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No matter what type of specific influenza virus has infected you, the treatment would be the same. For that reason, doctors often do not do testing and just begin treatment based upon the signs and symptoms. You can also use over-the-counter remedies for your symptoms at the first signs of a cold or flu without having to have tests first. Talk to the pharmacist and ask for suggestions for remedies for your specific symptoms.
If the health care professional thinks you will benefit from use of a prescription anti-viral medicine, like Tamiflu, they will likely prescribe it, even without any lab testing, based on a clinical diagnosis (clinical diagnosis - one based on expert opinion of what it most likely is given all the signs and symptoms you have, with consideration of the time of year and number of similar cases at the time, etc.).
To be most effective, anti-viral medicines need to be started within 40 - 48 hours of the first signs and symptoms. To get laboratory results that quickly is difficult - and impossible, if it requires growth of organisms for purposes of specific strain identification and most local labs can't do that, so there is the added time of shipping the specimen to the esoteric lab.
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