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Originally Posted by Darlene804  I really wish that doctors and hospitals would quit telling people they "probably" have swine flu without testing. I work at a doctors office and we do not have a test for swine flu. What we have is a test for Influenza A and B. If Flu A is positive there is a chance it could be swine flu OR another type of Flu A. We have tested and tested people with the symptoms and only 1 has come back positive.
Personally I think there is a virus going around that has a lot of the same symptoms and people are self diagnosing making the whole Swine Flu "epidemic" seem worse. This of course is just my personal opinion. That being said, I will not be getting the swine flu shots. Yes shots. From what we are being told there will be two shots that make up the swine flu shot. You will get one and then come back around 28 days later to get the second. I just feel like they rushed the shot and I am not interested in a repeat of what happened in the 70's where people had bad reactions from the shot. |
What my doctor said made perfect sense to me when I took my son in in July. She said there were no influenzas going around except H1N1. If you look at the testing info it's not testing positive in almost half the tests anyway so tests aren't going to be as reliable as what doctors are seeing on a day to day basis. Flu symptoms follow a pretty standard pattern so it's not too hard to diagnose flu vs some cold virus. There is a really nasty cold/cough virus going around also-my son currently has that at his small college as do most of the kids on campus but it's not "influenza". I trust what my doctor said and all the research I did online when he was first diagnosed. His dad also has a PhdD in pharmacology (NOT a pharmacist) and he thinks that's what it was too. I might add that when my son was in grade school and got inlfuenza he was a lot sicker than he was with this one.