Does anyone know if Foslom or EDH has seen alot of influenza type symptoms? Has anyone been really sick on this forum lately.
I am very scared due to the death of a healthy young women in Sacramento and a 53 old with no history either who died.
Need some reassurance.
Thanks
Influenza Type Symptoms (h1n1)
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Posted 26 June 2009 - 09:06 AM
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Posted 26 June 2009 - 10:01 AM
QUOTE (wreathlady @ Jun 26 2009, 09:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Does anyone know if Foslom or EDH has seen alot of influenza type symptoms? Has anyone been really sick on this forum lately.
I am very scared due to the death of a healthy young women in Sacramento and a 53 old with no history either who died.
Need some reassurance.
Thanks
I am very scared due to the death of a healthy young women in Sacramento and a 53 old with no history either who died.
Need some reassurance.
Thanks
Me thinks h1n1 virus is a media hype - effectively used by Obama to create distraction...kinda like Sanford would be the happiest person celebratring MJ's death
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Posted 26 June 2009 - 10:43 AM
Yes, one child had a mild case of it. He was in Mexico and attended the private Fair Oaks school. He live in ARC and the doctor who treated him is my daughter's pediatrician.
I wasn't surprised when the woman died at UCD..It's the most filithiest hospital I have seen....It's mostly ran by students with a head doctor that reviews the cases. In addition, many of these residents are some of the most unskilled students I have seen when they took care of my father. They were incompetent and he never did get to see a neurologist after a stroke...Instead, he got a resident who relayed the info from the neurologist who was probably playing a round of golf...PEOPLE SWEAR by UCD...I SWEAR AGAINST IT....I mean the hospital, not the clinics....It is run haphazardly and they have the worst continuity in care I have ever seen in a hospital..How do you know she didn't get an infection in the hospital besides the flu? That happened to my dad and if I hadn't noticed the degrading of his condition he would have died from a secondary condition....
I wasn't surprised when the woman died at UCD..It's the most filithiest hospital I have seen....It's mostly ran by students with a head doctor that reviews the cases. In addition, many of these residents are some of the most unskilled students I have seen when they took care of my father. They were incompetent and he never did get to see a neurologist after a stroke...Instead, he got a resident who relayed the info from the neurologist who was probably playing a round of golf...PEOPLE SWEAR by UCD...I SWEAR AGAINST IT....I mean the hospital, not the clinics....It is run haphazardly and they have the worst continuity in care I have ever seen in a hospital..How do you know she didn't get an infection in the hospital besides the flu? That happened to my dad and if I hadn't noticed the degrading of his condition he would have died from a secondary condition....
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Posted 26 June 2009 - 11:01 AM
QUOTE (asbestoshills @ Jun 26 2009, 11:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yes, one child had a mild case of it. He was in Mexico and attended the private Fair Oaks school. He live in ARC and the doctor who treated him is my daughter's pediatrician.
I wasn't surprised when the woman died at UCD..It's the most filithiest hospital I have seen....It's mostly ran by students with a head doctor that reviews the cases. In addition, many of these residents are some of the most unskilled students I have seen when they took care of my father. They were incompetent and he never did get to see a neurologist after a stroke...Instead, he got a resident who relayed the info from the neurologist who was probably playing a round of golf...PEOPLE SWEAR by UCD...I SWEAR AGAINST IT....I mean the hospital, not the clinics....It is run haphazardly and they have the worst continuity in care I have ever seen in a hospital..How do you know she didn't get an infection in the hospital besides the flu? That happened to my dad and if I hadn't noticed the degrading of his condition he would have died from a secondary condition....
I wasn't surprised when the woman died at UCD..It's the most filithiest hospital I have seen....It's mostly ran by students with a head doctor that reviews the cases. In addition, many of these residents are some of the most unskilled students I have seen when they took care of my father. They were incompetent and he never did get to see a neurologist after a stroke...Instead, he got a resident who relayed the info from the neurologist who was probably playing a round of golf...PEOPLE SWEAR by UCD...I SWEAR AGAINST IT....I mean the hospital, not the clinics....It is run haphazardly and they have the worst continuity in care I have ever seen in a hospital..How do you know she didn't get an infection in the hospital besides the flu? That happened to my dad and if I hadn't noticed the degrading of his condition he would have died from a secondary condition....
Thanks for the info. We are so new here and I do not know much about certain hospitals, etc. I was wondering why it took them 4 days to test for swine flu.......Thank goodness you were astute enough to help your dad. We have to be advocates for them, for sure.
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Posted 26 June 2009 - 11:53 AM
I had a coworker that had Swine Flu about three weeks ago. She said she felt like she just had a light case of the flu. The only reason she was tested for it was because she spent a weekend down in San Diego, and the doctor wanted to rule it out. Well, it turned out she did have it, and then the craziness began. The doctor had to report it to the county health department, and our employer sent an email to all employees, whether they worked in our same building or not. They also sent a hazmat-like crew to completely clean her cubicle and throw away just about everything from her desk. She was not able to return for four or five days. She told me she has felt worse when she just had a common cold.
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Posted 26 June 2009 - 04:09 PM
I got some sort of flu from my son about a month back. I saw him on Mother's day and he was just beginning to feel not himself. Then it hit him about four days later, with congestion mostly in his head. Then his ear began to hurt and he went to the doctor. No testing for swine flu was done. It was strange it began so slowly and then became worse suddenly.
When I came down with it I had the same symptoms and after about two weeks, it went into my ear and suddenly I was at Emergency trying to get something for the pain and the infection. It was a Monday night and I had not expected there would be so many there. The nurse said they had every bed filled and Monday nights were their busiest. After I was told it might be a three hour wait, and another woman had said she had already been there three hours with her kid, I went home. I went to MED7 the next morning, as soon as they opened. By that time my ear drum had burst and I had a really bad infection. I was not tested for the swine flu. I had to be on two weeks of antibiotics to clear up the infection.
From what I'm hearing there seems to be a big difference between people becoming very ill with this, and people who just get mildly sick.
I'm thinking we are not being told the whole story here.
1) That young women dying was very odd. She was reported to be a normal, healthy person of 24 years old. Not the typical person who dies from the flu.
She didn't fall into the category of those who authorities said may die from Swine flu.
2) This is NOT flu season and because of the warmer weather, we should not be seeing flu cases this time of year.
3) The scare tactics are not in line with regular testing for the Swine flu. One would think that every case of flu like symptoms would be tested, but they aren't. So how many with the swine flu have fallen through the cracks?
When I came down with it I had the same symptoms and after about two weeks, it went into my ear and suddenly I was at Emergency trying to get something for the pain and the infection. It was a Monday night and I had not expected there would be so many there. The nurse said they had every bed filled and Monday nights were their busiest. After I was told it might be a three hour wait, and another woman had said she had already been there three hours with her kid, I went home. I went to MED7 the next morning, as soon as they opened. By that time my ear drum had burst and I had a really bad infection. I was not tested for the swine flu. I had to be on two weeks of antibiotics to clear up the infection.
From what I'm hearing there seems to be a big difference between people becoming very ill with this, and people who just get mildly sick.
I'm thinking we are not being told the whole story here.
1) That young women dying was very odd. She was reported to be a normal, healthy person of 24 years old. Not the typical person who dies from the flu.
She didn't fall into the category of those who authorities said may die from Swine flu.
2) This is NOT flu season and because of the warmer weather, we should not be seeing flu cases this time of year.
3) The scare tactics are not in line with regular testing for the Swine flu. One would think that every case of flu like symptoms would be tested, but they aren't. So how many with the swine flu have fallen through the cracks?
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Posted 26 June 2009 - 04:45 PM
I was tested for the Type A flu today and thankfully my results were negative. I had the flu shot, but was notified that I had been exposed yesterday after I started feeling badly. Doc said it is always better to be safe. I really like my doctor!!!
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Posted 26 June 2009 - 06:52 PM
Not many people like their doctor very much....who is your doctor?
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Posted 26 June 2009 - 10:17 PM
Do tell..What kinda ahole dr. doesn't have a notice on his door that if you have a fever over 101 please tell the clerk..At least there can be an isolation room where only those people go into....Or how about giving out proper masks????
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Posted 27 June 2009 - 11:24 AM
QUOTE (mac_convert @ Jun 26 2009, 05:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I was tested for the Type A flu today and thankfully my results were negative. I had the flu shot, but was notified that I had been exposed yesterday after I started feeling badly. Doc said it is always better to be safe. I really like my doctor!!!
What type of symptoms did you have and did the person you were exposed to have the H1N1?
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Posted 27 June 2009 - 12:08 PM
Body aches, fever, loss of appetite, lethargy.
I may have been exposed to Type A (H1N1 is in this family.)
I don't have it...just some other virus. I wouldn't have gone in to see the doctor had I not been notified I had been possibly exposed. Entirely a coincidence.
I may have been exposed to Type A (H1N1 is in this family.)
I don't have it...just some other virus. I wouldn't have gone in to see the doctor had I not been notified I had been possibly exposed. Entirely a coincidence.
QUOTE (wreathlady @ Jun 27 2009, 12:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
What type of symptoms did you have and did the person you were exposed to have the H1N1?
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QUOTE (mac_convert @ Jun 27 2009, 01:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Body aches, fever, loss of appetite, lethargy.
I may have been exposed to Type A (H1N1 is in this family.)
I don't have it...just some other virus. I wouldn't have gone in to see the doctor had I not been notified I had been possibly exposed. Entirely a coincidence.
I may have been exposed to Type A (H1N1 is in this family.)
I don't have it...just some other virus. I wouldn't have gone in to see the doctor had I not been notified I had been possibly exposed. Entirely a coincidence.
I hope you feel better soon. Weird for this time of the year. I think we had a late season this year. The flu season was not that bad. It is now catching up.
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 10:22 AM
H1N1 is all over the East coast (just got back from a trip there). Since school was in session until last week, it has spread in many (seemingly most) schools. In fact, I sat next to a teacher on the airplane who told me they had it in her school. 
I just saw a Yahoo estimate that there may be 1 million cases in the U.S. now. The hospitalization rate seems to be around 5-10%.
Unlike Mexico (which stopped the virus with a 2-week nationwide shutdown of schools and businesses), a decision has evidently been made to just let the thing spread here, and hope for the best. We will all probably get it over the next few months -- just hope your immune system is up to the challenge.
I just saw a Yahoo estimate that there may be 1 million cases in the U.S. now. The hospitalization rate seems to be around 5-10%.
Unlike Mexico (which stopped the virus with a 2-week nationwide shutdown of schools and businesses), a decision has evidently been made to just let the thing spread here, and hope for the best. We will all probably get it over the next few months -- just hope your immune system is up to the challenge.
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Posted 28 June 2009 - 03:50 PM
I find it troubling that our country didn't act as Mexico did, in doing everything they could to contain this flu to one area.
For our FDA to say this Swine flu was not containable was false. So we endanger the lives like that of the 24 year old Sacramento woman who just died last week, so everything can go on as usual?
I'm sure some would just say, "Well, we can't stop it and her death was unfortunate, but still, some die every year from the flu."
This is also false, in that 24 year old women don't usually die from the flu. I'm sure if one of OUR children were to die from this flu, it would be far more, than just unfortunate. It would be life changing...and most parents would be devastated.
My heart goes out to this mother for her loss.
For our FDA to say this Swine flu was not containable was false. So we endanger the lives like that of the 24 year old Sacramento woman who just died last week, so everything can go on as usual?
I'm sure some would just say, "Well, we can't stop it and her death was unfortunate, but still, some die every year from the flu."
This is also false, in that 24 year old women don't usually die from the flu. I'm sure if one of OUR children were to die from this flu, it would be far more, than just unfortunate. It would be life changing...and most parents would be devastated.
My heart goes out to this mother for her loss.
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