Just this morning I was lying in bed waking up when I realized I had just inhaled the flu virus, the symptoms we're starting up. I quickly grabbed a tissue and blew to beat the band and was successful at dislodging and evacuating it!
The Official Influenza Thread
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Right here with you. Damm sore throat.
I don't usually even get colds: haven't had one for a couple of years at least. So I wasn't prepared for this.
Today I feel utterly drained - partly from having spent the night hacking my lungs up, and partly because every muscle appears to have turned to jelly. Guess I won't be going into work today, either.
I'm dreading tomorrow. Eating is such a chore.
Today I feel utterly drained - partly from having spent the night hacking my lungs up, and partly because every muscle appears to have turned to jelly. Guess I won't be going into work today, either.
I'm dreading tomorrow. Eating is such a chore.
I've been fighting this damned bug for a almost two weeks now. The fever finally broke last night (I think). Now I've just got to deal with the sore throat, crap draining down from my sinuses, and the damned cough.
My boss seems to think she and I have some allergy to something that only comes out at this time of year (she's got something very similar) since we both seem to get this right before/after Christmas. I'm seriously thinking about asking my doctor to check this out...
My boss seems to think she and I have some allergy to something that only comes out at this time of year (she's got something very similar) since we both seem to get this right before/after Christmas. I'm seriously thinking about asking my doctor to check this out...
One of my sons is allergic to pine trees and as a result we cannot have a real Christmas tree.
He got very sick one year when he was made to make decorations out of pinecomes. He told his teacher he was allergic to them but she didn't believe him. I don't understand why the teacher couldn't have simply rung me to confirm if he was telling to trruth or not.
I don't have the flu, but I have been fighting off a nasty case of pneumonia for the past two weeks. I woke up hyperventilating for hours and coughing up bloody phlegm one night, went to the doctors, got a chest x-ray and a prescription for an inhaler and nasal spray and got tested for TB (which I had to come back for two days later - it was negative).
Almost a week and a half later, my doctor calls me back and says that he examined my chest x-rays (that were digital and sent to his computer the first night) and I have pneumonia. So he prescribed me seven pills of antibiotics which end on Christmas Day, but I'm supposed to come back and see him on the last day (Christmas, so... not gonna happen) without interruption in my meds to see if I need a refill prescription (which clearly I do since I'm still coughing, feverish with chills, and throwing up - yay!).
I have gotten very little sleep the past two weeks because I'm constantly coughing and wheezing every time I breathe, so it's been a fun Christmas so far.
Almost a week and a half later, my doctor calls me back and says that he examined my chest x-rays (that were digital and sent to his computer the first night) and I have pneumonia. So he prescribed me seven pills of antibiotics which end on Christmas Day, but I'm supposed to come back and see him on the last day (Christmas, so... not gonna happen) without interruption in my meds to see if I need a refill prescription (which clearly I do since I'm still coughing, feverish with chills, and throwing up - yay!).
I have gotten very little sleep the past two weeks because I'm constantly coughing and wheezing every time I breathe, so it's been a fun Christmas so far.
That's awful!
Is anyone helping to take care of you? Hope you start feeling better soon.I've got the start of a cold myself. When I get a cold it usually progresses to a "do I need to go to the ER?" stage within a week, so it's not fun. But I'm kinda just used to it since I get sick so much, and I only hope I'm okay in time to go to India in a few weeks.
That's awful!
My sisters are down for Christmas, so they've been helping me out. Thanks.
I hope you feel better soon as well.
It takes two weeks to develop immunity, and November is right before the flu usually hits.
There's some evidence that the virus is more stable in cold, dry climates. However, the conventional wisdom is that more people are together inside so it's easier to spread. The 1918 influenza epidemic was at its worst in the month of October, interestingly enough, and was nearly entirely avian in origin.
The H5N1 strain of the flu, currently circulating in birds, doesn't infect humans efficiently because it binds sialic acid with an alpha-2,3 linkage. Humans only express that receptor deep in the respiratory tract, so thus far only people who come into frequent contact with birds have contracted the disease. If, with a few amino acid substitutions, it switched to an alpha 2,6 linkage (present throughout the respiratory tract) it could infect humans efficiently and we'd potentially have another epidemic on our hands.
