My daughter, 21, came down with similar symptoms. She was almost paralyzed with exhaustion and pain. Fever and chills. Could not stay awake. No real respiratory symptoms. This was nearly two weeks ago and she is up and about now, but still very weak and easily tired. It has nearly ruined her semester as her efforts to study for final exams did not work very well. I regret to say I’m starting to feel some of the same things.
My son and I both were h1n1 positive. He was sick 24 hours before me...102 temp...grouchy...coughing...loose stools...threw up a couple of times. The next day I got chilled achey, headache, you know the drill. We both went to doctors office. We were diagnosed positive. They treated us with Z-pack and then tamiflu. 5-7 days of flu later we were better. TBH, it wasn’t any worse or better than the seasonal flu we got last year. It just seemed to fill our lungs up a little more.
BTW, we are big time Vit-D3 takers (4000iu a day for me) I think this helped us out in terms of not getting ICU type ill.
At first, extreme sore throat.
Followed in 24 hours or so with practically total blockage of my sinuses, pain (or at least alot of discomfort in my lungs)
Headaches and body aches to the point it made it hard to sleep. Night sweats a couple nights, one night the bed was literally drenched.
Temp peaked last Thurs eve at about 102, my normal temp is about 97.3 or so and anytime it goes above 98 I know I have a mild bug.
I was hungry but barely had the energy to eat/cook, so I stuck to eggs and toast.
Went through about 3 gallons of lemonade.
Think I had a minor bout of pneumonia after the flu was done. Feeling much, much better the last two days or so.
Nasty stuff.
It hit me and the 2-year-old yesterday afternoon. The onset was scarily fast -- we were both fine in the morning, and by lunch we both had 102-degree fevers, aches and chills. The cough came in, as well.
I can't emphasize how fast this hit, though -- it really was like being hit by a truck.
Started with a sore throat. Never did really run a significant fever. Head & chest congestion, headaches, diarrhea, body aches, extreme fatigue.
For about 2 weeks. It sucked.
The rest of the family had similar symptoms with a runny nose as well, starting before mine.
I take 10000 IU vit D everyday since I had a malignant mole removed a few years ago. I think it helps with flus and colds as well, since I generally get a much milder version of what everyone else gets. I used to get hit harder.
It definitely sounds like you have the flu. There are no body aches with a “regular” cold virus. If you are in the United States, there is no other flu going around but the H1N1. So you probably have swine.
While all the flu symptoms could hit you, some people have it without the fever. Some even have it without much lung activity.
Some people get over it in 2-3 days. Some get over it in 7-10 days.
But right now, with H1N1 WIDESPREAD in nearly every state, if you come down with any of the following symptoms in any combination, I’d armchair diagnose it as H1N1:
— high fever (with no other explanation, like infection)
— body aches
— sudden and extreme fatigue, where you NEED to get into bed
— sudden lung congestion and cough
Even one of these alone could be YOUR symptom of the H1N1.
My little boy had an instant high fever and cough. A normal cold would be a sore throat, sniffles, low fever, and the cough would come a day or two LATER. The flu can give you a cough right away.
No one in our family has been hit with the flu...yet...(knock on wood). Wanted to let you know that a friend of mine that has a PhD in Pharmacy recommends Sambucol and Oscillococcinum to combat flu. She is also ardently against the H1N1 vaccine, FWIW. Here are the links for you:
http://www.oscillo.com/
http://sambucolusa.com/
In addition to Vitamin C and Vitamin D, Selenium is supposed to support the immune system as well. I hope your family is doing better soon.