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I am not suggesting you haven’t had the flu. Only you know that.

There are a lot of people who think they have the flu when they get a cough and some sniffles. They stay home from work for a day and then they feel better.

That is NOT the flu.

If you have the flu you are in bed, sick as a dog, and you are not moving for a couple of days.

I work at a hospital and we’ve been packed since the begining of November. Evidently the flu shot given in New England was not as effective as those from the past.

My fingers are cracking from the sanitizer we use for hands. And I am about three floors from the nearest patient.

Its bad this year.

I work at a hospital and we’ve been packed since the begining of November. Evidently the flu shot given in New England was not as effective as those from the past. My fingers are cracking from the sanitizer we use for hands. And I am about three floors from the nearest patient. Its bad this year.

Good to know and thanks from Michigan. They said it would be horrific this year, but you know.... It's like the snow predictions, right? Sometimes they hit it and others they don't.

Take care, had those hands myself on many occasions. Am using Aric's GoferGreese this year with much success. It's olive oil and beeswax. Awesome. Esp here in northern Michigan where it is already dry, dry, dry.

There are a lot of people who think they have the flu when they get a cough and some sniffles. They stay home from work for a day and then they feel better….That is NOT the flu…If you have the flu you are in bed, sick as a dog, and you are not moving for a couple of days.

I believe you are correct. I’ve had many people say to me, “oh, I’ve got the flu, have a really sore throat and runny nose, but I went to work” when in fact what they probably had is a head cold. Not to say that bad head cold won’t make you feel pretty miserable or even compel you to stay home from work for a day, but the difference is that a flu often comes on very suddenly as opposed to a common cold, and with the flu, you tend to run a fever, sometimes high and have extreme body aches and fatigue, and by fatigue, I mean, can’t hardly get out of bed or lift your head off the pillow sort of fatigue.

I get wintertime allergies. When it comes on it comes on fast and feels a lot like the flu, I start out sneezing like crazy, eyes water, nose runs and I even get body aches and sometimes feel hot and flushed but typically do not run a fever. The way I know it was an allergy attack is that it goes away completely in about 24-hours. The last time I had the flu, I was in bed for 5 days, missed 4 days of work and it took another 5 days or so before I felt well again.