Coming down with a cold?

Megan. · November 20, 2017, 04:14:20 AM

Am I still allowed to have man-flu? [emoji23]

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tarabel · November 20, 2017, 05:53:53 AM

I am in exactly the same boat as you, except hopefully almost through with the flu.

My colleagues joked that i don't get sympathy anymore and my STBX said "I guess-man flu is difficult for you to catch these days".

So I think the official position is that we cannot claim man flu anymore. I hope that you get through it OK and that the symptoms aren't too bad :-)

PS I really like your hair colour.

sf_erika · November 20, 2017, 06:20:42 AM

I had a bad case of the man flu recently, and my wife warned me that I can't catch it anymore after transition.

I've wondered if I'll even be able to help myself, or if HRT will magically let me power through these things like she does.

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sarah1972 · November 20, 2017, 06:26:59 AM

Hope you feel better soon!

Almost over 3 weeks of a nasty cold myself. According to my wife, I cannot have a man flu anymore (at least she makes all kind of jokes about it). But then she also makes jokes about my monthly week of crazy food cravings, eating pickles by the jar and mood swings. Thanks hormones!!

Bari Jo · November 20, 2017, 07:21:07 AM

Is manly just flu except you get sympathy? Haven't heard of that before

Bari Jo

Megan. · November 20, 2017, 07:31:28 AM

Quote from: Bari Jo on November 20, 2017, 07:21:07 AM
Is manly just flu except you get sympathy? Haven't heard of that before

Bari Jo

'man flu', is when a man has a mild cold but claims to be near death, where most women will just carry on with life.
It's a humorous running joke...

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Bari Jo · November 20, 2017, 07:42:59 AM

Oh, I hadn't heard that before. I usually never catch a cold, now I feel like I missed out on something fun:)

Still get better Megan!

Bari Jo

Megan. · November 20, 2017, 12:00:22 PM

I'm not too bad, but thanks all for the wishes.
I'm generally very healthy, I've not had a cold for more than a year. Worse thing is that my voice drops to Barry White frequencies when this happens [emoji853].

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MaryT · November 20, 2017, 12:16:25 PM

Quote from: Megan. on November 20, 2017, 04:14:20 AM
Am I still allowed to have man-flu? [emoji23]

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No.

It's amazing, though, how many men think that it is a real illness, and don't get the joke when their partners ironically tell them that they have man-flu. During one of our rare meetings, my brother said with a straight face that he was recovering from man-flu. He scares me, so I didn't dare laugh, but I was laughing on the inside.

MaryT · November 20, 2017, 12:33:38 PM

I am also recovering from a lurgy that blighted my weekend. My diet is fairly rich in vitamins and fibre, and I don't have much social interaction, so I rarely get even mildly ill more than once a year. Nature seems to abhor this germ vacuum, though, and if there is only one person coughing on a bus, he or she invariably sits next to me or immediately behind me.

Siobhan Amanda · November 20, 2017, 12:41:57 PM

Hope you feel better soon, stacks of vit c

CarlyMcx · November 20, 2017, 06:41:03 PM

I am nearing the end of week two of an upper respiratory-coughing kind of bug and I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. I want to get on my treadmill and see if I can exercise this thing away but my wife wont let me. She makes me drink hot lemon water and take Theraflu morning and night. So as far as she is concerned, even though I am a girl, I still get treated like I have the man flu.

Kylo · November 20, 2017, 08:07:14 PM

I haven't had a cold in years but if I do, I now know I'll deserve 3 days off and for everyone to behold my great suffering.

But we all know the difference between 'flu and "flu". And it's about £20 lying the garden. If you won't go and pick it up, you know which one you have.

That's what they tell me, anyway.

VeronicaLynn · November 20, 2017, 10:17:30 PM

Quote from: Megan. on November 20, 2017, 07:31:28 AM
'man flu', is when a man has a mild cold but claims to be near death, where most women will just carry on with life.
It's a humorous running joke...

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I've never heard of this term, though I have heard men are less able to function while sick than women.

I'm not very functional while sick, whatever my gender is...

Get well soon!

Kylo · November 22, 2017, 02:40:43 AM

Interesting:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2115987-viruses-may-have-evolved-to-hit-men-hard-but-go-easy-on-women/

MaryT · November 22, 2017, 07:57:53 AM

Quote from: Viktor on November 20, 2017, 08:07:14 PM
I haven't had a cold in years but if I do, I now know I'll deserve 3 days off and for everyone to behold my great suffering.

But we all know the difference between 'flu and "flu". And it's about £20 lying the garden. If you won't go and pick it up, you know which one you have.

That's what they tell me, anyway.

LOL, I like that.

From my own experience I would say that people with real flu want to die, then they think that they will, and sometimes they really do.

Roll · November 22, 2017, 09:32:23 AM

I'd never heard the term man flu either, and it's usually the women around me who play up their illness. (My Dad will actually be suffering from a serious virus and just ignore it, it's really worrying actually.

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Julia1996 · November 22, 2017, 01:09:24 PM

Megan. · November 22, 2017, 01:26:22 PM

Haha [emoji23]

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