Has anyone had or got this flu that's going round?

[Leighcal]

I started with it last Friday night/early Saturday morning and its got me good and proper! Haven't been able to keep anything inside me no matter how hard I try. I can keep the odd bit of fluids down and the odd paracetamol. Sunday/Monday was worst days I couldn't move off the sofa! I could hardly stay awake either. Had body temps of 41 degrees.
It's really knocking the hell outta me. I'm not usually one for lazing about but this flu has given me no choice! I've lost a stone in a week and you can tell by looking at me. Can't breathe properly as day goes on I get worse and worse.
I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy! I will defo be getting a flu jab next year and I advise anyone who can to get it themselves. I've never been so I'll in all my life and never want to be again.
Luckily my other half been pregnant had the flu jab so she has been able to do all she can for me but God knows how we would have coped if we both got it?

Leigh

 

[Adruzzz]

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Sorry to hear that mate, we all had it a while back and it was just vile, I lost nearly a stone too... Keep your fluids up and hang in there

 

[Leighcal]

Yeah that's all I've been trying to do, have managed a tin of soup today and I think I'm starting to feel a bit better now but I've thought that the past few days and as soon as I've tried to eat or have anything more than water it hasn't gone well. When I've kept water down its been through the day. Then as day goes on it starts to sneak back up on me and by tea time that's it I can't move again!
I really wouldn't wish it on anyone and would advise anyone and everyone I can to get their flu jab because it's not nice at all.

The nest time someone tells me they're dying of flu when all they've got is a common cold I think I may just have to stamp very hard on their toe! Even the worst cold I've had doesn't come even close to flu.

Thanks

Leigh

 

[dyna-ti]

Well i hope i dont get this, my health is poor enough. Its these type of infections that eventually get you :?

Advice-
Hide in bed for a week.
Expend as little energy as you can
Drink lots - Live on lucozade orange
Stick to scrambles egg

 

[LikeClockwork]

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Whereabouts are you?

There's a lot of it about down here in South Somerset, I've had a sky high temperature for two days but somehow managed to avoid anything worse. Being self employed there just isn't anything worse than getting seriously ill.

Plenty of friends have had it though and describe it like you do - and as soon as they think they may be on the mend, it flattens them again, just the effort in making a cup of tea is enough to finish them off. As said before, just try and flush it out by drinking as much water as possible.

I was taking an anti flu and cold homeopathic remedy all winter until it ran out recently, thought it would never work, but starting to wonder now if there is something in it!

Get well soon.

 

[Ompelukone]

I had something similar, but without the high fever and being sick. A week in the bed/sofa, not eating basically anything. Not able to surf the net, not able to make a toast, not even able to watch Pointless, cause it was waay too fast paced... Just happy to be alive and able to breath (I think, can't remember much of the time)!

Then a course of antibiotics and after that a day (3 hours) at the office just to realise that I was not well yet. Back to the GP and an another week of sick leave. Was away from work for three weeks. Now after the short easter week I realise that I didn't get anything done and should've stayed at home...

Hope you'll get better soon, there are some really nasty bugs about!

 

[Adruzzz]

Yeah that's all I've been trying to do, have managed a tin of soup today and I think I'm starting to feel a bit better now but I've thought that the past few days and as soon as I've tried to eat or have anything more than water it hasn't gone well. When I've kept water down its been through the day. Then as day goes on it starts to sneak back up on me and by tea time that's it I can't move again!
I really wouldn't wish it on anyone and would advise anyone and everyone I can to get their flu jab because it's not nice at all.

The nest time someone tells me they're dying of flu when all they've got is a common cold I think I may just have to stamp very hard on their toe! Even the worst cold I've had doesn't come even close to flu.

Thanks

Leigh

As you've been vomiting have you been taking dioralyte? ( https://www.dioralyte.co.uk/dioralyte-f ... lyte-works ) it's not only for diarrhoea and really helped us. Another tip is to drink boiled water instead of out the tap.

Hope you're better soon mate

 

[andyz]

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That sounds aweful, hope you get better soon! :cry:

All we have in these parts (Kent) at the moment is a terrible cough which won't go away. The Docs can do nothing for it at all.

 

[Leighcal]

Not really any point in drinking lucozade as it doesn't hydrate, loads of sugar but that's it. I've been having boiled water with sugar in.
I've been feeling ok past few mornings but then as soon as 3pm comes that's it! Back on the sofa/bed sky high temperature etc. Yesterday evening I started with a bad pain in my left shoulder going from my chest to my upper arm that hurts when I breathe or cough. I have some strong painkillers from doctor already so I took some of them. Probably not the best move for a stomach that hasn't seen food in a week but they eased it a lot!
I'm gonna try get back in doctors tomorrow and see what they say. When I went last week they wouldn't prescribe me any antibiotics because their was no infection present? I thought different, but I'm not a professional.

Thanks for all your kind wishes and here's hoping it doesn't grab any of you, it is horrible it really is.

Leigh

 

[LikeClockwork]

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Sounds to me as if you have a chest infection, that's how they get me. May need an x-ray to prove it, so be insistent.

Best of luck and take it easy, I've finally got rid of a sky high temperature by working for 6 hours today, out in the sun, digging over an allotment! My back may not thank me for it in an hours time mind....

Good excuse for the energy drink called Cider, I find....