General Chat

..of hearing about "Swine Flu" its been blown out of all proportion,dont you think?
Media have a lot to answer to!!

yes,people have died from it,but people die from lots of things every day ,did you know that the stats are wrong too,if someone has a heart attack but was also infected with swine flu their putting it down as a "Swine Flu" death!!

so get on with your life and stop worrying:-)))

I so agree with you Roxanne. Talk about over egging the pudding. To go off on a tangent, my dear old mum had cancer of the rectum, I saw it with my own eyes. But it was never put on her death certificate. So it looks as if we have never had cancer in our family.
Julia in Derbyshire

I'm not worried much... what will be, will be.... but as I am in the at risk category.... I'll take the same precautions as I would for any other flu.

It might be different if I was a bit more vulnerable than I am now... last winter I was virtually under house arrest, lol!

I had baby flu a couple of months ago, and felt pretty rough with it!!

Love

Daff xxxxx

I couldn't agree more Rox. In fact I have posted on another thread that common flu is worse than the swine flu at the moment.

I am in the 'risk' category but like Daff I believe that what will be will be.

I couldn't live my life worrying about 'what might be'.

Jean x.

i can understand those who are ill panicking
and rightly so in some cases
but it is getting blown up out of all proportion in my home town not so long ago we were all going to die of bird flu
and it died out lets hope swine flu does the same

Not so many cases in Scotland, I heard on the news at 5-30 it's not as bad as first thought.

So far I dont know anyone who has had it.
Saying that I bought paracetimal and Lucosade..just incase lol.

Touch wood i have never had the flu and hope I never do. OH did about 30 yr ago and he was in bed for two weeks,lost a stone in weight. Now that is flu.
So if I get it I think I will know.

Marion

Im glad its not just me:-)
My hubby is in the high risk too and my Mum, but as Jean said Common flu is far worse.
there was someone at the airport with a mask on,whats that all about??
if your going to get it your going to get it.
xx

I'm tired of hearing about it too Rox. BUT....................all I can suggest, and I hope everyone takes this to heart................keep yourselves as well as possible during the summer months, raising your immune system as high as it can go, because when the autumn comes the pandemic will worsen.

At the moment there is a lot of hype which is causing panic, but anyone with any sense must realise that this thing aint gonna filter out quickly and the autumn will be the telling time I think.

I personally am about to double my intake of good french red, and lace everything I eat liberally with garlic! I may still be susceptible to the flu, but not so many people will be coming near to me to infect me!

Jac xxx

Jacs:-))I love you!pmsl!!
red wine and garlic b****y hell the swine flu will never get to you babe:-)) x

If Swine flu was called say Strain 442 or something, nothing would be in the press anyway.

I had Hong Kong flu in the sixties and was really poorly for ages, no-one with 'flu is well enough to get to their surgery anyway, getting to the bathroom was a marathon effort made less dangerous by clinging onto the walls for support as the world spun around me:(

Kitty - your description reminds me of the last hangover I had! )))))

Well folks, in my opinion - this Swine Flu will be worse before its better - so dont discount it, just make sure you stay as healthy as you possibly can and those who are most at risk take whatever measures are available to them to help keep it at bay.

Jac xxx

I know what you mean BUT the worry is that it's happening in the summer - which is not normal - and tends to "pick on" the younger people, which again is not normal ...

Jill

Im at home with it now according to my doctor. Im laid in my bed and have been all day, sleeping on and off, drinking water and taking Tamiflu & painkillers. I have asthma so doc wanted to make sure.

To be honest if it wasnt for media hype I would have treated it as a bad cold, dosed myself up with paracetamol and may have gone to work, although today i wouldnt have done as I felt rotten this morning.

My son who is 9 said Have you got swine flu mum, then you need to wash your hands lots!

So telly information isnt such a bad thing after all

With the hundreds of radio stations , tv stations and magazines, to fill all these pages and air time, lots of news is now being blown out of proportion , so I am afraid it is now a fact of modern life that what used to be no news or small news is always going to be hyped up .

I'm at fault for worrying about it :o((((

I just cant help the way i feel, Im really worried about my kids getting it and dying. I cant even get excited about my holiday in over 3 weeks because Im convincing myself one of us will get the blooming thing just before we fly :o(((

I accept that most of the way im feeling is due to having panic attacks (which I dont ralise Im actually having but am on meds for)

Im trying to be positive buts its so hard with all the media hype of it all.

Hello Elaine, I'm sorry to hear how you're feeling.

Try not to worry so much.

In 3 weeks time, you'll be away on your hols and all this will be forgotten. Hope you all enjoy yourselves.

Take care xx

Ah Mildred - what was it someone said to me the other day :

"The destination is the same but the pessimist has the worst journey"

Chin up!

Jill

Two more people have been killed in road accidents here in Colchester this week, god knows how many have been injured, 3500 are killed every year in car accidents, we have become imune to this fact, hoe many times have you had the flu and survived, this is no different.

Please don't be quite so flippant about this. My neighbours were diagnosed last week. They were treated and are fine but their 3 month old baby is now seriously ill. Unfortunately babies cannot be treated with Tamiflu yet. The parents are desperate as they have another young child of 3 with symptoms.

xxx

Your right there - only 700 reported deaths from swine flu worldwide so far around 0.4% of the reported cases.

So the odds look pretty good really