This flu is NO JOKE!

[shocksyde]

Day 1: At work, feeling really dizzy, coughing just a little bit.
Day 2: Extreme headache, insane hot flashes with ridiculous cold sweats thrown in, extreme dehydration even though I drank at least 20 glasses of water. Can't sleep at all, hot/cold flashes keep me up all night. Finally wake up in a pool of sweat.
Day 3: coughing, sneezing and runny nose make their first appearance. Fever seems to be gone, only to come back with the heat of a thousand suns. Still dehydrated, even after graduating to Gatorade. Have lost 8 lbs in the last 2 days.

Bonus weird symptom: my eyeballs hurt if I look to the extreme left, right, up or down.

Halp!

 

[amdhunter]

You sure it's not AIDS?

 

[shocksyde]

You sure it's not AIDS?

Nah, I got rid of my AIDS by canceling it out with Herpes. That's how it works, right?

 

[Number1]

Hang in there. My wife and I have had it for the last month.

 

[shocksyde]

Hang in there. My wife and I have had it for the last month.

A whole month?! OK, that's def AIDS.

 

[ichy]

Yay for the flu shot!

 

[qliveur]

Yay for the flu shot!

Doesn't always work.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

8 pounds in two days? You should bottle it and put it on the market.

 

[FallenHero]

I'll take two please.

 

[SlowSpyder]

OP, you just need to cure it with your mind.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Doesn't always work.

Doesn't hurt.

 

[shocksyde]

So will going to the doctor for the flu do anything for me? Or is it like breaking a rib? "Well, that sucks, but we can't really do anything for you. Don't sleep on your stomach."

 

[Gibsons]

So will going to the doctor for the flu do anything for me? Or is it like breaking a rib? "Well, that sucks, but we can't really do anything for you. Don't sleep on your stomach."

If it's really the flu, then probably no. It might not be the flu, although the symptoms fit. Pop some aspirin, keep drinking the water and whatnot.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

So will going to the doctor for the flu do anything for me? Or is it like breaking a rib? "Well, that sucks, but we can't really do anything for you. Don't sleep on your stomach."

You can get stuff to reduce your symptoms.

 

[FallenHero]

You can get stuff to reduce your symptoms.

Like Tiger Blood.

 

[Texashiker]

So will going to the doctor for the flu do anything for me?

They can give you a rapid flu test to make sure it is the flu - its a simple test where they stick a tube up your nose and get some fluid. The rapid test is painless and takes just a few seconds.

From there, depending on where you actually have the flu or not, the doctor could give you some tamiflu. The tamiflu will help reduce the number of days your sick.

If you do not mind me asking, what is your race? Are you of European decent? People of European decent sometimes carry the CCR5 gene mutation that helps fend off viruses. That is why the flu virus is more deadly towards certain races, and less deadly to others.

 

[Iron Woode]

Day 1: At work, feeling really dizzy, coughing just a little bit.
Day 2: Extreme headache, insane hot flashes with ridiculous cold sweats thrown in, extreme dehydration even though I drank at least 20 glasses of water. Can't sleep at all, hot/cold flashes keep me up all night. Finally wake up in a pool of sweat.
Day 3: coughing, sneezing and runny nose make their first appearance. Fever seems to be gone, only to come back with the heat of a thousand suns. Still dehydrated, even after graduating to Gatorade. Have lost 8 lbs in the last 2 days.

Bonus weird symptom: my eyeballs hurt if I look to the extreme left, right, up or down.

Halp!

sounds more like a bad cold with sinusitis, than the flu.

 

[shocksyde]

I am a European mutt with some Navajo thrown in.

 

[ichy]

So will going to the doctor for the flu do anything for me? Or is it like breaking a rib? "Well, that sucks, but we can't really do anything for you. Don't sleep on your stomach."

For the most part there's nothing they can do for you.

 

[CrazyAznDriver]

That is nothing when I had c-diff I lost 15lb in 2 days.

 

[Gibsons]

They can give you a rapid flu test to make sure it is the flu - its a simple test where they stick a tube up your nose and get some fluid. The rapid test is painless and takes just a few seconds.

From there, depending on where you actually have the flu or not, the doctor could give you some tamiflu. The tamiflu will help reduce the number of days your sick.

If you do not mind me asking, what is your race? Are you of European decent? People of European decent sometimes carry the CCR5 gene mutation that helps fend off viruses. That is why the flu virus is more deadly towards certain races, and less deadly to others.

Too late for tamiflu, it needs to be taken within a day or two of symptom onset.

The CCR5 mutation is helpful against HIV because HIV uses it as a coreceptor. It doesn't play a similar role in influenza and might actually correlate with a worse prognosis for viruses other than HIV.

 

[Iron Woode]

I am a European mutt with some Navajo thrown in.

more than likely its just a severe cold.

How are your lungs? Congested? difficulty breathing?

Vomiting?

these things happen with the flu.

Being of European decent myself, colds are my number one illness. I had the flu only once and that was extremely nasty.

take some extra strength advil or tylenol and plenty of liquids. You could also try some dimetap to help you sleep.

I hope you feel better soon.

 

[qliveur]

Chug some NyQuil.

 

[blinblue]

Sounds nasty. I get the eyeball thing with some colds too. It isn't fun. You have to constantly remind yourself to turn your head instead of your eyeballs unless you want a nice sharp pain.

 

[drebo]

I'm just getting over this. Everyone else at work has it, too. Now my wife's getting it.

The best thing I found to take was a "Severe Cold and Sinus" medicine. Tylenol has it...does the full gamut: headache, sinus congestion, coughing, and chest congestion. Day Quil/ Nyquil only does sinus congestion, headache, and coughing.

I'm on Day 6 and finally feel human again.