Medical Advice Needed: Weird Flu

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Medical Advice Needed: Weird Flu

Posted: 10/22/2004 6:10:54 PM EDT

I have caught some bizarre flu this week. No stomach symptoms or head-ache but a low grade fever (probably never over 100.5), chills, and terrible muscle pain in all my major muscle groups. Today it's hard to walk up or down stairs or pick anything up. Has anyone else gotten this kind of flu? I am treating it with Tylenol, Motrin and Vit. C.

GunLvr

Posted: 10/22/2004 6:11:38 PM EDT

[#1]

I'm gonna take a stab in the dark here.

Go to a doctor?

Posted: 10/22/2004 6:21:05 PM EDT

[#2]

It may be a viral syndrome, but maybe not. If your muscle pain is severe, you should have (among other things) a blood test and urine test done to make sure you don't have something called rhabdomyolysis. It's a condition where your muscles begin to break down and can lead to kidney failure.

Posted: 10/22/2004 6:26:35 PM EDT

[#3]

Thanks astro.

If I had felt this lousy yesterday I would have tried for a doctor appointment today. With the weekend I'll be lucky to see the doc on Monday. My doc usually has a 1-3 day wait (if I'm really sick I can hit the ER and do a 10 hour wait behind all the illegals).

GunLvr

Posted: 10/22/2004 6:28:20 PM EDT

[#4]

Sounds like a tumor to me

Posted: 10/22/2004 6:30:03 PM EDT

[#5]

Monkey pox

Sgtar15

Posted: 10/22/2004 6:30:04 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
It may be a viral syndrome, but maybe not. If your muscle pain is severe, you should have (among other things) a blood test and urine test done to make sure you don't have something called rhabdomyolysis. It's a condition where your muscles begin to break down and can lead to kidney failure.

Posted: 10/22/2004 6:30:28 PM EDT

[#7]

Captain Trips?

Posted: 10/22/2004 6:32:44 PM EDT

[#8]

Same thing here except not so much aches and a lot of stuffy nose. Basically same regimen as you are taking except asprin instead of Motrin. I wonder if lots of alchohol is indicated.

CW

Posted: 10/22/2004 6:49:05 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Same thing here except not so much aches and a lot of stuffy nose. Basically same regimen as you are taking except asprin instead of Motrin. I wonder if lots of alchohol is indicated.

CW

I hear alcohol killed white blood cells so I am avoiding it for now but a cup of hot brandy would be really good. Also alcohol can be a bad mix with large doses of Tylenol?

GunLvr

Posted: 10/22/2004 6:59:53 PM EDT

[#10]

I always thought echinacea was quackery until I had a really bad one, and my father forced me to take it (along with something else that claims to be "protease" but which is probably some sort of papaya enzyme). The stuff actually worked to drive down the symptoms for a few hours after every time I took them. I don't know how echinacea would do by itself, though.

Give 'em a try. The "protease" stuff is from "RGarden Inernationale" of Kettle Falls.

BTW, yes, I've had that sort of bug. No idea what else to try other than waiting it out, as long as it really is just a flu.

Posted: 10/22/2004 7:36:52 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
It may be a viral syndrome, but maybe not. If your muscle pain is severe, you should have (among other things) a blood test and urine test done to make sure you don't have something called rhabdomyolysis. It's a condition where your muscles begin to break down and can lead to kidney failure.

Looks like someone stayed in a Holiday Inn last night

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