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!

jelly someone upthread said don't use mentholated sweets etc. How about warm water and salt gargle?

On round 5 of the lurgy. Started in October and popped back to say hello regularly.

Cigar what a nightmare. People (including children) need to immediately be painted green like spoiled pork if infectious and avoided. Sourcing their own breast milk would soon sort poor sneezing behaviour.

Pussy it couldn't bear to leave you.

Had forgotten Robotusin (sorry can’t spell, feverish) wonderful stuff. Used to do a wonderful cough pastille which numbed the throat. Was discontinued last time I asked for them.

@myrtleWilson it was a bit tongue in cheek but we will be around Regents Park and Primrose Hill so hopefully a bit better than Oxford Street.

Have woken this morning still with the sore throat with the added bonus of ears hurting. I will be mainlining paracetamol and ibuprofen today.

Me, my brother had it fir a week he went and stayed at our parents, i started feeling it the night before last then yesterday i felt like shit.

Even went to get some paracetamol whicb is unusal for me. Must say though i've woken up feeling fairly normal tgis morning, i mean i'm still full pf lurgy but my head isnt as pounding nor my bodt as tingly. My throat feels like very sore though.

Not back at work until wednesdag so hopefully i habe a fairly mild dose.

Ah thanks for the tip. Sorry I didnt rtwt. So tired today and full blown laryngitis.

Hope some of you feel more human? Who else is gonna be stuck in tonight in theor jim jams for NYE

NYE Jim Jam crew here!

@Jellybabie3 How long have you had the sore throat? Shine a torch (I used my phone) on the back of your throat whilst looking in the mirror. If you can see any white spots it could be a bacterial infection and you would need to see a Dr or Nurse Practitioner for antibiotics (Penicillin). If no white spots it’s probably viral.

Gargle with warm salt water a few times a day. Difflam mouth rinse is incredible for numbing the pain. Suck on boiled sweets. Tyrozets often help but didn’t help me this time (flu and peritonsillar abscess). Good luck!

Jellybabie3 me. Have a a pressing date with Graham Norton if I last that long. I suspect Jools Holland might be a bit heavy going on my ears though.

Thanks will try gargling. I havent seen any spots although will ask my DH to look. Hes currently pulling down the christmas lights . Its gonna be a jolly affair here. Feel so bad for letting family down tonight

God knows whats for tea now too.

Bloody loathe Jools Holland 🙈

ShadyLady53 - you had quinsy? I've had that - had to have it aspirated with a large needle in A&E. Very horrible!

The lurgy has reappeared today. Just brilliant.

Finally felt slightly human yesterday and ventured out of the house for the first time in a week, am paying the price today and feel like I've been hit by a bus........and I'm off to visit the in-laws! When does the exhausted feeling pass? This is getting ridiculous, I have stuff to do and I am back to work on Thursday!

I've had it since before Christmas. I'm on antibiotics and steroids but annoying cough is still lingering.

And the insomnia is back! I would feel better if I could get some decent sleep!

Have been fighting it off for 10 days but it's got me now. Full of snot, sore everything, feel sick. Been in bed by nine since DD went home (yes, luxury) can't do any NY things.

@thighofrelief101 it was sort of Quinsy! They weren’t sure wtf to call it as I don’t have any tonsils . The scar tissue turned white and it looked like I was growing another tonsil on one side and my glands were sore and huge. I looked in the mirror with my iPhone torch as I’d got it into my head I’d got a cut and saw the monstrosity. By that time the walk in centre was shut so I gargled with antiseptic and went to bed. Woke up an hour later choking and in the WORST pain, couldn’t breathe, throat spasming, coughed for about half an hour. Watched the clock until the walk in centre opened and the nurse said she thought it was Quinsy and she’d have to lance it. Looked in my mouth and the fucking thing had burst. She had to spend 30 minutes listening to my lungs to make sure the pus hadn’t went in there and was evaluating me for sepsis. Happy times. Day before Christmas Eve. And still recovering from the damn flu.

Having it lanced/aspirated sounds
awful! What was it like? My eyes nearly shot out of my head when she said they’d have to lance it. I was like, “you aren’t touching that thing no way!”.

How are you finding eating? My throat kept spasming the first few days whenever I tried to eat. It’s been like recovering from tonsilectomy all over again. I’m eating more or less normally a week on though.

Hope you are soon better!

@ShadyLady53 bloody hell thats awful! Poor you.

I am dying here from a lethal combo of full-on snot cold plus starting period. Utterly utterly grim. Happy new year, this is a huge cosmic joke but pmt and concrete sinuses have robbed me of my sense of humour.

Ventured forth for a restorative bottle of Bucks Fizz. Will lie on my chaise langue tonight dripping it down my sore gullet and trembling feverishly along with Madness on BBC1.

Got to be restorative with OJ in it....😁 good thinking

I managed to crawl to the pharmacist yesterday for her advice. I had barely got through the shop door when her face dropped with pity at the sight of me, maybe the advance bell ringing & crowd shout of ‘unclean, unclean’ tipped her off.

I know she’s had it & will only recommend what works. She said it lasts 10 days...

Came away with Difflam spray & Co-codamol. All together different cocktail to Lem-Sip or neat paracetamol. Jackman’s lemon honey lozenges are bees bollocks. Apologies to any bees reading.

I have had a cough free night’s sleep -Yeaaaaaay- woken only for a drug fix after four hour slumber when the Co-codamol wore off. A semi-sombulant lob of meds down the gullet washed down with cold bedside tea & I was asleep again in no time. Repeat & rinse four hours later which brings me to now, dear reader.

Throat hurts like hell.
Difflam squirted right at site of pain does seem to help - PharmaLady banged it down on counter (Cillit Bang style) & said ‘This works!’

Mind you, had she said Cillit Bang, I’d have given it a go.

So, for today, the plan is Co-codamol, Difflam & bed rest.

Sympathies & hugs for those of you who have to keep the show on the road.

Jackman’s lemon honey lozenges are bees bollocks. Apologies to any bees reading.

Meaning, they are really nice boiled menthol sweets.
Not tiny stripey fur balls ruthlessly stripped from our blessed boy bees.

Him Indoors crawled to supermarket for essentials yesterday & had to scavenge shelves in several shops to find the Jackmans honey lozenges - shelves in Boots & Waitsbury’s stripped bare. He managed to find some stashed away on a far flung till point. The relief!

I was so proud of the returning hunter, I crawled out of bed & made him a celebratory pot of tea. Coughed all over it, but never mind.