Healthy in the US, ill in the UK

Are any of you who feel less healthy in the UK using public transport more now than in the US? That would expose you to a lot more germs.

(I've gone from using public transport every day to walking to work, and I think I catch fewer colds now.)

Thats a really good point. I used to walk to work every day and I hadn't gotten a cold or anything like that for the whole 8 months. We moved a little farther away and I've been getting the bus to work and I've had 3 colds in the last 6 months! >_<

Good point sweetpeach... maybe i'll start carrying some hand sanitizer on the bus... although its probably a futile effort

I've always been hypersensitive to water changes. 

My eczema is really sensitive to the water changes. When I lived in France, it was the worst. They have lots of mineral in the water. Since moving to the UK, I wasn't very sick the first year but when I started working I got really sick quite often - out for two months in the winter with a really nasty strain of influenza. My GP said in his experience foreigners take about two years (after starting to work) to get to the same level of immunity as people who grew up here. He said it's also worse if you work in an office or the service industry. I got the worse end of the stick - I work in an office and my hubby is a publican.

I was like that when I lived in the US.  I think it's a common thing when people move to another country.

Same with me - seem to be sick a lot in the US.  It seems like one thing after another at times.  At first I had no trouble with mosquitos and my US wife thought they weren't used to my body chemicals or something, being that we dont really suffer with them in the UK.  This last summer though they have certainly developed a taste and made up for last summers fast!!

On one of our visits to the US, my (British) husband was literally swarmed with Texas-sized mosquitos.  I think they smelled the blood of an Englishman, alright!  He had so many bites on his forearms, they swelled up to nearly twice their normal size ...we were using icepacks & dosing him up with Benadryl.

On one of our visits to the US, my (British) husband was literally swarmed with Texas-sized mosquitos.  I think they smelled the blood of an Englishman, alright!  He had so many bites on his forearms, they swelled up to nearly twice their normal size ...we were using icepacks & dosing him up with Benadryl.

My DH is blessed with being loved by mosquitos too.

I am usually a sickly type person. I have severe migraines. However, since being here over the last two months, my feet and ankles swell like crazy here and they never did that back in the US. I actually have old lady cankles