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

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