Have you had H1N1 recently? If so, please share your story.

[raccoon]

It might be of some help to others in the near future.

[monmouth]

1. I didn't go to the doctor and I should have. This is my third week with

the cough and nose blowing. I had no fever or upset stomach though so am not sure if I had it or a strain. Nasty green infection finally going away. All I wanted to do was sleep. The most minor of tasks exhausted me. I'm not a doctor person but this time I was wrong in not going.

[bluestateguy]

2. The cough is always the last thing to go

When I had the flu four years ago, I coughed so hard that I pulled a muscle in my chest. It took a month to heal.

[MineralMan]

3. No fever, no flu.

Fever is as always a symptom of flu. You had something else that affected your lungs.

[stray cat]

7. You are displaying ignorance of H1N1 - check your facts

This flu only has fever in about 50% of confirmed cases.

[comtec]

5. 2 bloody months!!!! Doc only gave me antibiotics after the first week

for one week.
but I was coughing up stuff for 2 bloody months!
Even blood at one point, doc said, no big....

grrr I hate Dutch docs!

[monmouth]

6. Whoa, two months!! I have little patience for my illnesses, that would

send me to the edge...LOL.

[hedgehog]

12. Antibiotics don't do a thing for viral infections.

[Wednesdays]

11. Pretty much the same thing for me

For 4 weeks I had no energy, a cough that would NOT go away, and I had to drag myself to do even basic things and could only make it out of bed for an hour at a time. Fever for a few days, occasional nausea, frequently a pounding headache and the chills. For about 10 days the glands in my neck were so swollen that talking and eating was excruciatingly painful. My ears were completely plugged up the whole time--even now I'm partially deaf, even though my other symptoms have been gone for more than 2 weeks.

I have never been ill in July before, let alone this ill. It's not the "death sentence" the media makes it out to be, but I'd really rather not go through it again.

Edit: as for how it started, it seemed at first to be no big deal. The first few days, I just had mild cold symptoms...occasional sneezing and mild sinusitis. But it persisted and just kept getting worse and worse.

[MrsBrady]

4. My husband and I had flu like symptoms, our doctors didn't bother to test us...

this was last spring when he had been in the Browsville area and airport twice in two weeks, once in the airport on the same day as that unfortunate little Mexican boy.
Told the doctor that, but they didn't test me.
We were really sick for about two days each. Fever, the sweats, everything.
Lots of congestion that turned into bad sinus infections for both of us as well.

And then I was sick as a dog in the first Summer semester. Something was going through my entire class of 30. Nobody mentioned anything.
I didn't bother going to the doctor then. Didn't have time. This class was very difficult and I could not get behind.

Who knows.

[berni_mccoy]

8. I believe I have it. Started as sore throat

then body aches (for 3 days). NO Fever (amazingly). On the second day a cough developed and it feels like bronchitis. Truly, one nasty bug.

[Lex]

9. Sat on a tarmac in Chicago with a plane full of people for an hour, came home

and 24 hours later I had a fever, chills, sore throat, and was very miserable for about 4 days with all that, then got a cough and some head/chest congestion for about 4 more days, and then just ended with a dry cough. Felt bad, and considered it might be H1N1 but never felt in danger. Just a bad flu. A friend who is a doctor thinks it may very well have been H1N1.

Edited to add: I think someone on that plane had it and I ended up contracting it that way. Just my theory.

[FirstLight]

10. Not the flu, but a nasty summer cold that WON'T leave!

Brought on by swim lessons (and how much bacteria in the rec center pool...ewww)
First was my 6 yr old
starts with a sore throat for a couple days, and you are thinking"am i getting sick?"
then comes congestion, cough, snotty nose and then what looked like maybe an ear infection...

byt the end of the week, I had it and my 7 yr old had a full nose too...

my worst has been the cough
daughter is the worst at blowing the crud out of her nose, so she sounds awful
and the little guy has a sore throat again

the onset was 2 1/2-3 weeks ago, treated for the "ear infection" but it didn't stop the rest of us from getting it and it took about week to recover.
my problem is that I take Enbrel, and had to postpone a shot till I felt better last week... then 3 days after i took a shot, we all got it again... damn!


just going to invest in good juices and chicken soup...and stay out of the POOL!