Surely I can't be the only person in the UK with flu?

[theFailingsofDaphneTrigg]

Chills, sweating, hacking cough, banging headache for over a week now. Got through to GP on Friday as I thought I was dying and they said "flu - take Paracetamol."

Rang my mum for some sympathy and she said "but the Daily Mail says there have been no cases of flu because we're all wearing masks and sanitising our hands. You have been washing your hands, haven't you?"

Anyone else got the flu?

My friend went for a COVID test, they tested for flu as well. She had flu.

Thank you for all the good wishes and to fellow sufferers.

OP: you do realise that ONLY illness all over the world at the moment is COVID? Not only the only illness but also the only cause of death, either directly or due to "related" symptons!

that's the impression I got from the GP's receptionist!

Definitely not covid but I've had a hacking cough and felt awful , snotty weak abs tired for about 3 weeks ! I am super careful and still almost shielding but I guess it shows if you go out you can pick things up.
And by the way I know lots of people have been unwell since schools opened (may be coincidence )

@SunbathingDragon - @IgiveupallthenamesIwantedareg0 was taking the wee wee.

I was under the impression there was pretty much no seasonal flu this year. It's not just the daily mail saying it, it was a massive news story. The DoH didnt detect a single case, assumed to be due to covid rules.

SunbathingDragon: I'm no more irrational than the people who follow the news reports and social media and believe every word that is written / reported.
I despair for the mentality that seems to exists that believes everything and anything that is "negative" at the moment is all due to this COVID pandemic.
I always look at what is going on in the rest of the world and I, too, despair that the only news is about this SH*T - there are other things going on, but that is not reported!

[quote iklboo]**@SunbathingDragon* - @IgiveupallthenamesIwantedareg0* was taking the wee wee. [/quote]
Thank you, ikboo!

I'm just sat listening to DD2 (2) tossing and turning in bed, she's ill for the 2nd time in 2 weeks, she's had 3 days in between. Last time she had an awful cough, runny nose, sky high temp, sore throat - negative Covid test but poorly for 9 days. This time she is sweating, high temp and what sounds like a sore throat. I'm hoping to god that a GP will actually see her tomorrow.

Hope you feel better soon!

@Greenmarmalade

Repeat the Covid test. Get a proper one, not the lateral flow one.

Why? Other viruses still exist.

@Diemme

I was under the impression there was pretty much no seasonal flu this year. It's not just the daily mail saying it, it was a massive news story. The DoH didnt detect a single case, assumed to be due to covid rules.

They also admitted that they hadn’t actually been testing people for flu in anything like the usual numbers, as all resource was taken up with Covid testing. So they have no real idea how much flu has been in circulation this winter.

We’ve got something horrible here for nearly 2 weeks. 9 month old DD started with it -started just cold symptoms - runny nose, post nasal drip causing cough at night, moved on to temperature, hacking cough, both her eyes gunged up (technical term), coming up in hives. We took her for a Covid test which was negative.

We caught the ‘cold’ and have both been so ill too - headache, earache, sore throat, cough. Absolutely no energy. Hot and clammy. Negative Covid tests.

There’s definitely other things doing the rounds. We’re still social distancing, wearing masks, washing hands etc. I can only think she picked it up at the baby swim class we went to, although it’s all done in a very distanced way so not sure how.

Of course no one else has flu. Other illnesses ceased to exist once covid made an appearance.

Flu doesn't last over a week though so it probably isn't that. (Assuming no complications obviously). Feeling like death for 3 or 4 days max followed by a fairly swift recovery is standard - unlike 2 weeks for a cold (maybe 2 or 3 in total for covid)

@SnackSizeRaisin

Flu doesn't last over a week though so it probably isn't that. (Assuming no complications obviously). Feeling like death for 3 or 4 days max followed by a fairly swift recovery is standard - unlike 2 weeks for a cold (maybe 2 or 3 in total for covid)

I was ill for 2 weeks with my (confirmed) flu when I was 17.

Well, you thought out and typed a coherent post and have replied semi-regularly to posters with more coherent text = I don't really think you have True Flu, sorry.
I'm not saying you're not ill with something nasty and you do have my sympathy but the one time I had TF I could barely lift my arms and I couldn't hold my phone in front of me for more than a quick notification check. Giving fucks out about sniping remarks from mother and/or posting on SM about it would have been the last thing I could be bothered doing.

Oh Zanach don't start getting all competitive about flu ...

I'm not 😂👌🏽
I've literally had it once in my life and it's not something I ever want to repeat, but at the same time it's made me appreciate what a "bad cold" is 🤷🏽‍♀️ see also, no fucks given for snipey remarks

@Zancah

Well, you thought out and typed a coherent post and have replied semi-regularly to posters with more coherent text = I don't really think you have True Flu, sorry. I'm not saying you're not ill with something nasty and you do have my sympathy but the one time I had TF I could barely lift my arms and I couldn't hold my phone in front of me for more than a quick notification check. Giving fucks out about sniping remarks from mother and/or posting on SM about it would have been the last thing I could be bothered doing.

But like Covid, flu has degrees of severity. There isn’t one universal experience of flu.

That’s like someone who was hospitalised with Covid telling someone who had a cough and a temperature that it isn’t true Covid.

@Zancah

Well, you thought out and typed a coherent post and have replied semi-regularly to posters with more coherent text = I don't really think you have True Flu, sorry. I'm not saying you're not ill with something nasty and you do have my sympathy but the one time I had TF I could barely lift my arms and I couldn't hold my phone in front of me for more than a quick notification check. Giving fucks out about sniping remarks from mother and/or posting on SM about it would have been the last thing I could be bothered doing.

@Zancah you've misunderstood flu. It can be a mild cold like virus and in 75% of cases, you have no symptoms. That's 3 out of 4 people who have flu and don't even know.

Flu is not diagnosed on severity of symptoms.

Wasn't it mentioned somewhere that we will all be getting bad flu later this year as lockdown measures mean that our immunity to flu & colds has plummeted?

Ceedeels - www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking-pseudoscience/doomsday-prophecy-dr-geert-vanden-bossche

If COVID deaths are down to 1 or 2 a day then it stands to reason that there are more likely to be more deaths to flu at the moment. And don’t flu deaths sometimes get lumped in together with deaths from pneumonia in the media.

@IgiveupallthenamesIwantedareg0

OP: you do realise that ONLY illness all over the world at the moment is COVID? Not only the only illness but also the only cause of death, either directly or due to "related" symptons! The only solution is that we all run like mad to get vaccinated ASAP and boost the coffers of the pharma industry or we will all DIE immediatley!

I don't know if you were trying to be funny here (you weren't by the way) but if you get flu like symptoms then of course you should test for covid. Then if it comes back negative you know its not covid. Its one of those other illnesses.