FLU Bug Virus thingy...

[Adz]

My advice so far to shake it off / prevent from getting any worse

I've stayed dressed in bed to swet it out
Drank water with paracetamol
Lived on ice lollys & ice cream to sooth my throat
Today managed toast, lemonade & lemsip

So far so good

The down side is that this bug can come & go for upto 2 months

Good luck all

Ya dont want this

[JimmyJaffa]

So glad you live where you do, would'nt fancy cathching that mate, get well soon

[Adz]

Well i had Glandular Fever 11 years ago & that put me in hospital for a month & it relapsed 4 years ago & put me in hospital for a week...

This is definitely the next worse bug to it

So i could have it for the whole of January

Fingers crossed i can now fight it

[Peasgood]

I've had it for the whole of Christmas.
I don't know that it is flu, but it is one bad cold! Colds don't usually knock me about this much.
I had glandula fever many years ago, that knocked me about but not enough to put me in hospital.
You have my sympathy (which is a rare thing )

[Paul]

Been up & down with this for 3 week's....

[jims-terrano]

Had a real bad cold over chrimbo too Had proper Flu in June and that was real bad, laid in bed under quilt blankets and still cold in some of the warmest days we had. Off work for 3 1/2 weeks and took ages to shake off.

Hope your feeling better soon
Jim

[larson]

Originally Posted by Adz

My advice so far to shake it off / prevent from getting any worse

I've stayed dressed in bed to swet it out
Drank water with paracetamol
Lived on ice lollys & ice cream to sooth my throat
Today managed toast, lemonade & lemsip

So far so good

The down side is that this bug can come & go for upto 2 months

Good luck all

Ya dont want this

if i had that i would go to work and cough in the bosses cup, maybe even sneeze in his welding mask

i know its low but.....im like that and hes a @@@@

get well soon

[(RIP) PLANK]

get well soon, and if your tail gets curly call an ambulance!

[Adz]

Originally Posted by PLANK

get well soon, and if your tail gets curly call an ambulance!

How about shrivelled

[Ian Hunt]

Originally Posted by Adz

My advice so far to shake it off / prevent from getting any worse

I've stayed dressed in bed to swet it out
Drank water with paracetamol
Lived on ice lollys & ice cream to sooth my throat
Today managed toast, lemonade & lemsip

So far so good

The down side is that this bug can come & go for upto 2 months

Good luck all

Ya dont want this

Symapthy & empathy fella!

Family's been going through it Food barely passed our lips for a fortnight, heating cranked up & fires lit (av. temp around the house nearly 25 degrees) & we were still shivvering with teeth chattering

I did find single malt, self medication to be helpful !

Seem to be recovering now.... Fingers crossed!

I couldn't (& can't) visit the quacks. The surgery on my back (yeah ! can't wait ...) is scheduled for Jan 11th. And as much as I'd love an excuse to avoid it... I reckon I have to go through. I've upset work with my short notice 6 weeks off, struggled to arrange cover etc. The last thing I need right now is for the surgeon to say "you've been ill recently, we'll have to postpone..."

Get well soon to all that need it!

[Deleted account DD]

Originally Posted by Ian Hunt

I couldn't (& can't) visit the quacks. The surgery on my back (yeah ! can't wait ...) is scheduled for Jan 11th. And as much as I'd love an excuse to avoid it... I reckon I have to go through. I've upset work with my short notice 6 weeks off, struggled to arrange cover etc. The last thing I need right now is for the surgeon to say "you've been ill recently, we'll have to postpone..."

Very very serious bit of advice...........................

If youve got anything resembling a cough, postpone. Trust me on that one, been there as they say

Otherwise good luck

[Deleted account DD]

Originally Posted by Adz

The down side is that this bug can come & go for upto 2 months

Id heard that too. We seem to have had several lingering colds and a stomach bug this year which bears that out.

One of our supervisors at work has had a cold for about six weeks now, his flu injection didnt do him much good . Havent had a laugh .....honest

Everyone needs to calm about this swine flu bollox too. At the moment its the seasonal flu virus not swine flu. Swine flu is a tabloid press condition at the moment. No one knows how , what or when the seasonal virus will mutate into could be swine type could be bird type could be extreme4x4 porn type but it hasnt happened on a large scale yet this season.

Only thing to bear in mind though (call me the grim reaper if you wish ) is that we as a nation are overdue a pandemic. Its a mater of when, not if. Thats why its so important all the health and hygiene advice is followed that the NHS/PCT's etc issue

Decent article here

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...-a-decade.html

even so I think where theyre referring to H1N1 and then comparing it to H1N1 they mean H5N1

Just shows dont believe everything the papers tell you

[lacroupade]

Originally Posted by daved

Just shows dont believe everything the papers tell you

consider my illusions duly shattered

[Peasgood]

The doctor told my mate this week that he has Swine flu, so I have a sneaky feeling it is out there right now.
Swine flu does exist, so why should it not be here right now? It doesn't just disappear.
Anyway, I'm feeling better now, but not completely. Well enough to go and do some work.

[Deleted account DD]

Originally Posted by Peasgood

The doctor told my mate this week that he has Swine flu, so I have a sneaky feeling it is out there right now.
Swine flu does exist, so why should it not be here right now? It doesn't just disappear.
Anyway, I'm feeling better now, but not completely. Well enough to go and do some work.

Sometimes I think its keeping people happy making them think they understand it

Absolutely correct a variant of swine flu is out there but...............................

What happens is the seasonal flu virus mutates. It may mutate and mix with a virus from another source such as pig or bird.

There may be some cross contamination and mutation but whilst we cannot say it is absent we cannot say we are suffering from swine flu.

Its become a similar situation to how people who have a 4x4 often say "I have a jeep"

Anyone with flu at the minute may be suffering from any variant of H1N1 virus not neccesarily, and in a lot of cases not likely, swine flu.

Unless your mates doctor has taken forensic samples he cannot definitively say which variant of flu it is. He can guess and treat the symptoms symptomatically but thats it

One problem that hit the other year was presumption H1N1 was doing the rounds when it was subsequently discovered it was a variant of H5N1.

The different mutated virus versions are not identifiable until they strike. ie this years vaccination is based on killing off last years virus which has reacted and changed.

If you google influenza H1N1, H5N1 and influenza A B and C you'll turn up all sorts if your interested.

I am NOT a medical expert but if a pandemic hits , job wise, it lands straight on my desk so I am a bit of an anorak on this one . I was absolutely inundated during the last bird flu rising tide