A final note on my experience with the flu (since all the rest is here).
Lupine Send a noteboard - 30/10/2009 12:15:40 AM
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.
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.I now have conjunctivitis in both eyes. Apparently that can sometimes happen with upper respiratory infections. It doesn't hurt, but is problematic for me because I wear contacts and don't own a pair of glasses... until a third party can help me obtain one, I'm very blind. (Fortunately I can type blindfolded, ha.)
So my H1N1 started with vomiting, middled with normal (but powerful) flu-y things, and ended (I hope!) with pinkeye. 'Tis hard to say, but I do think the cough, etc., are getting a bit better.
It may be a mild flu for many/most people, but it has thoroughly kicked my ass this week.
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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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