The Flu - Round 3?

Mingey

Is there another dose of that dreaded flu going around again? A few people seem to be sick from work, and my eyelids are feeling very heavy...

junior_apollo

Mingey wrote: »

Is there another dose of that dreaded flu going around again? A few people seem to be sick from work, and my eyelids are feeling very heavy...

I am guessing there is... I deffinately have it anyway - the good ol' clogged up nose and eyes killing me.. still have to come to work though as the boss is on jury duty and so I cant even pull a sicky!..

Ginny

Yup its doing the rounds here again too.

junior_apollo

Ginny wrote: »

Yup its doing the rounds here again too.

Teeheehee.. sorry I'm in Dublin too :P... for my sins

AnonoBoy

Ye have a cold.

Ye don't have the flu.

Lightweights. :rolleyes:

Fajitas!

Ye know, I'm tired, drowsy and sneezing. Someone just suggested the flu to me, they may have been right.

Balls.

Saint_Mel

Struck down with a chest infection and head cold this week

Aodan83

Mingey wrote: »

A few people seem to be sick from work, and my eyelids are feeling very heavy...

Maybe your just tired!!!

Samurai

balls, got round one and two, wasnt very pleasant

Mingey

Aodan83 wrote: »

Maybe your just tired!!!

it's a different kind of tired though. The hypochondriac kind.

Gran Hermano

There is a real nasty strain around at the moment taking nearly 2 weeks to get rid of it. Throat like glass, sinus headaches, bunged up nose and
bad cough. I thought the cold I had before Christmas was bad but that
only took a few days to get over.

I don't think this strain is man-flu.

Maybe it's bird-flu, you know the strain where you feel miserable and whinge/moan like a woman and are fit for nothing but sitting around the
house watching crap TV all day.

Wazdakka

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Maybe it's bird-flu, you know the strain where you feel miserable and whinge/moan like a woman and are fit for nothing but sitting around the
house watching crap TV all day.

ah..
H5N1argue with me and ill kill you...

Yea popular "bird" flu that one..

Frequent too.

Pighead

Never get sick. As well as been blessed with devilish good looks and a dazzling personality the good Lord chose to bestow upon Pighead the sexiest of immune systems. Somehow it doesn't seem fair.

ronaneire

Pighead wrote: »

Never get sick. As well as been blessed with devilish good looks and a dazzling personality the good Lord chose to bestow upon Pighead the sexiest of immune systems. Somehow it doesn't seem fair.

Maybe you're permanently sick and don't realise it:p

KTRIC

bloody light weights :rolleyes:

Its a f*cking cold !!!. You wouldn't be posting here if you had the flu, because you wouldn't be able to move.

Pighead

ronaneire wrote: »

Maybe you're permanently sick and don't realise it:p

Please refrain from sticking out your tongue when in such close proximity to Pighead. Only Miss Piggy and Shep are allowed do that. Pighead trusts them 100%. Lord only knows where your tongue has been and what sort of germs it's picked up, Ronan.

Its these kind of protective measures that are the reason for Pigheads continued good health. Look and learn Ro.

5starpool

I've only been off work twice in 10 years with sickness so not to worried about getting this.

ronaneire

Pighead wrote: »

Please refrain from sticking out your tongue when in such close proximity to Pighead. Only Miss Piggy and Shep are allowed do that. Pighead trusts them 100%. Lord only knows where your tongue has been and what sort of germs it's picked up, Ronan.

Its these kind of protective measures that are the reason for Pigheads continued good health. Look and learn Ro.

I can assure you my tongue is fine...

Pighead

KTRIC wrote: »

bloody light weights :rolleyes:

Its a f*cking cold !!!. You wouldn't be posting here if you had the flu, because you wouldn't be able to move.

Ha ha ha ha ha. KTRIC doesn't have a butler and types his own posts. Peasant.

KTRIC

Pighead wrote: »

Ha ha ha ha ha. KTRIC doesn't have a butler and types his own posts. Peasant.

Mr. KTRIC is not here at the moment, I'll pass your message onto him when he returns from his Polo match.

Signed
Albert the Butler.

ibarelycare

Is it bad that I hope I get the flu this time 'round??!! I NEVER get these sicknesses that go around and I want to take a few days off work, sit in front of the TV in my duvet, moan all day, and get away with it!

Mossy Monk

Does anybody actually know what the flu is like?

ibarelycare wrote: »

Is it bad that I hope I get the flu this time 'round??!! I NEVER get these sicknesses that go around and I want to take a few days off work, sit in front of the TV in my duvet, moan all day, and get away with it!

I would rather work 12 hour shifts every day for a month solid than get the flu.

galah

I thought I had the flu once - turned out it was pneumonia.

win some, lose some.

Kernel32

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Does anybody actually know what the flu is like?



I would rather work 12 hour shifts every day for a month solid than get the flu.

I just recently had the flu, yes a real flu and I agree totally with your statement. This is only the second time I have had the flu. Unlike a cold where you have sinus or throat issues, you are instead in the fetal position in bed covered in blankets, chills all over in a cold sweat. When you are not in that position you can be found puking or crapping your guts out and crawling back to bed with the tiny little piece of energy you can muster.

Svalbard

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Ye have a cold.

Ye don't have the flu.

Lightweights. :rolleyes:

A wise man once told me, when you have a cold it's difficult to get out of bed. When you have 'flu you can't even think of getting out of bed.

Going by that obviously flawless logic, I have had 'flu only once, last year and it hit me the 2nd day of a new job. It was mother-frikkin awful, worst cold/flu ever!. Weeks later, I found out some of my co-worker's first impressions of me was that I was a whinger 'cause I kept complaining about how sick I was and how it was the worst cold I ever had. Then they got the infection too and said they could see what I meant then!!

Pighead wrote: »

Never get sick. As well as been blessed with devilish good looks and a dazzling personality the good Lord chose to bestow upon Pighead the sexiest of immune systems. Somehow it doesn't seem fair.

Well the symptoms of infection are often actually the body's reaction to the pathogen - fever, rigors, mucus production, cough. So maybe you just have no immune system.
Or you have AIDS.

Kernel32 wrote: »

I just recently had the flu, yes a real flu and I agree totally with your statement. This is only the second time I have had the flu. Unlike a cold where you have sinus or throat issues, you are instead in the fetal position in bed covered in blankets, chills all over in a cold sweat. When you are not in that position you can be found puking or crapping your guts out and crawling back to bed with the tiny little piece of energy you can muster.

Well that sounds like 'flu to me!

Harpy

i have a bit of a head cold at the minute.. managed to avoid the last couple of bouts of it going around so i thought i was great ... but its not too bad just have a very runny nose had a sore throat on monday but im keeping it at bay with chicken soup and lemsip so hopefully i won't get a full dose of it..

Busi_Girl08

I've had a bit of a tummy bug for the last few days.

It's been awful, one minute I was fine, maybe a little tired and weak, other than that, grand.
I might feel a bit peckish, so I go down to the student shop and buy a nice blueberry muffin and a nice sweet milky cuppa.

Head back to the library, set down my cuppa, take a few bites of my muffin, and drink a couple of mouthfuls of the cuppa.

2 minutes later...I can't decide whether I'm going to faint or vomit.

I can't tell what's going to happen when I eat something. I just ate 3 slices of Nutella bread and Im fine, next I can barely get through half a muffin without feeling like a tiny alien is going to burst out of my stomach...

Svalbard

Busi_Girl08 wrote: »

I've had a bit of a tummy bug for the last few days.

It's been awful, one minute I was fine, maybe a little tired and weak, other than that, grand.
I might feel a bit peckish, so I go down to the student shop and buy a nice blueberry muffin and a nice sweet milky cuppa.

Head back to the library, set down my cuppa, take a few bites of my muffin, and drink a couple of mouthfuls of the cuppa.

2 minutes later...I can't decide whether I'm going to faint or vomit.

I can't tell what's going to happen when I eat something. I just ate 3 slices of Nutella bread and Im fine, next I can barely get through half a muffin without feeling like a tiny alien is going to burst out of my stomach...

Milk and gastro don't go.

Busi_Girl08

Svalbard wrote: »

Milk and gastro don't go.

*Shrugs*

I had a big class of milk with the Nutella toast...

Right now Im fine...my tummy feels kind of acidy. It feels a bit like a hunger pang, but at the same time...a little upset.

I've not vomited at all, just felt pretty weak and tired:(

CathyMoran

I have had it for about 4 days, the hubby is getting it now...throat so sore it feels like you are choaking, going through boxes of tissues, sore eyes...but it is a very bad cold not the flu from what I can tell...

Capt'n Midnight

just going through it now , not fun and ruins concentration

sorta catches up on you , you feel fine and then get up to do something and you just feel so tired. At least the aches in the limbs aren't as bad now

Calibos

KTRIC wrote: »

bloody light weights :rolleyes:

Its a f*cking cold !!!. You wouldn't be posting here if you had the flu, because you wouldn't be able to move.

Remember, these are the same idiots who will go to the doc, indignantly tell him they have a flu and not a cold and then demand he prescribe.........antibiotics :rolleyes:

Svalbard

Calibos wrote: »

Remember, these are the same idiots who will go to the doc, indignantly tell him they have a flu and not a cold and then demand he prescribe.........antibiotics :rolleyes:

Anyone who goes to the doc with a cold/flu should be shot on site. Except the old and very young. Maybe asthmatics/COADers too. Everyone else....one bullet.....bang bang.

nobodythere

Mingey wrote: »

Is there another dose of that dreaded flu going around again? A few people seem to be sick from work, and my eyelids are feeling very heavy...

zombies tbh

midlandsmissus

KTRIC wrote: »

bloody light weights :rolleyes:

Its a f*cking cold !!!. You wouldn't be posting here if you had the flu, because you wouldn't be able to move.

Yeah why have people started colds the flu! The flu is a very serious illness where you cant move out of your bed, lift any of your limbs, and are in severe pain for months. My mum and aunty got it once in england, and still remember it vividly. She sais she actually wished to die it was that bad.

Makes me laugh when people with a a sniffle go oooh ive got the flu!

RonMexico

This time last year I had that winter vomiting bug. It kicked in the morning after I went on a massive Jack Daniels binge. There is nothing worse than a killer hangover combined with the worst case of the squirts and projectile vomiting. You have to have the co-ordination of Muhammad Ali on speed otherwise you will crap yourself while kneeling in a pool of whiskey vomit.

The horror...the horror:eek:

ant043

use vicks first defense and you'll never develop a cold. Brilliant is the only word to describe it even if it is a bit pricy.

RonMexico

RonMexico wrote: »

This time last year I had that winter vomiting bug. It kicked in the morning after I went on a massive Jack Daniels binge. There is nothing worse than a killer hangover combined with the worst case of the squirts and projectile vomiting. You have to have the co-ordination of Muhammad Ali on speed otherwise you will crap yourself while kneeling in a pool of whiskey vomit.

The horror...the horror:eek:

That sounds more like AIDS.

Capt'n Midnight

rarnes1 wrote: »

That sounds more like AIDS.

more like ebola

Saint_Mel

Saint_Mel wrote: »

Struck down with a chest infection and head cold this week

And now added to that, since yesterday evening I keep feeling like I have to vomit ... but cant even manage any dry wretch. Stomach feels dodgy, legs get a bit weak now and again and I couldnt sleep at all last night on account of the dodgy feeling in my stomach, so now I've been awake constantly since 6.45am yesterday (Thursday), dodgy stomach, weak legs ... but at least the penicllin seems to be clearing up my chest infection, so every cloud and all that!