This season, that is. I haven’t heard much about it. Along with most others, I haven’t had a Flu shot, but my work is getting some FluMist nasal spray vaccine for us in a couple of weeks.
Since Friday I’ve had body aches, a major cough and chest congestion, fever, and some very minor head congestion (not much different than my ever-present allergy symptoms). I’m wondering if I have the flu, which would be weird because it’s not that bad at all. When I think Flu, I think death’s door, I think ‘can’t get out of bed’, misery.
Do I just have a little cold, or do I have the Flu?
The reason that nobody is getting sick while there was a convenient “flu vaccine shortage” is that the US government engineered the shortage with the purpose of testing the effectiveness of their mass inoculation programme (Blackop Designation: SLIP MICKEY). The special aerosol flu vaccine has been delivered nationwide as an emittant in aircraft contrails.
SERIOUSLY…
It nearly killed me mum a couple of weeks ago, and when I went over to take care of her, it me pretty hard, too.
A couple of days of vomiting/dry heaves, and a few days of fever, aches, nausea, and not being able to be upright for more than a few minutes at a time.
It ran its course in about six days, for me. Stuck with my mum for over a week-and-a-half. (She’s sixty-three.)
I am not sure. A few weeks ago I had a sudden onset of symptoms, fever over 102, body aches, chills, etc. All the signs. Except I got over it in about 2-3 days, which supposedly does not happen with the flu, so either I got a minor case or a bad cold or something, but the high fever makes me think ‘flu.’
If it was the flu it wasn’t that bad.
Nope. Pretty much stopped getting the flu when I stopped getting flu shots.
I had something, but I don’t know if it was the flu. Stuffy, scratchy throat that got better but turned into a cough. Then I had a hard time breathing for a really long time. None of this was enough to keep me home, but I felt kind crappy for a while. The whole thing lasted about 6 weeks.
I had it a week ago. I wasn’t showing much in the way of symptoms except all I wanted to do from about Sunday to Tuesday was sleep. Would you believe I was trying to doze off during choir practice! :eek: I went to work on Tuesday, but I realized I was weak, feverish, and nauseous and had no business being there, so about 10:00 I gave up and went home. The nausea continued, and I got hit by chills as well. Things sorted themselves out that afternoon, and by Wednesday morning, I was feeling downright perky. However, I’ve now got a scratchy throat and some congestion, which I’m putting down to the cold that was going around the office.
I’ve never bothered with a flu shot, but I’ve had some nasty bouts with it during the past few years which have led me to consider getting one. Not this year, though!
CJ
Ok, I’ll save **Quadop **from posting it again: if you aren’t sure, if you “think you might”, if you felt crummy for three days, you most definitely did not have influenza. The classic influenza test: If someone left an open suitcase of $100 bills outside your bedroom window, would you go outside and get them? If so, you don’t have influenza. It makes you feel that bad.
Here’s the signs and symptoms of influenza. Note that they last for one to two weeks, not a few days. Vomiting, nausea and dry heaves are not symptoms of influenza, despite what we called “the flu” as children.