Post here when your sniffles are getting worse than just the sniffles, and if you find out you got the flu


I know there are some other sickies on here right now, other than myself, ie: DivaBaby19


I don't think I have the flu, but I definitely have flu like symptoms... headache, cough, congestion, body aches, cold sweats, "zonked out," and loss of appetite. I hope it gets better soon!

11/16/2010 12:37:02 PM

Quit crying...

(says the guy about to leave work to go to the doctor)

11/16/2010 12:37:49 PM

I'm about to leave for work... whatsayyou??


it actually isn't terrible today (I can still function at probably 80%), but if it gets any worse, I'll probably call out on Thursday

11/16/2010 12:40:06 PM

My issue is congestion, cough and absolutely no voice. Had the no voice thing for about 3 days now. Awesome

11/16/2010 12:50:58 PM

I woke up with a sore throat and general ickyness. It hasn't gotten much worse, but also hasn't improved at all. I am hoping I can sleep it off this evening and not have it develop any further.

Also I get really out of it when I get sick and tend to say or do dumb things. I typed "people that" earlier, and I take that as a bad sign.

11/16/2010 1:19:51 PM

i HOPE i don't get the flu this year. i had it last year and it turned into pneumonia. it was AWFUL. i felt so horrible. i had body aches that no amount of heat or ibuprofen could cure. and i could not get warm...even in a scalding bath tub. i was in so much pain.

right now i just have the sniffles. i've had kind of constant sniffles since i started working at the kid's store/photog studio though. so many germies in there.

feel better guys!!!!

11/16/2010 1:22:03 PM

Geez Brett, sometimes you're a whiny bitch.

11/16/2010 1:22:32 PM

I had the nasty flu in like February or March of this year. Like 103.7 degree fever at it's peak. I couldn't fall asleep for 30 minutes without pouring sweat when I woke up. This isn't nearly as bad, but work didn't want me to hang around past when I absolutely had to because I was coughing up a storm. I would've been fine with sticking it out personally.

Weird thing is 3.5 years in CA and I never once got sick. In fact, I barely even remember getting a cold. Something about NC makes me sick more often.

[Edited on November 16, 2010 at 1:27 PM. Reason : ^ a bit harsh, maybe?]

11/16/2010 1:26:52 PM

maybe it is the company you keep in NC

jk that was mean

yea i had that gross flu, too. well it was swine flu and i wasn't allowed to have the whatever they gave out (tamaflu?) because i wasn't in the "risk age range." wasn't in the "risk age range" for the shot either, so i couldn't get it at school when they gave out the free ones. hmph.

11/16/2010 1:30:38 PM

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh I just woke up again coughing.

I'm getting ready to see the guy I babysit for...thank GOD he's an ENT surgeon. He will see me for free! I just gotta drive to Wake Med I feel like poops.

Sore throat, no voice, HOT for no damn reason, sniffles, coughing up shit, coughing so much I'm throwing up, body aches, exhaustion.

I will let you know the results. With my luck he will put a bandaid on it and tell me to go to work lol

11/16/2010 1:50:13 PM

Update:

Strep, Bronchitis, & Laryngitis

Got some Prednisone and Antibiotics so I'll be poppin' pills.

YAY....now bring me soup and OJ ok y'all

11/16/2010 4:13:32 PM

All three at once? Is that normal? Damn.

11/16/2010 4:14:01 PM

hahaha well your bronchial tubes and larynx are two different things so they can get infected at the same time

and then I have strep as well

11/16/2010 4:18:23 PM

geez divababy

get well soon

11/16/2010 4:35:23 PM

Weak immune systems ITT

I haven't been sick since 1996

11/16/2010 4:36:59 PM

I already had my cold/sore throat for this winter season, put me out for 4 days, hopefully that's all I'll get this year. Nyquil is always my go-to cold medicine.

11/16/2010 4:39:08 PM

i usually get some symptoms around this time but mostly in response to the season/weather change that's occurring.

11/16/2010 4:39:11 PM

can you really get cold symptoms from weather change? or is that just something people say. cause it doesn't seem to make sense to me

well i guess cold air can actually physically dry out your nose...but that seems like it could cause a lack of sniffles instead of the sniffles!

11/16/2010 4:56:03 PM

I'm allergic to cold/flu meds so I have to ride it out which makes me prone to get other infections and whatnot.

What sucks is its a new allergy (like 6 years old) and I remember how glorious it was to take nyquil and pass the fuck out

I also need to have my tonsils taken out, but I don't have much $Texas so that doesn't help my immune system much at all

[Edited on November 16, 2010 at 5:00 PM. Reason : e]

11/16/2010 4:59:48 PM

I've had bronchitis and an upper respiratory infection for 3 months now

11/16/2010 5:03:00 PM

I have something and it ssuuuccckkksssssss

11/16/2010 5:03:56 PM

Went to dr today. Got some random virus, probably cold related.

Student health was packed.

11/16/2010 8:09:32 PM

feeling a little better... body aches aren't as bad, congestion is getting better. Still had cold sweats all throughout the night, and woke up feeling like I had inhaled/swallowed a box of broken glass, but at least I can move around!

11/17/2010 8:10:18 AM

I've been sick for just over three weeks now. mixture of sinus & chest congestion, fever and chills, and a cough that has (on more than one occasion) made me wish for death.

11/17/2010 9:26:44 AM

cold symptoms here too. yay.

11/17/2010 11:11:36 AM

I had to get up this morning at 4am because I couldn't breath laying down anymore. Wheezing followed by coughing followed by sneezing fit. Repeat.

11/18/2010 6:33:19 AM

I've already had my battle with mine. End of October I felt terrible, nasty cough, tons of congestion, and a fever of 100.5. Luckily I got the fever down quickly, congestion was next, but the cough stuck with me for 2.5 weeks. I'm honestly just now getting over it completely.

11/18/2010 6:41:19 AM

Oh we back



Not the flu (I don't think) but I am congested with a sore throat, tired (lack of energy) and achey

Hopefully getting up and moving around will help

2/1/2011 10:18:43 AM

I'm due. I haven't been sick in forever so I know it's coming.

2/1/2011 10:23:14 AM

^^you don't have the flu...

you wouldn't be posting on tww if you did...


you wouldn't even be able to hold your head up long enough to focus on the computer if you had the flu...


^i'm thinking the same thing...

i realized the other day that I haven't been to the doctor for a cold/respiratory type sickness since 2003

[Edited on February 1, 2011 at 10:26 AM. Reason : dlkfjsdlk]

2/1/2011 10:24:15 AM

He didn't say he had the flu. lp78 can't read.

2/1/2011 10:26:09 AM

he said "i don't think"


i was just confirming that he does not have the flu...

2/1/2011 10:27:23 AM

had that shit from christmas day until well past new years



fuck the flu

2/1/2011 10:28:44 AM

i feel you...

i've had the flu once in my life...and i wanted to die...

i had a fever of 105 for about 6 days...

[Edited on February 1, 2011 at 10:33 AM. Reason : i went from 112 lbs to 104 lbs in less than a week]

2/1/2011 10:33:07 AM

Quote :

"you don't have the flu... you wouldn't be posting on tww if you did..."

first off, I said I didn't think I did. Secondly, when I have the flu, unless it is the 24 hour flu, isn't instant onset throwing up, fever, etc... it starts out with everything I just described, and usually a lack of appetite, and then gets worse over the course of a day or two. And I have posted on here when I had the flu, as even when I'm sick as a dog, I get bored just lying in bed (I only had it so bad one time that I couldn't/wouldn't move and that was over the summer of 03)

that being said, I don't think I have the flu, but I have a pretty unenjoyable cold beginning to onset

note: I guess the one time you had the flu was pretty bad- I've had it probably 3 times this decade and then another 6 times before that (elementary and middle school are damn breeding grounds for that stupid virus). But I have only had it so bad (like you did) once - and in hindsight, both of us probably should have gone to the hospital so we could have had constant fluids

[Edited on February 1, 2011 at 10:37 AM. Reason : s]

2/1/2011 10:34:45 AM

Quote :

"he said "i don't think" i was just confirming that he does not have the flu..."

[Edited on February 1, 2011 at 10:36 AM. Reason : it isn't instant onset...but it is instant high fever]

2/1/2011 10:36:04 AM

fever isn't necessarily instant (although it is something that would need to show up within a couple days of exposure for a doctor to be sure that's what you have). And i don't have a fever right now, and I still have an appetite (although not big) which is a big reason I think it is just an unpleasant cold and not the flu

2/1/2011 10:40:29 AM

All you germy sick folks please stay the f away from me.

2/1/2011 10:44:53 AM

haha are you going out to trivia tonight?

if not, you probably won't see me until sunday (and I should be better by then)

2/1/2011 10:45:52 AM

Nah we're working on the townhouse tonight.

But if not better by Sunday let me know so I can wear a mask.

2/1/2011 10:51:06 AM

haha will do (and I better be better- otherwise no one is gonna want to eat my bbqs/chili's)

2/1/2011 10:51:51 AM

I cant remember the last time I had a cold that was more than just a runny nose from it actually being cold, much less the flu.

2/1/2011 11:12:11 AM

yeah...it's been over 20 years since i had the flu

i had a MEAN case of bronchitis (bordering on pneumonia) about 10 years ago...


other than that...it's just been colds and the like...


even the last time i went to the doctor for something like that it wasn't really a cold or anything...it was exhaustion coupled with non-stop exposure to cigarette smoke since i started working in a unventilated biker bar 40+ hours a week

2/1/2011 11:22:04 AM

lol. damn. There are people on here who weren't even born the last time you had the flu. Luckily I've never had it *knock on wood*

2/1/2011 11:23:32 AM

was just sick for like 6 days

still stopped up, and it's annoying

2/1/2011 11:24:02 AM

^^hahaha

^in the grand scheme of things, I dont' mind being stopped up. The worst symptoms for me are the aches (which I do have right now) and the deliriousness (which thankfully I don't, but did have when I originally made this thread)

[Edited on February 1, 2011 at 11:25 AM. Reason : vewrv]

2/1/2011 11:24:13 AM

haha...i know...

and i was 12 at the time

2/1/2011 11:24:25 AM

had it so bad my freshman year that I was practically comatose for like 3-4 days

2/1/2011 11:24:27 AM

Since Sunday I've had a persistent cough and occasional chills/fever. Also, the area behind my eyes hurts like hell if I try to turn them any direction other than straight ahead.

Oddly, no sore throat, no runny nose or congestion, no nausea or anything of the sort. But it is still managing to be extremely annoying and unpleasant.

2/1/2011 11:28:37 AM

i've had a sinus infection since new years. i've not really been uncomfortable enough to go to the doc until yesterday bc it hurt to breathe. i thought it was my lung where it has partially collapsed during surgery in 2005, but it turns out it was my spleen. it was enlarged & in the way of my lung. yay for prolonged infection...

2/1/2011 11:49:08 AM