What Is This Illness?!

[climber_chick]

I started thurs evening with extreme tiredness and in the night I started shivering. Woke fri morning with a temp of 38 and aching muscles. Felt horrendous all day so slept as much as I could while looking after my baby! Yesterday I felt loads better just felt like I had a bit of a cold but then I started having diarrhea :( I took Imodium and it stopped it for about 7 hrs and now it started again!! I still have a sore throat and cough but I don't feel awful just finding it an inconvenience now! My symptoms seems to change every 24hrs. Is this likely to all be linked and be some random virus?

[Graham-W]

Sounds like 'flu to me. Plenty of rest and liquids. Paracetamol or Ibrupaphen. You should be feeling better by Christmas.
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Flu/Pages/Symptoms.aspx

[climber_chick]

Thank you, looking at that it sounds like it could be. I just thought I'd feel horrendous the whole time with flu! Need it to go ASAP as on my own with baby until Xmas day

[boxtops]

Sounds like flu - touch of gastric flu perhaps? Keep drinking, do as little as you can get away with. Not wanting to be miserable, but it'll be a good ten days before you start to feel yourself again :-(

[Sqad]

\\\\ Is this likely to all be linked and be some random virus?\\\

Yes.

[climber_chick]

10 days?! Oh no can't be doing with that! And thanks sqad, Random virus ha ha! Can I just treat it with Imodium? I feel hungry but too scared to eat :-/

[Sqad]

\\\ Can I just treat it with Imodium?\\\

Yes, but with the other advice given by the above posts.

[boxtops]

If it's flu, and I've had it twice (the last time, allmover the Millennium festivities) - you ache, you can't get inspired, you sleep and sleep and feel weak. Let's hope it's not, but each time I've had, it's been a fortnight off work before I felt remotely fit to resume.