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Had swine flu yet?
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10-13-2009, 08:45 PM
Does the visual media really have to serve up the pic of a needle sticking into someone's arm every time the flu is mentioned ?
Even the cold syrup manufacturers offer symptoms to entice the purchasing of thier products.
10-13-2009, 08:57 PM
I chose maybe. I don't get really sick very often. Usually I only feel crappy for a day or two and that is it. Allergies bother me more. I went 7 years at one job without being sick. I did call in sick a couple of times for mental health days, but only after I got my 12 month attendance award.
10-13-2009, 08:58 PM
is it at all possible to tell a cold apart from swine flu? considering that most people experience "mild" symptoms, it seems entirely possible to have it without realizing or distinguishing it from another cold or flu.
10-13-2009, 09:00 PM
Filliam H. Muffman wrote: Not necessarily, "...the virus does not cross the placenta per se..." It can take several years to build up immunities to the different strains. That is part of the reason children are so badly affected by H1N1. The main parts of this virus that the body uses to identify it, has not circulated widely or been part of a vaccinations for several years. The virus may not, but antibodies do. I'm not very sure on this though. When I got sick, the kid was in the car with me for many consecutive hours. He didn't get sick.
10-13-2009, 10:42 PM
Just got back from CVS/Minute Clinic. No test to confirm but whatever I caught 10 days ago it was most likely H1N1. It was painful! I am still fighting the dry cough, lethargy and difficulty breathing. I can't get any flu shot because I am not completely well yet.
10-13-2009, 11:24 PM
I think I had it early in the summer but I wasn't tested so I have no way of knowing for sure. As strange as it sounds to say, I hope I had it.
10-14-2009, 12:24 AM
Like AllGold I had something early last summer (mid May... well, late spring) and thought that it might be the swine flu. I'd had the seasonal flu vaccination last fall and had a short bout of flu in March so I thought the second bout would have been swine flu. Then I got a seasonal flu shot earlier this month and had a stronger than usual reaction to the shot... so who knows. I'll just have to wait and see.
10-14-2009, 01:15 AM
Earlier in March of this year I also had a minor case of flu. This time around it was the symptoms were 5x worse.
BTW, the RN at the CVS/Minute Clinic confirmed that once I got the H1N1 I would be immune to it. However, I would still have to deal with other flu as there are 200 of them! |
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