My silver lining to being asthmatic - a supply of albuterol. When I was in the respiratory distress phase of H3N2 in January, I was taking a hit of albuterol every few hours. It helped. Between that and Tamiflu it was tolerable, but still not fun. The first day, before I could get the Tamiflu filled, I really did feel like death - horrible body aches and profoundly chilled but with a 102-103 degree fever.

Don’t feel too bad about not being vaccinated. It’s not always effective. I have gotten the vaccine for years - and got true influenza in 2014 and 2018 - both flu seasons when the efficacy was very poor.