This bloody flu lurgy thing

Chip \'oyler

Came down with that flu bug that's going round last Monday - had the shivers/fever for two days then started feeling better. But since then I still don't feel great - I seem to have a constant bloody hangover and just feel generally shite.

Anyone else had this bug and has it lingered with you for this long? I've lost all my appetite and have no motivation to do any exercise - anyone else in the same boat?

shouldbeinbed

getting over a fortnight+ of it, it kept me off the bike for a few days as breathing in it felt like inhaling broken glass, you've got a slow finish to look forward to as well

Warwickshire Whizzer

Aye,

I've got it too, just as I thought I was over it, it came back with a vengance. I'm getting rather annoyed by bit.

Don't want to eat, exercise, or work.

Sh1te.

morstar

I'll join the club.

After a couple of weeks of snuffles I finally got a full blown flu on the 8th which lasted just one day. I kept the snuffles but felt like superman for defeating the virus.
By the following Wednesday I began going downhill rapidly. Have been off work since Friday and up and down like there's no tomorrow. Head is full of cotton wool and I have no voice. I've had a couple of two or three hour periods of feeling a lot better which have immediately been followed by a rapid decline. Feel a bit better right now but half expect to go downhill again.

It is the randomness of the cycle of symptoms that I am struggling to cope with. If I'm going to get flu, I expect to get gradually more ill until a peak and then get steadily better. Not so.

Went to doctors today and was basically told to tough it out and keep taking the pills. Currently I rattle.

How much are you guys drinking? I'm at about 5litres a day of assorted fluids.

newtez2

Yeap had the same! get ill feel better go for bike ride fall ill again, a few days later sam again!
This cycle has been going on for all most 3 weeks!!! my trainning is right out the window, really dont know how much fittnes ive lost, really cant wait to get back out on the bike in the new year!
Start fresh and stronger!! 8)

sfichele

I've had the b4st4rd for over 5 weeks - coughed so much that I cracked a rib last week - not happy

Warwickshire Whizzer

sfichele wrote:

I've had the b4st4rd for over 5 weeks - coughed so much that I cracked a rib last week - not happy

Don't say that, I'm convinced I've done one of my ribs from all the hacking. Probably from the Mrs punching me after waking her up again.

boneyjoe

Same here. Ongoing for about 4 weeks now, but feels much longer! Constant ups and downs, and seems no end in sight. Training schedule is totally shot. Kids have it too, so getting up 3 or 4 times a night to help them as well... :? :? :x :x

andy162

Me too, came on in a few hours. 2nd day in bed. No appetite at all,boiling up, aches, dry cough....classic seasonal fuggin flu.

I don't "do" being ill & I'm plenty p1ssed off.

Pretre

sfichele wrote:

I've had the b4st4rd for over 5 weeks - coughed so much that I cracked a rib last week - not happy

:shock: Oww! Bloke at work popped a rib out of it's socket a few years ago from puking with food poisoning...

crumbschief

A few things that help are - raw garlic and onion,cooked leaf spinach,olive oil,alcohol and spices.

Edit,i feel rougher this morning,i hope it goes away before Christmas

PostieJohn

I've been the same.
It finally broke, 2 weeks later after a seriously sweaty nights sleep, on Monday.

753forme

I've got it - started Monday - had a horrid night last night. My OH took weeks to get over her's - though I'd escaped - seriously cheesed off.

Stewie Griffin

In bed now with a temperature. Headache comes and goes as does the usual pain in my legs. First day of it. Cough not too bad, just makes the headache worse.

pingpong

I caught this bugger about four weeks ago, had a course of antibiotics, seemed to do the trick,so went back to work.
The snow came.
I slipped and broke a bone just above my wrist, have been off work for two weeks now and the bike much longer. And to top the lot I have got this bug back and am on the antibiotics again. Oh and I am waiting to go to the hospital today to see if I need the bones pinned
It really is getting very hard to be positive about everything..........but that's life......Merry Christmas everyone

morstar

OK folks. Update and a word of warning.
I specifically asked the doctor on Tuesday if it was OK to continue popping paracetomol + ibuprofen at the rate I had been. He said fine. I was a little surprised but happy to continue.
Last night, when the vomiting started I realised my body had had enough of the painkillers.
Right now, it appears the flu is beginning to retreat but I have the biggest untreated headache ever and what feels like the mother of all hangovers.
With hindsight for the early part of this week I think I have mis-read a lot of my bodies signals and popped pills when I shouldn't have done. Annoyed with myself.

cavemud

Got this last Friday.

Suffered all weekend.

Went into work on Monday feeling a bit better, but by Monday evening it was back with a vengance.

High temperature etc has passed now but I'm constantly knackered.

I mostly avoided drugs, just a few well placed beechams powders before bed to ensure a restfull nights sleep. The paracetamol in the beechams also helps keep the temperature down.

Also, stirring the beechams powders with the thermometer got a great reaction out of the Mrs.....!!

Gazzaputt

Got over a nasty cold last week and now have this flu thing.

Dosed up to the eyeballs to get through a day at work.

Stewie Griffin

Temperature is down my body still aches but my head is ok at the moment. Trying to avoid pills until I need them.

briantrumpet

Three lurgies and counting. Got over the middle one (one day off work as I couldn't even make down the stairs in the morning), but the after-effects of the third one are taking a while to go - cough, general spluttering ... not good for when I do want to get out for a spin.

And though the middle lurgy had flu-like symptoms, it definitely wasn't proper flu. I had that once, in January 1989 - five days in bed, no appetite whatsoever, and seriously wondered if I was dying ... it felt like death would have been the easier option (that's no exaggeration). Took a good month to get back to decent health. So a hint - there is a difference between 'flu-like symptoms' and flu; I wouldn't wish the latter on anyone.

For anyone unlucky enough to have had proper flu, the "I had flu but managed to get into work" comment rings hollow. Mind you, bad colds can be miserable, but flu is something else.

Stewie Griffin

It's launched a fight back. Am going for the drugs cabinet.

Kieran_Burns

Mmmm.... I'm suffering at the moment. Most of the main symptoms have gone but now I'm left with a fadnig cough and no sense of smell.

No really, I can't smell a damn thing. In the canteen this morning and all I could tell was how warm it was.

Christmas dinner may be boring....

keef66

Well as usual I'm still perfectly healthy in the run up to christmas, and looking forward to a few longer rides between meals during the festive break.

However, if things run true to form I'll pick up a particularly unpleasant virus on boxing day, and that should see me through till early January. At which point I'm back to work and the weather will improve.

Bah, humbug!

Gazzaputt

Desperate to get out on the bike but until this second bout clears up I really can't face it.

753forme

Temperature broke yesterday and just have hacking cough and inability to taste anything. Also chest feels really tight. Have continued hitting the pills but given what some of you have experienced on here I'm going to try and back off now. see you with a raging headache christmas day then!!

StanwaySteve62

had mine for 12 days now, bloody fed up of coughing

upperoilcan

Had the winter vomiting bug/Norovirus 2 weeks ago and i have never felt so ill in all my life,constant vomiting aswell as diarrhea for a solid 12 hrs.then a very poorly stomach and loss of appetite for a further 4 days.....

wayneg1

Hiya was trawling the net for ill people like myself !!

started feelinf rough on fri 18th dec then worse the sat and sunday bad cheat and coughing alot night sweats was absloutely drenched in the morning lack of appetite etc tried to go into work the monday didnt eat all day had to go sick the tuesday wednsday and thursday..i hadnt eaten a sloid thing for 3 days lost a stone in weight

went docs the thurs23rd gave me 3x500mg oh co amoxilicilan per day for a wekk and sent me for aan xray(tb) was crapping myself:-( think the xray is fine not sure if the xray man can tell at the time??!
altho awaitng results

still getting night sweats appetitie up n down appetite but cough seems to have calmed dwon

am hoping th rest of anti biotis do the trick am eating a bit better as welll


hang on in htere!

ta for listening
wayne

shouldbeinbed

What a PITA this thing is. 1st ride in over a week and no oomph in my legs and feels like sucking air in through a gas mask. Awful thing

BigG67

It hit home on Boxing Day how serious flu can be when we got a call at 0800 from my in-laws to tell us that my wife's cousin had died as a result of swine flu. He was 35 and while a bit over weight didn't have any under lying medical conditions.

I think there have been 450+ deaths this winter from various flus already. A pharmacist friend told me tonight that they've been told to hold onto the Tamiflu they were about to return from the local hospital.

Also a GP friend explained that most of the deaths are from heart attacks due to inflammation of the heart as the result of viral attack.

So her guidance is that you shouldn't train if there's any hint of chest infection due to the risk of myocardial infarction and as her son is a national level swimmer she gets the pressure of training for committed atheletes.

Scary stuff.

Stewie Griffin

Been left with a bit of a chesty cough. Will leave it until after new year for my next ride.