[Closed] Christmas Flu

Drink all the spirits in your house.

I think I've only had actual, real, genuine 'flu' once. & typically it was a new year. 1999 IIRC.

I remember sitting by a coal fire on new years eve, sweating like a nonce in a police lineup, shivering & trying to get warm. 'Death Warmed Up' is the only description I can use.

Get well soon OP.

I’ve had really bad colds, especially over the last few years, sinuses producing snot in such quantities that I’d swear a wormhole had opened from the oceans of planet snot into my sinuses, followed by it then getting down onto my chest, and lasting for up to six weeks, along with headaches, etc.
I have had flu, once. There is a week of my life which is a dark, empty place, with no real memories other than bed and a dark room. It was deeply unpleasant.
I don’t want a repeat of it.

Aye, managed to avoid flu* for 43 years, best of luck OP.

*I seem to be surrounded by work colleagues that get it a few times each year... 🤔🤣

As above, had the flu once - bloody hell that knocked me for six. I do not want a repeat.

16 month old and 3 year old girls had stonking fevery snotty coughy colds for 6 days now, mum and I have had the tantrums and lack of sleep...somehow i got a bit of work done but was very bleary. Now their mum has it....I am not feeling achey...I am not feeling achey...I am not feeling achey....I am not

If your posting on here you have a bit of a cold.

Also had flu once. Jeepers, gave malaria a run for its money..!

Get well soon OP. And merry sneezing Christmas..!

Anybody know of help cures?

the strongest opiates you can get your hands on

If you've had flu you'll know why it kills people, I had it this year and couldn't get out of bed for 3 days (plus about 2 weeks recovery) not something I want to repeat ever.

OP has got a cold not the Flu

Think I’ve had Flu once too. It involved being in bed with a coat, hat and heating on whilst shivering uncontrollably with my teeth smashing together. Other fun, yet vague, memories of that week or so involve hallucinations and having to crawl to the bathroom as I couldn’t physically stand up. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

I too have the Christmas cold. Literally 2 hours after finishing work on Friday the sore throat came on and have been feeling cack since. I must have been keeping it at bay until I finished - amazing thing the human body and mind combo.

Had flu a couple of times. Unable to get out of bed, cold, hot, miserable. Proper illness.

Last time I had it I picked up pneumonia too and that took months to get over - properly nasty and 5 minute coughing fits followed by bringing up black stuff was scary. I realise how people die of it now.

Cheerful time of year!

Get well soon.

Get well soon. I’ve had it once, went to bed and got up 5 days later, almost finished me off.

Merry Xmas!

3rd day of fever and aches.
I was able to post yesterday using my mobile and glad my parents were visiting - they were cold towelling me for 2 days.

40C for 2 days and now 38C.

Work in a school and may consider flu jab as kids and teachers have been ill.

Started eating Pringles lol.

Mum making me the cure: korma curry.

Take care peeps.

Had it three years out of four. Damned RNA mutations. Took a month out of my year each time. And then a few years later I had Swine Fly from the US. Tamiflu helped.

Two days of perkiness is not flu. But then Guiliain Barre is not nice And laid my friend out for a year. So I think myself lucky.

When you’ve had influenza you will never mistake it again.

FunkyDunc

Member
OP has got a cold not the Flu

No, I have flu. Email me your address and I’ll gladly cough into a box lol.

Colds are nothing. First time I got out of bed since Sunday and fever slightly down but struggling to stand or walk.
GP Brother in law popped around and said definitely flu.

Can’t ride either 🙁
drat!

Forget RNA, flu switches off muscle repair genes - hence sore muscles - worse as I’m getting old dammit!

Not sure that it was flu, but the last 3 days have been miserable.

No appetite, hacking cough, shivers, sweats, aching limbs and cramps.

it's not flu if you survive, flu if you die. it's the worlds only binary disease.

Get well soon spider.

Didn’t take meds today but bloody temperature shot up again at 3am.

Might try my Rego powder!

Can’t work, can’t play PS4, fever and aches. Who the hell came into work and shared this? Probably Sainsbury’s touchscreen kiosk lurgey.

All is tickerty-boo today. Started with a big blood and thick green slime clear-out though.

My brother's got the same thing (so he claims. So far he's sneezed a bit). He seems to be curing it by drinking copiously, sleeping in until 2pm, and generally being obnoxious to everyone. He's 33.

Embarrassed to be related to him frankly so not a huge amount of sympathy here.

Sat here feeling sorry for myself, second cold of the month. Wish I'd not booked holiday, but called in sick instead! Was going for a ride but decided to stay warm and hydrated. I don't normally suffer for long so hopefully be fine for Sunday's club run. Last time I had flue, I wouldn't be posting on here (mostly because mobiles hadn't been invented).

Common Cold? I bloody wish. There is a huge difference. I hate both and hope you mend. NHS direct told me to expect this fever for a week. Duck. I have work/riding to do! Will pay for the jab next time.

Had to cave in and take paracetamol as temp was coming back. Once I take it, I can usually eat a bit later, hobble and headache/nausea reduced. Legs ache and this f’in fever won’t go away but nothing I can do other than wake at 3am overheating. Send me back in time and I’ll cough on Hitler.

Flaperon

Member
My brother’s got the same thing (so he claims. So far he’s sneezed a bit). He seems to be curing it by drinking copiously, sleeping in until 2pm, and generally being obnoxious to everyone. He’s 33.

Embarrassed to be related to him frankly so not a huge amount of sympathy here

Hence why I stay in my bed as would be a little snappy, which is still no excuse for treating people like poop.

Kids in cancer care - that’s a real illness.

In Tenerife at the moment and the wife and two kids have the lurgy. I seem to be fending it off at the moment with copius amounts of San Miguel accompanied by apple schnapps chasers.
I dont think i can keep it up for another week though 😁

Biggest first world problem ever - I've got the lurgie, proper coughing fits, but I am also booked into a hotel spa for three nights. I'm bed-bound and can't use the pool, and the toilet is broken...
On the plus-side, Ive discovered a funny Bill Bryson-esque writer on Amazon, Alan Laycock, so am reading about his interesting adventures and new life in sunny spain.

I was sent home once suffering from flu. Work was in Felixstowe, home in Penarth. It was a long day with a sleep in the drivers seat every 30 minutes. I don’t wish to repeat that experience.

GP Brother in law popped around and said definitely flu

... he means definitely flu or another flu-like illness - unless he had a testing kit with him.
Not all flu is severe and not all significant respiratory infections are flu, even the viral ones

Anyway, harden the fup, all of you 😉

Had a bout in 1999, lasted weeks, lost a stone and a half, couldn't eat or drink a thing.

As said above - flu is the virus not the severity of symptoms.

I have had flu severely on a few occasions. The level of symptoms where you almost cannot move, you crawl to the bathroom, even the idea of eating is unbearable and the headache is migraine/cluster level, the body aches like you’ve been hot by three buses all coming at once - plus the respiratory symptoms... Once it kindly led to pneumonia - which was huge fun.

Horrid bug, no matter what you call it. Just now killing the last of it with coffee.

A nasty cold/manflu variant seemed to swep through my work in the run up to Christmas.

I'm coming out the other side of it now but my sinuses and lungs continue to produce lumpy yellow stuff.
The wife has it too which is clearly my fault...

I think there are a lot of mild chest infections around this year. I have one and it is proving a sod to get rid of. I've been bed bound for a few days but none of the usual aches and pains you associate with the flu, just a rotten cough that has me standing up wheezing my lungs out every hour or so.

My wife has it now.

Christmas misery complete.

It's the usual nasty Xmas cold which coincides with the arrival of my daughter in law who is the Typhoid Mary of colds, and as usual buggers up my fitness with the 'Puffer coming up.

Hopefully ok by tomorrow and out to get a decent ride in.

Still don’t think OP has the flu.

Posting on a cycling forum doesn’t even enter your head (or is even possible) when you have proper flu.

After a week of life lost, I’m on the mend except coughing my lungs out and not being able to stand for very long.

Just keep paracetamol handy if it’s going around. Stay cool with a wet towel and hydrated.

Hoping to get some work reports done finally.

Gutted I missed Xmas, family and riding.

Posting on a cycling forum doesn’t even enter your head (or is even possible) when you have proper flu.

again it isn't "proper" flu unless it's fatal.

Death is no impediment to posting on STW, mtfu.

FunkyDunc

Member
Still don’t think OP has the flu.

Posting on a cycling forum doesn’t even enter your head (or is even possible) when you have proper flu.

Nah, you can do a fair bit with confirmed flu. Seen it many times. People will drag themselves down hospital corridors and out into the winter cold for a cigarette no problem. Can't imagine lying in bed typing on a phone is particularly hard when feeling like crap.

Went to visit the uncle in law at his residential home on Saturday, as we do every week. Took him out for a Guinness and thought nothing of it when the staff told us there was a bit of. A bug going around and they were stopping visits after today (Saturday).

Sunday night and Cue two nights of gastric flu(like for the pedants) symptoms - squirting at both ends, fever, shivers n sweats for me n the missus.

Happy ****in new year!

I had the gastric bug the night before I had to fly back from Spain. Fireworks at both ends.
They will make a film about how I summoned the courage to get on the plane and it will win many oscars as a tale of bravery and risk (I took a bin bag onboard with me).

I've had an annoying coughy, bunged up cold since the 20th (been on holiday since the 17th), first day back in work today and I still have it (although getting a bit better), I don't think I'm going to be popular...

ive got a bad cold.

ill still let everyone know though.

Went to the doctors 4wks ago when I was 2wks into a cold/cough. Still have it and today was tested for the 3rd time in the last 10yrs for asthma, given prescription for antibiotics and have a chest x Ray for tomorrow.

Last year it lasted over 2 months to disappear naturally. I can’t keep being sick from coughing so much for 2 months every year. I don’t claim to have flu but something isn’t right.

I actually think it’s related to when I used to mountain bike. Going our from warm cars to riding in sub zero temps, gulping in freezing air. I reckon I ‘burnt’ my throat and it is now hypersensitive, especially when I get a cold.

Day four of some random lurgy here. Temperature, aches etc. Supposed to be driving down to Cornwall tomorrow...
Cheered myself up by entering the jennride and buying bike packing kit. Bad enough yesterday to lie on the sofa and watch both Pacific rim films back to back. The second one is shit.

watch both Pacific rim films back to back. The second one is shit

True - although it's still a long way better than Atlantic Rim

Sounds dodgy.

Well my flu has left me a chesty cough and fatigue. Was going to Docs but will wait another day.

Working from home this week.

Want to ride 🙁