Posted: 12/21/2016 10:24:52 AM EDT
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Who's gotten it this year? I am just getting better after 2 days in bed. Worst illness I have had since I was a kid, actually collapsed yesterday puking. And the other end was even more active. (Not a poop thread)
The mother-in-law has it now, as does some of my wife's coworkers. Appears that we are in the middle of it this year. |
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I've had "The Flu" twice in my life. First time was about 15 years ago when I first got married. Didn't feel 100% that morning but went to work anyway. From lunch until about 5PM it hit me like a ton a bricks. Joints hurt, chills, sweats, light headed. Had a 1 hour commute home back then and the drive home seemed like a 10 hour drive. Got home, crawled into bed about 7PM and woke up at noon the next day. Was down and out that day too. By the third day I felt like a human again and all was good by the fourth day.
Second time was about 5 years ago on a weekend, started Friday night and I pretty much was in a coma all weekend, only waking up to dry heave or sit on the crapper for the next 48 hours. Felt like a new person Monday morning and my pants fit a lot better! 
For me, the joint pain especially in the hands and fingers, was the sign for me that it wasn't a stomach bug. I still get the occasional 24 hour bug where it seems like I do nothing but dry heave and sit on the toilet, but even those don't keep me down and out for very long like the flu did those two times. With a bug I can still watch TV or surf the web. With the flu it is completely different, nothing else matters other than laying in bed. I love it when people I know get an upset tummy or headache, have the runs or puke and claim they have "the flu" when it's really nothing more than a 24 hour stomach bug or some bad food they ate. Maybe it's a variation of flu, maybe a different strain, but 90% of the time someone I know says they have "the flu" it's probably not. |
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I've had "The Flu" twice in my life. First time was about 15 years ago when I first got married. Didn't feel 100% that morning but went to work anyway. From lunch until about 5PM it hit me like a ton a bricks. Joints hurt, chills, sweats, light headed. Had a 1 hour commute home back then and the drive home seemed like a 10 hour drive. Got home, crawled into bed about 7PM and woke up at noon the next day. Was down and out that day too. By the third day I felt like a human again and all was good by the fourth day. Second time was about 5 years ago on a weekend, started Friday night and I pretty much was in a coma all weekend, only waking up to dry heave or sit on the crapper for the next 48 hours. Felt like a new person Monday morning and my pants fit a lot better!
For me, the joint pain especially in the hands and fingers, was the sign for me that it wasn't a stomach bug. I still get the occasional 24 hour bug where it seems like I do nothing but dry heave and sit on the toilet, but even those don't keep me down and out for very long like the flu did those two times. With a bug I can still watch TV or surf the web. With the flu it is completely different, nothing else matters other than laying in bed. I love it when people I know get an upset tummy or headache, have the runs or puke and claim they have "the flu" when it's really nothing more than a 24 hour stomach bug or some bad food they ate. Maybe it's a variation of flu, maybe a different strain, but 90% of the time someone I know says they have "the flu" it's probably not. I think this is the first time I have ever had the flu. And you're right, nothing else matters other than lying down. And EVERYTHING hurt, even when the A/C unit kicked on and the wind blew on my skin...it hurt. That sounds silly, but it was true. Now I need to stay away from my son for a few more days because I'm still contagious. I hope I don't get him sick. |
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I've dealt with about 20 confirmed cases of flu this month.
It's not uncommon, but it is funny how men act versus women and children. The men who come in always act like drama queens throwing themselves on the exam table and acting like an asshole. Man flu is an epidemic. |
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I've dealt with about 20 confirmed cases of flu this month. It's not uncommon, but it is funny how men act versus women and children. The men who come in always act like drama queens throwing themselves on the exam table and acting like an asshole. Man flu is an epidemic. No shit...when I get sick I'm the biggest bitch in the world. On a side note. In one of those, "OMG I have got to get to the bathroom NOW!" moments last night, I got out of bed, and walked face first into the edge of my bathroom door. Yea, double split lip. Today I had the first food I've been able to eat in 48hrs. It felt so damn good to eat. The really scary thing....I had the first drink of liquids in about 24hrs this morning too. I couldn't even keep water down yesterday. |
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I had it last week. I had over a 101 temp for two days. I spent one night throwing up and dry heaving.  jNot influenza. The flu is an upper respiratory infection that causes sore throat, chills, body aches, runny nose, and coughing. Norovirus is a gastrointestinal illness that causes diarrhea, vomiting, and nausea |
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I had it last week. I had over a 101 temp for two days. I spent one night throwing up and dry heaving. jNot influenza. I think it was the flu. I know nausea and vomiting aren't common symptoms of the flu, but they can occur, especially in children. I also had a sore throat and cough. Still have the cough a week later. |
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The Flu....no not so much!
However Montezuma's Revenge is going on in my house right now! 
Seems I got the worse part of it last Sunday. My body rejecting everything from both ends until there is nothing left but stomach acid....then rinse and repeat for 10-12 hours after that. So fucking dehydrated my feet and calves started cramping like hell. Fuck that sucked! 
Then the day I go back to work(took a day off to recover) my wife gets it, though less than half as long as I have had it. And today my wife had to pick our little one up from school because she was puking! 
Oh happy day! ETA: It started with a cold a week ago for me, the little one had got the cold on last Saturday, but not so sure it was the flu due to the extreme vomiting and ass piss. Likely a coincidence. |
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Went through here last weekend.
Wife got the sniffles and scratchy throat, then I did, and it snowballed into the hacking cough, painful joints and back, chills/sweats, headaches, etc. until Yesterday. Whole weekend and 87 boxes of snot rags wiped out.
I figured it was just a sinus thing at first. This one is slow to set in, and slow to leave. Come to find out, one of the guys in her dept came in with it on potluck Friday, and half the dept came down with the shit. Dumbass "Never took a day off in his life", so now half the dpt. is home sticking to the couch, and the other half will be spreading the shit over the holiday. Perfect timing for a Star wars movie release, millions of people cooped up in aircraft, and digging their booger hooks into the cheese plates at aunt Betty's.
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The flu is an upper respiratory infection that causes sore throat, chills, body aches, runny nose, and coughing. Norovirus is a gastrointestinal illness that causes diarrhea, vomiting, and nausea Yup...turns out I had Noro too  . The sore throat, cough, body aches really threw me for a loop. I didn't know Noro would do that!! Turns out they are secondary effects, but the primary Noro symptom for an adult (diarrhea) never comes with the flu?!
So I guess I have to blame my mother-in-law, because we all came down with it after dinner at her house! Me, My brother-in-law, my sister-in-law, my mother-in-law, and one of my nieces. |
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This past week here.
Cold symptoms evolved into fever. No puking or diarrhea. Lungs felt like a rubber band down low when coughing. Wife prompted me to go to the ER as possible pneumonia. Xray, full organ blood panel, nose swab, and EKG. Diagnosed Flu via swab. First year had no flu shot this year and should be as I come in contact with 3-3500 people a week. Tramiflu and laid low this past week. 2x daily wipe everything with Clorox wipes at home. Wife and kids dodged this one. |
| Most people who say they have/had the flu, do/did not have the flu. Getting sick is not the same as having the flu. The flu will not leave in 1-2 days. You will most likely feel like you want to die for about 5-7 days. I've had it once in my life (I am almost 40) and it sucks. |
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Most people who say they have/had the flu, do/did not have the flu. Getting sick is not the same as having the flu. The flu will not leave in 1-2 days. You will most likely feel like you want to die for about 5-7 days. I've had it once in my life (I am almost 40) and it sucks. The severity of it vastly depends on many things. As far as I know I've never had the flu. Never had a flu shot either. I also worked for 12 years with the public, handling communal pens and money at both jobs (grocery store cashier and credit union teller). Last year our 13-year old went to the school nurse with a headache and she had a low-grade fever. When she wasn't better the next day I took her in and she swabbed positive for Type A. Two more days she was right as rain. I wouldn't have guessed the flu because there were no respiratory symptoms. Only tiredness, fever and headache and she wasn't any worse off than just having allergy stuff going on. 4 other people in the house and we were all fine. I do doubt a heck of a lot of the flu hollering I hear about. I just don't believe the people who say they get it every year----or MULTIPLE times a year. Half of them think a stomach bug is the flu. CDC numbers tell the story----out of tens of thousands of suspected cases only a small percentage is actually the flu. Randomly selecting a surveillance week, by the end of 2015 149,359 tests for flu had been reported----2,159 were positive. 1.5% of suspected flu cases were actually the flu. Many weeks it's even less than that. |
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Nasty stomach bug working its way around my part of FL: diarrhea and vomiting for 1-3 days with a moderate-high fever. I have not been infected (yet), but it is everywhere (including in my house). Nasty stomach bug going around here in OH as well. All my kids had it, consecutively. Puking for days on end. And OP, if you are shitting your brains out and puking, it's gastrointestinal. Not the flu, which is respiratory. I had the swine flu back in '09 and that shit was nasty. Couldn't breathe, racking coughs, whole body hurt. It was the worst sickness I have ever had, but I didn't have stomach issues. My work even gave me a "free" week off of work, paid, just so I wouldn't come back early. |
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Nasty stomach bug going around here in OH as well. All my kids had it, consecutively. Puking for days on end. And OP, if you are shitting your brains out and puking, it's gastrointestinal. Not the flu, which is respiratory. I had the swine flu back in '09 and that shit was nasty. Couldn't breathe, racking coughs, whole body hurt. It was the worst sickness I have ever had, but I didn't have stomach issues. My work even gave me a "free" week off of work, paid, just so I wouldn't come back early. Now, that is ONE time I may have legitimately had the flu and ensuing sequelae. I have to be dying before I go to the doctor so I never got tested. But January of '09 I could NOT get out from under a wheezing/coughing thing. I only felt really bad for a few days but for weeks after I coughed almost non-stop. Displaced ribs a couple of times with it. By the time I got around to seeing a doctor they just chalked it up to bronchitis and I had a few pulmonary function tests spaced apart to see if it was improving. But if I'm remembering correctly it was a couple of months before I was back to normal. |
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and you're all idiots for getting the flu shot Attached File |
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Careful, that's how you get the ass-burgers
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