The Flu.

have it a week today.started off freezing on my left hand and right foot.morning after absolutely floored.45 yrs old feeling like in my 80’s.the soreness for a few days unreal and especially when coughing trying to get up stuff in chest.

Getting better last day or so.

Yeah the word "flu" seems to be seen as a generic term for bad respiratory infection. The 'flu - actual influenza - is crazy though, you can barely walk with it. There are some utterly miserable colds, which no doubt could develop into severe infections if neglected, but the 'flu is different. Another dimension.

I have a head cold since Christmas Eve but it's thankfully mild.

Felt half human today, able to move to the couch for most of the day. Still no appetite mind you. Had a bath there, felt dizzy, temperature back up to 38.4.

Taking the p*ss at this stage.

Hospitalised for 3 days with Influenza A a fortnight ago. Needed a wheelchair to move me a small distance for a chest xray. Would be a fit person. This hospitalisation was preceeded by 4 antibiotics and 3 steroids doses, since 1st November.

Hospital cleared everything up. However, I've a sore throat and fatigue back again and wondering if it's another flu strain.

That's all great and tough until you need to call an ambulance at 5am and you're struggling to get air in.

I'm from a background where I've worked hard physically in all weather since a young child. I'll carry ten timber stakes a km where machinery can't travel. I'll pick ragwort all day without a break. I'll cover 2 silage pits in 4 hours with lorry and back wheel tractor tyres. I'll outlast and out work you at anything you care to do when well. And you'll be shoving your snowflake where the sun doesn't shine when I'm finished with ya.

There is more than one strain not covered but you are covered against the worse strains.

Wow better check on my stock and give my nose a spray with Vicks First Defence nasal spray when first sign of sore throat but will be shopping tomorrow so taking no chances.

BronchoStop pastilles or cough as its herbal and swear by it.

M8 said to try Bronchoforce by A Vogel and use a few drops on tongue. Another herbal remedy with thyme.

Still remember to use hand sanitizer as my immune system is shot.

Stay safe folks

I'm wondering if Covid hasn't weakened us all, making us more susceptive to other viruses that are floating around.

I’ve never used Vicks but for people with snutter’’ noses baking soda and water syringed into your eustasian tube will clear your sinuses . No need of a needle just a plunger

My husband is like you but he got pneumonia over a year ago and it floored him. It will take you more time than you think to get over this but you will.

During COVID, I did hope that going forward people would be a bit more considerate about spreading their germs around when they're sick. But in reality, most people just went back to the way they behaved previously. At Christmas it's turbocharged, as people feel entitled that their Christmas plans won't be hampered in any way, no matter how sick they are.

It goes to show why we needed restrictions in the first place. You have to make people do the right thing, unfortunately.

Not the flu, but had a **** cold and cough over Christmas, after not being sick all year. Pain in the hole of the thing.

Yes, it didn't take long for people to go back to going to work sick, attending packed meetings in small rooms and coughing in people's faces. That's why I thought after covid that air hygiene regulations should have been brought in which could have made a bug difference.

What regulations would you like to introduce for endemic viruses and alike ? Nothing will be done because of money. People talk a big game. You book a holiday 3 days before test positive for covid No one will say err sure other peoples health im canceling it. I would wager even something as going to the cinema pre booked your not going to take the hit.

Have you a costing for energy use to cover this and who takes the hit on it ? And it's a moot point to be fair they only way you wont catch a virus is not being alive. You cannot change the atmosphere of an office you could potentionaly mitigate. But what are you going to do setup cleaning sations for all deliverys quarentiene areas for storage so no pathogens enter the list goes on. It's not feasible. All it takes is a delivery guy to sneeze on something before they enter premises.

Just to add paper money can transport the flu for about 17 days. Just think about that.

That sounds really rough. Just curious - had you damaged lungs from a previous respiratory illness?

I had the flu. Started feeling it 23rd and christmas eve was the worst. Christmas day and 26th a write off. Im 90% now.

It was an awful dose. First proper flu ive had in about 5 years.

Would new regulations regarding air hygiene make a difference though? We shut the whole country down for the guts of 2 years and Covid is still here. It's just as prevelant according to some medical experts.

No. I have asthma and would get a bad attack roughly every 4 years. When well I'd be strong and fit, but go down quickly with a dose.

Just a very bad run this year.

You would assume that our HSE would put out a national alert especially with 800 people in hospital and advise people that they should consider wearing a mask for their own protection

Snowflake.. firstly it's an American BS imported word.

Every poster on here is a descendant of survivors. Just to go back 1,000 years in Irish, English, Welsh and Scottish history, your ancestors survived unimaginable poverty and hardship, all types of illness, wars and famine. The reason you are here is due to the toughness of your ancestry in brutal times.

If you say you had the flu but could walk 13,500 steps a day during it and it was cured with a few hot whiskeys, you got a very light brush of the flu.

We are all different, our immune systems are of differing strengths. Some of us have illnesses we were born with, or developed, that complicate things. This is no reflection on us, or our 'toughness'. You can't make a casual assumption that people are weak or snowflakes. Because you haven't got a fecking clue what it's like to live their life, or what's going on in their life.

Often people who are never sick, and blessed to be so, are the ones that moan the most when they eventually get sick, not used to having to to keep going while unwell. And you will get sick some day, that's a given, so count your blessings instead of thinking you are superior to others you know nothing about.

Thanks Cleudo!

Wishing everyone on here a full recovery. Hopefully we all have a great 2025 ahead of us.