We’ve both had the regular flu vaccine, but we’re feeling rotten, edge of a sore throat, cough…simultaneously for both of us. We are very suspicious…
Darn, darn, darn—I fear we’re coming down with the pig flu…
by CJ | Oct 19, 2009 | Journal | 17 comments
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oh no! I hope you feel better soon!
Oh noes! I feel your pain – my beloved was down with the Hamthrax last week. Only his started with a migraine (which he’s never experienced before) before settling into the nasty cough/fever that he had for several days.
I recommend copious amounts of Emergen-C Immune Defense. I’m convinced this played a significant role in reducing my exposure to the Hamthrax to a mild case of “am I or am I not going to catch the plague?”
Feel better soon, both of you!
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Please stay home as much as possible and get better quickly. Chicken soup is your friend 🙂
‘Hamthrax’. *snerk*
Oh, you poor things! I have not been sick this autumn so far (knocks on wood which might technically be formica), unless you count menstruating for almost a month straight (which, btw, my doc figured out, thank heavens: pill confusion/comedy of errors, all over now, say thankya!) I swear by Airborne, personally (the stuff really does seems to work), but whatever your remedy, I wish you both a speedy recovery! <3
Two doses of emergen-cee and a glass of wine, in my case, and Scotch, in Jane’s, and we did note an upturn. It may be a cold we are going to throw off. I hope so! Wish us luck. If we turn purple and break out in pig-noses overnight, OSG’s getting a phone call at 2 am. 😆 We hope not!
My boss is swearing by Tamiflu. It apparently doesn’t cure anything, but makes the symptoms much more bearable.
Prophylaxis by Tamiflu is a really bad idea… for (at least) two reasons: One, Tamiflu has side effects (all medications do, it’s just that some are more significant than others); Two, taking any medication, but especially antibiotics/antivirals, without having been diagnosed with the appropriate infection or condition, teaches bugs to resist that medication. That’s one reason we have MRSA, kiddies.
When I lived on a remote,rocky tor,my Dr. told me that isolation would wipe out my immunities. I kept myself in Emergen-C and I never,repeat never,came down with so much as the sniffles after my occasional town trips. This while all around me people sniffed,
coughed and sneezed. I’m a believer in Emergen-C…!
Hope it’s ‘just a cold’. Some years I seem to get everything that comes down the pike; other years: nothing…..does not seem to depend on flu shots……more my strange lymed out immune system. Proge rarely gets more than a cold….who knows!
Flowers and wishes to get better soon.
I hope you both feel better soon. My daughter and I had Swine Flu when it hit England in the middle of the year. We stayed home and rested, drank plenty of fluids, stayed away from people to avoid secondary infections and it turned out to be the mildest flu I’ve had in 30 years. The most notable difference was the constant headache and aching limbs. My husband got it from us and he only had ‘cold’ symptoms for two days while we were in bed for a 9 days. I agree with azureblu about the vitamin C. Good luck.
My wife and I had the flu (don’t know if it was porcinous or not) for the entire month of September. Lots of fluids, vitamin C, and complaining seemed to help with the symptoms.
Good news: it’s next morning, and after the aforesaid treatment, at least I’m upright and functioning and without the sore throat and cough from yesterday evening. We spent a lot of time at Jane’s bro’s favorite watering hole and it was packed: a place where you can get most anything—including whatever’s going around. But Jane was complaining that she was sneezing when she went into the bathroom, with its open window overlooking the compost-heap of water hyacinths I had dumped on the pond margin, and I went out yesterday morning and pitched them all into the lidded bin for the city compost, where they may moulder in usefulness, but not for us. That may have been the trigger that set off the symptoms, and we didn’t tolerate the usual post-nasal drip that will set you up for a bacterial infection most every time: we got that stopped. So I hope we’re going to dodge this one.
If you get the Hamthrax (love the name!!), there will be NO doubt — NONE whatsoever. Take it from someone who knows!
Yay! The tamiflu is good stuff but you have to use it in the first 72 hours or its useless. Our flight docs love it.
SO far so good. Jane said she was about to call OSG at 2 am, but I slept like a log. Jane’s still dosing herself with Emergen-C, and I’m doing all right, just tired from the weekend.
Jane is, however, 10 years younger than I am, and I’m in that window to have met Hamthrax’s grandfather…so I am supposedly less likely to catch it. My unscholarly guess is that this stuff has made several rounds of the planet, its last visit about 25 years ago, and this is why the youngest up to mid-twenties are having such bad doses of it, and why seniors are not as badly afflicted.
Good to hear that all are doing well. I hadn’t thought about that angle CJ, that if you’re in that upper demographic you’ve already dealt with it and have antibodies– I had just noticed that swine/bird flu pandemics always seem to really slam youngsters up to the mid/late 20s the hardest. My doctor thinks I’m nuts coz I won’t get the annual flu shot, but I just don’t get the flu. I had the Hong Kong flu that was the last big pandemic back in 1968 when I was a kid — right on the heels of being bedridden for 4 months with Valley Fever — a nasty fungal infection that can attack just about any part of the body, but frequently gets the lungs and happens in southern California and the Southwest; it caused holes in my lungs. In those days bed rest was the only thing you could do, but now there are meds one can take. Anyway, I was sick as the proverbial dog having a weakened immune system, but not hospital bad. Since then the worst I get is feeling horrid with intestinal moments, the usual aches and fever for about 3 days, feeling crappy for a couple more and that’s about it while everyone else is sick for weeks. I know this is swine flu is a new version, but we just got back last week from a trip to South Dakota, including planes, several hotels, national parks and monuments and casinos. So far, so good. I wash hands a lot! Seems to do the trick.