Anyone else feeling really unwell?

[NewNameNoelle]

Oh my, I started with a standard cold last week, developed into dizziness, chills and aches and constant streaming eyes and nose. I felt like I’d been hit with a baseball bat - back and torso were so sore

Now onto night sweats, green gunky cough, horrible sinus pain, continuing aches and shivers. Constant thirst. It hurts to wear clothes, it hurts to do anything. I’ve suggested cancelling Christmas lunch tomorrow but DH not listening. Had a full on sob on my 11yr old this morning.

Anyone else just feeling dreadful and fancy a moan?

I've found the poorly gang. I am feeling very much as you described, I don't know what virus this is but it has floored me.
Have cancelled plans for tonight and me and kids are having a chilled one. Tomorrow I'm hosting for 7 and was supposed to be doing some prep today but I can't get up and am aching all over.
Bah humbug! Sorry for us all.

Had a full on sob on my 11yr old this morning

Sorry you are feeling ill but this is not ok. He is a child. He is not there to take on the stress you are feeling because you are ill and your husband is shit and unsympathetic. You should be able to turn to your H for support, but if you can't, a young child is not a substitute. Especially not at Christmas.

You need to reassure your child so he is not taking on any anxiety or worry or stress that your 'full on sob' may have caused him.

Hubby has gone down with something overnight. We were meant to be hosting 7 tomorrow so I've spent the morning frantically relocating gifts and food to my Mums house as everyone is now going there. Going to go and face the supermarket in a wee while so I can get something for us to eat tomorrow.

I’m on day 4 of what I think is the flu. Feeling absolutely awful. We’ve had to cancel Xmas plans as can’t risk elderly relatives falling ill, hoping to feel a bit better to salvage tomorrow for the kids.

Happy your husband has come to his senses.
I cannot manage food (oddly, Trebor mints seem to help).
Would like to prepare that "roast on steroids" for husband tomorrow, but he doesn't mind.
Get better, I'm gonna stuff some painkillers.
😕

My dd2. Never seen her so poorly. Nothing is touching it :(

Yep, different bug though. Horrible cough, especially at night, and very high temperature (39+). Dh has now gone down with it. First signs, slight tickle throat on Friday then came down properly on Saturday and been in bed since.

@creamsnugjumper it's not the lurgy but a thrombosed piles flare up- they just said to sit on a bag of ice, take paracetamol and use creams from the supermarket. I feel like I'm going to pass out from pain every time I'm on the loo and the rest of the time all I can do is lie on the sofa like a limp noodle. Amazing how much just experiencing pain can take it out of you!

And yes, I’m hoping the scales will be the positive outcome from this. I do want to eat, but then find I can’t really face food.

DS (21) has the lurgy, he's been unwell for days. I think it's also to do with working hard at university and preparing to go overseas next week.
I'm really struggling as I've damaged a tendon in my leg and I'm hobbling around, no driving ☹️.

@Xiaoxiong oh for that sounds awful, sorry I misread your post I'm sure a chest X-ray wouldn't have helped much!

Is that something that goes on its own? Or will you need a surgical procedure?

Day 8, stopped the chills and shivering but weird whistling /crackling when I lie down, legs like jelly and the nausea is just relentless...

Ginger nut biscuits - I find nibbling these help with nausea.

Yes… I’m in my 6th week of it now. Please make it stop…I’ve forgotten what being a normal human feels like at this point….

Sympathies for everyone feeling crappy for Christmas..

Yeah I don’t think I’ve been this bad and for this long. I think it’s Covid, but obviously a very mean strain with no vaccine to soften the blow this year.

@MetooOP I know, bad form. She offered me a hug and I started crying. She gave be a big hug, then made me a drink and gave me another hug. She’s been a trooper. DH has been great too. I’m not blaming him.

I did apologise to her at the time. Obviously it isn’t on. She shouldn’t have had me cry on her. Once the tears came i just couldn’t stop them.

@NewNameNoelle I think that sounds lovely, it's OK for our children to see emotions and overwhelm. Sending big hugs.

If it hurts to wear clothes that's flu. I hope you're on the mend by the weekend. It takes some time to get over.
(In a nice way) I wouldn't want to visit your house. Your DH could pass it on.

I have all these symptoms. I have a thread on it. I hope we all miraculously recover tomorrow, like the phoenix rising from the ashes.

I'm doing everything I can think of. Vitamin c mega doses, vitamin d, nasal rinses, steaming my head, gargling, flu capsules, apple cider vinegar, echinacea, Manuka honey and ginger. Not sure any of it actually speeds up the healing process but it makes me feel better to feel like I'm doing something instead of just flaking on the sofa. My kids keep asking me if I'm better yet. I feel guilty for being so rubbish. Dh is being amazing. He's basically cleaned the whole house today and is doing all the cooking tomorrow anyway. He currently making me a green tea with honey 🥰

Yup, some flu like virus that has been doing the rounds at work decided this was the perfect time to hit me!

trying my hardest to act fine for the sake of autistic ds but failing badly at the moment.

I tested positive two weeks ago and still glued to sofa today. Can't keep my eyes open 😞

I do hope you all feel better soon. I had covid then flu after it so I felt like death for a month. Hideous stuff going around.

A virus got me between 10th and 20th December. Cough and sore throat (like swallowing glass), night sweats and not sleeping. Missed all Christmas social plans between those dates and had to WFH. It was grim. I went to urgent care for the first time in 6 years. Not Covid, not flu (had jab), not bacterial (swab came back fine) - a particularly viscous virus doing the rounds. DH also caught it, he thought I was making a fuss over nothing until he got it too.

Hope everyone feels better soon, it's really dreadful.

I hadn't even thought to check if this is Covid. But my elderly mum is fully jabbed and happy to be around so fingers crossed after weeks of this I'm not still infecting people.