TLDR; I was just at the start of a cold and downplayed it to myself. Took flu, covid, and tetanus shots all at once and they MESSED me up!

Of all subreddits I’m likely preaching to the choir but if this helps just one person it would be worth the flaming.

I wasn’t feeling 100% and my general physical appointment hit (one I had to schedule months in advance). I decided to man up, go see the doctor and true-up on immunizations. They gave me flu/covid/tetanus. I never said shit about not feeling well so the following was self-inflicted.

The next day I almost asked my wife to call an ambulance. Something I’ve never done and a decision I don’t take lightly. I couldn’t lay down, couldn’t sit up, couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t stay warm no matter how many things I piled on. Thankfully I could drink fluids and never puked but I had bouts of nausea. My fever only hit 103.8 as far as I know but I would have sworn it was going to register higher. My head POUNDED the entire time. Day 3 wasn’t much better.

I’m on day 4 now and feel generally better but went today without NSAIDs and the fever/nausea came back. I’m used to bouncing back quick from things. I’m pretty frustrated with myself at this point and vow to never take shots while sick again. I looked it up online and I guess that maybe it’s a common knowledge no no. On the other hand there are articles that say getting flu/covid simultaneously should be fine, and that’s why I’m pointing my finger and the cold I already had.

I’m back on meds so I can try to sleep tonight and hoping day 5 goes better.

Don’t do it!

It's strange, I felt great on Wednesday and today I started with chills again, not as bad as the first 4 days, but I feel a little chilly and tired. I didn't take Tylenol last night, so that may be the big difference. I have some chills and a broken cough which comes about once every hour or every two hours but doesn't persist, a little sore in the chest when I cough, but I can breathe fine. How long is this influenza virus going to last? Last year, COVID lasted me 5 days and I felt better.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/bird-flu-california-dairy-9229936c

or

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/bird-flu-is-tearing-through-california-s-dairy-herd-can-it-be-stopped/ar-AA1wsmWz?ocid=sapphireappshare

The virus could be hitching a ride on milking equipment and clothing, the route of transmission the USDA spokesperson said the agency believes is largely responsible for the virus’s spread.

But experts say that may only be part of the story. Russo said that one possibility that needs to be considered is whether human workers are contracting the virus, and then infecting cows on other farms.

Dr. Jürgen Richt, an avian influenza expert at the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, said that mice, rats, or even flies might be moving the virus from farm to farm.

“If you go in a barn, there are millions of flies,” Richt says. “And they sit on the milk, right, and then they go on cows. They sit on the udder, they sit on the cow. This could be a culprit. I don’t know, but you have to test it.”

Other scientists have theorized that the virus could be carried through the air. “There could be basically a plume of virus, if you’ve got all these animals shedding,” Russo says. “Ultimately the virus could potentially travel on dust particles, odoriferous compounds, things like that; that can potentially spread it from animal to animal.”

Scientists in California are investigating these and other theories. At a webinar for the dairy industry on Dec. 19, state officials and scientists at the University of California at Davis School of Veterinary Medicine described a long list of ongoing research projects into the California H5N1 outbreak, including a project by the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service to collect and test house flies on infected farms to determine whether flies as a “vector for transmission,” according to slides from the presentation obtained by Barron’s.

Other ongoing projects discussed on the webinar include an examination of “dairy feed rations as a potential source” of H5N1, and “enhanced surveillance” of wildlife by USDA near infected farms “to better understand viral transmission.”