Do I have the Flu or something else?

Question:

Ok symptoms are

2 weeks ago started having sneezing fits, felt like a cold was coming on.
3 days ago I woke up very congested
Past 2 days have had
constant headache (muggy thick headed feeling)
inability to concentrate at work (prob due to the headaches)
fever (102)
chills and sweats
sore throat
extreme tierdness
today I felt faint and like I was going to puke
hacking dry cough (not coughing anything up though)
runny nose is disappearing
slight back pain nothing too bad though
Knees feel like jelly
general grotty feeling

Is it flu?
and if so is rest my best remedy?

Answers:
Since none of us are your doctor, we can only make guesses and make suggestions. Considering the fever, groggy feeling, sea legs, hacking cough with no secretions, feeling faint, chills and sweats ( associated with the fever).

If you get infected by the flu virus, you will usually feel symptoms 1 to 4 days later. You can spread the flu to others before your symptoms start and for another 3 to 4 days after your symptoms appear. The symptoms start very quickly and may include
Body aches
Chills
Dry cough
Fever
Headache
Sore throat
Stuffy nose
Typically, the fever begins to decline on the second or third day of the illness. The flu almost never causes symptoms in the stomach and intestines. The illness that some call "stomach flu" is not influenza.

DIAGNOSIS
Usually, health care providers diagnose the flu on the basis of whether it is epidemic in the community and whether the person's complaints fit the current pattern of symptoms. Health care providers rarely use laboratory tests to identify the virus during an epidemic. Health officials, however, monitor certain U.S. health clinics and do laboratory tests to determine which type of flu virus is responsible for the epidemic.

But the best thing to do would be to see a doctor, if this does not get better soon.

Kimberly, RRT

Sure sounds like the flu!! I've tried two different over-the-counter meds that seem to work well. Alka-Seltzer Cold Plus and Thera-Flu. The best medicine is probably just to let it run its corse, but those products may at least help with the symptoms.

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