Does anyone think they had h1n1 before the first confirmed case in the US?

[Tiramisu]

I really think three of us had it in March. Dd3 is now recovering from it, and it is too similiar. The rest of us are healthy, even the one who gets EVERYTHING, after a week with no time to sanitize, and lots of cuddling and coughing in faces. Not wise I know, but when a kid is so sick it's hard to avoid.

 

I hope I don't have to update in a few days and tell you we're all sick.:001_smile:

[sportymom]

I keep thinking about how sick my kids were in late April into early May, just as the news reports started coming out about it. Plus, their symptoms matched what was being reported.

 

I do keep wondering if I'm wrong and next week when we're supposed to travel if they'll all be sick! :001_smile:

[chanda7]

I've mentioned this on the board a couple of times, but we all had something that was pure evil in March. My youngest ran 105 fever and I really wondered if she was going to make it. She was tested for the seasonal flu, and it came back negative.

 

It is probably the sickest I have been in my adult life. I was in the process of a miscarriage before I got sick, but my body still thought it was pregnant at the time.

[Marie in Oh]

My then 4 & 5 yo had it the worst, but I remember on Easter morning, my oldest 5 all just sitting blurry eyed at the breakfast table. They were all pretty ill. DH and I both had it as well. Only the 2 littlest stayed well. WE have now had multiple exposures and no illness so I hope that is what it was. I just remember thinking it was awfully late to have the flu.

[Devotional Soul]

Did you all happen to get last year's flu shot? It was out during the voting time, pushed big time with "Vote and Vax", right after Big Pharma's bail out. Just curious.

Edited November 16, 2009 by Devotional Soul

[Cricket]

I'm convinced we had it in October before it was discovered. I've never been that sick in my life. We had all the typical symptoms--bad headache, vomiting, diarrhea, body aches, high fever. It knocked my dh and me out for 5 days and it took us 3 weeks to fully recover. The kids actually fared better than we did but it was bad on all of us. Maybe it was just another bad flu. The pediatrician told us that something was going around at the time and no one knew what it was.

[razorbackmama]

YES, I think we had it around March maybe?????? If we wouldn't have to pay out of pocket for it, we would go get our titers tested. We keep telling everyone (the ones who keep hounding us to get vaccinated *cough cough fil* ) that we had it before it became popular.

 

We do not get the flu vaccine either.

[fivetails]

Another 'March' here - I checked back through my blog and it was March 25th or so that I'd written about everyone having been sick... dd12 had it the worst - fever for a week, extremely sore throat, aches all over, cough (though not much of one), headaches, stomach pains.... it was flu-like, but not like the seasonal flu we all had a few years before...

[Oak Knoll Mom]

I've mentioned it before, too, but we got sick March 22 along with every other family in our homeschool group. One kid in our group tested positive for Type A influenza.

[momtolgd]

I too think we had it in March. We were all really sick with all the symptoms they say it includes.

[hornblower]

I doubt it.

Throughout March we were experiencing widespread seasonal flu, including some type A [A/Brisbane/59/2007(H1N1)-like & A/Brisbane/10/2007(H3N2)-like], even if you got a quick test positive for type A that wouldn't indicate the novel A/H1N1.

 

There IS spot checking and sampling of sentinel providers so it would have been seen. I'm not ruling out the possibility of a few cases but I wouldn't think it would be widespread & not noticed.

[Tree House Academy]

Did you all happen to get last year's flu shot? It was out during the voting time, pushed big time with "Vote and Vax", right after Big Pharma's bail out. Just curious.

 

My kids got last year's flu shot and did NOT have the flu. Not sure if that was the question or not?:confused:

[coffeefreak]

I really think three of us had it in March. Dd3 is now recovering from it, and it is too similiar. The rest of us are healthy, even the one who gets EVERYTHING, after a week with no time to sanitize, and lots of cuddling and coughing in faces. Not wise I know, but when a kid is so sick it's hard to avoid.

 

I hope I don't have to update in a few days and tell you we're all sick.:001_smile:

 

DD and I had it in Feb. She ran the 102 fever and everythin. I took her to the Dr 3 times and they blew me off. They told me it was just a virus and she'd be fine. The 3rd time they finally agreed to give her an antibiotic to clear her chest before she got pnemonia. A week later they started talking about it and panicking on the news. :glare:My hubby and I looked at each other incredulously and started laughing. It's one of the reasons we haven't been vaccinated.

 

Blessings!

Dorinda

[Guest aquiverfull]

YES! I also think we had it in March. I never run fever, yet I was running fever for 3 days right around Easter. That is the sickest I think I have ever been. I had the symptoms as well and my kids were sick before me. I've often wondered if we had it then.

[Aussenfay]

April-ish? DH picked up a friend of ours who was on a missions trip to Mexico because he got sick on his road trip home. This man was VERY ILL and didn't completely recover for weeks. Hubby drove our friend the 10 hours home. Two days later my hubby was so sick that he laid in bed for days. It was the first time he missed work due to sickness in ten years. High fever, aches, hot/cold flashes, awful cough, congestion, headache...the kids and I were mildly sick (barely registered as a cold) but that was it. We thought it was strange because we are usually the ones who are sick and he is healthy as a horse :)

[coffeefreak]

Did you all happen to get last year's flu shot? It was out during the voting time, pushed big time with "Vote and Vax", right after Big Pharma's bail out. Just curious.

 

We never get the flu shot. We get the flu about every 3 years.

[razorbackmama]

DD and I had it in Feb. She ran the 102 fever and everythin. I took her to the Dr 3 times and they blew me off. They told me it was just a virus and she'd be fine. The 3rd time they finally agreed to give her an antibiotic to clear her chest before she got pnemonia. A week later they started talking about it and panicking on the news. :glare:My hubby and I looked at each other incredulously and started laughing. It's one of the reasons we haven't been vaccinated.

 

Blessings!

Dorinda

 

That's kind of how it was for us too, except we weren't that sick. Less than a month after we had it we started hearing about it on the news. We don't go to the dr. ever with the flu unless there is some sort of complication (which has never happened), so there's no telling what we had, but as soon as we heard the symptoms we said, "Hey! We just HAD that!"

[coffeefreak]

That's kind of how it was for us too, except we weren't that sick. Less than a month after we had it we started hearing about it on the news. We don't go to the dr. ever with the flu unless there is some sort of complication (which has never happened), so there's no telling what we had, but as soon as we heard the symptoms we said, "Hey! We just HAD that!"

 

EXACTLY! Also, they just came out with a report that looked back into 2008. They think there were several thousand cases unconfirmed before May. I heard it on the nightly news so getting a source will be hard.:lol:

[CAMom]

Yes. I'm pretty sure we had it in March, too. It was horrible!

[cillakat]

She was tested for the seasonal flu, and it came back negative.

 

Since rapid flu tests have a 50-90% false negative rate, there's a good chance that it was the flu....

 

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[AuntieM]

We had a kick-butt case of flu here in March. When my son had a bout of something this summer that resembled H1N1, I asked the doc if it could have been H1N1 we'd had earlier, but she said no way.

 

We were pretty sick, but it was tested and confirmed as seasonal flu.

[coffeefreak]

We had a kick-butt case of flu here in March. When my son had a bout of something this summer that resembled H1N1, I asked the doc if it could have been H1N1 we'd had earlier, but she said no way.

 

We were pretty sick, but it was tested and confirmed as seasonal flu.

 

OK, rabbit trail warning:D

 

What, exactly is the seasonal flu? Wouldn't H1N1 be the seasonal flu this year since it's THE flu this year? Or is there a special thing about it that makes it an abnormal flu and therefore not seasonal? I'm so confused . . .:tongue_smilie:

 

Thanks!

Dorinda

[hornblower]

OK, rabbit trail warning:D

 

What, exactly is the seasonal flu? Wouldn't H1N1 be the seasonal flu this year since it's THE flu this year? Or is there a special thing about it that makes it an abnormal flu and therefore not seasonal? I'm so confused . . .:tongue_smilie:

 

Thanks!

Dorinda

 

There are more than 1 type of H1N1 influenza. That's why when we talk about the new one it should technically be called pandemic H1N1 or novel H1N1 or H1N1 (2009) - something to differentiate it from the other H1N1's which have been floating around for the previous years. Last spring, when the novel A/H1N1 appeared, there was still seasonal flu activity - both H1N1 & H3N2. The seasonals disappeared & were replaced by the novel H1N1.

 

This current season - which started in Sep or Oct (depending which country's public health office calendar you go by, and which never really ended as it kept going all summer), pretty much all flu is pandemic H1N1 though some H3N2 is starting to pop up. This is why you need both the vaccine for the pandemic H1N1 and the seasonal flu vaccine (which includes a component for the other, seasonal H1N1,and the H3N2, as well as a Type B component)

 

Hope that makes things clearer.

Edited November 19, 2009 by hornblower

[lovemykids]

We felt like we had it last year at this time.... I was so sick, we all were, for at least a month. Honestly, I don't want to ever get that sick again. I'm a little afraid of going out of the house right now....:lol:

[Perry]

OK, rabbit trail warning:D

 

What, exactly is the seasonal flu? Wouldn't H1N1 be the seasonal flu this year since it's THE flu this year? Or is there a special thing about it that makes it an abnormal flu and therefore not seasonal? I'm so confused . . .:tongue_smilie:

 

Thanks!

Dorinda

Seasonal flu means strains that have been recurring year after year, with small variations. Seasonal flu starts out as a pandemic strain, becomes established in humans, and then keeps coming back. The novel H1N1 will likely become the seasonal flu, replacing the other strains. But since it's so new, we won't call it that until we're absolutely sure it's here to stay.