My girlfriend an I have been taking large doses of vitamin C for about six months now. Since then many people around us have been getting sick, but so far we've escaped unscathed. However, recently my girlfriend went through a very stressful situation and she caught a cold. Lack of sleep and stress, I feel, contribute heavily to whether one gets sick regardless of vitamin c or nutrition. She came down with some symptoms, so I told her to megadose, but she ended up taking only about three grams in a six hour period, so it wasn't enough to stop the virus. The next day she was too weak to leave bed and she didn't eat much. However, I gave her vitamin C and some other vitamin supplements, and fish oil throughout the day.
Here's what's interesting: she had fevers on and off all day. Now a fever is a sign that your body is fighting the infection, and this is happening on the first day of the cold. The very next morning she called me and was so excited; she reported, "I feel almost completely better! This has never happened to me before (getting over a bad cold in one day), what do you think it was?"
I think it was the vitamins; I really do. Plus, I megadosed liked crazy during this time and I failed to catch her cold, despite the fact that she was in MY BED all day!
Has anyone else experienced an increase in fever while using vitamin C to rid yourself of a cold? I think that the immune system went into overtime and so the experience was more intense than it would have been if the body got rid of the cold over the period of a week rather than one day.