is there a virus going around?

snowgal

hi, just wondering is anyone else struck down with some kind of virus/fluey type the past few days? I woke up this morning like a truck had run over me in the middle of the night! severe aches and pains in legs and arms, zero energy, heavy chest etc it just seems strange at this time of year? Not covid as did a test.....

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058300098/is-there-a-virus-going-around

Good weather, a lot of people mixing together - seems like a recipe to catch a virus, at any time of the year.

Ten of Swords

Moved to AH

Think there is, yes. I know people who got awful doses in recent days.

Can happen in the summer - it's more horrible really, because you're already warm and you miss out on the good weather and getting out and about. At least in winter you're stuck inside anyway.

Get well soon!

artanevilla

There's always stuff going around. We are riddled.

BENDYBINN

get well soon

SortingYouOut

Have people forgotten that humans become ill from time to time?

L1011

Got a manky chest thing + wrecked for the past few days, somewhat back to normal now in so far as I can actually move without a coughing fit and haven't felt like a nap yet (its almost 11!).

But there is/was always something going around - staying indoors / away from people / wearing masks in 2020-2 will have reduced how much of the other random stuff you'll have caught.

magicbastarder

i had a weird bug lasting about 8 weeks recently. tinnitus, headache, fuggy feeling.

though the number of cases of sepsis i've heard about recently (one fatal) is through the roof. have never heard anything like it before.

tesla_newbie

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I’m sick ten days now , the fatigue this day last week ( and last Saturday) was like nothing I’ve felt before, I’ve spent ten days now coughing up the most ghastly stuff , chest tightness,relentless headache,went to doc on call last Saturday and was prescribed antibiotics and steroids, it’s barely knocked the corners off it , the heat has made the experience worse

Supercell

Antigen test dont pick up the current variants very well, more than likely is Covid. Get some rest.

WheelieKing

It's a good thing OP. The human species needs to be exposed to these viruses in order for us to thrive and survive. I was down with some sort of virus last month all the covid symptoms but just got on with it as much as possible had to keep working bills need to be paid etc...

HungrySeagull

Random sore throat last week and then developed into a cough and head cold over the weekend. Still have it several days later.

LambshankRedemption

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058300098/is-there-a-virus-going-around

Yep, got something similar around last Sunday. To be honest, today is the first day I feel more like myself.

Your analogy of feeling like a truck had run over you is very apt, thats exactly how I felt.

greenspurs

Long covid .... for sure.....

Deffo..

wildwillow

Some of my friends have developed strep throat, courtesy of their very generous grandchildren. One has complications with sore joints and muscles. Lasting over three weeks.

Best advice is practise hygiene and keep hydrated.

Just talking to my brother - he's pretty damn miserable with it. Said it's his worst chest infection in years.

tesla_newbie

I suppose the vaccines are beginning to pick us off now. I only had the first two myself , no boosters

One Boardsie posted on another thread how he developed a massive chest infection and ended up in hospital, also got torrential vomiting and diarrhoea although it’s possible the gastric symptoms were attributable to the highly contagious Norovirus acquired separately.

I attended a seminar in town a week or two ago, there was someone coughing severely nonstop, popping in and out of the lecture. On the LUAS going in there was a man opposite me coughing continually. Separately the week before a cousin reported he was just over an infection characterised by coughing and severe diarrhoea.

Some some nasty viral infections can give this combination, eg Influenza, Coronaviruses.

https://www.hpsc.ie/notifiablediseases/weeklyidreports/Weekly%20ID%20Report%20Week%2022%202023.pdf

Covid is still the most frequently reported infection and will give both respiratory and gastric-intestinal symptoms.

seamusk84

The amount of people sniffing on the Luas yesterday was genuinely noticeable. I never noticed something like that before and I’m always on the damn thing!

Hay fever maybe? But must be people with colds from the level of it.

jackboy

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Protection from the vaccines waned significantly at this stage so it’s expected that a lot are getting bad covid doses now. It looks like those who got mild covid in the past are being hit harder now with new variants. This is the new normal.

snowgal

thanks everyone, at least Im not alone, seems to be alot going around...hopefully it passes soon!

DownByTheGarden

We all had a bit of a cold and slight chest infections with itchy throats. Did a few covid tests on different days during it. My wife did her last test yesterday and it was positive for covid. She had 3 days negative for covid and then positive on the 4th. We all had negative covid tests each day.

We've run out of tests now but are all better. It wasnt even bad anyway apart from the annoyng itchy throat and the odd sneeze. Dont even know if you are supposed to stay in anymore but we havent been and wont bother now either.

cj maxx

I was feeling very fluey a couple of months ago. The most significant symptom was extreme diarrhoea. To the point where if I felt a fart coming id have to sit down on the bowl !! And more often than not it was a very good idea.

SortingYouOut

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Sounds like a stomach bug or food poison. Very common.

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120695365#Comment_120695365

i put it down to a stomach bug . It seems the most likely.

SortingYouOut

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120695392#Comment_120695392

I had one two years back and it was the worst experience i've ever had. Nothing was staying in me, pure brown water coming one way and vomit coming the other. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120695365#Comment_120695365

After consulting DR Google it seems very like what’s called stomach flu . Running to the toilet but sitting with a basin to hurl in

SortingYouOut

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120695701#Comment_120695701

Oh yeah, that's her.

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120695482#Comment_120695482

Exactly my symptoms. It cost me 2 pairs of trousers and the cost of buying a vax carpet cleaner 😡

Leg End Reject

I had a sore throat, blocked sinuses, sneezing, fatigue and aches and pains last month. I didn't even think to do a Covid test, we're well into the 'getting on with it' anyway.

I have to laugh at all the posters who insisted our employers would all send us home if we had any symptoms! 😂

Montage of Feck

Definitely, I believe it's called humanity.

Surprisingly when my 92 year old aunt in a nursing home got Covid, it didn’t affect her badly, but her sons and daughter with stronger immune systems had a harder time as their immune systems put up a fight.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120695392#Comment_120695392

Could be campylobacter too, it’s a common food poisoning but in some vulnerable people and be severe and very occasionally fatal. If you have blood in the diarrhoea, this is a likely candidate. It’s nasty but normally self limiting after a week or two, keeping up electrolytes, and a light nourishing diet is important. Stopping eating on account of any diarrhoeal illness is never a good idea, the body needs more nourishment than ever. An intestine without food passing through is more likely to “eat itself”, if necessary take motion to ease nausea. Avoid imodium as this can cause stagnation with multiplying of bad bacteria, prolongation of symptoms and it’s possible for prolonged irritable bowel syndrome to set in. As recovery sets in diet of fermented foods may help restore balance.

Note, if bleeding continues after two weeks or so it needs investigation to rule out inflammatory bowel disease or a malignancy.

snowgal

Thanks all. I went to bed at 6 last night and just got up now! High temp, aches chills, headache, eye pain, hot, cold, the usual…. Feel a bit better now just weak and tired. Must be a virus thing going round, in case anyone feels it, good to know

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120698694#Comment_120698694

You mention eye pain, could be from sinuses, but if the surface of the eye is sore or itchy likely to be latest drain of Covid, where conjunctivitis is especially common in children affected by it.

not_sure_what_to_pick

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Have to laugh at those testing for covid. Why bother? Like, they sound responsible for testing and they sound like they will stay at home with a positive result. But also, they sound like people that will continue on with any other viral illness if they get a negative. If you have symptoms, just stay at home, people don't need a test.

tesla_newbie

Finished a course of antibiotics and steroids three days ago, I’m still coughing and floored with tiredness, have this nearly two weeks now , two weeks straight with a headache

Leg End Reject

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I didn't say I laugh at those resting for Covid at all. I said at laugh at those who claimed that all employers would send home anyone with symptoms forever more in threads here.

All employers don't, and it's not practical in the real world.

greenspurs

is paranoia a virus?

Potential-Monke

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I'd consider them more of a disease than a virus.

Danzy

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You'll be out with Zyklon b yet I'd say.