UndercoverElephant wrote:If you're not really sure whether you've got flu then you haven't got flu.
Yeah, if you've ever had 'flu you'll certainly recognise it again. 'Flu is more than not wanting to get out of bed - it's not being able to get out of bed.
You can get mild flu. You can even get asymptomatic flu.
One special feature of swine flu is that it often causes vomiting.
UndercoverElephant wrote:If you're not really sure whether you've got flu then you haven't got flu.
Yeah, if you've ever had 'flu you'll certainly recognise it again. 'Flu is more than not wanting to get out of bed - it's not being able to get out of bed.
Yep.
The last time I had REAL flu the bathroom looked like an abbatoir each morning. I was bleeding from the nose steadily, throwing up, huge fever .. and yes, I though that I had a REAL risk of snuffing it.
Very nasty. I'm sure that it would have killed an older person.
UndercoverElephant wrote:If you're not really sure whether you've got flu then you haven't got flu.
Yeah, if you've ever had 'flu you'll certainly recognise it again. 'Flu is more than not wanting to get out of bed - it's not being able to get out of bed.
Yep.
The last time I had REAL flu the bathroom looked like an abbatoir each morning. I was bleeding from the nose steadily, throwing up, huge fever .. and yes, I though that I had a REAL risk of snuffing it.
Very nasty. I'm sure that it would have killed an older person.
One symptom I remember particularly was a throat so sore that I literally couldn't eat for 2 days. I had to force myself to drink and it was agony!
"We're just waiting, looking skyward as the days go down / Someone promised there'd be answers if we stayed around."
I think these last 4 posts sum up neatly the difference between bird flu and man flu (-- runs for cover... --)
My abiding impression of flu, as child and as adult, was of being able to get out of bed but feeling as if my head were sort of drifting 1/2 a pace behind my body. This was not conducive to simple tasks like walking through doorways or trying to fill the kettle. But compared to sinusitis it is bliss.
For anybody who is concerned about the swine flu pandemic, I have decided to take a mitigation action of 1000mg Vitamin C and 1000iu of Vitamin D per day for everybody in my family. This is based on research I have carried out over the last couple of weeks, that indicates these supplements will boost immuno protection.
Please note I am not a Doctor and am not giving any advice. Just supplying this information for anybody who might be interested.
NB. We do not normally go in for Vitamin tablets, but then again the WHO does not normally announce a Flu Pandemic.
snow hope wrote:For anybody who is concerned about the swine flu pandemic, I have decided to take a mitigation action of 1000mg Vitamin C and 1000iu of Vitamin D per day for everybody in my family. This is based on research I have carried out over the last couple of weeks, that indicates these supplements will boost immuno protection.
Sounds like a good plan, except that from the research I've done, apparently the VitC is better at aiding recovery than it is at prevention (the VitD is good for prevention, mind, but you don't get to hear about it because nobody can patent it). So keep plenty of VitC back in case you actually get the flu.
I've just been sending the small people out into the sunshine.
My wife, who is a GP in Bath, and the other doctors in her surgery are no longer swabbing people for swine flu. So many people are now coming in with the symptoms that they are just treated as having swine flu automatically.
It's quite possible many people could have had the virus already without even knowing it. It really is that mild for some people - according to my wife anyway.
That is very interesting Bozzio - thanks for sharing. It seems like it is spreading faster and faster (exponential), so it is good to hear a lot of people are having only a mild illness. Lets hope it stays that way.
I would be very interested to know if some people presenting themselves at the surgery are moderately ill (I would class normal flu as moderate - you can barely get out of bed you feel so poorly). I wonder have they had to send many patients to A&E due to breathing difficulties or anything?
I am interested in finding out the actual range of illness and getting a rough understanding of percentage who are mild, percentage who are moderate and percentage who need to go for examination at A&E. This is simply because I don't feel I can rely on the media/Govt for a true and accurate picture of the pandemic and its progress.
