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Odd. Lupine Send a noteboard - 28/10/2009 08:27:42 AM
As noted in my subject, yes. Or at least, I think so. I had a headache, fever, and general blahs for about four days, and then an irritating cough that stayed around for almost two weeks before going away. Maybe it wasn't swine flu, but when I've gotten the flu in the past it's typically been more gastrointestinal, while this time around it was more respiratory, which sounds like what I know of H1N1.

Really? I've read a few things that indicate GI problems might actually be more common with H1N1 than with seasonal flu.

For me, I had really really bad GI symptoms (after seven years without really vomiting!), and the next morning all the other things started. GI gradually went away, and then the respiratory stuff got worse. My doctor was somewhat bemused, and actually not 100% certain it was H1N1 (they stopped doing lab tests, as I mentioned), but thought it likely enough to do the quarantine.

Nate's reply made me do some research about the more dangerous side of this pesky flu, and it seems like I may have had both of the "warning, danger, this means bad" complications: severe vomiting and difficulty breathing. Which would explain a lot of my doctor's demeanor, actually. :P But I started getting better on my own over the course of just four days, and the things they gave me should simply help with that now.

Yeah, I go to a big state university, so it's all over the place. As for measures, the health center hands out masks to anyone who walks in the door (though I rarely see anyone wearing them), emails from professors saying to stay home if you're sick are flying all around, and at work (I work in a large office building), the HR people are putting giant bottles of hand sanitizer EVERYWHERE.

Sounds identical to here, which is not surprising given the environments are the same!

Huuuuuuugely overblown. For starters, I'd rather cough than spew any day. For second-ers, all the data I've seen says the swine flu's death numbers are far less than the regular flu, which we've given up panicking over. The only real oddity I've seen is that the swine flu occasionally kills perfectly healthy people, though, again, deaths are extremely rare. It's just a media thing.

I would rather cough too, but it scares me when I can't breathe, especially since my cell phone isn't working now. And yeah, definitely good news that the death rates are so low.
I don't watch news channels very much, so I might not be the right person to argue your last comment, but to me it seems like even they've stopped making much of a fuss. With these numbers, they could be reporting apocalypse-style every night, and yet I couldn't even find stats for my city. I think the big fear-mongering came several months before the actual cause for fear. :P
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