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Anyone else got it? Three days of 102 fever, geez. At least I've benn able to sleep.
cmailliard
03-05-2017, 17:58
It's been sneaking up. Vaccine was not as accurate as they initially thought. Rest, drink plenty of water and catch up on The Bachelor.
theGinsue
03-05-2017, 18:57
Got informed Friday that a ton of folks @ work had the intestinal thing going around - purging from both sides ends. Hand sanitizer was passed out all through the office.
Vaccine was not as accurate as they initially thought.
...like every year.
A lot of illness going around this year all across the country. Good times.
Many people, myself included, had it about a month or so ago in a 2-3 part version in which you'd think you were over it and a week later it was back again, albeit less serious the 2nd/3rd time around. I spoke to friends in other states that had nearly identical symptoms to include a lot of dizzyness as well as the here-it-comes-again a week or so later.
babarsac
03-05-2017, 19:12
Spent Sunday through Wednesday down for the count. Luckily I recovered in time for a guys weekend of snowmobiles, snowshoes, shotguns, and bourbon.
wctriumph
03-05-2017, 20:22
People from work, people at the gym and my daughter have had it over the last month or so. I thought I was coming down with something last weekend, just felt a little off on Friday so I doubled up on the vitamin C and took some cold and flu medicine and rested all weekend, no big symptons and I have been doing fine.
It really bugs me when people come into the gym, coughing and sniffling and getting their cooties on the equipment that everyone uses. I use a lot of sanitizer at the gym and wash my hands frequently to avoid getting sick. At my age getting sick is no picnic, believe me.
pickenup
03-05-2017, 23:06
Yup, got me too.
Aloha_Shooter
03-06-2017, 10:22
...like every year.
A lot of illness going around this year all across the country. Good times.
A lot of the illness going around the country (since before Thanksgiving!) isn't flu but you're right, the prediction accuracy for flu has always been somewhat questionable. I just got a physical and the doctor offered a flu shot but didn't give me any argument when I stated I wasn't interested until I got some information showing it was more effective than my past experience has shown. I told him I'm all for vaccinations but am just skeptical about the flu vaccines and am not interested in introducing foreign substances unless I have some assurance as to its effectiveness.
Yep, I don't normally opt for a flu shot since they're primarily a guess for the 3 strains expected to be in the population during the flu season. Since I'm still under treatment from the MRSA infection I got with my spinal fusion surgery, the doc recommended it. I'm still on antibiotics twice a day until the bones fuse. Either I've been extremely lucky, or the antibiotics have been offering some protection, because I've been pretty fortunate not to have had the flu or any kind of crud this year.
ColoradoTJ
03-06-2017, 14:35
My wife and daughter had the flu. 7 days of fun there.
Season has been bad this go around.
99.4 now, making some progress.
BlasterBob
03-06-2017, 17:53
Since I'm still under treatment from the MRSA infection.
About year and half ago, I had a kidney and it's ureter removed down at the VA hospital in Albuquerque. Immediately after the procedure, I was placed in isolation and of course I asked what the hell gives. Told I had MRSA and each time a nurse or my wife entered my room, they had to be covered with surgical gowns so the MRSA wouldn't get spread. After I got all healed up, asked my Surgeon about MRSA and he said "Pffft, one out of every three individuals have it - don't sweat it".
Gman, how are you treated for this MRSA stuff??
Oh, the wife and I are on the end stages of this flu, cold, crud after three weeks of runny noses etc.
The older we get, the longer these things seem to last.
Gman, how are you treated for this MRSA stuff??
When I went into the ER with a high fever and severe muscle spasms 5 weeks after my initial surgery, they put me on IV vancomycin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancomycin) right away. I didn't have any warning except for the low-grade fever I had been watching for several weeks. The external wound healed up fine and looked totally healthy. They ran blood cultures and identified it as MRSA. My surgeon opened up the original surgical site again and removed some infected tissue, used some kind of instrument that's like a power washer to clean and disinfect down to the implanted hardware, removed the implanted bone growth stimulator, and closed me back up. The infectious disease doctor put me on IV daptomycin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daptomycin) in the hospital. After my blood cultures were clear for 48 hours, they put a PICC line in my left bicep and sent me home.
I had weekly appointments with the infectious disease doctor, they'd draw blood for testing, and I would self-administer IV daptomycin through the PICC line every day for 8 weeks. They also put me on an old drug previously used for the treatment of tuberculosis, named rifampin (https://www.drugs.com/cdi/rifampin.html). It's supposed to prevent the bacteria from generating what they call a 'biofilm (http://www.mrsamedical.com/mrsabiofilms.htm)' on the hardware that encapsulates the MRSA so that it can't be killed. I had all kinds of side effects with that med and it made me feel horrible. I felt like my recovery was going backwards. The doctor took me off rifampin after 3 days. It took at least 3 more days to get it out of my system.
After the 8 weeks of IV daptomycin, then you go on a course of oral antibiotics until the bone is fused to prevent any type of relapse. The preferred oral antibiotic is a sulfa drug, but I'm allergic to all sulfa drugs. The alternate course of antibiotics is doxycycline, which I take twice a day.
The bone will take 6 months to a year to fuse. I'm scheduling the CT scan to check fusion progress at 6 months right now.
Hope that helps.
SamuraiCO
03-07-2017, 13:45
Yep MRSA not anything to sneeze at. Stands for Methylcillin Resistant Staph Aureus. Means is resistant to most antibiotics, spreads fast, very hard to treat.
As for flu....still a crap shoot every year. Was less than 50% effective. You can still get even with a shot but the shot will help your immune system ramp up faster and get over faster.
As for Tamiflu and the generic out...seems to be a price point. If around $60 or less most purchase. If more than $60 then they will ask if needed. All it does is help to get over the symptoms maybe a day or two earlier. Still sucks for 5-7 days. Personally I would not waste my money on it.
BushMasterBoy
03-07-2017, 14:06
Got the flu shot. Only had the flu twice this season. Usually I get it three times. I'm still suffering the after effects a month later.
2 out of 3 ain't bad. [hahhah-no]
Hope you feel better soon!
I don't think it was the flu that I got- it's that damn two-part cold with the Cough That Never Leaves.
There's been norovirus and I know several people that have had pneumonia. There's also the 'heavy cold' that's been going around. You think you're done with it and it hits you again in a week.
I've had stuffed up sinuses at night for the past two weeks. I wish it would go away. I'm glad I've never had the flu, it sounds terrible.
I've had stuffed up sinuses at night for the past two weeks. I wish it would go away. I'm glad I've never had the flu, it sounds terrible.
Get the generic sudafed that the pharmacists have behind their counter...or else use those Vicks sniffer sticks.
Yeah, the OTC "sudafed" doesn't work.
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