Influenza 2015

RobertKK

This thread is about the flu, the real flu, not a simple head cold or chest infection which silly people call the flu.

Here in the south east of the country the flu seems to have infected a lot of people.

So have you the flu, recovered from the flu, a potential victim of the flu or just a very lucky person who avoids it altogether?

I think the worst part of the flu is the fatigue, it was 7 years since I last had the flu and it took 3 weeks to be fully better, currently in day 4. I had tiredness for three weeks last time even when the other symptoms had disappeared.

http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?con=332

[FONT=Verdana,Arial]Anyone suffering from the flu can have a combination of all, or some, of the following symptoms:

• Fever (with temperature in the region of 38 to 40 degrees centigrade).
• Runny nose and sore throat, usually accompanied by a dry, tickly cough.
• Aching pains in the muscles and joints.
• Severe headaches.
• Dry cough
• Chest pains.
• No appetite.
• Inability to sleep at night - may feel cold and shivery, or hot and sweaty.
• Vomiting or diarrhoea.

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So wishing all my fellow flu sufferers a speedy recovery. I share your pain.

tony007

RobertKK wrote: »

This thread is about the flu, the real flu, not a simple head cold or chest infection which silly people call the flu.

Here in the south east of the country the flu seems to have infected a lot of people.

So have you the flu, recovered from the flu, a potential victim of the flu or just a very lucky person who avoids it altogether?

I think the worst part of the flu is the fatigue, it was 7 years since I last had the flu and it took 3 weeks to be fully better, currently in day 4. I had tiredness for three weeks last time even when the other symptoms had disappeared.

http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?con=332




So wishing all my fellow flu sufferers a speedy recovery. I share your pain.

I'd say its potential to cause death would be up there.

darkpagandeath

Nah I would go with the media comparing the latest flu to the Black death.

Sheep Lover

I sneezed into a child's face today, does that make me a potential killer?

RobertKK

tony007 wrote: »

I'd say its potential to cause death would be up there.

Yes definitely, but my mind was not thinking of death...

PucaMama

if only vaccination against flu was encouraged for everyone.

Karl Stein

Lemsip, be grand.

RobertKK

PucaMama wrote: »

if only vaccination against flu was encouraged for everyone.

The flu mutated too much this season and made the vaccine far less effective.

Sir Osis of Liver.

With my runny nose and high temperature, I made sure to shake everyone's hands in the A and E.



It's how I make friends and influenza people.

The Backwards Man

I had the flu once, not a hope in hell I'd be able to post on boards with it.

The_Valeyard

Man Flu,

The flu but worse!!

jamesbere

Went to this last year, wasn't as good as previous years. Who's headlining?

RobertKK

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I had the flu once, not a hope in hell I'd be able to post on boards with it.

Its easy when relaxing, given it is easier than having to work, and I have to stay working, as the cows are busy popping out calves...and I live and work alone.
So it is someone to chat to.

Lia_lia

Never in my life had the flu.

We can get the vaccine free at work alright, probably should get it!

The Peanut

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I had the flu once, not a hope in hell I'd be able to post on boards with it.

It's good to know that there is something that could keep you away from posting on boards.

fineso.mom

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I had the flu once, not a hope in hell I'd be able to post on boards with it.

Yeah, that's the flu,,,when you are too sick to care about the internet or anything else. And yet, every winter I meet people who complain " oh,I've an awful flu". Yeah,right. At the most it's a bad cold. If you're up and walking it's not flu. Pansys!

incrisis

It has been rife over here, I had it a couple of weeks back, over the course of three days I slept for about 50 hours... When I wasn't asleep I was sat on the sofa wanting to go back to bed.

RobertKK

fineso.mom wrote: »

Yeah, that's the flu,,,when you are too sick to care about the internet or anything else. And yet, every winter I meet people who complain " oh,I've an awful flu". Yeah,right. At the most it's a bad cold. If you're up and walking it's not flu. Pansys!

I got it off a friend who was taken to hospital, and was diagnosed with the flu, he is a very sharing type.
Too generous at times.

fineso.mom

RobertKK wrote: »

I got it off a friend who was taken to hospital, and was diagnosed with the flu, he is a very sharing type.
Too generous at times.

Well,farmers are different of course,, tough out.! So ye would still be able to function. Most people wouldn't if they actually have flu. It just makes me laugh the amount of people who think a cold is flu.

BeerWolf

I got all that OP, what now?

suicide_circus

Vaccination is government sponsored mind control serum.

jamesbere

suicide_circus wrote: »

Vaccination is government sponsored mind control serum.

Must be the watered down version in this country

seventeen sheep

PucaMama wrote: »

if only vaccination against flu was encouraged for everyone.

The vaccine was only something like 5% effective this year, it doesn't protect against the strains of flu that are going around. I got the vaccine and still got the flu in January. Never been so sick in my life, I actually thought I was dying. The week before an exam too.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Why is it if a woman goes off to bed with a box of tissues she gets sympathy but if a man does it he's looked at with disgust?

whupdedo

Thinly veiled, im sick but im a farmer and tougher than teak thread

Corvo

I haven't had the flu in about 10 years.

Ya'll ain't drinking enough alcohol.

Desolation Of Smug

I felt a dose coming on so I nipped it in the bud with copious alcohol. The flu virus doesn't like red wine. Or beer. Or Jameson. Not sure which one did the trick. Try them all.

MagicMarker

Had it myself about 10 years ago. I hope to **** I never get it again.

Woshy

My husband had the flu one year - he was in an awful way. Fever, debilitating headache, vomiting and diarrhoea. He was in bed for almost 3 weeks. I'd had the flu jab through work so didn't get it, thank god. I don't know what we would have done if we'd both been incapacitated. It was during the swine flu panic as well but it turned out not to be that strain.

It annoys me so much when people who have a cold say it's the flu. If you had the flu you'd know all about it

CJ Haughey

Desolation Of Smug wrote: »

I felt a dose coming on so I nipped it in the bud with copious alcohol. The flu virus doesn't like red wine. Or beer. Or Jameson. Not sure which one did the trick. Try them all.

15 year old poteen sorts it lively too.

Baggy Trousers

I only got real flu once but it was hellish.
It does my head in when people take a couple of days off and say they had the "flu".

RobertKK

whupdedo wrote: »

Thinly veiled, im sick but im a farmer and tougher than teak thread

Getting back to bed now thankfully.
Tough as rotten teak with dry rot and woodworm that is just about managing to stay together would be more accurate.
On high levels of caffeine to reduce tiredness when I have to work, I'm no tougher than anyone else, but animals have to be fed so you just do it. Like a family and they have a new baby, same thing really, it is stuff that has to be done.
But it is so hard.

anncoates

I've had the flu before and the last thing I wanted to do was chat online, tbh.

Lux23

Is it possible to catch flu but for it not to get really bad? Everyone has had it bad in my house, they weren't able to get out of bed. I've a sore throat, headaches, pains and the shivers, but I'm able to get up and go to work. Maybe I got something else.

MagicMarker

Lux23 wrote: »

Is it possible to catch flu but for it not to get really bad? Everyone has had it bad in my house, they weren't able to get out of bed. I've a sore throat, headaches, pains and the shivers, but I'm able to get up and go to work. Maybe I got something else.

It's called a cold.

The One Doctor

Lux23 wrote: »

Is it possible to catch flu but for it not to get really bad? Everyone has had it bad in my house, they weren't able to get out of bed. I've a sore throat, headaches, pains and the shivers, but I'm able to get up and go to work. Maybe I got something else.

With the flu I could barely hold down liquids. Posting online (or going to work) was not on the day's agenda.

Irelandcool

I wonder if the increased amount of pollution and global warming (if global warming is real which I believe it does) has an effect on making viruses mutate. Especially in much hotter areas throughout the world.

COYVB

Have the flu myself at the moment and it's not pleasant. Been in been preety much the whole day except to vomit or piddle ditchwater out my rear. That said, it's the first time I've had the flu for 6 years now, and bit was bound to happen since the wife had it last week, so can't complain too much

The Backwards Man

I've just accidentally drank a pint of bleach in the pub by mistake but I'm still posting away here like goodio!

CJ Haughey

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I've just accidentally drank a pint of bleach in the pub by mistake but I'm still posting away here like goodio!

You did of course :rolleyes:

The One Doctor

CJ Haughey wrote: »

You did of course :rolleyes:

He might have been joking, of course.

Calibos

Hope I'm not tempting fate here but I haven't had a cold or sore throat in 2 or 3 years now either, never mind the Flu. I think its like Pokemon. 'Gotta catch 'em all'. Retail for 25 years must mean I've caught the 100 most common strains at this stage and am immune!! Whahey!!

I agree with OP. While on the one hand you do have all the gobshee's standing in front of you saying they have the flu which ironically is a 100% reliable indication that they in fact have never once had the flu in their lives. ie. When you have the flu you bloody well know it and will never forget it. However on the other hand, if lives or your livelihood depend on it you can indeed fight through the abject misery and aches and pain and do what needs to be done.

In OP's case, tending to the animals. In my case with the family business staffed entirely with family and with every one of us coming down with the flu at the same time, it was left to the person affected the least and/or capable of fighting through it the best. ie. Me. Ironically the most ill I had ever felt in my life and yet I actually had to work the hardest longest hours I'd ever worked in my life because I was doing everyone elses shifts as well as my own.

I'll never forget that week of Hell.

cassid

Was up with the gp last week and he said, the flu in on the way here and they are expecting to be hit hard. They got some notice from the HSE

CJ Haughey

The One Doctor wrote: »

He might have been joking, of course.

Who knows he is locked most of the time.

jiltloop

Yeah I hate when people say the have the flu and all they have is a common cold. If you have the flu you don't get over it in a few days, you won't be able to go to work, you'll most likely be in bed for at least 2 weeks.

I've only ever gotten it once and it was 2 weeks in bed going through fevers and struggling to get any food or fluids in to me. When I eventually came out of it I was shocked to find out I'd been in bed for a solid 2 weeks.

ScumLord

Irelandcool wrote: »

I wonder if the increased amount of pollution and global warming (if global warming is real which I believe it does) has an effect on making viruses mutate. Especially in much hotter areas throughout the world.

I'd say the billions of people it has access to for reproduction is affecting it's mutation rates much more. Humans live on top of each other in cities, our cities are like virus candy shops.

I haven't had the flu, I haven't even got a cold in the last few years. Your human diseases don't affect my super immune system.

5starpool

I can only remember having the flu once, and that was when I was 19 (quite a few years ago). I was in bed for most of a week and even after that weak as a kitten for another week. It was highly unpleasant.

Still not as bad as man flu though :pac:

beyondbelief67

I had the vaccination in October, but still caught the flu in middle of January, never felt so bad, after a few days I had to see the doctor I knew he'd not be able to do anything about the flu but needed some steroids as I have bad asthma.
He told me the reason the vaccination didn't work as well this year is there are 3/4 different strains of it around.
3 weeks on and just getting over it, I pity anyone who gets it.

gazzer

Got the flu in January and I was in a bad way for 8 days. The first 4 days were horrible, couldnt eat because when I swallowed it felt like there was barbed wire in my throat. Nearly fainted a few times when going to the loo. Horrible headaches etc. Just spent the first 4 days lying on the sofa with a duvet over me. Started to feel a little better by day 5 but it 3 more days before I started to feel relatively normal

PucaMama

I got swine flu when it was here in 2009. Very bad but people were so complacent about it. No one ever seems to take these things seriously in Ireland. Well I can tell you for a fact that hospitals have had a warning sent around. It does sound pretty serious.

Lux23

MagicMarker wrote: »

It's called a cold.

That's what I thought, just weird that everyone else had it and I just got a cold.