Hubby has gone off to bed with a slight sniffle. No green snot or hacking cough. BUT I've been meant to feel it's a real illness. If it was me, I'd get on with real life...cook the supper, tidy the kitchen, clear up the xmas wrappings etc but no, he's got a real 'illness'

Bah humbug... Men?

I think it is summat to do with men's systems being more closely tuned to sensing physical distress than emotional distress.

Buy him some of these. 😷

http://www.superdrug.com/Tissues/Poc...ssues/p/229600

or one of these seeing as he'll be lying there doing nothing https://www.amazon.co.uk/EXTENDABLE-...QWEP6W9D7AF2FY

Really, I've had man flu since Christmas Eve.
Still, I've had to keep the house together, men!!!

Get in the kitchen where you belong.

More likely sensing washing up and not wanting to do it

It's the 29th of December today!

It's real and you should be feeling sorry for him. Poor guy.

Tests have shown that the same virus usually makes men feel twice as ill as women.

I recommend plenty of TLC and waiting on him hand and foot until he recovers

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Pathetic how a certain type of unevolved "feminists" feel somehow threatened by the concept of they themselves NOT being the default "victim" in every conceivable situation.

i`ve got it just now, i actually feel completely exhausted, ditto a daughter, grandson and friend.

I hate 'man flu'. Men already die early because we don't go to the doctors or take as good a care of our health as we should. So society invents a term to mock us when we're unwell.

Cool.

Go and check on him you heartless woman, maybe he has actual man-flu!
Thankfully I've only suffered colds this year, but I was struck down with man-flu in 2015 and almost ended up in hospital.

On the rare occasion that women catch man-flu they call it pneumonia.

i suppose it`s the equivilant of "women`s troubles" both are used dismissively [though i do use the latter descriptively in some company].

feeling fluey can precede a heart attack and fatigue is a very common symptom.

years ago a friend died from a heart attack caused by the flu, he was previously healthy and only 19.

flu symptoms in either sex should not really be ignored.

MrKat is the world's worst for this! A slight sniffle and he's off to bed wanting hot drinks and paracetamol!

I have to be really feeling crap before I will stay in bed, usually if I get a sniffle or a cold, I take paracetamol and keep going, I do have to be careful though as I'm asthmatic and colds can settle on my chest very easily, causing me problems.

Everyone thinks they're the brave little solider and everyone else is a wimp.

It's sweet women who think they have the monopoly on this.

"Now their pain wasn't so bad. MY pain was awful but I carried on.."

Thought every human being ever.

Some people go to bed with a slight headache then die. Wouldn't always take it so lightly.

If he has 'actual man-flu' that means he doesn't have the flu at all

Isn't the term man-flu for when a person says they have the flu but it's just a cold? If it's real flu - you know, the shakes, bad temperature, cough, upset tummy, chills, nausea, etc., ie. the real McCoy - then it's just called flu

Of course, men and women alike often say they have the flu when they just have a cold - the flu is nasty, debilitating and much worse illness than just a common cold.

You're right, flu can be a killer. It's nothing like a common cold. One has to assume, although I may be wrong, that the OP lives in the same house as him and - if he were exhibiting signs of real flu and all it's associated symptoms, they would have been unlikely to come on here mocking him.

Of course, she could just hate his guts and be hoping he's gone by morning!

just feeling a bit fluey and knackered should not be dismissed out of hand as "man flu", both are symptoms of heart failure which are all too often ignored.

it was really in reply to bomo lad`s post about men`s health that i quoted, not the op.

to veer off sideways, i wish you a happier next year than the last .

Why thank you Annette, I truly hope so too

Happy New Year to you and yours, I hope it's a peaceful one for you x

i have a new upstairs neighbour who appears to move around by jumping on a bare floor whilst wearing diver`s boots and communicates her apparent disapproval of me doing any housework by banging on the radiators.

When I get a cold, I feel crap for a day or two before I show any signs, like sneezing or runny nose/watery eyes. That's probably what he was feeling. I'd hate for someone to suggest I wasn't really ill and to crack on with cooking and washing up. F that.

Seriously though, a cold will come on gradually and make you feel a bit off - under the weather - but you can still carry on as normal without too much difficulty. Real flu, on the other hand will strike out of nowhere, and completely poleaxe even the strongest individual.

If you've ever had real flu, you'll know the difference immediately. Not to be confused with a cold, or even a feverish cold.

Better to be a bit of a martyr and go to bed than wander around not achieving much beyond infecting everyone else.