That Tamiflu Commercial

[R8RFAN]

The one with the huge guy in the tiny house with the Jack Russell dog...

When that dog whines or barks, does it get the attention of your dog? My dog watches the damn commercial and will wake up from a sleep to do so.

[penguinz]

I would not give it to my kids... http://www.tampabay.com/news/health/...debate/1272540

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

I know...but my kid was running a 102 degree fever. What are you going to do?

Tylenol or advil and plenty of water.

[Pablo]

I had the worst flu of my life earlier this month. Kept thinking it would only last a couple days, but the ****er drug on for nearly a week. It got progressively better each day, and I had to weigh out the cost of seeing the doctor and buying flu medicine for something I thought was going to end.

It was pretty awful for the first 36 hours.

[TLO]

Am just now getting over one of the worst bouts of the flu I've ever had. Took tamiflu, and it seemed to help ease some of the symptoms. Also started feeling better about 24 hours after I took it.

[mike_b_284]

Originally Posted by penguinz

You believe everything that tamiflu tells you? I have never had the flu last more than a few days.

Easy buddy. Never even heard of tamiflu except the commercial with the tiny house. Sounds like you have been lucky and I hope that continues. But I do know the flu can last a long time, I also know the flu can kill people. And if you think that is tamiflu propaganda, then it must have been around since 1918. Maybe tamiflu went back in time to fake multiple epidemics to increase sales, maybe the devil buried dinosaur bones to trick us. Maybe influenza is for pussies and you are just a ****ing super hero!

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/...79_article.htm

[BigOlChiefsfan]

About 40 years ago I worked w/an older fellow who had survived the big 1918 flu pandemic - it started here in KS as near as he knew, out at Ft. Riley. Anyway, he was from out past Gardner KS. He went to bed sick, woke up days later - bald, his fever had made all his hair fall out. Cold house - his parents and brothers/sisters were all dead. He got dressed and went to the nearest farm for help. Everyone there was dead. He was trying to decide if he should kill himself - he didn't want to be the last person on earth, he said and it looked like everyone else was gone. But he tried one more farm before he took real drastic steps, and there were folks alive there. He grew up in an orphanage and life wasn't a bed of roses for the guy - but it beats being a 6 year old kid trying to decide if you're going to kill yourself because everyone else is dead - and how to do it. Since he told me that story, I get a flu shot every year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

[ThatRaceCardGuy]

Package foam.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by BigOlChiefsfan

About 40 years ago I worked w/an older fellow who had survived the big 1918 flu pandemic - it started here in KS as near as he knew, out at Ft. Riley. Anyway, he was from out past Gardner KS. He went to bed sick, woke up days later - bald, his fever had made all his hair fall out. Cold house - his parents and brothers/sisters were all dead. He got dressed and went to the nearest farm for help. Everyone there was dead. He was trying to decide if he should kill himself - he didn't want to be the last person on earth, he said and it looked like everyone else was gone. But he tried one more farm before he took real drastic steps, and there were folks alive there. He grew up in an orphanage and life wasn't a bed of roses for the guy - but it beats being a 6 year old kid trying to decide if you're going to kill yourself because everyone else is dead - and how to do it. Since he told me that story, I get a flu shot every year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

Too bad they missed on this years vaccine. My wife and kids all had the shot and they all came down with it in the past two weeks.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by mike_b_284

Easy buddy. Never even heard of tamiflu except the commercial with the tiny house. Sounds like you have been lucky and I hope that continues. But I do know the flu can last a long time, I also know the flu can kill people. And if you think that is tamiflu propaganda, then it must have been around since 1918. Maybe tamiflu went back in time to fake multiple epidemics to increase sales, maybe the devil buried dinosaur bones to trick us. Maybe influenza is for pussies and you are just a ****ing super hero!

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/...79_article.htm

Read up on it. Very sketchy and not worth the cost.

[Lin Elliot]

Originally Posted by BigOlChiefsfan

About 40 years ago I worked w/an older fellow who had survived the big 1918 flu pandemic - it started here in KS as near as he knew, out at Ft. Riley. Anyway, he was from out past Gardner KS. He went to bed sick, woke up days later - bald, his fever had made all his hair fall out. Cold house - his parents and brothers/sisters were all dead. He got dressed and went to the nearest farm for help. Everyone there was dead. He was trying to decide if he should kill himself - he didn't want to be the last person on earth, he said and it looked like everyone else was gone. But he tried one more farm before he took real drastic steps, and there were folks alive there. He grew up in an orphanage and life wasn't a bed of roses for the guy - but it beats being a 6 year old kid trying to decide if you're going to kill yourself because everyone else is dead - and how to do it. Since he told me that story, I get a flu shot every year.

Did the older fellow have a Tamiflu pen in his pocket as he told this story?

[mike_b_284]

Originally Posted by the kicker that shall go unnamed

Did the older fellow have a Tamiflu pen in his pocket as he told this story?

[Saul Good]

FWIW, my son woke up today feeling great with a temperature of 99.1. He was at 102.0 yesterday morning. He responds extremely well to medicine, though. It's kind of interesting because I don't. I even get reverse reactions to some medications. For example, I can't sleep if I take Ny-quil, but Sudafed damned near turns me into a vegetable.

[Saul Good]

Originally Posted by BigOlChiefsfan

About 40 years ago I worked w/an older fellow who had survived the big 1918 flu pandemic - it started here in KS as near as he knew, out at Ft. Riley. Anyway, he was from out past Gardner KS. He went to bed sick, woke up days later - bald, his fever had made all his hair fall out. Cold house - his parents and brothers/sisters were all dead. He got dressed and went to the nearest farm for help. Everyone there was dead. He was trying to decide if he should kill himself - he didn't want to be the last person on earth, he said and it looked like everyone else was gone. But he tried one more farm before he took real drastic steps, and there were folks alive there. He grew up in an orphanage and life wasn't a bed of roses for the guy - but it beats being a 6 year old kid trying to decide if you're going to kill yourself because everyone else is dead - and how to do it. Since he told me that story, I get a flu shot every year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

So I'm to believe a six year old kid contemplated suicide?

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

FWIW, my son woke up today feeling great with a temperature of 99.1. He was at 102.0 yesterday morning. He responds extremely well to medicine, though. It's kind of interesting because I don't. I even get reverse reactions to some medications. For example, I can't sleep if I take Ny-quil, but Sudafed damned near turns me into a vegetable.

This is due to his immune system fighting it and not tamiflu. Read up on it. The drug company that makes it is sketchy.

[Saul Good]

Weird that his immune system was getting its ass kicked right up until the time he took his medication...