I have been diagnosed with swine flu

[Conservative16]

To be honest it feels like regular flu... I feel like crap.

Thankfully I live close enough to campus where they just sent me home away from campus... those not lucky enough to live close to campus have to be sent to a quarantine place. I am being loaded up on Tylenol and Tamiflu

Anyone else catch this virus yet?

[johnrocks]

Dang, I'm sorry to see this. Hope you get well soon!

[ArmyMAJretired]

To be honest it feels like regular flu... I feel like crap.

Thankfully I live close enough to campus where they just sent me home away from campus... those not lucky enough to live close to campus have to be sent to a quarantine place. I am being loaded up on Tylenol and Tamiflu

Anyone else catch this virus yet?

Just interested, did they test you? If so how.

I am asking because we are preparing our workplace plan right now.

From what I have heard, the test takes several days and some places won't even run it if the case is not severe/life threathening.

That is one of our issues when we identify employees with flu like symptoms, is it normal flu (not as contagious) or H1N1.

[birddog1]

Just interested, did they test you? If so how.

I am asking because we are preparing our workplace plan right now.

From what I have heard, the test takes several days and some places won't even run it if the case is not severe/life threathening.

That is one of our issues when we identify employees with flu like symptoms, is it normal flu (not as contagious) or H1N1.

I don't know about other places but in my area they seem to be testing anyone that comes in with flu like symtoms.

[Voxpopuli]

Haven't gotten it yet but our county has been a hotbed of infection.

[Samm]

To be honest it feels like regular flu... I feel like crap.

Thankfully I live close enough to campus where they just sent me home away from campus... those not lucky enough to live close to campus have to be sent to a quarantine place. I am being loaded up on Tylenol and Tamiflu

Anyone else catch this virus yet?

Lucky you... now you don't have to take those damned shots. ;)


Take care... don't forget the fluids.

[formula462]

Get well soon

[sgdp]

I hope you feel better soon! When you say campus, I assume you're younger. That's what's so odd about this flu, affecting younger people so much.

I worry about the swine flu, because my mother is already very ill. I freak if I have just a regular sinus infection, because it's 100X worse for her when she catches it.

[Samm]

I hope you feel better soon! When you say campus, I assume you're younger. That's what's so odd about this flu, affecting younger people so much.

I worry about the swine flu, because my mother is already very ill. I freak if I have just a regular sinus infection, because it's 100X worse for her when she catches it.

If your mother is over 60 she is in more danger from the seasonal flu. But that is nothing to sneeze at (pardon the inverse pun)... the seasonal flu kills between 30-90,000 people in this country every year. At this time, the virulencey of the Swine Flu seems to be no worse than a typical seasonal flu and primarily focuses on young adults. But the hype is, the virus may have mutated making it worse. It is just too early to say.

[Wild Bill03]

From what I hear the Swine Flu is pretty miserable, your snout gets very runny and the curl in your tail goes away.

JK, get better quick.

[Justus]

I had the regular flu (well, I think it was) about a month before the whole swine flu thing was on the news. It was pretty bad actually, couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, nose, head and throat hurt, body ached etc... Lasted for about a week and took about 2 weeks to completely get over it.

I'm pretty sure it came from the public bus I take.

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Hope you get better soon.

[sgdp]

If your mother is over 60 she is in more danger from the seasonal flu. But that is nothing to sneeze at (pardon the inverse pun)... the seasonal flu kills between 30-90,000 people in this country every year. At this time, the virulencey of the Swine Flu seems to be no worse than a typical seasonal flu and primarily focuses on young adults. But the hype is, the virus may have mutated making it worse. It is just too early to say.

Yes, I understand. She is not over 60, but her health problems leave her an "at-risk" person. She did have flu shots last year, but I'm worried about her getting this rushed one. I don't know if she is or not.

I did a looooot of research when the swine flu thing blew up. I read up on Ford's handling, Guillain-Barré, the actual definition of "pandemic," etc. I know about the seasonal flu, as well.

[ScottFree]

Wife and i are sick. Head cold symptoms with a slight fever. We are not going to the Doc to see what it is yet. I've had it for a week and a half, and am getting better. Wife came down with it 2 days ago, and is right at the worst of it. If she does not improve by Monday next, she'll go in. Not before.


ETA: We live in the state with the most confirmed cases.

[Dragon1963]

I'll be avoiding both shots. I'd rather be sick and miserable catching the flu naturally than being sick and miserable and having a sore arm where I've been stuck with a needle.

[Samm]

I'll be avoiding both shots. I'd rather be sick and miserable catching the flu naturally than being sick and miserable and having a sore arm where I've been stuck with a needle.

The point is, you exchange the puking sick and wish-you-were-dead miserable for a mildly sore arm (maybe... everybody does not get the sore arm) when you get immunized. And furthermore, when you get the shots you do not pass your sore arm off on other people like you can the sick and miserable. Not getting immunized is not only individually foolish, it is selfish with regard to the probability of infecting other.

[The Girl from Ipanema]

Wife and i are sick. Head cold symptoms with a slight fever. We are not going to the Doc to see what it is yet. I've had it for a week and a half, and am getting better. Wife came down with it 2 days ago, and is right at the worst of it. If she does not improve by Monday next, she'll go in. Not before.


ETA: We live in the state with the most confirmed cases.

Hubby and I just got over that. We had a cough as well, but not much; me more than he. bleh Lasted him just over a week, me almost two, but I'm a big baby. :shifty:

Kids didn't get it thank heavens. I thought that I heard this morning... maybe yesterday... that the swine flu didn't jump between cages in some lab animals indicating that it might spread through direct contact, but I was getting ready and wasn't paying close attention, so I may be remembering incorrectly.

[NascarGirl2448]

When you say campus, I assume you're younger. That's what's so odd about this flu, affecting younger people so much.

A lot of colleges in my area are worried about this. I heard recently about one school about an hour from where I live where several members of the football team have been diagnosed with it. Must be something about being in close quarters that spreads it.

[Nevarwinter]

My wife and I got hit with something just as all the swine flu stuff was hitting high notes on the faux panic scale. An idiot brought it into work.

I didn't miss any work, because the worst of it hit over a weekend, but my wife missed a couple of days.

[bitterclinger84]

To be honest it feels like regular flu... I feel like crap.

Thankfully I live close enough to campus where they just sent me home away from campus... those not lucky enough to live close to campus have to be sent to a quarantine place. I am being loaded up on Tylenol and Tamiflu

Anyone else catch this virus yet?

:hug:

Feel better soon!!!

[johnrocks]

I'll be avoiding both shots. I'd rather be sick and miserable catching the flu naturally than being sick and miserable and having a sore arm where I've been stuck with a needle.

I got the pneumonia shot a few weeks ago while I was in the hosp. and my arm was sore for two weeks but I'll take that over pneumonia.:pray:

[Gray]

To be honest it feels like regular flu... I feel like crap.

Thankfully I live close enough to campus where they just sent me home away from campus... those not lucky enough to live close to campus have to be sent to a quarantine place. I am being loaded up on Tylenol and Tamiflu

Anyone else catch this virus yet?

Watch the Tylenol. That drug is in many medicines such as cough syrup and such.. You can easily damage yourself taking to much.


--Mike

[Samm]

A lot of colleges in my area are worried about this. I heard recently about one school about an hour from where I live where several members of the football team have been diagnosed with it. Must be something about being in close quarters that spreads it.

Oh really? :razz:

[Greyclouds]

I'll be avoiding both shots. I'd rather be sick and miserable catching the flu naturally than being sick and miserable and having a sore arm where I've been stuck with a needle.

If you're under the age of 22, then that is a very very bad trade-off.

The possibility of respiratory arrest due to cytokine storm caused by the infection is highest in younger people.

[Samm]

If you're under the age of 22, then that is a very very bad trade-off.

The possibility of respiratory arrest due to cytokine storm caused by the infection is highest in younger people.

Sounds like something out of "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra." ;)

[johnrocks]

Don't go into the light!!!!


Just joking bro,hoping to put a smile on your face, hope your feeling better today.:lol:

[ExDem]

To be honest it feels like regular flu... I feel like crap.

Thankfully I live close enough to campus where they just sent me home away from campus... those not lucky enough to live close to campus have to be sent to a quarantine place. I am being loaded up on Tylenol and Tamiflu

Anyone else catch this virus yet?


You poor thing!!!! I am sorry to hear that. I don't know anyone that has gotten the swine flu. I hope you are all better real soon.:hug:

[NascarGirl2448]

Oh really? :razz:

Its most likely like most other viruses, just runs its course and you're over it, but apparently is causing a major panic. Either way, I hope the more the medical community finds out about this the better able they will be to treat it.

[Old_Mil]

To be honest it feels like regular flu... I feel like crap.

Thankfully I live close enough to campus where they just sent me home away from campus... those not lucky enough to live close to campus have to be sent to a quarantine place. I am being loaded up on Tylenol and Tamiflu

Anyone else catch this virus yet?

You don't have swine flu unless you have (1) Tested positive for influenza and (2) Had the diagnosis of swine flu confirmed with a send out test from your doctor's office that actually types the virus as H1N1. This is not a clinical diagnosis.

[angelicmadrigal]

I'll be avoiding both shots. I'd rather be sick and miserable catching the flu naturally than being sick and miserable and having a sore arm where I've been stuck with a needle.

I work in a preschool and I have NEVER gotten a flu shot.

[birddog1]

I work in a preschool and I have NEVER gotten a flu shot.

My wife is a school teacher and rarely gets sick, I guess she builds up a good immunity to most stuff being exposed to that many kids. On the other hand she usually drags some kind of germ home to me every year and I get sick.

[ArmyMAJretired]

You don't have swine flu unless you have (1) Tested positive for influenza and (2) Had the diagnosis of swine flu confirmed with a send out test from your doctor's office that actually types the virus as H1N1. This is not a clinical diagnosis.

Under Obama care would the doctor now discuss end of life options, or only if you are over 65?

[HandsomeTramp]

To be honest it feels like regular flu... I feel like crap.

Thankfully I live close enough to campus where they just sent me home away from campus... those not lucky enough to live close to campus have to be sent to a quarantine place. I am being loaded up on Tylenol and Tamiflu

Anyone else catch this virus yet?

Please stop your Swine flu fear mongering (http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=1616921)!!! Don't you know it's all a big ObamaHoax???

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In all seriousness, get well soon. And I hope you, as a conservative, will stand up to the assorted idiots who claim this is all overblown.

Btw - looking at your 'sigline', when did the hannity site start a policy of 'Scarlet Letters'? Is public humiliation now policy at this website, or is Lee just being a 'maverick'? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v707/HandsomeTramp/smilies/dizzy.gif