anyone else got his cold/flu/bug ?

It started with a sore throat , aching, tiredness then developed into sneezing , coughing and phlegm coming out of every orifice but my home spun remedy of, plenty beer, seems to have stemmed the flow and now, i'm feeling better and hopefully have a good nights sleep ,

Funny yoo mention that, because I have had me floo jab today

Sounds like you have Covid.

What's gets me about Covid is when I asked about having a jab in Spring, they said the jabs had ended and I would have to wait until Autumn when the next jabs programme would take place.

I did not know that Covid was seasonable!

If it is Covid, Its only a mild dose and. hopefully that will build up my defences for future attacks, I didn't get my flu jab, I've never had one of those because, I've only ever had the proper ' knocks you off your feet flu' about 3 times in my life so. I'll let my body deal with flu and If I'm wrong. Its me own daft fault,,

Having my Flu jab tomorrow Might get word for a Covid jab had 5 jabs up to now last one on the 19 th Oct last year

Had my flu and covid jab yesterday.Covid jab shoulder a bit sore but flu jab ok.

I get sent for separately by the NHS in November for my Covid jab, but my GP does the floo jab, but in July I had Covid and I tested meself with the kit, so it was definitely Covid, and that T -Line doesn't half jump out of the testing kit at you, and I agree that Tom sounds like he has caught Covid, but in my case it wasn't that severe an illness, no doubt the years of covid vaccines and boosters has built up some bodily resistance to the virus, but what shocked me is the short incubation period from when I was infected, which was between 2 - 3pm on a Thursday to when the first symptoms appeared, just before midnight on the Saturday night, and I know that is where I was infected, but the thing which got me the most about having the virus, was that after four days of having the virus I lost my sense of smell, and although I was clear of the virus in just over a week and a half and clear of all symptoms within about two weeks, the loss of smell was completely gone for three weeks, it started to return during the fourth week, but it was around about six weeks before I can say that my sense of smell was anywhere near normal.

Having my flu jab tomorrow,the last time I had flu I was looking after my mam,on the way to her house I knew something had got me..by the time I left my mams I’d given it to her ..then at home I started seeing bugs crawling over the carpet..I was bad for a week..my poor mam finished up in Hospital and died there.

Momac

I am sorry to hear that, having proper influenza can be very bad news, I had it once and it developed into pneumonia, it nearly finished me off, it took months to get over it, and I was 32 at the time, so it can strike at any age.

I've never had a flu jab, nor a Covid jab, and I don't intend to. I had full blown flu when I was 16 which turned into pneumonia, and was on the brink of pleurisy by the time my mum called a doctor. It wasn't her fault as I refused to see one as I didn't want to be off work.

Anyway, the doc gave me antibiotics and it cleared up after a week or so. Since then, I've had 48 hour flu twice in my 40s which cleared up by itself, but I've never had any symptoms of covid, so I'm assuming my immune system is sufficient to fight these illnesses - so far. I only catch a cold every five or six years so, like Tom, if it gets me in the end it'll be my own fault, but I'm not having chemicals pumped into me, especially the stuff like in the covid jabs which weren't trialled for long enough and, who knows what effects they may have at a future time.

It is sad that many people die of these diseases, but there's a strong probability that underlying illnesses may cause them to be more at risk than others.

I had bronchial pneumonia at 2 years old and was “saved” by Penicillin (apparently).
Strangely enough, 64 years later. I was given Penicillin at Leigh hospital and it nearly killed me!
Never been “ill” for 64 years. I’ve never had a cold or flu.

It follows that they can shove their “pricks” where the sun don’t shine.

You didn't look too rosey when you fell off that roof Tonks,

I never get colds but in the week my youngest should have been born I got pneumonia,the midwife saw to my medication and he was born ..all ten pounds of him..that sorted the pneumonia out lol.

Mollie

I had Pleurisy when I was 4 or 5 years old.

It's a very nasty illness, Tommy, even more so for one so young.

TomPlum, no, but I don’t classify injury as illness. I’ve been injured quite a lot in my 66 years, but had no “illness” since I was a kid.

PS: I’m still suffering from that injury last November!

There's no difference between injury and illness tonks, Both make you unwell, both are claimable for benefit and both can be avoided by long term management, ( thinking ahead) , Illness needs a longer term of forward thinking, injury is a short term weakness in ' I wish I never did that' now ness.

I disagree (as a matter of course!).
Even the healthiest of people can have an injury, whereas healthy people seldom get ill.

My dad when he was 60 went down with a cold which turned in pneumonia which put him in hospital. This then turned to double pneumonia and that was the demise of my dad . I have various jabs over the year /years Flu Covid/etc prevention is better than cure I say