I had it. Barely lasted 48 hours. Just massive congestion, runny nose, and sneezing. No other symptoms. Easily the weakest flu I’ve had in a decade. 🤷♂️
Got the flu shot months ago.
For a lot of folks, this flu season is fucking awful. Everyone who rushes to minimize illnesses on Reddit are a special breed of insufferable self-centered jerks.
My daughter’s in her first year of preschool, which means she’s bringing something home every week and i’ve been coughing pretty much nonstop since the end of November. And that’s with having the flu shot and Covid booster.
I wonder if it has anything to do with return to office hmmmmm
What are these junk websites?
First time I’ve had the flu since I was a child, I guess. I’m 42.
It hit me like a truck, suddenly and with fury. I sneezed a few times early in the day. Then I had that tickle in the back of my throat by the afternoon. In the evening, I got slammed with major chills, heat sweats, fully body aches the likes I’ve never felt, headaches, fever of 100-102, cough, chest congestion. I couldn’t sleep that night, even after a good dose of Mucinex night shift which normally knocks me out. Woke up in cold sweats multiple times and found my bed wet with sweat. It was miserable, I couldn’t find a position to lay down in that wasn’t painful. Luckily, I was able to get Tamiflu prescribed to me. Even that was a pain in the ass because most CVS locations in may area were out of it. That was two days ago. I don’t have a fever any longer but I’m still fairly sore, weak all over, have sinus congestion and brain fog.
Of course this was the first year since our first kid was born, over 10 years ago, that I missed getting a flu shot. That would have probably made the symptoms better, hopefully.
This one was WAY worse than Covid for me, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Flu Vaccine only has max 60% efficacy according to CDC And it can be as low as 10%, and you don’t know efficacy until you’ve already gotten it
Also these numbers are assuming everyone who got “flu like symptoms” had influenza. Not everyone does, so even these numbers are inflated. Nobody even tests if it’s influenza, they just assume it is.
Also flu vaccine is brand new every year, so they can’t do long term testing on it like normal vaccines. You have no idea what you’re getting
I’m not saying don’t get the flu vaccine, if you think it’s worth it then get it! But I do think it’s important to be aware of this stuff.. everyone acts like flu vaccine is a cure all. It ain’t. And there are risks involved.
I moved to one of the purple states a few months ago. Pretty sure I got it right now. Especially hilarious was when my roommate tried to say it was her “seasonal allergies” when her symptoms started. Bout that….
Day 3. Just woke up and I coughed up a little blood with a far worse sore throat. Dayquil and chill I guess.
Man, I currently have the flu and strep. Also just last week I had the flu and I was healthy for only a few days
I work as a vascular sonographer at a fair size hospital mainly doing in-patient scans or in the ER. Yesterday every patient I scanned was Contact plus with either Covid or flu or something. Didn’t matter where I was at in the hospital.
I had just gotten over probably Covid last week and was at the stage of just hacking up phlegm, that deep congestion, but feeling relatively ok this week.
Anyways about 6 hours into my shift yesterday, I start getting uncontrollable chills. Like I’m shaking bad. There was a snow storm and I was the late tech, so only vascular tech on duty. Last patient I scanned in the ER I barely made it back to the office and throw up. Called my manager and she was able to find another tech who lived close to cover the last few hours.
So I’ve had Covid last week and more than likely flu this week. I’m up to date on all my vaccinations, thankfully, because it would have been much worse.
It’s bad out there, our ER has had 5-7 hour wait the last couple weeks. We’re full. Last week we had a day where half of our vascular/echo techs were out due to illness system wide.
It’s been rampant in the U.K as well. Put a lot in hospital.
I don’t think this goes in this sub.
The article only has one chart, and it’s not even beautiful, I would say that it’s below average.
I’ve never been this sick in my life at 41. (edited to add context)
In the past, between my two children and myself, we’ve endured Covid 3 times at least. (I’ve had it 4 times)
My oldest tested positive for Influenza A before Christmas break, youngest and I got kinda sick. About a week later, my youngest promptly got extremely sick and both of them were given Tamiflu. It wasn’t until I went to urgent care 2 weeks ago that I finally tested positive for both A and B and Norovirus. Fun! I have never felt this run down and exhausted in my life. I for one, enjoy having the constitution of a Victorian orphan waif riddled with consumption.
My friend in another state has been giving me a catastrophically induced amount of shit for us being sick so much, and I’m like bro I dunno. I have a horrid immune system and I’m allergic to the flu shot so I can’t get it. Last time I did I was hospitalized for a spell. If your kids are out too much the school board calls DCF on ya and you gotta go through all that and have a burden of proof and copious doctor’s notes. So there’s a metric shit ton of sick kids and adults just doing shit because we have to.
Looks like us canadians will have to modify our hockey chants from” Booooo” when the singer does the usa anthem to “Fluuuuuu” 🤣
Did the flu shot actually work this year or was it useless as usual?
Thank God RJK Jr got confirmed today!!!! /s
_sigh_ we’re fucked
Just in time for everyone returning to office, awesome.
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So glad I got my flu shot this year.
It’s a minimum of 4-8 sneezes per bout
Buckle-up buckaroos!
I had it. Barely lasted 48 hours. Just massive congestion, runny nose, and sneezing. No other symptoms. Easily the weakest flu I’ve had in a decade. 🤷♂️
Got the flu shot months ago.
For a lot of folks, this flu season is fucking awful. Everyone who rushes to minimize illnesses on Reddit are a special breed of insufferable self-centered jerks.
My daughter’s in her first year of preschool, which means she’s bringing something home every week and i’ve been coughing pretty much nonstop since the end of November. And that’s with having the flu shot and Covid booster.
I wonder if it has anything to do with return to office hmmmmm
What are these junk websites?
First time I’ve had the flu since I was a child, I guess. I’m 42.
It hit me like a truck, suddenly and with fury. I sneezed a few times early in the day. Then I had that tickle in the back of my throat by the afternoon. In the evening, I got slammed with major chills, heat sweats, fully body aches the likes I’ve never felt, headaches, fever of 100-102, cough, chest congestion. I couldn’t sleep that night, even after a good dose of Mucinex night shift which normally knocks me out. Woke up in cold sweats multiple times and found my bed wet with sweat. It was miserable, I couldn’t find a position to lay down in that wasn’t painful. Luckily, I was able to get Tamiflu prescribed to me. Even that was a pain in the ass because most CVS locations in may area were out of it. That was two days ago. I don’t have a fever any longer but I’m still fairly sore, weak all over, have sinus congestion and brain fog.
Of course this was the first year since our first kid was born, over 10 years ago, that I missed getting a flu shot. That would have probably made the symptoms better, hopefully.
This one was WAY worse than Covid for me, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Flu Vaccine only has max 60% efficacy according to CDC And it can be as low as 10%, and you don’t know efficacy until you’ve already gotten it
Also these numbers are assuming everyone who got “flu like symptoms” had influenza. Not everyone does, so even these numbers are inflated. Nobody even tests if it’s influenza, they just assume it is.
Also flu vaccine is brand new every year, so they can’t do long term testing on it like normal vaccines. You have no idea what you’re getting
I’m not saying don’t get the flu vaccine, if you think it’s worth it then get it! But I do think it’s important to be aware of this stuff.. everyone acts like flu vaccine is a cure all. It ain’t. And there are risks involved.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu-vaccines-work/php/effectiveness-studies/index.html
I moved to one of the purple states a few months ago. Pretty sure I got it right now. Especially hilarious was when my roommate tried to say it was her “seasonal allergies” when her symptoms started. Bout that….
Day 3. Just woke up and I coughed up a little blood with a far worse sore throat. Dayquil and chill I guess.
Man, I currently have the flu and strep. Also just last week I had the flu and I was healthy for only a few days
I work as a vascular sonographer at a fair size hospital mainly doing in-patient scans or in the ER. Yesterday every patient I scanned was Contact plus with either Covid or flu or something. Didn’t matter where I was at in the hospital.
I had just gotten over probably Covid last week and was at the stage of just hacking up phlegm, that deep congestion, but feeling relatively ok this week.
Anyways about 6 hours into my shift yesterday, I start getting uncontrollable chills. Like I’m shaking bad. There was a snow storm and I was the late tech, so only vascular tech on duty. Last patient I scanned in the ER I barely made it back to the office and throw up. Called my manager and she was able to find another tech who lived close to cover the last few hours.
So I’ve had Covid last week and more than likely flu this week. I’m up to date on all my vaccinations, thankfully, because it would have been much worse.
It’s bad out there, our ER has had 5-7 hour wait the last couple weeks. We’re full. Last week we had a day where half of our vascular/echo techs were out due to illness system wide.
It’s been rampant in the U.K as well. Put a lot in hospital.
I don’t think this goes in this sub.
The article only has one chart, and it’s not even beautiful, I would say that it’s below average.
I’ve never been this sick in my life at 41. (edited to add context)
In the past, between my two children and myself, we’ve endured Covid 3 times at least. (I’ve had it 4 times)
My oldest tested positive for Influenza A before Christmas break, youngest and I got kinda sick. About a week later, my youngest promptly got extremely sick and both of them were given Tamiflu. It wasn’t until I went to urgent care 2 weeks ago that I finally tested positive for both A and B and Norovirus. Fun! I have never felt this run down and exhausted in my life. I for one, enjoy having the constitution of a Victorian orphan waif riddled with consumption.
My friend in another state has been giving me a catastrophically induced amount of shit for us being sick so much, and I’m like bro I dunno. I have a horrid immune system and I’m allergic to the flu shot so I can’t get it. Last time I did I was hospitalized for a spell. If your kids are out too much the school board calls DCF on ya and you gotta go through all that and have a burden of proof and copious doctor’s notes. So there’s a metric shit ton of sick kids and adults just doing shit because we have to.
Looks like us canadians will have to modify our hockey chants from” Booooo” when the singer does the usa anthem to “Fluuuuuu” 🤣
Did the flu shot actually work this year or was it useless as usual?
Thank God RJK Jr got confirmed today!!!! /s
_sigh_ we’re fucked
Just in time for everyone returning to office, awesome.
Three weeks in. Shits been rough.
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