Oh that's horrible. I understand it was going around at PAX.
Get well soon Positron!
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Hope you feel better soon Positron and take it easy.
Posted in the other one but I can't be said enough; Get well Soon!
(Mod8 and Dark Watcher are also ill apparently, so they get chicken soup and tissues too.)
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Get well soon Posi!!
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I apologize for this-but as an infectious disease specialist, I just had to chime in. Your information is somewhat incorrect.|
Originally Posted by Peterbilt
From another thread I just read that Positron has come down with H1N1 and is feeling rather bad. Here's to wishing his a speedy recovery. This is the worst flu you can get and it can last weeks.
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The actual infection from H1N1 is actually somewhat brief-it's probably expunged from the body within about 7 days total, depending on the person. But the illness basically makes you feel like you've been hit by a Mack truck. The problem actually lies in the speediness that the illness initiates your immune responses.
When you get a viral infection, your body's immune system makes compounds called Type I interferons (also known as interferon alpha and beta). These have antiviral properties, both for the infected cells and the cells in the immediate vicinity of the infected cells. These are produced, as well as a number of other immune response proteins. Collectively, the problem is that the response itself ends up making you feel awful. Oddly, the infection itself isn't really the thing making you feel bad-it's your body's own response TO the infection.
However, once your immune system gets the upper hand on the infection and clears it out, the levels of these immune response proteins drops and you get back to normal. The biggest problem with flu is actually secondary respiratory infections-like pneumonia-that can set in 3-10 days post-influenza due to the impairment of your respiratory tract's bacteria removing cilia. So, stay in bed, drink lots of fluids, and don't bother with Tamiflu. By the time you're ill, it's too late for the drug to do any good for your infection (aside from a placebo effect).
And there's my 2 influence on the matter. Oh, and I hope you guys get better soon. ;^)
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Posi also said he has pneumonia so yea, secondary effect.
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Originally Posted by Peterbilt
Posi also said he has pneumonia so yea, secondary effect.
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Ouch, speedy recovery let's hope. Someone here in the Tampa Bay area died from h1n1 this morning, it's nothing to fool around with, burn those pax clothes if you went.
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Posi also said he has pneumonia so yea, secondary effect.
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Get well soon, Posi. And don't take this crap lightly. REST REST and then REST some more!
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get well soon posi--hope rest of your family is ok also |
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Wow. As someone who just got over his pneumonia (still got the cough though, yay) I gotta say "that sucks."
Get well soon, Posi. And don't take this crap lightly. REST REST and then REST some more! |
Yea this nasty flu sucks. I got it 2 days after I went to PAX and the meet and greet (Where I played around of cards with Positron).
I hope all the Paragon Studios folks get a speedy recovery and that thier families don't get impacted to much by it.
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get well soon posi--hope rest of your family is ok also
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Wow...Hope they all get better soon. Being sick aint fun.
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Originally Posted by Fiftycalsniper
I apologize for this-but as an infectious disease specialist, I just had to chime in. Your information is somewhat incorrect.
The actual infection from H1N1 is actually somewhat brief-it's probably expunged from the body within about 7 days total, depending on the person. But the illness basically makes you feel like you've been hit by a Mack truck. The problem actually lies in the speediness that the illness initiates your immune responses. When you get a viral infection, your body's immune system makes compounds called Type I interferons (also known as interferon alpha and beta). These have antiviral properties, both for the infected cells and the cells in the immediate vicinity of the infected cells. These are produced, as well as a number of other immune response proteins. Collectively, the problem is that the response itself ends up making you feel awful. Oddly, the infection itself isn't really the thing making you feel bad-it's your body's own response TO the infection. However, once your immune system gets the upper hand on the infection and clears it out, the levels of these immune response proteins drops and you get back to normal. The biggest problem with flu is actually secondary respiratory infections-like pneumonia-that can set in 3-10 days post-influenza due to the impairment of your respiratory tract's bacteria removing cilia. So, stay in bed, drink lots of fluids, and don't bother with Tamiflu. By the time you're ill, it's too late for the drug to do any good for your infection (aside from a placebo effect). And there's my 2 influence on the matter. Oh, and I hope you guys get better soon. ;^) |
I really like this one. Hope you get better soon and EVERYBODY scrub your frickin hands!! Cough and sneeze into your elbow for crissakes.. we don't need another Spanish Influenza!! It sucked!!! Move beyond!!
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I was just about to say that.|
Originally Posted by Dinah Might
Oh that's horrible. I understand it was going around at PAX.
Get well soon Positron! |
A friend came back from PAX with it.
He went back to work 2 days after coming back because he "used up all his vacation GOING to PAX". I told him he's liable to get fired if he infects his office, and his boss finds out.
This didn't stop him.
So...
I did what any concerned friend would do.
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I called his mother.
She drove down from Wilkes-Barre, PA and ordered him to bed, and has been taking care of him ever since.
Is Posi trying to work through it too? Or should we call HIS mother?
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I was just about to say that.
A friend came back from PAX with it. He went back to work 2 days after coming back because he "used up all his vacation GOING to PAX". I told him he's liable to get fired if he infects his office, and his boss finds out. This didn't stop him. So... I did what any concerned friend would do. ... I called his mother. She drove down from Wilkes-Barre, PA and ordered him to bed, and has been taking care of him ever since. Is Posi trying to work through it too? Or should we call HIS mother? |
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From another thread I just read that Positron has come down with H1N1 and is feeling rather bad. Here's to wishing his a speedy recovery. This is the worst flu you can get and it can last weeks.
Hope your back feeling health soon.
(i've gotten some negative rep for spam posting. apparently this same thread is also posted in City Life if you want to post over there as well. I rarely read outside my home servers [here and Victory] and thought if there are others might like me, they might like to know Posi was sick.)
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