so last weekened started to feel like I was coming down with something

I've been ill before where've needed antibiotics etc, but nothing comes close to the last week in terms of symptoms and suffering

Sat night, I've never sweat so much in my life

Sunday, couldn't move or get out of bed, couldn't sleep properly

Monday night though - felt like a merry go round of symptoms, one after the other, for about 30 minutes each, non stop, all night, zero sleep

 

high heart rate
hot flushes
sweating
shivering and shaking
coughing
couthing leading to flem
couthing leading to sick
nasusea 
vomiting bile
feeling dehydrated
dry throat

same again Tuesday and to a degree Wednesday

ok during the days, but the nights were awful

did 111, they just said driink water, take paracetamol and rest

did doctor, they just said driink water, take paracetamol and rest

was not having that something like this couldn't be treated with something hardcode but as I didn't have a temperature or thick green flem, then just basically get over it - it was viral and not an infection - but i was convinced i at least needed to be hooked up to an IV drip or something 

am feeling better now, no symptoms, but it's left me absolutely wiped out, 

fatigue
genereal feeling of weakness
dizzy / lightheaded
deep breaths make cough

I get the impressions this is going to take some time to recover from 

anyone else had something like this that was "untreatable", but far far worse than anything else you've had that was treatable?

or that's needed long recovery time?

 

Not me, but we've had loads of at work with similar symptoms in the last fortnight

Sorry to hear this pal sounds like you should have been on PrEP.

15 minutes ago, deeane Koontz said:

Sorry to hear this pal sounds like you should have been on PrEP.

already on that

39 minutes ago, Zico said:

so last weekened started to feel like I was coming down with something

I've been ill before where've needed antibiotics etc, but nothing comes close to the last week in terms of symptoms and suffering

Sat night, I've never sweat so much in my life

Sunday, couldn't move or get out of bed, couldn't sleep properly

Monday night though - felt like a merry go round of symptoms, one after the other, for about 30 minutes each, non stop, all night, zero sleep

 

high heart rate
hot flushes
sweating
shivering and shaking
coughing
couthing leading to flem
couthing leading to sick
nasusea 
vomiting bile
feeling dehydrated
dry throat

same again Tuesday and to a degree Wednesday

ok during the days, but the nights were awful

did 111, they just said driink water, take paracetamol and rest

did doctor, they just said driink water, take paracetamol and rest

was not having that something like this couldn't be treated with something hardcode but as I didn't have a temperature or thick green flem, then just basically get over it - it was viral and not an infection - but i was convinced i at least needed to be hooked up to an IV drip or something 

am feeling better now, no symptoms, but it's left me absolutely wiped out, 

fatigue
genereal feeling of weakness
dizzy / lightheaded
deep breaths make cough

I get the impressions this is going to take some time to recover from 

anyone else had something like this that was "untreatable", but far far worse than anything else you've had that was treatable?

or that's needed long recovery time?

 

Good chance you've had flu mate!

10 minutes ago, kent_white said:

Good chance you've had flu mate!

Was going to suggest that.

When do the jabs become available?

I currently have a 'snuffle' which is considerably worse than the flu.

27 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Was going to suggest that.

When do the jabs become available?

NHS rollout started today, I had a private one at ASDA this morning.

48 minutes ago, kent_white said:

Good chance you've had flu mate!

aye, that would fit, but I've not had a temperature, been a stready 37 degree throughout, which is why gp initally said no antibiotics

got a mum friend who's a nurse at stepping hill, based on symptoms i sent on whatsapp she thought pneumonia

you could've made the symptoms fit anything really there were that many

then she checked us out and thought it was a chest infection due to when listening said "Dull to right base and some crackles" and to get amoxicillin

gp listened but heard nowt, but as it was a thursday and i might get worse at weekend, she gave me presecription for amoxicillin just in case

which i took anyway

and to be honest I don't think i needed them

so inclined to think it wasn't something that could be specficially treated, which makes it all the stranger due to how bad it made me

 

22 minutes ago, C86 said:

NHS rollout started today, I had a private one at ASDA this morning.

Yeah my mrs has hers and a covid one on friday

Was it not COVID? I've just had my flu jab and Pneumovax jab which apparently protects against 23 other illnesses

1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Was going to suggest that.

When do the jabs become available?

started today at our local pharmacy I believe

11 posts in, and no mention of BAD AIDS yet, this place is going to the dogs

5 minutes ago, Sweep said:

11 posts in, and no mention of BAD AIDS yet, this place is going to the dogs

I think the PrEP comment covered it.

It could be monflu

Amoxicillin: bag o' shite.

Had loads of chest inflection type shit over the years- possibly to do with the job, and inhaling all sorts of bugs- but that stuff never works.

 

2 hours ago, Not in Crawley said:

I currently have a 'snuffle' which is considerably worse than the flu.

no you haven't

17 minutes ago, Casino said:

no you haven't

Its a soft shoe snuffle

4 hours ago, Zico said:

so last weekened started to feel like I was coming down with something

I've been ill before where've needed antibiotics etc, but nothing comes close to the last week in terms of symptoms and suffering

Sat night, I've never sweat so much in my life

Sunday, couldn't move or get out of bed, couldn't sleep properly

Monday night though - felt like a merry go round of symptoms, one after the other, for about 30 minutes each, non stop, all night, zero sleep

 

high heart rate
hot flushes
sweating
shivering and shaking
coughing
couthing leading to flem
couthing leading to sick
nasusea 
vomiting bile
feeling dehydrated
dry throat

same again Tuesday and to a degree Wednesday

ok during the days, but the nights were awful

did 111, they just said driink water, take paracetamol and rest

did doctor, they just said driink water, take paracetamol and rest

was not having that something like this couldn't be treated with something hardcode but as I didn't have a temperature or thick green flem, then just basically get over it - it was viral and not an infection - but i was convinced i at least needed to be hooked up to an IV drip or something 

am feeling better now, no symptoms, but it's left me absolutely wiped out, 

fatigue
genereal feeling of weakness
dizzy / lightheaded
deep breaths make cough

I get the impressions this is going to take some time to recover from 

anyone else had something like this that was "untreatable", but far far worse than anything else you've had that was treatable?

or that's needed long recovery time?

 

Sounds like the

MENOPAUSE 

Get yourself some antibiotics mate. Won't do any harm.

Amoxicillin or Doxycillin

11 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Get yourself some antibiotics mate. Won't do any harm.

Amoxicillin or Doxycillin

I got Amoxicillin, 5 days worth, will finish today

54 minutes ago, Zico said:

I got Amoxicillin, 5 days worth, will finish today

I can get loads of them if you need anymore.

 

Have you tried throwing yourself down the stairs?

so all the bad things have stopped happening

left with a bit of tight breathing, soreness 

and FUCK ALL energy

wiped me out

find myself falling asleep in the afternoons

and generally doing any physical like walking dog at a much slower pace

no chance of exercise at the moment

not sure how long this will last but hopefully not long

it's not all bad though

for as long as I can remember my target wieght is 182lb

I get into the upper 180s sometimes but never make that final push

no booze and no exercise and a cunt of a virus since Sat 28/09

and I'm down to 184.5lb

so every cloud

Sounds like BAD AIDS

4 hours ago, Zico said:

so all the bad things have stopped happening

left with a bit of tight breathing, soreness 

and FUCK ALL energy

wiped me out

find myself falling asleep in the afternoons

and generally doing any physical like walking dog at a much slower pace

no chance of exercise at the moment

not sure how long this will last but hopefully not long

it's not all bad though

for as long as I can remember my target wieght is 182lb

I get into the upper 180s sometimes but never make that final push

no booze and no exercise and a cunt of a virus since Sat 28/09

and I'm down to 184.5lb

so every cloud

Glandular fever?