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Who's got the flu?
Posted by dinsquared • 2/20/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: General, health, medicine, work
I've had laryngitis and the flu for going on a week. Doc gave me antibiotics for bacterial infection, but says mostly it just needs to run its course. I took yesterday off from work; today I want to go home and go back to sleep.
Is anyone else sick? How long have you been sick for?
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everybody which is why I am hibernating in my cave away from all those germ laden individuals no offense-
None taken!
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I have it now. And it's keeping me up, since 3 am. I was inside a bus stalled in traffic when suddenly the airconditioner bogged down and I caught the flu. Well, I don't know if that is the culprit but I cannot think of another reason how I had this darn flu. Good luck to us...-
Feel better, hyphen.
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Here, here!
Got me, and got me good. I hadn't been that sick for years. Strong fever, the whole body aching, and sleeping for 20 hours a day. It's been a week, and I'm still not over it. I still sleep a lot, have the sniffles, and my energy runs out quick.
I haven't bothered with antibiotics, but I have a nasty caugh which sometimes keeps me up at night. If it continues, I'll get a prescription, but I'd rather not. I agree with letting this kind of thing run its course. Sleep, vitamin C, honey, chicken soup, drink a lot of fluids, and eventually, it will go away.
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Yes, yes. I slept almost all day yesterday. So unlike me! My voice is now gone *completely* People are looking at me funny...could be my voice. Could just be because I'm funny looking.
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Not the flu, but I do have a cold (that subsides, then flares up again. Yay!
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*passes you tissues*
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Awww. Thanks, Margo!
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I had a bacterial upper respiratory infection that lasted for over three weeks. Even with two antiobitcs. This is the first week I'm finally feeling almost back to normal!-
Dude, really??? Ack! I'm glad you're feeling better.
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It is cold and flu season anyway. I've avoided hugging and kissing the "infected", as much as I could, but it got me eventually. I think if you're due to catch it, you'll catch it, period. It's hard to avoid viruses when they're just everywhere.
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I guess I get lucky. I have not had the flu I think for like 20 or so years. I don't know. Not since teenager years.
Just out of curiosity, do any of you drink orange juice every day? I have juice every day of my life. I do not take any vitamins though. Maybe it is all in the juice! It has a lot of vitamin C. -
No flu here (Knocks on wood).
I did have a cold this winter that seemed to last for months. It just wouldn't go away! -
Me too, and I'm only three days in. You're all making me nervous with stories about how long this lasts. I really can't afford to let this run beyond the weekend...-
I'm sorry. I hope you feel better very very quickly. There definitely seems to be quite a bad bug going around, though.
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I just had the flu last week! I was knocked out for 4 days! Well, not literally... I spent like 4-5 hours a day awake, but couldn't make it far from bed. The worst part was not being able to eat any food, but having that constant starving feeling. No fun...
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