Does anyone else feel guilty calling in sick?

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Its the phone call I don't like if I'm not really ill and lying that makes it even worse also the fact that I'm telling the truth and I am actually ill but because I'm awkward on the phone in general its sound like I'm lying..... i hate that..... so for me just going in is usually the best option. One of the best bosses I had would text me telling me not to come in on a snow day, which ment I didnt have the awkward phone call explaining I couldn't make it in and a nice written reply and nothing verbal =]

I agree that the phone call is often the hardest. I have gone to work ill in the past simply to avoid it. I always stutter and sound like an imbecile on the phone at the best of times...
When I do need to call in sick, I feel guilty and it sometimes takes me up to an hour to pysch myself up enough to call in.

I often think about calling in "sick", but feel guilty about making the call. The call is DEFINITELY the worst part!
One time I worked up the nerve and called out to go see a movie... I got so nervous about getting caught that I just stayed home!

I used to work when sick almost to the point I could no longer stand because I felt so guilty about letting the team down. I felt even worse when I once had a mild flu and could barely stand and when I called my supervisor, she angrily said "you aren't THAT sick. Take a pill and come in we need you today". I almost physically collapsed that day at work and finally said "I don't care I'm going home now!"

Luckily my current semi-Aspie boss now is great and if I am the least bit sick he will tell me quite directly to go home and worry about my own health first. Too bad he's leaving I have VERY generous sick allowances and while I take more than I used to I still feel a little guilty about taking them.

I pushed myself earlier to go to work and only stayed at home, when I was really sick. But it was pretty dumb of myself, two times a minor flu turned into a heavy Bronchitis and lung infection that forced me to stay home for 1-2 weeks and ruined parts of my lung, only because of me being so dumb to go to work, instead of staying home for 1-2 days. Also my coworkers were infected and so the company didnt only loose my workcraft, but these of my coworkers as well.

Right now, when I have minor symptoms like headache, low fever, bit of coughing and so on, I stop visiting my building sites and stay in the office (I have my own office, so cant infect directly a coworker.) doing paper work and office stuff or drawing plans. If I feel its worser, or that my lungs starting to create fluid, I simply visit the doctor and if he says its only something minor I go on with staying in the office until I am healthy again, and if the doctor tells me to stay at home, I stay at home.

Dont feel much regrets, because since I am in the company, I never managed to spend all my holidays that I owned in a year. So if I can afford to present the company my holidays, then they can afford to give me some illdays, when I am ill. I also dont have many regrets, because before I worked in that company I only had to stay two times at home because of me being ill. But because of my coworkers smoking in the office, which is hardly to come by as long as all our bosses are smoking in the office, I am sick now every winter. -.- Stinking dumbass bastards. -.-

Calling in sick is it's own torture, so it's good I don't have to very often. When I do call in, it's mostly do to stress factors and I feel guilty. I've learned that if I'm having a spacey, disoriented day, then I won't last two hours at my job.