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Wife and I have the "creeping crud"

beneteaubeneteau Member Posts: 8,552 ✭✭✭
edited November 2016 in General Discussion
Had it about 4 days now. Coughing, extreme head congestion. Started with a sore throat.

We're ready for this crap to go away.
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  • NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,240 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not to sound discouraging, but my wife has been fighting that 'crud' for the last month. Lord only knows why I haven't caught it yet. Must be all the clean livin'...[;)]
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  • 84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 10,461 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by NeoBlackdog
    Not to sound discouraging, but my wife has been fighting that 'crud' for the last month. Lord only knows why I haven't caught it yet. Must be all the clean livin'...[;)]


    Yeah, that's got to be it. [xx(][:0]
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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,241 ******
    edited November -1
    Took me about 3 weeks to get over it.
    Nothing helped.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,159 ******
    edited November -1
    going around here too,,
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    been with that now a few days ..it's all over here...so much for bging to the girls high school play....first day spent a lot of time with a heating padd on chest and neck as hot as possible and breathing deep the hot air ..supposed to kill the little virii....then had boiling water with camphor in a pot and towel over head breathed the vapors in deep...got most of it the first day then have just been getting the rest out....
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ewwwww sorry to hear that...I actually took the flu shot this year for the first time. last years experience with the flu finally convinced me to give it a go.
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  • TempestTempest Member Posts: 1,273 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had it for 5 weeks.
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  • boogerbooger Member Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I feel for you, just had it for about ten days, limped along at work grumpy. I had decent relief with Alka Seltzer cold flu, the one with aspirin, guafesin, chlorpheneirmein maleate or whatever it's called. I had it before coffee in the morning, then throughout the day.

    My lovely wife seems to be getting it this weekend and I'm to blame.[8]

    I hope it passes by quickly.
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,526 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    5 weeks for us to get rid of it. Hope you do better.Oakie
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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by shilowar
    ewwwww sorry to hear that...I actually took the flu shot this year for the first time. last years experience with the flu finally convinced me to give it a go.

    My mother always gets the shot, and she is very sick right now along with a number of her friends.

    I almost decided to get one this year, but changed my mind. So far I am fine,....who knows if the flu shot has anything to do with it or not.
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • 1BigGuy1BigGuy Member Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm sorry that you caught a bad bug.
    I've heard that alcohol will kill many germs and viruses. Don't know for sure, but I'm not taking any chances.
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  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The year I decided to get a flu shot was in 1976 for the Swine Flu and more people died from the vaccination than there were from the flu.

    "The strain itself killed one person and hospitalized 13. However, side-effects from the vaccine are thought to have caused five hundred cases of Guillain-Barr? syndrome and 25 deaths."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak

    I decided I would just pass on the flu shots after that.
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  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by NeoBlackdog
    Not to sound discouraging, but my wife has been fighting that 'crud' for the last month. Lord only knows why I haven't caught it yet. Must be all the clean livin'...[;)]

    Whiskey. I am just about finished with the last Apple Pie WD made. I assume the bubonic plague will get me when it is gone.
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,770 ******
    edited November -1
    The only way to get rid of the crud is to pass it along to someone else![}:)]
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Get well soon
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,240 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Dads3040
    quote:Originally posted by NeoBlackdog
    Not to sound discouraging, but my wife has been fighting that 'crud' for the last month. Lord only knows why I haven't caught it yet. Must be all the clean livin'...[;)]

    Whiskey. I am just about finished with the last Apple Pie WD made. I assume the bubonic plague will get me when it is gone.

    I believe you are correct, Chris. I'll bet we could do a study and have it written up. "Whiskey as a Prophylactic". More research will be required... We should probably apply for a grant so we don't go broke testing the theory!
    I've still got a couple of shots out of that jar W.D. gave me when we all met up. Can't quite bring myself to drink it.
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  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by NeoBlackdog
    quote:Originally posted by Dads3040
    quote:Originally posted by NeoBlackdog
    Not to sound discouraging, but my wife has been fighting that 'crud' for the last month. Lord only knows why I haven't caught it yet. Must be all the clean livin'...[;)]

    Whiskey. I am just about finished with the last Apple Pie WD made. I assume the bubonic plague will get me when it is gone.

    I believe you are correct, Chris. I'll bet we could do a study and have it written up. "Whiskey as a Prophylactic". More research will be required... We should probably apply for a grant so we don't go broke testing the theory!
    I've still got a couple of shots out of that jar W.D. gave me when we all met up. Can't quite bring myself to drink it.

    I am going to finish mine Christmas Day. It was WD's birthday. A couple of snorts, a good cigar, and some really good memories.
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,404 ******
    edited November -1
    Glutamine supplementation can help spur on your immune system. Lots of great benefits actually.

    https://www.amazon.com/Jarrow-Formulations-L-glutamine-Supports-Easy-Solv/dp/B0001TNPA2/ref=sr_1_14_s_it?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1479763651&sr=1-14&keywords=Glutamine&th=1
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    the old flu shot was a modified live virus ...got ia sn felt bad for months ...did not take another for 20 years then started on the current killed virus type...has really helped >>>BUT<<<< the strain picked to mass produce is a best guess scenario probably a year ahead ...some times ya win , sometimes the virus mutates with a right turn clyde
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