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Has anyone else had this weird virus?

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Rosebag · 18/03/2013 09:35

Looking for some comfort and solidarity! Over half term we went away for a city break and it was distrastrous. DD (12) went down with something ghastly: high fever, headache, backache, heavy cold symptoms, no appetite and she was really unwell for nearly 2 weeks. DH followed suit with a similar version although no significant fever but the headaches lasted for a couple of weeks and he's still coughing. I had a version, feeling fluey and shivery with backache, a cold and a cough. DS (15) got away with just the cough for a week or so.

I feel I recovered, although the cough lingered. But in the last few days, the shivery, fluey feeling has returned...sore skin, a bit achey. Had 2 days of bad headache, and felt boiling hot at night, but not too bad during the central part of the day. I'm sleeping ok now, no headache but can't shake the fluey feeling in the mornings and the evening.

Any one else with something similar? Any light at the end of the tunnel?

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Willow36 · 18/03/2013 09:42

I've had something like that. Headache, blocked sinuses, shivering, night sweats, bones "aching", sore skin, muscles feeling heavy, raised glands, sore throat. 7 weeks of it building, 2 weeks of feeling awful but no "snotty cold" if you know what i mean? I've still been ok to function during the day but exhausted in the evenings. I've been wanting it to develop into a full blown cold just so I could feel justified in feeling so rubbish. I've never had anything like this before. People don't believe I'm feeling poorly because I look ok but I'm wrecked. I'd just love to know what it actually "is".

One thing that has helped is Sudafed day and night.

Poor you, it is rubbish so I do sympathise.

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Rosebag · 18/03/2013 10:14

Thank you, Willow. I'm not even especially blocked up any more...just this sense of malaise, sore skin and acheyness. It's very demoralising when you think you're better and all the time the virus, (or whatever it is) is mutating in to something else to come back and bite you! I am taking a lot of paracetamol to keep going, and like you, I look okay, so no sympathy from my lot...

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Chandon · 18/03/2013 10:16

Two of my friends have this. No fever, but a shivery feeling, also feeling very down and worn out somehow.

givemeaclue · 18/03/2013 10:19

Yes, we all had it earlier this year , was ghastly. Gp gave us super strength pain killers really helped and antibiotics

Graciescotland · 18/03/2013 10:20

I've got this too and DS has it; generally feeling rubbish as above with the additional symptom of gunkiness in the right eye.

Went to docs and just a virus but meh I'd like to know what to expect as we've had it for six weeks already

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Rosebag · 18/03/2013 10:27

So good to know I'm not going mad. But has anyone actually got better...?

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Cantbelieveitsnotbutter · 18/03/2013 10:37

Oh no I'm on week 3, you mean it's not going away yet?!?!?

SimoneDeBeaver · 18/03/2013 11:09

YY, had it over Christmas. Never really had a fever, so didn't think 'flu' - but then every other symptom matched and it took me about 3 weeks to feel human again.

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Rosebag · 18/03/2013 12:42

So there's hope, Simone? I am now in the time of day when I feel a bit better, having felt rotten all morning with aches, sore flesh and putting on extra layers to keep warm. But it comes back in the evening, DH is away all week and I'm working tonight...
:-(

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Idotry · 18/03/2013 19:49

Rosebag: IT NEVER GOES AWAY Wink - just kidding. I have exactly the same symptoms with the shivery, sore skin thing going on and like you would rather a full on cold then the lingering fluey feeling. Convinced I was on the mend initially but now today feeling hot/ feverish and very pissed off with it all.

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 18/03/2013 20:02

I have this. I've been back and forth to the GP because all the glands came up under my arms and the edge of my breasts and I was convinced I had breast cancer or lymphoma or something hideous.

I am getting the sore skin, and kind of migraine things going on also. Really horrid. DH has it too and he has developed a full chest infection and is now on his second course of antibiotics.

We just want to be better!!

earwig1 · 18/03/2013 20:50

I posted a similar thread here about a month ago, exactly the same thing. A had this flu thing, with the horrid backache, 6 weeks ago and I still have the odd bad day when it resurfaces!

MyCatIsAStupidBastard · 18/03/2013 21:07

Yes we've had it too. Just thought we were getting over it but DS seems to have come down with it again tonight.

Been at least 2 1/2 wks so far. Slowly getting over the fatigue which it left us with.

I am filling us with tonics and vitamins now just to try and budge it.

Good luck with it everyone, it's a pig of a thing.

Ledkr · 18/03/2013 21:13

Me too. Had it just after Xmas and thought I'd caught noro off dds and dh.
It went then came back again. Horrible.

AmandinePoulain · 18/03/2013 21:20

We've all had it here, it peaked in late January. My Mum works in a GP surgery and got swabbed - it was a pneumovirus - it usually only affects babies but this strain seems to be particularly bad. I knew it wasn't your average cold. It took me weeks to recover, and now I've got something else - not as bad but still not 'just a cold' that's for sure. I need spring to arrive and knock these bugs out!

narmada · 18/03/2013 21:20

Yes we have all had it too. I put my money on flu, or some sort of parainfluenza bug.

We were all recovered after a couple of weeks but the reason I am sure it was something more than 'a cold' was that DD age four subsequently developed shingles Shock

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Rosebag · 18/03/2013 21:53

Wow!!! Thank you all....a relief to hear it's not just us, although all this suffering sounds awful!I have managed today on one dose of paracetamol which I suppose is a bit of improvement as I have to admit I was taking co- codamol sometimes in the last week. But I'm far from well. Perhaps mega-multivitamins?

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DIddled · 18/03/2013 21:58

Had the same at new year and I felt bad for three weeks- worse illness I have ever had!! Hope you feel better soon x

kissmyheathenass · 18/03/2013 22:12

We have all had something like that too. Headaches, rstomach pains,cough, sinus pain, eye pain shivery, god just about everything aches. Dcs have rotated time off school for two weeks now. I find anadin extra and spiced rum helps me feel better. Dcs have to make do with calpol.

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Rosebag · 19/03/2013 07:13

How are we all feeling this morning?

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Allfurcoatandnoknickers · 19/03/2013 07:32

I've had this on and off since before Christmas. Had headaches, backache, glands up seemingly everywhere and generally feeling unwell. Some days I feel ok and then it resurfaces. My GP just said it was a virus and it must run its course, but makes me feel I am not alone (awwww bless).
Had usual helpful comments from my mum "ooh you're always ill"...... I KNOW

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 19/03/2013 08:08

Tentatively, a little better. Largely down to a less interrupted night from my lovely little boys!

Snot seems to be drying up, and I think my glands might be down slightly.

Things are definitely made worse for me if I think about it too much. I have got dreadful health anxiety at the moment, and general feelings of panic which are not helping!!

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Rosebag · 19/03/2013 08:39

Well, allfurcoat, we are not alone...this virus seems quite widespread, if this forum is anything to go by.

Alibaba...funnily enough I haven't had the swollen glands part of it...I'm left with this intermittent shivery, sore feeling and some aches. Oh and a cough I just can't shake. It was so embarrassing, I had to leave the room briefly at work last night to cough my guts up. My eyes were watering! Heavens knows what my class thought.

Feeling a bit weird this morning...sore skin on my back and chest. Going out though...keeping busy helps me to be less anxious about it all and takes my mind of it. But it's such an effort....

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AmandinePoulain · 19/03/2013 09:13

I woke up with my eyelids glued together. That's better after a shower but I'm sick of this endless stream of snot coming out of my nose

lurkingfromhome · 19/03/2013 09:18

Hideous. Have resigned myself to the fact that I will have it for ever. Actually, it is almost better but there are still some days when for no reason whatsoever I am hit by a crushing wave of fatigue and could easily go back to bed (most unlike me).