Comments on: H1N1 Swine Flu Experiences – Personal Post

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 02:50:15 +0000

By the way – I have since NEVER received the flu shot for Josh or myself! I guess I forgot about the misery we went through until reading this again.

By: Holly

Holly — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:34:04 +0000

PS- as an update – I later found out that we were living in a house that had a faulty water heater and not only did we have H1N1 at that time, but we were suffering the effects of carbon monoxide poisoning. Thinking back, the reason the H1N1 flu hit us so hard was because it was compounded with the already compromised respiratory system – already had troubles breathing from living in the carbon monoxide, unknowingly at that time.

By: Holly

Holly — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:19:37 +0000

Hi Victoria. Your story sounds so similar to mine -and I am so happy that you are getting better. I agree about the Tamiflu – and I also felt I would possibly die if things continued as they were for me. I had severe problems breathing, pain in the chest with each cough, and a horrible cough that lasted about a month after the swine flu went away. So if your cough is bad for a while, just try not to worry – as long as you are without a fever you will be ok I think. My voice was so bad, I could hardly talk for almost a full month – the cough irritated my throat so severely I tried everything to soothe it – even gargling cayanne pepper water every few hours (which worked temporarily by the way!). I know people aren’t talking about the flu as much now, but please everyone be so careful. It is so easy to get it – and the onset of the symptoms for me were very fast and brutal. Take care and post again in a few days with an update Victoria – glad you are doing better! Take care!

By: Victoria

Victoria — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:31:28 +0000

Thanks for your article. I am just now recovering from the Swine flu. It started last Monday with body aches and a dry cough and within hours I had a raging high fever…..the whole week was a nightmare. I missed almost a full week of work (I went one day unknowing what I had). Long story short, I was bed ridden for days, slept at least 16 hours a day and regardless of what I did, I could NOT break my fever of 102.4. It was horrible. After seeing the doctor early in the week, she told me I have a viral upper respiratory infection and take some cough syrup and motrin. Well, after 2 days of doing just that, my fever intensified as did my coughing. My chest hurt and I had a hard time breathing when I went into my coughing fits. I called the doctor back on Friday (spoke to a different doctor since the one I saw was off) and she asked me if I wanted an antibiotic or Tamiflu. After researching my symptoms, I told her that I felt strongly that this was the swine/h1n1 flu so she gave me Tamiflu. Today is day 2 on it and the fever has not been back since yesterday!!!!!! This is a miracle from how sick I was!!! I did experience the stomach upsetness from Tamiflu but that should subside after 2 days of being on the medication. I am praying that I am truly on the mend and will only get better……this is a VERY serious flu and I pray NO ONE gets it. I truly felt like I was going to die if this fever didn’t break, I contemplated going to the ER yesterday since my fever was breaking and I had been ingesting a ton of Motrin. SCARY! Anyway, I am happy to report that I have been fever free today and now have a lingering cough (that is actually breaking up and not so dry) and also some nasal congestion that just started. I will NEVER take my health for granted again!!! This just makes me realize how vulnerable we are to disease. UGH. BE WELL!! and thanks for sharing your story.

By: Dianne

Dianne — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:13:53 +0000

Hi Holly – glad to hear you’re getting well. I think the more will all learn in regards to caring for our immune system the better. Some us use the medical system, some don’t, but what’s important is that we have a plan! I like Dr. Mercola’s articles also, especially the one about using baking soda to keep the PH correct in the body. Over the past year I have done a lot of reading about iodine levels in the body, and that is an interesting study, as proper iodine levels support immune function. To your health! (that’s for anyone reading…)

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:53:52 +0000

Hi Heather – I am so sorry I missed this comment months ago. I am glad you had that inhaler – as that is what they gave me and it helped so much. I hope you receive a notification of this comment – and I hope you are doing much better now. How are you now?

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:49:20 +0000

Hi Surendra, thanks for also sharing your experiences. I ended feeling very weak after being sick, and having almost no appetite, which is very odd for me. I read online what others had done to improve their health quickly during and after – and I ended up buying a lot of vitamins. Not sure if your son is able to take these, or if he is too young …but I now take Echinacea, Vit. C and Zinc help the immune system. I hope that helps. I hope your grandson recovers back to normal soon.

By: surendra jain

surendra jain — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:14:47 +0000

Thanks for sharing experiences. highly helpful. My grand son had swine flue. Splitting headache, high fever, stuffed nose, bad coughing with cracking sound, weakness.Was on antibiotics for almost 7 weeks. Still slight coughing and slight nose blocked. No medication presently. Missed school all this time. We are concerned whether to let join school, post X-mas/new year. Pl share ideas on diet etc and lifestyle post swine flue attack to improve immune sytem and normal health. An email will be helpful. Thanks for support

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:16:20 +0000

Holly, thanks, this feels like a useful conversation I think there could definitely be a special place about health related content/issues/discussions on your website. Don’t you think?

Anyway, just because something may appear challenging doesn’t mean it is not worthwhile. I do think that we westeners are far too used to the sort of “quick fix” pill approach. Loads of people take multiple medications like a cocktail every meal, probably costing them a fortune. (or at least someone is paying for it)
We seem to believe more into the modern pill approach than into the ability of our natural defense systems, which incidentally kept the human species alive since the stone age, to handle things when a health challenge arises.

Shouldn’t we learn more about how to make us strong and able to handle health challenges?

Education is a key actor.

Here is another interesting epidemic: The Plague is still around!
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v05n05.shtml

…and…
According to Robert DuPont, a former White House drug czar and former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, “The biggest and fastest-growing part of America’s drug problem is prescription drug abuse. The statistics are unmistakable.”
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/21/Whats-the-Real-Pandemic-in-US-Hint-It-Is-NOT-the-Swine-Flu.aspx

Although I absolutely respect any person’s choice about how to handle things in their lives, I do believe that many of us will rather choose a shortcut or quick-fix to a problem than choose the road less traveled when it comes to the crunch.

This discussion could go on forever… In the end it comes down to the choices we make and the consequences we get.

Thanks you again Holly for all that heart work you are doing here.

Bless,

Dimitri

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:33:32 +0000

Thanks Holly for sharing your experience with us. I am really sick today and having problems quickly…short of breath and chest pains, cough, general fatigue, etc. I had my husband set up my albuteral inhaler for me as I have had bronchitus in the past. But I am having a hard time catching my breath.
I am really scared. I am going to do my albuteral treatment and then go to bed and prob take a trip to the ER in the morning.
I am so glad that you and your little guy are feeling OK now.
At least you know it is over and you can move on with things now without so much fear…
Ok, well, I really need to go do that now cuz i cant take a good breath….

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:34:05 +0000

Thanks for your constructive input and resources again Dimitri! I like this: “if h1n1 were fabricated in a lab of sorts, why would it be a good idea to fight it with something that’s ALSO been fabricated in a lab?” It is funny. Some of these illnesses and strains are so overpowering on the body – it’s hard to handle. But regarding the vaccines – I wrote what I did right after being extremely sick and I’m still not on either side about that. I completely understand your thoughts on how the body should be capable of warding off natural infections and diseases, etc. and that is what I’ve felt for a while, and I also have not had the flu shots in years (only in the army) and Josh hasn’t either. We both have been fine up until the H1N1 hit us. I do appreciate all your resources about natural healing and vitamins – that I will read. Since I was ill, I bought every type of vitamin sold in the stores and have been healthier than normal. It’s hard to fight off these things when we are so used to putting unhealthy stuff in our bodies. I watched this show and someone said he only ate raw foods – he said “Eat live food and live or eat dead food and die.” lol..it was extreme but true if you want to be really healthy. It is NOT easy though! Anyway, love your comments Dimitri – they get me thinking! Thank you!

By: Dimitri (again :-)

Dimitri (again :-) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:47:26 +0000

Thanks for your reply Holly,

I do align with your train of thought about h1n1 maybe being hard to handle by people’s immune systems. Also with wanting to avoid a politicking style of fingerpointing etc… cheers.

I’d like to offer this: if h1n1 were fabricated in a lab of sorts, why would it be a good idea to fight it with something that’s ALSO been fabricated in a lab?

Seems to me a bit like transferring the war of the labs inside our bodies (j-o-k-e

But…

Would it not rather make sense so teach people how to strengthen their naturally built-in god-given immune systems rather than keep taking the “pills” the labs bring us?

I do appreciate that health is such a personal issue so close to my heart and probably everybody’s especially when health is lost, either temporarily or more severely.

And… but… although I think everybody should be empowered to make their own decisions (and I deeply respect that particular human “right”)

I also notice that choices are based on our *ability* to think about anything.

“Information” is totally worthless bulk if we cannot filter out useful stuff from the noise. Today we are absolutely drowning in bulk information. All one has to do is google anything to see how many hits you get for h1n1:

pasted from google: Results 1 – 10 of about 70,500,000 for h1n1. (0.21 seconds) – - – that’s 70 *million* hits!

who reads past the first 3?

Unless we ask *ourselves* the questions all we are doing is consume information and then run the risk to just give up deciding because some authority tells us to make a decision this way or that way…

There is a school of thought that you cannot heal with poison. Now that makes good sense.

So, to me personally, it makes sense to learn to make the body stronger rather than to use some potentially poisonous external agent to “prevent” a disease that I might get or not.

I personally haven’t had even a cold last winter (I live on the southern hemisphere)

In my view, lab made stuff probably prevents the body from using its own intelligence to handle the situation.

here is more resource, sorry I don’t mean to bother anyone here, just to share some places I found with educative information that makes good sense.

http://www.doctoryourself.com

With respect Holly, and gratitude for your presence on the internet,

Dimitri

By: Irish Tom

Irish Tom — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:22:10 +0000

Hi Holly, Great to see you back in the land of the living..You guys had a real bad time and I am so pleased you are recovering..That was an excellent and informative email and I am sure it will be of value to others. The H1N1 is not to be messed about with, The damn treatment is like gold dust and that is unfortunate. Cheryl only got her shot on the day after we got back from WA. Health workers were supposed to get their shots first, but they were not available and the health workers were in the faces of the patients every day.
One thing pisses me off is the ignorance of people in public who cough and splutter in public without covering their mouths. I have yelled at my fair share of them and they look at you wondering what is the problem..Idiots!!!
When we got up to WA our Grandkids had just recovered from the flu and we were lucky to miss it, but I made sure I had my Irish Jameson Whiskey for the “hot toddies” to ward off the bugs, and it worked.
We are luckier than a lot of the European countries and at least the normal flu shot is available.
Keep yourselves safe and don’t take any risks.
When you get some frost and snow it should help to kill off the virus.
Keep your standby meds at home and plenty of liquids and rest.
God Bless you both and talk soon.

Tom

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:17:53 +0000

Holly,

Just met him over email so far…seems like a good guy.

Dan

By: Davin-The Viral Sanctuary

Davin-The Viral Sanctuary — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:06:22 +0000

Wow, you know it sure is amazing how small the world can be sometimes.

Just a day or two ago, when I was inside of the Warrior forum lining up a few things for Kevin and Paul, Greg was one of the first people who contacted me.

He later reached me on Skype, and I noticed that it said he was from Chang Mai. So I asked him if he knew you Holly…and sure enough! He also explained how he used to know you in Pai. He wasn’t sure if you’d know him by Greg, but, he said you would remember him from the name Neyma.

Then today I see your post and you guys are mentioning him on here. That’s very interesting…

Anyhow, he asked me to forward you his new email Holly, and I forgot until now, but, I’ll get that over to you.

Also, I just finished installing his WPMage just tonight. It seems like a very cool product…quite excited about it myself. I’m just sort of learning it…but, I haven’t seen anything quite like it before.

Great to hear you are doing better with all of the flu stuff to Holly…hope you can stay healthy!