Flu virus or Heavy head cold

There are several horrid viruses about at the moment. Are you still feverish? If you have a high temp after 8 days contact your GP.
But I just think we take so much longer to recover as we get older.
Sending hugs 🤗

Babs03 I’ve had a fever off and on but not severe enough to try and ring GP altho I did have to cancel blood test appt as didn’t feel well enough to ring for uber to surgery…

Just thought I would feel better by now but maybe the viruses are getting stronger and yes, you’re correct in saying when u get a bit older, it does seem to take longer to feel better/stronger
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I am in my second week of some kind of flu type virus . Slight temp at the beginning and upset tummy for several days. Now I feel as if I have a constant runny nose and a lingering cough. Am so tired I’m going to bed early every day. I’m 72 and do feel in the last few years it takes me much longer to recover. Hope you feel better soon

I had to cancel flu jab as came down with heavy cold,the cough is draining,awake most of the night even tho propped up ,did the triage thing this morning and have a prescription waiting for me ,if what I do not know !

I had a cold in September. My family were staying and I felt so rotten.

Then last week I started feeling feverish, sore throat, blocked nose, painful to swallow etc
It's much better now but I don't know why I am rundown.
I had a flu vaccine about 9 months ago.
Is there much point in having the vaccine?

Poor you Bea get better soon

🙏TwiceAsNice yes I keep going up to bed earlier then only able to sleep a few hours.. and
Flippin2 I’ve got a bit of chesty cough but it’s the facial congestion and wanting to ‘rip’ the nose off my face as it stings/tingles so much .
What has GP/Pharmacist prescribed?

🤞 hope you both feel better soon🤞

Just wish we knew what we’re dealing with

We both had a head cold, not flu or Covid, that lasted 4 weeks.
Went to the Docs at the 3 week stage to be told that this was the current virus and come back if not better in 4 weeks.
Hang on in there. Hope it passes soon.

Grammaretto

I had a cold in September. My family were staying and I felt so rotten.

Then last week I started feeling feverish, sore throat, blocked nose, painful to swallow etc
It's much better now but I don't know why I am rundown.
I had a flu vaccine about 9 months ago.
Is there much point in having the vaccine?

Poor you Bea get better soon

That’s my query… why after taking up the vaccinations to protect/prevent more lasting effects of flu/viruses why I feel ‘rundown’ and what exactly is in the vaccines??

Maremia ok so it’s a waiting period of 3-4wks… hard to function when u live alone altho I wouldn’t want visitors to spread virus onto …

If you get a very sore throat, productive cough and aching chest, or ear ache do try to see a GP, sometimes a virus can appear to hang on but in actual fact it can be a secondary infection that needs antibiotics.

The cough was quite severe and long lasting, so try to get plenty of honey, cough mixture and whatever suits you best.
Yes, best to avoid visitors, as you can't control the coughing.
But do ask your friends and family to keep you going with supplies, which they can leave at the door for you.
It does pass, but if it gets worse, temperature etc, get straight onto your Doctor.

I had an awful dry cough for over a week, I hacked away all day and night. Had antibiotics that got rid of it. Then DH and I had our flu vaccinations a week or so later and he's had a chesty cough for almost two weeks. I now have strange symptoms, I'm alright during the day but in the evenings it feels as though I have a cold, sneezing and blowing my nose continually. When I wake up in the mornings it's gone!

Babs03

If you get a very sore throat, productive cough and aching chest, or ear ache do try to see a GP, sometimes a virus can appear to hang on but in actual fact it can be a secondary infection that needs antibiotics.

This is exactly right. You can sometimes tell by the taste change of the phlegm.

In the last 6 weeks I have had a flu jab and a covid jab and part 2 of the shingles jab course. The effects have only been tiredness and a sore arm, the shingles is the worst for the soreness. Needle the size of a knitting needle!

I will get every vaccination I can because I want to improve my odds. I augment this with actively avoiding places and people who could infect me. Life is too short to spend it being ill.

I had both Covid and flu jabs about a month ago and have had no symptoms until about a week ago. It's nothing much - just a very persistent cough. Doesn't really fit in with the most common symptoms.
And ironically, I rarely socialise, have shopping delivered, and mostly live on my own in seclusion. So goodness knows where this came from!

Had a really bad flu type virus for 6 weeks and only just starting to feel better now.
Runny nose, earache, cough and extreme tiredness, don’t know if it was connected but it started a week after having my flu jab.
I wondered if I’d got long covid.

The reason for my coughing, which is mostly at night is post nasal drip. It's the most annoying thing, mostly fine during the day but as soon as I lie down, especially on my back the "drip" irritates my throat. Absolute pain.

Going into my 3rd week with a stinking cold. It was almost hone before I had my flu jab then it came back with a vengeance. I blame myself for not waiting until I was fully recovered before have flu vacc🙄

I was reading about this years flu jag...it seems that the vacines are made around the beginning of the year, and they've now found that this flu is a worse strain that what was expcted and so the vacine wont give as much protection as first thought, it will give some protection but not 100%.

All flu vaccines are only 40% - 60% effective as they take a guess on which strains of flu virus will be prevalent each year. Told to me by a nurse who was vaccinating me a few years ago. Apparently there are many, many strains of flu virus and the same with the pneumonia virus. My GP also confirmed this when I asked why my sister and father died of pneumonia when both were vaccinated. TBH I haven't bothered with the flu vaccine since.

Marg75 this sounds like allergy symptoms. Do you have a dog, cat, bird in the living room but not in the bedroom? Or plug in, scented candles air freshener etc?
I'm worse with coughing in room with my dogs so I take antihistamines each day. Wake up with clear chest no cough until I go downstairs
Just a thought HTH

Does sound like a nasty cold/virus and not flu.

When you get a bad dose of the flu, you will never mistake it for a heavy cold.

Hope you are beginning to recover.

We all need our flu jabs as this year, flu seems to be virulent.

You will never develop flu from the flu jab, and neither does it ever give 100% protection.

Day 11… still no energy.., taste buds have vanished… can’t be bothered eating… throat pain gone but phlegmy and chesty cough - worse when trying to have a conversation …

Hope everyone on here is recovering 🤞 - definitely one of the strongest flu viruses I’ve had ..

I'm just puzzled as to why people continue to believe that bombarding the human immune system with all these 'vaccinations' is going to make for good health! Even the purveyors of the flu vaccine admit that it's hit-and-miss as to whether they get it right about which virus is going to be a threat in the coming winter. My personal choice is to look after my basic immune system with loads of Vitamin C and vitamin D. I believe you can go above the RDA, especially with C, with impunity. If I feel a cold coming on I take masses of Vit C, a bit of extra D and have a very early night. Worked so far...

Have so many friends, acquaintances with the cough, cold/flu like symptoms. Most have had the flu and covid vaccinations recently. Goodness know what they would be like if hadn't had the vaccinations. The cough seems to be the most complained of.