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Every year the flu hits half the community like everywhere - and every year it passed me by. I never got sick.

Last Thursday what hit me came on like getting hit by a freight train. It did not come on slowly. Suddenly involuntary violently coughing like I was trying to cough my lungs out. Energy dropped to zero. Just walking I would stumble against the wall. This hit me at our warehouse and I immediately quarantined myself in the office.

The involuntary coughing stopped within a few hours, but I forced myself to cough to try to cough out the mucus seemingly building in my lungs. Then I basically passed out/fell asleep - though was setting an alarm for every 6 hours to get up, struggle to the bathroom to urinate, shower off with hot water and lots of soap to wash off anything my skin was oozing out etc - then crash again. Otherwise, I sleep 36 hours straight. However, before doing so I blasted every handle, surface and anything else I might have touched with concentrated bleach and 152 proof alcohol. I've slept 95% of the time until today.

Today is the first day I can get around. Lost 19 pounds. Weak. Feel clammy like a breaking fever, though didn't really have a fever. Forcing myself to eat and drink, though don't feel any sense of hunger or thirst.

The good news is that it seems so far not one person in my family or I know has gotten this - though at 6 days it doesn't mean everyone is in the clear. However, prior to this we had been taking precautions. There is only 1 person I know that I was in close proximity with who is super sick and that is probably where I got it. Fortunately, that person was never near my family and even in our home life we were take precautions including towards each other before this.

I don't know what this is, no place around here to get tested nor see any reason to. Whatever it is, this is one bad-ass bug you do NOT want to get. Take this seriously.
 
joko104 said:
Every year the flu hits half the community like everywhere - and every year it passed me by. I never get sick. Or rather I used to. Last Thursday what hit me came on like getting hit by a freight train. It did not come on slowly. Suddenly involuntary violently coughing like I was trying to cough my lungs out. Energy dropped to zero. Just walking I would stumble against the wall. This hit me at our warehouse and I immediately quarantined myself in the office.

The involuntary coughing stopped within a few hours, but I forced myself to cough to try to cough out the mucus seemingly building in my lungs. Then I basically passed out/fell asleep - though was setting an alarm for every 6 hours to get up, struggle to the bathroom to urinate, shower off with hot water and lots of soap to wash off anything my skin was oozing out etc - then crash again. Otherwise, I sleep 36 hours straight. However, before doing so I blasted every handle, surface and anything else I might have touched with concentrated bleach and 152 proof alcohol. I've slept 95% of the time until today.

Today is the first day I can get around. Lost 19 pounds. Weak. Feel clammy like a breaking fever, though didn't really have a fever. Forcing myself to eat and drink, though don't feel any sense of hunger or thirst.

The good news is that it seems so far not one person in my family or I know has gotten this - though at 6 days it doesn't mean everyone is in the clear. However, prior to this we had been taking precautions. There is only 1 person I know that I was in close proximity with who is super sick and that is probably where I got it. Fortunately, that person was never near my family and even in our home life we were take precautions including towards each other before this.

I don't know what this is, no place around here to get tested nor see any reason to. Whatever it is, this is one bad-ass bug you do NOT want to get. Take this seriously.
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glad you are better. I have had pneumonia several times and a massive sinus infection that required a hospital IV of antibiotics. Several viruses can do this to you. who knows what it was
 
I am just coming off of about 6 weeks of an upper respiratory thing. I had a few days of flu a few weeks ago, preceded and followed by lots of coughing, lots of phlegm. At one point, my chest was really tight, I went to the clinic and got zithromycin 5 day treatment that cleared it up. Still a bit of a cough, but not too bad.

And.....now its allergies...everything blooming over here...head is all nasty.
 
joko104 said:
Every year the flu hits half the community like everywhere - and every year it passed me by. I never got sick.

Last Thursday what hit me came on like getting hit by a freight train. It did not come on slowly. Suddenly involuntary violently coughing like I was trying to cough my lungs out. Energy dropped to zero. Just walking I would stumble against the wall. This hit me at our warehouse and I immediately quarantined myself in the office.

The involuntary coughing stopped within a few hours, but I forced myself to cough to try to cough out the mucus seemingly building in my lungs. Then I basically passed out/fell asleep - though was setting an alarm for every 6 hours to get up, struggle to the bathroom to urinate, shower off with hot water and lots of soap to wash off anything my skin was oozing out etc - then crash again. Otherwise, I sleep 36 hours straight. However, before doing so I blasted every handle, surface and anything else I might have touched with concentrated bleach and 152 proof alcohol. I've slept 95% of the time until today.

Today is the first day I can get around. Lost 19 pounds. Weak. Feel clammy like a breaking fever, though didn't really have a fever. Forcing myself to eat and drink, though don't feel any sense of hunger or thirst.

The good news is that it seems so far not one person in my family or I know has gotten this - though at 6 days it doesn't mean everyone is in the clear. However, prior to this we had been taking precautions. There is only 1 person I know that I was in close proximity with who is super sick and that is probably where I got it. Fortunately, that person was never near my family and even in our home life we were take precautions including towards each other before this.

I don't know what this is, no place around here to get tested nor see any reason to. Whatever it is, this is one bad-ass bug you do NOT want to get. Take this seriously.
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Sounds miserable but at least you seem to be recovering. Not to be flippant but did you need to lose 19 pounds? That is quite a bit in such a short amount of time.
 
It seems everybody gets hit by less or worse symptoms. I've seen everyone (3 people) in our house get the same flu but to varying degrees of sickness. I guess it depends on your immune system.
 
Ya, my wife and I were also sick. Took three days off work- coughing/fever. I know many other people that had the same thing. It's weird. The Doc tested me for H1N1 (negative) but not corona.
 
joko104 said:
Every year the flu hits half the community like everywhere - and every year it passed me by. I never got sick.

Last Thursday what hit me came on like getting hit by a freight train. It did not come on slowly. Suddenly involuntary violently coughing like I was trying to cough my lungs out. Energy dropped to zero. Just walking I would stumble against the wall. This hit me at our warehouse and I immediately quarantined myself in the office.

The involuntary coughing stopped within a few hours, but I forced myself to cough to try to cough out the mucus seemingly building in my lungs. Then I basically passed out/fell asleep - though was setting an alarm for every 6 hours to get up, struggle to the bathroom to urinate, shower off with hot water and lots of soap to wash off anything my skin was oozing out etc - then crash again. Otherwise, I sleep 36 hours straight. However, before doing so I blasted every handle, surface and anything else I might have touched with concentrated bleach and 152 proof alcohol. I've slept 95% of the time until today.

Today is the first day I can get around. Lost 19 pounds. Weak. Feel clammy like a breaking fever, though didn't really have a fever. Forcing myself to eat and drink, though don't feel any sense of hunger or thirst.

The good news is that it seems so far not one person in my family or I know has gotten this - though at 6 days it doesn't mean everyone is in the clear. However, prior to this we had been taking precautions. There is only 1 person I know that I was in close proximity with who is super sick and that is probably where I got it. Fortunately, that person was never near my family and even in our home life we were take precautions including towards each other before this.

I don't know what this is, no place around here to get tested nor see any reason to. Whatever it is, this is one bad-ass bug you do NOT want to get. Take this seriously.
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I wish you well. I just got over about three weeks of something nasty; persistent cough, fatigue, produced so much gunk that my eustachian tubes filled up and I'm still partially deaf. I don't normally suffer from seasonal flu, but being 67 I guess it could have been it, and at my age it would have hit me harder and taken longer to die off.
 
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Wow, scary. Glad you're recovering. Hope all your family is safe. If it's coronavirus, I'd expect them to show signs.
I had a hellish 2 bouts of viral illness a few mos. back. Then a bout of low-grade fever and chills. Symptoms like I'd never had before and took weeks and weeks to get over.
I'm more than a little concerned about getting sick again!
 
Grandpappy said:
Ya, my wife and I were also sick. Took three days off work- coughing/fever. I know many other people that had the same thing. It's weird. The Doc tested me for H1N1 (negative) but not corona.
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That's the thing-- so many of us will never know what the hell hit us. I hope you both feel better soon!
 
joko104 said:
Every year the flu hits half the community like everywhere - and every year it passed me by. I never got sick.

Last Thursday what hit me came on like getting hit by a freight train. It did not come on slowly. Suddenly involuntary violently coughing like I was trying to cough my lungs out. Energy dropped to zero. Just walking I would stumble against the wall. This hit me at our warehouse and I immediately quarantined myself in the office.

The involuntary coughing stopped within a few hours, but I forced myself to cough to try to cough out the mucus seemingly building in my lungs. Then I basically passed out/fell asleep - though was setting an alarm for every 6 hours to get up, struggle to the bathroom to urinate, shower off with hot water and lots of soap to wash off anything my skin was oozing out etc - then crash again. Otherwise, I sleep 36 hours straight. However, before doing so I blasted every handle, surface and anything else I might have touched with concentrated bleach and 152 proof alcohol. I've slept 95% of the time until today.

Today is the first day I can get around. Lost 19 pounds. Weak. Feel clammy like a breaking fever, though didn't really have a fever. Forcing myself to eat and drink, though don't feel any sense of hunger or thirst.

The good news is that it seems so far not one person in my family or I know has gotten this - though at 6 days it doesn't mean everyone is in the clear. However, prior to this we had been taking precautions. There is only 1 person I know that I was in close proximity with who is super sick and that is probably where I got it. Fortunately, that person was never near my family and even in our home life we were take precautions including towards each other before this.

I don't know what this is, no place around here to get tested nor see any reason to. Whatever it is, this is one bad-ass bug you do NOT want to get. Take this seriously.
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You don't know what made you sick nor do you care to know?
 
I had the easiest cold I've ever had two weeks ago. Lasted six days. I kept waiting for it to fully blossom into full-blown congestion, but it never did. After it was over I felt like I could knock a house down. I was hoping it was the corona. To be honest, ever since we got a cat in 2004, I've not been very sick, possibly because i wash my hands many times a day now.


Glad you are better now. As someone else said. Maybe the 19 lbs lost can be a plus.
 
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joko104 said:
Every year the flu hits half the community like everywhere - and every year it passed me by. I never got sick.

Last Thursday what hit me came on like getting hit by a freight train. It did not come on slowly. Suddenly involuntary violently coughing like I was trying to cough my lungs out. Energy dropped to zero. Just walking I would stumble against the wall. This hit me at our warehouse and I immediately quarantined myself in the office.

The involuntary coughing stopped within a few hours, but I forced myself to cough to try to cough out the mucus seemingly building in my lungs. Then I basically passed out/fell asleep - though was setting an alarm for every 6 hours to get up, struggle to the bathroom to urinate, shower off with hot water and lots of soap to wash off anything my skin was oozing out etc - then crash again. Otherwise, I sleep 36 hours straight. However, before doing so I blasted every handle, surface and anything else I might have touched with concentrated bleach and 152 proof alcohol. I've slept 95% of the time until today.

Today is the first day I can get around. Lost 19 pounds. Weak. Feel clammy like a breaking fever, though didn't really have a fever. Forcing myself to eat and drink, though don't feel any sense of hunger or thirst.

The good news is that it seems so far not one person in my family or I know has gotten this - though at 6 days it doesn't mean everyone is in the clear. However, prior to this we had been taking precautions. There is only 1 person I know that I was in close proximity with who is super sick and that is probably where I got it. Fortunately, that person was never near my family and even in our home life we were take precautions including towards each other before this.

I don't know what this is, no place around here to get tested nor see any reason to. Whatever it is, this is one bad-ass bug you do NOT want to get. Take this seriously.
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I hope you are better and not sure why you didn't get tested for the Corona virus. I think I would have.
 
joko104 said:
Every year the flu hits half the community like everywhere - and every year it passed me by. I never got sick.

Last Thursday what hit me came on like getting hit by a freight train. It did not come on slowly. Suddenly involuntary violently coughing like I was trying to cough my lungs out. Energy dropped to zero. Just walking I would stumble against the wall. This hit me at our warehouse and I immediately quarantined myself in the office.

The involuntary coughing stopped within a few hours, but I forced myself to cough to try to cough out the mucus seemingly building in my lungs. Then I basically passed out/fell asleep - though was setting an alarm for every 6 hours to get up, struggle to the bathroom to urinate, shower off with hot water and lots of soap to wash off anything my skin was oozing out etc - then crash again. Otherwise, I sleep 36 hours straight. However, before doing so I blasted every handle, surface and anything else I might have touched with concentrated bleach and 152 proof alcohol. I've slept 95% of the time until today.

Today is the first day I can get around. Lost 19 pounds. Weak. Feel clammy like a breaking fever, though didn't really have a fever. Forcing myself to eat and drink, though don't feel any sense of hunger or thirst.

The good news is that it seems so far not one person in my family or I know has gotten this - though at 6 days it doesn't mean everyone is in the clear. However, prior to this we had been taking precautions. There is only 1 person I know that I was in close proximity with who is super sick and that is probably where I got it. Fortunately, that person was never near my family and even in our home life we were take precautions including towards each other before this.

I don't know what this is, no place around here to get tested nor see any reason to. Whatever it is, this is one bad-ass bug you do NOT want to get. Take this seriously.
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Sounds like the flu I had the first week of February.
 
Paradoxical said:
I hope you are better and not sure why you didn't get tested for the Corona virus. I think I would have.
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Not to be flippant, but why would it matter?

What I mean by that is, he went through it, kept clean, hydrated, suffered like a dog, quarantined himself etc.

IF he went and got tested for it, nothing would have changed, except he would have exposed people, etc. it's not like there's a vaccine for it or a cure for it, so they wouldn't have been able to help him....etc.
 
joko104 said:
Every year the flu hits half the community like everywhere - and every year it passed me by. I never got sick.

Last Thursday what hit me came on like getting hit by a freight train. It did not come on slowly. Suddenly involuntary violently coughing like I was trying to cough my lungs out. Energy dropped to zero. Just walking I would stumble against the wall. This hit me at our warehouse and I immediately quarantined myself in the office.

The involuntary coughing stopped within a few hours, but I forced myself to cough to try to cough out the mucus seemingly building in my lungs. Then I basically passed out/fell asleep - though was setting an alarm for every 6 hours to get up, struggle to the bathroom to urinate, shower off with hot water and lots of soap to wash off anything my skin was oozing out etc - then crash again. Otherwise, I sleep 36 hours straight. However, before doing so I blasted every handle, surface and anything else I might have touched with concentrated bleach and 152 proof alcohol. I've slept 95% of the time until today.

Today is the first day I can get around. Lost 19 pounds. Weak. Feel clammy like a breaking fever, though didn't really have a fever. Forcing myself to eat and drink, though don't feel any sense of hunger or thirst.

The good news is that it seems so far not one person in my family or I know has gotten this - though at 6 days it doesn't mean everyone is in the clear. However, prior to this we had been taking precautions. There is only 1 person I know that I was in close proximity with who is super sick and that is probably where I got it. Fortunately, that person was never near my family and even in our home life we were take precautions including towards each other before this.

I don't know what this is, no place around here to get tested nor see any reason to. Whatever it is, this is one bad-ass bug you do NOT want to get. Take this seriously.
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Glad you're feeling better.
 
sjmay said:
Not to be flippant, but why would it matter?

What I mean by that is, he went through it, kept clean, hydrated, suffered like a dog, quarantined himself etc.

IF he went and got tested for it, nothing would have changed, except he would have exposed people, etc. it's not like there's a vaccine for it or a cure for it, so they wouldn't have been able to help him....etc.
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He is probably over it by now and a real trooper since the flu symptoms are similar and he decided to tough it out. I usually do that with the common flu as well. I would NOT do it today if I thought there was a chance I had the corona virus because I had similar symptoms. I would go and get tested.
 
joko104 said:
Every year the flu hits half the community like everywhere - and every year it passed me by. I never got sick.

Last Thursday what hit me came on like getting hit by a freight train. It did not come on slowly. Suddenly involuntary violently coughing like I was trying to cough my lungs out. Energy dropped to zero. Just walking I would stumble against the wall. This hit me at our warehouse and I immediately quarantined myself in the office.

The involuntary coughing stopped within a few hours, but I forced myself to cough to try to cough out the mucus seemingly building in my lungs. Then I basically passed out/fell asleep - though was setting an alarm for every 6 hours to get up, struggle to the bathroom to urinate, shower off with hot water and lots of soap to wash off anything my skin was oozing out etc - then crash again. Otherwise, I sleep 36 hours straight. However, before doing so I blasted every handle, surface and anything else I might have touched with concentrated bleach and 152 proof alcohol. I've slept 95% of the time until today.

Today is the first day I can get around. Lost 19 pounds. Weak. Feel clammy like a breaking fever, though didn't really have a fever. Forcing myself to eat and drink, though don't feel any sense of hunger or thirst.

The good news is that it seems so far not one person in my family or I know has gotten this - though at 6 days it doesn't mean everyone is in the clear. However, prior to this we had been taking precautions. There is only 1 person I know that I was in close proximity with who is super sick and that is probably where I got it. Fortunately, that person was never near my family and even in our home life we were take precautions including towards each other before this.

I don't know what this is, no place around here to get tested nor see any reason to. Whatever it is, this is one bad-ass bug you do NOT want to get. Take this seriously.
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Glad you're on the mend.

When I haven't been sick in a while, I forget how much being sick sucks.

It sucks.
Every time.
 
Paradoxical said:
He is probably over it by now and a real trooper since the flu symptoms are similar and he decided to tough it out. I usually do that with the common flu as well. I would NOT do it today if I thought there was a chance I had the corona virus because I had similar symptoms. I would go and get tested.
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To what end though, is what I am asking, there is no vaccine, nothing they can give you to cure you, you essentially have to go through it, and get better, so knowing that, what difference is it if you are tested or not?
 
sjmay said:
To what end though, is what I am asking, there is no vaccine, nothing they can give you to cure you, you essentially have to go through it, and get better, so knowing that, what difference is it if you are tested or not?
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they must be able to do something to stop people from dying. Otherwise, why are they putting them in the hospital and why is the recovery rate so high?

Vaccines are to prevent people from getting it in the first place.
 
joko104 said:
Every year the flu hits half the community like everywhere - and every year it passed me by. I never got sick.

Last Thursday what hit me came on like getting hit by a freight train. It did not come on slowly. Suddenly involuntary violently coughing like I was trying to cough my lungs out. Energy dropped to zero. Just walking I would stumble against the wall. This hit me at our warehouse and I immediately quarantined myself in the office.

The involuntary coughing stopped within a few hours, but I forced myself to cough to try to cough out the mucus seemingly building in my lungs. Then I basically passed out/fell asleep - though was setting an alarm for every 6 hours to get up, struggle to the bathroom to urinate, shower off with hot water and lots of soap to wash off anything my skin was oozing out etc - then crash again. Otherwise, I sleep 36 hours straight. However, before doing so I blasted every handle, surface and anything else I might have touched with concentrated bleach and 152 proof alcohol. I've slept 95% of the time until today.

Today is the first day I can get around. Lost 19 pounds. Weak. Feel clammy like a breaking fever, though didn't really have a fever. Forcing myself to eat and drink, though don't feel any sense of hunger or thirst.

The good news is that it seems so far not one person in my family or I know has gotten this - though at 6 days it doesn't mean everyone is in the clear. However, prior to this we had been taking precautions. There is only 1 person I know that I was in close proximity with who is super sick and that is probably where I got it. Fortunately, that person was never near my family and even in our home life we were take precautions including towards each other before this.

I don't know what this is, no place around here to get tested nor see any reason to. Whatever it is, this is one bad-ass bug you do NOT want to get. Take this seriously.
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Take care of yourself, and get to the doc ASAP!
 
sjmay said:
Not to be flippant, but why would it matter?

What I mean by that is, he went through it, kept clean, hydrated, suffered like a dog, quarantined himself etc.

IF he went and got tested for it, nothing would have changed, except he would have exposed people, etc. it's not like there's a vaccine for it or a cure for it, so they wouldn't have been able to help him....etc.
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It might not ordinarily matter, but given the situation, people should know how and why they got sick, if they did, and give the people around them the courtesy of knowing what they exposed them to.
 
beefheart said:
I am just coming off of about 6 weeks of an upper respiratory thing. I had a few days of flu a few weeks ago, preceded and followed by lots of coughing, lots of phlegm. At one point, my chest was really tight, I went to the clinic and got zithromycin 5 day treatment that cleared it up. Still a bit of a cough, but not too bad.

And.....now its allergies...everything blooming over here...head is all nasty.
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Ohio has had a wet warm winter. Primo conditions for mold. Allergies are in full fury with many. Its complicating things for the doctors and urgent care facilities.
 
Paradoxical said:
they must be able to do something to stop people from dying. Otherwise, why are they putting them in the hospital and why is the recovery rate so high?

Vaccines are to prevent people from getting it in the first place.
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Because unless you are already sick, or have weakened immune, this isn't worse than your normal every day flu.

Contagion might be faster, but the symptoms, and the results, are not worse.
 
Diesel said:
It might not ordinarily matter, but given the situation, people should know how and why they got sick, if they did, and give the people around them the courtesy of knowing what they exposed them to.
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Correct, but from what I read in this case, he literally self-quarantined at the office, didn't involve anyone else.

But I do agree with you generally, but for most people, let's say you work from home, and you go out to the store once per day, let's say you catch it on one of the days, and 5 days later symptoms show up, are you going to remember where you went 5 days ago, and who was there? Probably not, so why tie up the health care system's resources, to tell you what you already know, that you have it, stay away from people.

Being tested positive in the case above isn't going to help the people you encountered with days 1-5 etc.
 
I'm never sick. Well, not never. I was pretty sick once back in the 90's. I think that was flu. I've had a cough here and there, of course. And, those sneeze things come on once every couple of years or so. I think once, here recently, I had a stuffy nose...maybe last year.


But, I sure as hell do not feel immune to this nasty bug. I would hate to find the limitation of what my white blood cells can do.
 
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