I have this strange, recurring pattern that I'm trying to make sense of. Typically, if my youngest son gets a cold and is coughing and snotty, I end up catching it. I get it first in my throat, which becomes sore and then my ears get plugged up. Over the course of a few days, I start getting sick with pouchitis. Oddly, my body temperature goes haywire despite no fever. I get so cold I sleep with a bunch of blankets, socks, sweatshirt and it tends to last about a day. I just feel freezing the whole time. At this point, pouchitis is full blown and I'm dealing with the whole fun gamut of diarrhea, and, also strangely, I have this oddly heightened sense of smell when it comes to people's breath. I find that all people have this common strange smell to their breath. It's super weird. And gross. Wondering if others find any of this in their particular cases.
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