Loungers suffering from the flu: check in here.

MilesColtrane

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:30 PM
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Loungers suffering from the flu: check in here.

Sinuses feel like they're full of Olive Garden al fredo...can't concentrate and not making sense when I speak like Chuggo... feels like a large pit bull has it's teeth around my brainstem...feel hot and flushed like an embarrassed prude watching a mother breastfeed a baby...

Please kill me.

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Shell Beau

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:30 PM
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1. No flu but a terrible cold. The flu sucks!

:hug:

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MilesColtrane

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:33 PM
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3. Thanks for the hug.

Having somewhat of a mini-epidemic here in Dallas.
They shut down the Catholic school up the street yesterday because so many kids were getting sick.

I'm gonna go back and lie down.

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Jamastiene

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:31 PM
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2. Can you let PMS count for this one thread?

Please. I'm hurting like a sombitch (head, stomach, back, and ass, yes, I said my ass hurts too) and cannot seem to shake the feeling that I'll kill something today unless I get a DU style intervention. That's gotta count for something, right? :shrug:

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MilesColtrane

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:35 PM
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4. I'm going to say no to someone who has a feeling that they're going to take somebody apart?

Oh no.

Welcome to the sick ward.

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Jamastiene

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:39 PM
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6. Thank you.

:hug:

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siligut

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:40 PM
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7. Take some B6!

B6 can save your PMSing sanity.

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siligut

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:37 PM
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5. Monsieur Café got me sinus rinsing and it helped so much when I caught a cold.

Edited on Fri Feb-06-09 12:38 PM by siligut

Couldn’t stand the snot! So the next day, when I was feeling stronger, I did the rinse and voila! Also, roasted garlic in everything, I was better in no time.

Stay warm, drink plenty of fluids and a lemon honey menthol cough drop dissolved in tea is pretty good and will help you feel better.

Edit for excessive punctuation.

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MilesColtrane

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:47 PM
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9. Don't know if a neti pot would cut it....maybe a Waterpik™ though....

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prolesunited

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:51 PM
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10. Take a really long, steamy shower

and then use the Neti pot. Works like a charm.

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siligut

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:52 PM
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11. I use a Neilmed.

It is a squeeze bottle. I started just using a small sport bottle style water bottle. Once I decided I could tolerate it I bought the Neilmed at Costco for ~ $14.00 for two kits. I sent the extra one to my sister. Really, try the cough drop dissolved into herb tea, it is comforting. :hug:

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azmouse

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:45 PM
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8. Mouse weakly raises her paw...

Not the flu just a lousy cold with a very sore throat. MrMouse is sick too... :(

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Critters2

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:55 PM
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12. I went through it in November. Fever, ACHY-NESS, couldn't breath,

more achy-ness, couldn't think straight, no appetite, and achy-ness. Be sure you get plenty of rest and drink fluids, because it can be serious. Mine became pneumonia, which caused a cough so bad I cracked a rib. Series. The rib pain ended around New Year's. So, I had symptoms of one kind or another from mid-November through New Year's.

The flu is nothing to f*ck with.

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soleiri

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Fri Feb-06-09 12:59 PM
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13. Other people in the house have the flu.

Two nights ago I had the chills/fever and I had what felt like a migraine.
No sore throat or stomach ache and it also only lasted one night.
I’m not sure whether or not it even was the flu.
Perhaps I have some super immunity that obliterates the flu in 8 hours.
ta-da!

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