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> We just assumed flu because what else could it be? The by far most likely scenario? Not the flu, but any one of the numerous upper respiratory viruses (hundr
by catblast 7y ago
> We just assumed flu because what else could it be?
The by far most likely scenario? Not the flu, but any one of the numerous upper respiratory viruses (hundreds but likely rhinovirus) that cause the “common cold”
Notably absent from your description of symptoms is fast onset weakness and body aches. Colds can cause short high spiking fever though.
- jp57 7y agoIt was not a cold. Nor was a cold the most likely scenario. I've had plenty of colds. I felt okay in the morning and was in bed shivering by dinner time. My wife reported body aches. They are not typical for me even with flu, but I was on ibuprofen almost the entire time anyway. I had a fever for four days, and felt unbearably horrible as soon as the ibuprofen would start to wear off. There was nothing "rhino" about this virus. None of us had any nasal congestion. If my wife hadn't started to feel somewhat better when she did, I would have taken her to the hospital for pneumonia. But it's lucky that she did start to feel better when she did because almost as soon as she was up I was down. Still, even through the next week or so when she was up and moving around again she said she never really felt like she was breathing quite right. The cough was different than any cough I've had before. Since my nose and sinuses were clear, there was no drainage from my nose and sinuses into my chest. It was all originating in my chest.