Worst bacteria/flu you ever got?

mr_fegelien

I'm lucky that I've only gotten a flu once in first year 10 years ago. Never gotten anything since. Doctor says a strong immune system

My family on the other hand constantly gets strep throat, colds, fungal infections every year.

Is anyone here also blessed with a strong/****ty immune system

Graces7

The flu I caught many years ago that sparked off the CFS/ME that has been with me literally 50 years now and destroyed my immune system, which governs more that fighting infections.

I was still teaching and was sent home. I remember being fixated that I needed a new nightie if I was going to be ill and floating through M and S. It was a very bad flu that one.

Now I avoid where folk gather and carry surgical masks if it cannot be avoided. Any infection/ cold could finish me. Last time I was at mass I caught a bug and was in bed weeks...

Happy out here with my cats in solitude! Not caught anything in my two years here.. yay!

fmpisces

It was Christmas 1998, the one and only time I was bedridden as an adult due to illness. It must have been a dose of the 'flu 'cos I was in bed for days and that wouldn't be like me at all. My baby was only a couple of months old at the time.

Thank goodness I've never been as ill since. I can kind of imagine now what the dreaded "man 'flu" must be like :pac:

the beer revolu

I'm fierce hardy, me.
I get a touch of the flu a few times a year.
Don't even take time off work.
Dunno what all the fuss is about!

mr_fegelien

Graces7 wrote: »

The flu I caught many years ago that sparked off the CFS/ME that has been with me literally 50 years now and destroyed my immune system, which governs more that fighting infections.

I was still teaching and was sent home. I remember being fixated that I needed a new nightie if I was going to be ill and floating through M and S. It was a very bad flu that one.

Now I avoid where folk gather and carry surgical masks if it cannot be avoided. Any infection/ cold could finish me. Last time I was at mass I caught a bug and was in bed weeks...

Happy out here with my cats in solitude! Not caught anything in my two years here.. yay!

Is it like HIV? How did you get it if you don't mind me asking?

Graces7

mr_fegelien wrote: »

Is it like HIV? How did you get it if you don't mind me asking?

Not at all like HIV . It is an autoimmune disease simply, sparked by eg flu virus. No reasoning or cause except that and no cure etc. That flu triggered it. Most of my age who die with it die of "overwhelming infection" .

I am fine just pottering in my old age! Was not when I did not realise what it was. There is no test to identify it; diagnosis of exclusion time. I know my limits now

CelticRambler

Worst ever: salmonella from a street-seller's burger in Prague while I was inter-railing and staying in a hostel with a door that wouldn't open at the very moment I needed to get to the communal toilets down the hallway ...

But that was 27 years ago, and since then nothing worse than the odd sniffle after visiting relatives.

Hamsterchops

So many people claim to have the flu when they actually have a cold, if you really have 'the flu' you know about it.....
I had the flu once about eighteen years ago and I was wiped out & bed ridden for a whole week, weak legs, shaking, sweating, hot & cold, awful thing ....

Graces7

Hamsterchops wrote: »

So many people claim to have the flu when they actually have a cold, if you really have 'the flu' you know about it.....
I had the flu once about eighteen years ago and I was wiped out & bed ridden for a whole week, weak legs, shaking, sweating, hot & cold, awful thing ....

Indeed yes. No mistaking it.. dreadful illness.

and as for the winter vomiting bug!

Mad_maxx

June 2001 was the one time I got the flu , hallucinations for days, whole thing lasted a week

Seanachai

I got what they called glandular fever when I was a teenager and never fully recovered, I'm not as badly affected as some CFS sufferers though, thank god. I worked with a guy who's sister becomes bed-ridden with it.

I was fobbed off by almost every GP I ever visited and one tried to put me on anti-depressants, which is a pretty common experience for CFS sufferers. I'm pretty resilient and I can do some physical work, but I can't sustain it for long lately.

It was 'all in my head' apparently, things have come on a lot since then and there is a lot of promising research. There's still a certain amount of scoffing and resentment though and charges of attention-seeking and 'spoofing', if there was a pill I could take to return to normal, I'd take it in the morning.

http://millionsmissing.meaction.net/

josip

Something I got 5 years ago.
Went to AE when my ear temp hit 40, trouble focusing, weak.
Expected to be in the waiting room for a while, but they admitted me within an hour, stuck me on a couple of drips.

The next morning I awoke to the consultant at the end of my bed with his entourage of 8-10 and he describing my case to them.
He lifted the sheets, my gown and gave a good jiggle of my boys to demonstrate some medical point or other.
I never thought I could be so apathetic about having my scrote the centre of group attention but I didn't care. He could have live streamed it to Times Square for all I cared at the time.

Over the next 3 days they took loads of blood samples trying to work out what I had. They never found anything and seemed a bit put out.
Was day 4 before I had the strength to walk again.

I had a week of night time panic attacks when I came home after 5 days but the hospital said I had to deal with that myself, wasn't their problem.
My GP (love him) said bollocks, and prescribed me some happy pills.
Just having them in case I needed them fixed the panic attacks.

I blame the parakeet we were minding at the time for whatever I got.

Potential-Monke

Can we count glandular fever? I used to get that at least once a year back in my early teens. Was getting tonsillitis about 9 times a year, and they eventually decided to remove them. After that, instead of getting 9 bouts of tonsillitis, I got a few chest infections and at least one bout of glandular fever. Horrible stuff. Hallucinated every time, and always the same hallucination. Sweating beads, restless, can't swallow, crazy high temperature, and constantly seeing a skeleton reaching in over me, but I could 'feel' the rough texture of the bones and the chattering noise. Pretty sure it was because of watching The Last Unicorn and that fecking laughing drinking skeleton!!!

Josieg

I've had the flu twice in my 43 years. First when I was 18 and I thought I was dying. Had to go back home form college for a week. The second time was just over 10 years ago in December 2008. Was living in UK at the time. I knew I had the flu based on my previous experience but couldn't shake it after a week. Managed to go home for Christmas but then the **** hit the fan. I had chest pain on Christmas day and eventually went to the hospital on advice of my sister in law and her husband who did some basic checks on me. I had pericarditis which was starting to cause pressure on my heart. Also had double pneumonia and a plural effusion. Was kept in hospital on a general ward but moved to coronary care unit after a few days. I dont remember much after that for about a week. I had heart failure a few days later and then kidneys started to fail. Lots of tests done and multiple antibiotics including last resort one used but didn't seem to make a difference. It was touch and go for a while. I eventually started to recover but I couldn't walk at all. I was in hospital for about a month. I was fairly fit at the time so that probably saved me. The exact cause was never identified though. I was a very interesting case for every junior doctor in the place with the amount of visits I hot from them!

Overall I've been quite healthy since but I was a fierce sickly child so not a big surprise that it happened to me.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

A touch of a tropical disease about 50 years ago, that took two years to fully recover from.

In 75 years I've had flu just twice.

Ken Tucky

Prone to getting chest infections. They do have me in bits.
Last one had me in convulsions by the time i got to the doctors surgery.
Had four hours of people chatting to each other about their minor ailments and how they didn't really need to be there. I was ready to kill them all...:eek::D

Doctor took my temperature and told me not to walk anywhere. I was shivering but absolutely burning up.

Have to laugh at people with chesty coughs claiming chest infections....worse than claiming flu with me as i have been lucky to avoid that since i was a wee kid.

Noo

Been very lucky in comparison to all the others here, but in terms of recent memory I got a bad virus a couple of months ago, I wasn't the flu but some sort of other virus.
Now I could handle the sweats, the chills, the aches and pains, the vomiting....but my god the headache! There wasn't enough drugs in the world for the relentless headache.

Graces7

Seanachai wrote: »

I got what they called glandular fever when I was a teenager and never fully recovered, I'm not as badly affected as some CFS sufferers though, thank god. I worked with a guy who's sister becomes bed-ridden with it.

I was fobbed off by almost every GP I ever visited and one tried to put me on anti-depressants, which is a pretty common experience for CFS sufferers. I'm pretty resilient and I can do some physical work, but I can't sustain it for long lately.

It was 'all in my head' apparently, things have come on a lot since then and there is a lot of promising research. There's still a certain amount of scoffing and resentment though and charges of attention-seeking and 'spoofing', if there was a pill I could take to return to normal, I'd take it in the morning.

http://millionsmissing.meaction.net/

sounds like CFS/ME … we get all those reactions and symptoms and glandular fever causes M.E.

dudara

I got the flu about 8 years ago. Flat out for a week, took another week to feel normal. Lost 5kg through sweating & not eating.

Other than that, I’m fairly healthy, but a little prone to picking up sniffles when I’m busy or stressed at work.

mr_fegelien

josip wrote: »

Something I got 5 years ago.
Went to AE when my ear temp hit 40, trouble focusing, weak.
Expected to be in the waiting room for a while, but they admitted me within an hour, stuck me on a couple of drips.

The next morning I awoke to the consultant at the end of my bed with his entourage of 8-10 and he describing my case to them.
He lifted the sheets, my gown and gave a good jiggle of my boys to demonstrate some medical point or other.
I never thought I could be so apathetic about having my scrote the centre of group attention but I didn't care. He could have live streamed it to Times Square for all I cared at the time.

Over the next 3 days they took loads of blood samples trying to work out what I had. They never found anything and seemed a bit put out.
Was day 4 before I had the strength to walk again.

I had a week of night time panic attacks when I came home after 5 days but the hospital said I had to deal with that myself, wasn't their problem.
My GP (love him) said bollocks, and prescribed me some happy pills.
Just having them in case I needed them fixed the panic attacks.

I blame the parakeet we were minding at the time for whatever I got.

Xanax or Oxy?

mr_fegelien

Noo wrote: »

Been very lucky in comparison to all the others here, but in terms of recent memory I got a bad virus a couple of months ago, I wasn't the flu but some sort of other virus.
Now I could handle the sweats, the chills, the aches and pains, the vomiting....but my god the headache! There wasn't enough drugs in the world for the relentless headache.

Ah in all fairnses your saying that because you live in Ireland. Doctors here are notorious for under-prescribing pain pills.

In America, after a 10 minute consulation with the G.P., you'd be heading to the pharmacy with a one month prescription of morphine.

Seanachai

Graces7 wrote: »

sounds like CFS/ME … we get all those reactions and symptoms and glandular fever causes M.E.

My newest GP was open to it, he's prob the soundest one I've ever had, he said he's not too knowledgeable about it and there's little he can do though. There's a couple of private docs taking patients in Dublin at the moment, I'll get to one eventually when I can save or borrow the funds. I don't think there's much they can prescribe though either. I'm hopeful though, a lot of progress can happen in 4-5 yrs now that it's being taken seriously.

razorblunt

I'm lucky enough, tonsillitis has been the worst so far.
Caught it when I was 7/8 I think had to lay low for 3 or 4 days. I've never felt as tired without being able to sleep.
Watched ET for this first time that weekend, wanting to bawl crying at the ending but not having the energy or fluid to do so was a strange, strange experience.

josip

mr_fegelien wrote: »

Xanax or Oxy?

Not sure of the brand name, but it was diazepam I got.

Bikerman2019

I was in spain in July in permanent Aircon. Got a chest infection. Deep deep coughing.


Got home and doc gives me penicillen. No responses. Coughing so hard I get dizzy. Back to doc. Next a new antibiotic, Levoflaxin. 5 days worth with accompanying steriods.



Now back to 90%, but still niggling. Mentioned it to docs surgery for advice. Got a call to collect another 5 days of Levoflaxin.

Here's hoping now.

Seanachai

josip wrote: »

Not sure of the brand name, but it was diazepam I got.

The good stuff, I hear it's the safest of the benzo's because it's long-acting.

Hamsterchops

Hamsterchops wrote: »

So many people claim to have the flu when they actually have a cold, if you really have 'the flu' you know about it.....
I had the flu once about eighteen years ago and I was wiped out & bed ridden for a whole week, weak legs, shaking, sweating, hot & cold, awful thing ....

Not true it seems. About 25% of those infected get the classic ‘you couldn’t get of the bed if you had real flu’ type symptoms. Makes it more contagious & dangerous in real terms. If everyone ended up in bed because of flu it wouldnt be spread as much.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/03/17/290878964/even-if-you-dont-have-symptoms-you-may-still-have-the-flu?t=1565957148452

josip

Bikerman2019 wrote: »

I was in spain in July in permanent Aircon. Got a chest infection. Deep deep coughing.


Got home and doc gives me penicillen. No responses. Coughing so hard I get dizzy. Back to doc. Next a new antibiotic, Levoflaxin. 5 days worth with accompanying steriods.



Now back to 90%, but still niggling. Mentioned it to docs surgery for advice. Got a call to collect another 5 days of Levoflaxin.

Here's hoping now.

Mind yourself with the hard coughing.

My brother got a bad chest infection, went on for months, could only sleep slumped over the kitchen table.
Used to cough like the bejaysus to try and clear it but suddenly got a bad pain which the doc diagnosed as pleurosy.
Now he might well have had pleurosy, but an X-ray 12 months later showed that he'd cracked a rib, he was coughing so hard.

Bikerman2019

josip wrote: »

Mind yourself with the hard coughing.

My brother got a bad chest infection, could only sleep slumped over the kitchen table.
Used to cough like the bejaysus to try and clear it but suddenly got a bad pain which the doc diagnosed as pleurosy.
Now he might well have had pleurosy, but an X-ray 12 months later showed that he'd cracked a rib, he was coughing so hard.

Doc took her time with the stephescope. Both lungs have phlem and it aint shifting. Being diabetic is making it worse.

Gatling

Swine flu a number of years ago ,went from relative healthy man to several weeks in isolated intensive care , pretty much nearly died due to they couldn't find a medication to fight it , developed pleurisy and psumonia too.

Still suffering from damage to my lungs


To this day when someone sneezes or coughs near I get very anxious to get out of there

mr_fegelien

Seanachai wrote: »

The good stuff, I hear it's the safest of the benzo's because it's long-acting.

Not really, withdrawal is less extreme because of the long half life but you still develop tolerance.

I got addicted to them after being prescribed when travelling to America. Drank loads of alcohol with them and lost 12 hours of memory travelling through L.A.X airport

emeldc

I went to a doctor 15 years ago with severe headaches. He got me a kidney transplant. I don't really suffer much with colds or flu though, touch wood

Graces7

Seanachai wrote: »

My newest GP was open to it, he's prob the soundest one I've ever had, he said he's not too knowledgeable about it and there's little he can do though. There's a couple of private docs taking patients in Dublin at the moment, I'll get to one eventually when I can save or borrow the funds. I don't think there's much they can prescribe though either. I'm hopeful though, a lot of progress can happen in 4-5 yrs now that it's being taken seriously.

Does sound like M.E! I think there is or was a blood test for glandular fever? mono something, so that was ruled out with me. So if you tested positive , grand. I was negative.. would have loved to have a proper diagnosis but that was three decades coming, of sheer hell.
They call M.E a diagnosis of exclusion. Great! As long as they exclude mental illness etc too.
And no. no pills help except that I get unbearable pain so am on meds for that Lifestyle is everything and now I am safe in private on a tiny island...

coffeepls

I always considered myself healthy - the odd snuffle and winter runny nose etc. Then I got this cough that wasn’t bad but was a bit annoying - felt like a hypochondriac taking time off work to see my GP.
Long story short - I’d a collapsed lung... but that was because of the stage 4 breast cancer I didn’t know I had.
Anyways. 4.5 years on I’m still here and stable for now - and besides that big C the only blip was multiple cracked ribs from a cough last year. Other than that I still feel healthy... ha

Please get mammograms ladies.... I was stupid enough to pooh pooh them (oh it’d be so sore, oh I can self check etc etc).

Graces7

Seanachai wrote: »

The good stuff, I hear it's the safest of the benzo's because it's long-acting.

after 6 days you are addicted and it is sheer hell to get off. Took me a year of hell to get clear of Valium/diazepam. And there are nasty side effects. Would never touch benzos again.

Graces7

mr_fegelien wrote: »

Ah in all fairnses your saying that because you live in Ireland. Doctors here are notorious for under-prescribing pain pills.

In America, after a 10 minute consulation with the G.P., you'd be heading to the pharmacy with a one month prescription of morphine.

Not now. They clamped down into "codeine hysteria" because people were abusing opiates and then going on to illegal drugs.

Hence the situation here re codeine. I get codeine now but it was a battle.

corner of hells

I'll see your flu and raise you "sepsis".

Most recover from it , but if you progress to septic shock 40% die from it.

If you get sepsis , you are going to hospital.

Gatling

coffeepls wrote: »

I always considered myself healthy - the odd snuffle and winter runny nose etc. Then I got this cough that wasn’t bad but was a bit annoying - felt like a hypochondriac taking time off work to see my GP.
Long story short - I’d a collapsed lung... but that was because of the stage 4 breast cancer I didn’t know I had.
Anyways. 4.5 years on I’m still here and stable for now - and besides that big C the only blip was multiple cracked ribs from a cough last year. Other than that I still feel healthy... ha

Please get mammograms ladies.... I was stupid enough to pooh pooh them (oh it’d be so sore, oh I can self check etc etc).

You think you have it bad and then read this ,

I Hope you stay well and healthy going forward

josip

If only we'd known back then what was coming down the tracks in a few months. This thread is like a time capsule.

Yeah..Mr. Fegelian was either a visionary or a psy op by Bill Gates..

This was even before event 201..

cj maxx

Was brought to hospital by my father in the middle of the night when I was 3. Think meningitis was diagnosed , but I have my doubts. Ended up in Dublin for a while. 2012 I was hospitised, again with viral meningitis. Again have my doubts. After that a MS diagnosis.

At both times I think delirium and an outrageous temperature left me weak , almost catatonic. Felt like sh1t at the time but recovered quickly

igCorcaigh

Swine flu back in 2009, I felt like dying for 12-24 hours.

Kidney infections, I am prone to them since a kid and have been very very sick; trembling, fever and visual distortions.

I'm terrified of sepsis now that I know that a kidney infection can cause it!

Strumms

All of my adult life I get 1-2 bad colds a year… I spent 6 days of 10 in bed on holiday in 2009 …. Coughing up un-human stuff….back in 2016 I was prescribed a rake of vitamin supplements to help recover from a long term illness and since I started taking those not a sniffle… if doctors say I don’t ‘need’ those anymore I’ll keep taking them if allowed…the condition has been 90% fixed but the overall feeling of strength and fitness is remarkable

Seanachai

I got really sick after being stung by a wasp while clearing out crap under a hedge in Rathmines, flu-like symptoms with nausea that came on very quickly. I never reacted that way from being stung before.

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118991770#Comment_118991770

Bad buzz.

CGI_Livia_Soprano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118991770#Comment_118991770

Africanised wasps, the right-wing denizens of Boards.ie will be calling Rathmines a “no-go area” within a few days.

Burt Renaults

Pneumonia when I was 15. It was just in the one lung, which was more than enough, tb perfectly h with you. The first few days, I felt like I was dying. Every breath was a struggle, exacerbated by horrible chest pains and a mad sense of panic. A rumour went around school that I'd died and that my death was being covered up (for some mad reason). Someone started it for a laugh. Needless to say, he got into huge trouble, although I found it hilarious. Especially when a classmate's mother rang my mother to verify that I was still alive, and she made me say "hello" to her to prove it.

Mrs OBumble

Have had both campylobacter and sepsis.

The first is the worst I've ever felt.. The second would have killed me if I didn't have emergency surgery and then a month of strong antibiotics.

Not had Covid-19 yet, AFAIK.

Chris_5339762

Had the flu about 20 years ago and was in bed for a week. Yup, it was the flu. You know if you've got the flu. If you say "I think I had a dose of the flu". You didn't. You know if you've got the flu.

The worst dose was a few years ago and was an undiagnosed bacteria/virus on top of exhaustion. It caused me to feel anxious beyond words, it was very strange. Almost like a breakdown, but not quite.

Capt'n Midnight

A cold is unpleasant. Flu is where the the room spins and you worry about your mortality. Measles as a young child was possibly worse.

KK4SAM

I have never had the flu in 62 years ,a few days off would be nice.