Why Do I Get Flu at Christmas? - Page 2

Margaret Pilkington · 17-12-2007, 19:26

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.

MargaretR · 17-12-2007, 19:40

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

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

BERNADETTE · 19-12-2007, 15:25

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

blazey · 19-12-2007, 16:30

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Originally Posted by katex

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

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

panther · 19-12-2007, 17:56

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

oh and flu is a lot worse than tonsilitis

blazey · 19-12-2007, 18:00

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Originally Posted by panther

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

oh and flu is a lot worse than tonsilitis

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.

mez · 24-12-2007, 08:43

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.

Yolanda25 · 24-12-2007, 09:03

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

cashman · 24-12-2007, 09:15

thats cos yer an elf yolanda, they are more suseptible to bugs, living in gardens n the like.

p.s. hope yer ok for xmas.

Yolanda25 · 24-12-2007, 09:24

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

Lilly · 27-12-2007, 22:35

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.

Tombraider · 29-12-2007, 03:31

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Originally Posted by Lilly

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.

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