Did you get swine flu?

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Was discussing this with someone not long ago. Myself and a fair few friends got it but this person seemed to think barely anyone had it? Were we just really unlucky?

I had it. It was awful. I hallucinated a cat for 3 days.

It was horrid wasn't it? I came down with it when in a hotel so had to lock ourselves in and my College lodgings wouldn't let me come back to get my stuff.

I had it, but it just felt like a viral infection, nothing like the full blown flu I had back in 2000. I thought my end had come then.

Yes I had it. I was a jury officer at the time and I put it down to being in contact with hundreds of people over a week.

I have never felt so bad in my life. I was 21 and still at home and my poor Mum found me passed out naked on the landing in the middle of the night. I think I was trying to make it to the loo.

I remember the first signs of it were intense muscle ache after walking up about 4 stairs and also I remember breaking down in tears at the littlest slight. I think I dropped a drink and floods of tears. The next day, bam!

Never been so ill before or since.

I did. It was a cold with aches and pains but a noticable cough. Left me with a chest infection (that I stupidly put off going to the doctors for) and every winter since when its cold and damp for a few days in a row I get weezy.

Yip 2010 nearly died went to pneumonia ended up with 10% lung capacity in my right lung had to have op then intensive care was off work 3 months

Yes. Was pretty grim. Day or two in bed with high fever. Dh had to hold my glass of water to my lips at one stage. Then started recovering and then got bronchitis. Dc2 was 2 and I remember thinking I'd felt considerably less battered and bruised after both my births.

The dc both had it too, but very mildly.

When I went back to work some colleagues wanted me sent home again because they thought I'd infect them. Ironic, as I'm pretty certain I caught it from an intern who wouldn't go off sick.

DH did, and I've never seen him so poorly - a whole week barely conscious in bed. Dd did too - but she was young enough to be offered antivirals and it was not nearly as bad. Many, many children missed that last week of the summer term though (N London)

I had it and I honestly thought I was dying. That said, at the time I didn't know anyone else who had it.

I didn't

I’m a nurse and our hospital had so many cases. Some didn’t survive and lots were very ill.

Yes. In October 2010 and I also nearly died. DD1 caught it too and it took us nearly 3 weeks to start to feel human again and we weren't fully recovered until the New Year.

Yep, it was the worst I've ever felt.
I was so ill. Dp has to have a week off work and drive 25 miles to get some medicine for me, once it had been confirmed

No, & I don't think I know anyone who did either. Maybe it is a location thing?

No, and I don't know anybody that did have it. Perhaps it just wasn't very prevalent in my area.

Yes. dd was really quite poorly with it, I wasn't so bad.

I did.

One minute perfectly fine, ten seconds later couldnt walk, talk, and the hook on the back of my bedroom door kept moving like Mark Lamarr's head.
bedridden for a full week, only managing the sofa for the second. Had it in january, so the best month really as i missed loads of shit weather apparently.

DH and I both had. Due to my asthma, I was much worse and hospitalised. Easily one of the worst experiences of my life.

Yes. As did my (then) 5 and 3 year olds. I felt floor. They were very ill, didn't move for 48 hours (the were standard constantly active usually). Both had a constant fever that nothing brought down below 38 for the 48. Took about a week before the youngest got back to 'normal'. The older one got other infections and was a unwell for a month.

I had it and was one of the first in London, remember waking up one morning feeling fine, by 10am I was really ill. Coughing up blood, hallucinations, and the rest. I was at my boyfriends (now DH) flat and his flat mates had to move out for the week I had it as I was so contagious. My DH dutifully slept on the sofa and disinfected anything I touched. My poor mum wasn't allowed to come and take me home in case I spread it to their area 70 miles away that hadn't yet been hit (I was in London). DH has to cross London to collect Tamiflu from a special facility for me. Dreadful

I know someone who lost her sister to it (sister was young and healthy).

Awful.

Yes, it was awful. I got it end of November/early December 2010. Couldn't move except to cough, and every time I coughed I threw up and cried because everything just hurt so much. Remember very little else of that week.

My dd1 got it. GP prescribed meds pretty sharpish.
No-one else in the family got it.

Yes. It was shit.

DiddyDragon got it too. She was only 10 months old. It seemed quite common where we were in Berks.

I had it, took the meds and started hallucinating screaming at my husband because I thought he was going to kill me. It was awful.