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!

Don't forget the most important thing is to keep your tempreture down. Paracetamol and the usual.

Funnily enough, we've just had a letter home from dses' primary confirming that swine flu is definitely in the school.

I guess if we haven't already had it, we will be getting it soon enough.

onthe front page of the shropshire star the other day was a story about a school not informing parents that sf was in school (dull round here). the woman who complained lives on our street, the phone rang off the hook with well meaning rellies warning us.

To bed lissie!! Really important to rest as much as you can now.

My work said they would not be informing the staff as they didn't want to 'panic' people, I'm guessing that means they didn't want people staying home in case they get it or pulling a sickie claiming to have it.

Very irresponsible considering some people may have 'underlying medical consitions' or people at home they could pass it too who do.

I still don't see why the government did not ground all flights to and from affected countries and set up quarantine bases as the chinese and others have done in hotels near the airports.. it would have been a lot cheaper than the ammount of people who are going to have time off and medicine etc needed and lives saved, but then this government cant be trusted to do anything for the good of the electorate although I see Gordon and his family are well protected not allowing anyone near him who maybe infected, funny that.

The Chinese are doing the following (I know cos the guy who works for me is based in China) - taking the temperature of everyone on planes coming in. Anyone with a high temperature has to go straight into quarantine along with 2 rows in front and 2 rows behind.

Have mixed feelings about this way however...very state control

Well I think our government are very controlling except when it matters, were lucky it was only swine flu I suppose, imagine if they let people in with ebola?

Interesting. I've been off work for the past two days with the following symptoms:

feeling hot and sweaty (interspersed with the odd chill)
total lack of appetite
exhaustion like I've never felt
diahorrea
dizziness

Is this it???

Went to the dr this am
She said they have been told now (just this am) that lots of swine flu cases are presenting without temperatures so they now say I have had it.
Thank goodness

That's interesting, CD.

Hope that's the case for us.

I was ill 2 weeks ago I really hope in a way i have had it.Dp and I both really exhausted which is nothing new for me but he is Mr fit!Ds not ill at all.I am still worrying like mad need to calm down!

Noddy I was running 45 mins to 1 hr 3 or 4 times a week adn doing 3 exercise classes a week prior to this
Now i can't walk faster than v slow or i break out in a sweat!!!

I feel awful here.
Fever and aches and sore throat for past 2 days.
Just want to go back to bed.

Lovely I think you've just diagnosed I have SF then....
dd2 had trots last week on fri and got sent home from school, she's been quite tired since Wed, but was ok by Sunday.

Yesterday I woke up with razorblade throat, which has developed into me having the hot n colds this am, and now it feels like someone has my head in a vice I think I need drugs!

They say the razorblade throat is the big give away, if you get that you've got it.

So FFS, why can't this government get it's act together and tell people exactly whats going on, what the real symptoms are, people are saying if they haven't got a tempreture like normal flu they haven't had it/ got it,if they can get out of bed they haven't got it etc, then they do not quaratine themselves, now everyones getting it.

All they have to do is tell people this is not like normal flu symptoms, if you are ill quarantine, but nooooooo, does anyone else think certain members of government have shares in Tamiflu?

it was reported in the NY times ages ago

why not here?

CD, interesting what you said about felling better for a few days.

dd2 was untested but diagnosed with it last weekend.

She was better on the Wednesday.

Then this wekend she was terribly ill, couldn't even swallow her own saliva.

WE saw the dr twice more and she said it was swine flu, but because she'd already diagnosed her the week before, it couldn't have come back

Now she antibiotics because she had severe earache.

Last night she couldn't close her mouth it was so sore

She is 4.

None of us have had anything though.

yy I felt betteris for 2 days
but not for eg so good that I fancied cooking
this is my test of whether I am well (as I love cooking)

poor dd
I really hope she feels better soon

A friend of mine works in NZ for Department of Health (or NZ equivalent. Sent him lengthy email today as I was worried about symptoms etc. He tells me that an absence of fever/high temp does not mean that you do not have swine flu - as many of you have already attested to. Furthermore, the lull in symptoms after a couple of days followed by a raging resurgence is also very typical of this illness.

Am extremely annoyed that our head teacher made decision to keep a child in school despite mother calling school and telling them about her own diagnosis of sf. It is highly irresponsible and yes, you can get this virus from anywhere but surely we should be minimising risks?

DS1 has had awful cold and cough for a week and I have just developed similar symptoms but with chills and headaches rather than temp (DS1 had no temp either). Am assuming, based on all advice - including from here and from my MoH friend that we have the virus.

Do we need to call the GP?

really? I didn't know about the lull being typical

Well, I am still knackered by 4pm every evening despite having been over this 'cold' for a couple of weeks now. I can only do about half the amount of push-ups I was doing before I came down with it.

Your comment about fancying cooking really resonated with me, CD - we've had so many takeaways or easy freezer meals this last week, because I just can't face anything mentally taxing in the kitchen.

I'm still not sure whether we had the swine flu - we seemed to have got it so much more mildly than everyone else has described. But the post-viral fatigue thing is really starting to bring me down.

Several children have got confirmed swine flu in our school (and one in ds2's class) now, so I guess if we haven't, I have all this to come. Again.

By the time they get round to vaccinating all the children in the country ' to protect the adults' everyone will have had it. Luckily it was flu this time and not something even more deadly.

I know what you mean about cooking as I never want to see another chicken stew again.

On the upside I have lost a stone in weight through forcing down stew and not eating anything else (I still dont not hear the call of the choclate bar!)but what a way to diet.

I have tried to protect DD but i'm actually wondering if she didn't give it to me as she had an earache, jaw ache,hot flushes and was extremely tired when we were on holiday the week before I got it, I put it down to the norfolk winds! As she has AS it takes a lot to wind her batteries down.??

My eldest also had a 'grotty throat' for a couple of days and he's fine now, maybe it just hit me harder because I have CFS and a low immune system?

Thankfully my symptoms now seem to be retreating s l o w l y. But I do feel for anyone who has it, even just the sore thraot alone is worth a sympathy hug.

well, gp says that while i have some of the symptoms, she doesnt think it is swine flu, just a bug

I wouldn't put too much faith in what the gp says LL, they are still reading from the 'normal' flu check lists !

Treat as flu and just watch for anything out of the ordinary.

I think we have all had it here too

Between the 5 of us we've had

headaches
diarrhea
cough
sore throat
extreme tiredness
vomiting

but no high temp?

I have to say we didn't call the doc, just stayed in for a few days, I did think at the time it could be SF, but no high temp so didn't bother ringing