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To wonder what fresh hell this virus is?

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WolfFleece · 14/12/2024 16:36

DP has given me the man flu he’s been suffering with all week. I wish I’d been more sympathetic now, it’s bloody horrible! Can’t remember feeling this bad for years.

Symptoms are:

Yesterday, managed to go to work, my chest felt like it was on fire all day and I had a dry cough. By the end of the day I was feeling very achy and dizzy. Had a bath and tried to warm up, but the chills were awful. Managed to get some sleep with the help of corvona for the coughing.

Woke up today with a fever, and feeling really achy, weak and feeble. Any attempt to move, to go to the toilet etc is accompanied by dramatic moans. Still feel very dizzy. And now back to having chills again. Also been coughing up a lot of yellow grim stuff today.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Haven’t been ill for ages and got so much on the next couple of weeks in the run up to Christmas, I’m hoping it’s not going to last until then 🤞.

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thechampselysee · 17/12/2024 19:35

WolfFleece · 17/12/2024 19:33

@thechampselysee yeah pretty sure this is flu, I wouldn’t call it a cold because the one thing I’m missing is snot! Did a lot of sneezing for a few days but still no snot. I tried phoning GP today but gave up after half an hour on hold. I’ll try again tomorrow if I’m no better.

yes it's awful isn't it, like nothing else I had before. I hope you feel better soon.

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WolfFleece · 17/12/2024 19:34

Meltedchocolateteapot · 17/12/2024 19:32

That sounds awful and exactly what we all had. It ended up being Influenza A, the nastier strain of Flu. There seems to be a lot about at the moment and it’s a really bad dose. I am pregnant so ended up having to go to Hospital to make sure the baby was ok as my temperature was over 39 degrees. Keep an eye on your heart rate if you can, when I was assessed I had a resting heart rate of around 115 that didn’t go down at all over the course of a few hours. Worst dose any of us in the family have ever had, made covid seem like a mild headcold. We’re over a week in now and feeling a lot better but still weak. Hope you get better soon x

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Sorry to hear you were so bad too, yes I’ve had Covid 4 times and that was a walk in the park compared to this! I feel like if I was 90 and I got this I’d pretty likely not survive it x

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WolfFleece · 17/12/2024 19:33

@thechampselysee yeah pretty sure this is flu, I wouldn’t call it a cold because the one thing I’m missing is snot! Did a lot of sneezing for a few days but still no snot. I tried phoning GP today but gave up after half an hour on hold. I’ll try again tomorrow if I’m no better.

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IMustDoMoreExercise · 17/12/2024 19:32

I'm not a doctor but could it be pneumonia. I know a couple of people who have had it recently.

Sunhatweather · 17/12/2024 19:32

Sounds awful, OP 💐

Meltedchocolateteapot · 17/12/2024 19:32

WolfFleece · 17/12/2024 19:13

Day 5 now and I’m getting worse not better. Had a temperature and sweats for most of the time since Friday, and my chest feels awful. Loads of coughing, no strength in my body at all, I get dizzy when I try to stand up. Day nurse is doing bugger all but night nurse is at least knocking me out at night.

That sounds awful and exactly what we all had. It ended up being Influenza A, the nastier strain of Flu. There seems to be a lot about at the moment and it’s a really bad dose. I am pregnant so ended up having to go to Hospital to make sure the baby was ok as my temperature was over 39 degrees. Keep an eye on your heart rate if you can, when I was assessed I had a resting heart rate of around 115 that didn’t go down at all over the course of a few hours. Worst dose any of us in the family have ever had, made covid seem like a mild headcold. We’re over a week in now and feeling a lot better but still weak. Hope you get better soon x

Namechangefordaughterevasion · 17/12/2024 19:31

I've had it for 10 days. Tested and it's not Covid. Coming out the other side now but still so much mucus!

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WolfFleece · 17/12/2024 19:30

I haven’t done a Covid test mainly because I haven’t had any change to my taste or smell, which I’ve had every time I’ve had Covid. So I feel pretty confident it’s not that, it’s a bit irrelevant anyway as I’m not able to leave the house.

Cold and flu capsules, day nurse, lemsip, been rotating through them all and none of them seem to help at all.

Everything really aches too, and I have no appetite at all.

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thechampselysee · 17/12/2024 19:28

I had something similar without the chest symptoms and it was the flu. I couldn't get out of bed for three days, had a fever for seven. For two days I got dizzy and threw up just from watching tv. Now I am just fatigued. No one else in the house was as sick as me, they all just had cold symptoms for a couple of days. Given your chest symptoms I suggest you see a GP or similar to rule out a chest infection, pneumonia etc particularly as you are getting worse and not better.

Duchess379 · 17/12/2024 19:25

That sounds utterly dreadful. I'm going down with a cold & have a bit of a sore throat but that's it.
Wishing you a speedy recovery. Have you tried cold & flu tablets?! 🥺🎄

EspressonNan · 17/12/2024 19:22

Did you manage to do a covid test?

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WolfFleece · 17/12/2024 19:13

Day 5 now and I’m getting worse not better. Had a temperature and sweats for most of the time since Friday, and my chest feels awful. Loads of coughing, no strength in my body at all, I get dizzy when I try to stand up. Day nurse is doing bugger all but night nurse is at least knocking me out at night.

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Petrasings · 14/12/2024 17:49

Day and night nurse works well.

Petrasings · 14/12/2024 17:49

My dh and dd had this. Dd lost her smell and taste, so it’s definitely Covid for us - the new strain XEC.
Dd couldn’t stand properly.
It takes a few weeks to recover.

scoutingfortwirls · 14/12/2024 17:48

We had this s couple of weeks ago. The vaccinated member of the family didn't get ill which made me think it was flu. Who knows. It lingers for a while.

Blueuggboots · 14/12/2024 17:48

What are you taking for it? I've got similar but it's bearable with regular paracetamol.

Calmhappyandhealthy · 14/12/2024 17:40

Devilsmommy · 14/12/2024 16:56

@Frequency sounds more like the flu to me. It's meant to be extra nasty this year too

Yes. That's true. Many hospital admissions 🥺

baroqueandblue · 14/12/2024 17:39

I've got it, right on the heels of a grim stomach bug that lasted weeks. Not sure exactly when it segued into this bastard flu, but it's a shocker and all I feel after weeks of this shit is white hot rage! 😄 Oh plus the psycho-sealion croup cough, freezing then boiling fevery feelings, restless legs, zero energy, virtual coma, dodgy appetite and achey everything.

Best of luck patients!

FeegleFrenzy · 14/12/2024 17:39

Flu? Apparently rates of flu are very high.

Whatkatyforgottodo · 14/12/2024 17:35

I’ve been ill for over a week with it now. Thought I was getting better but now have a splitting headache and nausea. Not sure if they are side effects from all the medicine I’ve been taking? Assume it’s flu and desperately hoping I don’t give it to the rest of my family! Although the children were both sick with fever a week or two before me so hopefully they’ve had it already…

RedFiveStandingBy · 14/12/2024 17:30

WolfFleece · 14/12/2024 16:50

I do have some ancient Covid tests downstairs, they went out of date a couple of
years ago but I’ll do one anyway and see what it says, if I’m able to get down the stairs at some point!

What’s the point? You don’t need an out of date and unreliable test anyway to tell you your symptoms do you? Madness!

Vergus · 14/12/2024 17:24

My money’s on good old-fashioned flu though, which is particularly distinguishable by the aches and chills and fever.

Vergus · 14/12/2024 17:23

Flu. Or RSV. Both equally evil

ijustneedaminute24 · 14/12/2024 17:11

I've had this and still don't feel 100% 2 weeks later. It's either flu or covid although I tested negative. My mum has had both boosters quite recently and hasn't caught it from either me or the kids. My flu jab got cancelled annoyingly and I didn't get round to rebooking.

My appetite went, I was permanently cold and now have a chesty cough with so much snot, just so much of it 🤢. At one point I couldn't move my eyes without wincing. The kids both had stomach ache from it and a few in their class had sickness.

whoput50penceintheeejit · 14/12/2024 17:06

sounds like walking pneumonia