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Never had any stuffy nose with this for some reason. Just a bad dry cough so this might just be a bad cold and not the flu?
If you're experiencing body aches, getting the chills and feeling lethargic, then it's the flu. I came down with the flu last week Thursday. On Friday I went to see the doctor, and he prescribed tamiflu. I only started feeling better yesterday and tomorrow I'm going back to work despite the sick note the doctor gave me which has me out until the 19th.
Usually, with a cold you'll probably feel "lousy" for the 1st or 2nd day. After that you deal with a stuffed nose, mucous,etc.. It sounds like you have the flu because your symptoms are lasting longer than just a few days.
Never had any stuffy nose with this for some reason. Just a bad dry cough so this might just be a bad cold and not the flu?
Those were my same symptoms. Three days of fever, body aches and a bad dry cough. Woke up on 4th day feeling better. Never a runny nose. Flu test was negative so it was just some other virus. Cough meds helped.
If you're experiencing body aches, getting the chills and feeling lethargic, then it's the flu. I came down with the flu last week Thursday. On Friday I went to see the doctor, and he prescribed tamiflu. I only started feeling better yesterday and tomorrow I'm going back to work despite the sick note the doctor gave me which has me out until the 19th.
Usually, with a cold you'll probably feel "lousy" for the 1st or 2nd day. After that you deal with a stuffed nose, mucous,etc.. It sounds like you have the flu because your symptoms are lasting longer than just a few days.
I'd take advantage of that doctor's sick note if I were you. I felt much better after four days and overdid it a bit. As a result, I've felt rather diminished since and my sleep requirement has increased. Don't fool around with this and court a relapse.
Raw ginger, raw garlic, lots and lots of fluids, sleep.
I had it earlier in the season. I forced myself to eat about 1/2 inch piece of ginger twice a day as well as a clove of raw garlic. I drank tea, water, juice, broth, rinse, repeat. I slept pretty much all day and night (except when I was visiting the bathroom to get rid of all the fluids I kept forcing when I was awake). Three days later, I felt MUCH, much better.
I have not gotten the flu shot for over 20 years. This is the first time I've had the flu in 20 years.
Raw ginger, raw garlic, lots and lots of fluids, sleep.
I had it earlier in the season. I forced myself to eat about 1/2 inch piece of ginger twice a day as well as a clove of raw garlic. I drank tea, water, juice, broth, rinse, repeat. I slept pretty much all day and night (except when I was visiting the bathroom to get rid of all the fluids I kept forcing when I was awake). Three days later, I felt MUCH, much better.
I have not gotten the flu shot for over 20 years. This is the first time I've had the flu in 20 years.
I'm more scared of the flu shot than I am of the flu.
Wow, do I EVER hate that "tickle in the throat". As soon as I feel that, I know resistance is futile.
That's how it always starts for me too! I had this tickle in the back of the left side of my throat. When I woke up Thursday morning, I was fully congested and feeling very weak.
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I'd take advantage of that doctor's sick note if I were you. I felt much better after four days and overdid it a bit. As a result, I've felt rather diminished since and my sleep requirement has increased. Don't fool around with this and court a relapse.
Well, its been about 6 days now, and I felt normal enough to run some errands today. So I think tomorrow should be fine.
Yeah, I haven't had a cold in at least a decade, nor the flu in 20 years. I'm 67.
Meeting up with other people, esp if they have someone they know in a hospital, nursing home, group home, etc is a sure-fire way to catch something.
I work in a nursing home, and why is it so many who work there, amongst those with flu, don't get it? I've been working in one of these places for years now, and seldom, if ever, get the flu, with patients coughing in my face during a shift?
I finally have a touch of it now, but I attribute that to my roommate who's been suffering with the flu!
If you've got this seasons flu it's NOT at all like other flus. I'm Scandinavian and outside a lot and rarely does a flu knock me down, but this one this month has NAILED a number of people around me of all ages. I fought it off for almost two weeks, then spent a full week until it went into my chest. Friends all had the same symptoms, no matter their age. This years flu shot doesn't help it. It's really nasty and I'm just getting back to normal now. I've never seen anything like it.
It's a wet flu with some sweats and some people have had headaches. An allergy medication kept me more or less dry, and while none of the symptoms were a killer it just never seemed to go away.
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Me too!
