about the flu. I have never gotten it before and worked through it wednesday and yesterday, but today when I got to the job site it was my breaking point. Went to an emergency care clinic and I have got the flu. I feel like the worst I have felt in my life. The cough hurts so bad and is so dry that I dread coughing. Hope the tamiflu and anbtibiotics fight it off fast. I feel awful for anybody who has had to endure this.

catch it at work?? I always cringe when someone comes to work sick...they usually pass it around the office! I can't get one girl to understand to STAY HOME IF YOU'RE SICK, WE DON'T WANT IT!! her excuse is that she feels guilty missing work....but not about passing sickness around the office, though.

I'm still amazed that my wife isn't sick more often, as often as she is in dr offices with sick people waiting to be seen. she's in the equipment side of sales, but still has to wait in the same areas as sick people, to see the dr.

I hope the meds kick in soon for some relief....flu SUCKS!!

For some, it is about not being able to afford missing a day's pay from the paycheck. Not all jobs provide paid sick days. I, also, read that you can be contagious before you have any symptoms of the flu so you do not know that you might be sick and need to quarantine yourself.

I understand all that...I'm talking about walking through the door looking like hell and hacking/snorting/sneezing all over the office. STAY HOME or go to the park or anywhere besides where you'll infect the rest of the office so half the office out a week later and production is at zilch...and you're at the office wondering how everybody else got sick and why they're at home, instead of "powering" through it like you did. some people have zero EQ aka, self awareness.

Do you have strand A or B? B is just like a cold. A is from the devil

Started having sore throat last week. Congestion and cold in chest and head this week with fever. Went to Dr wednesday and tested negative for flu. Gave me a shot of steriods and antibiotics. I feel worse today than I have the whole time. Hopefully it will get better soon.

Great, as I was leaving work this afternoon I started feeling rough. Its It's too early to know for sure if I caught it, but I think I caught it from reading this thread. One of you must have coughed or sneezed while I was reading.

I was getting my new badge at Hyundai this morning and an Asian woman was sneezing and coughing her ass off. All I could this of was, damnit now I'm gonna get the coronavirus.

B. Man if A is from the devil then I’d just need to go ahead and let them bury me. It’s the dang cough that is so bad, I have coughed so much that my throat feels like it’s on fire when I cough. I am hopeful a weekend of doing nothing and taking the meds will kick it. I just rarely ever get sick and this has been awful.

A couple weeks ago it hit us hard so my kids missed most of a week of school, and then my boys got round two of it this week. They missed a lot of school.
Now the damn school is fussing about truancy because I had the decency to keep them home. The County school board has a message posted to keep sick kids at home, but they are now not accepting written excuses from parents, it has to be from a doctor.
So, if I take all three boys to the doctor at $40 a co-pay, and my time off work, just to be told to give them motrin and tylenol and drink fluids, so I can get a doctor's excuse that actually causes serious undo hardship to my family in the pocket-book.

Next time they get sick, I am going to send them to school and when the nurse calls I am going to tell her to keep them at the school and let the principal take them home in their personal vehicle.

Just like city hall, you can't fight the Board of Education. To fight their rules, they have to make sense in the first place.

I had a 104° fever for 6 days with A. Literally thought I would die. With B it was like a bad cold for about 2 days and felt 90% after 4 or 5 days. I never got a terrible cough though with either which would make both seem much worse.

Last time I had the flu, I had both strands, A and B . Was out for a week.

The fever and the damn lethargy is what took us down. I think through the entire cycle of it I was only good enough to do anything for an hour or so a day. I felt guilty for being so pathetic.

My wife got it Tuesday week ago. I have never seen her down that bad, days/nights messed up, and talking out here arse ever. I sprayed Lysol v
Everywhere in the house. I was leaving for Pittsburgh this past Monday for work and did not want that chit. I get home yesterday and she still has remnants of it. Some of her coworkers said it took them 3-4 weeks to get over. I hope not.........

B is worse for those born after 1993. If your kids have not had the immunization for this strain, they need to get one. Type B is the one that is killing the infants and small children.

last time i had it i was in bed a week and lost 15 pound seriously thought I might die. I roll my eyes when I run into people walking around saying they have the flu most doctors are handing out tamiflu like candy for anyone with cold like symptoms during flu season. I personally would not take the antibiotics save them for a future sinus infection or something the flu is a virus antibiotics have 0 effect on it the tamiflu is tge only thing that may help but only if you started it early enough it completely kept me from even getting sick one year my son tested + for flu I notice a mild night sweat went straight to doctor with no symptons tested + started taking tamiflu and never had much more than a cough.

We were working in Huntsville earlier this week. Had all field engineers from across the state on site. One guy was acting real sluggish all day, and at one point he bends over with his hands on his knees and says, “Man, this damn flu has got me down.” I said wth did you just say? Take your stupid arse home.

I had flu A a couple weeks ago. That chit was week. I felt bad for one day, ran a 101.5 temp, and had a headache, those were literally my only symptoms. Went to doc in a box, tested positive for type A. And they gave me Xofluza and felt fine 24 hours later. Missed one day of work to spare my coworkers but I could’ve gone if I was selfish. Heck the common cold was worse IMO.