[Myrddin]

The stuff is hanging on so long that people have little choice but to come to work and just press on. I'm well past the peak symptoms, but I still have problems 35 days after onset. The fever will magically appear after going most of the day symptom free. The "washed out/spacey" feeling really screws with productivity.

Hope you get over it soon.

[Salamander]

The spacey feeling -is- a real drag.

[We’re just eating Mucinex like candy]...:))

Hope you feel better soon, too.

[little jeremiah]

I’ve been reading up on flus and emerging diseases since I first heard about SARS; it’s one of my interests.

In the fall of 2009 hub and I took care to avoid catching the swine H1N1 because I knew it did not present like the regular flu. I have asthma and get sicker than other people when I get respiratory ailments.

So, we did get it, from one man who worked on our property for one day with hub. It was the strangest flu I ever had, bar none. Total drugged spaced out feeling as though I was going to die but didn’t care. Could NOT breathe, one day I figured I’d have to call 911 if lungs did not improve; hub was 400 miles away working so could not help. Took me at least one month to sort of recuperate; lung function has been a bit diminished ever since. Swine H1N1 can affect the CNS (note the super drugged out feeling many pepole had with it), cause back, neck pain, vicious headaches, kidney, liver and/or heart problems. Actual brain lesions in some people. Another “funny” thing we both noticed was brain malfunctions for months afterwards - for instance, thinking we said one word but really saying a totally different word, etc.

It was (is?) NOT a regular flu. And the CDC numbers on everything are nothing but cooked books. Many more people died with swine flu than regular flu. The CDC is as untrustworthy as the WHO which is headed by Margaret Chan, a tool of the PRC.