Do you know anyone with the Swine Flu ?

I learned today that a family member was diagnosed with it.

Anyone else out there?

Just a nasty flu for me, nothing spectacular.

She was sick for a week or so, but she has recovered now.

it lasted most of the summer but now I'm fine.

she said it was the worst flu she ever had, her 18 month daughter had a fever that took days to break and really scared them. They found out after the fact that it was swine flu. Her doctor said that most cases of the flu they're getting here are swine flu because regular flu season hasn't hit yet.

edited to add location: Reisterstown (near Baltimore), MD.

I had a pretty intense out of season flu, 104 degree fever, just a bad bad bad case of the flu. Then the whole news about this new flu broke a week later. The first confirmed case in my state was a couple of weeks after that.

So I wonder what the chances were that I got H1N1 instead of an out of season seasonal flu.

Anyway, I don't know anybody who was confirmed to have H1N1. Some of my neighbors know people who have though.

A family member was diagnosed this week, in fact.

was back to work the next week.... I hope your family member has access to affordable health care...

Was like a bad cold for me.
It swept thru my nieghborhood a couple of months ago.Most victims got really really sick from it.Others said it was like a normal flu.
What was interesting was that those of us that barely got sick use a sauna on a regular basis.I have to wonder if the elevated body temps form the sauna acted like a fever to keep it from getting worse.Of course,this is just anecdotal evidense.

Humidifiers are supposed to be very helpful as well, so that's my thought? :shrug:

All three of them go to the same school...my daughter's son and my son's two daughters.

My grandson has immunity issues.

My son also has immunity issues if his daughters come down with it. He's on immunosuppressant drugs.

I'm pretty nervous...

Young woman in her mid-20s.

They wiped her desk down 2x today before anyone would take over the phones.

We thought some had it, but turned out to be the seasonal flu.

I don't know anyone who has it or has had it.

with H1N1. But still, teachers have yet to be elevated to the "must vaccinate" level, at least here in Northern Virginia.

It's frutrating, too. I'm exposed to just as many high-risk sick people in a day (depending on the day, 160-200) as most health-care providers, except I'm locked in the room with them for an hour or three at a stretch. Nexy weekend, I'm getting an H1N1 shot.

My personal -- entirely nonscientific, I might add -- theory is that I've been infected by so much crap over the years that by now I'm immune to EVERYTHING. My only absences are back pain related, especially since subs will rarely come to my school, but other than sinus difficulties when the weather changes and back pain from being too fat, I haven't been remotely sick in years. I remeber the flu, though, and would REALLY hate to get it again.

Probably because I don't have children. But, of course, it would make sense for teachers to be one of the first groups to be vaccinated.

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kept coughing

wish her mother had more manners

granted, she probably did not have the flu, still she did have something that might be contagious

just reminds everyone of the importance of washing produce!

and hands!

(sorry, this is not really related to the thread's topic)

and most people don't eat the rinds.

She's about 1000 miles from me, though. I don't know anybody personally, locally, who does.

I know people that have been ill, but no one that was bad enough to actually get definitively diagnosed with swine flu. At least that I know of.

Health authorities are assuming it is too early for the "regular" flu...that's probably true.

our local health dept doctor said that anyone in our area who had the flu the last few weeks probably had swine flu because all those tested have been positive for it.
I didn't have all the symptoms on the list - just burning bronchials, fluid in the lungs like I have never had, temp, cough, minor digestive problems and occassional headache.
The strange thing is that it did not knock me out - I kept doing my work until after 2 weeks and realized I had developed an infection that antibiotics fixed right away.
The woman I worked with did not get it and my sister who visited for 4 days did not get it either.

the Air Force Academy did some research on their first year kids this summer because there was an outbreak among them in July. It was found that 19% of them were still infective 24 hours after their symptoms were gone.

If you have it, wait before you meet the public. And everyone, masks are good, hand washing is a must...and don't touch your face with your hands... please ( ...unless you have washed them. Don't be impertinent.)

That's 6 of us. Actually, my husband tested positive for influenza A AND B, how about that?

Throw asthma into the mix and we're having LOADS of fun (not!).

One of my colleague's children does, as well. There are other confirmed cases at schools in our area.

Absence rates are more than double the normal for this time of year. We've got kids with obvious flu symptoms, and are sending home all those with fevers and/or bad coughs. Most don't get an official diagnosis. We've been making them stay home for a few days and get their temperature checked here at school before they head back to class.

Our district is scheduling on-site vaccinations to all students whose parents give them permission; no cost. Our vaccination day is not for another couple of weeks.

5 straight days of 100+ temps. Daughter is into her 3rd day.

Several of her classmates have it.

- 11 years old - got a confirmed case of it. He was put on an anti-viral by the end of his first day of symptoms and was feeling okay to return to school within a week, but the virus came back with a vengeance. He was rushed to the hospital and spent a couple of nights there getting stabilized again. He missed a total of three weeks of school and lost 10 lbs. from his already-skinny body. High, high fevers (over 102 up to 104) for days on end, coughing, respiratory distress, aches, pain, and diarrhea. This was no joke. I hope people take this seriously.

Several schools around me have closed due to so many kids being out. Unofficially it's due to "illness"...doctors aren't even testing for swine flu anymore because the tests are so unreliable, they're just saying that if you have the symptoms it's almost certain you have H1N1 because previous tests have confirmed that it is rampant in the area.

and she thought it was the swine flu. Said it was nasty but they are over it. She said the worst part was diarrhea and dizziness. Said the fever didn't last long either. They were only bed-ridden for three days.
I was not happy she was at the school gym because to me she still looked pale.

She's had it for a week now and it appears, crossing my fingers, that she is getting better. But will my wife get it now?

My 4 year old niece has it (diagnosed on Monday).

My sister is taking time off work to care for her and she's worrying a lot, too.

Hey, prayers all around.

he began the tamiflu around the fourth day..I had never seen him so ill...I was terrified..honestly..but he came through it..after the tamiflu...second day he felt a bit better...the third it was like night and day...

I have yet to have gotten any symptons..my grandchildren had it two weeks before he got it and though it was tough they are fine now thank God..

edited to add but I have never had the flu in my life..colds yes but never the flu I think I am immune..

But my son and wife have. I end up taking care of them. I grew up as one of 7 children and don't remember any of us really having flu. But we had run the gamut of the childhood diseases!!

but I don't believe they were diagnosed, they just rode it out. It was nothing too serious, and everybody's fine now.

They had symptoms which could have been a flu and since they're not testing for what type it is as a rule (at least locally) right now they assumed the swine flu. :shrug:

They're all fine and back on their feet within a week (for some less than that) if that's any comfort to you.

according to a friend working at pre-school, some kids had a flu virus worse than the swine flu. Doesn't seem very contagious though.

Now a friend's kids are sick, and H1N1 is the suspected culprit.

They've counted almost 5 suspected cases at the university that Lyric and i attend.

My keyboard numbers are screwed up...

I work every Tuesday in the parish office and found out about these two cases yesterday.

Spouses of two of my co-workers had it.

was diagnosed and ill with it this past summer. They seem to be completely recovered.

a woman that my mom works with, her daughter and granddaughter both have it and my mom's boss, her boss's husband and one of their kids had it a couple months ago. I know my mom knows someone else who has it but I can't remember who it is.

Fortunately, it was a mild case and he has pretty much recovered now.

We definitely had the flu, and the head of the local health dept has said that H1N1 is the dominant strain of flu here right now, and to just assume that's what anybody with flu symptoms has unless proven otherwise. Anyhow, we weren't tested, and just hung out at home and did our best not to breathe on anybody until we got better.

Not really all that big a deal. As soon as it was diagnosed, they started on Tamiflu. It was no more serious than a regular flu strain.