to ask who has the lurgy?

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Hi everyone

I have lurgy and I feel miserable with it. I'm feeling rubbish and drowning in my own snot. Who else is sick? Remedies please!

Have now moved into the phase of coughing whereby I hurt my stomach muscles. Is there any chance this will have the same effect as those electric toning discs from the 89/90s?

I’m down too. Got hold of some day and night nurse. Just taken the first 2 pills, I’m having liquid night nurse in a bit. Hope it knocks me for 6.

Me. I started on Christmas Eve but it didn’t really kick in until Boxing Day.

I’m pissed off because I already had it at the beginning of October and it lasted 3 weeks ☹️ DH has got it now too so we’re sitting here feeling really sorry for ourselves. The only good thing is I’m not back at work until 8th Jan.

Me and DD both have the lurgy. She’s 10 months old and struggling with the cough and I’m breastfeeding and pregnant so I can only take paracetamol. Oh and morning sickness is not helping me feel any better either. No one is sleeping and everyone is miserable. We are having our very own pity party tonight!

I started with it at the end of November, and am still bloody coughing. I'm having to wear sanitary towels every day as I keep pissing myself and I am so so sick of coughing. I even pulled a stomach muscle.

It's one of those viruses that goes to your chest and stops there. I've been taking vitamin c, laid off all dairy and been drinking gallons of hot water with lemon and honey in. I don't feel poorly as such but still don't feel my usual self.

oh noparticular I think you definitely win pity party prize of the night! poor little mite!

Oh i feel so sorry for those of you who are pg, especially the one about to get induced. Look on the bright side, pushing out a watermelon will distract you from the lurgy (sorry)

It must be evening. The hairy throat, cough, gag, pee pants routine has amped up. Had a good kip (drugged) on the sofa, woke up sweating. I'm just lying here in my various liquids, good job too bunged up to know what i smell like.

Some After Eights went down a treat (medicinal).

A friend of mine had to go into hospital with cellulitis of the sinuses. They sawed her head in half and scraped it out with an axe or something (no medical training here).

When I can’t sleep, and especially with a cough, I take drowsy antihistamines. Nytol helps me sleep and pretty sure the antihistamines reduce some of the symptoms. I feel I recover faster since I discovered this.

I use night nurse before bed to try and knock me out for a bit

Don't be sorry, made me and the OH have a giggle! Just hoping baby doesn't end up with a cold in their first week. Anyone feeling any better?

I have taken everything in the house including some night time cough mixture so lots of sleep/coma did help. Going to coma my way through this and come out of it very rested in January.

LOTS of water
Pint after pint of hot lemon squash
sudafed
olbas
strepsils
loo roll for constant nose blowing

Yep, another one here. The cough and phlegm is just sitting on my chest, waking me up at night (I have a waking, breast fed baby too), so just feeling totally wiped out. Managed to nap during the day but my body clock is all out now. All I've done these past couple of days is go round moaning because I feel floored and was looking forward to getting out and about these Christmas Hols whilst dh is on leave (and typically haven't been ill for months until now). Dd2 has it too though not much moaning from her! Just don't want my baby to get it.

OMFG if you are reading this and started the thread here do not go up the thread TRUST ME ON THIS

I seem to have avoided the snot so far but have the cough from hell. I have to hold my stomach tight because coughing is hurting my muscles so much. I've also lost my voice. Not hoarse. Gone completely. I tried screaming at the top of my lungs earlier and not a peep came out. DS is running riot because I can't tell him off.

Boil water - has to be boiled.
Pour about 50 mls into cup.
Add enough salt to make it taste unpleasantly salty, let this cool to body temperature and make sure the salt has dissolved.
Then, once cool, snort into each nostril in turn.
Also gargle it if you have a sore throat.
Get ready for your sinuses to unblock which is rather unpleasant! but after about 15 minutes you will feel miles better and the salt will have killed a lot of the germs.

Try to drink a glass of water before doing this and then nothing for an hour after so that the saline can sit undiluted for a bit.

Sounds bonkers but dp has been ill for over a week with a bad cold and everytime my nose or throat tickles I do this. So far so good!

DH came down with the lurgy on Christmas Eve. He took lemsip and cough medicine to get through Christmas Day, just the 4 of us no relatives on the day. Since then he's just been "suffering in silence" but huffing and puffing about it all and not being much fun. I wish he'd just go to bed so the kids and I could get on with relaxing and having fun, but he's being a grump in the corner while refusing to take any medicine

Him Indoors has had lurgy since Wednesday afore Christmas. First five days completely poleaxed lurching dose to dose of OTC meds. Fifth day he sat up in bed. Just in time for me to get Lurgy Lite.

I’ve has same set of symptoms but not as severe or intense. Satan’s cough & shredded throat feature here.

Christmas Day was nibbles as appetites non-existent & today’s culinary highlight was Daddy Bear porridge. No interest in food here. Alas Christmas treats racing to expiry dates. I dread to think how much food we have wasted...

Yes, we did have flu jabs.

Dragon ugh, so glad I'm divorced. Men are so annoying when ill, especially the "poorly voice" arrrrggghhh.

I have developed a special coughing position. Lean over arm of sofa with ribs on sofa arm to prevent barfing up a lung. I think I need a floatation tank and someone to read me a story. When my sister and I were younger and used to go out on the piss whoever had the least worst hangover had to make a flask of tea and gather up magazines. We would then leave the house to avoid mum forcing us to do housework and lie down somewhere and take it in turns to read to each other.

Our lurgy has reached new lows. I’ve put my back out coughing. DD wants to feed roughly every 0.00002 seconds because her throat hurts. I’ve got no paracetamol left and I sound like fucking mutley when I cough but try not to cough. Pretty certain I’ve wet myself several times today already but my nose is so blocked up that I can’t smell it so I’m pretending it hasn’t happened. I’ve just made sausage casserole and there’s a good chance it’s spicier than hell or as salty as buggery because I can’t taste or smell anything so just whacked it all in and shut the oven door.

I really need to go for a walk or something but I’ve got a tub of heroes to finish first.

pattern try my patented iron lung position lean on sofa arm for maximum for cough/gag. A little tea towel on arm to catch any drool plus sanitary towel for piss. Hey presto you're a supermodel again! With the BF, well men should learn to use their nipples, lazy fuckers.

thigh I’m going to give it a go! Although I’m currently trying to avoid full blown coughing a) because my back is agony and b) because it makes me retch and I then have to run to the loo to be sick. Next time I mention having another child someone needs to remind me that it involves weeks of being sick if you do much as pole your toothbrush too far in! They say you forget the pain of childbirth but this is apparently also true of the vomiting....!