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Could this be actual flu and not just a bad cold?

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PeopleAreTheWorst · 09/12/2022 05:39

I've been awake on and off all night alternating between being red hot and freezing cold. Am so sweaty. Headache, jaw/teeth ache poss into ears. My eyes hurt, my eyelids are hot. I've got worse over the past day or so.
Throat isn't sore but when I breath it feels like something is dragging in the top of my chest. Slight cough which isn't all the time but hurts and is productive when it happens. I'm absolutely exhausted to the point I have done the school run the past three days and then gone to bed for a nap. I work part time so I have a routine on my days off and I've done none of it.
When I am hungry it doesn't seem to be satisfied no matter what I eat. My upper stomach has been sore for a few days but with no obvious pattern.
I scared myself when I got up to go to the loo last night and I sort of staggered like I was really drunk there and back.
My sinuses are really sore too.
My skin feels like it has been sandpapered.
I know there's not much to be done if it is. I last had it as a teen so many years ago. That time I got so hot in the night I hallucinated and the doctor came out to see me (shows how long ago that was!)
I did dd2 parents evening last night as Dh is away. We came home at 7.30pm and I dozed off on the couch before waking up at 9, tidying what I could and then came to bed where I've been awake on and off all night.
I just kind of need to know how long before I'll feel better. Im supposed to be out tonight but I don't see me managing that, out for tea tomorrow, same and then I'm in work late on Sunday. I need to give them plenty of notice if I'm not going to be in as they have to replace me because I'm a key holder.
I don't get on all that well with my mum but I want my mum 😢

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greenacrylicpaint · 15/12/2022 14:16

could be flu.
could be covid.
could 'just' be a cold.

unless it gets tested you never know.
least you can dk is rule out covid by testing at home.

I hope you feel better soon!

PeopleAreTheWorst · 15/12/2022 16:05

Have covid tested multiple times. All negative. I've still got the dragging cough and I'm shattered all the time but the worst but now is the pretty much constant nausea. I've not eaten more than half a slice of toast a day since last Thursday. Anything more I just can't keep down. I've been sipping lucozade and water but again if I have too much it comes back up.
Assuming another bug overlapping the last one?

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PeopleAreTheWorst · 16/12/2022 09:03

Just blown my nose and this! Still coughing a fair bit, not managing to eat much still from the nausea. So fed up now.

Could this be actual flu and not just a bad cold?
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user53852098 · 16/12/2022 09:16

You need to take it easy as it does sound like you had flu so you shouldn't do too much as you begin to feel a bit better, I doubt it was just a cold, I have a cold at the moment and apart from horrible nose, throat and cough have felt fine, in fact I think I have ate more than usual. Get better soon

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