my boyfriend thinks he has swine flu
 

because my niece got taken to hospital ( she doesnt have it, it turns out )

meanwhile..

"what are the symptoms.. I have them. I have it"
Phoenix: "Im not telling you, you'll just make it up anyway and say you have them"
*googles* "SEE! see I have four.. out of nine of them"
Phoenix: "you dont have the swine flu"
Phoenix: *touches his forehead and takes temp* "you have a mild temp.. no where near like ***(niece) had, you are fine, take another panadol"
"my head hurts now, where you touched me"
Phoenix :rolleyes: "how long is this going to go on?"

sounds like you have a drama queen on your hands! well, men always tend to exagerrate when they are ill don't they? i know i do!

maybe he DOES have it.

I think I did.

it's a lot milder than the news makes it out to be.

if it is, you should try to get it too, so that you are immunized when the BAD version hits.

try rubbing his tissues on yr face or something.

massively so. But it comes and goes. Sometimes when he is sick, he'll just get on with things. Other times.. like this.. :rolleyes:

"I'm shaking now, I can't stop shaking" (he is shivering)
Phoenix: "right. well you better sit the fuck down then because if yr having a seizure and hit yr head I can't get you in the car to the hospital."
"I'm not having a seizure. I think I'm just really cold"
Phoenix: "yeh, thought that. Take the panadol!"

my wife and I wondered if maybe we had it. As mentioned above, it is a lot milder than most people think. We both were wicked sick of about a week. To the point that I couldnt even get out of bed. And she had a weird fever-induced suffocation/dizzy spell thing that woke her up even. I dont' know.

He really doesn't have the swine flu. If anything, we have already had it, but in Brisbane.. We were both REALLY sick for a week and a half, then another week later but milder. This is nothing like that, it's a clear chesty cough and a mild temperature, that's it.

ew haha no damn tissues on my face. jesus. There is no way I'm ever getting sinus problems on purpose. It's hard enough to breathe as it is already.

I had one of these too when I was sick. Though, it was just after I got into bed. I seriously thought I was having a stroke or something haha. Everything 'felt' odd. My sense of perception felt off and I felt really short of breath. Say 'felt' because.. not really sure how else to describe it.

^^^ most likely hypotension secondary to dehydration. although, typically, it's worse when you stand up.


fever won't cause that (if she was congested, it's possible that it blocked her airway while sleeping and made her hypoxic).

when she is not sick, does yr wife snore often? sleep apnea can present itself with those symptoms. it's possible that an upper respiratory infection aggravated an underlying condition.

I would say it might just be hypotension (as above) except for the waking up, gasping for air part. that's not exactly normal.

highly possible. I definately don't drink enough water/fluids.... ever. It's one of those things I always have to force myself to do. Some bad days I think about it, and I've only had one glass of drink the whole day.. sometimes not even that. (aside from a latte which really does not count) It was probably worse when I was away, sick, and having the a/c on all night.

Flots, what about waking up with sore diaphragm muscles? It happens about 1 in 2 mornings. :( This makes me worry about my night time breathing...

is that yr only symptom?

does panty-head hear you breathing heavy (while sleeping)?

is this only in the morning, after you wake up?

give me more data, please.


being sick makes it even worse. replacing yr fluids is the best thing you can do to speed up yr recovery.

I don't know what other symptoms I have.. It's the one that bothers me and causes discomfort.. I *do* also have a bit of a sunken chest though, but nothing that anyof my GP have ever seemed to care too much about.

yeh, I've always always been a heavy breather (mouth breather most of the time while sleeping, I'm better when I take antihistamines but don't regularly anymore).. he says he hears me stop breathing all the time but I've no idea if this really happens or not, or if Im just quiet for a moment in comparison to loud breathing. On rare occasions it is apparently happens enough for him to shake me so I wake up though.

The 'light' parts are the best bits in lego.

The chest muscle/diaphragm pain subsides once I take a few deep breaths after I wake up, 99% of the time.

please, I'm at least a 2-1B.

well, first, diaphragms won't ever actually "hurt". however, if you are experiencing pain in that area, there's a good chance it's simple reflux.

gastroesophageal reflux can cause painful sensations, shortness of breath and coughing (with the symptoms most often occuring in the morning after the stomach acid has had a good go at yr esophagus).

mostly, try to avoid eating/drinking several hours before bed.

^^^ see also: smoking.

trying limiting yr intake of the above items as well as giving plenty of time for food/drink to digest before going to bed. and for a non-prescriptive remedy, try elevating yr pillow (about 10 degrees).

if the symptoms do not subside, get back to me.

hmm okay, the pain feels as though my muscles are cramped up tight in that area, so I just always assumed my body had been trying to breathe/not been able to. Kind of like the feeling you can get if you breathe all the way out, and tense yr upper abdomen muscles at the same time? I dunno. I will try not eating a while before bed and see how I go. It would be awesome if it goes away.

Try a leather belt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NThK_...layer_embedded

stop smoking :mad:

My diet has everything on that list, I dont think I'd way to give any of it up! The only ones I don't eat so much are fried foods, except for hot chips. mmm.

hahahahhahahahahahaa The guy to his right's face at the end..

I'm pretty sure the fact he is trashing the only CRT in the room means its fake tho.

you can try over-the-counter antacids, but it wouldn't make it go away completely.

for now, just try to avoid that stuff in the evening. hopefully this is the problem and it can be easily treated.

most of the causes of actual chronic pleuritic chest pain aren't very nice. but if yr pain is only in the morning, after sleeping, it makes this less likely.

when was yr last chest x-ray?

well ., that's tough girl
you better school him not to be such a crybaby ! !!

he would only enjoy the punishment I would dish out.

That I can remember.. when I had pneumonia/pleurisy in about 2003(?).

Let em have the swine flu and come get the swching flu with me baby

he lacks a name? he might have more problems than being a hypochondriac, you know

Sorry, maybe you should ask dream phoenix, she seems to be having all the sex with random people type fun at the moment. The other night she was getting it on in the snow with detective Goren from Criminal Intent. :( A few nights before that with one of her friends who is moving to Russia.. in New York.

I haven't any snout for 6 months. Since that time, I've had a persistent cough, which became a lung infection, which is now a sinus infection. All I'm saying is that not smoking is a very dangerous thing, and should be done only after careful consideration.

Incidentally, my new drugs make me feel like shit and I can't drink on them. RUBBISH.

the cock and balls pixies album cover was a subject of discussion on my vacation. incidentally, so was swine flu. We were trying to figure out if it would be good to get to build up antibodies or some shit, sorta like floats suggested. But then we, or I, realized none of of us were close to having a shit clue what we were talking about. So we had an orgy with tide pools.

shit glice we both said incidentally. does this mean we have to be lovers? or can we just chalk it up to linguistic dexterity?

Incidentally is a word I over-use. It's one of those that, personally, I see as a sign of weakness. It's like the ellipsis - that's just bad form. A good writer doesn't need to qualify saying something else, you feel me?

you might have to kill him and burn his remains. you don't want to get the plague.

I have a sore throat now.. :(

yes probably. give it a go.

it has started... hypochondriacal mechanisms to reach critical levels within the next hours.

Not fake. ! The rest of me is fine, just one of my glands is up and sore to swallow. Though I did spend the day driving around in the car with boyshape, with the windows up and the heater on.

When I was little (6 or 7) and felt sick, I always used to say I had a 'stomach' ache.. because the words tummy and belly sounded so pussy and immature and I didn't think they'd believe me if I used those.

i was a pussy, and if you called me stomach i'd sulk and tell my mommy.