To wish that people with a cold wouldn't keep calling it flu?

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I probably am but it annoys me, anyway.

is this person a man by any chance?

It annoys the HELL out of me.

Used to get it all the time when I was working with students.

Thought it was only me who was annoyed, but then one day a student was in moaning about their 'flu' and an academic came in and said, 'Bollocks. If you had flu you wouldn't be standing here moaning about it. You'd be in bed wishing for death.'

YANBU, this really bugs me! i have had flu once and it was horrendous , there is absolutely no comparison.

I also cannot stand it when people say they have a migraine and its a head ache BIG difference, i can't stand up at all when i have a migraine, again NO comparison.

If they had flu they would`nt be able to tell you as they would be in bed trying to get over it.Flu knocks ya off your feet for a good 4-5 days

So yeah your right

Yes, really really annoys me. I had a nanny who used to phone up at 8am and say, "Oh, I can't come in today, I've got flu" and I'd think, "what for the 5th time this year?"

Someone once defined a differential diagnosis between a feverish cold and flu as: if someone nailed a £50 note to the wall on the opposite side of the room and told you it was yours for the taking, if you're capable of getting out of bed to take it, you don't have flu.

In my definition flu is the one that hits you out of the blue like a train. You fall into bed and don't get up for a week. It takes you 90 mins to psych yourself up each time you need to go to the loo.

If you can take Lemsip max strength and still keep going, you don't have flu.

I also hate the migraine thing, too.

Agree, a migraine is so not a bad headache. A migraine is weird flashing light special effects and a need to go to bed in a darkened room or die.

I contracted flu once when I was 25 and so fit you could bounce a 50p piece off my stomach and it would hit the ceiling.

I was fine all day.

At 5PM, I suddenly spiked a 102 degree fever out of nowhere.

I was so weak and ill the next day my ex had to phone in to work for me.

I forced myself to go back in 5 days later.

Only to wind up spending Xmas in hospital with pneumonia and pleurisy.

I've had bad colds, but that sure as HELL was no cold!

My dh gets 'flu' about 8 times a year, and 'that virus again' about 20 times a year.

The migraine one.... i don't get them very often, as i am beta blockers to prevent them but when i do...OMG all i do is cry i get numbness, slurred speech, left side of my vision goes, horrific. a headache is a walk in the park.

aargh

me too, I was in bed for 2 weeks with flu when i was a student.

I finally got out of bed, went to college to see the doctor as I couldn't understand why i felt so bad, never having been the sickly sort.

promptly burst into tears, said 'what's the matter with me, I can't get out of beeeeedd!' kind of thing and he told me to go back to bed.

didn't want to eat, drink, nothing.

this is FLU folks, nothing like a cold you shirkers!

my dad has hypertension, and sometimes when he has difficulty controlling it he's gotten migraines so bad he's vomitted and even fainted.

he now has a Lidocaine spray. if and when he gets on, he hangs his head face up off the bed and drops the stuff into his nose.

and agree about the migraine too.

my dad used to get them and used to scream and moan in a darkened room for days.

remember one particularly bad christmas day when we weren't allowed to raise our voices above a whisper cos he was stricken!