This happened about ten years ago, so it’s not so relevent now, but I never got a straight answer and I’m curious.
It was in September. I was just entering sophmore year of high school. I started out with some flu symptoms- malaise with nausea. Within a few days I was so sick I could not keep a glass of water down. I was drifting in and ouf of consciousness and was having fever dreams. I would also have trouble breathing if I had to walk more than a few steps. I went to the doctor, and he never really gave me an answer- just a bottle of rehydration fluid that I had to take a teaspoon at a time every fifteen minutes. I was sick for about a week.
Was it just a bad flu? I’ve never been that sick before or since.
Could have been. It would be impossible for anyone to say without actually having examined you during that period, though. Even then, they might not be able to say for sure. Medicine isn’t always an exact science, you know. But based on your description, my guess would be that you had a nasty case of flu or some other virus that causes flu-like symptoms.
Most people who think they have the flu only have a bad cold. The actual flu will knock you on your ass something fierce (they say - I’ve never had it.) It can have a variety of symptoms - for instance, some people in the 1918 pandemic got super-nosebleeds, not at all what I think of as “the flu”. Without a good diagnosis you never know, could be anything, but don’t necessarily think of the flu as “a really bad cold”.