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.
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.
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/Survey: So... is swine flu affecting you/people you know yet?
- 27/10/2009 11:29:51 PM
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It is raging here
- 27/10/2009 11:42:41 PM
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Good on you for getting vaccinated.
- 27/10/2009 11:58:06 PM
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Get better soon!
- 27/10/2009 11:53:27 PM
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of course you can walk pippin!
- 28/10/2009 01:29:23 AM
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- 28/10/2009 01:31:52 AM
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Re: /Survey: So... is swine flu affecting you/people you know yet?
- 28/10/2009 01:42:05 AM
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Re: /Survey: So... is swine flu affecting you/people you know yet?
- 28/10/2009 01:48:58 AM
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I almost feel like I'm coming down with something, but I'm not sure.
- 28/10/2009 03:26:26 AM
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Re: I almost feel like I'm coming down with something, but I'm not sure.
- 28/10/2009 08:40:17 AM
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I think I've had it. Symptoms seemed to match, anyway.
- 28/10/2009 05:31:46 AM
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Odd.
- 28/10/2009 08:27:42 AM
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A final note on my experience with the flu (since all the rest is here).
- 30/10/2009 12:15:40 AM
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I feel I am getting ill this week
- 28/10/2009 08:45:33 AM
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Drink tea, eat oranges.
- 28/10/2009 08:54:44 AM
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- 28/10/2009 08:54:44 AM
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We've had 7 people die from it at my hospital.
- 28/10/2009 09:21:45 AM
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I suspect that working at a hospital gives you a rather biased sample of the populace. *NM*
- 29/10/2009 12:16:16 AM
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According to the CDC, on average 36,000 die from the flu each year in the US.
- 28/10/2009 01:53:35 PM
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Thank you, Greg. Finally, someone points out what it seems the general populace has forgotten!
- 30/10/2009 12:06:23 PM
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I think the worry is just that it's more contagious, which would be bad if a fiercer strain
- 30/10/2009 01:32:00 PM
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