The dreaded lurgy

[md25]

Is anyone else suffering from this disease? For the past few weeks I've had a sore throat of varying intensity and a similarly varying cough, whenever it seems to be getting better I wake up in the morning hacking like a terminal lung cancer victim with tonsils the size of grapes.

From the multitude of coughs I heard in Tescos (waiting for people to convince the self-service checkouts that they were not stealing 34p of kidney beans but just putting it in the bag, o sorry I forgot to ask permission to take my fucking bag off the rail, SORRY OH MIGHTY MACHINE) I'm not the only one wallowing in the mires of infection.

Has anyone actually recovered from this yet?

[Scellanis]

No, but can I request that you please give it to me...I have been unable to get a cough for years and I want one so bad because I love cough medicine...I don't know whats in the cough medicine my mum gives me but we called it 'giggly mixture' because of the effect it has on me....but I haven't had a valid reason to get any of it since 5th year... *sighs* Need giggly mixture...that'll fix you but if it doesn't you should still have a good time taking it. No idea what its really called though..I spend too much time giggling to notice...oh man, the thought of it makes me giggly...its good stuff.

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[Iain]

Similarly no, (just had flu vaccine yesterday so I've got three weeks to die of something!) I just want to know if that's another goon show fanatic in St. Andies...? Lurgi... ah the disease that has everything!

[someone]

I have that although it's not too bad at the moment *touchwood*. it started weeks ago. Lots of other people I know have had it too.

[fainpathe]

my dad's had it for a couple of months, but he's in Edin....i've thankfully stayed immune so far... *touches wood*

[BlueMoon1899]

Yes yes! Mostly mine's a sore throat... and just general bad feeling, the cough isn't too bad. But it comes and goes-- I feel fine for three days and then I wake up the next and it's back! What is it and when will it go away?

[md25]

So long as it's not AIDS I think we're OK

[richey]

I have it too...it just won't go...and when I think I am geting better, I have a huge coughing fit (where I cough until I am almost sick) and then my ears pop and go all funny. Damn illness. Two weeks and counting...

[blondie]

Argh! I woke up with it today. Damn you all.

[maz]

heard a report on the radio that someone (a 2nd year medic i think) at st andrews has TB and that 200 people are being given preventative medicine. perhaps this is what we are all suffering from.

[Iain]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4039425.stm

There you are.

[BlueMoon1899]

Erm... you'd definitely be aware of having TB, right? I mean, it's not just something you can walk around with and and feel mostly fine despite the two weeks of mild coughing, correct? Eek...

[Scellanis]

Didn't you all get the email about it with attached NHS health leaflet on the symtoms etc...

check your university email... apparently you won't get it unless you are in prolonged contact with the person who has it (i.e, with them for over 8 hours) and anyone in close contact with them was already contacted and its highly unlikely you catch it from one of them....

I thought they gave us a vaccine for TB in school though...so either that stops me getting it or its a waste of time and is only given as means to torture people like me....
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[Lady_Xanax]

[s]Scellanis wrote on 12:09, 27th Nov 2004:

I thought they gave us a vaccine for TB in school though...so either that stops me getting it or its a waste of time and is only given as means to torture people like me....
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It does give you some protection but I think there are different strains of the disease.

[Wong]

I've had it ever since I read this thread yesterday, but unless lurgy has been known to spread through the Internet it's unlikely I could have got it that way.

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[LonelyPilgrim]

I had it back at the very beginning of the term. Give it about a month to clear up, and try to avoid stress and sleep deprivation, they seem to result in resurgences. Take vitamins as well.

[novium]

what is lurgy?

[Thackary]

[s]Wong wrote on 00:34, 28th Nov 2004:
...but unless lurgy has been known to spread through the Internet it's unlikely I could have got it that way.


...insert joke about viruses etc.