Getting sick and trucking, how do you get your medications?

I will say it sucks royally. I have been sick a couple times out on the road and did nothing but ride it out. Have gotten food poisoning a half dozen times as well. There ain't no feeling of just leaving the truckstop. got that hot burrito in your hand, music going, window down just enjoying life, then not 10 minutes later that feeling of oh #### I'm about to #### my pants RIGHT NOW.

It happens. As far as viruses, I'm not sure what to do. Not like ur pulling ur rig into a doctors office. Can't be taking random medications that will effect driving or being able to pass a drug test. Just ride it out and try to get some good rest. If it's that bad that you think u might die, maybe take a Uber to a hospital or have your dispatch send a plane ride home or something.

 

I've been lucky. The only time I ever had it real bad was food poisoning on a 34 so I had plenty of time to puke in my trash can then carry it to the bathroom and puke in the toilet. The only other big one was getting covid and then driving halfway across the country. That one wasn't too bad. Just achy.

As for a primary care doctor, my doctor is just a doc in the box. There's urgent cares all over so if you really need it, it's that of the hospital.

Isn't rhinovirus the common cold? Or at least one version of it.

 

If you are that sickly you probably should not be in trucking.

 

My wife and I both got the flu once and stayed at a rest area off I 5 in Oregon for a couple.of days...absolute misery. Finally got a load back to Alabama and drove across country with a 102 fever. She once got a urinary tract infection and we called one of those phone docs who prescribed her antibiotics over the phone so that ended up working out well.

 

Just keep driving.
As a former boss once told us, “You can feel miserable in the truck just as much as feeling miserable at home.”

 

But did you cook it in the shower room? Lol

 

I mean, sometimes you gotta hit up the urgent care. You gotta drop the trailer and get checked out sometimes that's necessary. Other times, you gotta work through it. Most of the time, I work through it. In trucking, the show must go on. Once I actually had to go to the hospital. My breathing wasn't right and it turned out I had developed heart disease. I caught a viral infection that I couldn't shake. It attacked my heart. I had to get to a spot where I knew they could relay my load to another driver so I could get checked out. I ended up taking 5 months off to recover. I've had to make some lifestyle changes and started eating healthier more frequently than i previously did. If you get sick that often, you'll need to consider looking at your diet and eating healthier stuff so you can get vitamins the natural way and over time your immune system gets built up. You'll have to take care of yourself if you get out here. Now I'm on a more plant based diet, and not eating that much bad food. So consider that going forward.