Christ on a bike, I feel dreadful! This doesn't sound like flu (pig or otherwise) does it?

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Have been sent home from work ill, only my second week, but have cold sweats, achey, headache, sore eyes, stuffy/runny nose and the beginning of a sore throat. have upset tummy and feel v sick. god, I'm ill!

The Thai news are reporting what is killing people with this flu, apparently it gives some either pneumonia or meningitus.

www.nationmultimedia.com/topstory/30106848/Flu-patient-develops-meningitis

yy atlantis
same

I have had for over 2 weeks now!

Started with swollen glands and sore throat for a couple of days
then 3 days in bed totally exhuaused and feeling like crap
then I felt ok ish for a day or too but still totally shattered
Then totally knocked for six again for a week, appalling nausea for a couple of days at first then just exhaustion and general malaise
Sat or sun this week - another sore throat and now pouring snot and feeling generally crap - ongoing!

lissie does sound like flu..swine or otherwise!!
dd2 is on day 5 of being ill and would say is reasonably normal apart from tiredness, cough and snotty nose now.

One of the kids in ds2's class got pneumonia with this 'cold' too... fully recovered now, thankfully.

Interesting.

As it is said one in 3 will contract this, I am wondering if dh and dd are in some way immune if I have had it!

Sounds like flu/swine flu to me.
Last time I had flu I was so ill I could do nothing for four days (not even read a book) except lie there shaking.

Lyra: that makes me think I didn't have the flu. I felt like death warmed up and was wiped out for a week, but I wasn't bedridden.

Then again, when I definitely and officially had flu 5 years ago, I wasn't bedridden either. It did bugger up my lungs for about 6 months though...

Who knows.

I was 17 weeks pg at the time, so maybe it hit me harder because of that.

No, I've had flu where I couldn't even lift my head before, this is a very weird one, they say it gets less potent as it passes from person to person depending on their symptoms, so I suppose it depends on who you got it from and how badly they had it?

I was doing light hoovering yesterday and today I feel like dump again.

i am very up and down
last night I felt ok for a bit
now hideous again
i must go and have a lemsip

Oh, had zero appetite too which was very odd for me. Usually if I have a cold I go on a carb-fest.

I don't know about all this. I definitely had the flu last November and have no memory of 3 days of it, wiped out for 3 weeks really.

Recently I've two lots of illness (healthy aren't I !). First one 5 weeks ago when went down with a temperature from nowhere and a cough. Cough didn't clear then last week woke up with a horrendous headache and felt very sick. By the end of the day temperature was up again and I was shivering, aching, feeling sick with throbbing head and coughing away still.

I'm finding it hard to believe that one of the lots I've just had isn't swine flu. And although I have felt really rough, it was definitely not as bad as the flu last year.

Well, my headache is getting worse and I'm now starting to feel detached and 'heavy'.

Pondering on whether I should call gp...

I can't take med's except for paracetamol (luckily) so I have been living on Manuka honey and acidophillus tabs and sniffing vicks (good old vicks!).

Every two days I brew myself a big stew pot with extra chicken (no pork thank you were not on speaking terms at the moment) and forcing it down a little at a time. With gallons of water. I can't believe how dry my mouth is.

Gosh CD, two weeks! Ahhh, thought I was nearly over it. Bum.

they said ds had it when i phoned about dd2 and he had been up and down over 10days. For 2 days he seemed so normal I actually sent him back to school although in my defence I did just think he had a cold.

Whatever happened to two days coming, two days here and two days going ! That was what my granny used to say.

I suppose SF is different by design.

My poor DD keeps wanting to cuddle me and I have to sneak attack from behind, have every window in the house open and shove her into the garden as much as possible so she doesn't get it, poor thing is home ed so with me 24/7.

She's showing no signs yet though, thank god. She doesn't do ill.

Well the flu we had at christmas went like this:

dd (age 5) - terribly ill. Temps over 40, shivers and aches. No appetite at all. Stopped peeing for a worrying time while I desperately tried to get fluids into her (but then started again). Had to be carried to loo when applicable - mostly just lay in bed, in dark, and slept for about 20 hours out of 24.

ds (age 3) - not so bad. Temps but not as high nor for so long. Very lethargic. No appetite. Slept and slept.

DH - felt like a bad cold. Temperature. Sore throat.

Me - high temps for about 4 days. Exhausted. Headache. Shivers and aches. No appetite.

So on the basis of that, would feel that everyone reacts differently to what can essentially be the same virus, and what knocks one person completely for 6, such that they couldn't get out of bed if there was a million pounds on the front lawn, might not feel so bad to someone else.

I got rather cross with dh at the time because he said it couldn't be flu because he wasn't feeling like death warmed up.

I know that expat had it, and that the severity of the symptoms varied a great deal within her family, and they were confirmed (swabbed) cases.

Mine was short lived, just the tiredness/lethargy lasted longer (and the kids are still wiped out - but that's partly tiredness from end-of-term-itis).

' couldn't get out of bed if there was a million pounds on the front lawn' PMSL

I think even in the throws on labour I could somehow still manage that one!.

I still think on reflection and reading other people's experiences, ours was just a severe cold. Part of me would like to indulge in some wishful thinking that it was swine flu though, if only so I can relax that it's all out of the way relatively easily!

I certainly could atlantis!

But that seems to be the example people use for describing what they perceive to be real flu!

I think anyone thats had a bout of 'something' should class themselves as having had it, at least as you say they can then relax a little.

If they flu mutates as they say it might there's nothing to stop anyone getting it again.

I think all we can do is stock up, 'just in case' self quarantine, call the gp if things don't go well and cross our fingers we will be ok.

well, i am inclined to think this is sf, feel even worse now than i did. could quite easily sleep. temp still high and cold sweats but everything just seems worse. have called in sick for tomorrow, only on second fecking week!

Get well soon, lissielou, and get as much rest/sleep as possible.

thanks, feel v v sick now too