Dreaded flu bug!
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Topic: Dreaded flu bug!
Posted By: Two Blondinis
Subject: Dreaded flu bug!
Date Posted: 19 August 2008 at 9:07pm
Who else has this? It seems like everyone I know IRL has this bug and it's a really lingering too 
I've had it for the best part of 4 weeks (chills, tired all the time, fever on and off, sneezing and coughing up greenies, swollen glands in neck), Caitlin had it for just over a week and now DH has it (100 times worse of course!  )
I'm so over it! I want to feel well again *tanty*   ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 19 August 2008 at 9:10pm
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Yep I still have it hanging around from 5 weeks ago. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 19 August 2008 at 9:12pm
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Brooke said there was only 18 kids in her class this week when normally there is 33/34... so alot of sickness going round at the mo ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 9:57am
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I've heard that it lurks a lot...took me around 3 or 4 weeks to really come right...I got throughly doused on herbs etc by my personal trainer and that really seemed to work! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 10:30am
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We're off to the GP today. I can hardly talk and it hurts to swallow (glads very swollen) and my poor lil girl woke up with green gunk in her eyelashes and under her nose
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Posted By: VannesaD
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 12:08pm
I got it .. this is week 4 and I'm only just beginning to feel semi-human again. 
Being pg makes things worse too - GP told me just to keep my fluids up. I ate a lot of pineapple frujus as comfort but could hardly taste anything - including spicy meals. -------------  
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Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 12:12pm
I think I got it too The last 3 days I have struggled to move of the couch, I have such a sore throat and headache and am loosing my voice. Now I understand why Keira has been so grumpy the last few weeks - shes been sick with it too and only just got her voice back.------------- 
 
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Posted By: ohanlon82
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 12:31pm
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i have had it for about 3 weeks now - finally feeling a little alive now.. had a really bad cough - sounded terrible - pretty much had about 10 hours sleep (lying up on the couch) in 5 days....
it suxs big time and i feel for ya all... ------------- http://lb2f.lilypie.com/TikiPic.php/RPaODBg.jpg |
Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 12:54pm
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Yup...same here...we are on week 5 of it in this house!! I have been laid up again for 4 days this time with an inner ear infection on top of the rest of it (snot, cough, sore throat etc)....the infection has caused me to have vertigo...its been awful. Havent been able to read, watch TV, use the PC, bend over, turn my head, sit up....its just been a nightmare!! Feel like I somehow need to de-bug my house!!!
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 1:17pm
my mum and dad have had it for weeks hope you are all feeling better soon ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 1:21pm
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I have it this week....lovely coughing up in morning!!! so attractive!
had conjuncitivitis last week still have GF
Ella has HFM and had conjunctivitis last week Need (another) tropical holiday i think.... |
Posted By: Shorty
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 2:34pm
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I am sorry to hear you are still unwell....I hope the Dr can give you something nice and strong to kick it in the butt ------------- http://www.alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 6:54pm
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This is what we have, Toni. The girls have conjunctivitis and ear infections out of the cold, DH "just" has a cold (for a while though), mine developed into sinus infection and laryngitis too. TMI if your phlegm is green you will probably get AB's, hopefully that wil help it disappear quicker.
I'm seriously feeling like our family has been rather picked on this winter
SimSam, I've had vertigo before and it is dreadful! You can get anti-dizzy tablets from your dr if you are struggling with it. Eating bananas helps btw, it's about the only food "soft enough" to eat when your throat is sore. Honey lollies too (we have a honey farm in Palmy that make hard boiled lollies out of honey), try to keep your fluids up with diluted juice. We have been having casseroled chicken most nights this week as the chicken is then very soft. And we've been through about 5 tissue boxes since the weekend LOL -------------  |
Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 7:34pm
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Dr said Caitlin has tonsilitis and I probably have glandula fever (but can't give me anything for it) She gave C antibiotics and whilst I was getting some pro-biotics at the homeopath I said to her I'd been unwell for ages and told her what the GP said. I left there with 2 bottles of what I can only descibe as venomus stagnant pond water LOL but all tinctures taste like that. I'm just glad someone could give me something to make me feel a bit better.
I also got some immune booster "stuff" for all of us and was advised to de-bug the house. So that's all windows and doors open for at least an hour. Hope everyone else starts to feel better soon, I hate winter as a rule - but this one has REALLY SUCKED! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 7:44pm
| Stink Toni, I hope you and Caitlin recover quickly! Bring on summer!! |
Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 7:51pm
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Busymum - I got some anti-nausea / anti-dizzy pills but they make me sleepy, so couldnt take them if I needed to look after Oli! Today was my first day back driving (since last Thurs)....was taking it very carefully on the road!!
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Posted By: ShellandBella
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 8:26pm
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I've had it for two weeks. There was something on the news about it and how it was wiping out numbers in schools. The doctors said it was a 'cold' bug but a nasty one that hangs around for ages *great*
There are heaps of people off sick at my work with it too... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 20 August 2008 at 8:34pm
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Stink if you have GF Toni, that really bites. You can get a blood test to confirm it. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 21 August 2008 at 4:19pm
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Eeek Toni, that sounds awful! ------------- |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 21 August 2008 at 8:57pm
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Just out of curiosity, have any of you that are crook had the flu jab this year? ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 21 August 2008 at 10:46pm
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no I haven't had the jab. From what I understand they give you the flu to build your immunity. Everyone I know has been really sick after the jab and as I've never actually had the flu I'd rather not get it, hope that made a bit of sense lol
I'm going for a blood test tomorrow for other stuff and GP has added it to the ever increasing list lol I'm more inclined to think it's tonsilitis same as Caitlin. From what I've read both have similar symptoms - but I've never had either before. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: FionaS
Date Posted: 22 August 2008 at 10:54am
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Looks like I'm joining the club. This is ridiculous. Before I had Elle I was sick once a year if that and this is my 4th cold/flu this winter. Enough already. I blame lack of exercise - when I was active for an hour a day I very rarely got sick and now that excerise is more rare, I'm sick frequently.
Not sure what others have but my throat is killing me, head is throbbing and all my joints ache....even my wrists! If this is what Elle had last weekend no wonder she spent most of it crying. Get well soon everyone. ------------- Mummy to Gabrielle and Ashley |
Posted By: palomino
Date Posted: 22 August 2008 at 4:42pm
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+1 for the flu club.
2nd time this winter :( i hate this cough. poor bubs must be getting so shooken up. |
Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 22 August 2008 at 10:00pm
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my heart goes out to the sick preggy ladies! I hate taking pills at the best of time but have been dosing myself up to the eyeballs and have only just started to feel better tonight. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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