Man Flu!

Tonymufc

Yes I have it. Is there a worse feeling in the world. Every joint is aching, my head is pounding, my nose feels like its going to explode and in two days all I've managed to eat is a bit of toast and Weetabix. I had to ring in sick this morning which I hate doing. Haven't had a day off work since last September. I feckin hate this!

bompington

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXLHWmjA5IE

Tonymufc

What was that number he rang?

SteveR_100Milers

yep, there is a bit around at the moment - I thought I had escaped lightly with a blocked nose and ears last week, but now its moved to my chest so time to rest up and lose all that hard fought for speed....:(

Tonymufc

I feel your pain.

prb007

been off all my bikes for 8 days now.
Started with sickness/sh!ts, now sinuses and throat (voice gone).
It's been like a magical Mystery manflu - different symptoms every day, ffs.

Been off yesterday and today, will try and go in tomorrow (nightshift )

MattC59

I had a nasty dose of it a couple of weeks ago. I'd had an irritating sniffle for about two weeks, then suddenly it got aggro and I waas off work for two days. I ended up with a sinus and chest infection. Still struggling with the aftermath (mostly snot & flegm !!) now.

It's not plesant and it's well and truely doing the rounds !

Tonymufc

Women don't know just how bad we get it do they.

dilemna

I was fit as a fiddle saturday just gone that is until I went down to London. Back home at 8pm, by 10pm I had a dry irritating cough and by midnight - 2am my lungs felt as if they were on fire and my head was pounding, pain on my eyeballs was intense. I couldn't breath without tremendous pain, so could only take shallow breaths. Thought I was going to suffocate. The old ticker was racing away too. All muscles aching. Ears throbbing as well plus kidneys, sweating and shivering uncontrollably the whole night and the next morning my temp was 41.9C!!!! I thought this is it I'm gonna die. Took my temp again and same 41.9C!!!!! I should be in hospital or be dead. Lots of cold damp cloths on the forehead and around back of neck.

In London at the National Gallery there was some stupid girl who had a death cough. She looked about 18-20 years old, almost anoxeric in thinness, but boy was her cough the cough of the grim reaper! The paintings on the walls rattled as she let out her death cough. People near her made a quick exit. How bloody stupid can you be to go into a crowded public place when you are clearly as ill as she was with such a virulent illness?? I think the gallery staff should have asked her to leave and told her to go see a doctor for her own well being and that of every one else. It is just like the muppets who turn up for work coughing and spluttering over eveybody and even more bloody stupid management who don't send them home so these people then make the whole workforce ill. Unbelievable.

Spent whole of sunday in bed, mon am temp 38.8C. Wrapped up very warm and went to the docs for emergency appointment. Reception said I couldn't see a doc until much later/tomorrow. Told them it was urgent whilst covering my mouth with a tea towel. They looked nervous. I saw a doc there and then. Advice for swine flu (!!!!) is currently give drugs only to preggers women and young children. For me aspirin, honey and lemon and standard anti-biotics amoxylin. Went home straight to bed exhausted after the short trip into town. Just now temp 38.4C but coming down. Still big head ache when aspirin wears off and aching muscles plus now heavy cough. Have no energy. Not hungry either. Managing to drink water. I can't believe how quickly this fever came on. It certainly wasn't "normal" flu and may well be swineflu. The doc said that due to the cutbacks the government has not built up the same reserves of drugs as it has done in previous years. So if one is reliant on the NHS you are stuck.

Tonymufc

Dude I defo know how that one feels. I had swine flu last September. I was off work for three weeks and it wasn't until November, yes you heard right November that I started to fully feel 100% again. Just make sure that you drink plenty of water and take the appropriate medication. Hope you're feeling better soon pal.

ddraver

dilemna wrote:

It is just like the muppets who turn up for work coughing and spluttering over eveybody and even more bloody stupid management who don't send them home so these people then make the whole workforce ill. Unbelievable.
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Good boy!!

Feel less guilty for taking two days off with my man-flu now

Stu T

ddraver wrote:

dilemna wrote:

It is just like the muppets who turn up for work coughing and spluttering over eveybody and even more bloody stupid management who don't send them home so these people then make the whole workforce ill. Unbelievable.
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Good boy!!

Feel less guilty for taking two days off with my man-flu now

Turned up last year to hand over some keys, I was with suspected Swine Flu. They refused to let me go home and wanted me to serve customers including a pregnant woman!!!

Tonymufc

Who do you work for? And incase it happens again to the best of my knowledge an employer can't keep you in work if you aren't able to carryout your duties safely due to illness. I drive for a living and I know that should anything go wrong whilst I'm out on the road I would be absolutely crucified by the police and my company would hang me out to dry.

Stu T

Well I can't name them because I may be bringing the company into disrepute but it rhymes with

Marclays Mank :roll:

Just the way they are.

Karl2010

Drives me nuts when im sitting next to someone on the bus or train, and they are coughing and splutering everywhere without covering the mouths.

When i feel a bug coming on i start taking "Slow Release, High Strengh Vitimin C", works wonders.

Tonymufc

Stu T wrote:

Well I can't name them because I may be bringing the company into disrepute but it rhymes with

Marclays Mank :roll:

Just the way they are.

No sorry doesn't ring any bells with me.

Frank the tank

I died from "man-flu" once, but fortunately made a full recovery.

bompington

dilemna wrote:

It certainly wasn't "normal" flu and may well be swineflu.

The evidence from last year's swine flu epidemic is that in most people, it's not actually worse than the regular kind.
Also, at the risk of being a bit obvious, you didn't mention paracetamol, which is the most effective medicine by a long way for bringing down temperature: none of the other over-the-counter stuff has the same kind of effect.
Anyway, still sounds nasty, there's nothing else that quite matches the misery is there? Hope you're on the mend now.

tlw1

just starting with my yearly Christmas man flu - every ferking year it is the same

freehub

I like it when a woman is suffering from "real flu" and it's less intensity than "man flu", those silly woman.

mrushton

If you have an anti-flu jab this year it has the swine flu in it so that can make you rough. But there is something going about. Used to work with someone who prided herself on never being off sick. She came in once with some cold/flu thing and I pointed out that if the 5 of us in the office all got this it could result in approx. 10 days lost whereas if she took 2 days off that was better. She chose to ignore this and guess what? The irony was she became too ill to come in and took a week off!

SteveR_100Milers

Manflu is just crap. I lasted an hour at tonights track session and my lungs were on fire, eyes streaming and erratic heartbeat....oh hang on it's usually like that...

Gazzaputt

I'd like to add myself to the sick list please!

Since Saturday had the lurgy.

Pross

Always thought man flu was supposed to be a normal cold that we exaggerate into flu, sounds like the OP has actually got proper flu to me. The best way of defining proper flu I've heard is that if some puts a £50 note at the bottom of your bed and says you can keep it if you pick it up and you can't bring yourself to do it (although it could just be a cold and you are a lazy banker with too much money I suppose ).

Tonymufc

No such thing as proper flu. There's either a common cold that somehow only women get and there's the near death inducing MAN FLU. Never ever get these two confused.