So what is this new bug going around?

[LVSteve]

I think I've got it. I don't know if it is a flu variant that dodged my vaccine, or maybe a delayed reaction to the COVID booster I got last weekend. It's not COVID, according to my home test kit. Talked to a coworker in another state, and his wife has been sick with it for 10 days with three negative COVID tests. Another coworker also has the crud.

Symptoms are something like a heavy head cold with a headache and the feeling of sinus pressure. I had a mild fever this morning, and further measurements showed my temperature going up and down. I'm wondering if it's a variant of this RSV doing the rounds in the schools.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[schutz5]

Ask Dr. Malone.
He may give you insight on the immune system post 'jab'.
Thanks

 

[BC38]

Sounds like an old-fashioned cold or flu to me...

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I last read that the only thing that could cause negative symptoms in the vaccinated was a fear of the unvaccinated.

 

[wood714]

Have you ruled out a good old sinus infection?

I've had a couple that sounds exactly like what your symptoms are.

 

[JOliver]

Standby 1
It ran through my bunch, 16 year old som had it and felt fine but tested positive for the flu, days later he got much worse and ended up getting pneumonia.
Little girl (6) got sick but was running wild as 6 year old little girls do, she is Daddy's little girl so we over look all the singing and dancing. She too later got worse when she should have been getting better. She tested negative for the flu but nightly would throw up (doctors said to stop the tamiflu and that seemed to work).
I got it and went down like a sack of rocks, fever,chills felt like the good old flu.
Wife caught it and had one bad day but wasn't horrible (maybe I'm just a pansy as she suggested)
My 70 year old Mother caught it and got really bad, she spent 3 days in the hospital getting fluids and meds but tested negative.
Nobody really gave any answers other than we were "sick" it's going around everywhere in my area too.

All of ours started mild then gradually several days in when you think you should get better BAM it would get you down.
Really hope you get better soon

 

[CH4]

Just getting over an old fashioned cold/flu here in Manila. It was much worse than my whimpy bought with Covid last August.

 

[pharman]

My Pharmacy College professor said:

While I was in Pharmacy College I had a professor that said in regards to a COLD:


If you take medicine for a cold you will get better in 7 days...


If you do not take any medicine for a cold you will get better in a week..


Probably true, but some cold medications will help relieve the symptoms...


Hope you feel better...Roger

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I had my first bout of sinus irritation in 6-7 years. Checked my inhalant bottle in the medicine cabinet, expired 09/16. Used CVS store brand Mucus Extender Relief-"compare to Mucinex". Take 1 or 2 every 12 hours, no more than 4 in 24 hours, the ones I took every 4-6 hours worked better IMHO. The coughing is the biggest annoyance.
A sore throat, Listerine took care of that, my sneezing has gone from heavy artillery to 81MM mortars. Been taking Vitamin C for 25 years, Linus Pauling was right.
Probably some new variant or sub-variant, it seems recently there's a "Flu of the Year" pretty regularly.

 

[zeke]

Neti pot, heavy vitamin c dose and home made chicken/turkey soup. Finally got extree dose flu shot this week, and it put me down for a day.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Great! Now I have some OTHER cootie to worry about!
Hope you feel better soon, LVSteve.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Lesson one first day of medical school:

"A Patient Cured is a Customer Lost"

 

[mckenney99]

I've had the same thing since the day after Thanksgiving. Negative on Covid test, no fever, O2 sats at 95%+, no real aches other than my head, so I don't think it is the flu. Started out in my chest with severe congestion and unproductive coughing. My chest is clearing up but it has moved into my head. I woke up yesterday feeling like I was going to die and afraid that I wouldn't, I felt so bad. Feels like the left side of my head is going to explode. I have only been able to get about 4 hours of sleep per night due to the sinus headaches, sneezing and drainage. I'm pretty sure it is just an upper respiratory infection. I expect it will pass in another couple days. I'll just roll the big rock in front of the cave opening and hibernate.

 

[SMSgt]

Lesson one first day of medical school:

"A Patient Cured is a Customer Lost"

That problem was resolved with the eternal 3-month follow-ups.

 

[LVSteve]

Have you ruled out a good old sinus infection?

I've had a couple that sounds exactly like what your symptoms are.

I wondered that at first. I'm now thinking the headache was less sinus related. I woke up with a clear head today, no brain fog. The other thing is that when I get a sinus infection I usually produce large numbers of nasal gummy bears, but that hasn't really happened this time.

I'm thinking I had a case of the flu moderated by my flu shot. If it were proper flu I'd still be feeling bad, given past experience. The "I had 24 hour flu" crowd always make me laugh, because they haven't had anything like the flu. When you get the flu, you are down for 3-4 days minimum. I've seen the walking flu cases who come back to work aftera couple of days because they don't want to burn vacation. They are a bloody menace.

 

[LVSteve]

I've had the same thing since the day after Thanksgiving. Negative on Covid test, no fever, O2 sats at 95%+, no real aches other than my head, so I don't think it is the flu. Started out in my chest with severe congestion and unproductive coughing. My chest is clearing up but it has moved into my head. I woke up yesterday feeling like I was going to die and afraid that I wouldn't, I felt so bad. Feels like the left side of my head is going to explode. I have only been able to get about 4 hours of sleep per night due to the sinus headaches, sneezing and drainage. I'm pretty sure it is just an upper respiratory infection. I expect it will pass in another couple days. I'll just roll the big rock in front of the cave opening and hibernate.

Sounds similar except I have not had any chest congestion...yet.

 

[Paul in Nevada]

RSV is an endemic virus. It's around us all the time though it tends to flare up in the winter months. Adults with healthy immune systems have strong resistance to RSV. You have probably had it a dozen times and not even known it. You typically see bad symptoms in babies because their immune systems are "naive" to the virus.
There is speculation that "something" some of us have been putting into our bodies over the last two years is leaving our immune systems exhausted and vulnerable to repeated reinfection from certain viruses. This connection between the certain "something" and immune dysfunction is a strictly forbidden topic in the public forum.

 

[jbtrucker]

I've been home all week with the Flu was up all night Sunday coughing and hurting so bad last Monday almost went to the ER. Took Benadryl and Extra Strength Tylenol and seen Doc Tuesday Morning. Tested positive for Flu and was told if didn't have Flu shot few days before wouldn't have been standing . Was prescribed thick yellow cough syrup with Hydrocodone and Tamiflu. Feeling better still rough in the mornings plan to return to work next Monday.

 

[16thVACav]

Lesson one first day of medical school:

"A Patient Cured is a Customer Lost"

Lesson Two: "Medicine is the art of entertaining the patient while nature cures the disease."