MAN FLU~ Does this condition really exist???

I hadn't a clue as to what you were talking about until I read your complete discussion. I thought this was some new kind of desease that had just been discovered. Now I am falling around the place laughing. Isn't that just typical of men! I know my husband's parents used to molly coddle him every time he sneezed but I didn't follow in their footsteps. If he gets a cold and feels so sorry for himself that he takes to the bed, he usually sleeps all the time, so he isn't too much trouble. It is the women in my family who look for all the sympathy. On a more serious note, you should really take a rest from the chores and look after yourself. Order a takeaway for dinner and sit in front of the fire and watch a film. That's what I would do.

That is hilerious! Give him a slap! ;) I have to admit i am the same when i get a cold. Im always wimpering about it and i use it as an excuse to sit on the sofa in my blanket, watching telly, while stick all the toilet roll in the house up my nose ;) but i never i have the flu, i just admit im a winger and demand my lemsip.

Believe ir or not this isn't the first time I had heard of man flu LOL! I work in a pub and believe me - 90per cent of men are wimps. At the time when there was a huge surge of worry about bird flu the typical comment from the guys was never mind the bird flu - man flu is worse than that! Typical symptoms of man Flu are the sniffles!!!! Thanks for making me laugh!

It very much exists. My construction worker father would suddenly become incapable of even reaching for the remote himself while laying on the couch. I think they see it as a means to get extra attention and the only time their wives or girlfriends will cater to their every whimper. Maybe they're appealing to that maternal instinct most women have, hoping it'll trigger some deep need we have to take care of the sick and helpless (little do they know we limit that to baby birds who fall out of nests or abandoned kittens or puppies our kids bring home). My advice? Get yourself to bed, too, and when he whimpers, you whimper louder and make him feel sorry for you!

LOL! Man Flu is the term for a man "over reacting" and "dieing" over a cold!HEHE! Looked it up on Urban Dictioary! Most anusing!MAN FLU:The condition shared by all males wherein a common illness (usually a mild cold) is presented by the patient as life-threatening. This is also known as 'Fishing for Sympathy' or 'Chronic Exaggeration'. When the patient is your boyfriend, he will exhibit the standard symptoms (such as an overwhelming desire for compassion) while simultaneously rejecting any and all efforts you make to placate him. You: Awww, you poor fella. Him: I'm DYING! You: (Soothingly) Oh, you're not dying Cy. Him: (Indignant) I AM! I have Man Flu! You: Do you need some sympathy? Him: Yes! But no one understands my pain... You: I understa- Him: NO YOU DO NOT!!!MAN FLU:1)A slight sniffle or cold that is turned into a dreadful condition by the imagination of the male sufferer 2)A Man's Flu (flu= Long chimney structure for fireplaces) is used to describe a mans p*nis."Isn't Quint really ill?", "Nah, he just has man flu!""Homosexuals like Man Flu"(didn't know that one tho!) Rofl!

As a Man I can tell you this is a real problem for me, OK I know you women out there think this is just a mans way of making him self feel better but it's not. although yet to be proven the stats behind this show that men suffer 99% more then women and our flu is compared only with child birth. so imagine when we have tonsilltis or somthing.

Men are the biggest babies when they get sick. My husband is like that. We can both have the flu really bad and he will lay all day on the couch whining about his head hurting or his throat, blah blah blah, yet I am up getting my daughter from the bus stop, making dinner for the kids, giving them baths, etc. He doesn't do anything the whole time. Sometimes he will be even less sick then me. I will have a sore throat so bad I can't even talk. One time I actually had tonsillitis (and if you have ever had that you know it is painful) and he just had a bad cough and scratchy throat. I was sweeping and mopping and doing dishes in tears (from the pain) while he just sat on the couch because he was too sick to get up. Please. I hate when him and the kids get sick because I have to take care of 5 people but when I get sick no one lifts a finger to help me and I still have to take care of 5 other people. UGH.

That is EXACTALLY what happened to me a few weeks ago. We both got sick and he expected me to take care of him. I could barely function myself so I was in no mood to care about his situation. heh I made him order pizza and drinks so I didn't have to do anything at all. I mentioned to my BF that I thought it was unfair that he get days off and really just recouperate when I got a day off but still had to work.... I think that some men just turn into tiny babies when they get sick and expect to be mommied.

I think that you just have more stamina than he does. When my partner and I get sick,(she is a woman)I end up doing all of the homework while she stays in bed. I know that I have more "go" than she does.

I have to say my experience is the opposite, a man catches a cold and just deals with it. A man catches flu, women label it man-flu. A woman catches flu all hell breaks loose all the best urban

I think most men are babies when they don't feel well. I think its a man's way of cashing in on the fact they can't be emotional at any other time. They gotta be MEN all the time, when they get the sniffles they want to be treated like they are dying.

That is so true! I had to both laugh and blush, you hit the nail really hard! We were both hit by the flu this last week and thankfully not simultaneously. I was in bed for three whole days while he had to care for everything. I would like to hide under a blanket in the livingroom, to at least have some company, i felt alone and miserable, but no, no way. I had to stay in bed till i got better. When i was ready to get out of bed the fourth day, my husband is hit like, really hard. Moaning and complaining and begging me to do this and do that and find this and fetch that. I told him it might be best for him to go upstairs to bed - nonono, he was not going to any bed - ooohh his head hurt so bad he wouldnt be able to go there! I really cared for him the days it lasted including the kids, of course he had to too, but he didnt have a sick moaning person to attend to every five min on top, i was in bed sleeping mostly. They are so sneaky! Poor thing? No way! I think they are raised this way. My guy is a real mommys boy, i wonder if any of you with husbands like mine can say the same?

LOL OH I had such a laugh reading this. I can relate to every single word! Man flu! Of course it exists, we see it everyday. I think it's some genetic weakness related to the y chromosome only hehehe I could say I was wrong in generalizing but so far I've seen it in my dad, my uncles, my father in law, my husband, my male friends... so I think it's a real thing LOL

hahahaha i love this saying, if ever i get a cold or ever i get sick for any reason my other half just says " yeah man flu again " man flu isn't a real condition it's just a saying for men are babies when it comes to being ill thats all because some of us make a big fuss like we are dying or something and so the women made the " man flu " saying up to show how weak we are.

Man flu?..sounds like some corny new phrase for AIDS..ha ha okay not funny. I am not sure what you do not believe when you stated you felt the symptoms yourself...people get sick sometimes...

Once again it proves that we are the stronger ones. That is probably why there are more of us than them. They cannot survive illnesses like we can. Guess that is why we get married. So that more of them survive although they become endangered because of some of the stupid things they do. Sorry, however, you are part of the sisterhood where we must carry on.

I've gotten a good laugh out of this, but hey, take good care of yourself too. Drink some tea with honey and lemon, sit down, put up your feet and relax. Have you noticed women's colds usually last longer than men's? It's because we don't slow down and nurse ourselves back to health. A friend once told me to remember that the dust and the laundry will still be there tomorrow. I think another name for the common cold is man flu. Get well soon, both of you.

Recycledgoth, I have been there and done that. My man would cry and complain about the same thing when he was in the bed with the flu or a cold. I couldn't do the housework or take care of the children because of his crying. So it is the way that men respond to colds. And my father reacted the same way to my mom also.

MAN FLU ????????????????????????? Ooooooooooooo let me think ummmmmmmmmmm i don't know wat to say really ....., Koool heard it 1st time MAN FLU lol :-p

i think man flu really exist, if it happended to some people it must be true