a strange "flu" Options

[flylikeabutterfl...]

I had/have (I'm getting over it) the weirdest cold, flu or whatever it was recently. I felt sick like I had a flu yet there was no dramatic pain or nothing that stands out that usually accompanies it like a fever, cough, even sore throat, major stomach ache (though yes my stomach was (and still is) hurting a little but nothing that bad) etc. However I felt really cold, than my body temp skyrocketed (my body was too hot) yet no literal pain like fever just a very little body ache along w/ the high temp, and my energy was completely zapped from me as though metaphorically my blood was all drained out of me.... I still felt sick. Then this would "trade" and just my head would hurt but not exactly feel like a fever. I couldn't understand why or where I couldn't function... I would have thought I'm stronger than this and this is nothing since colds for instance are usually no big deal to me....

Would anyone btw happen to have an ideal what this was? A flu? Has anyone else experienced this and know if this is common??? Thanks for all the advise I can get.

This post has been edited by flylikeabutterfly: Feb 21 2010, 06:32 PM

[samnang]

sounds like lupus

[flylikeabutterfl...]

^ I think it probably was just a flu or something lol

[mndeg]

wrong because it's never lupus

you just said no fever but then you said there was a fever

WTF?!

either h1n1 or average flu. not always do you get the full range of symptoms

This post has been edited by mndeg: Feb 21 2010, 04:19 AM

[Vega]

How long did it last? You could have had a stomach virus from eating something bad. A stomach virus or mild food poisoning has the same symptoms that last a few days at most and usually disappear after a day. You could have also had a mild flu or virus that your body was able to kill off naturally.

Vega Sinclair, Health Insurance Advisor

This post has been edited by Vega: Apr 2 2010, 04:25 PM

[Debdasmptr]

flu is a virus not a bacteria and to understand how the flu spread and grows you need to understand what it does once it is in a body. The flu is a little body of RNA that is protected by a coat of protein. What it does is weasel its way into other healthy cells in order to use that cells reproductive abilities. Without a host cell a virus cannot reproduce at all, it would simply die.