I have flu.

thx1138 · December 2008

I can't talk without coughing, my lungs burn when I breathe, my throat is on fire, I'm coughing up weird stuff every colour of the rainbow, except green. I have a headache, that is just this side of bearable, unless I cough, when I get a searing pain in my head for a couple of seconds.

I'm burning up, but have cold shivers shooting up and down my spine, all of my limbs ache, and walking is very difficult, even standing up is a challenge.

Oh, and MRs.T is off one one of her schizo-phrenice episodes, and keeps asking if she can do anything, and then fails to do anything. In desperation I went to the chemist yesterday, it was "Ground control to major Tom" the whole way, I was hanging on to walls and lamposts, and it's only at the end of the street.

Mrs.T really wasn't very well at all, but luckily I wasn't ill on Monday, well I had a sore throat but, and I got a doctor to come out and tranquiliser her, and then got her down the GP's surgery who sorted it out.

So, it's ironic, I'm her carer and I'm so ill I can't move. Though I can "be there" for he.

Oddly enough, my eyes are fine, not streaming or anything.

I think I'll probably be okay by tommorrow, but I'll have to miss Astronomy tonight, and probably won't ride my bike for the rest of the week. I must be on the mend, cos I managed to post this message.

Winston · December 2008

I wouldn't let it progress, the 10th anniversary of my mum's death is on Christmas Eve, and the cold that killed her started with the same symptoms.

mile · December 2008

Winston wrote: »

I wouldn't let it progress, the 10th anniversary of my mum's death is on Christmas Eve, and the cold that killed her started with the same symptoms.

hope you are ok over christmas, a girl at work was telling me how her mum died at christmas, and she finds the whole holiday thing difficult. hope you have a good one.

rich_chandler · December 2008

I had those symptoms 13 years ago, turned out to be pneumonia. To be honest I've experienced anything like it in my life, nothing else has ever left me so tired and weak. I was bedridden for a week and when I had a bath I had to stop half way through drying myself because I was so exhausted.

Go see a doctor and get the proper medicine, I didn't and it took me a lot longer to recover fully. It didn't help that my wife was 9 months pregnant at the time and gave birth during my illness.

rich_chandler · December 2008

mile wrote: »

hope you are ok over christmas, a girl at work was telling me how her mum died at christmas, and she finds the whole holiday thing difficult. hope you have a good one.

It's difficult for some to cope. MY wife's mother died last week and her father died about 5 years ago on New Years Eve (11.50pm!!) so in the coming years the Christmas break is going to be difficult for her.
And we've got the MIL's funeral on Monday. Not much chance of me getting lucky over Christmas...

Kilby · December 2008

karingal wrote: »

I had those symptoms 13 years ago, turned out to be pneumonia.

My pneumonia also turned up in a similar fashion (apart from the headache), 3 days on a hospital trolley (before they found a bed for me) wasn't fun.

I have a few friends who have had bad things happen over the christmas & new year period, and it poisions that time of the year for them for a very long time.

rich_chandler · December 2008

Kilby wrote: »

My pneumonia also turned up in a similar fashion (apart from the headache), 3 days on a hospital trolley (before they found a bed for me) wasn't fun.

Wish I took my own advice, I had it for two weeks before I went to see a doctor and only went cos I wasn't able to shake it off...

Steve(spt) · December 2008

thx1138 is your cold like this?

robert@fm · December 2008

Sorry to hear about your illness. :( I've recently had a cold, which is bad enough (I stlll have a bit of a sore throat, for me that symptom tends to linger long after the rest have gone)...

It's probably too late for this year, but since you're your wife's carer (my flatmate is also shizophrenic by the way) you almost certainly qualify for a free NHS flu jab on that ground; I'd advise you to ask your GP about this. (I qualify for the jab because I fall into at least two of the high-risk groups.)

ZnorXman · December 2008

thx1138 wrote: »

I can't talk without coughing, my lungs burn when I breathe, my throat is on fire, I'm coughing up weird stuff every colour of the rainbow, except green. I have a headache, that is just this side of bearable, unless I cough, when I get a searing pain in my head for a couple of seconds.

Congratulations!

You just described my first time trying a ciggie.
(and no, I don't smoke, that first time was enough)

Hope your flu gets better*, keep hydrated!

*I mean I hope you getter better ... not that the flu overcomes you or anything to that effect.

dm_boozefreek · December 2008

Yup I've had the real thing twice, how unlucky is that! Apparently you're only likely to get actual influenza once in a lifetime, it's not impossible to get it twice but that's the likeliness I heard (could be bollocks though).

I recently got over a really strange cold, got a fever about 2 weeks ago, but I still went to work for the 3 days I had it wore my jacket whilst working, and took it off when I started sweating. Then I was OK for a day or so, had a sore throat that seemed to go away, then I got a cough a day or so later, and I've been yacking up all kind of multi-coloured yawns ever since. Still coughing up chunks when I wake up, but it tends to calm down after that, I've drank some beer today, not sure if that was smart.

Anyway THX see a doc, it's better to be safe and full of cold, than end up with pneumonia or pleuresy.

zx1 · December 2008

My mother hates christmas now. As my father was diagnosed with a brain tumour on christmas eve! He died a month later. So the winter time is a difficult time for her (and the rest of the family).
Still, he wouldn't have wanted everyone to sit around being depressed. It does tend to subdue everyone though.

dm_boozefreek · December 2008

Hmmm I kinda understand that, my gran died sept 2000, followed by my stepdad 1 week after my 22nd birthday, less than 3 months after my gran. So christmas 2000 was a wonderful time for me. My mother had a breakdown losing her ma and her hubby so close together, both to the big C.

So I had to endure her not eating, but drinking enough booze to last a week every day, and smashing her wardrobes up with a small compound mallet. Which she also took a swing at me with, good times I assure you. I basically used up my giro as I was out of work at the time too (which made things a whole lot easier :rolleyes:), on fastfood and had to forcefeed her because she wasn't eating. Everything I cooked she said I'll eat it later, I'll be honest I did a lot of drugs at that time just so I could numb myself.

So I'm not really a big fan of the winter months.

Bah! Humbug! and all that.

thx1138 · December 2008

well I woke up this morning, and my one side of my face has swollen up, going to see the practice nurse at 3.50

zx1 · December 2008

dm_boozefreek wrote: »

Hmmm I kinda understand that, my gran died sept 2000, followed by my stepdad 1 week after my 22nd birthday, less than 3 months after my gran. So christmas 2000 was a wonderful time for me. My mother had a breakdown losing her ma and her hubby so close together, both to the big C.

So I had to endure her not eating, but drinking enough booze to last a week every day, and smashing her wardrobes up with a small compound mallet. Which she also took a swing at me with, good times I assure you. I basically used up my giro as I was out of work at the time too (which made things a whole lot easier :rolleyes:), on fastfood and had to forcefeed her because she wasn't eating. Everything I cooked she said I'll eat it later, I'll be honest I did a lot of drugs at that time just so I could numb myself.

So I'm not really a big fan of the winter months.

Bah! Humbug! and all that.

Jesus! That sounded like a bad time!
After my dad died i was dumped by my girlfriend i just drank all the time and had massive mood swings, the doctor put me on diazapam, which helped. I felt better once i went back to work, i stopped drinking so much and came off the pills.

Vampyre · December 2008

I'm hoping for a third time lucky christmas this year.

Last year I came down with that bloody Sars virus on Christmas Eve (which is my b'day) night at about 10.00pm. Spent the next 3 days with the shits and throwing up.

The year before that I had an operation on my neck to remove some saliva stones which meant I couldn't drink (booze) for a month, but also meant I had a ruddy great pipe and bottle sticking out of my neck to catch all of the fluid - and yes, it was as gross as it sounds.

Hope you feel better soon though thx. It's rotten to be ill over Christmas.

VincentAC · December 2008

My mate just sent me a text saying he's got some flu like virus and his fiance was rushed to hospital last night after a serious asthma attack.

He'll possibly be better by xmas and she'll be in hospital for at least a week.

And he lives in Dundee, she lives in Bathgate. So there's little chance they'll be having xmas dinner together.

I have flu.

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