Swine flu panic sets in.

[kenyonchris]

Not over the flu, which I have. Wonder I haven't had it sooner. I have Tamiflu coursing through my veins as we speak. But the Livestrong challenge in Austin is a week from Saturday, and my sweet, sweet boyfriend (manfriend?), whose company raised a ton of money (his wife of 17 years died of cancer), is riding the Ride for the Roses with Lance and guess who gets to go! ME! Combined with the 10k run in the morning and my 90 miles on Sunday I had planned on doing, I am slightly panicking. AND, it has done nothing but rain here, forcing me on to the spin bike, because my rollers are NOT HERE yet. I am in pretty good shape, but not sure how badly this is going to knock me out? This is day one of swine flu (had a headache last night at work, slept from 6a-11a, woke up knowing I was sunk) and I scuttled off to the doc in the box for tamiflu. Dose one taken.
So needless to say, slightly panicking. Speak soothingly and slowly to me, please.

[ny biker]

I can't answer your question, but I'd say the best thing is to just focus on taking care of yourself, eating and drinking well, taking your medicine, getting lots of rest. I hope you feel better.

[redrhodie]

Do not panic! If you're not better, you can't go. Simple. Nothing to panic about.

Okay, you can panic a little. I bet you'll be better by then. You may not be beating Lance though. (this time )

Feel better! That's an order!

[OakLeaf]

Hope the Tamiflu clears it up for you quick. Good of your doctor to give it to you!

Because everyone I know who's had the Swine flu has been in bed for three weeks and lost 10 lbs., as opposed to the normal two weeks and 7 lbs. for regular seasonal flu.

I'm supposed to get a seasonal flu shot for work - and given the chance that it could increase my odds of getting Swine flu, I'm very, very reluctant to get the seasonal flu shot before I get the Swine flu vaccine (not available here yet). I may wind up getting suspended. (Which is no big deal to me, since I only work like 2-3 hours a week, and not an enormous deal to my co-workers since I'll be going south before too terribly long anyhow. But still.)

[channlluv]

Oh, man, I hope you recover quickly. Drink lots of fluids - probably electrolyte stuff. Lots of healthy foods if you can stomach them. And lots of rest, of course. The good news is you're very healthy. Most super healthy people recover quickly and completely - I heard it on NPR so it must be true.

Feel better soon.

Roxy

[ms1]

You have plenty of time to recover, especially since you started Tamiflu right away. Both of my daughters had swine flu over the summer and they were fine in a week. One daughter was much sicker than the other, so everyone's case is different.

They were prescribed Tamiflu, but I'm not sure how much they really got down since they kept throwing it back up.

Good luck and keep us posted on how you're doing.