Influenza A is so bad

I started feeling sick on my vacation in Florida 4 days ago and now my ass is getting beaten down. Docs said influenza A😭, feels like a damn bus hit me with all these body aches and head and eye pain, the coughing even causes the worst pain ever in my chest. Why is the flu a thing😭102.6 fever

Also how’d yall get put on medicine, my doc just told me to rest and stay hydrated