Did I have Flu...

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:40:10 -0800 (PST), [email hidden] (Kathryn

Friesen) said:

I went to bed on Friday nite after last minute Christmas shopping feeling great. I woke up in the
middle of the night with terribly aching mucles, vomiting, chills...I forget if anything else. I
felt badly rte next day & stayed in bed, felt better on Sunday, stayed home from work on Monday,
went back on Tuesday feeling just fine again.

None of my family got whatever I had nor do I recall anyone at my workplace mentioning
anyhing similar.

1957 WAS the Asian Flu Epidemic Year, & I just read that 58,000 people died from it that year & in
the first two months of 1958, but I'm not sure if this number was worldwide or just the US.

I've never had the Flu since (if I even had it in the first place), but was wondering if it can
just come & go like that? Or does it sound like it was something else?

Actually it sounds just like the flu. The flu characteristically has a very rapid onset associated
with high fever, body aches, cough, respiratory distress. Don't think vomiting is all that common
with the flu.

The flu generally last 3 days or so assuming no complications occur. You can shorten the duration
by a day or so if you take an antiviral medication within 24 hours of becoming symptomatic.

Aloha,

Rich

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Does a "cough" HAVE to be a component of the Flu? That was one symptom I definitely didn't have that
night or into the next few days. It still puzzles me.

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:41:57 -0800 (PST), [email hidden] (Kathryn

Friesen) said:

Does a "cough" HAVE to be a component of the Flu? That was one symptom I definitely didn't have
that night or into the next few days. It still puzzles me.

No, it does not have to be a component but it certainly is a very common symptom of the flu. Did you
have a sore throat??

Aloha, Rich

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The best defense to logic is ignorance.