Anyone else got the lurgy?

3 weeks ago tickle in upper chest, progressed to sore throat, then worst cold ever (should have shares in Kleenex), then on Christmas Eve back to the chest. Cough sounds like an Underground train rumbling in the distance. Disgusting. Fed up. How much longer? Totally ruined Christmas....??

I am unaccustomed to being poorly and am in the 4th week it has affected a number of people of all ages around here,

Hope all you ladies feel better very soon ... I'm into week 4 and whilst I've turned a corner (in bed with a 39+ degree temperature for over a week) it's still pretty grim. I had to give in to a hefty dose of antibiotics and regular paracetamol and ibuprofen ... and Night Nurse definitely got me through some tough nights. Keep well hydrated, eat healthy and stay warm. I hate to say it - but if we'd had more ice and frost I don't think bugs and viruses would have hung around so long and been quite so extreme. I guess that's the price we pay for a long hot summer!!

A definite dose of the lurgy. Had a knee replacement 3 weeks ago, recovery great, no pain. Shopping Christmas Eve, great. Did the rounds of the
Crematoriums Christmas morning, wonderful. Cooked dinner for 4, couldn't eat it, had to go to bed, Terrific headache, neck ache, shoulder pain and cough. Just getting over it today after three and a half days of misery. I hope everyone who has suffered illness over Christmas is fit and well for the New Year

Yes, got struck down with cold, sore throat, cough etc. on Thurs. Missed Panto with the family as didn't want to pass it on, also coughing every 30 secs is not good in an audience member. Can't complain though, it missed Christmas and I didn't really have a cold last year. Get well soon sufferers.

Temp, sore throat , and a cough of epic proportions, being not ‘ of sound bladder’ I have had to ramp up th Tena ladies to cope with the wracking coughing ??

... and now..can't even eat as I feel so nauseous probably because of the cattarh..and am so hungry!!!

Urgh yes!! DGD left for me on Boxing Day. One Christmas present I didn’t need

Started feeling ill on 2nd December ....and I’m still choked with cold symptoms 26 days and counting!!

Woke up 10 days ago with a sore throat which turned into a streaming cold which morphed into bunged up sinuses and a wheezy chest. As I’m asthmatic I have to be very careful if I catch a cold, as it can stay for weeks and make me really ill. I have days when I think I’m feeling better so I start to do things and then the next day I feel terrible again and have to stay in bed. I have finished my Chinese herbal pills, which usually clear things up and taken loads of vitamin C and paracetamol. We have theatre tickets for Wednesday to see Jersey Boys, so I hope I’m OK by then! Very fed-up as I missed Christmas because of it. My husband hasn’t caught it, thank goodness, mainly because I have moved to the guest room!

Had to smile with sympathy over the tena lady. Might as well have shares with this hacking cough. Plus I got out of bed one night looking for the person making weird noises and discovered it was my chest! ?

So sorry to hear of all your sufferings. Get well soon!
The Dreaded Lurgi originated in an episode of The Goon Show in the 50s. It is obviously still around, in a very virulent form!

Another lurgy sufferer here. DH went down with it on Christmas Eve and I succumbed on Boxing day. DH is on the mend, only the cough hanging on, but I'm still ploughing through Lemsips, cough medicine and mountains of tissues. Fortunately we only have the cough and cold symptoms, not the d and v, and I've gone deaf in one ear. Our Christmas turkey is still in the freezer and we're just grazing on whatever takes our fancy, which is not a lot really.

I hope everyone here will feel better soon

Both of us. I went down with it just over 2 weeks ago starting with complete loss of voice followed by intractable coughing and nose blowing, I'm starting to feel better although my ribs feel like I've gone several rounds in the boxing ring. Very unfortunately DH caught it a week later, he's still in bed at 11.30am having spent a lot of the night up coughing and it takes a lot to knock him back, he does not suffer from man flu!

Ah! So not just me then.

Now on a reducing dose of steroids plus usual inhalers. Been a nasty uncomfortable few days but hopefully on the mend now. Currently have a barking cough and bunged up nose, but apart from that fine. Obviously keeping out of circulation for a while so it is a reflective, rather than partying, NYE for us.

I hope everyone else is improving slowly too. Good to have a GP in the house when needed, which has helped enormously in getting prompt and effective treatment. I fear others may not have been so fortunate (am thinking of Panache)

Another lurgy sufferer here! Very sore throat, slightly runny nose, vomited x1 and diarrhoea. Only had it for 2 days so far. Still lazing in bed! NY plans cancelled!

Me too, poorly over Christmas, didn’t even fancy rhubarb gin!

Forgot to say, hope everyone soon feels better?

Yes, the dreaded lurgy struck here and is now into its 3rd week! The most awful facial pain with sinusitis. Where does all that gunk even come from???
Even forced to take drastic action and go to the drs!!! Now after 4 days of antibiotics I'm beginning to feel better. Still have some pain though and taking analgesics once during the day and at bedtime to survive.

Please let us all recover to full health very soon!!!

Starting to feel better today although still coughing, but it's been a very long haul. 2 weeks + 3 days of feeling awful, could this be flu? Both of us had the flu vaccination for the under 65s this year.

Still got IT!! feel so lethargic..ribs sore from coughing..where is all this ruddy mucus coming from...pints of it...sent H for some painkillers...even cut the front off the old box so that he would get the correct ones...he didn't..got completely different ones... flipping useless..being off colour makes me short tempered..aaagh

OMG it sounds awful- I will stay barricaded inside I think.

Charleygirl5 ?!!

I have spent the last 3 days either laid in bed or the couch. No energy at all.

mumofmadboys ..it's completely debilitating isn't it..I just went out with the dog to get some sunshine/fresh air..and it's floored me..ALL get well soon