Cheers guys here's a wee summary of how i have been from Sunday in a pm i answered Michael with this morning Cheers Michael i have been putting boiling water in a bowl with drops of peppermint oil in it before bed and again when i get up it is helping me It started with a cough on Sunday morning while i was at the lofts Sunday afternoon a really bad headache and started burning up big time Sunday evening really high temp to the point we though about calling 111 or NHS 24 but left it as i fell asleep but when the wife came to check on me in bed i was covered in red blotches and sweating like mad but by the time i woke up the rash had gone Monday woke up still with the headache and still with the fever felt slightly better then it got worse in the afternoon and i had to go to bed again as i felt terrible and was in my bed for 4 or 5 hours got up with the intention of eating something for dinner but couldn't face it and ended up just having a sandwich the back of 10 last night I was still getting bad coughing fits all night to the point it was hurting my back Up today still coughing headache not too bad been taking paracetamol every 4 hours Cheers for your pm Alan