What is going around (allergy, x-ray, cold, blood)

[veggienut]

I feel awful. Temp jumped from 99.3 to 100.3 within a hour. I feel weak and need to sit down or I will lose my balance. I'm going to call the Doc and see if I can get in today. Just asking.

[phonelady61]

sounds like you are suffering from heat exhaustion . I hope you feel better soon dear and take care .

[AnonChick]

Most of Kentucky is under a heat advisory, with temperatures over 95 and humidity over 40%. Your info on the upper right shows you are in Kentucky - so that's probably what's happening to you, as phonelady61 said.

You're not likely to find anything "going around" by asking here on a forum where the members are located all over the world. What's going around here, in my neck of the woods, is tic bites, mosquito bites, and poison ivy. Nothing systemic, it's not the "season" for it yet.

[stepka]

I had something like that last week. I asked around and something is going around and it's a 24 hour flu or something like that. I had none of the classic symptoms of sickness except that fever and it was gone within 24 hours but I still didn't feel too hot for a couple of more days. No doc needed.

[veggienut]

It isn't heat exhaustion as one person said. I woke up feeling bad this am and couldn't eat much. I'm freezing right now and I need to go outside where I will feel better with the warmth on my body. I feel achy and no energy. My temp is in the 100 F range too. Went to the Doc's and they took a chest X-ray, drew blood and other things. I am on a antibiotic which I haven't taken yet. I'm waiting for my potato to finish cooking on the grill.

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

Achy all over is my classic symptom of one kind of 'flu. Hope you get over it quickly.

I preach to everyone about Astragalus. After I saw Dr. Oz touting its benefit to boost your immune system, I began taking it twice/day. Not too expensive. I have not had so much as a sniffle in the 7 months or so I have been taking it. Usually I would get the Spring allergies sniffles/clogged up nose - not this year. Of course my doc thinks it's nonsense but can't hurt me.

[Jukesgrrl]

I took my mother to the emergency room on Tuesday because she had two spells — one shortly after she got up in the morning and the second about three hours later. What she described is exactly what you said, "I feel weak and need to sit down or I will lose my balance." After she had the second spell I took her to Urgent Care first. They didn't find anything particularly wrong with her but she is 86 so they feared she had a TIA and might stroke out. Urgent Care made me take her to the emergency room for additional tests.

After SEVEN HOURS (and several thousand dollars worth of tests), they still couldn't find anything specific wrong with her and decided it was indeed from the heat. We live in Arizona and it's been between 100 and 107 degrees for more than two weeks now. They FINALLY gave her a glucose IV (which I had suggested the minute we got to Urgent Care) and a half hour later she jumped off the gurney and said she felt fine.

Mind you, my mother has been in a well-air-conditioned house throughout this heatwave. Nevertheless, one can become dehydrated (A/C removes humidity from the air). It doesn't even require extreme heat; it can come from medication (such as cold or allergy pills) or flying in a plane. Merely drinking water isn't the answer. As you may know, severe and/or prolonged dehydration causes electrolyte imbalance so you need to replace what's been lost in addition to mere water. I would suggest Gator Ade or Pedialyte (even cola or gingerale is better than water). Also, eating bananas and potatoes helps by replacing minerals. If you end up getting muscle cramps or dark urine, your dehydration is severe.

Please don't do what I did once and ignore these symptoms until you pass out. I crashed to the floor with no advance warning except bad muscle cramps and I broke my leg and one of my toes. But I swear to you the broken leg didn't hurt as much as the headache I got from out of balance electrolytes.

Take care and HYDRATE!

[veggienut]

I just broke my temp and I am a bucket of water everywhere. I woke up like this and have no idea why, so I am feeling better. I walked my dog and we watched the fireworks with a neighbor and her dog since they were shooting them off nearby. But before we met up, I felt the need to sit down again. When I filled my meds, I got some potatoes and banana, just craved them. So maybe my balance is out of whack.

[PippySkiddles]

seems to have been "something" being passed around my area this last week. Same symptoms and we don't have any hot weather going on(Thank you God!!) I'm in Oregon.

[nALgirl]

There is always something going around; doesn't matter what the season or weather. Maybe because it is so hot everyone is staying in more and passing germs around. My son and his family have all had the same symptoms last week. My grandson developed pnuemonia.