It moved into my apartment, filled my trash can with Hall's drops, ran up a huge bill on drugstore dot com, dated my SO, and kept me up all night partying and trashing my body.
I thought I'd managed to kick it out, was back swimming and running... even finally got back to a masters' practice (which I avoided before not wanting either to infect anyone or need to be rescued). All good, right?
Wrong! It sneaked in the back door, just when I thought it had moved out for good. Those muscle aches that signaled fever... and tonight I had to skip my group run... sure it's 18 degrees out and maybe a wise move if just over an illness. But I want my health back!
There's a 5.25 mile swim I was planning on in August, and I'd been on a ROLL at the end of Jan. Then crash! But in the last couple weeks, I was inching back to something like normal. Getting optimistic again. But if I have to lose another week or two of training, I don't know....
Oh and I had thought I'd be good for the (running) half marathon this weekend. That's in question now. Hoping maybe this is just a temporary setback, not a whole 'nother case. :blah:
Get well vibes and suggestions welcome.... will say this bug has endurance. Maybe I should find out its secret for when I'm back swimming for REAL again. And I just bought myself a cool new chlorine resistant poly suit as a consolation gift. Maybe I'll get to use it someday....
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This isn't going to help you feel any better, but I thought I'd inject a little context on influenza prevention, from the perpective of a health care provider and someone who has had influenza in spades- once.
Get a flu shot every year. It was one of Ande's tips. There is essentially no risk. This is not guaranteed to prevent influenza every year, but it will very likely lessen the severity even if you get it. If you know real influenza, you will do ANYTHING to lessen your chances. I do.
There are some medications (Tamiflu is the best known) but these don't do a lot. The party line is that they will shorten influenza by, on average, 1 day. If you are totally miserable (and I mean flat on your back with every muscle on fire and not able to think of endorphins) maybe that's not bad. The problem is that they have to be started within 48 hours or so to be effective.
Then of course you may really have one of the other many respiratory viruses that plague us. In that case, fluids, rest, green tea, chiles, comedy and massages would be the ticket. :coffee:
This isn't going to help you feel any better, but I thought I'd inject a little context on influenza prevention, from the perpective of a health care provider and someone who has had influenza in spades- once.
Get a flu shot every year. It was one of Ande's tips. There is essentially no risk. This is not guaranteed to prevent influenza every year, but it will very likely lessen the severity even if you get it. If you know real influenza, you will do ANYTHING to lessen your chances. I do.
There are some medications (Tamiflu is the best known) but these don't do a lot. The party line is that they will shorten influenza by, on average, 1 day. If you are totally miserable (and I mean flat on your back with every muscle on fire and not able to think of endorphins) maybe that's not bad. The problem is that they have to be started within 48 hours or so to be effective.
Then of course you may really have one of the other many respiratory viruses that plague us. In that case, fluids, rest, green tea, chiles, comedy and massages would be the ticket. :coffee:
