Feel like my husband and I have been at deaths door all week!

If you have got flu the best thing to do is to 'sweat it out'. You'll probably feel really horrible for about 4-5 days and then hopefully it'll start to clear out of your system. Try and get plenty of fluids because the sweating can cause dehydration, don't worry too much about eating and just try to rest as much as possible. I hope you both feel better soon.

Whether I have money or not I get a flu shot every year, because I have had the flu a few times growing up and I do not ever want to have it again. It comes on fast, with a high fever, body aches and pain, headaches, dry cough. The bad thing is that it can go into pneumonia or other secondary infections and get even worse. The best thing is rest in bed and drink fluids and sweat it out like you did.

We have had the same thing going on here. My son is still coughing and it has been over a month. It is mostly sinus and drainage in his throat. He was really sick for a little over a week. He also was take alka seltzer. It is the only meds I can get down him, as he won't take pills. He has Cerebral Palsy and it is hard to find meds for him.

i have just got over the flu, i have not had it for years, i ask my friends and family that if they are sick, NOT to call round because i cannot afford to take time off work, but no matter how many times i do this they come round, so i have taken to not answering the door if someone calls who is sick, i mean, why do they leave the house and pass on all them germs, why don't they just stay home until they are better, i had a cough, chest infection, fever, cough and it was awful, my head was pounding, my ears were blocked, i couldn't smell or taste anything, so i stayed home and took meds until i got better, i didn't even allow anyone round here to help me in case i passed it on to them, i still have a bad chest but i know that i need antibiotics, so i will pay a visit to see my doc, i hope you and your husband are getting better now

Influenza is a very angry,but not terrible,do not worry,you will be fine,now you just need a quiet treatment,then more exercise,more sweat,you will get better,a lot of time,a lot of movement to increase the constitution of the individual!

Flu is a more serious disease than the common cold. Since flu is a virus, there is neither exact medicine nor any antibiotics to treat it. All you can do is to give relief to each of its symptoms. For now I recommend that you get a yearly vaccine against flu. Also you may try some natural remedies. Visit this site http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/9-tips-to-treat-colds-and-flu-the-natural-way for more information.

Sounds like they very same thing that my family just started getting over with. My daughter was the first one to get sick. I went to her house and dropped off medication for her that I picked up at her pharmacy she had a high fever and was coughing so much that she could not seem to stop. I took her to the Doctor the following day so that he could check and see if she was improving as she is asmatic. She coughed and coughed. Two days later i started feeling achy and cold. The next day I got up I was running a temperature of around 102, my son was complaining of feeling dizzy and I took his temp and it was 101. We felt horrible. We had to drive over 30 miles that day to get our groceries and we sat in the car while my husband went into the store and we were miserable. Between the horrible coughing and the fever and chills we could not wait to get home. We went straight to bed and stayed there the rest of the day and night. We tried getting up the next day but went right back to bed. We coughed and coughed and were so congested on top of freezing. I too thought we weren't goint to make it. I called the doctor the following day and he called in antibiotics for us. Five days later we finally got rid of the fever but the cough and congestion were still there, we did not feel like eating because it not only effected our lungs but our sinuses as well. Everything tasted horrible. It has been 3 weeks and I still have it in my sinuses and head. We still feel weak from it. My husband came down with it a week after we did and he got pneumonia form it. It to me seemed to be a cross between the bird flu we had gotton several years ago and a horrible cold. It was absolutely the most miserable time of our entire lives.

oh no poor free_man I hope you and your husband are getting better soon. I take some natural stuff normally when i have a bad cold, and this bronchitis pestered me for over a month till it subsided so that coughing sounds familiar. I only take antibiotics if my doctor insists I do......

Yes I have been sick like that years ago a few times when i thought I was gonna die. I try to take better care of myself nowadays and take vitamins more often. I think if you take some extra Vit D and C (gradually do this) it will keep the bad sicknesses away.The flu is the worst. I can't take all meds either due to my stomach illness. I mostly just take Tylenol extra strength even for my migraines. Sending you some prayers you both feel better soon. Hope you don't have any little ones there who can catch it next.