worst flu you've ever had?

Robsweezie

in the midst of a bad flu myself the past week,mad cough has me barking like a dog, sore throat, bunged up and just feeling crap, getting better day by day but my throat felt like a chainsaw at one point, it hurt like **** to swallow, pain has gone away mostly thank god.

so whats the worst strain of flu you've had inflicted upon you? how long did it go on for? do you get flu often? seems to be a seasonal(spring) thing for me...

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08/11/97

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Beasty

Never had it (like the vast majority of the population). You must be incredibly unlucky to be getting it regularly. ...

Lollipops23

Robsweezie wrote: »

in the midst of a bad flu myself the past week,mad cough has me barking like a dog, sore throat, bunged up and just feeling crap, getting better day by day but my throat felt like a chainsaw at one point, it hurt like **** to swallow, pain has gone away mostly thank god.

so whats the worst strain of flu you've had inflicted upon you? how long did it go on for? do you get flu often? seems to be a seasonal(spring) thing for me...

If you're able to type in the "midst" of it, it's not the flu. It's a rotten and nasty headcold (not to be underestimated).

I really wish people would stop calling a common cold the "flu".

Zombienosh

I remember once having it and collapsing in the doctors waiting room and then coming around hooked up to breathing machine arguing with the doctor not to call an ambulance i was fine.

Pumpkinseeds

I can't remember much about it, but when I was about 19 my temperature got so high during a bout of flu that my parents had to stay in my room all night to stop me screaming and trying to run away from the elephants I could see coming out of the ceiling.:eek:

Woshy

OP - if you really had the flu you wouldn't be on boards. What you have is a cold

Menas

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

I can't remember much about it, but when I was about 19 my temperature got so high during a bout of flu that my parents had to stay in my room all night to stop me screaming and trying to run away from the elephants I could see coming out of the ceiling.:eek:

Was that the flu or an acid flashback?

supersean1999

He said he has it a week, people do recover enough in 7 days to pick up a laptop and type for 3 mins, he might of been a lot worse 4-5 days ago, so keyboard doctors give it a break,

AnonoBoy

My dog died of the flu.

- dogs don't get flu.

Mine did. He flu under a bus.

Cravez

I was about 7 years old or so. Extremely high temp, shakes, barrages of hot fever and coldness, insane pressure on my sinuses, migraine and could barely move from all the muscle ache.

I was on and off sleeping in the bed and I remember waking up to the room hallucinating, especially looking at the door and seeing it distort and move closer. I got so scared I tried to "escape" it by trying to get out of bed but fell due to not being able to move my legs from all the muscle ache/stiffness. I had a ton of nightmares as well during my period of flu, some of which I still remember to this day as they were freaky as fuck.

But a bit of flat 7up be grand!

cloud493

Man, I had it real bad in October 2009. I came in, and crashed on my bed for two weeks, couldn't stand up with getting dizzy and throwing up, I was nearly wishing I was dead, couldn't read a book or look at a tv screen or computer cos it made me sicker, I just lay there trying to sleep or sip water without being sick again, hurting all over, could hardly breathe through my nose, all sorts.

johnayo

Bad dose of man flu. Worst ever.

NachoBusiness

Beasty wrote: »

Never had it (like the vast majority of the population).

The vast majority of people never had the flu? How did you come up with that one?

Sure isn't it something like between 10 and 20% of people get the flu each year.

Surely it's the opposite so and the vast majority of people will at some point have contracted the flu.

Pumpkinseeds

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Was that the flu or an acid flashback?

Definitely flu.:D

Alexis Sanchez2

Robsweezie wrote: »

in the midst of a bad flu myself the past week,mad cough has me barking like a dog, sore throat, bunged up and just feeling crap, getting better day by day but my throat felt like a chainsaw at one point, it hurt like **** to swallow, pain has gone away mostly thank god.

so whats the worst strain of flu you've had inflicted upon you? how long did it go on for? do you get flu often? seems to be a seasonal(spring) thing for me...

Are you sure it's the flu? On average adults only get the flu once every five years.

Teyla Emmagan

About 5 years ago. Six days in bed, sweating and hallucinating. Pains everywhere. On about day 3 I was so weak I couldn't even walk downstairs to refill hot water bottle. That day was spent sweating, hallucinating and crying. I would have sold my soul to the devil to be well again.

Greenmachine

Never had the flu, but I have had a horrible case of strep when I was about 19. Barely ate for 10 day and lost about 8lb. I was already a skinny bastard.

diomed

I'm 64 and have had flu twice. The last time was in the mid-1990s. I was in work. In half an hour I went from normal to feeling terrible. Five days later I was fine again. There was loads of sweating while feeling cold.

CPSW

Robsweezie wrote: »

in the midst of a bad flu myself the past week,mad cough has me barking like a dog, sore throat, bunged up and just feeling crap, getting better day by day but my throat felt like a chainsaw at one point, it hurt like **** to swallow, pain has gone away mostly thank god.

so whats the worst strain of flu you've had inflicted upon you? how long did it go on for? do you get flu often? seems to be a seasonal(spring) thing for me...

Perfect cure for you - spoonful of cement, so you can harden the f*ck up!

Lollipops23

diomed wrote: »

There was loads of sweating while feeling cold.

I got that with a bad kidney infection last year- I'd never sweated a fever out before! It was quite scary, as I was shivering so violently my headboard was vibrating off the wall. Literally drenched in sweat and unable speak for my teeth chattering so hard. Really quite unnerving.

chopperbyrne

Gastric flu a few years ago.

Felt like I was going to collapse walking about ten feet from my bed to the bathroom.

Rasmus

About 5 years ago I became ill extremely fast during the swine flu craze. I don't really know what I had as I didn't develop fever until after I was discharged from hospital (I'd gone in with chest pains) and then I was too sick to leave my house for a week. I keep taking medicine to take down my temp (104) while lying in bed and I didn't even know where anyone was. It took a week before I could even leave to get a lift to the doctor (couldn't drive!) and another 2 weeks before I could walk to the shop. You don't have the flu!

chakotha

Similar to Pumpkinseeds, I had a really bad one when I was small and I was delirious having waking nightmares and screaming and everything in the night and my parents were trying to calm me down.

The Backwards Man

I had the flu once. It was hell. When someone mentions casually in conversation that they currently have a 'wile dose of the flu' I lose the plot and shout

NO YOU BLOODY WELL DON'T!!

at them.

Ghost Buster

Once ever all through Christmas 2012. Im usually healthy as a horse and generally shake off a cold in a day or so. This had me crying and begging my wife to either kill me or hospitalise me by the end of week two. She did neither. Easily the most ill I have ever been. Not so much as a sniffle since though. Obviously did my immune system wonders.

galljga1

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

About 5 years ago. Six days in bed, sweating and hallucinating. Pains everywhere. On about day 3 I was so weak I couldn't even walk downstairs to refill hot water bottle. That day was spent sweating, hallucinating and crying. I would have sold my soul to the devil to be well again.

You never called.

professore

I've had it twice. As other posters say, you are literally laid flat for at least a week, and feel at times like you are going to die.

One of the times it was coming up to Christmas, and deadlines looming to pay for the kids Christmas presents (Being self employed, no work = no money), I literally couldn't lift my arm 5 inches from the mattress for a week - wet with sweat all the time, had to ask my wife to call my clients and ask for postponements. And no, I don't work on building sites, I work with computers !!! Ironically one of my main clients got it the same week ... so that saved me to some extent.

That's how bad the flu is.

brummytom

I had it a couple of years ago, around Christmas time. Hope to God I never get it again, I couldn't move for days, but felt **** for weeks after.

Any time I hear anyone say they've got "a touch of flu," I feel like slapping them.

coastwatch

OP,

Sounds like you have man-flu, it's the worst kind there is. Try not to move, stay on the couch and have somebody bring you tea and cake. If it's still there at the weekend, you can have tea, cake and beer. It can really help if you can get someone ask you frequently "..are you feeling any better, you poor thing ?".

Some guys have all the luck.

cloud493

I rarely get sick, so being sick like that was a right shock to the system.

charlietheminxx

I had proper flu once, just over 2 years ago. Like someone else said, it came on suddenly, the weird muscle pains and shivering is what I remember most. I was in work when it hit me, my mam had to meet me on the way home (I was 25 at the time) and get the bus with me, I was actually crying by that point.

I hadn't been sick very often in my life before that, but when I started to get better I developed a throat infection straight away. For that whole spring my hair was breaking off and a skin condition I have flared up worse than ever. It was a month before I socialised again, literally knocked me for 6 and seems to have left me permanently a little less resilient than I was before

TPD

Never had it thankfully.

supersean1999

The Difference between a flu and a cold , if there was e50 at the end of your driveway you would walk down if you had a cold, if you had a flu you would not give two ****s if the winning lotto ticket was there,

Ave Sodalis

Never had the flu but had glandular fever before, about 3 years ago. It was pretty nasty too. It only lasted a few days though so I was lucky. My housemate was hospitalised with it.

Larbre34

I dont think the OP has an influenza, just a very bad virus. Influenza leaves you so physically drained and disoriented to the point of unconciousness, that you will neither complain about nor remember the sore throats and cough.

WoollyRedHat

Do you hallucinate when you have the flu? I was still able to watch Freaks and Geeks when I was ill, maybe it wasn't the flu then. It was sixth year, think it's the sickest I've been. Good times.

4068ac1elhodqr

You should get the 'proper flu' (statistically) every 5yrs or so.
Typically 72hrs in straight bed and a full week out of normal action.

The more flu's you have under the belt perhaps the better it is for you immune system, in case the big one (Spanish type) ever re-arrives.
If you take antibiotics every time you have a cough, the folks in white coats reckon your body won't be able to put up much of a fight at all.

66ad

supersean1999 wrote: »

He said he has it a week, people do recover enough in 7 days to pick up a laptop and type for 3 mins, he might of been a lot worse 4-5 days ago, so keyboard doctors give it a break,

The cold can last up to 10 days, the flu for three weeks. Had it this Christmas and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

66ad

Xavier Repulsive Shortchange wrote: »

You should get the 'proper flu' (statistically) every 5yrs or so.
Typically 72hrs in straight bed and a full week out of normal action.

The more flu's you have under the belt perhaps the better it is for you immune system, in case the big one (Spanish type) ever re-arrives.
If you take antibiotics every time you have a cough, the folks in white coats reckon your body won't be able to put up much of a fight at all.

Ha ha not a chance...

Robsweezie

Larbre34 wrote: »

I dont think the OP has an influenza, just a very bad virus. Influenza leaves you so physically drained and disoriented to the point of unconciousness, that you will neither complain about nor remember the sore throats and cough.

I didn't realise there was a distinction between the two before starting the thread, I always believed colds and flu were one and the same, though I had a time where I was so ill I lost appetite and stopped eating along with the complications of a cold, in turn becoming more weak and drained, if that counts as flu.

ceadaoin.

I had the flu when I was 8 or so. I can still remember the hallucinations and hearing voices screaming it me. Having a bad cold isn't comparable at all.

Is it really supposed to be every 5 years for the average adult? I don't know anyone who has had it that frequently, if even at all.

Tony EH

I've had the flu twice. Once when I was a youngster and I can't remember much of it, except waking up out of a fever to see my mum and a nun sitting by my bed. Weird.

That last time was a few years ago, when the wife and I got it. I caught it off of her the evening she came down with it and we were both buggered for a week and half.

I retreated to the spare room and she stayed in our bedroom. I can't imagine how we would have done the week and half in the same bed. We'd have killed each other.

My sis was a godsend, bless her. She came over with supplies. Food and stuff. No medicine gets rid of it. That's all bollocks. We'd could barely walk to the door to let her in. Every time I got out of the bed the entire room spun and I'm not kidding either. The level of nausea was incredible.

Anyway, we stayed in our beds, watched rubbish on the laptops, slept a huge number of hours and sweated like there was no tomorrow.

I never want to get it again.

Grays Sports Almanac

Lollipops23 wrote: »

If you're able to type in the "midst" of it, it's not the flu. It's a rotten and nasty headcold (not to be underestimated).

I really wish people would stop calling a common cold the "flu".

Yep.

The last time I actually had the flu was 11 years ago and I couldn't do anything. I could barely sit up for God's sake and it took a monumental effort to do so.

Great to have the week off work though!

seventeen sheep

I had the flu earlier this year, along with a dose of strep throat. Not fun. The doctor told me, "Well I'm pretty sure you have the flu, I'm going to swab your throat to be certain, but it's purely for academic purposes. By the time we get the results back, you'll be over the worst of it." I wouldn't even mind but I get the vaccine every year - but apparently it was ineffective this year. I actually told the doctor I was at death's door. I was. I just couldn't ... anything. Gravity was multiplied by a million. It was absolute hell.

Gatling

Swine Flu 2 years back left me in critical condition and 14 days in an isolation room .
Still suffer from issues with my  repository system

Swine flu + pneumonia = scary ****

Calibos

ceadaoin. wrote: »

I had the flu when I was 8 or so. I can still remember the hallucinations and hearing voices screaming it me. Having a bad cold isn't comparable at all.

Is it really supposed to be every 5 years for the average adult? I don't know anyone who has had it that frequently, if even at all.

Ditto. Don't know anyone personally who was diagnosed with it in 10 or 15 years. I've worked the tills in a retail environment for 20 years. The only workers with more exposure to every dose going are those in the medical fields. Haven't had the flu since I was a teen.

The reason the general public don't give it the respect it deserves and can't understand why the medical authorities make such a big deal about is because they think they've had it but never actually have. That it's common and not serious, when in fact the flu is not common and very serious. They've had a bad cold or sore throat.

In the last flu thread I noted that I hadn't even had a cold or throat in at least 3 years and that my work in retail must have meant I'd caught all 200 varieties at this stage and was now immune to all variants. However, a correlation occurred to me. 3 years ago I switched to e-cigs. The propylene glycol in ecigs as a known antiviral and antibacterial agent. It's used in hospital ventilation systems. The PG in my lungs and throat could well be protecting me from colds and throats these last few years.

Reiketsu

The last time I had the flu was two years ago. I was at work, it was a Monday. I started feeling crap about 3pm and had to leave at 4pm. I had the whole aches and pains, nausea, fever etc until the Saturday. It was frigging awful, never been so sick. The bathroom is like 10 steps from my bedroom and it completely drained any energy I'd gathered from sleeping at night to go in the morning. On top of that I ended up with strep throat and a chest infection which lingered for about 3 weeks. I took a week off work but really should have taken two. It took about a month to feel normal again. Before that it had been about 10 years since I had it but it wasn't quite as bad.

Trebor176

I had a terrible flu over the Christmas period a few years back. I actually spent most of Christmas Day in bed, but only got up the odd time to chance some food and at least try and spend some time with the family. It wasn't to be, and it was back to bed with me. It was the first time in my life that I was confined to bed due to illness.

That flu lasted well over a week, and even when I felt a lot better, certain things didn't taste the same for a good while after. It is certainly one Christmas that I'll remember. Thankfully, I haven't experienced flu in all that time. The stuffed nose I have now will do me.

tempnam

Every 5 years???? I'm 30 & have had the flu once. At least I think it was the flu. I was only a kid at the time.

All I really remember was having to spend a few days in bed... with as little light & noise in the room as possible.

Felt like my head was going to explode when the room was bright. Someone speaking to me felt like they were screaming in my ear. I was too weak to get out of bed for days. Never experienced anything like it since...

I cant stand when someone says they have 'a touch of that flu thats going around' etc.... eh, you have a cold!

ash23

December 2010. Swine flu and thought I would die. Was just getting over it when I came down with the seasonal flu which was a different strain of thought I would die.

Laid up for nearly a month in total. I get the flu vaccine now and thankfully haven't had it since.