Swine Flu help

Amistoso_2

LemonGrove wrote: »

What's your closest Metro stop, mines Chichester? If you give me your authorisation number I'll pick it up from the PCT 2 mins away and drop it off for you?

Awww, how nice r u?
dont think he needs it now but what a lovely gesture

LemonGrove

Amistoso wrote: »

Awww, how nice r u?
dont think he needs it now but what a lovely gesture

Widelats would have to cover the extortionate Metro ticket fee for me though.

BettySpaghetti_2

piratefairy wrote: »

I had swine flu... i spent 2 wks unable to get out of my bed ... If you can "hop on the metro", "go down the job centre"! etc, i truly do not think from experience that you have swine flu, or if you do, it's clearly a very mild strain, which will be over before you know it.

Completely agree! I had suspected swine flu (diagnosed by my GP not the call centre) and couldn't move for nearly a week. Then it took 2 more weeks to recover and feel vaguely human! I'm not one for malingering in bed (even after a fairly major op I was up and about in 24hrs) but I was completely floored with (suspected) SF. The prospect of "hopping" anywhere was completely out of the question - dragging myself very very slowly to the bathroom was more like it! _pale_

To the OP, hope you're feeling better soon!

Widelats

LemonGrove wrote: »

Widelats would have to cover the extortionate Metro ticket fee for me though.

Yes they are expensive! They wanted me to go to Byker Grove and i am way over in Jarrow, only way there is Metro a walk is impossible. Thanks very much for the offer i do not need it noe i am feeling way better than i did but still feeling ill, i reckon a few more days i will be ok enough to start living again

durham_girl

Widelats wrote: »

Yes they are expensive! They wanted me to go to Byker Grove

Erm do you mean they wanted you to go to Byker? Just in case you didn't know, Byker Grove isn't real

1jim

LemonGrove wrote: »

Widelats would have to cover the extortionate Metro ticket fee for me though.

reading through this thread Widelats would want the NHS to cover the cost of the Metro ticket:p

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Sounds like fun. Judging by what you have to produce at the chemist in order to get the stuff, I wouldn't be allowed to have it anyway. At any rate, I don't have a Driving licence, passport or work photoID - or friends able to provide these documents for themselves. Just have to hope that I don't get it.

LemonGrove

durham_girl wrote: »

Erm do you mean they wanted you to go to Byker? Just in case you didn't know, Byker Grove isn't real

Yep Byker is the closest Metro station in name to Byker Grove.

1jim wrote: »

reading through this thread Widelats would want the NHS to cover the cost of the Metro ticket:p

As long as I got the ticket covered....

But as Widelats will know, Wednesday is the cheap ticket day so that wouldn't be as bad.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Sounds like fun. Judging by what you have to produce at the chemist in order to get the stuff, I wouldn't be allowed to have it anyway. At any rate, I don't have a Driving licence, passport or work photoID - or friends able to provide these documents for themselves. Just have to hope that I don't get it.

Yep the process is rather reminiscent of video-rental-registration.

kazzah60

according to my good friend who is an infection control practitioner in a large teaching hospital -her opinions is that most previously healthy people who catch swine flu should NOT take tamiflu - she said she would not take it- nor will she agree to be vaccinated as her local Trust wishes her to do.
She said you are far better off fighting the virus yourself and building up some natural immunity against the flu virus - the word is in her trust that the second wave of swine flu which is predicted for the winter months is likely to be worse and more virulent than the current version - so it is better NOT to use tamiflu ( you might need it MORE in a 2nd bout) and to try and get through it with the usual flu recommendations.

I have had flu once in 1984 - and yes I can be that accurate - I have NEVER felt closer to death than I did at that time- my temperature was so high I had hallucinations and had to be hospitalised I was so ill
for 3 weeks I was completely unable to move out of bed without help and needed to be helped to the bathroom,
For a good 2 months afterwards I was very weak and it took a long time to get back to my normal self.

If the OP is well enough to make so many calls, s/he really is NOT that badly affected by the swine flu and shouldn't wsorry about taking the tamiflu yet

I have recently had swine flu - I had a mild version with temperature and headache and the runs - I was out of sorts for a couple of days but was ok fairly quickly and was only diagnosed with the swine flu after it had gone
apparently my very severe flu in the 80's had created some level of immunity in me so that I was able to fight this strain off fairly easy
Give your body a chance to build some immunity itself - it will be better for you in the long run!

Widelats

I finally got to see a doctor, i actually have a severe chest infection, it is not flu.

Thanks for all your info here, brilliant.