Tamiflu resistant swine flu
 

BBC News - Tamiflu-resistant swine flu spreads 'between patients'

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well seeing as they have been given out like sweets well outside their useful term its hardly a surprise

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It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine ! :D;):p:

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2012. ;)

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Avoid that Tamiflu like the plague, I had swine flu the other week, the doctor gave me a slip of paper to go and get some from the local pick up point, the missus had to fetch it. I started taking them and within 5 hours it felt like I was being kicked round the room, I was shaking and sweating like something not right.

My neighbour is a nurse, my missus went round to ask her to come and take a look at me, she came round and said straight away "stop taking the tamiflu". I didn't take anymore and binned them there and then. My neighbour told my missus to get some Actifed from the Chemist, off she went to ASDA to get some Actifed. I started taking it and within 4 hours the symptoms were easing, the aching, shaking and sweating had stopped, I could breath better and my nose had stopped leaking like a bursted pipe.

Steer clear of Tamiflu and take Actifed instead, it clears it up twice as fast as Tamiflu.

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I was fine with Tamiflu it just depends on the person taking them, a few like yourself have a reaction most people do not, just the way it goes.;)

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On reading the article on the link provided a few words seemed to stand out

Recently they started giving people the swine flu vaccine

Had these people with the resistant strain previously had the swine flu vaccine? As they would come under the vaccine programme due to being considered seriously ill hospital patients so would be in the "priority group" to be given the jab. Could the vaccine have played a part in this at all?

just my 2p's worth. I'm just waiting for my GP to get in touch as with my RA I'm on the list to get the jab, and as yet I'm undecided about having it.

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That hospital is a 5 minute walk from us, and many local people work there, so I hope they can contain it.

We're still waiting for the swine flu jab... the local doc reckons we might have to wait "until Xmas or into the early New Year".... despite the missus and daughter having "severe underlying health conditions"...

So much for the rapid program of vaccination we were promised...

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Shocker you hand them out willy nilly and the flu gets resistent who could have seen that coming.....oh that's right anyone with half a brain. Still at least we have helped some poor struggling drug company increase their profits so silver lining and all that :rolleyes:. Unless you have a very bad effect from swine flu i would not bother with tamiflu and it's only meant to take a day or so off the main effects anyway better to wrap yourself up get some soup in you and take all the usual suspects we take when we get normal flu.

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I don't know how they are working out who gets it first, but i know we can get it almost immediately (I work in the NHS, so thats understandable I suppose). But i don't want it - i rarely suffer with normal flu and would just sit it out if i pick it up as I haven't got 'underlying health conditions'. But what does wind me up is the screensaver that comes on my pc every 5 mins in work 'If YOU can't catch it, YOU can't pass it on' with a finger pointing at me :rolleyes:

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But even with the vaccination, AFAIK, you COULD catch it and pass it on, you just won't feel really ill as it goes through your system being munched by the alerted white cells..

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Good call! Thats what I'll throw back at them when they're chasing me around the office with the syringe ;)

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What we've been told is: If you have the vaccination, you are likely to carry the disease but not pass it on (unless you sneeze on people etc) and you won't feel as ill if you do catch it.

I've had my swine flu vac last week at work (I work for the NHS). My arm has only just stopped killing me where they did it...

The Vaccination has the possibility to have some rather major side-effects including Respiritory Disease!

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^ Oh thats good so get jabbed and your safe from swine flu but might die from something worse fantastic funny how that hasn't been more clear and wasn't even mentioned by my gp when he talked about it. Seems like one of them times where being a needle phobe and few in the nhs willing to take the chance is a good thing :).

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Lots of people have taken the jab Worldwide and it seems perfectly safe. Every time there is a vaccine we are subject to paranoia about it.

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Just because your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you ;)

Other than an aching arm, I haven't had any of the listed side effects. I think the more major side effects are if you have particular underlying issues already...

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Well I'm booked for mine on Friday - as long as I dont turn into a zombie I'll be happy :)

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Might your paediatrician not be able to speed things up given the situation with your children? We're seeing ours this week and it'll be the first topic of conversation on the list.

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The hospital is having nothing to do with it all... it's down to the GPs to fill their quotas to get their bonuses... if they can get people past the reception staff...

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Yes I appreciate that - I just meant that your paed may be willing/able to make a case to your GP in order to get you greater priority. Worrying times these for those with vulnerable lioved ones...

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The triage of who gets what and when is all down to the GP's admin staff unfortunately.... even our superb Paeds Con would not be able to short circuit the system ( he has been trying for years to get our son moved up a surgery list to no avail ).