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To wish that people would stop posting that they've got flu?

91 replies

Sidge · 20/12/2008 21:26

When they patently haven't got flu or they wouldn't be able to get out of bed, let alone be posting on the tinterwebnet?

A cold is not flu!
A viral illness is not necessarily flu!

Thank you. As you were.

OP posts:
TrinityRhino · 21/12/2008 00:27

it really was hell
I could not look after my kids
mil had to come and help me
I had a raging temp that caused me to shake voilently for a solid 8 days
I was popping lempsip flu plus every three hours day and night and ot releif for about 45 mins to an hour once they kicked in
meaning I stopped shaking but still felt like I should have been dead and I just counted the minutes till I could take them again once the shaking started again

SparklyGothKat · 21/12/2008 00:28

oh yesterday DH had a Migrane (sp?) and we had to come home. and then he sits down in front of the laptop and starts playing on his game... I have migranes and there is no way I can sit on the computer or even watch tv, I have to go into a dark room and lay down...

I have had flu once last year, its terrible, I couldn't move for days...

SparklyGothKat · 21/12/2008 00:31

I was also BF (still am) but Dh had to pass me Ds2 and latch him on for me, I couldn't even do that.

mawbroon · 21/12/2008 00:36

snoringnightmare - My lottery numbers did come up once (work sindicate, we got 5 + bonus) years ago and i was lying ill on the couch with glandular fever.

And I didn't care about the bloody lottery numbers!!

MumHadEnoughTinsel · 21/12/2008 01:00

Oh I totally agree. I've been unfortunate enough to have had it once, 2 years ago and it then turned into pneumonia. I really did expect to die. Could quite easily have done so if it wasn't for my dh who made the doctor come out to the house to see me. Thats when the pneumonia was discovered.

Horrible horrible horrible!

LargeGlassofRed · 21/12/2008 01:09

I am just getting over a cold, Dp has now got it and been in bed for 2 days with his mum looking after him
Spoke to him earlier and he said he can't have the same thing as he feels awful and it must be flu

me bitter never!
I only have to cope a cold
awful morning sickness due to twin beans
dd2 up all night last night with diarrea and vomitting
and oh yeah am on working nights to top it off!

Sorry moan over

BitOfFunUnderTheMistletoe · 21/12/2008 02:11

Yes,it is getting a bit much seeing all the flu threads! We have all had nasty bugs, that's life! The one time I have had proper flu I could never have typed a full sentence. It's so hard looking after little ones when you are ill though, so in that respect, I get the whinging.

thumbElf · 21/12/2008 02:16

YANBU - my mum always used to say she had the 'flu - the number of times she thought she had it, she would have been a medical miracle. Drove me NUTS.

I have had it 3 times in my life, and OH GOD do you know about it! aches, sweats and shivers at the same time, not being able to get warm while pouring with sweat, headache, complete exhaustion and almost prostration - horrendous! But I did have some cold-ish symptoms too - endlessly running nose and conjunctivitis from where I sneezed and felt it coming out of my lacrymal glands into my eyes as well (gross, sorry). Lasted 2 weeks easy, although was only bedridden for about 5 days.

goldFAQinsenceandmyrrh · 21/12/2008 02:16

I had flu last Christmas, I can't actually remember any of it at all. Apparently i did play the organ for church, and I also apparently cooked some lunch, I also spent the rest of the time when not stumbling around doing stuff that needed doing on the sofa feeling absolutely awful.

I do remember feelling iller than I've felt in my life, I don't remember getting on and doing the things that needed to be done (or seeing the DS's enjoying opening their presents etc)

AndHeaVanAnnNatureSing · 21/12/2008 02:18

I've had flu once when I was about 10. Gastric flu, so I was throwing up AND hallucinating, while lying weak and useless in bed.
Now tonsillitis I generally have a dose of each year, but thankfully haven't had it for a couple of years now. Feels like you're swallowing razor blades and you're on fire. Friend who saw me said I looked like a chipmunk because all my glands swelled up. currently have a horrible cold though.
My parents knew a man whose wife died of flue - in her TWENTIES Found her dead in the shower, the virus attacked her heart.
People forget that the Spanish Flu of 1918 killed more people than died in the conflict of WW1.

juicyjolly · 21/12/2008 02:29

YABU....why do you care whether people think its the flu when its a cold?
The point is, I should think, is that they are telling you that they feel like shite?

Not everyone is at deaths door when they catch flu. Some flu sufferers do have symptoms that are similar to a cold, as I am sure that some cold sufferers have syptoms similar to that of the flu. Not really a big deal in my opionion.....nothing to get all snotty about anyway!

mynameis · 21/12/2008 03:17

Good god reading this thread has made me realise I have NEVER had flu, although I have prob claimed it more than once in the past

Glandular fever at 16 was the only time I seriously thought I would die & also the skinniest I've ever been after 5 days of virtually no eating.

BrieVinDeAlkaSeltzer · 21/12/2008 05:07

Do you know what, I would gladly swap this pneumonia for flu. And I have had both.

I am posting here because,by body has decreed you have had three hours sleep, so you can jolly well wake up and struggle for breath and cough, everytime I lie down, I cough my guts up and I must be disturbing DS.
DH takes his CI off and away he goes, I could set a bomb off in the room and he would be none the wiser.

All I want is a full nights sleep and I haven't had that for a week.

whogivesaflyingturdanyway · 21/12/2008 05:49

I have NEVER said I had flu before because I know that most colds are not - but last week I was TOLD I had flu by the GP so I have said I had flu. And it was really, really awful and I have still got it but it is going - thank God - and the few days I was at my worst I could barely get up. I think there was about one post on here in three days last week, I usually spend the whole day on and off.

So please don't have a general go at everyone who says they have flu, because a lot of us really do or did and the GP told me there was an epidemic!

whogivesaflyingturdanyway · 21/12/2008 05:50

Maybe I have pneumonia actually.

I haven't slept for 9 days. Coughing all day as well. Is that normal?

jennybensmummy · 21/12/2008 06:28

I totally agree,i have had glandular fever but never had flu and the gf was awful i have never felt so ill, except when i had hyperemisis gravidarium (or however its spelt!) and was so sick when pregnant with my son. i get so irritated too when people have man flu and think they are dying when its just a sneeze once in a while!!

Astrophe · 21/12/2008 06:39

another pet hate "I have such a migraine" said by someone as they take a paracetamol and head off to a party or wherever...er, no, you don't!

cheshirekitty · 21/12/2008 06:46

Knew I had flu when my temp got to 41.5c, and dh had to lift me out of bed and carry me to the loo, lift me into bath etc.

My postie had the same flu and died of complictations (pneumonia).

Flu is the pits.

2pt4WiseMen · 21/12/2008 07:20

I think I've got flu.
I've sneezed at least twice this morning

crispyduck · 21/12/2008 07:33

I have just recovered from the dreaded flu.
my body, head even my fingers and hands ached, wouldnt of been able to get on a pc and type

was in bed for 3 days, high temp etc, spent week off work, got secondary ear infection also

If you have the real flu it knocks you off your feet

so I can understand the annoyance

YANBU

gabygirl · 21/12/2008 07:50

DH had flu a few weeks ago: very high temperature, aching limbs, pouring sweat, alternately boiling and freezing.

And he just carried on going to work, including a business trip to Amsterdam. He came back and his face was GREY.

He prides himself on not EVER taking a day off, no matter how sick he is. He obviously just likes infecting his colleagues.

idontlikesundays · 21/12/2008 07:58

I had the flu in February and I'm still suffering now, because it turned post viral, so I've basically not been the same since. Feel like I'm running on empty most days.

octavia · 21/12/2008 07:59

Would it,just this once be unreasonable to pretend I have the flu,say just for a few hours

crispyduck · 21/12/2008 08:02

sundays- how awful, a friend of mine got PVS after glandular fever, took her a couple of years to recover

she did not have a sympathetic GP

MincePirateCat · 21/12/2008 08:07

i get what you're saying about flu v cold, but some of these viral colds are hell.

Hope you don't get one.

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