Do you have a flu right now?

stevek93

Is it just me or are we getting sick more often?

Guy:Incognito

No. Anyone that has the actual flu wouldn't be online posting, they'd be in bed wishing for death to come quickly.


What 99% of people have is a cold.

punisher5112

No

I have the MAN FLU at the moment.

Aches and pains are starting and nose has been flowing like Niagra falls all day.

My eye well just one not both is half closed and also leaking.

My head is now starting to pain me now too....

I'm in work till 1230 and I really need bed....

Daisybelly

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

No. Anyone that has the actual flu wouldn't be online posting, they'd be in bed wishing for death to come quickly.


What 99% of people have is a cold.

Or they are male.












Joking!!!

Charlie19

No

Into the fourth week now of sniffles and a cough that I can't seem to shake off.

The first week was awful with symptoms consisting of cold sweats and aches all over the body. I googled it and it had all the signs of the Man Flu.

Harry Palmr

If you have flue in October you must be a snowflake.

Yes! Yes! Me! I do!!


:pac:

punisher5112

No

Harry Palmr wrote: »

If you have flue in October you must be a snowflake.

The reason I got it was the wife took all the covers, the window was open and I got a draught on my chest and neck....

Harry Palmr

Flu is a virus and cannot be caught by being cold.

Daisybelly

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Flu is a virus and cannot be caught by being cold.

This is very true.
I went to the doctor recently and I told him I had gone running in the rain and felt awful ever since. He said you must have the flu. I replied that flu is a virus, I didnt think that was the cause of my illness and I wanted a second opinion. He said fine "you are very ugly too".

ygolometsipe

I just googled the symptoms of flu/cold and now I am 90% sure I have
the black death, thanks a lot boards.ie

mickrock

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Flu is a virus and cannot be caught by being cold.

You're more likely to catch a cold if your nose is cold (presumably the same applies to the flu):

"The virus behind the common cold is much happier in a cold nose, US researchers suggest.

Their study showed the human immune system was weaker in cooler temperatures, allowing the virus to thrive.
The researchers suggested keeping your nose warm and avoiding cold air while infected."

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30685732

Graces7

No and am buying masks today. Have just recovered from the vomiting bug...more than enough for one lifetimele..

AllForIt

Graces7 wrote: »

No and am buying masks today. Have just recovered from the vomiting bug...more than enough for one lifetimele..

Is one less likely to pick up contagious things living on a island ?

Graces7

AllForIt wrote: »

Is one less likely to pick up contagious things living on a island ?

Indeed yes, but I am across to shop etc every couple of weeks... AND more important is not to bring nasty bugs back with you as we have vulnerable old folk here. The vomitiing bug is highly infectious..and dreadful.

So I closed my gate and isolated me and my bug.... With no working immune system the masks are needed .

SEPT 23 1989

Heading into my 4th week of not feeling 100% never been sick this early in the year

Feisar

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

No. Anyone that has the actual flu wouldn't be online posting, they'd be in bed wishing for death to come quickly.


What 99% of people have is a cold.

I used to think I had the flu untill I actually got one.

Timberrrrrrrr

punisher5112 wrote: »

The reason I got it was the wife took all the covers, the window was open and I got a draught on my chest and neck....

None of which would have made you sick, you have caught a vital bug from someone (work,train,bus,shop), the above would only have made you cold.

degsie

punisher5112 wrote: »

The reason I got it was the wife took all the covers, the window was open and I got a draught on my chest and neck....

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Flu is a virus and cannot be caught by being cold.

Woooooosh!

Drumpot

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

No. Anyone that has the actual flu wouldn't be online posting, they'd be in bed wishing for death to come quickly.


What 99% of people have is a cold.

I have had the flu once in my life, think it was last year. When you get the flu you know it. Before that I might of said stupid things like “I think I have a bit of a flu” .

When you have the flu it’s actually ferocious. I couldn’t get out of bed. I don’t think people realize how nasty a flu Can get. I thought I was dieing couldn’t believe my doctor when they said “you had the flu”. I was like “this isn’t the flu, this is something much worse!”.

Graces7

Drumpot wrote: »

I have had the flu once in my life, think it was last year. When you get the flu you know it. Before that I might of said stupid things like “I think I have a bit of a flu” .

When you have the flu it’s actually ferocious. I couldn’t get out of bed. I don’t think people realize how nasty a flu Can get. I thought I was dieing couldn’t believe my doctor when they said “you had the flu”. I was like “this isn’t the flu, this is something much worse!”.

I had flu in 1969. I was teaching and had to come home. Went to M and S as I was sure I was dying and HAD to have a new nightie to die in... Reeled and swayed through the shop....

It was that flu that triggered the CFS/M.E. all these years on and still badly affected ,,, now if i catch anything it lingers many weeks. Many who have M.E and die do so through "overwhelming infections."

I watch for three days after any outing..

Haven't had my usual autumn cold as yet............I've been eating very healthily, exercising frequently and I've lost 3 stone since April ......... coincidence perhaps.

Just over an unpleasant cold virus which lasted 16 days from onset to finale. Recovered “quite suddenly”. For two days before onset I had vague aching in my muscles in my back and legs etc, when the virus was probably priming my immune system. Ironically a good immune system sets off the reaction to the virus, a huge production of mucus in the upper airways and episodes of slight fever which characterize the illness. Colds are caused by one of three categories of virus that are not related to Influenza. Rhinoviruses cause more than half of them, with certain Adenoviruses and Coronaviruses causing the remainder. Regarding Influenza, I have had that 4 tines in my life of 57 years and I can recall each episode from the Hong Kong flu in 1968 when mother, father and self were bedbound, and mother crawled down the stairs to fetch in a parcel of basic supplies left by aunt in porch as per telephone agreement. During the onset of the “Russian flu” 1977, I went into town feeling a slight bit uneasy, and standing at a bus stop across from the Yeast Company opposite Trinity College I remember starting to get shaky, nauseous, weak and headachey, got home off the bus and threw up in the hall! Was over a week in the bed with damp cloths over me trying to cool the fever. To this day even the thought of the Yeast Company brings on nausea and headache by association!!! Influenza is such a different virus to a cold and characteristically lacks the flowing mucus from nasal passages that is such a feature of a cold.