yes you may have cursed yourself. It was five years sence I had gotten sick, this year I was sick on Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm still fighting it now but go to the doctor Jan 15,2009, maybe can get it strightened out.

Unfortunately, quite the opposite with me - a nuisance headcold runs through my family and I'm literally bedridden for 2-3 days - think it may be time to get my blood checked - between the Rebif & the Tegretol, my white blood cells may be low...

Enjoy whie you can!

I haven't gotten so much as a pimple since i was diagnosed let alone a cold.

Crazy stuff. I work in a doctors office and there's constantly people hovering over me, coughing and sniffling.. not to mention the office managers little germ ridden brats who get sick every other day. Even when my boyfriend gets sick and i swap spit with him nothing happens.

I MUST BE INDESTRUCTABLE! .. minus the auto-immune disease attacking my CNS part.

I have noticed this also, I actually started a thread on it a while back and had many mixed responses.

I guess it is my silver lining too ;)

i also noticed this....everyone sneezing and choking around me....i just thought i was very healthy and my vitamins were working....silly me....

well, its one of those things you don't know if you should be happy or worried...

its been said over the years, that people who catch colds on a regular basis are far more healthy than those who don't.
and that it means their immune system is working when they are experiencing the typical cold symptoms.

who really knows...i don't! xokatie

I get the odd cold but never as bad as those around me and I haven't had the (touch wood) flu in many years. Good or bad I'm happy about that. Now I'm scared I may have jinxed myself.

I haven't been sick since d/x in 2002! Praise God.

You might have done yourself in..... Yes I have realized that I don't get as sick as I did in the past but right now I have a killer of a sinus infection. I blame it on our weather. Below freezing one day and 60 plus the next.

until I read this post i never gave it any thought but, I have not really been sick for several years....I have only been dx'd for 2 years but I think it has been 4 yrs at least since my last bad flu....Maybe God decided we have enough to deal with...
I dont need the flu to feel like crap everyday
;) foxx

I actually got REALLY sick when I first had MS. It took me a year to finally have the money/funding for my injections. As soon as I got on Avonex I noticed that I haven't gotten sick at all since. My theory is that its the injections and modified living (eating better etc) that keeps me from getting sick.

Same here, I have definitely noticed that I have not had a cold/flu since my MS-dx. I do suffer from sinus and seemed to catch colds/flu easily before dx. It seems strange that the day my nurse left after showing me how to give injection over 2yrs ago, these words she said to me have stuck with me and I think of them often...she said be very careful with the cold or heat, and be careful not to catch a cold/flu.

Well I have not and I don't know if that's good or bad? Thank you for this post HeyNow, because I am definitely going to as my neuro about this.

Hello.
I'm a newbie. I have noticed that I don't get sick the way every one else does. Instead of getting a regular cold, I usually get a head cold that last maybe a day. I felt that it was because of the over active immune system too.

This comes and goes in cycles for me. There will be a couple of years where I'm constantly sick with colds, strep throat, etc........then I'll have a few years where I don't get sick at all. I'm still a firm believer in getting a flu shot, seems like when I do get one, even though everyone around me is sick, I somehow bypass it.

Me too. My neuro told me the MS meds would do this. At least that's one positive.