Is there a bug going around?

[Alan Medic]

Just wondering if it's just us suffering from cold/flu like symptoms. Leaves us needing a lot of rest.

[Seabag]

Yes

There's a long lingering version

[Jules-and-Boo]

Yes - it's in my house! started around Christmas, thought it had gone and came back with a vengence. Even my fingers ache.

Ginger tea and lemon helps but it's stubborn.

[Sue]

Yeh I've had it/got it :(

Like a sort of flu but not so bad you have to stay in bed?

Aches? Bit of a cough? Slight sore throat? Runny nose? Not much energy?

I also had a headache for a while :(

[rebwec01]

Me too - not so bad I can warrant a day off work, but very bunged up/low energy. Sore throat. Has been 8 days now :-(

[REDD]

Woooo I should say so, my toilet has taken a right battering the past couple of days.

Maybe its the norovirus?

[Grok]

Sounds like a hangover, Sue, especially as I thought you were going to fall off the stage backwards last night :-)

Sue Wrote:

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> Yeh I've had it/got it :(

>

> Like a sort of flu but not so bad you have to stay

> in bed?

>

> Aches? Bit of a cough? Slight sore throat? Runny

> nose? Not much energy?

>

> I also had a headache for a while :(

[Grok]

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REDD Wrote:

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> Woooo I should say so, my toilet has taken a right

> battering the past couple of days.

> Maybe its the norovirus?

[Grok]

This is exactly why and how this is being spread. Stay off work and stop infecting everyone.

rebwec01 Wrote:

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> Me too - not so bad I can warrant a day off work,

> but very bunged up/low energy. Sore throat. Has

> been 8 days now :-(

[Sue]

Grok Wrote:

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> Sounds like a hangover, Sue, especially as I

> thought you were going to fall off the stage

> backwards last night :-)

>

> Sue Wrote:

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> -----

> > Yeh I've had it/got it :(

> >

> > Like a sort of flu but not so bad you have to

> stay

> > in bed?

> >

> > Aches? Bit of a cough? Slight sore throat?

> Runny

> > nose? Not much energy?

> >

> > I also had a headache for a while :(

It's not a hangover.

What a sad life you must lead. All you seem to do is troll on here.

Grow up.

[Alan Medic]

Sue Wrote:

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> Yeh I've had it/got it :(

>

> Like a sort of flu but not so bad you have to stay

> in bed?

>

> Aches? Bit of a cough? Slight sore throat? Runny

> nose? Not much energy?

>

> I also had a headache for a while :(

That just about covers it. I'm improving but it's still there after several days.

[holloway]

I had this over Cheltenham week, was absolutely floored. Still not 100 % better now even. I suppose I saved some cash though...

[pommie]

Yea the Noro virus is doing the rounds and also cases of Scarlett fever are too

[Michael Palaeologus]

This time last week I was in bed shivering and sweating, upset stomach along the way. Now, better but still coughing and feel quite tired quite easily.

That I am not the only on is a comfort.

[DulwichFox]

I have had a long term problem with my throat and nose resulting in having a camera up my nose and down my throat last year.

All was clear but I have had recent bad period of aching ..coughing .. Felt like death warmed up.

I think I now have a nasal infection as I have a terrible stench in one nostril.. It's vile .. putrid..

I went to SELDOC and have just started a course of Amoxcillin.. so I hope it will clear up.. It's driving me crazy.

I can smell it in my sleep...

Foxy

[Zebedee Tring]

I have had bugs on and off for several weeks now, if not months. Bunged up nose, headache, aching teeth, bleary eyes, dry cough, runny nose, general weary feeling and aches in parts of the body. I have had some of these symptoms some of the time and other symptoms at other times. It has left me feeling pretty low - I'm glad that I am retired now and don't have to go to work.

[PeckhamRose]

Whenever anyone has a cold flu virus then everyone says there is a bug going around. Always. And it shall ever be so. Specially with cramped public transport acting as a lovely petris dish for sharing and the pressures upon people to go to work when so ill, and adverts advertising not very efficient remedies so that people think they feel better when they are still ill, so they feel guilty and think they're able to do a day's work whilst all the time infecting more people at work and on cramped public transport.

So that's why it goes around. Rant over :D

[Sue]

This isn't a cold.

Different progression of symptoms.

And not much work would get done if everybody stayed at home with minor ailments :)

[Loz]

On Friday I had a weird blocked up ear which caused a distortion in my hearing. Today I have a nose that is running like a tap.

[Nigello]

Keep washing your hands and do it more often than you think you need to. I know it is not going to stop everyone from catching bugs, but it does help. (Anti-bacterial gels kill some bugs; washing your hands gives them - including viruses - nowhere to stick.)

Rub your eyes with the back of your hand; push the bell on the bus with your knuckle; do same with cashpoints or in the lift; get a flu jab; sleep as much as you can. All of these can help but we all fall ill eventually.

[REDD]

Yep all better now. 48 hours later and gone as quick as it came. Luckily I haven't done the spring cleaning yet. Time to wipe down everything I have touched so I hopefully will not catch the bugger again.

[JohnL]

Sue Wrote:

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> This isn't a cold.

>

> Different progression of symptoms.

>

> And not much work would get done if everybody

> stayed at home with minor ailments :)

This thing lasts a month at least - and everybody has

it - wondering if it's pollution and not infectious.

[JohnL]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> Whenever anyone has a cold flu virus then everyone

> says there is a bug going around. Always. And it

> shall ever be so. Specially with cramped public

> transport acting as a lovely petris dish for

> sharing and the pressures upon people to go to

> work when so ill, and adverts advertising not very

> efficient remedies so that people think they feel

> better when they are still ill, so they feel

> guilty and think they're able to do a day's work

> whilst all the time infecting more people at work

> and on cramped public transport.

>

> So that's why it goes around. Rant over :D

But I went for 10 years without catching anything until

this year. YOu don't always catch things - it depends

on a number of things.

There is a virus that resets your immune system :(

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

I've been coughing on and off for a month and I'm starting to think it's the pollution .

JohnL Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

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> > This isn't a cold.

> >

> > Different progression of symptoms.

> >

> > And not much work would get done if everybody

> > stayed at home with minor ailments :)

>

> This thing lasts a month at least - and everybody

> has

> it - wondering if it's pollution and not

> infectious.

[Sue]

JohnL Wrote:

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>

> This thing lasts a month at least - and everybody

> has

> it - wondering if it's pollution and not

> infectious.

I don't think "everybody" has it!

If it was due to pollution, would the symptoms not be purely respiratory? Eg coughing?

I was interested to see someone above had aches in their teeth. I had that too, didn't connect it at all to my other symptoms, but my teeth are fine now, so maybe it was related!