Swine Flu

[AXrescuer]

Sadly my elder brother has just been diagnosed as having it. Great news is that we all spent most of yesterday at a BBQ with him. Luckily he's not too bad right now but had a bit of a funny turn Friday night and became really feverish. As he looks like death warmed up most of the time it's really hard to tell how ill he actually is! Guess it's just a matter of waiting now for me the wife and kids.....Anyone want to be our flu friend and collect our Tamiflu for us when we need it!

[Richard]

Bloody hell, you haven't had much luck this year.

[whitevanman]

Bloody Hell, your luck don't get much better as timer passes does it................hope it all ends well for you

[Father Ted]

The strain doing the rounds at the moment is mild, so unless you have underlying chroinic / severe health problems you should be all OK if you do get it ( official DOH advice and personal experience from working at the Primary Care Centre). You will feel a bit shit for about a week then recover - normal flu advice is whats given along with antivirals (plenty of rest, fluids, keep warm, play scrabble etc)Peronally i hopes I gets it now before it mutates - which it will do and becomes more severe as whist this wont give total immunity against the mutated virus, it will give a pretty good head start- a bit like being vaccinated against whooping cough wont stop you getting all the strains but will make what you end up with as a milder form.There is of course every chance you wont get it, I've been round 3 people with the virus and still not come out with any nasty rashers Good luck anyway.

[Pillock]

Sadly my elder brother has just been diagnosed as having it. Great news is that we all spent most of yesterday at a BBQ with him. Anyone want to be our flu friend and collect our Tamiflu for us when we need it!

I'd rather come round, eat your bogies and get some time off work. Looks like they've given up on containing it and are just resigned to "it's not that bad, just take these pills and stay in watching Jeremy Kyle" sort of control. Good luck fella.... I'm doing my bit, I've just finished my bacon sandwich.

[Richard]

it's not that bad, just take these pills and stay in watching Jeremy Kyle

I wasn't worried about catching it before but now I'm shitting myself.

[gtd2000]

Feeling as sick a pig yet? Back in the day, when I lived in Hong Kong I came down with one of those Asian "superflues"...Not a great experience - 4 days of falling over and rolling around like a drunken arsehole and not knowing WTF was going on. On the 5th day I felt like shit warmed up and as if i had been battered sensless with a baseball bat.It took me at least a month to get back to feeling anything like approaching normal.One of my mates who was with me the night I came down with it ..slept at his place as I was living on an Island and couldn't get home.. disappeared off the radar for about a month - turned out he'd been in intensive care for two weeks with the same flu.Not recommended...

[AXrescuer]

Well we're all okay at the moment. I have a flu jab every year as I'm asthmatic so I just hope that will help to minimise any symptoms should I come down with it. Kids are all healthy and we've been told not to worry too much about them.Spoke to my brother this morning, he's ok too apart from some muscle pain and vomiting.

[dollywobbler]

Spoke to my brother this morning, he's ok too apart from some muscle pain and vomiting.

Oh no. I guess that'll be the Jeremy Kyle taking effect...

[Pillock]

Spoke to my brother this morning, he's ok too apart from some muscle pain and vomiting.

Oh no. I guess that'll be the Jeremy Kyle taking effect...

No, that manifests itself as tourettes and depression. And a desire to punch Jeremy Kyle.

[AXrescuer]

I've always been scared of getting Parkinson's Disease. The thought of having to do endless celebrity interviews does not appeal at all!

[garycox]

I feel absolutely crap today, I hope I don't have it! I don't get sick pay either, so it better be gone by 8am tomorrow!

[Father Ted]

I've always been scared of getting Parkinson's Disease.

Dont hammer crack cocaine then - OK it wont guarantee not getting normal Parkinsons, but grack depletes the dopamine in your sweed and rather usefully bungs the receptors up preventing reuptake of dopamine and the use of typical antiparkinsonian drugs (methyldopa).

[simmo]

Girlfriend's sister has it, mild symptoms and an automatic 2 weeks off work. She is in the second week now and her car was ouside the pub so on the mend I guess.

[FredTransit]

No offence to anybody who has got it, but I have far more things to think about right now, flu has been about forever, never mind what it's called. As Father Ted said, unless you are already ill for some reason it's not good news to get, but is unlikely to kill you if you if you have a normal immune system. How many people have died in the UK? Very few, and all of them were either very young, or already ill with something else. I can't help thinking Swine Flu was only reported to take our minds off the economy, and as soon as the thing about the MPs expenses kicked off, it was forgotten.

[whitevanman]

. I can't help thinking Swine Flu was only reported to take our minds off the economy, and as soon as the thing about the MPs expenses kicked off, it was forgotten.

Ahh.........so you noticed that as well...........

[AXrescuer]

I've always been scared of getting Parkinson's Disease.

Dont hammer crack cocaine then - OK it wont guarantee not getting normal Parkinsons, but grack depletes the dopamine in your sweed and rather usefully bungs the receptors up preventing reuptake of dopamine and the use of typical antiparkinsonian drugs (methyldopa).

Will I still have to present a chat show though?

[AXrescuer]

Well wifey and I have just been confirmed as having the damn thing! Thankfully, neither of us feel too bad at the moment but the doc has given us each a pack of Tamiflu tabs. Kids seem to have missed it so far but I'm thinking I'd rather they got it now rather than later in the year.

[FredTransit]

. I can't help thinking Swine Flu was only reported to take our minds off the economy, and as soon as the thing about the MPs expenses kicked off, it was forgotten.

Ahh.........so you noticed that as well...........

Yep! It's flu. Not nice to get, but unless you are already ill with something it's unlikely to kill you. Not aimed at you AXrescuer, just a generality. I don't understand why the media are making a big thing about it. To my knowledge, no healthy person that's got it has died. Hardly the bubonic plague is it?

[Father Ted]

I don't understand why the media are making a big thing about it. Hardly the bubonic plague is it?

Easily treated with Gentamycin

 

Honestly I would be more arsed about contracing galloping nob rot than Swine Flu.

[AXrescuer]

I'm a bit concerned as I suffer from Asthma and also have Hypothyroidism. As I sad though, don't really feel too bad other than a really claggy chest.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I used to have a ginger tom cat that had hypothyroidism or whatever it is. It was permanently hungry and used to try and get into the cupboard to rob the cheese.

[Mr Lobster]

I had a cat that was permenantly hungry a few years ago. used to try and break into the fridge so I had to fit a child lock. Bugger still managed to get in though, once managed to get a chicken out and and ate virtually the whole thing.GR8 4 LEFTOVAZ THO.

[FredTransit]

The cat thing sounds more like Cushing's Disease.

[AXrescuer]

I used to have a ginger tom cat that had hypothyroidism or whatever it is. It was permanently hungry and used to try and get into the cupboard to rob the cheese.

It doesn't manifest itself like that in me I'm glad to say!

[Minimad5]

i wasnt bothered about swine flew untill you mentioned it

aaah well i'll live (Crosses fingers)

 

Hope ya all get the clear soon !

 

Would it be hi-jacking and cheeky of me to mention a real disease MS.

I dont know if your all aware but there is a charity event happening

http://www.stickittoms.com/index.html

Not only do the participants break a silly record, but most importantly raise money for MS (Yes im joinin in)

 

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if you could donate a penny or two it would be great

if the credit crunch has you by the balls.... then dont worry

 

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Thanks and sorry to AX for hi-jackin his thread

[gtd2000]

I used to have a ginger tom cat that had hypothyroidism or whatever it is. It was permanently hungry and used to try and get into the cupboard to rob the cheese.

It doesn't manifest itself like that in me I'm glad to say!

Yeah eating cheese wouldn't help ya at all due to it (dairy products in general) producing more mucous and clogging yer chest/throat up even more potentially.

[MrRegieRitmo]

The cat thing sounds more like Cushing's Disease.

Does the cat have a constant desire to watch hammer horror films?

[AXrescuer]

Really feeling like shit today. I've been given loan of a nebuliser to help my breathing. Hope that this doesn't last too long, it's really not nice at all. On the upside, wifey is doing well so at least I have someone to fuss over me!

[pompei]

Keep yer pecker up - hope you're over the worst of it soon