much and when you get finished your exhausted and you need time to recover. Does that make sense or did I look like a total freaking moron?
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Posting Junkie
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No, that's fine. It's what I thought, but the recovery was FAST. Just faster than I expected. Thanks for the info.
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You're body reacts to the little miniatured submarines racing round your bloodstream fighting the viruses. Once they "beam" out you're fine.
Or something
Probably
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Much of what you feel when you have a viral infection is the affects of your immune system fighting it. The sweats and chills come from your system releasing chemicals that attack invaders (and cause the fever) and then running out of those chemicals for a time (so you cool off really fast and feel chilled). The lack of energy has to do with how much metabolic energy it takes to produce billions of immune cells and send them on their way to fight your infection. Once there is no more antigen (the bad guy here, in your case a virus), the system shuts itself down-for you it sounds like it shuts down faster than in most people.
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Glenn -----
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