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I catch a cold yesterday while working, finished my shift and went home. 4 hours later I was so tired I laid down on my bed and woke up at 4am the next day, meaning I slept for 10 hours straight.

I called in sick and went back to sleep. 4 more hours.

I woke up, cooked something, ate, watched netflix and kept falling asleep. I started feeling like a person at 2 pm.

I went walking in a park for 30 minutes and went back home, started reading some epubs started having a headache and feeling tired, called in sick for a second day in a row and if tomorrow I feel like this, it's gonna be the third day in a row I feel tired and very strange, like not completely awake but not tired.

I was hoping to go to the doctor today, but I'm so tired.

I didn't feel so tired while walking those 30 minutes I mentioned. Now I wonder if walking outdoors makes people feel more awake, because the air has more oxygen than inside my bedroom and if I should open the windows to let some fresh air inside.

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[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

That's absolutely normal and expected. The illness is taking a toll on your body and it needs all it's resources to fight it. Don't take this as advice not to see a doctor if you were already going to because if you personally feel like something is wrong and out of the ordinary for you, then it's better that you decide to go to a doctor even if you're told that it is indeed normal for a cold because who knows if it's not something worse or if "normal" for you is different. But in general, yes, for colds and most illnesses tiredness is very much to be expected, even to a pretty extreme degree.

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