Hi, i was wondering if anyone can help me distinguish between the two.
Here is what has been going on i recently started a new job in a superstore and it is nightshift i am finding it hard to change my eating habits so basically i have become quite run down, anyway i finished my shift yesterday and went to bed as usual but when i got up i had a sore throat and a stuffy nose, well later last night my temp rose to 102 and i was aching all over i took some pain killers and went to bed only slept till 4 am because i had developed a really annoying cough which ended up making me sick i was coughing so much i now have the cough, headache, sore neck and ears temp was going up again but i have taken more pain killers. I know it doesn't really matter if it is the cold or the flu the doc cannot do anything for them but the problem is in my new job we were told if we went sick in the first twelve weeks (the trial period) we would basically lose the job unless we had a sick line from the doc but i don't want to go and make everyone else ill too.

Well i got an emergency appointment at the docs on monday he just said i had a chest infection and gave me some antibiotics which i have been taking since then but the problem now is i still cant eat anything, if i do it just runs straight through me i'm supposed to be back at work tomorrow night but i still get the sweats when i go out should i get a new sick line or just go back to work and sweat it out.

Janice: do not go back to work. you have a virus, probably the flu. you will just expose everyone else and run yourself down even more. Call you boss and explain what is going on.