Anxiety and flu-like symptoms.

It's been a rough several months, and that's no lie. On top of everything else, this morning I woke up to news of the declared state of emergency.

Within about two hours I was queasy, fatigued, had a headache... checked my temperature, and it was up by a fractional amount, to 99.5.

Our state has had no reported cases of the swine flu, and I haven't been in contact with anyone, at all--seriously, no one. My instinct is that this is a form of anxiety/hysteria, but I'm really scared that it might be more than that.

On the other hand, I don't have a single other symptom of the flu other than a reallyreally mild fever and a little fatigue, and I know enough about this stuff to honestly feel like a bit of an idiot for getting so worked up about it, really.

I guess this is just one of the things that the mind can do under stress, but... would be nice to know if anyone else has had similar experiences...

reply to post by quitebored


If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? No contact with anyone?