Man-Flu!

ShaneU

Gawd I'm dying, I feel like my brain is on fire at the moment ahhh

And if you're from Dublin, there's a 10.9% chance that yours is too

http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=14829

MizzLolly

Same. I'm dying at the moment.

Somebody come mind me

Terry

Hungover at this hour?
Wimp.
I'm still drinking and I'm properly sick too.

FunkZ

I have a blocked nose and I feel really sick, but...

Terry

FunkZ wrote: »

I have a blocked nose and I feel really sick, but...

That's th start of it.

The arm and chest pains come next.
Then the cough and headaches and stuff.

Disprin helps.

The_B_Man

calling it Man-flu doesnt change the fact that ur a big girl with the sniffles!

belleray

ok now at least i know i'm not the only one suffering, sick since the 18th, on antibiotics for the last week and still feel like crap. No current plans to vacate the bed till I run out of DVDs

MizzLolly

<3BeingIN6th wrote: »

Hungover at this hour?
Wimp.
I'm still drinking and I'm properly sick too.

I was hungover yesterday. I'm geuninely dying with the flu today.

My bones are even aching.. why? why? Awh

Terry

MizzLolly wrote: »

I was hungover yesterday. I'm geuninely dying with the flu today.

My bones are even aching.. why? why? Awh

That's not the man flu.
The man flu is a hangover.
you're just a woman.

MizzLolly

<3BeingIN6th wrote: »

you're just a woman.

It doesn't change the fact that I'm dying




*coughs on terry*

AlmightyCushion

I've a minor case of the sniffles at the moment. Must call in sick for a month.

eVeNtInE

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Crackerspray

I avoided my family for two weeks so I wouldn't catch their colds/vomiting bugs..... got into a taxi today and the driver sneezed on me :mad:

Fizman

This sums it up perfectly. LOL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLHWmjA5IE

m83

I've got it too, in Ennis! This would have been my first year ever without falling ill but alas twas not to be!

DAMN YOU MAN FLU! DAMN YOU TO HELL!

the drifter

i also have it...and work rang me at 6:00am this morning...in the office now..chewing uni-flu and drinkin vit C......least im not training this week...oh id have been a grumpy man then!!!

My sister had the flu over christmas and my brother had an ear infection. So naturally I end up with both. So I'm not only sneezing like crazy and can't hear out my right ear.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

I've got the man flu also, but I prefer coming into work and coughing on all my collegues, hopefully I can make them all sick - the bastards!

vibe666

had it several weeks now, seem to catch a new symptom every few days.

on to the heaches and hacking chesty cough now, but still got sniffles.

Darragh29

3 folks in my family have it at the moment, I had it 3 weeks ago as did my OH. It's an awful c*nt of a dose that is knocking around this year, I thought I was doing to die a few weeks ago, never had a flu as bad...

HalloweenJack

I've had the flu twice this year, both times I was in bed for about a week. Actually have a respiratory viral infection at the mo.

Dyr

Im sneezing a wheezing for the last two weeks, I've a pain in me hole with it.

happyoutscan

Great Christmas, drank like a demon, had great craic and didn't piss anyone off (even had a Del-Boy moment with a bar counter lol)... But today, oh my God I have never had a sore throat like it. It's like someone scraping the back of my throat with razor blades. Argggghhh... Suppose it will be a great excuse not to go out tomorrow night eh?

Vain

Iv been sick since Christmas eve didn't stop me going on the p!ss Christmas eve tho. Man flu meh. Just hope im better for tomorrow night.

mud

puked for 2 days about 3 weeks ago, haven't felt right since, have awakened with a sore throat the last two days in a row, am I in for the shizzle? Haven't drank since October or so, definitely not booze related - wish I was feeling right!

Fizman

mud wrote: »

puked for 2 days about 3 weeks ago, haven't felt right since, have awakened with a sore throat the last two days in a row, am I in for the shizzle?

Sounds like the shizzle to me, ma frizzle. Stay outta da drizzle!


/fo sho

dmcg90

Yup, got it at the start of December, kinda half recovered from it and got it there again before Christmas, out for the whole of that too. Was the flu but the Doc insists its some kind of infection. I just call it the ''I'm Dying'' flu. Only up and about there now.

Apparently all the Chemists ran out of anti-biotics over the christmas period too. I know what I would of liked in my stocking!!!

Clover

I got it at the start of December also , had been fine all year then out of the blue it hit me and at first I was just taking panadol cold & flu for it .

But after about a week of that I had to go to the doctors and get antibiotics to shift it, that took about another week to get over it and now two of my sons have it .

Koloman

I read a report in a newspaper just before Christmas that said the Man Flu thing was a myth and it was actually women who complain more and whinge about a cold! Did anyone else see this report?

sillymoo

Koloman wrote: »

I read a report in a newspaper just before Christmas that said the Man Flu thing was a myth and it was actually women who complain more and whinge about a cold! Did anyone else see this report?

No.

Koloman

sillymoo wrote: »

No.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3815608/Man-flu-should-be-renamed-woman-flu.html
Well here you go sillymoo! I knew I wasn't dreaming!

CDfm

Ive had the Manflu and was really ill.

I should really have been in hospital with superpowerful Manflu combating drugs - oxygen tent and drips and tubes and bleeping machines.

All I got was Lemsip and vaporub.

sillymoo

Koloman wrote: »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3815608/Man-flu-should-be-renamed-woman-flu.html
Well here you go sillymoo! I knew I wasn't dreaming!

They are English women. Shower of moaners.

CDfm

sillymoo wrote: »

They are English women. Shower of moaners.

Look at this - a Councellor says that men only vocalise their feelings when ill - but women moan all the time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1096950/Official-Forget-man-flu--women-really-milk-comes-ill.html

sillymoo

CDfm wrote: »

Look at this - a Councellor says that men only vocalise their feelings when ill - but women moan all the time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1096950/Official-Forget-man-flu--women-really-milk-comes-ill.html

Again, English women. Shower of moaners.

CDfm

sillymoo wrote: »

Again, English women. Shower of moaners.

a seperate study by Lemsip shows that half of women are sympathetic to their OH when he is ill.

Twice as many men then women take days of to look after an ill OH

http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=14695

Women just aint caring

ChewChew

Third time this month to have it. and I got it from a man. But the difference with me is that fact that I know I'm not actually going to die!!! :rolleyes:

sillymoo

CDfm wrote: »

Women just aint caring

As it should be. Women dont care as much or moan as much as men when they have the flu. They just get in with it. Its the men who win the awards for amateur dramatics.

PrivateEye

i work down the local pub, and the amount of people coming in with SERIOUS colds/obvious flu over the Christmas was an absolute joke, not fair on anybody to go out like that.

CDfm

sillymoo wrote: »

As it should be. Women dont care as much or moan as much as men when they have the flu. They just get in with it. Its the men who win the awards for amateur dramatics.

And while men are only out a day or to from work - women take 8 to 10 days off.

http://news.scotsman.com/health/Man-flu-Don39t-be-a.4799128.jp

Because they are women the get away with it and use up lots and lots of sick days -more then men.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Brilliant fizman... absolutely brilliant :P

That is me when I is sick :P

I am just getting over a two+ week dose of the man flu... bloody horrible. Only spent 2-3 days really ill. The oh is still sick though, she had it before me. Not good at all :P

Koloman

sillymoo wrote: »

They are English women. Shower of moaners.

And Irish women never moan of course!

sillymoo

Koloman wrote: »

And Irish women never moan of course!

Nope

CSC

Suffering from serious dose of the flu myself at the moment. Off work all week and can't believe I'm too wrecked to even leave the house. Think it's the first new years eve in years that I have stayed in.

Saibh

Koloman wrote: »

And Irish women never moan of course!

Never, we don't start threads moaning about getting a flu.;)

CDfm

Koloman wrote: »

And Irish women never moan of course!

:D:D:D:D:D:D

ShaneU

Saibh wrote: »

Never, we don't start threads moaning about getting a flu.;)

I could be a woman....

Saibh

Title of thread is Man-Flu - kind of gives it away

buckfasterer

i've been sick since xmas day........chest infection, gastroentoritis, fever, dehydration....the works. hospital on a drip on sun nite to top it all off. had 2 bowls of soup since. happy xmas eh?:(

MizzLolly

I'm fukkin' dying and the vodka shots didn't help..

Ugh... *cough* *splutter* *aaacchhhoooo*

psicic

Man Flu isn't a joking matter. In work the other day we received important guidance on Man Flu - though I think is was aimed at those women in our office which, if the evidence presented in this thread so far is true, are lying, lazy and unsympathetic.

10 Facts about Man-Flu


Fact 1. Man-Flu is more painful than childbirth. This is an irrefutable scientific fact*.
*(Based on a survey of over 100,000 men.)

Fact 2. Man-Flu is not 'just a cold'. It is a condition so severe that the germs from a single Man-Flu sneeze could wipe out entire tribes of people living in the rainforest. And probably loads of monkeys too.

Fact 3. Women do not contract Man-Flu. At worst they suffer from what is medically recognised as a 'Mild Girly Sniffle' - which, if a man caught, he would still be able to run, throw a ball, tear the phone book in half and compete in all other kinds of manly activities.

Fact 4. Men do not 'moan' when they have Man-Flu. They emit involuntary groans of agony that are entirely in proportion to the unbearable pain they are in.

Fact 5. Full recovery from Man-Flu will take place much quicker if their simple requests for care, sympathy and regular cups of tea are met. Is that really so much to ask? Florence Nightingale would have done it

Fact 6. More men die each year from MFN (Man-Flu Neglect) than lots and lots of other things. (Like rabbit attacks or choking on toast).

Fact 7. Men suffering from Man-Flu want nothing more than to get out of bed and come to work, but they are too selfless to risk spreading this awful
condition amongst their friends and colleagues. In this sense, they are the greatest heroes this country has ever known.

Fact 8. In 1982 scientists managed to simulate the agonising symptoms of full blown Man-Flu in a female chimp. She became so ill that her head literally fell off.

Fact 9. Man-Flu germs are more powerful than He-Man, The Thundercats and The A-Team combined. They are too strong for weak, nasty tasting 'lady
medicines' like Lemsip, so don't bother trying to force them on a victim of Man-Flu.

Fact 10. While it may seem like a Man-Flu sufferer is just lying around enjoying 'Diagnosis Murder' it is a commonly recognised medical fact that the exact pitch and frequency of Dick Van Dyke's voice has remarkable soothing powers.

Apologies if posted elsewhere already - it just seemed apt to this thread