fuck flu

[matyas]

how recognize a fuck flu?

[HVLpoz88]

It’ll be different for everyone - mine was exactly like the ‘flu, but with prolonged fevers, the sorest throat ever, and the horniness was off the charts! 

[partying.hard]

I never had the fuck flu.

[PozBearWI]

Same @partying.hard, I never had the fuck flu.

[chgobbottom]

Mine was a fever, aches all over and no energy to move. It hit very suddenly. 

[reka874]

Mine lasted 3 days and then gone again. it was the same symptoms as the flu, aches, hot and cold sweats etc but the fever was off the chart, and it felt different.  I knew it was the virus taking over my immune system. 

[Slocbr42]

I was horribly sick for 10 days. And was weak and not normal for 3 weeks after. Cold and night sweats. Swollen throat. Aching joints. Thought it was strep at first. Slept for almost 3 days straight are couldn’t keep food down for 2 weeks after I started feeling sick. 

[Pozguyinchi]

I didn’t recognize mine at first. My mom that was a hospice nurse did. I was sort of in denial. Looking back I was sick (achy, chills, fever, etc.) in the middle of summer. Not typically when you get a flu like that. My mom told me to go get tested and I did. I had been chasing so it wasn’t a big surprise when it was confirmed.  I had a faggle of bottom friends that were really supportive. Most were poz already themselves. I would say because I was young my flu was short lived. Only one full week of bed rest and another week of laying around feeling tired and worn out. 

[PozBearWI]

@Pozguyinchi would you remind me of when this was?  I think it is relevant what year we pozzed in our overall experience of it.  Two years in for me and starting out poz when HIV is pretty well understood, with a whole lot of options on how to manage it.  

WRT Fuck Flu - truly at this point my big concern with the whole Fuck Flu conversation is that only about half of us infected ever experience.  HIV manifests in each of us differently, sometimes profoundly differently.  I have some concerns when it sounds like guys are using "Fuck Flu" as their indicator they are infected.  

[Pozguyinchi]

2 hours ago, PozBearWI said:

@Pozguyinchi would you remind me of when this was?  I think it is relevant what year we pozzed in our overall experience of it.  Two years in for me and starting out poz when HIV is pretty well understood, with a whole lot of options on how to manage it.  

WRT Fuck Flu - truly at this point my big concern with the whole Fuck Flu conversation is that only about half of us infected ever experience.  HIV manifests in each of us differently, sometimes profoundly differently.  I have some concerns when it sounds like guys are using "Fuck Flu" as their indicator they are infected.  

You are correct. This was 2001. When I discussed this “conversion” flu many of my friends had not experienced it. Some believed to have had it long before it manifested any symptoms.  If my mom was not a medical professional I would not have known what a symptom was.