Anyone else got the lurgy?

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

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!

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)

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!

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

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!

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! ?

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!

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

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

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

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 ??

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.

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

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!!

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

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 do feel sorry for all those who are suffering. I cannot remember the last time I had a cold or sore throat but arthritis in both hips and knees has flared up.
There is no cure found yet for the common cold which lasts for ten days so one can only relieve the symptoms. Excuse to hit the rum or whisky bottle!

I just don't get colds or sore throats, can't remember the last time. I am outside all day every other day cycling, notching up the miles and not on an electric bike. The other days when I not cycling I go out and walk to where ever I need to be. I believe that the great outdoors is great for keeping away the winter illnesses.

Feeling really rotten. At Christmas there was me,DH, DD1, DD2, DS. DGDs 1 and 2, DGS1 all coughing and sneezing. We tried so hard not to pass it to those that were still well, but have received messages to say they have started with it. Friends and several neighbours all seem to be the same so,it seems to be a very general infection. I so very very rarely get a cough but am really hacking as is DH. Dosed ourselves up and getting out with the dogs in the fresh air and hoping for a better New Year.

On week 7. Second lot of antibiotics and just seeing the light of day while we are in our New Year break at Center Parcs. The entire family has had it now my granddaughter has started a new cough having caught it off my BIL over Christmas. Horrible bug ?

My GP once told me not to take anything that dries up the mucus (i.e. snot!) or anything that takes my temperature down - both are used by the body to clear out / fight infection. I've started doing this (plus taking loads of Vitamin C and keep drinking - mainly fresh lemon & honey - and it does seem to have cleared things up faster. Fingers crossed !

Yep got the full quota. Thankfully not the D&V.

Feel like I've been shot between the eyes, big black circles under the eyes, can't breath with out meds, no voice for 3 days and ribs hurt from coughing.

Other than that I'm no top form.

Thankfully "This Too Shall Pass"

After 5 weeks of extreme hip and back pain and daily visits to the clinic for anti pain injections I suppose I was bound to catch the lurgy from someone there. It's many years since I had a cold so feeling very sorry for myself especially as beside the pain, cold and cough I also have a UTI. Just wished they sold day nurse and night nurse here. Think now I am back from the clinic I would be better off in bed. Bleurgh!

I hope you all feel better soon.

One of the advantages of having been a teacher is that I have had every cold and virus going, during my working life. Makes for a nice, healthy retirement! Long may it last!