Does this sound like flu in pregnancy?

[Bornunderpunches]

so I’m 24 weeks pregnant and felt absolutely fine yesterday until around 6pm where I started feeling slightly achy, put my toddler down around half 7 and was feeling really tired and achy so showered and got into bed. Throughout the evening it’s progressed a lot and was shivering in bed with 4 layers on 2 pairs of socks duvet blanket and 3 hot water bottles temp read at 35.6 at one point fell asleep for about an hour to wake up to more shivering, intense headache, my joints feel like they’ve been smashed with a hammer and sore throat and blocked nose put another layer on and then about half an hour later temp rose to 38.1 boiling up and ripping off layers I had some paracetamol half an hour ago and temp come down only to 38 It’s only 6 hours since I first started symptoms and feeling really nervous about it being flu or something more do you think I should go and see the doctor in the morning or phone the maternity triage?

That’s flu. You should get checked out. I have had a gastrointestinal flu for the last week to two weeks and the only reason I hadn’t gone to see someone sooner is because I have an at home blood pressure machine to keep an eye on myself.
I saw a doctor today and I’m going for blood tests tomorrow because I “looked awful”, and I don’t even have the full blown muscle ache thing. Their threshold for seeing and treating pregnant women is very low though, as flu can affect a pregnancy.

Some very important advice for you though from when I had a serious kidney infection and fever; do not use hot water bottles. Do not use ice or fans. I know it’s horribly painful to be freezing and boiling, but trying to warm or cool yourself gets you stuck in a terrible cycle of your fever intensifying. You have to make do with a thin, breathable sheet and shiver through it I’m afraid. Or it will keep going up and up. And absolutely no ibuprofen.

Definately sounds flu-y. Would be worth calling maternity triage for advice. GP can obviously check BP, HR, temp etc, but realisically they can't give you anything for it per se, and will advise you to seek advise from those who specialise in pregnancy anyway, and visiting a GP surgery with such symptoms is best avoiding. As others have said, paracetamol, fluids, and NOT lots of layers, hot water bottles etc. Feel better soon x

Call triage and see what they say, they will be open and they’ll give you the best advice as to if you need to be seen, what to watch for etc!

sounds awful, I hope you start feeling better soon

My baby had Flu A in December a few days later I had the exact same symptoms as you have. Worst headache of my life. Definitely get yourself checked out❤️ fortunately, I was only under the weather for 48 hours, but I’m not pregnant. Hope you feel better soon.

Update: I saw the doctor yesterday who was pretty unhelpful just paracetamol and rest (pretty impossible with a 2 year old) asked if they could test to tell me what it was so I could inform people I’ve been around recently and they just said it wasn’t necessary. Ordered my own test and turns out I have Covid not the flu!