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My thoughts are that you are paranoid and using you limited local information to extrapolate over a much larger area.
I live in the Midwest and I haven’t seen any kind of increase in coughing or flu. I haven’t had a flu shot in about 5 years and am doing great. I also have two kids who go to school and are living at home and they haven’t gotten anything. My wife works in a school, and she hasn’t gotten anything. I know of no one that has officially gotten the flu. One worker was out for two days and has a lingering cough, but that is not uncommon in the midwest.
Although, yesterday a number of schools shut down due to massive call ins of teachers being sick. I guess they had to go to Madistan to see a doctor. ( ;
Grand son had a flu shot and then a couple of months later got the flu anyway.
He’s almost over it and I’m in the relapse stage and almost over it. Its hit me hard only these last three days.
Yes, my hubby has been seeing a pulmonologist because of a horrible cough that he’s had for months! He’s had a chest x-ray, and just yesterday a breathing test. Thank goodness the Dr. told him yesterday that his lungs are fine, and the cough is from either allergies or gerd, for which he has medication, and so the dr. increased dosage. But that cough is unbelievable — high-pitched, shrill, and LOUD!
An aunt has been ill with an infection but nothing like what’s being desctibed here. I haven’t had anything worse than a hangover since October, 2009 when I came down with a cold/flu bug that had me down for ten days. A sneeze here, a cough there, that’s about it.
Whatever it is, it’s really nasty. I didn’t realize so many people have it.
I’ve been sick for well over 4 weeks now. Can’t remember ever having such a terrible cold or whatever it is. It’s an upper respiratory illness. No fever, but severe sore throat, sinus infection, and a terrible cough. I finally went to the doctor who put me on augmentin, which seems to have helped a bit.
The sore throat has been so bad that the only thing I can tolerate is crushed ice. I’ve been eating lots of ice cream and lemon ice.
Also, I have zero energy and everything I do is a real effort.
It’s going away, but very slowly. No one else in my house has it.
Had a bout in December...and now I got it again.
I been sick on and off since after Thanksgiving. I normally don’t get sick.
Two weeks ago yesterday, my 13 year old called me (like he is supposed to) to check in when he got home from school. He said he had a headache. That started it for us. By Friday early a.m. he had a croupy bark and a fever of 103. Took him to the doctor got an antibiotic; an rx cough syrup; and a steroid for the croup.
One week to the hour (last Thursday at work) I started getting an awful headache. Then sore throat; then upper chest congestion. The headache lasted thru Sunday. I spent last Fri and Saturday in bed. Slept both days. I worked Sunday, Monday, but have never been so tired; weak. No stamina.
My son also doesn’t feel ‘right’ yet either. I havnt felt this sick in years.
I normally may have a plain old cold about once every three years. I had one case of old gully washer FLU about 30 yrs. ago. JUST SINCE THE FIRST OF THE YEAR, I have already had two rounds of flu, a month apart and both cases lasting about two weeks and leaving a residual COUGH. The first round was a teeny bit less caustic than the second round. Don’t know what’s the deal; if it’s my immune system or what. (I caught the last round from someone who had had every vaccine imaginable; she worked in the doctor’s office, manifested symptoms the next day, us (husband had it too both times) in about two days.) Don’t know where we picked up the first round.
I know absolutely no one who has been sick this winter. I thought that was weird. Even my husband who tries to get everything hasn’t been sick. I’m at the gym a lot and nobody I know at the gym has been sick either.
Maybe I just live in a healthy area.
Just WOW!!!
Had also been wondering what might be going on. Family members all down the East Coast have been coughing and sneezing since Thanksgiving.
Could it be the weather??????????
Two packets of Emergen-C and 7000 IU’s of D3 per day. I ran out a month ago and had to wait for my Vitacost order. When it got to my house, I already had the stomach flu. Since that episode I’ve made sure that I don’t run out.
Republic of Panama here.
Many, many sick folks around me betweem October and end of December. Some got it twice.
Mine went into bronchitis, and 3 months later I am now feeling normal again.
I never, ever get colds or the flu or take shots for prevention. I had been through some surgery and didn’t count or think about my defenses being down, or I would have stayed home rather than going to the supermarket, etc. and exposing myself to crowds of sick people.
Talking to a friend in Italy (Milan) a couple of weeks ago. Her husband was quite ill with a flu in January.
No.....I only know of one person being sick as compared to lots in years past. Looks to me like all those past vaccinations are working.....
And if there was a bio attack it would have been last year to coincide with the global H1N1 pandemic that for some strange reason never occured. Or maybe it did and they picked up all the dead bodies lying on the sidewalks at night when most people were sleeping......Now that was a well kept secret.
None. SE Az.
Yep, The wife and I have both had it. Lasts forever. We’ve coughed for the last two months. We seem to be on the upswing now. It’s bad stuff and practically everyone I know has had it, most more than once. It definitely peaks, then ebbs, then comes back.
..I was also sick in the middle of December (& I rarely get viruses or colds)....the doctor's nurse said she had it for a month!
..so I'm on my second round of antibiotics in 2 months.
This is a strange one....
...first 3 days, aches, scratchy throat, low grade fevers in the evening....90.1, 99.5, and 100.4....
...then the coughing started.....
Now I'm on a Z-pack....and cough medicine with codeine...
A very strange virus.
Essentially it's what works for you.....I'm drinking lots of orange juice, taking Ibuprofen and using Vick's vaporub....probably a hudifier would be helpful too....
...bandaid therapy for whatever helps....
About half of the people I know and the lingering cough goes on for months; odd thing is most of them are their second or even third round with this crud. Very strange. Took me 10 weeks to beat it.