Period Illness

[MatthewC]

It's been a bit quiet on here recently, just at the time and weather when we should be getting on with those everlasting lists.

My excuse is that I'm not feeling very well. I had two days in bed over a week ago and thought I was getting better, but that recovery has stalled and a week later I feel just as bad. Friends tell me that full recovery from this can take FOUR WEEKS! The symptoms are awful - a deep racking cough which doesn't produce much, joints ache, lethargy, headache, sleeplessness, feeling cold and shivery and I even had a rash for a day. The worst is that I am off most food and drink which is really odd - lots of food is totally unappealing, tea tastes funny; coffee tastes far too strong; red wine does not taste nice at all.

Am I the only person suffering from this new flu or whatever it is?

 

[jackpoint]

Oh dear Get well soon!

 

[mims&pip]

Sorry to hear that MatthewC - hope you're feeling better very soon!

Mims x

 

[jocelyn plummer]

Sympathy MatthewC --I had it too. Started end of October, disappeared for a couple of weeks then returned with the hacking cough etc as you described. It finally went almost immediately after we moved, mid January. Not really too much you can do except let it take its course. Hope you feel better soon xx

 

[88v8]

Oh dear.
How does hot toddy taste?
Or mulled ale?
Or...
http://www.yummly.com/recipes/hot-alcoholic-drinks

Ivor

 

[TheRoost]

Hope you feel better soon. Perhaps what you need is some period cough medicine, with those lovely 'active' ingredients of arsenic, morphine and so on :shock:

 

[skier-hughes]

My wife had it for about 6 weeks in various forms, coming and going. Only thing is, let it take it's course.

 

[MatthewC]

Thanks for all the good wishes. I spoke to a doctor yesterday (emergency appointments are by phone, it seems!) and all my symptoms are exactly that I have a dose of this year's nasty lingering flu. All she could offer was that we treat the symptoms, as the cause is apparently untreatable, so it's lots of liquids, paracetamol, Vitamin C and multi-vitamins, plus breathing steam/menthol crystals.

I'm actually feeling a bit better today, so I'm hopeful!

 

[worms]

Oh dear.
How does hot toddy taste?
Or mulled ale?
Or...
http://www.yummly.com/recipes/hot-alcoholic-drinks

Ivor

If none of these are palatable, Whisky Mac is called for (whisky and green ginger wine)!

 

[jocelyn plummer]

Or a port and brandy!

 

[LadyArowana]

Get well soon, this is a horrible bug, one of my friends has had it for weeks

 

[tobydog]

Get well soon, this is a horrible bug, one of my friends has had it for weeks

It is a horrible bug but also a very clever one. How does it know to knock you out with flu symptoms, pick you up and say it's all better, just to knock you out again with a hacking cough that lasts for weeks? Everyone has / had the same symptoms including me . Sorry Matthew but it will go .

 

[Keithj]

Daughter 2 had it, and was laid low for weeks. Apparently it's rife in Germany.

 

[Owain]

Hot toast with gentleman's relish, or a good curry.

 

[MatthewC]

Well, I have surprised myself and confounded all the doom-sayers: I now really feel very good with just a very occasional cough and have been sleeping well.

So yesterday I did the first of the jobs on last year's left over list and painted the two sides of the new shed that can't normally be seen. Feeling pretty good apart from the paint in my hair that caused an awful knot! Now, the question really is whether I can find the energy to get on with other jobs this year. I put a list on my blog to stop myself from pretending that they are quite new jobs - some date from before we moved in, in July 2011.