FLU FLU GO AWAY

Apologies, my phone lost it then - It's H1N1, the most common seasonal flu. Nasty, but for most should be gone in 2 weeks. If you are expecting you do need to contact your GP - It's responsive to Tamiflu but only prescribed for expectant mums. It is further complicated by RSV - looking into the possibility that one is piggybacking onto the other as some reported flu symptoms are atypical. Rest, fluids - you know the drill. Codeine can be helpful if the joint pains are unbearable.

It's H1N1

I've been wiped out since Christmas Day evening with flu. I have never been so ill in my life. Fever, sweats, headache, nausea, body aches, hacking cough and a throat like sandpaper. Only just starting to feel better today.
111 said the flu vaccine I had in September has reduced how bad the symptoms could have been - without it I would be in hospital.

My understanding is that vaccines don't always stop you catching flu, but they can help your body fight new strains more easily. Its just part of how they work. No vaccine is 100%, but its so much better than doing nothing.

I’ve had the flu jab and still got flu, the most ill I’ve felt for years!

It’s awful because it really does wipe you out and goes on for ages, you have my sympathies.

I work in a hospital and there are bays closing on the wards and areas partitioned off in A&E due to flu and norovirus. It’s grim!

Yes, we have flu here too 😢 One DC got it first, then passed it on to me and the other DCs. We tested and it’s influenza A. Effing horrible virus! I was lying in bed last night just crying because I felt so ill and weak. I keep getting waves of nausea too. Now got the most painful earache. It’s ruined our holiday and I feel so sad for the DC. One of them was so ill with it that I thought I was going to have to take them to A&E.

Our symptoms were high fever, chills, sweats (particularly at night), awful aching (back, hips, knees, calf muscles and arms), dry cough, unbelievable sneezing, vomiting (for the DC), earache, dizziness, brain fog - and more.

I highly recommend the test kits. It made me feel a bit better to know what we were dealing with. BTW, I had the flu vax and still got it. I thought I’d escaped it because I had symptoms for 24hrs, then thought it had gone, but it came back with a vengeance. I think the trick is to rest as much as possible. Each time I’ve tried to do something, eg wash the dishes or even just go upstairs, I seem to feel worse.

So many of my friends have come down with this. Miraculously my family have escaped it so far. Both DDs are vaccinated thankfully, so hopefully that may help a bit if it does come our way.

DH had the jab in October, has got it now. Nasty. I didn't get the jab, can only cross my fingers for a miracle!

Dh didn't have flu jab and has been in bed since Christmas Eve, he's just starting to feel a little better but not really. I've got a hacking cough and a headache just starting, I've had the jab....

Has anyone been excessively sweating prior before showing symptoms?

We are wiped out throughout Xmas. I have bruises on my legs which I need to ring my gp. They hurt so mild accidental daily bumps but have never bruised so much in my life compared to this last 10 days. It's horrible looking after young ill children whilst being ill yourself.

Sorry that is really shit, but if she is school aged it is better to be ill in the holidays so you are not getting hassle for absence. DC had it over half term.

We've got norovirus.
Best wishes op.

It's horrid.

4/6 of us are down with it, right in time to go back to work. Second day for me. I feel like I’ve been hit by a train, woken up drenched in sweat, it even hurts to move my eyeballs! I’m not convinced it’s flu here though, just a really nasty virus. But way worse than Covid was and I only had that two months ago!

I am on day 3 here and despite having had the vaccine feel dreadful. How is everyone dealing with the awful nausea?

Today will be day 5 of it for me. Everyone else seems to have avoided it as I've properly isolated myself from them. Have this horrible pain in my legs especially my calves where they feel bruised to touch and super sensitive, apparently that's a symptom too.

I came down with it on Christmas Day. Not sure if it's flu but awful, alternately boiling and shivering, aches and pains. I had three days with a awful pain in my head. I have managed to infect the whole family and it just won't seem to go. All of us have relapsed repeatedly.

I had it OP, I was so poorly my DP rang 111 and they told me to go into hospital urgently. Tested positive for Influenza A and was put in an isolation ward for 24 hours as they were concerned as I was so dehydrated.

After 8 days I was finally over it, just in time for Christmas Eve, although I do still have a tickly cough. Wouldn't wish it on anyone, hope you feel better soon.

I'm on my third round of cold virus since the start of December. I just don't seem able to shake it off properly. My commute does mean a lot of hanging around in the cold, and my diet could be so much better! Things that I'm aware of but especially the commute is not changeable...

It's been such a miserable time of year. I can't wait for the summer 🌞

I got this flu. Had to cancel traveling to family over Christmas. Then I got a yeast infection. Then a sinus infection. Think I can rank this as the worst Christmas ever.

I've wasted 2 weeks of precious holiday on stupid viral fever and hives! Still feeling wiped out even though it's all over. Will be back to energy levels just in time for work next week. So sad my holidays are wasted!

Apparently they got the flu vaccine wrong this year and it isn't for the right strain I read.

I currently have a virus of some sort. No energy, cough etc etc. I'm asthmatic so always have flu jab.

I just slipped down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole on X. Apparently the fog we had last week was government made andspreading some flu/new virus. That's why we're sick according to them.

It's got nothing to do with it being flu season and people mixing more over Christmas.

I hope everyone who is ill feels better soon

You’re not alone OP. It has systematically wiped out my whole family over Christmas and New Year and we’ve all been vaccinated. It seems to take forever to recover as well,
you just think the fever’s under control then your temperature shoots up again.

Hope you get well soon!