It's so bad. I took every med out there. I tried every tea in the world. I gargled with a whole bunch of different stuff. None of it helped.

It hurts so much to swallow. The pain is unbearable. I'd give it a 100 out of 10. I have a high fever. I have body ache. I am shivering constantly. My entire body is so sore. I am not able to sleep at night. My ears feel weird ..not in a good way. I have watery eyes it looks like I'm crying even though I'm not.

My legs are in so much pain I can't even get up. I am in my 20s and I feel like my world is coming to an end. It's so funny because 2 days ago I was completely healthy.

God just take me away.

Hi wondering if anyone can relate. Im female, 22.

I tested positive for Flu-A this past Sunday, (symptoms beginning saturday) and my only symptoms have been headaches, body aches, extreme fatigue and shortness of breath from mild chest tightness.

Regarding the chest portion, theres no stabbing pain or popping noises– just discomfort from the tightness when I breathe, ER said my lungs sound clear. No fever (ive been sitting at a solid 98°), no runny nose or major congestion anywhere else, my pulse ox is regular (oxygen 98-100%, heart rate at 74-90)— just those symptoms ive mentioned. Ive been eating and snacking quite normally too, no nausea.

I was prescribed an inhaler, cough medicine, advil and tamiflu just to prevent secondary pneumonia/symptom management— but this chest tightness is terribly annoying. Ive been forcing myself to cough a little more and wonder if you guys have had similar experiences/if i should be worried about this “walking pneumonia” ive heard about and spend another buck on an ER visit.

Thanks

Does anyone else see it?

Hello! I was infected with viral fever took the medicine for 3 days but I got these red dot type rashes shown in the picture.
What should I do? Is this common?

My body is hurting so bad rn and my throat is super sore I can't even swallow anything. I couldn't fall asleep last night I kept moving across my bed because of how much body ache I was in.

Please find me a solution . I don't want to feel this way

Bone crushing fatigue anyone? I thought I was getting better as my fever went away but I tried to go even sit in the car wash and I came home and tried to sleep but I’m so sore and have such horrible body fatigue it hurts. I’ve never had a flu like this in my life. I’m scared this will develop into like CFE or something.

I was around my family on Saturday for hours in close quarters. One of the kids had a fever at the time but without going into detail there was another reason we thought that he had that. Sunday two more of them came down with the flu. I am still feeling okay. Since I was already around them and exposed, is it safe for me to be back around them tomorrow? They are all on tamiflu for what will be 3 days tomorrow.

Story in short: I got the Flu three times in a row last year. both Flu A and Flu B. I noticed that even after I got better the back of my throat never fully recovered and those side parts stayed perpetually inflamed. It didn’t hurt if I pressed my throat it just looked puffed up.

I also noticed that I coughed flem up more even when I wasn’t sick.

is this a normal long term side effect of the flu?

Anyone else in the UK struggling with this virus?

Mine started last Wednesday with a mild sore throat. By Friday evening I started feeling progressively worse, with a runny/blocked nose, cough, headaches and generally feeling rubbish.
Strangely, I didn’t develop a fever until yesterday evening (38.3°C), almost a week after my first symptoms.

My HR has been running high for me at rest in the 90’s (usually sits in the 50’s-60’s when laying down). This morning it reached 145 just from getting up to go to the loo 🫩. Took a while to come down so super panicked me!

Saw the GP today who has prescribed me delayed antibiotics if I keep getting fevers and feeling worse in a few days. Chest/lungs sounded clear. BP was a little low. Annoyingly I’m back to a temperature of 38 this evening. I don’t feel too terrible, just tired and bunged up.

What the hell is this weird long virus? 😩

Hello everyone!

I got the flu and i just coughed up this. I'm a very paranoid and anxious person about my health so I would like some help.

Thank you!

I was diagnosed with influenza A last week and I'm on day 9 of being sick. in the beginning was chills, cough, headache, lightheadedness, body ache. now I'm over the chills and aches but I have a cough with mucus that is making it terribly hard to breathe. like it feels like I'm constantly out of breath and can't get a full breath in my lungs. my doc prescribed a steroid to me which has helped but I can just tell this is going to go on for maybe a week longer... I haven't had Flu A (that I can remember) and I've never felt so sick in my life. 😞

This is by far the worst flu I’ve ever had in my entire life. Ive been fully bedridden unable to even shower or walk to the bathroom, haven’t slept one minute in 7 days now. Called ambulance and been to ER twice already. Feels like complete death and so traumatic. Fever, extreme body aches, chills, crippling weakness, chills, heart pounding racing, short of breath, sore throat, horrific cough and constant cough attacks that make your eyes water and almost vomit, severe pots, feels like glass in lungs… haven’t eaten in a week. Can’t even watch tv because the suffering is so extreme. D

I'm 35, 5'10 - 145lbs. I caught a cold (flu?) on tuesday that hit me pretty rapidly (sneezing, stuffy nose, feeling weak, fatigued and leaking boogs), tuesday night I had a fever and barely slept then woke up wednesday feeling a lot better and was cured by friday morning. Google says colds take at least a week to recover but somehow my body turned it around in 3 days.

The last time I got sick (last year) the same thing happened. Do I just have really good antibodies/immune system or wtf???

Has anyone else experienced severe vertigo weeks after having flu A? I tested positive for flu A September 20th. I had most of the typical symptoms- chest congestion, fever, body aches, nausea. Two weeks after that I was starting to feel better, and then experienced an episode of severe vertigo to the point that I thought I must have norovirus - hands shaking, vomiting and diarrhea for five hours. I went to urgent care and they gave me zofran, and I felt fine the next day. Today, two weeks after the first vertigo experience, it happened again. Hands shaking, extreme nausea, diarrhea but no vomiting this time. I took a zofran again right away to help with the nausea, but 6 hours later and I’m still experiencing vertigo. I’m going to call my doctor in the morning, but wondering if this is flu related? I had never experienced vertigo before up to this point.

It’s so faint.

-Hello I’ve been struggling with anxiety and panic attacks during covid and it went away for the past 4 years and I just got the flu and I feel the same like Covid and it’s kinda giving me ptsd and making my anxiety bad , I’m in day 3 of the flu , do u think these feelings will pass when I start to recover I’m still really sick but I haven’t been this sick since Covid and I feel so low and depressed

I’m a 69 year old Asian-American male. My 8 years old grandnephew, who lives with me, was just diagnosed with flu, a few hours ago. I just had my senior flu-shot 4 days ago. What precautions should I take? I last saw my nephew Friday (yesterday) morning before he went to school.
Fortunately, I wasn’t planning to return home until tomorrow afternoon, but maybe I should stay away longer.
I currently don’t feel ill, other than my normal everyday sinus allergies. I use generic Flonase and Loratadine.

Thanks.

it hurts so bad in my chest whenever I cough from this dang flu. They checked my lungs today and all was good. I’m on day 4 of the flu. Any tips to help the pain of couching in the chest area? Would you go back and request a chest xray even though they said lungs sound good?

feel like a prisoner in my own body it’s horrible. missing not gymming or running or working in 5 weeks. don’t feel myself at all. bloods are all okay. but wake up exhausted everyday and not myself . picked up a cold this week too.