Experience : Influenza B

In the midst of this pandemic, it reminds me of my most painful experience of getting sick my whole life

Was it last 2 years? Mmm

The day before I was telling my family

"Last year setahun tak pernah mc langsung"

The next day I went to have dinner with my family

After I came back from the restaurant, about 2 hours or so, suddenly I had chills and muscle aches

And by midnight my chest felt really heavy

Masa ni I really thought I was going to die

Served me right

Berlagak setahun tak pernah mc, tiba2 terus sakit 😭

Then I started having fever and flu

The weird thing was, I had fever only at night

During the day, temperature was back to normal

Usually if I take panadol, it would relieve overnight

But all of the symptoms went on for over 3 days

Baring ke kiri tak kena

Ke kanan tak kena

My back was in so much pain

After 3 days, I decided to go to the clinic

Doc asked if I would like to take a blood test

She suspected dengue or maybe influenza

So I agreed

Turned out I had influenza B

She gave me Tamiflu, to be taken over 7 days

Medicine to kill the virus

Every 2 days I had to go to the clinic to take blood test to monitor my platelet number

It was too low

The 2nd blood test result, she caught me lying when she asked if I drank lots of water

Dah tekak tengah tak sedap

Minum air pun susah

Rasa macam dah banyak dah minum 😅

She said even if I got admitted, they would just give me drip

Same thing as drinking plain water

Apparently drinking lots of water is the best medicine

And she asked me to quarantine myself over the week

Baru seminggu quarantine in my room pun I already felt suffocated

Even the symptoms were killing me

I cant imagine those who got infected with Covid 😖

With the news of new variant found in UK and South Africa, let's pray we are all always protected from any kind of illness and always given good health til end of our lifetime aminnn

Q