Is deej calling u
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
thankfully, no
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:49 (six years ago) link
rap thread nightmares?
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
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.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Amypoehler.gif
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
But it's really expensive!
― Moodles, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
yeah, it was a hundred bucks for me. fucking hell, i'm pretty rundown.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
Amantadine's not effective against flu anymore, huh.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:44 (six years ago) link
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 😷 😷 😷
― mark s, Saturday, 3 February 2018 12:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 3 February 2018 12:50 (six years ago) link
wow, good luck Mark.
And all with this ongoing flu.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 3 February 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
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
― mark s, Saturday, 3 February 2018 12:56 (six years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Saturday, 3 February 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
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.
― Moodles, Sunday, 4 February 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Monday, 5 February 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
familiar pundit on the Man Flu!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/style/why-men-complain-about-colds-so-much.html
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
manTB
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:11 (six years ago) link
I’m not sweating
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
there was also a nasty norovirus going round london just before xmas :(
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
Definitely sounds norovirus-y
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
wife and both kids have flu, I'm on preemptive tamiflu
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
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)
― mark s, Thursday, 8 February 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
YEEE HAW!!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
good job, eat yerself fitter
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
Its 86 degrees outside and I'm freezing to death!!
― oder doch?, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
think I have that norovirus. lovely stuff
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