Feeling flu-y for a week?

I am having the worst time this week. Since last Thursday I've had that "coming down with the flu" feeling, but haven't actually developed other flu symptoms. Headaches, excessive body pain, that painful/gritty eye sensation, exhausted, sometimes sore throat, etc. I missed two days of work this week plus went home early yesterday because the symptoms were so severe. I don't know what else to do. Anyone else had this for this long?

Boy, it's so hard to say....I sometimes think there's a garden-variety virus living in me permanently, that will just spring to life if I get too run down, and make me miserable for awhile. But never a fever, or anything a doctor can see. Once in awhile I'll actually have Strep, but most of the time, not.

Hope you're feeling better soon.

Debbie

Though I know it is (usually) a flare,
I refer to it as my Southern- Belle- constitution. ;-)

Agree with previous posters comments..
I am attributing my current wacky flare
( no flare for just long enough to think about doing something active
-maybe an hour?-
Then back to extreme ache / fatigue)
To weather changes

had to replenish food supplies & I am sure paying for it - taken all the break thru pain med, applied lidocaine patches etc & still is all I can do to stay outta bed.

Hoping all of you'll are relatively pain free !!

I do have this too lately!! IT STINKS, plus increased pain nearly unbearable.

I have Chronic Lyme DIsease caused by tick bites, don't know which one, since only about 40% get the bulls eye rash.

I never got one.

BUT I was misdiagnosed with FIBRO, for a couple decades. SO please take that into consideration, you may not have Fibro at all, you may have chronic lyme diseasetoo.

The ones of us in FB's groups for Lyme, we joke about how many people believe that there is such a thing as FIBRO, cause it is usually Lyme. WE dont' joke to be mean, but we just know after yrs. of experience and research that there may be no such thing as Fibro, it may be lyme disease. Also in many many many autopsies they have indeed found that in folks diagnosed with MS, Lupus, dementia, such as Altheimers SP?, and many more such as FM, that it is found to be Lyme disease.

So, please get tested, and know that many tests are false negative, get to a lyme literate doc soon... to get a clinical diagnosis please. This disease is killing me, I can't afford treatment anymore.

I hope this can help many. I was misdiagnosed for decades therefore I now am beyond help.. docs said it was FM and gave me drugs... no help.

Take care,

Bek