THE GODDAMN FLU!!!!!!!!!!!

my stomach is on fire

i have it right now. its the one that is strongly resembling TB at the moment.

its the one that is strongly resembling TB at the moment.

YA RLY if this were the old days my new username would be bloody sputum.

I'm on day 3 and it only seems to be getting worse. The fatigue! Headaches! Aching limbs! Now sadness has set in too, and my bed, previously a sanctuary, feels like a torture chamber...

Last knee I got up to pee and I was shaking from the shivers so badly that none whatsoever went into the toilet. A low.

My wife and I have some stomachy crap that is making me all dizzy and light-headed. I don't feel like eating anything, and I could barely choke down a third of my coffee this morning.

I had the worst flu in years in late February - four days in bed - and I still feel like I'm just recovering from it.

it seems like there is something really nasty going around. i have just been living in fear and washing my hands compulsively.

That flu pwned half my office. My TB test was negative.

In which I threw up half of last night's dinner this morning and haven't been able to swallow anything beyond porridge since. muscles aching. headaches. shivers.

oh and I have an exam paper to sit for on thursday and a 120-page book chapter to edit by Friday so this is really just EXACTLY WHAT I NEED RIGHT NOW. boo, whine, etc.

job interview tomorrow, trans-european flight this afternoon, and I'm fucked with flu. feel like I can't think/sleep/move/eat...GAH.

I moved to Africa five weeks ago, and I've been sick the last three weeks. A malaria-typhoid doubleshot is currently the best guess as to what I have/had. Don't worry about the pity thing, cuz I got that shit COVERED. I was bummmming.

Sucks.

3 days without more than an hour's sleep at a time

fucking DIE

apparently this year's strain is worse than usual

Fuck this shit imo

i prob should have gotten a shot huh

fucking hell

Did you get a flu shot y/n and if n why not and if y u may not have flu just a garden variety coronavirus or whatnot so stop whining.

no flu shot, why not? because fuck you

Excellent reasoning. Perhaps you have encephalitis?

sorry for posting on a thread about the goddamn flu when i have the goddamn flu

Why does everyone insist they have the flu when they may very well have a bug that is just as bad? Why not just say "I AM SICK HOLD ME"?

would it please so much you if i said that i have really shitty flulike symptoms and a spiking fever and that the specific diagnosis isn't my primary concern at the moment?

Aw elmo I'm sorry, I'm being a jerk. FWIW if you lived near me I would totally bring you made-with-love Yucatan Chicken-Lime Soup, which is the only thing that tastes good to me when I am super sick like that.

The only other thing that feels good when I am super-sick is to have my feet rubbed. Everywhere else, contact just hurts when you have a fever.

Much <3 and I do hope you feel better soon.

it's ok q, i am kinda fried in the brainpan and a little less collected than usual... fwiw my boyfriend got a flu vaccine because he works in public health and he has not been taken to symptoms while caring for me so yeah i'm pretty sure its flu... i have never got a vaccine before because i always had the prejudice that the were somehow bunko but i am re-evaluating that stance

My bf had what I assume was flu for the last 4 days and somehow I didnt catch it. I never seem to catch the flu (colds yeah but not actual Flu). I dont know why... I'm a smoker, I'm not particularly healthy, I never have flu shots?

flu vaccine that is! need to be specific about that

I had what I'm pretty sure was actual influenza during the 1994/5 epidemic, and it was truly unlike any other infection I've ever had. I was in college, living in a single in a college dorm, and were it not for the kindness of my concerned hallmates really think I might have dehydrated to the point of. . . well, there was no way in hell I could go out for gatorade or even to the coke machine downstairs. I counted on my hallmates to bring me fluids, and literally crawled to the bathroom when I had to.

It made a huge impression on me and I have not missed a flu shot since. I'm a virologist by training, so at least it was an interesting--if unpleasant--experience.

Take good care of yourself! Or better yet, make others take good care of you!

Trayce, within any given population there are always those who quite resistant to influeza (mostly likely due to genetics)--you are probably one of those lucky ones!

You can take care of us all when the not-covered-by-that-year's-vaccine flu epidemic hits.

Feelin' that flu here too elmo.

there was no way in hell I could go out for gatorade or even to the coke machine downstairs. I counted on my hallmates to bring me fluids, and literally crawled to the bathroom when I had to.

Saturday night, its my friend's 22nd. We go to a sushi place where its $37 for all-you-can-eat. After twenty minutes of eating I run to the bathroom, spew, and don't stop until 4am. Yesterday I could barely walk. Today I email my professors asking for extensions on the pre-spring break papers.

Was it the flu? Sounds like all the right symptoms. Or was it food poisoning, or protein overload (I'm a vegetarian and made a fish exception for the occasion)? Maybe I'll find out tomorrow when I visit the campus clinic, but what I do know is that I'm sicker than I've ever been before.

I've never had food poisoning for more than 24 hours.

That sounds more like food poisoning but I guess it depends if you also had the fever and aches (I dont think you'd get the full body aches if it was FP?)

Influenza virus infection doesn't usually present that way. . . calling on ILX med peeps to verify. If you were feeling fine and then suddenly had vomiting, sounds like something differnt? Either way, it totally sucks and I hope you soon feel better!

Correct me if I'm wrong but this is how I always understood it: sudden onset of high fever, followed over the next days by continuing fever, shakes, weakness, aching all over, and a nasty cough/headache... thats flu.

Clagged up head and ears, sneezing, dribbly face, general run down blergh - thats a cold.

I'm no doc, but 20 minute between feeling fine and eating something suspect and massive vomiting seem unlikely to be flu, unless a total coincidence?

But yeah what I was taught was that sniffles in the absence of mega fever symptoms, nausea, and a 7-10 span of feeling awful was likely non-influenza virus infection. Rhinovirus, coronavirus, coxackivirus I seem to recall???

7-10 DAY span, rather.

Its strange. I was feeling excellent, top of the world, until I got that sushi in me. Seems too big a coincidence to be flu.

Anyone see that clip of the vegan family that ate steak -- or some kind of meat and potatoes meal -- and the whole gang found themselves physically shut-down for the rest of the day? It made the rounds on youtube, The Soup and that kind of thing, for the bit where the dad breaks down in the bathroom screaming "how could I do this to my family," all weepin' and sobbin'?

Can't that kind of thing happen if your diet doesn't include meat?

Hmmm well I went from 4 years of strict ovo-lacto to eating a T-bone, and then another within 4 hours, and didn't have an issue at all. But these things are highly individual, of course!

i feel better now

ctrl f theraflu? yall stupid
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i'm swearing by this stuff

the flu can juggle my biggity balls right about now

the regular ppl flu, not the piggie kind atm

I have some kind of dizziness flu...hot and cold, achey, and everytime I get up to walk it's like a carnival funhouse. EXCEPT i'M NOT HAVING ANY FUN. boo.

Maybe what you've got is this

XMRV quite possibly best syndrome name ever. Also first syndrome name to sound like a motorcycle. BRAWWWWWWWMMMMMMM.

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I'd been feeling meh for a few days, then nosedived straight into flu yesterday - headache, racking cough, runny nose, fever. Spent all of today in bed and am finally feeling like I'll live, though the coughing is awful. Goddamn flu, get away from me.

XMRV quite possibly best syndrome name ever. Also first syndrome name to sound like a motorcycle. BRAWWWWWWWMMMMMMM.

gotta say, i think this tamiflu stuff works. i had 103.5 fever a few hours ago, and now i'm under 100 after taking one pill. fingers crossed this shit keeps working...

Meanwhile: Praying

I have influenza b. :(. I too was prescribed Tamiflu, and my fever has lessened, though not gone away. though from waht I understand it only slows replication, as opposed to a antibiotic which has quicker success cuz it's killing the bacterial infection.

I haven't had a flu shot in years (dumb, I know), but I'm 30 now, and the last time I had the flu, I...

A. was writing book reports
B. rode a bicycle as transportation
C. Still called my mother "mommy".

stomach hurts from the mucus-y coughing.

can anyone recommend a good decongestant that won't make me groggy or in any kind of fog? i have to teach today but am horribly, horribly congested. thanks IL(R)X.

I no longer remember what it's like to not have the flu. Is it better there, on the other side?

not flu but i've had cold and massive sore throat pretty much constantly since xmas

I got about ten minutes of sleep last night due to constant coughing, wahey. Now that I'm 'awake' it's subsided, of course.

I would also like to marvel at the productive capabilities of my nasal cavity over this past week.

Me too Ste; I've been completely sick non-stop for months. went to the doctor last week and he gave me antibiotics which did nothing (at this point now I have a sinus infection and infections in both ears which is causing me to loose hearing). maybe it is the flu, I don't know; it has been going around, but I did get a flu shot so probably it's just some awful cold virus.

ive had two sinus infections (within two months), the stomach flu and now strep. Thats what happens when you kid catches everything from daycare.

i've had cold and massive sore throat pretty much constantly since xmas

ugh me too, when does this shit end?

don't you just hate that dry metallic taste in your mouth when you have the flu? it is the worst.

Fuck.... so much hurty. Head, limbs, jabby pains, hot and cold, 38-39C fever, rattly cough. So much for my "I never get the flu". I feel like a corpse thats been kicked in the head and groin.

I think I may be just starting to get the flu - woke up this morning feeling like the grease in all of my joints turned to glue overnight and now my throat and head hurts as well :-/

Urrrgh. By last night I thought I was recovering. Seems that was deceptive due to the mask of paracetamol and rest... A sleepless night with the drugs worn off and I still feel like a truck ran me down dammit.

Mine is on the move as well: belly now. Somewhat atypical for me: I'm even starting to think about staying home from work & going to the doctor if this isn't over in about 7 hours.

Get better, Trayce! I seem to be taking over from you :-(

How the f can I have to go to the toilet every 10 minutes if I've barely eaten half a rice biscuit all day? You suck, flu.

Man, is it flu season already? My body sure seems to think so. Out of nowhere last night, I suddenly started feeling like I had been kicked down a flight of stairs. Guh. At least I've managed to avoid this since getting horrendously swine flu stricken in '09.

I'm not sure if I have the flu or an extended hangover. I've been burning up since last night, sweating buckets all night, called in sick to work, but I don't have much more symptoms other than a bit of a sniffle. I don't really ever get the flu, but I did go to a work party (free bar), someone's leaving drinks and a gig over 3 consecutive nights and drank quite a lot every night. My kidneys hurt a bit. I only had 2 drinks yesterday afternoon at a street party, so if it's a hangover it's a long one.

I got a flu shot today.

Day 5. At least I think it is because I'm struggling to remember what day it is.

So far I...

1. Threw up so hard I felt like I was going to turn myself inside out
2. Stared at romanesco broccoli for so long I think I now have Stendhal Syndrome
3. Purchased an effects pedal. At least I have a receipt for one in my email
4. Made some kick ass chicken soup
5. Played a lot of Diablo 3 (the mindless killkillkill is perfect for alleviating flu-enhanced irritation)

Also going through caffeine withdrawal. Joy.

Eurgh. Um, rest up?

having some post-flu celebratory drinks atm

i can't tell if i have flu or just an ugly chest cold/jet lag combination but i feel ghastly.

:((( sleeps lots, thats what works (slowly) for me..

Ugh. Somehow going out till 3am didn't fix my flu.

Wtf

what were you drinkin

bleaaaagghhhhhhh.....

Crap, is it still going around? I started to feel real bad tonight and I really hope it's not that.

Felt fine yesterday, woke up today weak with full body ache and alternating chills and fever. Apparently I didn't make a lot of sense today, but I slept through most of it. Fever broke around 4:30 with the usual (for me) gray-out and vomiting -- apparently my pop-up timer goes off at exactly 100 degrees. Felt better immediately, except for aches. Back to feeling a bit warm, but much better overall.

Funny thing is, this is the first year I've had a flu shot.

so does anyone else have crazy mathbased fever nightmares when fluey

had three rough days and nights but fever broke last night, the world seems a beautiful place this am

I have awful dreams when I have a fever! Glad you are feeling better. Feverish is a miserable feeling.

yeah I feel a changed person today imma start drinking more water, getting off the bus two stops early and reading the bible

I didnt do any of those things and got another/different dose of idk what virus is going around.

dreamt that I shook herself awake to ask her if we could get a pet dinosaur and she thumped me in the eye. when I woke I couldnt remember if it had happened or not so I kinda sulked around her for a bit (nb it hadn't she wasn't even in the room this was at 6pm or something) and when she asked what was wrong with me I pointed at my eye and shouted IM SICK

I then spent twenty minutes trying to convince her that we should get a pet dinosaur.

flu fucks me up idk

on the plus side it was only a dream so you have got an eye not sore.

that was pterible

my diaphragm feels like it is made out of stale pop tarts from nonstop coughing

I was lying on the couch last night thinking about watching an episode of the Punisher on Netflix, so I did, then I sat up and realized I'd kinda hallucinated for an hour and the TV wasn't even on

I take off my socks to get into bed and it causes minutes of violent shivering

my eyes feel like I'm standing too close to a campfire

I'm exhausted but I'm scared to go to bed

my lungs sound like an old-timey car engine

i've got the flu and my period at the same time
the coughing
the fatigue and shivering
the sweating
+ cramps

brutal

Flu shot apparently very ineffective this year, though I guess any flu shot is better than no flu shot, in that it reduces symptoms.

We all got the flu shot at work, and my one co-worker who missed out because he was on vacation at the time is now using up all his sick days in the first week of 2018 because...he has the flu. Brutal. (Though it sounds like LL has it significantly worse.)

I know more than one person that proudly skipped the shot every year and then one year got the actual flu, then realized all those times they thought they might have had the flu in the past they just had a cold and the real flu will knock you on your ass.

deepest sympathy for LL, and all the flu sufferers of 2017-2018, and period sufferers of all times and places

I spent the week after my fever broke in a recliner at my Dad's house, dead to the world. one thing I will say is that total exhaustion due to viral invasions is pleasant in that it totally occludes anxiety and boredom... a slow lumbering elegance that is the complete opposite of my normal fretting and skittering around

i don't know what i have, but i stayed home yesterday; my coughs sounded like gagging, and my legs and back were so sore i took a dose of oxycodone from 2013.

Got the flu as well, despite getting the flu shot within the last month. Sympathies to all itt

a slow lumbering elegance that is the complete opposite of my normal fretting and skittering around
this is so otm
i finished a novel while lying on the couch!

I don't have the flu yet, just a wicked sinus infection. But my wife works at a doctor's office, where she has been besieged by flus this week as well as today's special - diarrhea patients.

two weeks now: all manner of horrible symptoms and fever-dreams over that time i won't burden you with, more or less myself this morning (tho still asthmatic and coughing)

posting here mainly to record that the delirium-doze obsession i couldn't get out of my head last night was whether or not to change my online name to PIXELLATED MOATY

lol, that's the best.

sorry you've been sick for so long. I actually tested positive for both strep and flu about a week and a half ago. I must have gone to the doctor right as it was coming up though, because I knocked them both down with Tamiflu and antibiotics in less than a week. Pretty amazing because when I got home and started googling things like "strep and flu at the same time" I ended up with news stories like: rare combination of two diseases kills family of five!

I also managed to not pass either of those things on to my wife or kids, but now we've all got a wicked sinus infection (confirmed not strep or flu).

(entering week three)

pixillated moaty surely

great article about the "spanish" flu in the current LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n02/gavin-francis/the-untreatable

Week three.. by god Mark S. I can't even imagine what that'd be like. I'm on *day three* and having an incredibly difficult time fending off the 'this is it man, you're dying, why did you have to drink and smoke so much etc etc rip' ghouls. Eating fruit like a gud popsy boy.

Best to you Mark.

be prepared for a long haul LBI :( it's lile, ok we have a sequence of symptoms to get through here ppl, we will be taking them one by one so you can savour them individually, you will have little rest days between when you imagine maybe you're better but you're not, go

imago: if only, i haven't had alcohol since 7 jan, a beer a chicken and gazza w/a fishing rod wd see me right

Really sorry to hear you are still unwell Mark.

not too bad today apart from very tired (plus cough and asthma) -- but my buds who are co-sufferers warn of further relapses and new symptoms to come (sore throat for example)

two of them have reached week 4, one is in quite a bad way :( :( :(

(she just texted me to say she went to the doctor's today to get antibiotics and while she was there an old couple walked in and the wife dropped down dead in front of her)

Got sick on December 18th and I'm still not right... lungs hurt after I go up a couple flights of stairs, exhausted by lunchtime. If I take a deep breath it triggers a coughing fit, that's not inspiring.

going on ten days for me now, still only at like 75% today

best to you all. mark that post will haunt me forever :o

overdid it last night working on taxes while watching A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951), and overslept till 11

sleep is now good healthy semi-uninterrupted* sleep tho -- eg not feverishly haunted by the revelatory knowledge that TWIN PEAKS is about TIDE PODS and that TIDE PODS are a species of MYRHH, their bitter scent a harbinger of the stone cold tomb** -- and i've felt closer to better for four days in a row

*i'm a man in my late 50s
**i got unshakeable versions of this three nights in a row last week

ok bah i was walking around my flat thinking hurrah i'm quite better so i went out to the shops -- not the cornershop, but M&S, maybe five or six streets away, and came back absolutely wiped out and breathless

my friend who saw the woman drop dead got some antibiotics: i slightly distrust them but maybe i shd follow suit)

Antibiotics shouldn't have any effect on the flu, but if you've been ill this long you probably should get checked out again. I got double-checked yesterday because I got sick again about 4 days after all my original symptoms had cleared. The doc thinks I was just unlucky enough to come down with an unrelated cold virus, but she tested me again to make sure the flu and strep hadn't come back and listened to make sure I didn't have pneumonia, a very real concern.

when I got home and started googling things like "strep and flu at the same time" I ended up with news stories like: rare combination of two diseases kills family of five

Just read that a 7-year-old kid died from this combo over the weekend. Real depressing stuff.

Are you better yet mark s?

sick since christmas

this flu is bullshit

better than last week (able to get some work done) but still a little breathless and too quickly tired -- going to talk to a doctor tomorrow

my sister told me yesterday that her bf heard that someone he knew a little via his work -- not closely but was acquainted -- had died of it :(

Adenovirus Type 4 Respiratory Infections among Civilian Adults

I'm about six weeks out now and I can finally breathe normally... had the shortness of breath/exhaustion for like a month!

7 weeks in

yikes what

Not intensely sick throughout but so tired and run down andwrecked. sniffling cough returned for third time yesterday

get well soon dude (and all the rest of you too)!

I got all this single malt for Christmas and I'm too sick to drink any

The week before I descended into pneumonia (iirc about three years ago now) I tried some green spot and it was the vilest thing

Save the good stuff for sure

lol ok i saw the doctor, who felt i needed something to speed things along ftb asthma and persisting mild breathlessness = 40 mgs of steroids a day for 5 days (plus a chest xray if the steroids don't move things along in the next 2 days)

the steroids in question only come in 5mg doses so i have to take 8 a morning, which added to my post-op cryoblation medication (plus vitamin C and D) = 13 pills every morning and a further 6 at night

*tries to get used to sounding like a pair of rattled maraccas*

The lorry arrived the next day
Swiss gnomes dealing out potions

Wife and son have been sick over last few days. I feel fine, but it seems like it's just a matter of time.

last winter i wheezed and sneezed and was short of breath for more than two months in a row, could feel stuff in chest when i breathed in, it was p nuts

i can't feel -- and the doctor couldn't find with a stethoscope -- anything actually impeding my chest, and my peak flow seemed roughly normal (i.e. rubbish but no lower than usual)

i just don't seem to have quite enough puff :(

if you have acid reflux (who doesn't post 30) then that can aggravate your throat and breathing without it affecting peak flow

heh, when I went to the doctor a few weeks ago they gave me a steroid inhaler. I used it for a week and I guess improvement but it was giving me a sore throat and heartburn! so I stopped. get well soon mark S and everyone else with draggy 2018 flu

Also, in flu news, my wife's aunt has been in the hospital for almost 2 weeks due to kidney failure and low blood pressure that was aggravated by the flu. We don't know if she's going to make it.

Sinus twinges and brain fog: prodrome or nocebo effect?

HI DERE

on that tamiflu, this set off my neck somehow? the flu itself is unpleasant but i can't move my fucking neck or upper back without pain, so that's fun.

you sure you don't have meningitis?

no fever, no headache, no nausea, tested positive for flu. the neck thing is an issue i've had in the past; they suggested my system is just run down. but yeah, it occurred to me too. 24 hour muscle spasm is no joke

I've heard Tamiflu kinda wrecks you

Got it twice in December/January (or it was the same bug with a two week pause). Just overwhelming tiredness all the time.

I've never had the flu but I've been feeling weird and shitty since Sunday so I hope that's not that it is.

.. what it is, even.

I know I've had a stiff neck during certain past colds or flu--maybe from sleeping funny while trying to breathe? I'll have a nice hot toddy when I get home tonight, but right now that feels like incredibly long time away.

nah, you'll know when you get the flu, you wake up feeling fine and by the afternoon you are a sweating jelly lying on the floor hoping for a swift death

i didn't know! just felt rundown and beat up. Got my goddamn flu shot on Friday, diagnosed with the flu next monday. bad timing, shoulda got mine earlier.
i am neti potting 2 or 3 times a day and gargling with salt water at the same time. not being very productive.

it could be worse... my grandfather got the flu in 1919 and told my dad he went from walking home feeling fine to collapsing in the street, coughing up blood in less than an hour (he lived, thus I exist to relate this tale)

yikes
yeah, everything can always be worse. i am hoping for better shortly but first a nap

I have quit sugary everything and coffee and staying up late and have been feeding this bitch kale and tomatoes and beans

I feel more likely to live I just don't want to like this

the possible side-effects list of the steroids i am taking is quite scary (however after 2 out of 5 days dosage i already feel better so fingers x-ed)

sure would like to be able to sleep through the night without waking up eighteen times.

Is deej calling u

thankfully, no

rap thread nightmares?

recurrence of a spine injury that i thought was past that appears to have been exacerbated by the flu, if you wags must know; kinda in constant pain and having serious issues turning my neck.

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Amypoehler.gif

I've heard Tamiflu kinda wrecks you

― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, January 30, 2018 1:00 PM (yesterday)

it mostly can cause some nausea and vomiting, but the real issue with tamiflu is that the data we have suggests that it is almost completely useless. it has been shown to decrease symptom duration by about a half a day, but hasn't been shown to decrease complications, hospitalizations, or death. one of the best rackets we have going in the medical profession

But it's really expensive!

yeah, it was a hundred bucks for me. fucking hell, i'm pretty rundown.

Amantadine's not effective against flu anymore, huh.

ok lol actually feeling much much better today, nevertheless spent all morning at homerton hospital getting just-in-case tests for TB as the belt-and-braces chest xray my GP suggested concerned them

IMO a false alarm -- for example i have no cough at all* -- but better safe than sorry

*or not until i'd spent 30 mins on the sputum-inducing saline nebuliser

TB-WATCH: 1st tests (skin and ew ew sputum) fine, blood results next week, "slow sputum" under obs for 6 weeks -- at worst it has been caught super-early and i go onto antibiotics (for six months!) but it is all very treatable so hurrah 😷 😷 😷

TB onset is slow and steady, but it just keeps going getting worse and worse for months. At least your GP isn't an incompetent fuckwit who just sends you away saying you've got bronchitis multiple times until you can barely breathe. Good luck.

wow, good luck Mark.

And all with this ongoing flu.

the advantage of being asthmatic (also ancient) is that i am super-aware of minor shifts in my ability to breathe well, and the doctors at my health centre know to pay attention to these shifts, so fingers x-ed

I was talking a friend who I often see on my dog walk yesterday, she's 73 and just recovered from what she said was the Aussie flu strain. She said it was the worst flu she has contracted in her life, and only a few back was thinking the end was nigh.

My wife's aunt, who was in the hospital, was finally released after 20 days. Hopefully, she's healthy enough now to take care of herself at home. I'm sure my mother-in-law will be checking in on her.

and into week five!

the actual flu is long gone i think and the TB stuff will be slow reveal if it all -- certainly it's not currently manifesting in any appreciable way

i did get called in today for FURTHER LIVER TESTS though, to follow up on some that worried them from 22 jan (routine part of the follow-on to last year's cryoablation and the medication i'm still on, one element of which can be toxic for the liver -- tho generally only if yr on it for far longer than i have been)

the GP thinks it likely that -- as i was tested right in the middle of the worst of my flu -- this is why my liver seemed to be registering as working too hard: so there should be nothing to see here when they retest, we shall see fingers x-ed

anyway BORED NOW (others have had it much worse obviously but it is still tiresome and distracting and i am now a month behind with my big PLAN FOR JAN)

familiar pundit on the Man Flu!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/style/why-men-complain-about-colds-so-much.html

manTB

Woke up in the middle of last night and vomited on and off for 6 hours. At the end of it I felt like it could just be food poisoning, I felt kinda better, but now I have a fever & I ache & I can’t keep anything down, not even water. So... I hope it’s just food poisoning.

I’m not sweating

there was also a nasty norovirus going round london just before xmas :(

Definitely sounds norovirus-y

wife and both kids have flu, I'm on preemptive tamiflu

i am out of the woods and in my opinion entirely better now! nevertheless i have another liver test tomorrow (bcz they fucked up yesterday's) plus the TB nurse just dropped off two weeks-worth of antibiotics (rather than six) bcz the TB doctor is concerned abt the infection on my lung revealed last week (tho there is no sign yet it is TB)

in my own time i also have to provide *another* sputum sample -- i'm not quite sure how, as i am no longer coughing at all and have *never* coughed much during the entire stupid time (tbf the nurse acknowledged as much and sort of implied "only if you actually can")

(obviously this is all better-safe-than-sorry belt-and-braces stuff and an indication i was probably a lot iller than i realised three weeks ago)

YEEE HAW!!

good job, eat yerself fitter

Its 86 degrees outside and I'm freezing to death!!

think I have that norovirus. lovely stuff

get yr shots people, I got mine but it was maybe a week too late, it doesn't start working for 2 weeks and I got sick like 6 days after

I have been brutally sick for 8 solid days now, I'm maybe at 85% today.

mostly coughing, with a side of backache and lethargy

me too friend, ive been feeling like chicken fried dogshit since thursday

im trying to remember why i didnt get my flu shot bc i got my covid booster some months ago, but im paying dearly for it

feel better, flu-zys. drink lots of drinks!

yah I have an IPA right here oh wait

(I am actually drinking a beer rn but have cut down immensely and am consuming tons of ginger lemon tea)

My wife and I got our flu shots back in the fall and caught it anyway a couple of weeks ago. Mild cases for both of us though.

great time to fire the whole CDC huh?

oh i just meant liquids in general. though some people probably swear by a whisky or two when ill.

Influenza B. Have been sick for over a month (pretty mild now though.) Has kind of come and gone in waves. Will never skip a flu shot again.

ugh this shit is killing me. the fever was bad enough, two days now the fluid buildup in my ears is causing me high levels of pain. i've taken three oxy over the past two days. i have them left over from my GRS, where i took maybe one, because i fucking hate oxy. the oxy is barely controlling it. i still can't sleep because i'm constantly coughing - dry, hacking cough, all the fluid stuck in my body, not coming out

i didn't get a flu shot this year because i'm too severely depressed to leave the house... only time i've left the house in the past two weeks was to go to coffee with friends. lying around the house being miserable all the time is difficult enough without this illness. i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

i guess the upside is that i don't actively wish i were dead and i'm not having too many blackpilled paranoid thoughts about humans being the real plague and all of these illnesses being nature's way of trying to defend itself, which in the past i did a lot. i mean i still have those feelings but i don't _identify_ with them.

Just went through 4 days of fever, intense headaches, really painful coughing and having basically zero energy. I'm feeling a bit better this morning (it's currently merely like a bad cold), but I feel like the fever is slowly coming back again.

This was the first time in several years I didn't get a flu shot, not sure why, I basically just forgot to do it.

Does getting a flu shot but still catching the flu reduce the severity of the symptoms? My daughter got this year's flu shot and still got the flu and it suuuuuucked (for her).

yes it does, in fact the CDC just removed that page

Sad lol/sigh, we've entered an era where information is removed from a website because it's *accurate*.

i didn't get a flu shot this year because i'm too severely depressed to leave the house... only time i've left the house in the past two weeks was to go to coffee with friends. lying around the house being miserable all the time is difficult enough without this illness. i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

i guess the upside is that i don't actively wish i were dead and i'm not having too many blackpilled paranoid thoughts about humans being the real plague and all of these illnesses being nature's way of trying to defend itself, which in the past i did a lot. i mean i still have those feelings but i don't _identify_ with them.

that's real Kate, I've been going thru something like that recently. you know what actually helped? flowers. someone sent me flowers for my birthday and it snapped me out of this kinda. so when they died, I bought more. it really does help.

feel better everyone xx