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!

Re: vomiting - is this definitely a symptom with children?

Because the parallel class at dd's school had 6 out of 30 children sent home yesterday after they vomited at school, and this morning when the 2 classes were queuing up, there were less than 10 children in the class (I thought 6-8). Out of 30. DD's class at almost full strength, but they mix heaps and heaps during the day, so no doubt will spread. Could "just" be a vomiting bug though....

Again some people get upset stomachs, one end, both ends, while others don't.

Corr, I just walked downstairs to get the post then back up and I feel like I've run a marathon ! Day 9? I think, as the days are blurred now. I just want to go OUT !!! But realistically how far would I get if I can't even do the stairs?

Grumble, Grumble.

well having spoken with my dr this am, she doesn't want to give me tamiflu as I have no temp but from reading the lists below I think I've got it, I felt ok this am, so took myself into work, am back at home now as went down with the shakes and now one side of my throat is feeling like its swelling up, nice Dr agreed I sound like I have a heavy cold, (this is same Dr who told me to take echinecha when I actually had flu that put me in bed for 3 days last October, complete with a none stop cough that lasted until mid December )

Hi LL I am the same as you have quite a few symptoms byt because I don't have a fever they won't diagnose swine flu. Have to wait and see.

Hope you all feel better soon

oooh look here, info on what to do rather than bothering your Dr.
news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/health/newsid_8144000/8144428.stm

"For almost everyone who gets it, the effects are more like a nasty cold rather than a life threatening disease." - the more I read, the more I think I had it.

Rang our GP this morning. Only got to speak to receptionist who said that in the absence of high temp they would not diagnose swine flu for either me or DS1, despite me saying cases have ben confirmed by swabbing in absence of temp. Explained DS2 is currently symptom free but has history of unexplained respiratory arrest and is only 5. She said if he develops a temp which is uncontrollable by usual methods then he will get tamiflu.

DS2 was symptom free until late this afternoon when he has developed swollen glands and a temp (not majorly high - nudging 38 but high for him). So far, temp has remained steady with nurofen but hasn't actually reduced - simply remained the same. If it doesn't come down in the next half hour or so I will call again.

Both my dd's have had a cough, slight temp, dd2 has bad nappies, dd1 had one day off school and dd2 carried on going to nursery (she had no high temp, just cough).

I hope it wasn't swine flu as they have still been going to school .

There is only one conformed case in dd1's school but a nearby village has a lot of conformed cases.

A couple of weeks ago DS 3.5yrs had runny nose and he had green gunk coming out of his eyes, he was grumpy and really clingy but I put it down to a cold because he's been like this before.

I complained to DH that my stomach had felt off for a couple of days and then I developed cold symptoms but it was unlike any cold i've ever had it just wiped me out completely and I ached all over.

DH and DD then got the cold. DD 15mths just got away with a runny nose maybe because I BF her that helped. But DH has been awful he went into work feeling fine and came home that night looking terrible, Aching joints headache, eyes and nose streaming and pain when he was breathing. He is back in work tomorrow after 2 weeks on the sick with pleurisy that was caused by the cold going onto his chest.

I'm almost over the cold (still sneezing) but I still feel so tired, I'm usually really energetic but I get up with the DC at 7am and by 9am I just want to close my eyes and go back to sleep.

Neither me or DH were diagnosed with SF but after reading this thread I'm wondering if we've had it.

There is swine flu in all our neighbours and local nurseries.

DH and I were both wiped out over the weekend and beginning of this week with sore throat, aching limbs, hot and cold feeling, headache, totally knackered but no high temperature. Rang NHS Direct (DH asthmatic) and told, if there's no high temperature bugger off we aren't counting it as swine flu. So I found the links above very interesting.

I remember on Sunday standing in the rain in the garden trying to get cold and saying to DH, I bloody wish this was swine flu because if swine flu is worse I don't want it thankyou very much.

Not sure what I am adding here, just waffling along with everyone else trying to work out if I had it or not.

Dd has had high temp, uti, and doc says tonsilitis? She was sick a few days before the uti kicked in. I have sky high temp tonight -40 degrees, feel dreadful, aches, freezing cold, sore throat.... Tonsilitis or sf?

Blebumedfly - I know a friends child was intially told SF, then went in and cos he had huge tonsils was diagnosed with tonsillitis. I am a bit as there is diagnosed SF in his class and oddly he started off as bad stomachache, high fever, headache and then vomiting as his first symptoms before he got a sore throat. Dr. told them that because he had very specific symptoms of headache, sore throat etc if couldnt be SF as that tends to have very generic feeling yuk symptoms not specific ones. that also had me going

But surely tonsillitis is secondary infection to the main cause?!! I used to quite frequently get secondary throat infections after a bad cold (seems to have tailed off again now, thankfully).

Not always I think, I used to get frequent tonsillitis - have had them out now. Never ever had stomache ache and vomiting as main initial symptoms. I'd have thought that tonsils would quite often come up with this sort of infection as they are one of the lines of defence.
So am very but friend is greatly reassured and who am I to argue with a gp.

But still

Yeah, I'd be sceptical too with those other symptoms.

Friend is actually not as convinced as I thought, shes just being open minded I think (and doesn't want to worry me cos I'm feeling a bit rough and she is absolutely lovely even in times of minor crisis)

Oh goodness me. Well, she was very poorly, could she have had SF and tonsilitis as well then? Or misdiagnosed?

I feel dreadful, high temps, no apetite, jelly legs, sore throat... sound familiar?

it does
remember that all tonsillitis is is an infection in the tonsils - can be caused by viruses and bacteria.

If it is flu you have then you can console yourselves that you can enjoy the summer without worrying about it.

I have just been diagnosed with Swine Flu and have been given Tamiflu. Poo. Chances are DD was misdiagnosed last weekend and she has had it too. Fingers crossed as I don't want to go through another week of poorly toddler, just done 2 of those!!

poor souls belgianbun! Interesting to know thanks!

I'm getting confused. I've had apparent tonsilitis this week (feeling tired achey, white stuff on tonsils, swollen glands). Could it be SF? It has made me feel a little bit sick, but I assumed that was swallowing the white crap - urgh!

Anyway, DH has been sent home from work today feeling really achey. DD was vomitting on wednesday and really hot. Could we have had SF?

I was told that I probably had swine flu lst night. Gp isn't swabbing anymore so can't confirm. Barking cough that has now gone gunky, aches, chills,nausea and feel like my head is going to explode. No high temp but the GP has given me Tamiflu anyway. He said that it's highly likely that I got it on the flight back fom Las vegas last Saturday.

I've found that I have a 20min window of feeling ok about half an hour after my 4 hourly paracetamol dose. Then back to feeling pants. Can't read or even concentrate on a book.

Question is do I have any chance of not passing it onto DD & DS? I've hidden upstairs and haven't been with 6ft of them since before school yesterday. Luckily dh is off work until tomorrow. Also am booked to go camping next Wednesday. What are the odds of me getting over this (and not passing it onto dh or children) by then?

Bumper - based on my experiences this week with apparent tonsilitis then it is possible you could be suffering sf. I ache with this but I don't usually ache with tonsilitis. Also the temperatures have been extreme with chills that have made me physically shake for hours. Not had an extreme reaction to tonsils before either

Nikki they are saying 4 day incubation period so that would sound right. .