I'm back! Was it flu I had??

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Originally posted by blondiecat
It sounds like the flu to me. You described all the symptoms of what I had about 15 years ago. I haven't had it since but with my luck I will come down with it today


Take care of yourself it sounds like you are not completely well yet. Welcome back
I hope you dont! Just stay away from people. To be honest I think I got mine at the theatre. Susposedly symptoms develop 1-4 days after exposure and thats the only place I was during that time and those rooms are enclosed. Washing hands and staying away doesnt matter during a movie it seems!

I'm trying to. I'm just so immpatient to get back to normal with my life and everything. Thanks!
 
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Originally posted by Deb25
Since this year's flu is so nasty, I would go to the doctor and let him give you advice.
I didnt want to go if I had something else and risk getting the flu for sure.
 
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Originally posted by LDG
I second Deb's motion - you really need to see a Doc! I'm glad you're feeling better, but none of your family, friends or co-workers would appreciate being infected by you! Gary and I both have the flu right now, and it's a bear. You really need antibiotics to ensure it's out of your system and that you're not just carrying it around. Again - I'm glad you're feeling better now - but passing that around does not sound like a very nice Christmas present for anyone!

The owner of our firm recently sent out a memo requiring employees to stay home and see a Doctor if they're sick, and pay will be docked if they don't. Although he appreciates their dedication to work if they're willing to come in while sick, he wants them to keep their illness to themselves instead of spreading it to others in the office causing even more people to either be out or keep coming in sick, spreading whatever it is even further.
I didnt go to the doc cause I wasnt sure this was what I had and I didnt want to get exposed to it and get it for sure. Trust me I'm very 'germaphobic' and keep my environment sterile. I'm the same when I'm around town. I dont go in aisles around people much anyway. Now with me possible contagious a little while longer, I'll just stay farther from them and not touch things to transmit. Trust me last thing I want is to spread to someone.

*shock* I'd give a weeks pay just to have a boss willing to do that. Here you get fired. Could be cause this little town needs people...yet why fire us for sickness...hmm...*shrugs*
 
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Originally posted by mzjazz2u
How are you feeling now Amber? Going to the doctor is a good thing to do if you're still not feeling well and having fever. I don't think they'll give you antibiotics for flu though, because it is viral. Unless there is a secondary infection such as pneumonia. They can give an anti-viral medication but only within the first 48 hours or something like that. Anyway, I hope you're feeling better! Drink LOTS Of fluids and get lots of rest!
Thankfully I feel great except the cough. Today thanks to some good name brand cough syrup (not that old offbrand stuff I had) even it's going away. I've been coughing it all up today. If I was still having a fever after a week Id definately go. I just didnt want to risk getting to flu if what I hadnt wasnt it or risk getting something worse from a fellow patient at the doctor. I'm not sure what they do for that and hopefully I wont have to know. Hopefully this cough will be gone totally in another day or two. Thank you! I am so sick of water...but yes I am and I'm restless but resting.
 
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Originally posted by yayi
Glad you are back! Sorry about you being sick but it sounds like you are on the road to recovery!

I don't think it was the flu. When I get a cold, and then ignore it, I develop the symptoms you described. Then my cough sticks around for more than two weeks. And if I ignore that, well, it's bronchitis!

I only got the flu once, and it was hell! It felt like I was dying. The pain was everywhere... I had headaches, stomach cramps and muscle aches. You didn't get those, so I voted that it wasn't the flu.
Thanks! So far so good. I'm just busy trying to stay on the 'road' and not get sick again.
I had nausea and vomiting but nothing as bad as what you're describing! That must've been heck!
 

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a_loveless_gem wrote
Antibiotics are only given in the case of bacterial infection. The flu is cause by the influenza virus. Antibiotics do not affect viruses at all and do nothing. It's a common misconception. Though with the flu, it tends to get chesty and that's when the antibiotics are generally given or some doctors do feel bullied by patients and will prescribe antibiotics so the patients are happy and come back to them later.
Didn't offend me, Mags! Actually, we've got the flu and our Doctor prescribed Avelox - a new antibiotic (?) which has shown "good properties" in helping to fight the flu virus. My understanding is that antibacterials are given to help the body fight secondary infection while its defenses are down.

Also, there is an anti-viral medication, but the Doc says it hasn't been shown to work any better than the Avelox except against one specific strain of flu, and it makes you feel even sicker (makes you naseous even if you aren't already).

GA - I'm glad you're feeling better. Actually, our boss made it pretty clear he'd fire anyone who knowingly came in sick and spread it around! I have to agree - it's an excellent and responsible policy.
 

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Originally posted by LDG
Didn't offend me, Mags! Actually, we've got the flu and our Doctor prescribed Avelox - a new antibiotic (?) which has shown "good properties" in helping to fight the flu virus. My understanding is that antibacterials are given to help the body fight secondary infection while its defenses are down.

Also, there is an anti-viral medication, but the Doc says it hasn't been shown to work any better than the Avelox except against one specific strain of flu, and it makes you feel even sicker (makes you naseous even if you aren't already).

GA - I'm glad you're feeling better. Actually, our boss made it pretty clear he'd fire anyone who knowingly came in sick and spread it around! I have to agree - it's an excellent and responsible policy.
I wish more employers had that same policy. I was so angry last Friday when I went to the bank, and the teller had the flu. He was coughing and blowing his nose all over the money and his teller wind. At first I asked if he had a cold, and he said, "No, I have the flu". I jumped back away from his teller window, and reached out and stuffed my money quickly in my wallet- then drove to my office about a block away - ran to the bathroom, got the Lysol and sprayed my money until it was wet, sprayed my wallet and my purse, and sprayed my hands. I was so furious! My boss thought it was funny. He doesn't think I can get the flu, because I had a flu shot, but the news says that the flu shot doesn't protect against all strains of the flu.

No one who works with the public like that, should go to work and thoughtlessly infect people. I was, and still am furious about that!
 
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People wonder why our society is having such a flu outbreak or problems with diseases...well DUH! People like that bank guy should know better! It's just rude to do something like that.
 

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I was at the doctor's today to finally get my flu shot (I usually get it much earlier, but I had bronchitis in October/November), and according to the leaflets lying around in the waiting room, the main way to tell the difference between the flu and a cold is, 1) sudden onset, and 2) high fever. Unfortunately, I'm having a reaction to the shot - fever and general shakiness, which has never happened before, but which the doctor warned me to expect. I'm not going to work tomorrow.
The flu has aready hit Britain and France, and young children have died there, too.
I strongly believe people should stay at home and not infect their co-workers, fellow commuters, the public, etc.. I can give you a good example: One of my classes had a test today, and a girl (19) who had been out all week came to take the test. Afterwards I asked her what she had, and she said chicken pox! She assured me that she had asked all the other kids in her class if they had had it. Fine, but she didn't ask the teachers, and what about the kids in other classes, the people who took the same rapid transit today, the people in the bakery where she stopped on the way to school to buy some coffee and a pastry? It was such a stupid thing to do, and totally unnecessary - she could have made up the test in January.
 

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Originally posted by LDG
Didn't offend me, Mags! Actually, we've got the flu and our Doctor prescribed Avelox - a new antibiotic (?) which has shown "good properties" in helping to fight the flu virus. My understanding is that antibacterials are given to help the body fight secondary infection while its defenses are down.

Also, there is an anti-viral medication, but the Doc says it hasn't been shown to work any better than the Avelox except against one specific strain of flu, and it makes you feel even sicker (makes you naseous even if you aren't already).
I hope it works for you and you're feeling better! Avelox is generally for respiratory infections and pneumonia but sounds like your doc has some personal experience with it that maybe wasn't covered in the clinical studies. That happens sometimes.
That's how they started to figure out that birth control pills also helped teenage acne!

The anti virals are only effective if taken within 48 hours of onset of the flu. And they don't cure it they just shorten it significantly. I've never felt nauseous from either of the anti virals. I just love them! But the trick is getting it within that 48 hour time frame!


Oh, BTW... did your doctor or pharmacist tell you not to take vitamins or antacids with it?
 

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Good to hear you're back. Sounds like various forms of influenza and etc. are going all over this time of year, even down here in the non-snow of Florida. This last week, I had a dry cough and I still kinda sound 'froggish' in the morning. People at my work though, were with purple blue eyelids, coughing, with laryngitis, and were out sick a couple of days. I probably would have been worse, had I not had 'theraflu, nyquil, and many throat-cough drops, and sleep.'
What a time to get sick!, right around Christmas?
 
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Originally posted by Loubelia
Good to hear you're back. Sounds like various forms of influenza and etc. are going all over this time of year, even down here in the non-snow of Florida. This last week, I had a dry cough and I still kinda sound 'froggish' in the morning. What a time to get sick!, right around Christmas?
Thanks! I'm glad to be back. Unfortunately. I've been lucky though I've never really gotten the flu before. I hope you and you're co-workers feel better! (((*better vibes*))) I know! I was so afraid I wouldnt get to go to my christmas gatherings. Luckily I did!
 
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