Getting Sick

Since about lunch time today, my throat has been really sore so I am obviously starting to get a cold. Luckily I dont get colds very often now that I am looking after myself so much better and when I do get colds, my body fights them off extremely quickly.

It is really strange, but whilst I was at my sickest I never ever seemed to get sick. Even though everyone around me got viruses or other 'bugs' I never seemed to which I found quite strange. I think that the reason that I never seemed sick was not because I didn't have the viruses, but instead because my immune system was not working properly so I therefore did not have the common symptoms associated with viruses.

For example, when a person gets a sore throat or runny nose, these are actually ways that the body tries to defend itself by fighting off the illness. However a person with anorexia who is extremely malnourished has a poor immune system and there body therefore will not produce these types of symptoms. If you think about it this is actually quite dangerous as it means you could be suffering from an illness without even realising it.

This is my understanding of why I never seemed to get sick anyway but I dont actually know if this is the scientific explanation for it or not. I suppose another reason may be because I became so socially withdrawn I didnt actually spend enough time with other people in order to catch there illnesses. I also think that perhaps the reason why I never really noticed being sick is because I was just so miserable and weak all the time anyway, regardless of whether or not I had a cold.

I have heard from others that they didn't seem to show symptoms of being sick or having 'bugs' until after they started eating more and after ther started to recover. What are all of your experieces of this? Did you find you got sick very rarely whilst restricting and that you actually seemed to be sick more once you started to recover?