Swine Flu (H1N1)

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Eeek! Thanks very much. Luckily my sister is a pharmacist so she's getting all sorts of wonderful drugs for me. Bring on the codeine!

Originally Posted By: bobalicious

Eeek! Thanks very much. Luckily my sister is a pharmacist so she's getting all sorts of wonderful drugs for me. Bring on the codeine!

My advice is stay away from the vicodin...that stuff should be condemned.

Don't think Vicodin is even legal in Ireland.

Originally Posted By: thor Originally Posted By: bobaliciousEeek! Thanks very much. Luckily my sister is a pharmacist so she's getting all sorts of wonderful drugs for me. Bring on the codeine! My advice is stay away from the vicodin...that stuff should be condemned. And why would he take a narcodic for the flu?? And though I agree Vicodin can be addictive (like any other narcodic) but as long as one doesn't abuse the substance than there is no harm.

codeine is a narcotic, isn't it? It's an opiate.I've never heard of Vicodin being prescribed for the flu though.

Yeah codeine is a narcodic, but its pretty low on the scale which is why in some countries (I believe Canada is one) you can buy it over the counter. It's not nearly as addictive as many other high-end narcodics like Vicodin and percocet.

I also can see why Bob might want codeine if he has a bad cough as it can also be a cough suppressant.. so I totally get that.

Originally Posted By: NtroducingMyselfI also can see why Bob might want codeine if he has a bad cough as it can also be a cough suppressant.. so I totally get that. Yup, the codeine is just for when I'm going to sleep at night.

I can officially say I know someone who has it.. yikes!!!

I can say that were I live 98% of people with the flu acttually have H1N1!!!

Yeah.. As deek says... probably a good portion of the other people who are sick also have H1N1 but have mild cases.

I doubt it here... This is extreme flu season right now and about 75% of people i know are sick!

Same with me but most of them have some type of H1N1

What.... Canadians are special? LOLYou think if you get H1N1 that you always get VERY sick? H1N1 IS the Flu and most people have just regular flu symptoms.. Some get it worse.

Does h1n1 have to be treated? What if someone unknowingly has it??

There is no treatment.. It's just the flu like all the others.. but just a different strain. And you "really" don't know if you have it unless the doctor tests you. There are "some" characteristics that make it a bit different than the typical flu in that it will hit your chest 1st and give you a bad cough as opposed to infecting the nose and thoat first.

GOOD cause I was all EFFING PARANOID!! (THANKS SDP!!!!) that I had H1N1 because Im sick..But i have the throat and runny nose.. it happens to me EVERY october and may tho

Last Wednesday my 6 year old came home from school at 1 pm. Wednesdays are half days at grade school level here, they are always out at that time. by 2 he was complaining of a headache, a rare thing for him to complain of. WIth some childrens tylenol and a nap he seemed better by 5 when his mom got off work. Ate normal, for dinner, said he was tired and put himself to bed an hour before we make him go to bed normally. By that time (8 pm) my wife had a headache, a standard thing for her. She has more headaches than I do and I have had a pretty constant one for nearly 20 years. Hers is due to some spinal injuries she had as a teenager, near as anyone can tell by examining her.At 2:30 am my 6 year old was banging down the hall to the bathroom, screaming he was going to throw up.It was at this time that Captain Howdy jumped in to his body making him do an impression of Reagan, complete with eh head spinning around while projectile vomiting. In this case it was lasagna and garlic mashed taters and some fresh spinach salad rather than pea soup. By now I was up and had a robe on and headed in to the shitter to check up on him.There was fucking puke everyplace! On the toilet, the wall, the sink, the shower curtain and in the tub, the floor, the top of the cats litter box and the bathroom scales, not a fucking drop in the toilet though. My wife got up, took his temp and sent him to bed with some childrens motrin. His temp was 99.6.Having a diabetic, I learned to take notes when kids get sick, I know these are correct, time and temps because I take detailed notes each time.We scrubbed the bathroom, and went to bed at 340 am.The alarm went off at 620 same as always, now my wife felt like hell and I still felt pretty decent. she got up to get ready and shower, threw up in teh shower, went back to bed and got up at 8 am to call work saying she would not be in.I still felt pretty decent but a bit run down.I called the school at 9 am to say he would not be in today, by now I felt retarded, actually stupid, like someone pulled my fucking brain out and replaced it with a small but powerful vacuum cleaner, sucking the skull from all directions in to the middle.I felt progressively worse all day long. If you have the flu, your screwed, nothing helps, and the only shit that does, is available by prescription only and they are not handing that shit out at this point in time! So I cal the clinic we use and make an appointment for my son. I know if its the screw you flu, your just fucked, but if its strep, you HAVE to see the doctor to get the antibiotics to get over it. I explain this to the idiot at the clinic (keep in mind this clinic is a fairly small place, but staffed and run by the U of U medical staff, not some idiots that graduated long ago and can not get a job in a real hospital, but a really good place, I do not seek medical advice from 90 year old docs that finished medical school when they still used leeches for bleeding evil spirits. While the medical staff is fantastic, the secretary staff is mostly retarded. So at 330 pm we head in to get him tested for strep. by now his temps are running at 100.3 even with help from childrens fever meds.explain why we are there to the doc, she understands my concerns and does the strep test and an exam. The immediate results say no strep, they culture it and send us home. now at 5 pm we are all so fucking sick and weak we need a break between teh driveway and the front door and another one between the door and the bed. by that night we are all running at over 102 degrees and so fucking weak its an effort to use the remote to change the channel on the tv.The headache is stronger and nothing touches it, nothing helps it. That fucker hung on till sunday morning! My son started wanting to eat and feeling better by saturday night, as of yesterday I was still so fucking weak I was near crawling to take the dog out to shit.Saturday we got a call, cultured for 48 hours and no strep, however teh other shit they did while we were there, did say swine fucking flu.My son is at school today, my wife is at work. He is great, she is decent but still weak and a bit of upset stomach, I am doing pretty fucking good, but weak and get tired so fucking fast that taking him to school today and feeding the dog and cat has worn me the fuck out.Got to get my ass moving soon, I have to be out of my house by the weekend, and still have a tile floor to finish in the kitchen of the new place, and 3 bedrooms and a front room to paint there as well, plus moving out!Worse comes to worse, Ill lose the sale of my house and take an extra week to get out. I have no contract or earnest money in my hand as of yet, so fuck em if they can not understand teh circumstances that led to me not being out. I did nothing all weekend long but lay in bed, take the dog out to use the bathroom, and have yet to clean up the shit from Thursday forward that litters my yard.Have I had it? you bet your ass, was it worse than the standard flu?Fucker hung on longer and the aches and head vacuum were far worse than normal. I have never had the vacuum headache before this, that was an new on for me.Since thsi started we saw on the news (never a word from the schools, not a fucking peep!) that last week, before this shit started in our house, the high school ym middle son attends had 40% of its students out sick with this shit, thast over 400 kids! the elementary school my son attends had 15 confirmed cases of it the week before my son got sick and brought it home! they also had fucking 30% of the students out sick, but only 15 confirmed cases.My high school age son stays with my mom as she is just down the street from the high school and he walks to school (lost his driving as he had the unfortunate luck to sluff school and run in to dad at arbys for breakfast.)How fucked up is it that that many students are sick and the school takes no action? since then they have canceled all sports events till further notice, still not a fucking note sent home, the website has not been updated on the daily bulletin since fucking feb 12 2009 (last school year)and the same from the elementary. Its been a fucked up week, hoping this one is better!

Compared to the recent past? Feeling fanfuckingtastik!One other thing that should be noted is that the swine flu, one thing that makes it so much worse is the aggressiveness that it spreads with.Had you come to see me over the weekend, I coughed on you, youd be getting sick with in 36 hours. This flu is old, its not the first outbreak, but its rare, or was rare. Noone has much in the way of antibodies to resist it, particularly the younger kids. Thats why it hits kids so hard. Thats why its so much more dangerous, it kills people who are otherwise healthy. Most deaths associated with it are with people who have underlying illnesses. In my own small town, 3 deaths last week, before we got sick, 1 of those however, they could find no other illnesses or underlying health concerns.According to the local health department in all cases of sickness in Utah, currently all those that are not strep throat (no numbers on how many that is)99.99% of it is the H1N1 virus and .01% is the standard Influenza A virus.Typically we do not get a good start in to cold and flu season here till mid November. This shit hits earlier, and spreads faster.So long as Im spouting off shit, I shall include some shit that I got in an email from someone who works in the health care field. I am sure most people have seen this email, its making the rounds now, I just happened to get it from someone who has some training and happens to agree with its methods for control.The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat. In a globalepidemic of this nature, it's almost impossible to avoid coming intocontact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is notso much of a problem as proliferation is.While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptomsand development of secondary infections, some very simple steps, notfully highlighted in most official communications, can be practiced(instead of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu):1. Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all officialcommunications).2. "Hands-off-the-face" approach. Resist all temptations to touch anypart of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).3. *Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don'ttrust salt). *H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simplegargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water hasthe same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infectedone.Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventativemethod.4. Similar to 3 above, *clean your nostrils at least once every day withwarm salt water. *Not everybody may be good at Jala Neti or Sutra Neti(very good Yoga asanas to clean nasal cavities), but *blowing the nosehard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped inwarm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.*5. *Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C(Amla and other citrus fruits). *If you have to supplement with VitaminC tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption.6. *Drink as much of warm liquids (tea, coffee, etc) as you can.*Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in thereverse direction.They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomachwhere they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harmKeep in mind, we gargle daily with listerine, morning and night, it did not save our ass from getting this shit, but maybe its worth trying?

Time I got the shot!I'm glad you all survived, Chance. Not nice at all.

Im pretty sure Im not going to get it.. I havent had the flu shot in years. Plus the H1n1 shot hasnt been around long enough.. crazy shit can happen!! Anyone seen I Am Legend?