what is up with winter flu's in here?
 

Ever since I moved from the east cost, I am hit with the terrible flu every winter. And by terrible I mean just :doublepuk

it it just my immune system or you guys are getting these too?

Not me, I am one of the types that 95% of the time the flu and/or colds by pass me. I can't remember the last time I had a cold or the flu?
Robert

its in our blood lol.

I get midly sick during the winter maining a stuffed up nose & cold like stuff but it only lasts a day or so. & mainly only when we get a big weather change like last week when it went from Freezing to midly warm weather.

i usually catch a cold since im in highschool..once someone gets sick like its a chain reaction..last year was the last time i got REALLY sick, i was home for like a week + with a bad fever/flu like SICKNESS

I have not gotten the flu or a cold annually since I was in grade school. But the last time I was so sick that I could not move was about 5-6 years ago. I was so sick I did not want to get out of bed for 2 days, but then it went away and I was fine. It is probably just your immune system adjusting.

Last time I got the flu was the last year that I got a flu shot. I found that every year I got a flu shot, I ended up with the flu, so I stopped getting them. Haven't had it since.

It is ironic, though, at this time last year I had a cold.. and I have one now.

Being exposed to the weather almost every day, I have noticed a definite corrolation between changes in the weather and catching cold. It's pretty rare that I actually get a full blown flu though. I did get one this year though, just a couple weeks ago. It had me pretty scared for a while as the symptoms didn't respond much to traditional treatment.

I dont get flu shots But Dan does & he gets the flu every year. They keep telling us no he doesnt. that getting a flu shot doesnt give you the flu lol. Yea right.

just drink lots of water and youll be ok!, oh yah vitamins and if you think your coming down with something try Airborn(e?).

No, it's true.. the shot never gave me the flu. I just happened to get the flu every year that I got one... and never get it when I don't get them.

Sounds like me hehe

We've got two in-laws down and under in our house now. Should I get a resperator? (I won't even go into the mess I found in the bathroom this morning... :barf:)

Sinusitis is similar to the flu in how you feel but it isn't the same thing. Most people out here (they are finding now) suffer from sinusitis and not the flu or colds as much as they thought.

I can tell when the weather changes from cold/dry to warm/soaked (yeah, there is a joke in there somewhere and I'm sure Rottluver will find it) cuz my sinues go nuts like a cold and or feeling like the flu coming on.
Mass packets of EmergenC ward it off pretty fast.

Yeah, the only people I know who ever get the flu are the ones who get the shots. It is not supposed to be live viruses in the shots anymore though. Timing?

Then why does he get it every year 2 days after the shot?

:eyes: I didnt say everyone does I said HE does. :confused: :bang: