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N => flu
Y => not flu
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
The Mrs and I went away over Christmas to clear our heads and regroup after a lost my mum to cancer in November. Sadly, 2017 decided not to let either of us off the hook and consequently, we both came down with it on Boxing Day. She didn't get it anywhere near as bad as I did, but that was her third cold/virus in a row, whereas I hadn't really had a cold or anything in seven years. I also have ME, which is likely why it utterly wiped the floor with me.
Spent pretty much the whole holiday bedridden. As soon as I tried to sit up, the room would start spinning. Every cell in my body felt like it had been pulverised and my gastro-intentional tract felt like it had been through a mangle. Also, back pain like you wouldn't believe. The journey home was horrible. Spent a few more days in bed, feeling worse by the day, and then the Mrs phoned up NHS direct, who insisted on sending out an ambulance! That was an interesting evening.
I hadn't improved over the next couple of days, or had eaten anything in over a week, so the Mrs called out the doctor, as I still couldn't move without getting stupidly dizzy, and was in a lot of pain. The doctor prescribed some pills for the dizziness and some antibiotics. Within a couple of days, the antibiotics had made a distinct improvement on my condition. I could sit up for maybe an hour or so before the room started spinning, plus my appetite was slowly showing signs of returning. The third day I felt significantly better, not to mention ravenous!
I'm sure that if my wife hadn't called out the doctor and got me on antibiotics, I'd be very, very ill right now. I'm coughing up all sorts of nasty things and still feel very fragile/exhausted, but considerably better.
I said maybe.....
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
The room spinning is horrible isn't it.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I got something the middle of last month. Felt a bit rubbish swimming one day, then next day woke with my nose blocked the worst I can remember, but once I was up and moving, the nose would clear and I'd feel relatively ok by lunch time. But do anything strenuous and I was a sweating quivering coughing wreck. It's only the past week, my chest has really started to clear, and get back to normal.
I seem to of gotten of lightly though, as several guys at work were bed bound around the same time. One was even off for a week, came back for a couple days and seemed fine, then the next day had to be sent home again.
It certainly was not as bad as the suspected pneumonia I had a couple years ago. I say suspected, because I never actually went near the doctor and put it down to just a bad chest infection, that was very slow at clearing up. The same doctor mate wasn't too impressed when I told him the symptoms, and that I was still feeling the effects 3 months later. His only comment was, "That sounded like you had pneumonia. GPs normally like to see you when you're that ill". That took me a good 6 months to get back to full strength/fitness.
I would argue based on his story that his first symptoms were flu which is why I said sounds like. This then weakened his immune system to allow a bacterial infection to take over, hence the antibiotics prescribed by his doctor. Bacterial infections are known to piggy back on colds and flu and take advantage of the illness. You knew that already too didn't you?
Without physically examining the OP and doing a full barrage of tests who knows exactly whats going on.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
Get down to Boots and get Night Nurse Day and Night. Also hit it at the same time with Ibufrofen. Squirt a decongestant up your nose, don't go out. Get a cough linctus as well like Covonia. I reckon you'll feel better in a day or two.
Love.... Dr. Wolfetone
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.