i had the flu two times this season (different strains obviously).
you might want to see a dr. & get on some antibiotics before that cough/chest thing gets ahead of you.

I'm already on some antibiotics for something else, so hopefully, they will keep it controlled.

Sorry about your double flu...that would probably do me in lol.

If I had a quarter for every chest X-ray that walks in, I'd ....have a lot of quarters. I think one day we push forty chest XRs through on top of everything else.

It lasts a while too, I had it.



Rest...A LOT! Also, guaifenesin helped me.

thanks very much about your advice the other day about the tremors. It has sent me down a road of research that my doctors seem to be ignoring.

which you probably will, keep in mind that you will have a strong immunity to flu into the future.

One of the reasons very few old people got the flu in that dreadful epidemic in 1918-19, was that those over fifty had lived through a similar kind of flu epidemic some fifty years earlier, and so most of them were immune to the new epidemic.

Why I don't bother with a flu shot. I'm 69 years old and have lived through any number of flu epidemics. I'm pretty sure I got the flu in the 1957 epidemic (the Asian flu) which was a type A flu, the worst of the three kinds (imaginatively named A, B, and C). I do know that I did not get flu in 1968, the next major type A flu, also known as the Hong Kong flu. I can tell you that I haven't gotten flu at least since the mid-1960's.

I am NOT telling others they shouldn't get the flu vaccine. Others have a different history, and for many getting the vaccine is a very good idea.

Flu is not fun. If you get it you are very sick for a week or more. But when you recover, you have a very strong immunity to future flu.

Sort of like if you get smallpox and recover. Okay, so you are probably terribly scarred, but you'll never get smallpox again. I'm NOT suggesting we let smallpox run rampant. Although it is useful to know that at the end of the 19th century smallpox had mutated, and a version called variola minor was now out there. Those who got it weren't as sick as those with variola major, the traditional form. Variola minor didn't cause scarring and had a very low death rate. Basically, smallpox was becoming a childhood disease rather like measles, mumps, and chicken pox at exactly the time the smallpox vaccination was becoming universal. A side note. The last smallpox epidemic in this country was in 1948, and from what I've read, there is evidence that a smallpox vaccination even fifty years earlier conveyed a degree of immunity. Interesting.

In any case, this year's flu shot was not the most effective. I hope you get well soon. Wish I could send you chicken soup and chocolate chip cookies.

I appreciate your input and good wishes.

I got sick right b4 New Year's weekend and headed to the doc Jan. 2. Not the 'flu' flu, not
pneumonia. Got industrial strength antibiotic just in case bacterial evolves.

So sick. After acute symptoms passed (2 1/2 weeks), severe fatigue. Minus zero. Honestly, I dint know what to do for myself.

Felt crappy the whole of January.

Just coming around to nearly normal. And that's not tip-top shape either.

Diagnosed in the 80's having Epstein Barre antibodies in me. Doc said it was 'academic'. I had 19 of 22 symptoms for CFIDS. It was not a valid disorder/illness then. Now they rethunk it.

I have to pace myself.

Beneficient thoughts coming your way for a speedy recovery.

May you be 100% very soon, and stay there!

I came down with a nasty bug just before Christmas, saw the doctor on December 21st and I still don't feel all that great most days. I should probably go back.

Get better soon, and get back to the doc if you don't!

I'm actually thinking of going to either the ER or a walk-in today. This is some nasty stuff. Now I'm thinking pneumonia. I hope they have masks available...I don't want to give this to anyone else.

And I agree that you should get this checked out if you're feeling that rotten. I should have gone sooner, but I already had an appointment for a recheck so I just waited for that. At my doctor's office they have masks - and there's a notice at the hospital here as soon as you walk in. My doctor said that there was all kinds of nasty flu bugs going around this year. I hope that you get over yours soon...

As I call it, right after Christmas. Nasty stuff, I missed a week of work and am still not 100%. My PA and her nurse warned me that it took at least 4 weeks to get over it. The nurse had already had it, and she also warned me that they were seeing some people get it a second time. Take care of yourself! You know the drill...rest, plenty of fluids, and the meds. There was a prescription cough syrup they gave me that was the best.

At 3 weeks, went to the doc, saw the NP. Everybody has got this sh*t. She was afraid mine had turned into an upper respiratory infection, and she was probably correct because the Z-pack she prescribed knocked it out in 2 days. Don't let things go on too long, or you'll be looking at bacterial infections or outright pneumonia.