Do my partner and I have the same sickness? Or something else?
So over the weekend, I was feeling under the weather and had to take it easy on the socializing. Sore throat and slightly runny nose, but nothing major. I was mostly better by Sunday and felt nearly 100% by this afternoon.
My boyfriend started getting similar symptoms a day or two ago, but now his has turned into more flu-like symptoms. Last night, against my advice, he took a nap from like 4–7pm and then ended up staying up reading until 3 am. Today he got worse, and he went to the doctor who prescribed him some meds, and hopefully, he’ll start to recover in the next couple of days.
Is it possible that we have two different illnesses or did he just catch what I had but worse?
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I just went through this. My sister and her kids and husband came down for Christmas.
My mom got the worst of it but she is 65 and has type II diabetes. It took her weeks to recover. Mine took me out for about five days. My sister was about a week and her husband was about three days. My sisters kids got over in three to four days.
Which is actually a pretty accurate representation of our overall health.
@johnpowell Interesting, I have been riding him to pump the breaks on certain habits and take better care of his health overall. I’m 28 and he’s 35 and I rarely get sick so it could be a factor too.
Just wondering if our symptoms are the same.
Mine started with waking up to a pretty bad soar throat. That lasted around a day and then that subsided a bit and turned into a runny nose for a day. Then the horror began. Just violent coughing for days. I would wake up coughing. So violent it would trigger vomiting. It was the worst I have been sick in 20 years.
Damn @johnpowell that sounds nasty. But if that’s the sickest you’ve been in 20 years, you seem like a pretty healthy specimen!
Mine started out similar, but I think I’m in the clear now. I went out with some friends after a skee ball league game (don’t hate) on Thursday night but had to cut the evening short after I felt a little fatigued. Woke up on Friday morning with a sore throat and spent most of the day at home coughing up gross shit and drinking tea. Went out for some Ramen hoping it would make me feel good enough to go to a friends’ birthday party at a club, but came back home to sleep. Spent most of the weekend with a sore throat and slightly runny nose but feeling much better now.
Hoping my BF didn’t catch an entirely different bug that I have to worry about now. :-x
Good to hear you are feeling better. Statistically speaking it is pretty much assured it is the same bug. He is just old :-) (I am 39 for context)
rilly. makes ya wanna puke
It could be the same but you could have more immunity to that particular bug or your immune system could have just done a better job fighting it off than his did for any number of reasons. Or it could be different. We’ll never know! Feel better!
Not enough info. If you have a stuffy nose and no fever and he has the flu which is high fever and no congestion then you have two different things. If he was awake for hours it doesn’t sound like the flu to me.
If you both are stuffy head, but can function and no fever, it’s likely the same thing, but no way to know for sure. Coming down with it two days apart certainly sounds like it’s probably the same thing. When you started getting sick he should have kept his distance. Oh well, too late.
Oh, well, yeah, man flu is always much worse. Lol.
^^In spite of my snide joking remark above, I can identify with man flu! I don’t get sick often, but when I do, it’s most likely to be the flu, and it knocks me out for about 2–3 weeks! It starts with the stuffy nose, then the post-nasal sore throat, then a little hack that usually turns into full-blown bronchitis.
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