Man Flu or Swine Flu and what to do?

Seaneh

Right, so I'm sick as feck, sore throad, headache, eyes hurt from light, no appitate, can't swallow water (or anything) mild ear ache, very weak (almost fell over walking the 10 yards to the kitchen) and everywhere hurts.

Now I know this is quite probably just man flu and I'll be grand in a day or two, but I live with 4 other people and I'd rather not get them sick so I have holed myself up in my room for now.

Should I contact my GP, or, as I would with any other strain of flu, just wait it out?

p.s. mods, not seeking health or treatment advice just wanna see what the general population of this loony bin After Hours would do in a similar situation.

AnonoBoy

Seaneh wrote: »

Right, so I'm sick as feck, sore throad, headache, eyes hurt from light, no appitate, can't swallow water (or anything) mild ear ache, very weak (almost fell over walking the 10 yards to the kitchen) and everywhere hurts.

Now I know this is quite probably just man flu and I'll be grand in a day or two, but I live with 4 other people and I'd rather not get them sick so I have holed myself up in my room for now.

Should I contact my GP, or, as I would with any other strain of flu, just wait it out?

Find out when Brendan O'Connor lives and go around to his house and kiss him before you do anything else. At least that way even if you have the swine flu something good will come of it.

Other than that stay in bed and if it gets worse call your GP to make a house call.

If you have it with any luck your house will end up being quarantined like the house at the end of ET - that'd be cool.

My name is URL

You should see your GP tbh, better safe than sausages

Wibbs

+1 I would ring him first though just in case you are contagious. Sitting in crowded waiting rooms is not exactly wise of it is the flu of any nature.

Go the the doctor and infect everyone in the surgery.

Next go to Mass and shake hands with everyone, even making a special effort to shake the priests hand.

After Mass, go to the cinema. Find the busiest film (probably Harry Potter) and sit in the middle row. Cough and sneeze at will. Try to avoid washing your hands.

Stop off at the busiest supermarket on the way home (probably Aldi). Try to concentrate your sneezing etc on the vegetables and fruit.

Make sure to take a bus home and sit in the busiest part of it.

All in a days work.

s_carnage

Ring your GP and explain your symptoms to him/her. They are supposed to be able make a reasonable call on what it is over the phone.

Aidric

Cut off a piece of your arm and stick it on the frying pan with some olive oil. If it crisps up and smells like bacon it's best to visit your GP.

beardo81

Sounds like the aids to be honest...... :eek:

CreepingDeath

Seaneh wrote: »

Should I contact my GP, or, as I would with any other strain of flu, just wait it out?

Your 4 housemates are negligent at this point.
They should've bricked up your door & windows and contained the situation. A containment period of 90 days seems appropriate.

Seaneh

Right, Phoned my Gp and she was a little freaked (she's quite young and has a small practice) but I managed to get her to agree to wait another day and see how I am then.

Trying to drink water is a bitch!

Local-womanizer

Seaneh wrote: »

Right, Phoned my Gp and she was a little freaked (she's quite young and has a small practice) but I managed to get her to agree to wait another day and see how I am then.

Trying to drink water is a bitch!

Start digging your grave,your on your way out!

MagicMarker

Watch Deliverance, it has all the answers you require.

Wazdakka

Seaneh wrote: »

Right, Phoned my Gp and she was a little freaked (she's quite young and has a small practice) but I managed to get her to agree to wait another day and see how I am then.

Trying to drink water is a bitch!

Had a mate who had similar symptoms..
He thought it was just a bad hangover with a bit of a flu.

He decided to try and sleep it off,
Turns out it was melangitis and he was ambulance'd to the hospital that night barely alive.

He spent a week in a coma (was pretty touch and go for a while), and another month in hospital.
Took him about 6 months to recover more or less fully..

I vote Gp.

MagicMarker

Ann22 wrote: »

Have you any medication in the house? You really need something like Benylin 4flu. You need to keep your temperature down. Viruses thrive when your temp is up. It really sounds like flu, not just a cold. I was in florida recently, it said on the news that 80% of flu cases at the moment are swine flu. Could well be the same here:eek:.

I'd say it's more like 100%, seeing as they're both pretty much the same thing anyway.

Seaneh

Wazdakka wrote: »

Had a mate who had similar symptoms..
He thought it was just a bad hangover with a bit of a flu.

He decided to try and sleep it off,
Turns out it was melangitis and he was ambulance'd to the hospital that night barely alive.

He spent a week in a coma (was pretty touch and go for a while), and another month in hospital.
Took him about 6 months to recover more or less fully..

I vote Gp.

I've been ill for 3 days though, its not a sudden thing.

AnonoBoy

Seaneh wrote: »

I've been ill for 3 days though, its not a sudden thing.

Saw a thing on Sky News about a girl who was sick for about 5 days, was prescribed Swine Flu meds over the phone and it turned out to be meningitis.

Not trying to alarm you but if you aren't feeling a bit better tomorrow definitely see your GP.

Seaneh

Sound... FREAKED now, haha.

smileysurfer

Would you not just ring the doctor again if your still sick??
its only a phone call, ring a different doctor to get a second oppinion!

Ann22

Seaneh if you can barely swallow water, you're in a bad state. If I was you, I'd ring the gp again. Have her write you a suitable prescription and get someone to pick it up for you. Don't leave it another day. What about the wee one in England who the doc thought had tonsillitis...she died within a few hrs. I don't want to alarm you, that was a rare thing to happen but it's a nasty bug and you need to have it treated.

Bandit12

I phoned my GP this morning about doing my annual medical for the job and the girl on reception said he can't see me at all this week. She said they have been run off their feet with swine flu enquires,most turning out to be anything but.

994

Sounds like meningitis.

Take a few neurofen cold and flu and hit the leaba..The reason the swine flu numbers are through the roof in the uk is they changed the diagnosis procedure..all you've to do now is ring your gp and say you've got the sniffles, and he says you've the swine flu..im waiting for the bird/swine hybrid megaflu...sky news are gonna sh1t themselves..ive called it the flying pig flu..

CreepingDeath

Seaneh wrote: »

Right, Phoned my Gp and she was a little freaked (she's quite young and has a small practice) but I managed to get her to agree to wait another day and see how I am then.

Trying to drink water is a bitch!

You were trying to drink water while talking to your GP ?
Are you practising for a ventriliquist act ?

sock puppet

I've had pretty similar symptoms the last week. My weight dropped by 10 kilos in four days. But I went to the doctor and she said she didn't think I had swine flu. You should go to your doctor and see what they say.

Wibbs

Ann22 wrote: »

Have you any medication in the house? You really need something like Benylin 4flu. You need to keep your temperature down. Viruses thrive when your temp is up.

Not really. Many viruses are temp sensitive, it's one reason your body raises the temperature to kill or weaken them. Then again fevers can kill you, so keeping it under medical attention is the best bet for the OP.

Tar.Aldarion

OP hasn't posted in 2 hours on the thread, probably dead, taking the parish with him like a hero.

Seaneh

Not... gone... Yet...

/me sighs deeply and keels over.

jumpguy

I've noticed alot of people around getting odd little flu-like symptoms randomly this summer or odd cold-like symptoms (myself included in the latter). Maybe I'm just being paranoid but I don't remember so much people having such problems as much last summer. TBH, swine flu nothing to worry about.

Jumpy

Seaneh wrote: »

Not... gone... Yet...

/me sighs deeply and keels over.

*thump* BRING OUT YER DEAAAD!

Seaneh

jumpguy wrote: »

I've noticed alot of people around getting odd little flu-like symptoms randomly this summer or odd cold-like symptoms (myself included in the latter). Maybe I'm just being paranoid but I don't remember so much people having such problems as much last summer. TBH, swine flu nothing to worry about.

The worst case I ever had was 2 summers ago in the middle of July.

My doctor at the time told me that way more "healthy" people (those not in the high risk catagory) get flu during th summer than you would realise, apparentlly the new strains appear in asia around march/april and hit europe by the middle of may, its just that they don't spread very quickly untill it gets colder and peoples defences are down a bit.

rainbow kirby

jumpguy wrote: »

I've noticed alot of people around getting odd little flu-like symptoms randomly this summer or odd cold-like symptoms (myself included in the latter).

Myself also included... *sigh*

jumpguy

Seaneh wrote: »

The worst case I ever had was 2 summers ago in the middle of July.

My doctor at the time told me that way more "healthy" people (those not in the high risk catagory) get flu during th summer than you would realise, apparentlly the new strains appear in asia around march/april and hit europe by the middle of may, its just that they don't spread very quickly untill it gets colder and peoples defences are down a bit.

Yeah. Also read an article on the BBC a while ago, apparently swine flu will only show minor symptoms in one out of three people. That could be much higher (like 60%) as those with minor symptoms are unlikely to report it...or even notice it.

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Myself also included... *sigh*

Yeah, I just have abit of a runny nose and the odd headache, that's it.

Ann22

Wibbs wrote: »

Not really. Many viruses are temp sensitive, it's one reason your body raises the temperature to kill or weaken them. Then again fevers can kill you, so keeping it under medical attention is the best bet for the OP.

Oh right, that makes sense. I remember once having a chest infection, my doc said to take paracetamol to keep my temp down and give the antibiotics a chance to work. I assumed viruses would be similar, that they'd slow down if you cooled down.
My mother heard two people in Tesco talking today about a rumour that the schools wouldn't be opening in September 'til after this swine flu outbreak. Wonder was it a load of old baloney?
How are you today Seaneh?

dr.bollocko

Is he dead yet?

tinkerbell

Defo keep yourself in quarrantine!!

Hope you feel better soon.

Local-womanizer

Ann22 wrote: »

Oh right, that makes sense. I remember once having a chest infection, my doc said to take paracetamol to keep my temp down and give the antibiotics a chance to work. I assumed viruses would be similar, that they'd slow down if you cooled down.
My mother heard two people in Tesco talking today about a rumour that the schools wouldn't be opening in September 'til after this swine flu outbreak. Wonder was it a load of old baloney?
How are you today Seaneh?

My wee cousins are looking like they will be off till october because of it.

and for Gods sake tell a friend about this thread so if you die they can come on and give us closure.

renraw

Seaneh wrote: »

Right, so I'm sick as feck, sore throad, headache, eyes hurt from light, no appetite, very weak (almost fell over walking the 10 yards to the kitchen) and everywhere hurts.

I feel exactly the same and it started when I had to call into the chemist yesterday for an ankle support Don't want to start freking out yet but the news doesn't help and Im sweating like a pig in a slaughter house

Seaneh

@renraw.
Point #1: Pigs don't sweat :P

Point #2: I don't have flu, I'm having a re-accurence of a massive bacterial infection of the gland behind my ear, I know trhis because my ear was seeping this morning (my pillow was coverer in gunky crap), phoned my audiologist and have an appointment next week, will have a prescription in the post tomorrow.

More worried now as the last time this affected me my specialist said that if it comes back they will have to operate on the ear, which involves peeling the skin from around the ear and pinning it to my face while they chip away bone and cartlidge with a chisel and clean up the infection.


Not a happy bunny.

renraw

Seaneh wrote: »

@renraw.
Point #1: Pigs don't sweat :P

Point #2: I don't have flu, I'm having a re-accurence of a massive bacterial infection of the gland behind my ear, I know trhis because my ear was seeping this morning (my pillow was coverer in gunky crap), phoned my audiologist and have an appointment next week, will have a prescription in the post tomorrow.

More worried now as the last time this affected me my specialist said that if it comes back they will have to operate on the ear, which involves peeling the skin from around the ear and pinning it to my face while they chip away bone and cartlidge with a chisel and clean up the infection.


Not a happy bunny.

Ya beat me hands down (wasn't being smart)

Seaneh

renraw wrote: »

Ya beat me hands down (wasn't being smart)

I wish it was fecking swine flu!