They weren’t lying about how horrific this flu is!!

[ByronKoala]

I will be brutally honest and say that I thought the recent news reports about how this is destined to be a particularly severe flu season with a nastier than usual strain were just scare mongering but oh my goodness have I been humbled… Never been so ill in my life.

Felt oddly achy and tired on Thursday AM but took paracetamol and was able to get on with my work day as normal. 40 degree fever, awful cough, sore throat etc hit me like a brick later on that evening and I’ve been bed bound ever since.

I’ve coughed to the point I’ve thrown up - my chest feels heavy and I’m in agony from all of it. The fevers were unrelenting for 3 days straight, paracetamol didn’t even touch the sides and I’ve been stuck in bed curled up in a shivering ball. The brain fog and exhaustion are on another level, my mind simply cannot function and I’m so incredibly weak. Worst sore throat I’ve ever felt and a nose like a bloody tap.

I’m young and perfectly healthy. Even the thought of 90yo DM getting this doesn’t bare thinking about and cases seem to be popping up absolutely everywhere. Genuinely quite scary

It still offers good protection against getting seriously ill, more so in children, so hopefully if they do come down with it, they’ll soon shrug it off.

I had a severe bout of flu a few years back. It was widely publicised as being ‘a bad year’ and all over the media as Australian flu. Anyway, one of the things I remember very clearly is that I didn’t get better in a straight line. I would start to feel better, then relapse. The relapse wasn’t as bad as the initial illness, but bad enough to knock me off my feet again. And it was very very disheartening. I think, in my sheer excitement at feeling better, I probably started to push myself a bit too much. Nothing strenuous, just the odd bit of light stuff around the house. But I wasn’t really well enough yet. So my advice would be, based on my limited experience of one person(😆), don’t push yourself. Get better first. I appreciate though, that some people have no choice but to try and do stuff.

I’m on week two and it’s kicked the shit out of me. I just want the headache to go away