Did anyone else get swine flu during that outbreak?

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As an asthmatic who has just had major surgery, i am absolutely bricking myself!

When we had the swine flu outbreak one of my colleagues came to work with it and passed it on to the whole team despite them saying that any sickness would not be counted for targets.

It was quite frankly very scary. I had to go to a hospital and they wouldn't let me in the building. A nurse came out with a mask to the outdoor seating area and gave me some Tamiflu. I was really struggling to breathe.

Did anyone else get the swine flu?

I did I think I was around 9. Was just like a bad flu to me and I survived with 2 weeks bed rest

I had it. Felt pretty unwell, sweating buckets, all the usual aches and pains, but it wasn't as bead (for me) as the Sydney flu in 1997/98. I thought I was dying. I seem to catch every flu that circulates but I don't think I've had any particularly long lasting effects after the initial week or two. I'm asthmatic but I don't remember struggling to breathe with swine flu.

A friend's dad died from it.

My best friend did and was very poorly, though she does have underlying health issues. I didn't though a few years later I was laid out for two weeks with the Australian flu. I have never been so. ill in my life, it was the first time I'd ever had a doctor's note for sickness and I'm in my 40s.

Yes, I was a children's a&e nurse and it was so busy with changing information about testing, Tamiflu and isolation. Despite wearing mask, apron and gloves. I was ill but they had stopped testing as believed endemic so I was presumed case and if work for 2.5 weeks feeling really hot, tired and I'll with a cough that made my ribs and stomach muscles hurt. I don't get Tamiflu as needed to present within 3 days of symptoms and I couldn't get out of bed to go to hospital.

I had it, felt like I had been hit by a bus with flu plus dysentery but once given tamiflu I felt better in just a few doses. Had two weeks off, weak for a while but only lasting side effect is my teeth. I was having orthodontic work done and it’s impaired due to virus.

Yes DD then aged about 10 got it. Asthmatic. No one else caught it. We used NHS website to get tamiflu. She has recently said she had felt so ill she thought she might die ( wish I'd known poor baby) and she was indeed incredibly unwell. She does tend to catch anything going round and now happens to be bed bound with very very severe ME which I've often wondered if was started by swine flu. Hoping she doesn't get coronavirus as she will be very unwell and she is in any case currently on antibiotics following a bad cold a month ago which has caused secondary infections,

No and I don't know anyone that did either.

My fil had swine flu and then pneumonia. Even though we were there when he was taken to hospital it never occurred to me that we might catch it. At the time I was a teacher working in a huge secondary school and at no point did I worry. Now however I am very aware of what is going on and I am definitely concerned.

I knew someone who contracted swine flu, sadly she passed away.

I had swine flu in summer of 2009 it was horrendous honestly felt like I was dying, my ds who was 6 months old caught it too, we were so ill a dr came to visit us at home with mask on etc my parents had to look after us but then caught it themselves - they were given tamiflu.

Yes me and my DH had it, we weren't married at the time just living together and had no kids, we both had to take over a week off work and we ran out of food, I was recovering first as I'd caught it first so we voted that I go to the shop to get essentials (we literally had nothing), it was snowing at the time and I was wearing UGG boots and slipped and fell on my arse with two shopping bags, it was 8.30am so no one was really about, I lay there on the ground and sobbed for 2 minutes before getting back up and that was after a week or so of already having it. It was hell.

I knew 3 people with it

I had it in 2014. It was the most terrifying thing I have ever been through. I started having problems breathing and my mum took me up to the walk in centre first thing in the morning where they put me on a nebuliser and I felt better. Went back to my mum and dad's and started to feel really unwell and was really struggling to breathe again so my mum called an ambulance. They came out and gave me another nebuliser and said they were 100% sure something was brewing that I needed antibiotics for and they phoned and made me a GP appt for that afternoon. It was with the awful Dr and she told me I didn't need to go to hospital or have antibiotics as it was just a virus. At this point I could hardly breathe enough to speak 2-3 words at a time. When I got home I felt so ill with an awful awful headache and it took me 20 minutes to crawl upstairs to bed where I fell into an uneasy sleep full of vivid dreaming. When my husband came home he found me lying on the bathroom floor rambling incoherently. he called an ambulance again and I was rushed into hospital. I can remember how terrified I was in the ambulance, I was so very hot in the oxygen mask and trying to pull it off but then I couldn't breathe. They had no idea what was wrong with me when they examined me. My temperature was 42, I was hallucinating and severely dehydrated. They told my parents and husband that they couldn't say if I would make it, I didn't know that till my mum told me recently. I had loads of blood tests and IV antibiotics and fluids and was put into isolation for 4 days and the tests came back as swine flu. That experience makes me absolutely TERRIFIED to get this.

Yes, I got it very early - was tested as DH's ex and her partner came back from a holiday in Mexico and thought they had it, so we took the kids, then I got ill. Ironically it turned out they didn't have it, but I did! Gosh I was so ill. Three weeks later I went out of the house for the first time and I was so weak my legs gave way and I fell and smashed my face on the pavement.

Was just chatting about this in the office earlier today and four of us caught it at that time.

I had it. I was a healthy 16 year old at the time. I lost 2 stone and couldnt move or eat or do anything for 9 weeks. I didnt think i would live. The rest of my family were sick for 2 weeks i dont know why i was affected so badly.

My then 9 month had it. We were kept in an isolation ward in the hospital and they had to empty the ward of all the other patients first. It was very scary being on a completely empty ward just him and me and a nurse in a hazmat suit!
I wasn’t allowed to see 2 year old dd for over a week.
It was the scariest time of my life, I thought he was going to die

Everyone in my family but me had it in 2009. It was pretty awful. I was trying to hold down a full time job while looking after a delirious husband and three sick children, one of whom was on the verge of needing hospitalisation.

Fun times.

Yes I had it when I was pregnant. I didn’t take anything I was completely paranoid about damaging the baby and it was horrendous. I was fine though. Then my toddler got it after me. That was awful. They prescribed tamiflu- worst mistake I ever made. He was very ill and much worse taking the tamiflu. They gave me relenza I got horrible depression symptoms from it and threw it after two nights. Toddler went down hill and we ended up in a&e the doctor there told us that he wouldn’t give his child this medicine in a very quiet voice. I binned it, three days later he was fine.

My 3 month old daughter caught it from my (then) husband. She was hospitalised for 3 days and had to endure spinal taps (checking for meningitis), and injections into her bladder for urine samples because she was so dehydrated. It was an awful, scary time.
Shes a very healthy, strong 10 year old now but it really has shown me how serious these things can be and I am as such extra cautious about the Co-Vid19.

No and don't know anyone who got it. I had first part of vaccine and so I'll with that didn't go back for 2nd part!

We were 3 friends coming back from overseas to Scotland. We all got it. Actually hallucinating from fever, coughing, muscle pain and weakness, knocked out for at least a week. I never usually get colds or flu, but seriously thought this will be my end.

A relative of my DH had it and sadly died (had underlying health conditions).

My then 3yo ds got it. He was a like a floppy sweaty doll for a week, spent in bed. Vomited up tamiflu.

I caught it that summer when I was pregnant with DC1. I slept for about a week, lost a lot of weight as I’d only wake up when H brought me toast, and was exhausted for the rest of the pregnancy. As I was pregnant I couldn’t have Tamiflu so I was prescribed a sort of powder inhaler instead. DC1 was born early and with a growth restriction (now fine). I do wonder how much was bad luck and how much was flu.