Why Do I Get Flu at Christmas?
 

So I'm lucky this year, I've got time to get better for the 24th. Last year I got it on that date and was still suffering at New Year.

I had my flu jab in October and I was fine but, last week, I got a slight cold and that was that. Within 2 days I had no appetite, no strength and all I could do was sleep. I can just about get up and down the stairs and I feel dreadful. Has anyone any idea why? Is there a flu bug going round?

Re: Why Do I Get Flu at Christmas?
 

must be a different strain to the one you were immunised against....
there is a bug going round, alot of the children at my lads school have had it, its not a nice one.. temperature, sickness, diorrhea, head ache and blocked noses etc, we had it other week...

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you got my sympathy westender, i'm as rough as rats,snotting n sneezing, we were supposed to be going to the rocknroll tonight,but thats buggared:( hope yer ok for xmas. as to why you get it ? BAD LUCK.

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Are you still going to the meet tomorrow?




so we can all get it :rolleyes:

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Aaah , that's a shame Cashy, was looking forward to having a chat with you and Paris tonight. Even a rock n roll dance .. providing ya' had the right pull .. :D

Sincerely hope you and Westender feel better soon xx

Re: Why Do I Get Flu at Christmas?
 

Ever cross your mind that it might not be flu, but just the natural process of aging:D:rolleyes::D

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Sorry to hear you aren't well Westender and Cashman too. Hope you both manage to shake it off before Christmas.

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There are plenty of bugs going around at the minute, as I work in many different homes, and have kids at school, I get the lot, (never used to), had the sickness one, followed by flu (suspect they were linked), and now getting over a cold, the family and co workers have all suffered in varying degrees, partner says it man flu, I say it woman flu, with knobs on! lol

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you can die from man flu!! :eek::D








seems like it sometimes:rolleyes:

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Thanks emm! I hope not, though I have seriously felt like it a few times! I think it may have got me while my immune system down following an operation, I have had it far worse than most. poor me haha.

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ive just got rid of two cold sores and now theres another one coming and it feels inormous..i hope its gone for xmas...:(

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I started with a cold a couple of weeks ago, passed it round the family and now I seem to have got it back again ! :(

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Sounds like the gift that keeps on giving:D

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I get it too. I have been ill for the past few days, and I've had enough today and wrapped myself up in thick blankets in bed and sweat it all out of me. I know its uncomfortable to lie there and sweat rather than kicking the covers off, but hopefully you'll get better much quicker.

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Can't understand how you sweat it out of you Blazey ?? .. if you have a temperature, you have to strip down to bring down the temperature, and shiver .. hard at first, but does work at the end of the day... get well soon anyway . x

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I started with this blooming bug on Saturday afternoon......just a headache at first, went to bed for a couple of hours thinking I would feel better when I got up......wrong! Achey, sneezy, shivery and snotty......I am dreading this going onto my chest.
For all fellow sufferers out there.....keep taking the tablets, honey and lemon and get some rest. Get better soon everybody.

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I hope I am not tempting fate by saying this ---- I have been cold free for over 3years and last had flu over 2 years ago.

I think it is due my winter hibernation practice. I live alone and have all my supplies delivered. I do venture into public places about once a fortnight in winter on average, so I am not exposing myself to all your germs :D

It suits me (because I like me :D)-- I am quite content with my own company. Hermit ?--- Recluse? --- maybe --- I call it Peaceful :D

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Feeling a bit ropey myself now. A bit shivery and full of a cold. Remedies anybody? Non alcoholic if possibly not into hot toddies

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Sweating gets toxins out of your body, that is why saunas are so popular.

Turns out I dont have flu anyway, i have tonsillitis. I dont know what I feel about tonsillitis yet, I keep wanting to be sick though which I hate, and its uncomfortable to swallow yet I feel impulses to keep swallowing, probably because i'm needing to drink alot to stop myself getting dehydrated.
I'm not often properly ill but tonsillitis isn't very friendly, I wish that I did have the flu but I guess I'm not so fortunate, though the lovely doctor says I should be better by xmas eve. Lovely Jubbly

Re: Why Do I Get Flu at Christmas?
 

ya cant be that bad if ya on ere blazey!!



oh and flu is a lot worse than tonsilitis

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Its hardly using up alot of energy lying in bed with the laptop. Maybe I have never had the flu then, I dont recall ever being bed ridden by the flu.

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well having just recovered (not fully) from the blasted cough & sneezes which knocked me off my feet this time around im now back into wanting to peruse the tinternet again so ...hi all im feeling a tad better, just hope everyone else is ok, poor lyl (brian) has been badley with it too, well must try to get into the christmas spirit now.

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Well, i dont know what i have but its strange, went to work saturday, i ws in a good mood, the thing is when i got in bus after work my body started aching, i thought i was just tired but when i got home i only managed to have tea, bath child, speak to emmamum for 5 min and went to bed.
When i got up yesterday i was very ill being sick and a temperature of 38.1, i dont know what it was but i spent all day in bed.
Today i got up and still feel really ill, i've taken enough painkillers as i need to go asda, wish me luck lol and then need to go into town.
Probly just a bug i dont know

Re: Why Do I Get Flu at Christmas?
 

thats cos yer an elf yolanda, they are more suseptible to bugs, living in gardens n the like.:D p.s. hope yer ok for xmas.;)

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Hahah ok cahman if you said so, me too, i want to go town today and do my little bit of shopping and i want to be fit to play with my son tomorrow with his new presents lol

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I haven't got flu but I have got a real stinker of a cold at the moment. :(

It started yesterday, sneezing, nose dripping like a tap, eyes running. I feel as weak as a kitten. Everything's a bloomin effort. I think I'll get myself off to bed now.

Hope everyone else who had bugs is better now.

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I know how you feel. Ive been the same since christmas day. I cant even sleep because i cant breath when i lie down :(