Flu, have you had it this winter?

AckwelFoley

The place is rife with flu at the moment, everybody seems to have it or had it recently.


[unnecessary dig]
My public service friends seem to get it worse somehow because they seem to have to stay in bed longer with it to recover. [/unnecessary dig]

I have not got it yet, luckily, actually, i don't think I've had a flu in about 5 years!?

Metallergy

no. been avoiding folk like the plague ever since flu nearly killed me last year

NoQuarter

Wow winters nearly over, that flu in...




Yeh its the best I could do.

TeddyTedson

Nope, haven't had it in years. Just a few MAN FLUs that nearly killed me.

Everyone does seem to have it alright though,
hate the f*ckers that start sneezing everywhere with it and not covering there mouth AND washing their hands.

admiralofthefleet

yeah got it once and got cellulitis too. pain in the swiss

Absurdum

never had a flu, rarely get a cold

haven't had a sick day in over 10 years

Raffo69

HAd it about 2weeks ago for about a week. Taut I had a terminal illness I felt dat bad. 1st time gettin it in yrs so I guess I woz due a bout of it

Metallergy

TeddyTedson wrote: »

hate the f*ckers that start sneezing everywhere with it and not covering there mouth.

yeah. i don't even need to cover its self contained. slight emmision through the nasal cavity.. but my brother, that polite feigned gesture of covering will never work. must be some serious orgasms goin off in his head judging by the spray

AckwelFoley

Raffo69 wrote: »

HAd it about 2weeks ago for about a week. Taut I had a terminal illness I felt dat bad. 1st time gettin it in yrs so I guess I woz due a bout of it

Trust me, when terry reads that post, the flu will seem like an orgasam

fonecrusher1

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Everyone does seem to have it alright though,

Nah lots of folk confusing having a cold with the proper flu (which is actually quite a lethal virus) which is debilitating.

I was in a queue at the bank last week & overheard someone behind proudly saying oh ive had the flu 4 times in the last 6 months.:rolleyes: Really? Bullsh!t!, you'd be dead. Or else theres something very wrong with your immune system. Probably bum disease.

whiteonion

Never get the flu and I don't take any flu shots either.

Mint Sauce

Had a cold, no flu for a few years now.

mike65

Yes I got ahead of the pack and had mine in early December. Sneezing is not a flu symptom by the way.

AckwelFoley

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

. Probably bum disease.

Hate that.

Cheap Thrills!

No, I got the jab.

AckwelFoley

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

No, I got the jab.

Pussy


:pac:

starlit

Absurdum wrote: »

never had a flu, rarely get a cold

haven't had a sick day in over 10 years

Lucky you. Had a flu and a cold over winter. Haven't had the flu for years. A lot of my family had either a flu or cold this winter. I blame the bad wheather!

Pherekydes

I live off a pension, so I don't get sick. Simple as.

Metallergy

i guess tru flu is when you can barely leave the bed let alone the house due to to muscle groups being rendered useless leaving you to slog it out in your sweaty swamp. apocalyptic visions n thoughts of ivy creeping in the window and consuming your electronics

Latchy

No ( looks for piece of wood to touch)

it's the spring/summer heyfever that gets me .....

Cheap Thrills!

snyper wrote: »

Pussy


:pac:

Guilty!

entropi

Had it back in November, stuck in bed for half the week and was the first time I'd had flu in over 10 years...

W.Shakes-Beer

No jab for me and no flu either...And I was licking feckin public toilet doorhandles.

Dave!

whiteonion wrote: »

Never get the flu and I don't take any flu shots either.

My hero


Don't think I've ever had the flu (maybe once?)

Elohim

Think you mean the common cold. Yes I've got it once so far this winter.
I had the flu once and I was in bed for about 3 weeks, was absolutely miserable.

PeterIanStaker

I had man-flu.

kippy

Yes, have had a few versions of the flu this winter.

Bodhisopha

I've had what i think a lot of people are confusing with a flu this winter - the worst cold i've ever had. Took two weeks to shake the bastard, but a stroll in the park compared to the flu i caught 2 years ago.

Ditch

Having not had anything remotely like a cold or flu for about thirty five years, I got what I presume was some sort of flu on new years eve.

I'm saying it was flu, because most of the people I know also went down with similar and they said it was flu. But, it was nothing like how I remember flu. My bones didn't ache.

I just crawled into my pit and passed out for seventeen hours! :eek: Woke up at 2 AM. Fed my Dogs and horses. Back to the pit. Died for another fourteen hours! Crazy stuff!

Spent the rest of the week simply completely devoid of the energy to do Anything. Minor bit of chest congestion. That was about it.

Funny; I gave up smoking, november 2009, after forty years. I wonder .....

Carl Sagan

Don't think I've ever had a flu. Have had a few bad colds though, but it's not the same thing really.

Rodar08

Is anybody that's had or has the flu getting stomach aches? I'm over the worst of it, came on me all of a sudden last Friday, but I've still got no energy, I'm wheezing, coughing and also have a really dodgey stomach. I'm wile to get pished tonight since it's been over a week since I had a tipple but I'm not even able to :mad: I'll try tho The tiredness and coughing I can deal with .. but feeling sick all the time is cutting in to my social life now and that's not cool.

Doc said the flu starts in your head (no runny nose or sneezing tho, that's a cold) then travels to your chest and possibly your stomach .. that must be what's happening to me now. Anyone else? How long will that feeling last?

Minstrel27

I was pretty sick for the week after Christmas.

Thomas828

Carl Sagan wrote: »

Don't think I've ever had a flu. Have had a few bad colds though, but it's not the same thing really.

No, it's not the same thing. If you had real influenza it would feel an awful lot worse than the worst cold you ever had.

I must be really lucky. I've never had 'flu, although I've had two pretty bad colds in the past two months. And I don't suffer from hay fever and I don't have any allergies that I know of. All those jabs I had when I was five have served me well.

carfiosaoorl

I havent had the flu this year. I think I got it last year for the first time ever. Im not sure if it was flu but whatever it was I was seriously f-ing sick. I could not get out of the bed and that never happens to me, Im rarely sick.

edit-feel like I've cursed myself now probably be sick tomorrow grrrr

Angron

Yeah, at the end of November/start of December. Just the regular variety though, nothing swine-like.

Lando Griffin

Did get some heavy cold in November 2009 that lasted 3 weeks but I only took 1 week off work with it.
I persumed it was swine flu but dont know.
I didn't get the swine jab.
It was horrible.
I didn't get the jab this time and haven't got the flue so it goes to show you.

xzanti

I had the vaccine a week before my son was born in December.. Thank God I did.. My OH got swine flu 2 days after I got out of hospital with our baby.. He collapsed on the bathroom floor in the middle of the night, had to get him an ambulance and call my parents down to care for our new born while I went to Hospital with him.. Good times!!

Mr. Presentable

Raffo69 wrote: »

HAd it about 2weeks ago for about a week. Taut I had a terminal illness I felt dat bad. 1st time gettin it in yrs so I guess I woz due a bout of it

It made bits of your spelling and grammar too.

gurramok

Just seen thread. Had a terrible flu back in October, out of work for a week. Doc had't a clue what it was so didn't prescribe anything/

Then last week, I was dying for just a couple of days with a flu type virus, I wouldn't say it was the "real" flu as I was up and about on day 3/4. At about the same time RTE pronounced that 80% of cases around the country were of a swine flu type virus. Now its an absolute biatch, it knocks you out in bed for a number of days that you be sick of bed!
Then when you get better, it kindly gives you a sore throat a couple of days after recovering. Friggin weird whatever it is, a few colleagues in work have had the same thing over the last couple of weeks.

Terry

snyper wrote: »

Trust me, when terry reads that post, the flu will seem like an orgasam

I took my anger out on a traveller earlier today, so there's not much left.
However, I do feel the need to say a couple of things.

Raffo69 wrote: »

HAd it about 2weeks ago for about a week. Taut I had a terminal illness I felt dat bad. 1st time gettin it in yrs so I guess I woz due a bout of it

See how the word "Taut" is blue and has a line under it in your post?
That means it is now a hyperlink. Please click on it and educate yourself.

I don't feel the need to point out that your use of txt spk is retarded, because Snyper has already done so in a round-a-bout way.

xzanti wrote: »

I had the vaccine a week before my son was born in December.. Thank God I did.. My OH got swine flu 2 days after I got out of hospital with our baby.. He collapsed on the bathroom floor in the middle of the night, had to get him an ambulance and call my parents down to care for our new born while I went to Hospital with him.. Good times!!

Now that's the Flu, and not a case of the sniffles that most people call Flu.

Had the vaccine myself. Apparently diabetes lowers your immune system.
After 5 minutes of arguing with my GP about the pointlessness of someone like me getting the jab, I felt sorry for the others in the queue* and gave in.


*Raffo69, this is how you spell a word describing a group of people waiting in a line for something.

Cheap Thrills!

xzanti wrote: »

I had the vaccine a week before my son was born in December.. Thank God I did.. My OH got swine flu 2 days after I got out of hospital with our baby.. He collapsed on the bathroom floor in the middle of the night, had to get him an ambulance and call my parents down to care for our new born while I went to Hospital with him.. Good times!!

Aw! I missed your news!!

:eek: -So sorry to hear about your hubby!

:D:DBut MANY CONGRAT'S ON YOUR NEW BABY SON!!!:D

Hope you're all settling in well

skinsseries3

Atari Jagfluar even

Stinicker

I caught Swine flu on Dec 23rd as did my Mum and Sis around the same time, it totally put a damper on Christmas and New Years. My mum was then hospitalised for a whole week and is only starting to get back to herself this past week. It ruined my Christmas and even though I had swine flu in Feb 2010, it was away worse second time around.

My sis and I recovered perfectly but it really shook up my mum, but every cloud has a silver lining I suppose as it forced her to give up Cigarettes after 43 years smoking and has been off them a month now since she first got sick. Fingers crossed that she will stay off them, my sister got such a fright seeing my Mum that she also quit smoking!

Although she was so sick and it was touch and go for a while and we are all in agreement that is she did not have her Health Insurance she would have died only for the special treatment she got.

sashafierce

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Bog

Imagine you're lying in bed with 'the flu'. Your windows are open and a fifty euro note flutters down from the floors above. If you really have the flu you would be in so much throbbing agony and nausea that you would let it float on its merry way. If you have the common cold you could jump out of bed, catch the note and be dressed for the pub in 10 minutes.

Wibbs

Yea I got the swine flu over chrimbo. A right bastid of a dose I must say. And I've had some doses in my time(no sniggering down the back). Really fcuked me over. Still feel slightly weak from it.

El Horseboxo

Having had both there are definitly a lot of people that can't hack a bit of sickness going by their complaints. A cold can keep you in bed if you let it. But with the flu you ain't got no other choice. Joints aching and muscle pain, going between hot and cold, headaches and eyes sore to move, sensitivity to light, stomach pain, cough and sore throat. You ain't doing shít if you've got a few of those symptoms. Had them all recently for over a week.

marzic

Got the jab - Pussy
Got the flu - Pussy Ass Bit*h:D

Terry

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Having had both there are definitly a lot of people that can't hack a bit of sickness going by their complaints. A cold can keep you in bed if you let it. But with the flu you ain't got no other choice. Joints aching and muscle pain, going between hot and cold, headaches and eyes sore to move, sensitivity to light, stomach pain, cough and sore throat. You ain't doing shít if you've got a few of those symptoms. Had them all recently for over a week.

That's just a cold.

Twee.

I had it in September! Bloody awful. Had to take 5 days off work and pretty much slept for that time. Paid the doctor €50 to tell me to stay in bed until I felt better :rolleyes:

Earthhorse

No, I got bronchitis this year instead, after having had a head cold for around a week.

It seems to me like there is a lot more real flu going around this year than in previous. I know a lot of people who've been proper, unable to really do anything, sick.