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Confidence and Success => Fitness/Diet => SBG Fitness Challenge => Topic started by: D.A.L.U.I. on October 03, 2009, 02:13:55 PM
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I think, yeah think, I've had the swine flu. It set on me last weekend and by Monday pretty much grounded me. I was on a business trip to Atlanta. I controlled it w/ Sudafed D, Nyquil at night, and aspirin, all the while drinking lots and lots of water. Well on the mend but when I got home Friday, my wife went down with it--must have caught it from me. What a mess. One of the crew we had in Atlanta, in his twenties went down, but really hard.
There isn't any vaccine yet, and by the time it comes it too late for me or my wife, and my co-worker. I do have concerns for the daughter who's living at home though.
How about you guys, anybody dealing with it, or had it? Mine seems to finally be improving after a week. What's the old phrase, it takes a week with a doctor or seven days without!
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Sorry to hear you've been ill, but glad that you're on the mend.
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I haven't been keeping up with this like I probably should have. What kind of symptoms did you have?
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Well, for me it started w/ a scratchy sore throat, and a cough, and the cough got worse, and my temperature at the worst, after two days was a little over 100. I felt tired, beaten totally lacked any energy or concentration. At night, sweats & chills, more hacking, w/ disgusting phleme--from yellow to dark green. Then the fever broke, I kept coughing up all kinds of disgusting stuff, but finally, today, I'm only coughing once every couple of hours, rather than minutes. The coughing was exhausting, I couldn't sleep until I took a triple dose of Nyquil. But I'm on the mend. Damn, I'm glad I didn't wind up with any digestive problems--but that would have been tough--I didn't have any hunger at all--I've lost over 8 pounds. I just kept drinking water and pissing my guts out. That's what it was for me. My wife had nausia for several days, although that's breaking. My work buddy had really bad vomiting and diarriha the first night, then coughing. All had fevers of just over 100.
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My son got it last week. Lasted for about 4 days.. We first thought it was just a bad cold or respiratory infection. Overall, his symptoms were pretty mild and he got over it very quickly.
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Question: How do you know it was Swine Flu versus any other flu?
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Question: How do you know it was Swine Flu versus any other flu?
I asked the Doc that very question. Her answer was that the symptoms matched and that Swine Flu was the only strain of flu going around right now.... so she had to assume that is what is was.
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There was a test that they're apparently not even using anymore, but it was only 60% accurate. Like SlyinKC says, if you or your family has flu symptoms, it's probably swine. You have to watch it, most cases are mild it appears, but if it becomes more severe, high temps, etc. seek professional medical help, quick.
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Well, for me it started w/ a scratchy sore throat, and a cough, and the cough got worse, and my temperature at the worst, after two days was a little over 100. I felt tired, beaten totally lacked any energy or concentration. At night, sweats & chills, more hacking, w/ disgusting phleme--from yellow to dark green. Then the fever broke, I kept coughing up all kinds of disgusting stuff, but finally, today, I'm only coughing once every couple of hours, rather than minutes. The coughing was exhausting, I couldn't sleep until I took a triple dose of Nyquil. But I'm on the mend. Damn, I'm glad I didn't wind up with any digestive problems--but that would have been tough--I didn't have any hunger at all--I've lost over 8 pounds. I just kept drinking water and pissing my guts out. That's what it was for me. My wife had nausia for several days, although that's breaking. My work buddy had really bad vomiting and diarriha the first night, then coughing. All had fevers of just over 100.
We "think" that my wife had the swine flu a few weeks ago. Her symptoms were identical to those above from SaintC. We also live in Georgia (near Atlanta). My wife is a school teacher and more than likely contracted it from one of her students as there have been several in the school that tested positive.
As for knowing wheather or not you have swine flu or the normal flu, from what I've heard, the swine flu is not nearly as bad as "the flu" as far as symptoms go.
...and I did stay in holiday in last night!
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Well, for me it started w/ a scratchy sore throat, and a cough, and the cough got worse, and my temperature at the worst, after two days was a little over 100. I felt tired, beaten totally lacked any energy or concentration. At night, sweats & chills, more hacking, w/ disgusting phleme--from yellow to dark green. Then the fever broke, I kept coughing up all kinds of disgusting stuff, but finally, today, I'm only coughing once every couple of hours, rather than minutes. The coughing was exhausting, I couldn't sleep until I took a triple dose of Nyquil.
wow, that sounds just like me not too long ago. i thought it was just a really bad cold.
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My lady friends entire family has either gotten it or has it right now... Except her. But she told me all about how you pick it up and it's somewhat hard to get compared to the regular flu. So hopefully she knows what shes talking about because so far so good.
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I woke up sick one day when I was in Mexico last month so I was really worried. But it was mild and cleared up in two days, so by the time I flew back I was completely normal again.
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I though I might have it but it turned out to just be some bad SPAM! :*))
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I though I might have it but it turned out to just be some bad SPAM! :*))
Timmay got it from doing sumthing unmentionable to a swine, gotta watch them hoosiers :*))
But, hey bro if you had it, ur body now has the antibodies to fight it if another wave goes around.
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Well, for me it started w/ a scratchy sore throat, and a cough, and the cough got worse, and my temperature at the worst, after two days was a little over 100. I felt tired, beaten totally lacked any energy or concentration. At night, sweats & chills, more hacking, w/ disgusting phleme--from yellow to dark green. Then the fever broke, I kept coughing up all kinds of disgusting stuff, but finally, today, I'm only coughing once every couple of hours, rather than minutes. The coughing was exhausting, I couldn't sleep until I took a triple dose of Nyquil.
wow, that sounds just like me not too long ago. i thought it was just a really bad cold.
My wife had what I had, then she got another round of something that lasted four days, as did my daughter living at home--fever, pain, etc. Daughter's lasted longer that my wife's. My wife had the regular flu shot--so probably it wasn't the regular flu. I heard that the "test" to determine flu had something like a 40% false positive rate. I'm knocking wood that it was so I don't have anymore sickness--I am a really grouchy patient, even I can't stand myself when I'm sick.
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I'm use to taking care of everyone else. I don't know what it's like to be "babied", so when I get sick, half a bottle of nyquil n pass out till it goes away, lol
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Same here Freak. I've always had a kickin' immune system. Everyone around me will be sick, and I'll be perfectly healthy taking care of everyone. It must be my 19 years in health care with direct patient care. I've probably had everything by now! lol
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I think With antibacterial and antimicrobial everything we have sissyfied our immune systems.
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I think With antibacterial and antimicrobial everything we have sissyfied our immune systems.
THANK YOU!!!!
good lord its nice to see that someone else agrees with me on this!
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I ate too much bacon once at a Saturday brunch....my stomach ache lasted for a day or so, back to work on Monday with no issues.
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I think With antibacterial and antimicrobial everything we have sissyfied our immune systems.
THANK YOU!!!!
good lord its nice to see that someone else agrees with me on this!
Ditto that!
http://www.youtube.com/v/CnmMNdiCz_s&hl=en_US&fs=1&
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My oldest daughter had the swine, she was down for about a week and a half. I caught something that was suspected to be swine, but never confirmed. Went to the doc about a week after I started feeling symptoms. He said it seemed like flu and a touch of something bacterial. Doc wrote me a scrip for the Z-Pac antibiotics. I took the first two that Saturday then started feelin better Sunday after the second dose. I still have the damn cough, but feeling much better otherwise.
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That Carlin skits a classic. that's what I was refering to in my last post O0 tyler
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Many of us (age, you know) here on SBG were adults in 1976, the last time "swine flu" was a hot-diggety concern. Well, if you made an effort and were vaccinated against it back then, apparently you have a lot of protection against this form. Ming is in fine fettle flu-wise (he thinks), but did get the regular flu shot just in case, Ming being a "belt and suspenders" man.
Ming also recalls having the Asian Flu in 1957--on his birthday, no less, and lying, semi-delirious, in the back of a station wagon as his father and some of his friends blasted away at ducks by Chip Lake in Alberta. Ming was thirteen that day.
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I think With antibacterial and antimicrobial everything we have sissyfied our immune systems.
THANK YOU!!!!
good lord its nice to see that someone else agrees with me on this!
Ditto that!
http://www.youtube.com/v/CnmMNdiCz_s&hl=en_US&fs=1&
Truer words have never been said.
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I think that any new virus/flu just "update" my immune sistem. Works for me so far.
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I felt something coming on for the last couple of weeks but last weekend I started coughing like crazy when I lied down. Finally got to sleep then my coughing kept waking me up along with a sore throat so it hurt to cough. This kept up for two virtually sleepless nights then on Monday I saw the doctor. He gave me some antibiotics but gave me a flu test just in case. I'm not sure if the antibiotics made a difference but started shaking so bad I had trouble taking a leak and I was freezing and burried myself under three blankets. Through all this I developed a low grade headache which only hurt when I coughed, blew my nose or sat up after lying down. The next day I was feeling a little better but didn't work anyway for extra measure. Last night I went to bed and set the alarms to wake me up and the coughing thing started up all over again just like it did originally and my throat's kinda sore from all that coughing. I've lost a couple of pounds and am really weak today. The flu test isn't back yet so I don't know yet but If this isn't the flu...I don't know. A head cold never hit me this hard in the past and a sinus infection never lasted this long. I guess I'll find out what it is sooner or later. The flu test can come back as negative even if someone has the flu. I'm so tired of feeling this crappy.
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I had this weird sh** my doctor called the Fline Swu... :D