Man Flu......

[gavin]

why do they call it that?

ive got a cold. i know its "just a cold", but ive been sick as a dog since boxing day. my sinuses are completely blocked, my head is pounding, so much i cant think straight, and my balance is off.

my throat feels like im trying to swallow a broken bottle every time i try to swallow, i cant eat more than a slice of toast or a bowl of cerial without getting stomach cramps and feeling sick. cant breathe through my nose, my eyes are itchy and streaming, i cant sleep for more than an hour at a time, and despite two showers a day, i proper stink.

all this despite all the hot toddies, oranges, bowls of steaming vicks and lemsip max i can stand.

a cold? yer right. aww they say, he's got man flu, and then laugh. its not real flu but i am really ill, so F***'em. And bollox to 'em. I'd like to see them spend an hour in my shoes right now


/rant over.
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[DonTony]

Man Flu:

The condition shared by all males wherein a common illness (usually a mild cold) is presented by the patient as life-threatening.

This is also known as 'Fishing for Sympathy' or 'Chronic Exaggeration'.

When the patient is your boyfriend, he will exhibit the standard symptoms (such as an overwhelming desire for compassion) while simultaneously rejecting any and all efforts you make to placate him.

You: Awww, you poor fella.
Him: I'm DYING!
You: (Soothingly) Oh, you're not dying Cy.
Him: (Indignant) I AM! I have Man Flu!
You: Do you need some sympathy?
Him: Yes! But no one understands my pain...
You: I understa-
Him: NO YOU DO NOT!!!

[zaknafien]

Ya big baby!
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[gavin]

ya bollox to you lot an all.
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[Walloper]

MAN FLU: A lame description for cold/flu like symptoms of a male.

From middle wumin. (Coz they think menstruating and having/bringing up babies is somehow tougher than being choked up with a bad head cold.)


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[binge]

Gavin. Im in the same boat as you.

me mother moaned at me because I rang in sick today at work. But as soon as I get cold, I get the shivers, and go light headed, Off ballance, Swallowing is soar, Pouniding head etc. And working out in a workshop mid winter is bad enough without being Ill.

I think theres a bit of a "Bug" on the run at the moment. I know a few people who are really feeling shit.

I just hope im better for tomorrow night as its party time!


Ive had nothing to eat today, im starving, but as soon as the thaught of food crosses my mind I feel physically sick!

[st3v3]

really sorry but..

[palmer]

i was in hospital for a week. i didnt even get the next day off school.

[binge]

[distortion]

One of the nurses at work told me of a study he had read about. Basically man-flu exists, there was some big study and they found out that because men are unable to multi-task like women, there is some kind of gene that women have that men dont that means there immune system is alot better.

Just something i was told

[andrea]

I think its a bit mean that when men have a cold it's labelled man-flu. Colds can be horrible, think its just that SOME women get on with things. Not all of them though, when i'm ill i snooze like a baby til i'm better Hope you feel better soon Gavin

[Jenks]

abit weird this is, but ive had this since boxing day too, i had to call in sick to work, because i work behind a bar, and it just isnt right at all!

And now my names in the mud because im "Faking it" ?
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[Black Knight]

How they can call it Man flu then whinge about squeezing out a brat i don't know
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[gavin]

woke up this morning.......well, about 10 mins ago.......and my eyes are full of snot. WTF!!?

had to ease my lids open with my fingers because they were all glued together, and all this green and yellow muck oozed out from under my lids. ive squeezed the worst out but i can still feel and see stuff floating about, and ive been blowing loads of thick green snot from my mose, and theres all this stringy dark bloody snot that i guess is out of my sinuses.........
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[SoulRider]

I know what you mean gavin, few years back my mum got the flu so bad she could move out of bed for over a week and she is was in pain etc etc (i do love my mum to bits incase you get diff impression). I then catch this flu of her but needing the money i go to work. the following day is a fishing trip ive been waiting for for ages, im sick in the morning and go, i end up sleeping through the whole thing and just not wanting to move, i then spend the next 2 days in bed suffering.

Now i never get hit as hard or as long with these things, just seems to be me but when my mum was suffering she got all the sympathy in the world, when i had exactly the same thing the week later i was over exaggerating, and being a wimp. And i still got up and went to work feeling at deaths door. To this day because of that flu my dad said he can never tell if anything is wrong with me because i usually say nothing (which is true, i always let me illnesses go by the selves, perhaps not always a good idea but hey) or i over react and act like im at deaths door.

Was once god dammit and i still got up

Rant Over ...
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[killa]

Never get colds, i rarely get ill....so when i ring in sick it is a nightmare trying to fake it.

You lot need to eat more spicy foods, chilli is good at shifting and preventing this sort of thing im sure.
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[gavin]

im not after sympathy, just some courtesy (whoo whoo) i work through colds all the time, and i dont take the mick out of anyone when they are ill, but if you are really rough, go home, i dont want you anywhere near me, thanks. what pisses me off is people treating it as something minor when it isnt. im being sick in my own time, i dont go back to work till monday, so why make out its not as bad as it is, i dont get it.
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[Black Knight]

Couple of drops of this on your tonuge and you'll be good as new.

https://www.chilefarm.co.uk/pure_cap.html
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[Annabella]

[J0Al1]

[quote="Annabella]
Long underrated as a health food, curry is now being linked to a number of positive effects [/quote]

Great, but Chinese doctor's may say that spicy food is bad for some peoples skin. So we can't win can we