- Aug 17, 2000
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I caught this on 12/30 a couple of days after my wife got it.
Biggest symptom was a low level nausea and stomach cramp that never went away and a total lack of appetite. Just the smell of a soda cracker would make you drop it back on a plate and turn away. When I did eat something, like broth, it didn't make me any more nauseous. Next up was fatigue, I couldn't walk up a flight of stairs without breaking into a sweat and then there were the aches and pains of a flue.
Never in my 51 years have I ever had such an illness and I never thought it was possible for me to lose my appetite. I would have thought it was something more serious if the wife hadn't been stricken too. I just started to feel better a couple days ago and I'd say I'm 90% back to normal now. Now that that the New Years holiday is over and the doctor's office will finally be open tomorrow I don't feel so bad that it makes me think I should go.
But, I thought I'd open this up to all you amateur doctors as to what you think I've got. Whenever I've ever had the stomach flue, I'd eat something and then it would slowly cause me to become ever more nauseated until I up-chucked. With this, it wasn't anything like that.
Biggest symptom was a low level nausea and stomach cramp that never went away and a total lack of appetite. Just the smell of a soda cracker would make you drop it back on a plate and turn away. When I did eat something, like broth, it didn't make me any more nauseous. Next up was fatigue, I couldn't walk up a flight of stairs without breaking into a sweat and then there were the aches and pains of a flue.
Never in my 51 years have I ever had such an illness and I never thought it was possible for me to lose my appetite. I would have thought it was something more serious if the wife hadn't been stricken too. I just started to feel better a couple days ago and I'd say I'm 90% back to normal now. Now that that the New Years holiday is over and the doctor's office will finally be open tomorrow I don't feel so bad that it makes me think I should go.
But, I thought I'd open this up to all you amateur doctors as to what you think I've got. Whenever I've ever had the stomach flue, I'd eat something and then it would slowly cause me to become ever more nauseated until I up-chucked. With this, it wasn't anything like that.