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

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