I have teh swine flu...

Clockwork · Oct 22, 2009, 10:09 AM

It sucks.

Supra_Freak · Oct 22, 2009, 10:14 AM

How do you know its the swine flu and not the normal flu?

curio · Oct 22, 2009, 10:21 AM

Stop kissing pigs.

Pr3tty F1y · Oct 22, 2009, 10:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Supra_Freak

How do you know its the swine flu and not the normal flu?

The CDC believes that most if not all the flu out there right now is H1N1. What tends to happen is when one new flu subtype appears and is highly virulent, it more or less drowns out other flu subtypes. Basically a shift occurs in the distribution of flu subtypes and it can happen relatively quickly (and last until a new strain comes in).

It mostly has to do with immunity. After a particular subtype has been around for a while, more immunity is built up, leaving it open for a new subtype to come in that people aren't immune to.

That's why H1N1 isn't as big a threat in the elderly as it is in younger people. The pandemic flu of 1918 was still in circulation in the population until ~1950. Also, antibodies to the 1918 pandemic flu are cross reactive with H1N1. Thus, if you were born before 1950, there is a larger chance that you have had contact with that variant and have some immunity. Current statistics demonstrate, that due to its decline in prevalence, only ~4% of persons born after 1980 have immunity. That's why its bad. We're experience a shift and the younger population is at the greatest risk.

dreamwalker · Oct 22, 2009, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by curio

Stop kissing pigs.

This, you dirty bastard.

But if you really do have said flu, make a quick recovery.. Last I checked you weren't a newborn or senior citizen, so you got this

Clockwork · Oct 22, 2009, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by dreamwalker

This, you dirty bastard.

But if you really do have said flu, make a quick recovery.. Last I checked you weren't a newborn or senior citizen, so you got this

Yeah, I started feeling sick on Tuesday night. Since then I have been running a 102F fever which just broke this morning (thankfully). Yesterday is pretty much a blur as I spent most of it sleeping.

DeathKnight · Oct 22, 2009, 12:37 PM

Get better mang

Clockwork · Oct 22, 2009, 12:41 PM

I spoke too soon, fever is back up. Ugh.

JonZ · Oct 22, 2009, 12:42 PM

Swine

prompt retablissement

(sorry don't know the meaning in english

)

But see it the bright way, if you die, that will convince me enough to get the flu shot

Skynet · Oct 22, 2009, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by curio

But see it the bright way, if you die, that will convince me enough to get the flu shot

Not me.

Drunken Janitor · Oct 22, 2009, 01:46 PM

sorry, you gots teh hiv

Sundance Kid V2 · Oct 22, 2009, 02:13 PM

give me a kiss, then I can book sick leave.

I haven't been on sick leave this whole year

. I want some time off to play games

XSBagage · Oct 22, 2009, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by curio

Stop kissing pigs.

When pigs fly!

RFtinkerer · Oct 22, 2009, 02:37 PM

*sprays keyboard and mouse with Lysol*

Djinn · Oct 22, 2009, 02:51 PM

My co-worker told me that she contracted the swine flu last week. She was sick as a dog for half a week or so.

curio · Oct 23, 2009, 09:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skynet

Not me.

Why's that quote say curio when it was JonZ that said it?

RFtinkerer · Oct 23, 2009, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by curio

My co-worker told me that she contracted the swine flu last week. She was sick as a dog for half a week or so.

Ouch! Hopefully THAT will convince you to get the shot!

curio · Oct 23, 2009, 09:44 AM

Wtf? Djinn said that one

Djinn · Oct 23, 2009, 09:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RFtinkerer

Ouch! Hopefully THAT will convince you to get the shot!

Yeah, I posted that, not curio.

As it happens, not, I haven't gotten the H1N1 shot. My co-worker normally works at offices many miles from my building. She visits occasionally, but I haven't seen her since she was out with the flu.

I got the non-H1N1 shot a week ago. The swine-flu vaccine is in short supply, and I'm neither at-risk, nor do I have have a job that's likely to put others at risk. If the opportunity presents itself, I'll get the H1N1 shot, but in the meantime, I'm getting my kids vaccinated. They need it more than I do.

RFtinkerer · Oct 23, 2009, 09:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by curio

Wtf? Djinn said that one

*sadpanda at missed humor*

curio · Oct 23, 2009, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RFtinkerer

*sadpanda at missed humor*

I wasn't sure if it was a glitch in the matrix or if you purposefully did it. Since you did, well that's funny because you got me to believe that it was a glitch -

Pr3tty F1y · Oct 23, 2009, 09:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by curio

I wasn't sure if it was a glitch in the matrix or if you purposefully did it. Since you did, well that's funny because you got me to believe that it was a glitch -

Pimps and computers. At odds since 1973.

**andyfowler** · Oct 23, 2009, 01:32 PM

Ditto, I had to take tamiflu for it last month. **** sucked.

Shapeshifter · Oct 23, 2009, 08:33 PM

ive been fighting off a bad cold (as have a few others in my family) might be the flu might not be, none of us bothered to go to the doc as well it's a flu, they can't do anything. (fluids rest blah blah blah)

plugged nose, sore thoart, Headaches, bodyaches and a fever that lasted 3 days. Right now im just having body aches and the headache the rest is gone.

thing is I never felt like I was going to BE sick like I have with every other flu in the past, I just felt like I could die (lol) and ive never had a cold with a fever before...

Greasy · Oct 23, 2009, 09:01 PM

Can I have your WRX?

Hope you feel better soon man... If not though... ^^^^

Cordl3ssPen · Oct 23, 2009, 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pr3tty F1y

Pimps and computers. At odds since 1973.

mbeeston · Oct 23, 2009, 11:50 PM

"best of luck, i hope you don't die" - genkai

Clockwork · Oct 24, 2009, 09:28 AM

Well, I think the fever has now subsided. I don't feel much better though (totally weak, aches and pains pretty much everywhere. Lungs feel heavy and make phlegmy sound when I breathe). I pretty much feel like the walking dead.

This has got to be the single worst experience illness wise that I have ever gone through, except maybe the time I had severe food poisoning.

Farmer_BOB · Oct 24, 2009, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clockwork

Well, I think the fever has now subsided. I don't feel much better though (totally weak, aches and pains pretty much everywhere. Lungs feel heavy and make phlegmy sound when I breathe). I pretty much feel like the walking dead.

This has got to be the single worst experience illness wise that I have ever gone through, except maybe the time I had severe food poisoning.

Were you ever really diagnosed with swine flu though?

***Kombatant*** · Oct 24, 2009, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andyfowler

I lol'ed

Get well soon man

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Oct 22, 2009, 02:51 PM	#15
Djinn Rage3D Fixture Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Warminster, PA USA Posts: 23,910	My co-worker told me that she contracted the swine flu last week. She was sick as a dog for half a week or so. __________________ "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." - H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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Shapeshifter Duck and Cover Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Under my desk. Posts: 6,363	ive been fighting off a bad cold (as have a few others in my family) might be the flu might not be, none of us bothered to go to the doc as well it's a flu, they can't do anything. (fluids rest blah blah blah) plugged nose, sore thoart, Headaches, bodyaches and a fever that lasted 3 days. Right now im just having body aches and the headache the rest is gone. thing is I never felt like I was going to BE sick like I have with every other flu in the past, I just felt like I could die (lol) and ive never had a cold with a fever before... __________________ Quotes: Rage3d is the BEST forum!! There are alot of smart people on here!! -phexus

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Oct 24, 2009, 09:28 AM	#28
Clockwork Rage3D Veteran Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 11,777	Well, I think the fever has now subsided. I don't feel much better though (totally weak, aches and pains pretty much everywhere. Lungs feel heavy and make phlegmy sound when I breathe). I pretty much feel like the walking dead. This has got to be the single worst experience illness wise that I have ever gone through, except maybe the time I had severe food poisoning. __________________

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