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

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.

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.

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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