Why would you go to urgent care for the flu? Unless you had a dangerously high fever or something, is that not just a waste of resources and cause of longer wait times…?
if the symptoms are so intense you could not treat it with otc, it can happen. like with covid, the sore throat i had was so severe i tried seeing a physician for it, but i dint want to risk infecting others.
You might be mixing up urgent care with emergency care. Urgent care is a walk-in for sicknesses etc. If I tried to make an appointment with my primary physician, it’s like 2 months out, minimum. Another awful part of our current system.
No, I understand that. But if you don’t have any symptoms aside from “having the flu”, they’re just going to give you Tylenol and send you home. It’s a waste of hospital resources, unless, like I said, you have extraneous circumstances.
Oh, I was hoping for a tamiflu prescription. I was hanging out with my family last Saturday, and my brother-in-law came down with symptoms on Sunday. He went to urgent care on Monday, similarly tested negative, but was given a tamiflu script. The script helped him kick it in 2 days. I came down with symptoms on Tuesday and went to urgent care hoping for the same thing, but got nothing. Now I’m on day 6 of being sick but today is the first time I didn’t wake up in a pool of sweat, so that’s good.
Ibhave two very young children and I wanted to reduce my chances of spreading it to them. One of them is safe so far, but the other, is down for the count. Having to take care of a toddler with the flu while also down with the Flu was something I was trying to avoid. It’s been a tough week.
Why would you go to urgent care for the flu? Unless you had a dangerously high fever or something, is that not just a waste of resources and cause of longer wait times…?
if the symptoms are so intense you could not treat it with otc, it can happen. like with covid, the sore throat i had was so severe i tried seeing a physician for it, but i dint want to risk infecting others.
Unless you had a dangerously high fever or something
You might be mixing up urgent care with emergency care. Urgent care is a walk-in for sicknesses etc. If I tried to make an appointment with my primary physician, it’s like 2 months out, minimum. Another awful part of our current system.
No, I understand that. But if you don’t have any symptoms aside from “having the flu”, they’re just going to give you Tylenol and send you home. It’s a waste of hospital resources, unless, like I said, you have extraneous circumstances.
Oh, I was hoping for a tamiflu prescription. I was hanging out with my family last Saturday, and my brother-in-law came down with symptoms on Sunday. He went to urgent care on Monday, similarly tested negative, but was given a tamiflu script. The script helped him kick it in 2 days. I came down with symptoms on Tuesday and went to urgent care hoping for the same thing, but got nothing. Now I’m on day 6 of being sick but today is the first time I didn’t wake up in a pool of sweat, so that’s good.
Ibhave two very young children and I wanted to reduce my chances of spreading it to them. One of them is safe so far, but the other, is down for the count. Having to take care of a toddler with the flu while also down with the Flu was something I was trying to avoid. It’s been a tough week.