Flu™

[WillBrink]

I'm calling it flu™ the greatest weight loss product of ALL time!

On being exposed to flu™, within a few days, liquids of various colors and consistency will come out of every exist orifice you got at just under the speed of sound...

within the week, flu™ will keep you unable to eat, and the chills and fever will keep your metabolism elevated even without incoming calories.

flu™ will cause rapid weight loss.

Major draw back is, you will feel like shit squared, and If you are elderly, have a compromised immune system, etc., you could die.

I plan to market flu™ in single dose vials by next year.

[HES]

Yeah its running rampant. Down here with my family it has lead to upper respiratory infections. Its hit everyone twice. Worse of all it is beating the hell out of my son. This is a kid who normally can walk through the black plague with out even batting an eye. Not this year though. The kid is so heavily medicated its not even funny.

[Hmac]

To be pickey, the flu (influenza) is a viral upper respiratory infection (cough, fever, runny nose, sore throat). The entertainment package you're referring to is a viral gastroenteritis. It is usually a norovirus (like the Norwalk virus people get on cruise ships) and has been particularly rampant this winter.

I had that earlier this year. You're right. Not amusing.

[Buckaroo]

Try adding in pneumonia to the flu (real thing not stomach stuff) to get the most for your misery.

Did that in 2000, 6 days in the hospital, scoped on both ends because they were sure I had something else going too as I was really anemic.

Day I got out my FIL died and two days later I drove my family 1k miles to his funeral.

Get better soon and please do not add me to your mailing list for new product releases!

Buckaroo

[Safetyhit]

I got the flu, this year's apparently more brutal flu, for the first time in my adult life recently. Felt a little sleepy Christmas Eve, felt like my existence was coming to an end Christmas Day.

I never get sick and had no appropriate adult medicine on hand (though plenty of children's remedies). I could barely walk my dogs and couldn't even drink water for 2 full days. Went from a lean 200lbs to 182 in 4 days and was essentially useless. I really, really hated being so useless.

I hope that never happens again.

[Belmont31R]

We got something nasty last week, and Im still waking up hacking for an hour coughing stuff up.


This one hit us, twice, too. Our 4YO boys each went through 2 2-3 days periods of fevers up to 103. They got on antibiotics, and had green diahrea for 4-5 days. We went through 2 bottles each of Tylenol and Motrin trying to control fevers.


Never been this ill feeling for so long...not even when I got pneumonia in Iraq and was sent to Landstuhl in Germany with 2 different kinds of IV anti-biotics.

[Thomas M-4]

Yea got it also just before X-mas along with the whole family .
No were near as bad as bronchitis & pneumonia [ think I spelled that right]. EErrr that crap SUCKS..

[Safetyhit]

Never been this ill feeling for so long...

Don't dismay, it takes a least a full week before your even semi-normal. Even after that, just walking up the stairs can suddenly become strangely taxing for another few days.

And even after that there are still weeks of hacking up crap.

[WillBrink]

Don't dismay, it takes a least a full week before your even semi-normal. Even after that, just walking up the stairs can suddenly become strangely taxing for another few days.

And even after that there are still weeks of hacking up crap.

Yup. Never experienced anything quite like this one. Bad mojo.

[Safetyhit]

As horrible as it was, in a way it was also interesting. Being so incapacitated I was compelled to keep taunting myself with "what ifs."

What if I had to fight for my life?

What if for some reason I had to walk a mile or more in the snow?

What if I had to get up an do something beyond make a meal for my son (took everything I had just to get something from freezer to oven). What if I had do do something to save his life?

Then I thought of Napoleons troops and their families trying to get home from the failed attempt to take Russia. I'd heard of men and women too sick to walk being stripped of their clothing by others while they lay in the snow as incapacitated as I was. That alone gave me strength, as at least I was home and warm on my couch. But even then I felt freezing at times.