Flu

[TJTX]

Anyone else lucky enough to get this flu that's going around?  I've been down and out for 3 days now unfortunately, and I don't normally get more than a 24 hour head cold.  Unfortunately, now that I fly for Southwest I'm around lots of people now and seem to get sick more often, that and I have a 4 year old in pre-school bringing home all the germs.  It's rough being stuck in bed knowing the model is a few rooms away and not being able to work on it since I'm home.

[Martinnfb]

It’s been over a week and still not done. I guess I picked it up in Mexico or at the airport. It’s pretty bad, you name a symptom and I have had it, it went through stages. 

[TJTX]

Sounds kinda like mine.  When one symptom goes away, a new one rears up.  Just about the time I think I may be turning a corner, bam, back in bed.

[mark31]

3 weeks ago 4 days in bed. last week again for 3 days .

So i hope spring is here soon.

[JohnB]

2 hours ago, TJTX said:

Anyone else lucky enough to get this flu that's going around?  I've been down and out for 3 days now unfortunately, and I don't normally get more than a 24 hour head cold.  Unfortunately, now that I fly for Southwest I'm around lots of people now and seem to get sick more often, that and I have a 4 year old in pre-school bringing home all the germs.  It's rough being stuck in bed knowing the model is a few rooms away and not being able to work on it since I'm home.

I've been lucky so far! I hope you get better soon Tony. 🫤

[Lusitanian]

Luckily I have not gotten it, but loads of people I know are sick as crap right now.  I had a nasty sinus infection that hung on for about 3 weeks of technicolor goo coming out of my face.

[GusMac]

I spent most of the festive period in bed, from Xmas Eve to 1st Jan, only got up for Xmas lunch which I barely ate. I was vaccinated for flu in October as an NHS worker but obviously not the correct strain! Only second time I've had 'proper' flu in my life and it was definitely worse than the only bout of covid I've had.

Wonder if it's the same strain as you've got going round over the pond?

[Lusitanian]

On 1/25/2025 at 9:05 PM, GusMac said:

I spent most of the festive period in bed, from Xmas Eve to 1st Jan, only got up for Xmas lunch which I barely ate. I was vaccinated for flu in October as an NHS worker but obviously not the correct strain! Only second time I've had 'proper' flu in my life and it was definitely worse than the only bout of covid I've had.

Wonder if it's the same strain as you've got going round over the pond?

It was stated that the 2024/25 flu vaccine would be less effective than normal because of some new strains that had popped up after the vaccine formulation had already been set and production started.  Get used to that going forward.  Microorganisms are starting to adapt faster than we can catch up with them, both viruses and bacteria.  

[HubertB]

Got vaccinated in October last year, and still got it at the end of last year, albeit in a very attenuated form, that got me tired for a few days, but nothing more really. Patricia, also vaccinated, gor a more severe form that got her in bed for a week. Still better than in 2020, when the flu degenerated in pneumonia with 10 days in ER, during COVID times ...

So, even if the risk of new strains not totally covered by the vaccine, as pointed above, is present, it is still better to get vaccinated than not, in my experience at least.

Hubert

[TJTX]

I've never been someone who gets the flu vaccine.   Think that is gonna change now.  This has been a miserable 5 days so far.

[Lusitanian]

16 minutes ago, TJTX said:

I've never been someone who gets the flu vaccine.   Think that is gonna change now.  This has been a miserable 5 days so far.

 

It’s always a good idea.  People die of influenza.  

[HubertB]

2 hours ago, Lusitanian said:

 

It’s always a good idea.  People die of influenza.  

The "Spanish" Flu in 1918/1919 killed between 50 (low estimate) and 100 (high estimate) million people. Makes Covid look like a seasonal cold ...

in France, about 1 500 to 1 700 people died of the flu in the first two weeks of January ...

Hubert

[biggtim]

Yep, I got the flu about new years day or so. Just on the last stages of it now. It was worse than COVID, though not the worst flu I've had. I sure don't want that dang norovirus, though. I've had a few friends get that, and they spent a few days ejecting things in both directions.

[ScottsGT]

Problem with flu vaccines is they are produced on the newest strain of flu at the time.  By the time they get into production and then on the street the strain has either mutated where it’s not nearly effective or a different strain has gone “viral”.  
 

And not to mention the risks associated with them.  My wife has had several patients that came down with Guillain-Barré Syndrome from a flu shot.  

[TJTX]

Ended up going in to the doc today.   Steroid shot, and antibiotics to try and keep it from progressing into Pneumonia.  Feeling abit better but still can't seem to focus at the bench.  The Steroid sent me for a loop. Been watching the cold war documentary on Netflix instead.   It's really really good.

[belugawhaleman]

Luckily, no flu for me......However, I'm having a Hell of a time shaking

off this Dutch Elm Disease..... At least, that's what my Doctor calls it.

[TJTX]

10 minutes ago, belugawhaleman said:

Luckily, no flu for me......However, I'm having a Hell of a time shaking

off this Dutch Elm Disease..... At least, that's what my Doctor calls it.

The tree disease?

[belugawhaleman]

8 minutes ago, TJTX said:

The tree disease?

What ? There's a Tree Disease with that name? I think I need a new

Primary Care Physician ! 😉

[KevinM]

I am not a vaccine guy never got the C-19 shot had it Most  likely in 3/1/20 I did not have flu A or B but had pneumonia for the first time in over 50 years.They would not test me  because I was a 1/2' to low on temp.I caught another C-19 variant 18 months later tested + they go you want blood infusion or something else I said No I have already had it.Steroid shot some zinc and something else the doc prescribed I was over it in 24 hrs best 10 day vacation with pay I ever had. I don't get sick I get wounded haven't had so much the sniffles since August 2021 and my wife is a teacher with pre-k she brings it home every-year.I had a Flu once back in 2008/09 but was not as bad as what caught me 2020 that lasted 5 weeks started moving into the other lung that's when they gave me an antibody just for pneumonia killed it in a week.

[Lusitanian]

Next time you may not be that lucky.

[ScottsGT]

On 1/28/2025 at 10:40 PM, KevinM said:

I am not a vaccine guy never got the C-19 shot had it Most  likely in 3/1/20 I did not have flu A or B but had pneumonia for the first time in over 50 years.They would not test me  because I was a 1/2' to low on temp.I caught another C-19 variant 18 months later tested + they go you want blood infusion or something else I said No I have already had it.Steroid shot some zinc and something else the doc prescribed I was over it in 24 hrs best 10 day vacation with pay I ever had. I don't get sick I get wounded haven't had so much the sniffles since August 2021 and my wife is a teacher with pre-k she brings it home every-year.I had a Flu once back in 2008/09 but was not as bad as what caught me 2020 that lasted 5 weeks started moving into the other lung that's when they gave me an antibody just for pneumonia killed it in a week.

I got hit with covid 16 months back from visiting my Dr’s office.  I was around no one, went no where except for my yearly physical.  
It took almost a year for my lungs to heal up where I could airbrush my lacquer paints (in a paint booth too) without it feeling like it was sucking all the air out of me.  

[ScottsGT]

On 1/25/2025 at 8:25 AM, TJTX said:

Unfortunately, now that I fly for Southwest I'm around lots of people now and seem to get sick more often, that and I have a 4 year old in pre-school bringing home all the germs. 

LOL!  There’s your culprit.  You’re getting the daycare Petri dish bugs.  Happens to me when mine started daycare, I watched my coworkers go through the same ordeal and now it’s happening again with our grandkids.  My wife volunteered for us to keep the two youngest one time because the small one woman operation home daycare was closed due to her getting the bugs.  So you guessed it. Grands show up snotty, coughing and running a mild fever.  Told the wife this one is all her.  I disappeared to my bench and let her catch all the bugs.  She told me I was being silly.  Two days later she realized I was right and then I wouldn’t get anywhere near her for days.  I was lucky.