I had the "crud" back in February, and it touched off a mixed episode that lasted much longer than the illness. It probably happened because I was up half the night coughing and wheezing and thus wasn't sleeping.

I seldom get physically sick, but when I do, it's a doozy. Sometimes it exacerbates my asthma to the point that I have to take prednisone, which makes me manic as hell, so I avoid the stuff like the plague. This time I really should've been on it, but I didn't want to deal with the consequences.....and ended up having a mood episode anyway.